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Title: Lecture: The Alphabet
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present period of his evolution — taking this period so widely that
is speech that elevates Man above the other kingdoms of nature.
relates to the cosmos. In short, what would be expressed by speaking
poured out over the matter-of-factness of life. In speaking today, Man
waking state. It remains unconscious and essentially forms the actual
mineral, plant and animal kingdoms. After this life between death and
vowel there is the H. You can trace it in speaking — AH, IH, EH. H is
Something is expressed that is the cosmic working of four planets. Let
speaking, Man felt himself within the cosmos. When the child learned
experience of the impression of the planetary movements in thinking,
in thought to comprehending and working on what lived in Man out of
How does one picture 1, 2, 3 to oneself today? It is done by thinking

Title: Lecture: Soul and Spirit in the Human Physical Constitution
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When man is studied by modern scientific thinking, one part only of
fluid organism in earthly man without speaking of the etheric body
if we are thinking merely of the solid organism which is shut off by
This shows us that by taking these different organisms in man into
sleep, from the moment of falling asleep to the moment of waking;
therefore the interworking of the Chemical Ether and the etheric body
From the moment of falling asleep to the moment of waking, the astral
astral body by the air organism during waking life. We can speak in a
thinking takes no account at all. But everything in us
and the etheric body that remain as they are during the waking state;
When we turn to consider waking life, from what has been said we shall
a way during sleep as during the waking state, when the Ego and the
which in waking life we have driven out through our Ego which is part
Waking life and sleeping life may therefore also be studied from this
the cosmic spirituality which on waking we drive out through our Ego,
for in waking life it is the Ego that brings about in the
elaboration of perceptions from the moment of waking to that of
only. If we adhere to the principles of spiritual-scientific thinking
shall we seek in dreams for knowledge as we seek it in waking mental
on waking, finds that he is feverish or is suffering from some kind of
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Title: Lecture: The Moral as the Source of World-Creative Power
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to us in waking life from the moment of waking to the moment of
waking consciousness, there is dream-consciousness, and we heard
for it again on waking. It is through the deprivation undergone
between falling asleep and waking that he is able to feel himself
Taking this as an example, we may say: Moral ideals come to expression
theoretical thinking, matter — substantiality — is brought
to its end; through his moral thinking, matter and cosmic
does by speaking of the law of the conservation of matter and energy.
nothing but theoretical thinking, and the ideas thus formulated
asking himself: How can my moral impulses take effect in a world in
or of the fixed stars, they were speaking of spiritual beings.

Title: Lecture: The Path to Freedom and Love and their Significance in World Events
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Man stands in the world as thinking, contemplative being on the one
links the two poles of our being: the pole of thinking and the pole of
deed, of action. Only through the fact that we are thinking beings are
fundamentally speaking, everything we accomplish between birth and
thought. When we picture the thinking human being in this way, when we
elaborate these thoughts. — Fundamentally speaking, therefore, in
Not by taking in as many thoughts as possible from the surrounding
this inner radiation of will into the sphere of thinking, the more
thinking becomes what I have called in my Philosophy of Spiritual
Activity: purethinking. We think, but in our thinking there
sphere of thinking. But pure thinking may equally be called pure
will. Thus from the realm of thinking we reach the realm of
will, when we become inwardly free; our thinking attains such maturity
progressively strengthening the impulse of will in our thinking we
that has now become thought, or our thinking that has now become will.
mightier and mightier force in our thinking.
speaking, deliberate intent and absence of intent, volition and
life; speaking is largely connected with organic life; walking really
inherent force — into our thinking, when we permeate our thinking
with will. We bring will into thinking and thereby attain freedom. As
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Title: Lecture: Search for the New Isis, the Divine Sophia: The Quest for the Isis-Sophia
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continue working in a changed way.
working there. Just as the Egyptians imagined Ahriman-Typhon working in
of Christ, the Isis of Christ is lacking.
luciferic; theology is luciferic. Of course if we are speaking of the inner
This is the mystery of modern humanity: Fundamentally speaking, Mary-Isis
universe. The willing of Christ Working in man Shall wrest from Lucifer And

Title: Evil and the Future of Man
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A part of Steiner's Lectures on Spiritual Essence and its Working,
In speaking of these matters, we cannot always avoid the appearance of
with the mystery of evil. Taking the mystery of death to begin with,
After all, in speaking of the railway system it will occur to no-one to
course be talking nonsense, though it cannot he disputed that the
as a by-product of their working — bring death to man, is this: To
important matters. Our modern thinking — I say this once again not by
way of criticism, but as a pure characterisation — our modern thinking
How often do we see men arising here or there, making this or that
implications, is thinking truly in accordance with the times. Those
intensity, taking hold only of a portion of his being. If we would
upon one to-day, if one is speaking in all earnestness and does not
want merely to call forth a kind of torpor, making the lectures a
the tendencies making for social separation have to be overcome, and
has to enter into the evolution of mankind. An engine making a long

Title: Lecture: The Human Heart
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marking the essential birth of the etheric body. Likewise we can refer
ray out, in a manner of speaking, previously they were more star-like;
All the etheric forces that are working in man until puberty tend to
aforesaid process is taking place in the etheric body, this highly
When the baby is kicking with its little legs, you notice very little
We then see how his movements — intelligent movements, now, walking
actions. Here, then, you have a complete linking up of karma with the
speaking, begins only at the moment when the astral heart takes hold

Title: Lecture: The Invisible Man Within Us
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physical organizations. After first taking along the astral and
by working through his food. This stream flows in the human being
from below upward (speaking schematically), pours itself into the
itself with the astral forces, taking hold of oxygen and only then,
taking place mainly in the super-sensible so that it cannot be traced
working with the astral body, from acting alone. The healer has to
the breakdown forces are working strongly, cooling phenomena occur.
is not satisfied by taking up just the etheric; instead the fruit
of oxygen directly from the ego or the astral body. Thus by taking in
deadly nightshade poison; then the forces working from below upward
it leads the outer world inward after cooling it (making

Title: Lecture: Outlooks for the Future
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Generally speaking, we
they were speaking of some ancient memory, that their ancestors used to

Title: Lecture: Self Knowledge and the Christ Experience
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into his capacity of intellectual thinking in its narrower sense, which
importantly, they learned to know the so-called three kingdoms of nature
people these days, did not exist among those working for initiation in the
all these together: mineral, plant and animal. Looking back from the
Undertaking to obey the injunction ‘Know Thyself’, however, he found
thinking becomes his; for with pure thinking he can become a free being. It
lay hold of the inner strength of pure thinking in the act of self-knowledge.
relation to the other parts of his being, outside his pure thinking and his
fully man. For as a modern man your inner task is the working-out of what has
and warmth our mere thinking that is otherwise dead and abstract.

Title: Lecture: Social Understanding Through Spiritual Scientific Knowledge
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usually ask. That is why so little importance is attached to making
something. Looking at memory is the best way to understand how absurd
it and looking for the spirit within it.
forces of the earth are perpetually working into man. And it is our forces
twenty-first year. The will working in us up till the seventh year works
spiritual-scientifically that in everything working in the child up till the
The important changes taking place in humanity at the present time are
must be put into practice to the point of making us conscious that man's
Everywhere, people are still working contrary to this requirement. For
making practical use of them for the good of humanity. In this case, if
spiritual science. It is necessary to develop a totally new way of thinking.
The kind of thinking we develop when we accustom ourselves to
working with super-sensible thoughts is the kind of thinking that has an
natural scientific, materialistic way of thinking has done more damage in
And this is particularly true where it is a matter of people taking an inner
people open themselves to the possibility of making the transition to
thinking in quite a new way about man changing himself in his innermost
lacking today, to bring down to a material level what we think of on a
Thus it is virtually a matter of aiming towards a way of thinking that
social impulse. A way of thinking based on anything else is not adequate.

Title: Lecture: Spiritual Emptiness and Social Life
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A part of Steiner's Lectures on Spiritual Essence and its Working,
order in civilised humanity. Fundamentally speaking, the tendency
of this epoch. In speaking of such matters one must keep bluntly to
Among those who of recent years have been talking a great deal about
about Hermann Grimm — not thinking of him as a personality but as a
personality, for the thinking of thousands and thousands of scholarly
Taking it all in all, what Hermann Grimm said about Goethe is really
pointed gropingly to the spirit. But speaking quite objectively, it
life by emancipating it, making it independent of and separate from
where it could unfold only in shackles. I am speaking here only of
happen only in an epoch when scientific thinking impinges on a culture
direction of natural scientific thinking he must have known the odour
But that is not all. These trends in economic thinking did not go
thinking, seeped into the economic usages and methods originally
“grapho” — writing. One can picture how the peasants, thinking
measles’, in a manner of speaking. In the old Imperium Romanum a
here was a man who had made a little headway in natural scientific thinking
the result being a monstrosity of human thinking. To study modern
literature on law is a veritable martyrdom for sound thinking; one
influence of human thinking and feeling, to take the form that is
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Title: Lecture: The Sun-Mystery in the Course of Human History
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this spirituality is active in him only during his waking hours or in
to activity from the time of waking until that of falling asleep.
when we are walking; but we can see ourselves stepping forward. We form
mental images of the workings of our will and in this sense are
for then inner processes are taking place, processes that are also
outer will. The workings of the outer will are made manifest to us
asleep. Strictly speaking, the inner will is not revealed to us;
activity. The will that is working while we are asleep has to do with
But during waking activity too, that is to say when our will is in
flow, life-processes are taking place. The will takes effect in the
dream. But at any rate it is clearer than the workings of will. It
will: an inner will in the sleeping state, an outer will in the waking
itself out in the antipathies — taking the word in the widest sense
illumination will be shed upon it. Waking life arouses in us sympathy
egotism, the more strongly is the element of antipathy working in him.
that it plays into his waking life, his whole being is permeated with
waking life, in the outer will — rises up into the conceptual life,
the ego and astral body are outside the physical body; but our waking,
sleep. When the Persians woke from sleep — I am speaking of course of
We no longer feel that at the moment of waking from sleep we summon
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Title: Lecture: Truth Beauty and Goodness
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exercise the students' faculties of thinking, feeling and willing.
is to exercise the students' faculties of thinking, feeling
things of which I have been speaking — and which were actual

Title: The Individuality of Elias, John, Raphael, Novalis
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Elijah refer to the same person. In non-English speaking
countries refer to Elias, and English speaking countries refer to
into all our hearts, I did not want to let pass without speaking to you at
we have seen taking place — partly on earth, partly in super-sensible
worlds, the realm of spiritual evolution, taking with him the power of his
the being of whom I have been speaking to you today — all those with whom

Title: Lecture: Exoteric and Esoteric Christianity
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resurrection of thinking: how dead thoughts can be awakened to life in
understand this, we must begin by taking into consideration the frame
evolution of the earth, but, in making use of him, they have forced
into mankind and if they had not succeeded in taking off the sharp
speaking together while they are still battling with their doubts:
The gods found a new way of speaking to us. This way went through the
thinking, we are not really alive, that our life is poured into the
out of the force of pure thinking, and where we learn to understand
the freedom in man, through the impulses of pure thinking.
earnestness and responsibility. When speaking of such things, one

Title: Lecture: The Origin of Speech and Language
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plant, and animal kingdoms was also touched upon, and this then led
that it is essentially a process of taking in substances that are
as old as I am. The discovery I am speaking of is the following.
from speaking.
you only need to imagine that we have the habit of making certain
gestures while speaking, such as Ah! (corresponding gesture);
speaking are experienced by the left side of the brain.
getting their entire brain confused through making them write with
pedagogically speaking, you would achieve the very opposite of what
of making people do the same thing both with the right and the left
look at the clock to see if we must start working or if it is time to

Title: Lecture: The Sense-Organs and Aesthetic Experience
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imaginative way of looking at things that was characteristic of Old
the emergence of soul-powers which have the character of thinking,
thinking, feeling and willing as they normally are on earth, but
thinking back into the Old Moon, not to the extent of having visions,
working only as ordinary life-processes belonging to the physical
organ for understanding Aristotle was lacking. The phrase has been
have to add the spiritual to a thinking that remains in the realm of
thinking. What is the use of speaking of freedom where this necessity
one come upon matter without spirit. Thinking remains mere thinking
point is that our thinking must be brought into line with reality,
comprehension of the world into untruth. There is always this forking
opposite — a thinking that is not in accord with reality.
materialistic thinking; but, as in many other cases, the outcome of
materialistic thinking can work to the benefit of the human faculties
had not developed the kind of thinking we have today. The Greeks were
not possessed of the purely abstract thinking we have, and need to
thinking, but with truth.

Title: Lecture: A Turning-Point in Modern History
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much greater change in ways of thinking than is generally appreciated.
much more deeply. It can sometimes be heartbreaking how little the
Looking back before the nineteenth century to the end of the
impulse working in Schiller when he wrote his Letters on the
working in a sense-perceptible medium. And he would produce something
interpretations. They are headed by the Golden King, who represents
(not symbolises) wisdom, the Silver King who represents beautiful
appearance, the Bronze King, who represents power, and Love who crowns
way of looking at things, developed by Schiller in an abstract
do we find no trace of the peculiar way of thinking we are impelled to
thinking, and a man who had spiritualised instincts, such as Goethe
the structure of society. Looking at the French Revolution, he writes
way of thinking about the best social conditions is equally powerless.
them. That is no way of making progress. Progress can be made when
Spiritual Science re-inaugurates this way of looking at things. It
spiritual life. Now we can see a trend towards making these three
abstract thinking on the other, particularly in relation to the social
undertaking concerned with production is unhealthy when managed by the
undertakings into the realm which should be responsible only for the
in this present time, where earnestness is knocking most solemnly at

Title: Lecture: Elemental Beings and Human Destinies
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relatively speaking, self-dependent. We have within the human being
roughly speaking, the breast system — is connected with the
the system and organisation of the limbs. Relatively speaking, these
them in the following way. In ordinary waking life Man is fully awake
thinking and ideas. Everything connected with the life of feeling
waking life with a life of dreams. What goes on in the sphere of
contains within it thinking, feeling and willing. In the head system
periods of about seven years in length. Roughly speaking, the first is
see them working together with the rhythmic system indirectly through
the influences and workings of these elemental beings. Man spreads out
elemental beings from the Elf King's realm intervene in the destiny of
THE ELF KING'S DAUGHTER
Elf King's daughter amidst them is seen.
For Elf King's daughter did I see.”
plant and animal kingdoms — in the very same way do we live with
of taking note of external nature in a more objective way. Earlier, he
year. This is one of the most striking ‘returns’ — this
events which comes back in a striking manner. The same observation can
Babylonian kingdoms, of the ancient Persian and Egyptian kingdoms and
you will find no mention of the continued working of the Christ
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Title: Lecture: Man, Offspring of the World of Stars
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it were from the objects themselves. In this respect Goethe's thinking
’ to himself, he experiences a force that is working within him,
and the Greek, as he felt the working of this inner force, related it
forces which are also working but in a different way. The Moon forces
Moon forces are working, for instance, in the shaping and moulding of
forces. Metabolism is primarily an outcome of the working of Earth
but for all that they are still working from outside.
drinking. But within the organism they are received into the realm of
astral body in which the influence of Sun and Moon are working. But
directions of cosmic space are also working in the human organism. The
influences working upon that part of the human organism which lies
above the heart — speaking very roughly, for it would be
body — this is due to an irregularity in the working of the
working in us nowadays. Naturally the Saturn forces work in us, just
they are caused by an irregular working of the Saturn forces.
active in thinking.
the thinking faculty, and Jupiter is responsible for permeating the
The development of the faculty of thinking takes place essentially
Just as Jupiter has to do with thinking, so has Mars to do with speech.
Jupiter:    thinking.
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Title: Lecture: The Three Stages of Sleep
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WAKING
not unveiled. If this waking consciousness, as it serves us for
waking condition of consciousness, something is concealed, and
walking along a road and comes to a mountain. He passes into a
it has lasted until the time of waking.
waking life.
what is consciously experienced on waking. The pictures in
falling asleep and awaking. Between falling asleep and awaking
the body with their soul and lose consciousness. On waking they
waking life, they can now say: ‘The Earth has
existing kinds. When human beings consider their waking
consciousness they can distinguish between thinking, feeling
and willing. But just as the waking consciousness has these
falling asleep and awaking people are not always in the same
condition any more than they are during the period of waking
consciousness. A person is awake when thinking or feeling or
two other conditions of the life of sleep, just as in waking
Thinking, the possession of thoughts, corresponds in sleep to
from which nothing can be brought into the waking life of the
person can bring back something into the waking life through
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Title: Lecture: Spiritual Wisdom in the Early Christian Centuries
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the impulses living in Plato and Aristotle were working on and of
thinking are making their appearance. In Plato's time, thoughts
sixty heavenly Powers are working and weaving therein, sending forth
abstraction, albeit working on in the guise of revelation, took its
of Iamblichus of the spiritual forces working down into every animal

Title: Lecture: The Recovery of the Living Source of Speech
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assumes a materialistic character, or whether in his speaking he
that the words that ring in his speaking, coming as they do from the
allows idealism to disappear altogether from his speaking, then he
days designated the plough. When anyone was listening to or speaking
a word, it was not so much his thinking that partook in the
schools. Generally speaking, however, it is possible to trace a
the Greeks. You could not have more striking evidence of this than
And so, if we are speaking of the Hierarchies as described in
was completely lacking in spirituality. It was really so. There you
language of will, and behold there the wonderful working and
weaving of the Divine Archangels, behold too how their working and

Title: Lecture: Gnostic Doctrines and Supersensible Influences in Europe
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fragment only of the world in which man lives and moves as a thinking
away from the sphere of human thinking. Man's thought to-day is
thinking had not begun to function in the mind of man. Knowledge came
and the building of logical connections in thinking denoted a later
of everything that is associated with the activity of thinking.
faculty of thinking was turned to practical application in the
activity is lacking in our present age, whereas in Scholasticism it
a veil. And in the case of which we are speaking, a decadent culture
rigidly to an inwardly pure, inwardly austere activity of thinking of
working of the faculty of pure reason now dawning in the human mind.
forces of this astute, keen thinking to the needs of material
of sense. In this way the realm of human thinking became easy of
life-breath is provided by the thinking of the West, permeated as it
Luciferic, rationalistic thinking of the West. And human beings on
West to East and from East to West forces are working and weaving in

Title: Lecture I: Ancient Myths
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But it is only in our thinking that the Gods have deserted us. They are
have frequently remarked that knowledge, that way of thinking
come again to such a thinking, such a grasp of the universe, as will
acquainted with the nature of that thinking which underlies the mode
mind the nature of the thinking employed in the myths, how deeply, or
thinking that still rules in the soul today is connected with the
preparation of food from the plant kingdom, the building of cities,
one can call it thinking! The Greeks related that Chronos had
than looking up to the connection with the stars, as Dupuis supposed,
with this ancient forefather, this ancient king in Thrace, or in
Epirus. The Greek had in fact this idea: There was once such a king
being of man — but who then went on working no longer as an
must have ordinary objective thinking. But the Gods have not ventured
thinking, so they have not descended to the earth, but kept to their
different, and that this looking back went hand in hand with the
understanding of the Greek consciousness! Thus the Greek in looking
overcome atavism, making use of sulphur atavistically. But Zeus and
speaking — it is the excrement of that which was understood
far beyond talking of sulphur processes in the cosmos when thunder
the Earth, who only belongs to the Kingdom of death.

Title: Lecture II: Ancient Myths
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But it is only in our thinking that the Gods have deserted us. They are
scientific thinking. The realization of what each one can do, no
of looking back of mankind, and this looking back to other states of
could really say: we see them. Entirely abstract thinking has only
the course of mankind's evolution. We are there looking back to an
fact, expressed in the myths. Thinking gradually passed over to
nonsense.) In the air spiritual events are taking place around
but spiritual events are taking place. These spiritual events,
perceptive process and a thinking process spread out in time; whereas
sleep.’ Thus people connected perceiving and thinking with
man develops in perceiving and thinking of the kind that I have
perception and thinking with the day, with sunrise and sunset —
arrange social conditions in the Roman Kingdom. This, however, means
perceiving and thinking, according to the rising and setting of the
what can be the most impure, lowest way of thinking, as is shown from
taking place continually on a small scale. Think for a moment: words
taking place in humanity.
distinguishing marks of the Assyrian kings or of the Egyptian kings,
ancient kings had) were, for instance, these.

Title: Lecture III: Ancient Myths
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But it is only in our thinking that the Gods have deserted us. They are
archetypal forces working in nature and in man. If the Egyptian was
peculiar situation of taking words in a false sense, not relating
them to their true reality, but taking them in their most superficial
itself a looking-glass (Spiegel). And it is related that Till
is depicted the owl with the looking-glass, was because another
speaking as we have spoken here today! There are a fair number of
however, another way of looking at the human being which
art of Education. This is not the looking back at having been

Title: Lecture IV: Ancient Myths
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But it is only in our thinking that the Gods have deserted us. They are
today, the Egyptian, as too the Greek, at least the Greek thinking in
If things are understood rightly, talking of superstition has
corresponds in man to the thorax. So that, speaking macrocosmically
thinking with reality. This head-civilization, this Aries-culture,
shall be speaking of this immediately.
with all its forces, purely as physical thinking-instrument, as
one could say that in a certain respect Mars was the rightful King of
the rightful king of this world because nothing can really be
of making himself spiritual. No age has been so favourable to
of Brest-Litowsk. You know that various people are taking part in
them. The chief people from Russia taking part — to single that
if indeed these things men are taking part in are actualities. It is
and a looking-glass, then Till Eulenspiegel did not live! If I want

Title: Lecture V: Ancient Myths
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But it is only in our thinking that the Gods have deserted us. They are
changes taking place in a single individual. The individual as the
of course speaking of the science, the political life of his time,
behaviour is any kind of proof that they are not seeking what is to
obvious, immense veneration for one who had grown old; a looking up
am not speaking of such things. But after he had grown so old, in his
not come naturally as a rule. And yet, unless a man is always taking

Title: Lecture VI: Ancient Myths
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But it is only in our thinking that the Gods have deserted us. They are
thinking and feeling flow into such currents as are necessary
result of our always seeking to understand through abstract
understanding of man. One must put oneself in the position of taking
so indolent, so theoretic in our thinking as we now prefer. For you
this. Man is rooted with his being in the kingdom of the lower Gods,
in the kingdom of the Chthonic Gods.
man in the kingdom of the lower Gods then one must complete this
has but a slight feeling for what is taking place at the present
lacking for really giving to children today something that refreshes
and a supporting of life. Two things are lacking. The one is that,
depth, is precisely what is lacking to our life, what our life does
powers have taken part in working upon what is being accomplished in
seen externally. What is now taking place will be transformed into

Title: Lecture VII: Ancient Myths
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But it is only in our thinking that the Gods have deserted us. They are
meditating over all these things one can gain great help by thinking
speaking lightly — that everyone has his own head. Man
special time at which one observes the stars. So that by taking the
we ourselves take part in working in the cosmos. And from the
work, namely, that the earth is working there. In the case of the
the animal kingdom is also to some extent involved — inasmuch
connected with a proper mutual action taking place between head and
furthered. A direct way of thinking — but one perhaps that has
be a straightforward, direct mode of thinking. But a thinking that is
appreciation for our Lenins and Trotskys’. (He is speaking of
which is nevertheless lacking in what man gains for himself today.
speaking.
confuses it with reality, one is not really looking for reality at
existence. Merely by making the statement ‘there is a
existence one actually proves that one is talking nonsense. For if it

Title: Lecture: The Dual Form of Cognition During the Middle Ages and the Development of Knowledge in Modern Times
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speaking, its contents were obtained through super-sensible vision,
eminently intellectual in his way of working.
thinking, evolved up to the fifteenth century. That human beings were
Catholic Church. If we observe the disorderly way of thinking which
spirit does not possess a real technique of thinking. How many things
thinking, that is to say, as a technique of intellectualism!
cannot accept, nevertheless it reveals a thinking activity which
Essentially speaking,
century was, therefore, the development of a technique of thinking.
This thinking activity has now adopted a definite attitude in regard
forth the position of man's thinking activity towards the contents of
technique of thinking in order to approach with it the contents of a
this: their intellect was grappling with Nature, it was seeking
struggle of the intellect that was seeking to gain a knowledge of
the same way in which the universities were, generally speaking, the
of the senses offered to them. Fundamentally speaking, just about the
as yet exist, for Darwin's first epoch-making book only appeared in
Generally speaking, the
made to apply this manner of thinking, which is contained in all the
Fundamentally speaking, materialism already existed; it had its
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Title: Lecture: The Remedy for Our Diseased Civilisation
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without taking into consideration the special definition which
to say, by speaking of Haeckel's neck-ties and the complaints of
intellectualism, a technique of thinking which Scholasticism had
“Riddles of the World” are, fundamentally speaking,
moment of waking up to the moment of falling asleep. Even then, he
may say: During his waking life, from the moment of waking up to the
waking up, it escapes your consciousness, you do not know anything
thinking part of man, the head of man. And we must ask: What
the time of falling asleep to the time of waking up?
the abstract thinking logic, which merely takes hold of the head, and
super-sensible knowledge is, fundamentally speaking, not a relation
anthroposophical spiritual science for speaking so little of God. But
I have often said: It seems to me that those who are always speaking
important than continually speaking of God. Perhaps, at first,
To begin with, we have the technique of thinking contained in

Title: Lecture: Goethe and the Evolution of Consciousness
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thinking about the world and about life.
early life — how as a boy of seven he built an altar by taking
different kind of thinking, a different way of approaching the world,
the bent towards abstract thinking, the tendency of thought to work
fifteenth century that our thinking has been so influenced by our
speaking, of measure, number and weight. Students of Pythagorean
and word. When they were speaking it seemed to them that the idea
carried into the word itself. And their thinking was not abstract and
intellectualistic as our thinking is to-day. Something like the sound
his thinking, but to him speaking was thinking. Thinking was
instead of making calculations based on the results of experiments,
they observed the changes and transformations taking place
viewing the world has developed out of the Greek way of looking at
even only as an Italian, the world for which you are really seeking

Title: Lecture: Salt, Mercury, Sulphur
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Boehme spoke of the working of the salt, the mercury or the sulphur
in man, he was speaking of something absolutely real and concrete.
be outside man and in seeking thus to understand human nature by way
spectre the faculties of thinking, feeling and willing also come into
body, had been taking place since the beginning of the fifteenth
mystical meanings. Jacob Boehme connected the thinking — the
perception of the processes taking their course in the etheric body —
the Logos is working. The crystal-formations of the earth are the
working of the salts in etheric form must be thought of in a more
this airy element and by the breaking up of the etheric thoughts, by
from the working of the ‘astral man’ in the ‘air
spoke about ‘thinking’ he spoke of the salt-process just
times. If they had been confronted with our concepts of thinking,
of people when they speak of thinking, feeling and willing, consider
taking place in his image being. In outer nature there transpires
old Folk-Wisdom living in Jacob Boehm conceived as taking place
Kings. This story of the visit of the Three Kings to the Child Jesus
connected with this visit of the Three Kings from the East. These
Kings relate that they have come from regions where conditions were
World-King would appear whose coming would be heralded by a star.
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Title: Lecture: Some Conditions for Understanding Supersensible Experiences
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One of his lectures on Spiritual Essence and its Working,
One of his lectures on Spiritual Essence and its Working,
an old Persian legend. “Djemjdid was a king who led his people
dead are perpetually working into our physical world. The forces of
which under the influence of the impulses working in men to-day are
order to reach them. What is lacking to-day is the application of
worst plight; it is healthy logic, really sound thinking, and above
speaking the truth at all about certain things, because of national
light itself, then for the first time he becomes aware that thinking
Thinking that is bound up with the body is proper to physical life
only. Directly we leave this body, our thinking loses definition; it
the moment our thinking is received into the light, it is no longer
just as here in earthly life he makes use of thinking in the physical
things through thinking.
possible when thinking is based on the bodily functions. This kind of
thinking is ingrained in them from their youth onwards. But healthy
in the element of thinking that is truly free. As long as such things
kingdoms of nature, is behind the ego that is an image only. We must
reversal of feeling has been experienced. Then, when thinking is
social thinking. When the ego is allowed to remain a mirror-image,
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Title: Lecture: The Relation of the Movement for Religious Renewal to the Anthroposophical Movement
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taking of these steps which must bring blessing to the
about that in more recent years the way of working had necessarily to
thinking, feeling, and will. I remarked first of all to those who
came to me in this way for help in what they were seeking and could
only find where anthroposophical Spiritual Science is making its way
drawn into the forms of thinking and ideation prevailing in various
Taking for granted therefore that the Anthroposophical Movement will
Movement, and so on. Taking into account the fact that the opponents
were to do so, he would be working for two ends: firstly, for the
together as in one organic whole, but this working together must take
essential impulse of the Anthroposophical Movement — working

Title: Lecture: Concerning the Origin and Nature of the Finnish Nation
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working upwards from below, from the earth itself, so man’s

Title: Lecture: Perceiving and Remembering
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that during the waking state we are both with our ego and astral body within
taking place in the inner light-body. But we do not see them as light
distant way what, for instance, is taking place amongst us here. Because
of the New Year is a kind of sign marking the progress of time generally; and
all thinking souls, things called into being by this black printers' ink

Title: Perception of the Nature of Thought
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life from Aries, Taurus, Gemini etc., we are then thinking in the
Earth are working. But it is active in what exists only in the mother
transition is found from a very remarkable ancient thinking to what
and that of ancient Greece. Our clumsy thinking believes that thought
must not speak of such a mode of thinking as is normal today, but of
thinking, where one draws the thoughts out of oneself, where one must
thinking in the modern sense might take root in the modern human
concerned with a thinking that is still not man's own
need arose to give certainty to thinking, — to prove thinking as was
see thoughts as perception. In the former Greek thinking that would
becoming aware of the subjectivity of thinking.
perceptive thinking, was still deeply influenced by the sentient
the external. The thinking of Thales, of the first philosopher was
Angeloi Thinking (Jupiter)
etheric bodies. And the laws of the Sun-existence, working from epoch
example of the working of the Sun-evolution in human earthly life. I

Title: Lecture: The Spiritual Individualities of the Planets
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Working, this lecture is also known as:
Working, this lecture is also known as:
this amounts to no more than making an image of — let us say —
speaking not in a very remote past — when the Moon was still
Thinker in our planetary system, and thinking is the activity
efforts to develop his capacities of thinking, he cannot, even if he
genuine activity of thinking. Jupiter is the Thinker in our universe.
of mankind. A man who has tried hard to apply clear thinking to some
that it is the Jupiter powers who imbue human thinking with mobility
slowly, very slowly, round his orbit, taking some 30 years. Jupiter
moves faster, taking about 12 years. Because of this quicker movement
many things concerning the past are revealed through thinking.
is why in ancient times, when active thinking was still at a very
dream. Mars has a great longing to be always talking, and whenever
Mars does little thinking. He has few thinkers, but many talkers, in
of the Masters of co-ordinative thinking; Jupiter, the habitation of
the Masters of wisdom-filled thinking.
The inner will-impulse contained in acts of free thinking is due to

Title: Lecture: The Elemental World and the Future of Mankind
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— in all the kingdoms of nature, in every star, in every
explained yesterday, this has the effect that thinking, by no longer
rhythm of the external cosmos. We must go with our thinking out of
If one has in mind their physical aspect only, when speaking about
logical thoughts, but by uniting ourselves through our thinking with
eight, making out that two times two makes eight, or something like
Nothing is achieved by looking at these things merely from an
them to the recognition that a spiritual stream is seeking to enter

Title: Lecture: A Picture of Earth-Evolution in the Future
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connection with the being of man, and with the kingdoms of Nature around him,
Saturn, Sun and Moon periods of evolution, during which no mineral kingdom
existed. The mineral kingdom as we know it today came into being for the first
separation of the moon and the incorporation of the mineral kingdom into the
kingdom into earthly existence. Man became a personality, and freedom was
century, super-earthly Beings have been seeking to enter the sphere of
But, speaking generally, what is the
earth-existence and seeking to gain a foothold there. And they will be able to
are speaking of concrete fact when we say: Spiritual Beings are seeking to come
even in the human kingdom itself — all these thoughts which have no reality
and the plant kingdoms, and possessed of an overwhelming power of intellect.
I have been speaking today of a matter upon which we cannot form a
in the mineral kingdom itself or in the kingdoms of plant, animal and man. Even
when applied to the plant kingdom, science must become a form of art, and still
more so in the case of the animal kingdom. To think that the form and structure
have been seeking to come down to the earth since the last third of the
earth-sphere, would combine with the moon-substance to produce that new kingdom
with the brood of spidery creatures of which I have been speaking.
events of fundamental and incisive importance are taking place? I have already

Title: Lecture: The Spiritual Communion of Mankind
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Looking back into very ancient times
consciousness between those of full sleep and waking, in states where
the leaders of the Mysteries were working at the development of a
ascribes it to his own activity of thinking. He forms chains of
themselves the product of his own thinking. The man of olden times
the thoughts which in reality other Beings are thinking —
thinking and he is then permeated by these powers. He can avoid this
Those who were capable of thinking in
When therefore we are looking at the
be understood in the right sense. By looking back over the evolution
In seeking for knowledge of the world
by looking upwards to the Sun and the starry heavens at the time of
But it once pleased a French King (whom even history acknowledges to

Title: Lecture: Technology and Art: Their Bearing on Modern Culture
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creakings and rumblings of the wheels and machinery of the train. It
towards initiation, one can notice on waking from sleep how the Ego
passed just before waking.
The effects of all the discordant hubbub, the jerking
waking consciousness — is fully aware how little it conforms
Naturally I say this without making the slightest
implication, either general or specific, for in speaking of such a
During waking life, therefore, we are also entangled in
in such terms are speaking the language of Ahriman. We will try to
initiation brings back with him on waking the effects of what he has
to be truly Man only by seeking for it in his inner life, by being
and intellectual thinking, and now also, as we have seen, because
To face the waking life of day with dullness and
other sciences do. Speaking in the style of the other sciences, one
thinking that is customary in external life. There is really very
passions and emotions when speaking.
Rhine” they can be thinking of the river-bed, the indentation
or heard others speaking, something as yet undifferentiated in one
the Middle Ages or in antiquity without taking account of the fact
conception. Recall to your minds the shockingly homely simile I used
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Title: Lecture: The Inexpressible Name, Spirits of Space and Time.
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ordinary way of looking at the world today does not really enable us
animal kingdom, and only during the 7th epoch the real kingdom of
The most striking fact of all is this change in humanity, this
cooking; i.e., in domestic economy, so that there they are truly
advertisements in all the local newspapers making propaganda for the
after him while he is working, but also when he ceases to work, by
On taking leave from you again for a couple of weeks, my dear
working in the world through our Building. For this Building is,

Title: Lecture: The Coming Experience of Christ
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which conflicts with their habitual thinking, they would soon see
second decade of the twentieth century by talking about the
blood relationship; consequently all that has happened is the making
‘My kingdom is not of this world.’” For man will
have to say to himself: — “My Kingdom is not of this

Title: Lecture: Modern and Ancient Spiritual Exercises
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kingdoms of nature, the men of those times beheld spirit and soul. They
was walking along a river bank. If someone today walks along a river bank
depend only on our senses and nervous system as instruments of thinking.
rhythm. We never think without this whole process taking place, of which
element in his thinking within the rhythm of breathing.
thinking, which he had hardly felt as a function of the head at all, streamed
thinking to be merely a shadowy, logical process; he rather felt how
thinking followed the breath. When he inhaled he felt he was taking
the breath into his thinking. With his thoughts he took hold, as it were,
his thinking pervading his whole being. This made him aware of his thinking
the physical world he quite rightly does not pay attention to his thinking
soul-filled thinking pulsated through his inner being with the result that
but along the more inward path of thinking itself. The right path for man
logical thought sequence; it is a thinking that is much more
achieved to that of the yogi in ancient times. He blended thinking
thinking from breathing. Thinking is not on this account torn out of
rhythm, because as thinking becomes separated from the inner rhythm of
breath it is gradually linked to an external rhythm. By setting thinking
towards separating thinking from the breath and letting it dive down into
Thinking must pass over into
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Title: Lecture: The Meaning of Easter: St. Paul and the Christ Impulse
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world-history it shall be possible for him, through the working of the
not an event that can be grasped by any thinking concerned entirely
mankind through the working of the Christ Impulse.
those times which possess to a striking degree the characteristic
the words: “My kingdom is not of this world.” He was not to
divine and spiritual kingdom that could be reached only by inward
for man in a new kingdom of light,
[KingRomans 13:12]
knew that he must be giving himself up to delusions, he must be mistaking
bring men out of the habit of looking to the spirits of air and of
[4:9 But now, after that ye have known God, or rather are known of God, how turn ye again to the weak and beggarly elements, whereunto ye desire again to be in bondage?KingGal. 4:3,9]
working of the Event of Golgotha, He is here. But you must find Him; He must come again
rest content with looking at life in any superficial way; it is
festival, all their thinking about Easter runs along the lines of old
with thinking at all, and go on repeating the words they have learned from

Title: Lecture: The Universe
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by saying: With his whole thinking, insofar as it is
looking back, as it were, into his own self. For when we
the world with his thinking that is connected with his
as it were. By looking back upon ourselves, we discover the
are taking hold of something which is your own self. You
a tiny bit poisonous. For life consists in taking in
inorganic world and seeking the balance.
taking his place culturally in the external life on earth.
pouring out water, by walking over the fields with urns and
contained in man, best be symbolized? Perhaps by taking the
always looking back; this gesture of Aries looking back is
Aries in the human being who is looking back on himself, on
characteristic lies in the gesture of looking back.
Taurus, you will find that he is always looking sideways
thing, the gesture of looking around and activating the
looking upon the human form: In regard to the shape of the
to obtain metabolic man with his limbs, seeking to become a

Title: Lecture: The Templars
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in their I, but also in all their feeling and thinking, in their very being
spiritual kingdoms and want to bring Man down and lead him into evil, who are
hatred and mocking and irony against the Good, with all these the Templars
thinking leads also to the very extreme of intellectual
Working alone,
unconscious and takes its course there in a good and healthy way, working
Fundamentally speaking, seen from a deeper aspect, we all
hand, what happened through the working of Mephistophelian-Ahrimanic forces
has actually been taking place in modern times.
impulse one has recognized as proceeding from it and working on in European
working in the world; and those who were responsible for the French
then is one speaking in a sense and meaning that is in accord with the inner
workings are focused in a point, the point of the I. There we are alike, and
spiritually, between the workings of the nerves and the blood. They were
the influence of the inspirations of which I have been speaking to you today,
the sole influence working in history, quite a different evolution would have
recognize this principle of which I am here speaking.
speaking. “Person,” did I say? Here we must remind ourselves that
good forces are working, but others also. And a man like Goethe uttered in
and with whose working the working of the other stream is united. And what

Title: The Year as a Symbol of the Great Cosmic Year
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our lifeless inorganic Earth, the mineral kingdom of our Earth. This
belonging to the mineral kingdom. We shall not occupy ourselves with
entirely different from the laws of human consciousness. In speaking
plant world, for we are apt to look on our waking consciousness as
our complete consciousness, without taking our sleeping consciousness
When speaking of this consciousness which as a second
our ordinary waking consciousness, we think of the things round about
in a superficial way, thinking merely of the stones against which we
can. The thinking consciousness of the plants — not of

Title: On the Duty of Clear, Sound Thinking
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On the Duty of Clear, Sound Thinking
THINKING.
thought — of clear, precise thinking.
This decline in the power of thinking has taken place
regards the certainty of thinking has spread widely through all the
thinking and at the same time it is an age of the blindest trust in
nation, race or colour; that a certain element of cramped thinking is
like, has now for a long time been extended to the whole thinking
get no further. This unworthy thinking of the nineteenth century is
The fact is that such inaccurate thinking does not
only exist in the domain of which I am speaking, where it comes very
what they are if the thinking of all humanity was not permeated with
slip-shod thinking of the present day. Spiritual Science should
stimulate us to intensive, courageous thinking; that is what matters:
by the careless thinking of the present day. I have explained to you
how this careless thinking acts; I quoted: ‘results only do we
they are not making the same mistake that the whole world makes
little it is recognised. It enters into our everyday thinking, and
makes itself felt there, just as in the more advanced thinking of the
how important it is to be interested in such things, how lacking in
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Title: Lecture: Evil and the Power of Thought
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speaking of Central Europe) learn to know in secret societies what
was something quite outlandish when Bulwer travelled about, speaking of
reflections, the mirror-pictures, of external life, when looking into
to tell how feeling and will are actually working. For this reason he
inner being. By looking into our inner being we get only to this
consciousness as we are to look behind a mirror without breaking it.
thinking, which is the highest attainment of modern times, could not
penetrate deeply into the connections of modern life by looking at
although only a crude idea of them can be had by modern thinking.

Title: Lecture: The Seeds of Future Worlds
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to something like a breaking of the inner mirror. The memories can as
conception. Thus we come to the point of thinking in a living and
with a certain inevitability this modern thinking leads men to
theology, too, has fallen into that way of thinking which has
so speaking because for him both the Father and the Christ are
destruction of which I have been speaking the laws of nature are
when we behold moral laws working upon matter which has been thrown
taking place within us in a natural way. We become aware of the
speak or hear in intercourse with other people, hearing and speaking
being where speaking and hearing go on at the same time.
Hearing and speaking are once more united. The “inner
natural science way of thinking? How is it for him, when this way of
thinking has been grafted on to him from early childhood? He learns
sinking world, and it will drag man down with it if he is completely
nature, we are looking in a certain sense at the spread-out colours

Title: Lecture: Exoteric and Esoteric Christianity
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resurrection of thinking: how dead thoughts can be awakened to life in
Speaking
properly speaking, upon human consciousness.
Looking deeply
finding all doubt vanishing, were talking together. The one might
this means: when man is thinking he does not truly live; he pours
spring from the force of pure thinking, and where in the
operations of pure thinking we understand the reality of freedom,
speaking of such matters one is always aware of the difficulty of

Title: Lecture: Realism and Nominalism
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by asking someone who is firmly rooted in modern culture: —
divine thoughts. That is, in my thinking I create a link with the
spiritual way of looking at things had passed. Nominalism took hold of
possessed in a certain sense a way of thinking which had a direct
is, of course, placed into modern life, and in working out natural
thinking and of feeling in respect to most things. In Anthroposophy,
as we contemplate physical images; a new way of thinking must be found.
change our ways of thinking and of feeling — otherwise we
cannot reach a really spiritual way of looking at things. This gives

Title: Lecture: Fundamentals of the Science of Initiation
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Metaphorically speaking, (yet it is not entirely metaphorical, but
world, and they avoid speaking about it concretely. They chiefly
undoubtedly succeed in making the third generation entirely

Title: Lecture: Cosmogony, Freedom, Altruism
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beings made their workings felt. The commonest everyday
civilisation is gradually sinking into something where it can
lacking this, it lacks also the strength for true altruistic
are asking, “What is good absolutely?” —
They are not asking, “What is good for Europe? What is
is good for the twenty-fifth century?” They are asking
about absolute Goodness and Truth. They are not asking about
about the social question, but the temperament is lacking. On
it has in it the makings of a cosmogony. Although this
working it out and giving it shape; but no talent for
is, strictly speaking, peculiar to Asiatic culture. America,
to-day of anyone who is in earnest and sincere about working
it working as though Justice were sitting over there beyond,
what is taking place under our eyes ; we are always more or
— of which the American is making towards Cosmogony,
impulse of freedom — for talking about freedom is by no
very way of speaking, that the altruistic spirit is anything
making of a civilisation.
and believe that they are talking about realities
they would not be astonished; if they met a pig talking like
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Title: Lecture: Brunetto Latini
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entered from the opposite side. What a wretched-looking
only seen myself, for a looking-glass was hanging opposite
occurs. Fundamentally speaking, every one who sets his foot
Latini now beheld the laws and principles of Nature's working
— enhancing our being, or making it smaller; making us
or your ears. There you perceive how the forces are working
within, he then breaks through the eye, and breaking through
its own way of seeking the spiritual world. Already in the
Initiation are always working in the progressive stream of
but that the spiritual is working everywhere. We must take
however, of the Mystery of Golgotha has been working ever
working through these dreams which could not be understood or
was working in them — livingly, actively carrying
Kings, the 6th of January. In this connection we remarked,
the spiritual science which we have been seeking to acquire

Title: Lecture: The Shaping of the Human Form out of Cosmic and Earthly Forces
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Moon is working on the embryo. Then, you have, as a result of
the Moon working in from the Cosmos — in connection
move your legs in walking you have always to overcome the
between these forces of gravity and the forces working
working upon him by way of the Moon — only because of
to the working of the Earth alone, however, and the Cosmos
the year being involved, due to winter and summer working in
should be a pillar. This combined working of cosmic and
human strength, working there also as will, has from ancient
system, working through the heart and lungs and the
further by taking on, in soul-spiritual terms, the form of
if you follow up everything, taking note of what has been
which people today have no liking; they find it disturbing,

Title: Lecture: Hygiene - a Social Problem
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cannot help asking: What is the real attitude of social life to all
one cannot help asking: ought not an attempt be made to apply such
of taking any particular side. I have no desire to uphold ancient
chemical process taking place in matter. But the fact that a few
soul-and-Spirit, and realise that through the working of these
been happening to the body all the time, as a result of the working
the material workings of the Spirit.
No purpose is served by making statements in a religious or
within him, and then working in the different branches of science
are all that we see in the working of the nervous system —
atmospheric and extra-earthly influences are working on him as the
are ill, but he will always be working to keep them healthy —
psychical or mental diseases. As a result of materialistic thinking
rational way with what is actually taking place in the human
matter. What is lacking in materialism is that it has no insight into
Spirit right down into its material workings. Spiritual
the Spiritual-Scientific mode of thinking leads to a social, communal
making men and women out of the children who are being educated
enough to have, as well as the school teachers who are working merely
power working deeply into human beings. Intellectualism remains
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Title: Lecture: Speech and Song
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thoughts themselves — our earthly thinking. Here on earth, our
thinking is gradually adapted to the earthly conditions. In
Walking, Speaking and
Thinking: — let us now consider, of these three, the middle
or song is but the final culmination of something that is taking
structure of the human body. We may say therefore, without speaking
— we are now taking, the human body is nothing else than a
spiritual world than in our thinking system. And it is of course the
thinking system which takes hold of speech when speech becomes
thing as this, we seem to be speaking in images, but our images none
totality. (It really looks as though we were speaking figuratively,
bodies it is singing, speaking as it sings to you, singing as it
speaks; and all your perception is a listening to the speaking song,
now formed for his earthly needs, just as his walking is transformed,
as human beings speaking upon earth.

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of my age were young fellows, not one of them dreamt of speaking of
so closely connects itself with a definite manner of thinking. If
speak today, as I am speaking now, then the people whose heads are
entity. …But I am not speaking correctly ... for, in reality,
others, so that they saw them walking about with Faust's malevolent

Title: Lecture: The Problem of Jesus and Christ in Earlier Times
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thinking, which had a spiritual quality and would have enabled human
Origenes working and struggling with the problem of how the Christ
Tauler, Meister Eckhardt, and others were seeking the Christ through
of what the ether body had become as a result of thinking, feeling,
working on ourselves inwardly in this way, during our earliest
seeking, we must truly have the feeling that we cannot reach our goal
seeking that belongs to the shepherds who are united with the
Christmastime, so that we may continue to become seeking shepherds,

Title: Lecture: On the Dimensions of Space
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but of the thought no open-minded, unbiased thinking person can
thinking.
a spatial, a physical-bodily process. Simultaneously, while this is taking
have gradually come to this pass; our purely intellectualistic thinking
of approach, which is only made possible once more by taking our
if we are speaking of the will as of an element of soul-and-spirit, there
unless they were working one upon
three-dimensional. Man is a painter working from two
way, striking out pretty intensely with your Will into the
shall we characterise Thinking? To begin with we must admit with open
at least the foundation of our Thinking. Without
the brain we cannot think. Thus our Thinking takes its course in
connection with the activity of the brain. If Thinking had nothing to
old, you would have grown out of your Thinking. But that
is not the case. As we grow up, we do not leave our Thinking
even with our Thinking we are somehow in the world of Space.
experience our Thinking meditatively, as something that only has
extension upward and downward. Thinking is one-dimensional. It takes
the Feeling a two-dimensional and the Thinking a one-dimensional
we pass from Feeling to Thinking we pass from the two dimensions to
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Title: Lecture: Thinking and Willing as Two Poles of the Human Soul-Life
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Thinking
during the waking state is never entirely one-sided; thinking is not
thinking in that we correct one thought with another. Hence even if
hand, unless we are actually raving, or given to walking in our
origin. And in this case the one pole of our soul-life, thinking, has
find that thinking always bears reference to something that is already
there; it takes certain presuppositions for granted. Thinking
of such thinking, and we are guided by it. Thus this kind of
thinking also is in a certain sense meditative or reflective.
stands mid-way between thinking and willing.
that which determines our thinking, that which enables us to think and
before birth, before conception. Fundamentally speaking, the faculty
first won for himself the power of making these sprawling,
is a pressing, a pushing of thinking into the forces of the will,
that, speaking from a more or less schematic point of view, we might
At the moment however we are speaking of normal human beings. Such people,
usually lost his power of thinking.
appear as though they really were thinking. In reality, however,
from thoughts given to him by Spiritual Science, such thinking is
thoughts have previously been embedded. This taking in of thoughts
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Title: Vortrage: Denken, Fühlen, Wollen - Das Muspilhgedicht
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Thinking and Willing as Two Poles of the Human Soul-Life (publ. 1931).

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events now taking place are the opposite of our own intentions,
speaking, no one in the world knows what they want, and no
actually taking shape. Later generations will be able to use
the events which will be taking shape in Eastern Europe over
and reality. For you see, the generations of today are taking
fact still waiting in the wings, and they are wrong in taking
that we'll be making peace just as peace has been made before
set vast numbers of people thinking. But people never notice,
spirits seeking to gain access by reducing human awareness.
taking root deeply in a certain soil. People are taking it as
They are not at all interested in looking for the roots of
are speaking of states as something which have existed for I
asking themselves the question: What does it really mean that
chaos will certainly not be reduced if — speaking
people's thinking stops at the very point where it should be

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acquired habits will have to go and a new way of thinking and
humanity. I think it is fair to say that, generally speaking,
and fail to notice many of the tremendous changes now taking
Taking note of
riddle I am speaking of is the discrepancy between
thinking have lead none other than the Darwinists to this
cannot penetrate to the deeper sources of human thinking and
‘physical body’ we are speaking of something that
waking, the ego and astral body, having been outside in the
from the world of the spirit and intellectual thinking can
which we are between going to sleep and waking up again does,
to sleep and waking up again you are in a world devoid of
world in which we are between going to sleep and waking up
intellectual thinking, even our genius — for geniuses,
undertaking should go awry, we should not draw the wrong
evolution is taking. Individuals will gain in years, being 1,

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time, going back several decades and also looking decades
not be absolutely the case, but, relatively speaking, it is
‘My kingdom is not of this world’,
illusion that their kingdom should be very much of this
it is not evil-mindedness that stops us from thinking their
agitators making great words about it, or in specific
said: ‘My kingdom is not of this world’, and why
Jesus Christ did not want to bring a kingdom of perfection to
kingdom of the physical world and make it into one of
had just made an important, epoch-making invention. Oh, I
had to start it up. This was certainly epoch-making! You will
having been thought up without taking account of reality.
making everyone happy, it will not be immediately obvious.
will typify a way of thinking which at heart is utterly
talking nonsense about things relating to the higher worlds,
not in the habit of working hard in the general rather than
next. Outer interest may have been lacking, but excitement
effort than to take up the points the opposition is making.
These asses are talking of contradictions in my works. I wish
saying in all the other places where I have been speaking
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live, one would be speaking of something that would seem like
whose minds and whole way of looking at the world give them
looking at a world that is immediately next to our own, a
actual form it is taking now and in the immediate future to
involved and helping us in this. People are not taking the
them — keeping them dwarf-sized in growth or making
an unpalatable truth for people who never tire of making
it means to enter into iron necessity. Looking for an easy
seeking to be perfect in a particular direction, this search
up an ideal, but in making it part of the process of
time. Her thinking is: People will come to know God again
devil to be walking around in the street with horns and a
Modern abstract thinking immediately needs an apology, even if

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walking on something which is crumbling away; it is no longer
today. You find an excellent description of the breaking up,
just as Suess, looking at the earth, realized that it is now
today who simply are not themselves. Bodies are walking
Our souls are even now making preparations for the
‘My kingdom is not of this world.’ But it will be
Looking at the
Looking at the way they do not immediately appear on the
when it comes to taking an inward look at the human being.
order was created by establishing classes and taking these
only the body speaking. The spirit has withdrawn and already
of a drug. Taking a ‘sound point of view’, people

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thought is with us wherever we are in waking consciousness.
being you are also a breathing human being, walking in a
when someone has died and a living person who is walking
with the senses when in waking consciousness. Our own
the senses and drag around with us when in waking
thinking consists in having those corpses of thoughts inside
are not in the habit of making the distinction, and anyway
thinking about it, or you can actually produce the thought: I
switch off your own thinking and always get up like a
people still had the ability to live in waking dreams, and
that the way of thinking which enables them to reflect on the
thinking about them. Today the idea is that individuals are
may bring into the kingdom of this world a kingdom which is
not of this world but is present everywhere in the kingdom of
into a study of spiritual science. The whole way of thinking,
about the human being. The principles of political thinking

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Working from Spiritual Reality
real weight — comparatively speaking — as if they
weight is lacking.
not believe in a devil with horns and tail walking around in
with these words. Luther was caught up in the thinking and
post-Atlantean age, taking this with him into the godless
not as light as air, this knowledge has not come from looking
always look, it will also weigh the same. Just looking at
looking at objects provide? Illusion! If you regard the world
like someone who is looking at weights made of cardboard.
seeking to develop and how it must unite with the
have to be made from the familiar, comfortable way of looking
quite certain, that, generally speaking, people were afraid
of fire even then; they did not enjoy walking over red hot
speaking figuratively when they say they are afraid of
class. Later, the boy was walking in the street when a man who
we can actually say: These people are not thinking for
themselves, they are thinking in the general thinking
difficult than working with mere corpses of ideas. Humanity
first. And if this cooking process were to include the
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and purely intellectual thinking, and thinking which is based
on reality, in order to relate our thinking to the reality.
The natural tendency is to make our thinking
form of thinking like a net over everything in order to
for I have to apply unrealistic thinking to reality.
Unrealistic thinking is, of course, also part of reality. The
unrealistic thinking which has developed over the last three
thinking about the physical world in abstract terms. We can
then in human actions. And we can see how abstract thinking
philosophical and ideological thinking. We see philosophers
compared this with the idea that the best way of making sure
achievements of abstract thinking when it is addressing
Fundamentally speaking, such ideas are part of the
also provide the background to the forms we are now seeking
speaking, the people who are considered to be most
enlightened today are often working with old ideas, without
work I am speaking.
are dealing with reality in making them. It is especially
in taking the thought to its conclusion. If you do so with
negatively speaking, that so many people are still asleep to
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forms taken by the ahrimanic way of thinking.
same way the ahrimanic, mephistophelean way of thinking has
thinking. Once again, it is necessary to be fully and clearly
way of thinking, and carrying this on into ages when,
materialistic way of thinking and want to keep it, would then
thinking, too, is in great danger of sliding into the
ahrimanic way of thinking. Consider how some scientists are
thinking today in the field of geology, for instance. They
taking note of how its organs gradually change, or partly
up with the materialistic way of thinking that they cannot
materialistic way of thinking will unite with the moon powers
war and the events taking place in Russia — what would
this with the old ideas is barking up the wrong tree. The
behind all physical things. Talking about the spirit in vague

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was speaking of something quite concrete, namely the battle
thinking, the inner responses and the will impulses of human
epochmaking literary works would remain unknown? Surely we
appeared at that time which was more epoch-making and of more
certain views and ideas which were taking root in people's
human intellectuality, human thinking, responses and
What they are doing is no different from asking the stove to
Science is looking at life that has died.
clever then as the present generation does now in looking
Speaking of Laplace's theory and of Dewar they will say:
fully into the Spirit and attitudes of scientific thinking
childish then, with people taking dreams seriously! Just
Human thinking would be dry as dust,
empty and corrupt, for the vitality in our thinking has its
and modern thinking to be right, is like someone who cannot
see the need for roses to grow on bushes, making it necessary
present age; yet that particular way of thinking has provided
direction of life. The breath of life comes into our thinking
and acquire scientific attitudes and thinking; their
thinking, as it is called today, is not really done by
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different spheres of life. Speaking of processes deep down in
what you would expect! Much of the thinking in our
that the thinking in their world is largely childish, but it
they are just hunks of meat walking on this earth or
are a living reality. Let us assume a creature walking this
Sun, which relates to sleeping and waking and takes 24 hours,
typical instance of the abstract way of thinking which must
real thought to them, yet are positively smacking their lips
have no more than this strange modern way of working in the
has gone so far in his abstract thinking that he identifies

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spirits of darkness now walking among us are of the same kind
spirits’, the spirits of light. Fundamentally speaking,
was done by taking human beings from the heights of the
the individual and seeking to establish laws based on this,
of the ideals of race and nation would have been speaking in
tribal membership today is speaking of impulses which are
souls are taking in impulses which they will take with them

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of materialism as during those decades. All the thinking I
have characterized, thinking that leads to technical
physical thinking and is bound to the brain. A materialist
well defined and critical thinking so well developed as in
spirits of darkness were seeking to achieve in the 40s, 50s,
physical acumen on the one hand, and a way of seeking
become poets. Speaking of the time when they first began to
particularly striking example of many things which will come
things that everybody is talking about today is especially
yet before people will feel embarrassed at taking seriously
waking will only come when people begin to feel embarrassed
evidence of their being used up without anything new taking
seriousness. Many are still thinking exactly the as they did
sense of reality to see that this kind of thinking has a

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are in the image of the spirit. Looking for the indirect
route by which the Archangels guided humanity by working with
attraction for the regular Archangels who were seeking to
which I have been speaking.
happening in reality. Looking at events in outer life, one
A significant battle is taking place among us, you will find.
the world today serves the purpose of rocking people to sleep
even at the most popular level of thinking, exactly during
organic evolution taking its course without involving
live on into the decades of which I am now speaking. Their
social democracy does not compare, historically speaking,
above all to encourage the physical intellect by working
not teach us anything. In materialistic thinking, sciences
thinking is based on premises according to which a science
position of the sun. Generally speaking, however, the course
whole civilized world. Salvation lies in making the whole of
scale capitalism had succeeded in making democracy into the
You need not be afraid that someone speaking out of

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decision-making ability that is independent of the divine spiritual
just this kind of human decision making. As I said, we do not want to
speaking in Old Testament terms. If we look at this interpretation,
can investigate, has limits to his whole thinking, in fact.
kingdom represent the content of all our thinking today. These
activity — he attains pure thinking, when he, attains this pure,
willed thinking which is something positive and real, when this
thinking works in him. And in
purified thinking.
abstract thinking, but in real thinking.
something has remained with us: pure thinking, namely, the real,
energetic thinking that originates from man himself, that is no
longer mere thinking, that is filled with experience, filled with
wanted to say that this thinking can become the impulse for moral
filtered down into pure thinking — and how, from there, one can
energy and power, the goal, the ideal, of again taking the fall of
natural scientists, these dreams were delivered in croaking tirades
“Huckle, get up! The sky is cracking!” But our modern
in turn is connected with the fact that along with a possible waking
this of course without making any insinuations) it has sometimes been
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particular conception of the thinking human being, and, on the other
man uses his thinking chiefly in order to know as much as possible of
the outer kingdoms of Nature, and to grasp human life with the methods
of thinking gained through the usual way of looking at Nature. To-day
in the light of this thinking, acquired through the natural sciences as
believe that this conception of the thinking human being, of man who
arrange their life) has evolved from earlier ways of thinking. Modern
thinking is the direct outcome of mediaeval thinking. I have pointed
thinking are thought out with the methods of thinking that have
evolved from mediaeval thinking. An essential trait of
mediaeval thinking which entered modern thinking is that the activity
thinking is ignored altogether and there is no philosophy leading to
the contemplation of thinking itself. No notice at all is taken of
on the kingdoms of Nature are dead thoughts. The life of these
thoughts that we form to-day on the kingdoms of Nature and on the
life of man are dead while we are thinking them; they were endowed
habits of thinking were alive, were living elementary beings during our
are dead and for this reason they are abstract. But our thinking is
continues working there, within us, in a way which remains concealed
philosophers of a theory of knowledge speak of thinking, they
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Title: On the Mysteries of Ancient and Modern Times: Lecture 1
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Man. Looking backward as it were, he speaks of a deeply
that those who shared Saint Martin's way of thinking still
to supplant his ways of thinking?” No, we should rather
conceive all that is working towards the Earth from the
to-day a great number of things are working in social life;
chemical, physical way of thinking can in a peculiar way be
way that the brain which is thinking these things is at the
outlook works upon the things which he is thinking, of
compatible with a non-national way of thinking.
international in their way of thinking.

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how the knowledge and awareness of super-sensible impulses working
of thinking which was typical of the 19th century. This
latter way of thinking is convinced that all
working of mankind, is subject to a certain law of historic
human being; and inasmuch as I do so, I am already working
to ripen, — then it goes on working. A seed of thought
— to ripen. When it is ripened, it goes on working in
be recognised in its working through three generations, that
that the Earth has its true waking season; then it is that
have often pointed out, have not refrained from attacking
one on the first page of which [in German- speaking
Christmas Festival, properly speaking, belongs to the Easter
for the working out of world-historic seeds. But there is
would truly understand the working of events in history.
working in a favourable or in an unfavourable sense?
no matter how profane the impulse of your speaking is —
working with us, giving us that which becomes the guiding
it is working in the outer physical world.
will be those thoughts which take their start from seeking
taking seriously things which if seen in their true light can

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were speaking through their constellations, — they did
that is to say, if, taking our start from birth, we find our
broadly speaking, they only want to “guard their pounds
say, I have been speaking of all this only in the briefest

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modern thinking it may perhaps sound strange that we are
taking place particularly in the present day both in the visible
and in the invisible world. We see people making presents to each
greatest reverence can be felt for it when looking back from its
civilization in general shows a faint trace of looking upon the
superficial way of looking at things makes people say that in
grasp this by looking upon it as a kind of prophecy that one day
man! The whole way of looking upon life was inspired by a
of looking upon life was inspired by a world-wide cosmology which
world by looking into Jesus' inner being and by establishing an
everlasting Cosmic Word speaking out of the stars. The Mystery of
Jupiter days are like a sentence speaking out of the cosmic
taking place in connection with the Mystery of Golgotha,
gained by looking at the world, as Paul did before he approached

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man's inner life. But essentially speaking, also the senses which
From inside we bring towards them our thinking, the power of
eye, I obtain an impression from outside, and my thinking power
through the representing or thinking power which comes from
outside to the inside, whereas the direction of his thinking goes
things in the right way must even say: We are then looking upon
earthly man is the living human being walking around, and to him
grasped by the thinking or representing capacity pertaining to
horizontal direction and are met from within by the thinking or
thinking capacity. This process, however, remains chaotic and
to us from the earth's metals, even as our thinking or
of fixed stars. Even as our thinking capacity streams towards our
waking consciousness and may then look upon the process of
waking life on earth, we perceive the objects around us. Our
thinking capacity counteracts. For this we need our physical and
the perceptive and thinking forces. If we imagine this
sense impressions and with our thinking activity. When the human
faintly, during his waking condition. When he is really asleep,
that a very faint sleeping state exists even during the waking
service of technical-earthly interests, it is, cruelly speaking,
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Title: Lecture: Human Freedom and Its Connection with the Mystery of Golgotha
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us when looking out into the world, it is an illusion which
which fills his waking consciousness. But when he considers his
waking concepts, then all this is not only a semblance or
semblance, which constitutes our waking perceptive life, did not
in short, into everything which, symbolically speaking, lies
— the higher beings of the kingdoms of Nature: plants,
of free impulses born out of pure thinking. But in the same
danger of passing through the portal of death without taking with
Mystery of Golgotha and the old way of looking at the beginning
aid of the forces working through the Gospel. This is what
When speaking of Christ, it pointed to the Sun.
have to teach, will not only imply looking at Christ, but being

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older forms of thinking can show us that in the past everything
whole extent of the mineral kingdom, was to him ashes falling out
speaking, in a world of light. But this light continues to shine
attacking the truths, and lay chief stress on personal attacks,

Title: Lecture: The Golden Legend and a German Christmas Play
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thought. But in olden times, for those who through deeper thinking,
forsaking his original state, when he submitted to the Luciferic
the whole time man remains on Earth, ever looking forward to the
the Three Kings offering their gifts. A great deal of this was
people passed, each one took part by rocking the child for a moment.
events now taking place show us, for the very reason that, if we look
called the little children who may enter the kingdom of heaven. We do
men, that they can in a sense remain children — speaking
transform the Christmas thought into an impulse; and while looking up

Title: Lecture: The Christmas Thought and the Secret of the Ego
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with the play of the Three Kings, who bring their gifts. Much of
people began thinking about having to perform these plays during
curious. In looking at how these Christmas plays arose and
things had to be made more comprehensible to the people. By making
only a rocking cradle was placed in front of them, and people began
to take part by walking by the cradle, each person rocking the
have just been speaking. The situation itself poured its holiness
This book by Ernst Haeckel points to what is now taking place on the
mentions these thoughts with the background of looking at the world
prohibited from looking for a meaning of the earth in a spiritual
This is what Haeckel means. Looking for meaning is not permitted!
for and believe in meaning by looking just at what is going on now
different from looking at the same matter in a completely different
events that are taking place so painfully today that earthly life
conquered hearts, souls: the power that arose on looking at the
enter the kingdom of heaven” — this is not where it
our life (I am now speaking directly, not in a pictorial way) in
we can do this by looking toward the human being as he develops
taking place. But this spiritual aspect takes place in the right
Since looking up
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Nature — as a rule people do so rather without thinking —
to be aroused regarding the actual working of this Spirit, we cannot
In thinking
the scientist do? Generally speaking he takes scant notice of Nature
working and only concerns himself with the microscope, in other words
so, but anyone speaking the truth is deemed mad. People really view this

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and women (for ladies, too, are taking part in these things)
meaning this wrecking of a plan in life may have for the human
also working in the man's subconsciousness certain
aspects of his life, which, by a true working of destiny, have
then you will understand how many things are working upward
waking life largely belongs to the present incarnation,
I quote it here because I am now speaking in a wider sense of the
school, I dreamt I was walking past yonder lake, and in the
teacher had been talking. No doubt he kept his thoughts to
working. And it works in such a way as to expunge from the soul
to another. There is a whole complex of forces, working
incarnation. We may say therefore: The working of the
comes from the etheric.) The working of the astral body is
much of the working of the Karma of vocation finds expression.
physical body is developing, forces are working in (or rather,
is what shapes the situations of our life. (It goes on working, of
works to re-create it. In the working together of these
say, primitively speaking, 1 and 4, and 2 and 3, work upon one

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product of the thinking of the present time. So many of us
intelligence. In their artistic creations they are looking
was making the report, the Government policy had changed and
there; nay, more, he was making good, for he proved just as
the law-courts. He hears nothing; only once, as he is walking
two points into relation — looking at them both together.
societies knew how to reckon with human characters, taking the
at length to reach the goal which we are seeking in this course

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speaking of this question, no calling need be thought
this connection they are generally thinking more or less
seven-year periods. Broadly speaking, as you know, the physical
transmitted to the descendants; but speaking in the sense of
in some way can be near to his soul, then, looking downward,
goes into our bodily organisation, making it the image of our
looking out upon wide perspectives, — but they have very
are working to bring about the very things they judge so truly.
stronger individuality was speaking; one felt the active rising
Stuart Mill and Herzen! Mill, speaking in the first place
conglomerated mediocrity! ... Looking to what was said by
followers and make it appear that one is speaking out of very
peculiar constitution — for immense forces were working
circles. Most of the occultists who were working with serious
People to-day are fond of thinking at short range, and so there
was working in a town belonging to the Section of which I was
that time in eliminating or side-tracking many things. Well, we

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and so on. We speak of these kingdoms of the super-sensible
Worlds just as we speak of the animal kingdom, the plant
kingdom, the mineral kingdom, the elemental kingdom, and
kingdoms which he then finds in his physical environment: the
human kingdom, the animal kingdom, the plant kingdom, the
mineral kingdom and so on. And when he passes through the
rises to the higher kingdoms which tower upward stage by stage
from below, just as the kingdoms of Nature descend from above.
thinking of his God, but whether he is really doing so. We from
conceiving, who imagine that they are thinking of their
are only looking up to an Angel-being. You may search through
man, then the animal kingdom, the plant kingdom, the mineral
kingdom.
fancy, every one of them is speaking of his own God,
am looking up to my Angel,’ but says to himself, ‘I am
looking up to the one and unique God.’ He is living in a nebulous
that he is looking up to God, while in reality he is not
even looking up to an Archangel. By this untrue conception he
who ought not to be working in the soul creep in. That is to
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his way to something new. In speaking of the course that the external
the various kingdoms of nature within it. This is the milieu in
activity of the forces and substances within our skin, so, by taking
blossoming of every flower, in the breaking open of the buds, in that
our overcoat in winter and lighter clothes in summer and taking an
waking-sleep, one might say — to enter into the doings of the
generally speaking, people feel they
wanes and autumn draws on; the season of sinking down and dying that
cosmic waking-sleep, with the elemental beings to the region where
sensitive to the secret workings of nature, and thus participates
will come to realise how he has been living through a waking-sleep of
taking form: my life is full of shooting-stars, miniature
blood. He must learn to keep the Michael Festival by making it a
turns from the iron which is used for making engines and looks up

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looking at the sulphur-process. When we consider the tendency of
looking at the mercurial process. And if we turn our gaze to the
see as growing, sprouting life, we are looking at the salt-process.
result of the cooking or combustion process. This falling down of ash
still be working on a miniature scale. The flea would never come to
taking this in the widest sense to connote a physical deposit,
exemplified in the way ordinary cooking-salt dissolved in a glass of
reinvigorated. The quicksilver principle, working into the
is always seeking to tear itself away from the Earth. If
whole experience of thinking would be different. We should then have
garment has to be inwardly rounded, taking on the quicksilver

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the cosmos. The limestone's spiritual thinking qualities are dulled,
is much more exposed to all the Ahrimanic workings in the
him, so that he becomes a crude materialist, thinking and
Lucifer, working in the astral and striving towards the
influences by studying the working of the Ahrimanic beings in

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thinking of the Christmas season, we had to start from the way in
have been turning our eyes on the active working of the spiritual in
So we can say: On looking downwards, we have an impression of
silver-sparkling crystal lines and waves are working within myself?
were speaking of autumn, I had to name Michael as the most
seeking to embody himself in a vesture of light, appears in the time
intelligence arises fundamentally from the working together of
working of the fixed stars of the Zodiac; Uriel, who in his thoughts
seeking to become the living growth of the following year.
of the working together of Spirit-Father with Earth-Mother, bearing
instantly, perhaps by making artistic use of vaporous substances or
looking up to the heights we would be looking at the weaving gold of
fact that the Christ, though the working together of the

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WORKING TOGETHER OF THE FOUR ARCHANGELS
of man in the world, we must seek it through the working together of
talking in just the same way as if someone said: “There is no
these people talk in speaking of the combustion of oxygen and carbon
(red arrows), seeking to permeate us with the Sun-gold of summer,
souls the midsummer working of Uriel through nature into man —
nature, have the effect of making us citizens of the cosmos. For they
working in the springtime forces of nature as Uriel does in
Earth's silver-sparkling radiance, while Raphael below is working in
breathing. And this is connected with the fact that the workings of
his gesture of blessing. So during summer we have the working
Earth. Thus we have the working together of Michael in the cosmos,
transmute them into healing forces, working and weaving in the cosmos.
Gabriel, Raphael and Michael work together, one working in the other,
Archangels — permeate the universe in harmony, working and
these forces are led over into the breathing system. And in working
spiritual forces, active in sense-perception and in thinking.
Uriel and Gabriel, let us say, working in one another, but also
working with one another, one giving his possession to the
how Uriel and Raphael and Michael and Gabriel are working together,
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Working with Sculptural Architecture — 2.
Working with Sculptural Architecture II.
waking-consciousness, man lives with his ego and astral body in his
few days that this waking state of man, from waking until falling asleep,
thoughts are awake, from waking until falling asleep, but the Will is
because people have not noticed that what they know of the Will in waking
only dreams in daily waking life.
ordinary waking life; and most things, we do not even dream, but sleep.
more refined existence that self-enjoyment afforded us by eating, drinking
they can still live with the after-pleasure of eating and drinking;
itself up ever more thoroughly to the impressions of eating and drinking.
asleep till waking in a state of longing for his physical body. Sleeping
during waking conditions, nor by diving down into this body from outside
not taking up.

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we all know, from the fact that, during daytime waking
emphasized that this waking state of man, from waking until falling
really only partially awake. Our thoughts are awake from waking
waking daily life is really only a dream or a tale of will
waking life.
willing during ordinary waking life, and in most things we do not
drinking and similar things. Just as an inner after-effect arises
the after-pleasure of eating and drinking, in fact these have even
eating and drinking. We can easily observe the complete “volt
asleep till waking in a state of longing for his physical body.
our body from within during waking conditions, nor by diving down
being taken up, not taking up.

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Again in a striking way, in the 5th Post-Atlantean epoch,
him. Every tine you go to sleep until the moment of waking, the
Atlantean epoch knew that, from sleeping until waking up, there
from waking to sleeping, still continued to work, but in other
forms. Their waking life of truth dived down, as it were, into
going to sleep and waking, there arises an experience which is
talking of Mystery-knowledge and not merely giving forth
there would be no such thing as Birth in all the kingdoms of
kingdoms of nature and man, is dependent on the activity of the
throughout all the kingdoms, there ruled the laws of the Moon,
various kingdoms of nature. That is a deception, a Maya. It was
playing into it. (WE know that even waking-man is
“Try to recognise that in your waking-life consciousness
shines; for the Sun-Forces pour into your waking-life, just as
scientifically-thinking men. What we think and feel in our
which St. Augustine was speaking, and for which there is no
directions of their thinking, and one may say that Auguste
longer looks to Metaphysical concepts when seeking the basis of
Christ is lacking in the Positivistic Church of Auguste Comte,
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the human spirit is not seeking admittance to any universal
see a spirit such as Winckelmann seeking a truly religious
prove how far the culture of the present day is taking up the
backward-looking vision. The thick night of modern
“In, and with man, God is seeking a guiding principle
“God is seeking a guiding principle.” As a man he
feels himself incapable of thinking out guiding principles,

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thinking man must be inclined to ask: ‘How has the present
have generated the Earth with its kingdoms of Nature, the Earth
To-day we are not in the habit of asking, how does one breathe
thinking, feeling and willing were present among the ancient
described by saying: Mercury was working in that person.
Through the fact that we to-day put our puny thinking in the
time however there was no such thing as making notes even in
olden times, has arisen the whole custom of making monuments
looking principally to the external phenomena, by investigating

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evolution (we are now speaking of what may rightly be called
feeling, such as we have to-day was unknown. A thinking that
had in those times a thinking that was inwardly experienced as
contained in the three kingdoms of nature, he had around him
that which weaves throughout the Cosmos, working upon what is
waking dream; it was a dream condition that with us only occurs
Everything outside in the kingdoms of Nature was transformed in
Hierarchy. Asia he perceived in his ordinary waking-dream
utterly strange region is approaching me. It is taking me to
consciousness — the waking-sleeping,
sleeping-waking and the sleep, in which the Third Hierarchy
waking-dreaming, dreaming-waking. As long as he went about with
this waking-dreaming, dreaming-waking, he saw everywhere
This is, however, broadly speaking, the substance of oriental
For in this waking-dreaming, dreaming-waking, the will does not
about on Earth with very nearly the perception of the kingdoms
Hierarchy, there they would meet some Being from the Kingdom of
than a king in the realm of the shades. Neither to death
And in this contrast is expressed what is taking place on the

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waking condition, bears the Ego and astral body within him
the substances of the external kingdoms of Nature.
are speaking he had already experienced many Earth
seeing that the two personalities of whom we are speaking were
Something that is really a higher spiritual force, is working
in it the working together in the two personalities; but now in
speaking, it was a matter of clear and exact knowledge to man
knowledge in this way by making a journey over the human being,
looking into the spiritual world, or at least of receiving
we think and feel to-day. His whole thinking and feeling was
upon the kingdoms of the Earth that were round about him
of his connection with the kingdoms of the Ether. He felt
animal kingdom. And the human being felt himself within all
spoke in Stuttgart and of whom I am speaking to you again here,
earlier incarnations. And now, as the origin of the kingdoms of
Ephesus. And now this working together was able to continue
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understand, as I explained in Stuttgart, all that was working

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the times when all these things were taking place, we must look
working of the Sun in the Cosmos, and how its working is
influence of the Sun-statue, is because other forces, working
in from other corners of the Cosmos, ‘mummify’ this working of
us, or from the experience of our ears can tell the working of
speaking goes a wave-like surging and seething of the whole
to him through the experience of speech into the working of the
whom we have been speaking. Verily it was as though a torrent
kingdoms. Underlying his Song of Alexander, there was this
Earth the kingdoms of the elemental beings.’ How different from
described — the entry of the Nature-elemental kingdoms,
fine and delicate workings, that Alexander was perfectly able
looking from Macedonia, towards Siberia — men had the
and said: There I feel the Water-Spirits working upon the
manner of speaking that was as closely bound up with the
and mighty change that was taking place in the world's
have therefore to see in these events the working of a

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Through all that the human being learned concerning the working
of the elementary spirits in Nature, and the working of the
growing up, being changed, taking on different shapes and forms
the animal kingdom and the plant kingdom. In relation to the
plant kingdom he was the bearer, who bore the seed to the Earth
the Gods. In relation to the animal kingdom he felt as though
Some experience or other could perhaps only be found by making
brought to man a vivid sense of his relation to the kingdoms of
went through, making himself ripe, by sacrifice and devotion,
of the astral light is, comparatively speaking, easy for one
Greece was however gradually working herself free from the
civilisation and taking on more and more the character of a
can see this taking place. In the dramas of Æschylus we
impulse working in them all, — to tear mankind away from
his idea of making an expedition into Asia, going as far as it
hitherto bound the people. He permeates the kingdom of Persia
all this we see two elements interworking; one that had gone,
Looking across to the East and letting our imagination be fired
by the tremendous events that we see taking place, we are able
you, it will give you a true insight into the hidden workings

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passes between death and a new birth, and looking only at its
beholding them in the several kingdoms of Nature. He was able,
What remained was a looking back. In the time, however, of
stupendous change is again taking place.
suggestively on men, making it possible for them to behold the
opposition to the working of these beings. For what was it they
that speaking lives as intensely in the whole human being as do
the art of speaking; thinking was all that mattered. The
There is, in truth, a wonderful interworking in all these
fruitless undertakings are fraught with deep significance for
asleep to important events that are taking place in the

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Spiritual Soul is taking place, and it is an age that is
working in all the kingdoms of Nature work in the human being;
kingdoms of Nature. In modern times however there is no longer
Earth, it has weight. We discover other forces working in the
distance — comparatively speaking — away from the
unmeasured distances forces work upon the Earth, working
working in everywhere towards the centre of the Earth. It is
to the working of the entire Cosmos.
disorganisation, the breaking down of the albumen cannot go far
the oak in order to get help in the breaking down of its
Here we can gain an insight into a strange working of Nature.
But this same working is present in Nature in other places too.
sucking in the juice, and then, having gone into the beehive,
circumference, working, as ethereal-astral forces, and building
the human being we may see working together, first of all the
understand them when you know that in them are working together
lung to the too strongly working etheric forces, then you will
search the whole kingdom of the plants to discover something
possibility of speaking about the healthy and the diseased
the relationship of the human being to the surrounding kingdoms
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ritual at the very time when it was taking place physically
so. I am not speaking in mere pictures. I am relating a
receive within you the mineral kingdom and transform it, you
to continue working in the spirit of the Goetheanum with the

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least most of them were still thinking only a short time ago,
men. A kind of revolution is taking place in the Cosmos, the
that must be working in what is now to go out from Dornach must
Fundamentally speaking, it was this that was demanded by the
waking consciousness were to be seen. In our present time, when
souls who in waking consciousness lack the strength to approach
consciousness then prevailing — in the waking state
they would feel on awakening: I am incapable of thinking,
a time. During waking life souls would have no inkling of the
ideas in their future earthly life; and all thinking, all
speaking as he did, Dr. Zeylmans also indicated what attitude
Speaking:
Speaking:
Speaking:
The wise Heads of Kings.

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and waking up; that is, the sleeping condition. Of course,
world, I told you in yesterday's lecture that in his waking
man by day; in his waking condition there only comes to his
to sleep until waking up, or, let us say, if he became conscious
Although throughout the whole of man's working
this consciously during the waking condition; and that constitutes
the deception in man's waking condition. He remains aware only of
is the essential — that throughout the waking condition man
time there is working into his Ego those Beings of the third
Imaginative Consciousness when we so experience our thinking that,
because, from the moment of sleeping until waking he is permeated
member of all humanity, we are generally speaking, already far more
going to sleep until waking up, the reality of man's ego and astral
waking condition, the state of affairs at the present cycle of tine
ourselves above the deception which belongs to the working of our
by reason of the forces working through our present epoch of time,
effective working of Christ Jesus (and of this we shall speak
working at the present time, they are acquiring reality in
If man in the waking condition could perceive
Mystery of Golgotha, man in his waking condition stood in a more
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at all with our thinking into the spiritual world. It is
organism, We shall never grasp the working of consciousness
what we have destroyed during our waking life of thought may
to believe that man's waking life is to be compared with life
waking life — with the Christ Impulse — that this
signifies a conscious union with the waking Earth-spirit. It
mighty Earth-being sleeps and wakes, taking the whole year
outside this figure; in waking life, however, we must picture
processes It is an inner working at one's own organism and,
strictly speaking, lies at the root of all works of human
speaking, we do this in all works of art. We do just the same
have a true idea of what the waking consciousness brings
being. We are wrong in thinking that the man lies there with
express in a few words the feeling of this working and
consciousness of the earth, the waking earth-life, in the
since the Mystery of Golgotha, we do this by taking the
life is the expression of the thinking, feeling and
perception of the waking Earth-spirit. But we must think of
thinking, especially of what it is thinking during winter,
within the thinking of the earth, in all that weaves and
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our physical body in the waking state whenever we wish to
people strive again and again after this, asking: What is the
seeking the unitary principle of the world.
belongs to the head, we must, even if we are merely speaking
significance, for fundamentally speaking, in our present
various kingdoms of the earth; whereas head-clairvoyance
see all this working, constructing, and creating of the
I especially mentioned there, that our thinking
we develop a thinking freed from the body. On that occasion,
We must say to ourselves: Our thinking ceases, and our head
thinking, and it is therefore not surprising when this love

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without taking the time to announce him in the proper manner.
“every working force and seed.”
the animal kingdom, on to man, to history, and even to the
all the kingdoms of nature up to God. He then did this in a
this. And thus, a profound longing to perceive “every working
lacking in skill as a lawyer. That was by no means the case. He
not at all lacking as an attorney. When lawyers these days
taking up history and becoming acquainted with it. The way in
in a vital way into the silent working and weaving of the world
He wished to study the connections within the plant kingdom and
speaking about him, for many this Goethe period belongs to the

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am taking, although I really wish to discuss something that is
he was five, making him an imbecile. Anyone who traces the
but is more diffuse, it does not appear so strikingly. Anyone, however,
things, as I might call it, without taking hold of them
lacking. In accordance with his individuality, he had to write
non-working persons living on their private incomes who are
fact is not that we sleep because we are tired, but waking and
of sleeping and waking stands. It is a reproduction within the
rhythm of sleeping and waking must be drawn from the cosmos,
the morning thinking he is unchanged from what he was when he
the same upon waking as we were when we fell asleep but, as a
inner impulse just as the rhythm of waking and sleeping reveals
individual human being. In the last analysis, the laws working

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ego. In explaining the alternation between waking and sleeping,
we say that in the waking state the ego and astral body are
speaking generally, sleeping and waking are really a sort of
cyclic movement. Strictly speaking, the ego and astral body are
indeed, during sleep, when the ego and astral body are working
the head in the waking state is exerted upon the rest of the
relationships are lessened during the waking life of day. They
Taking
sleeping and waking. Thus, you will not be surprised when the
about that so little is known of that vivid state of waking
system and that in the waking state the possibility is given to
waking life between his soul-spiritual and his organic-physical
loosening of the etheric body influences the entire waking life
relationships during the waking state with his spinal cord
was taking his direction from his trainer and followed nothing
light, working everywhere, even through the animal kingdom. In
abstract thinking whatever, but only through the succession of
it strange how closely actual thinking is approached and
indication through an equally slight sound, like the clicking
system, are greatly impaired during the waking life of day. But
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quite shortsighted in their thinking, usually assume that
waking state. At that time the aura of the earth is permeated,
ponders the outer universe, just as we men, while in the waking
that is, the fine manner of speaking so much admired today,
there they are in spiritual science talking about many spirits
even though the one working at the vice is unconscious of them.
thinking would be tantamount to a woman's arguing that men had
the experience of working people these days. In the new age,

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his life. He comes now to the King's palace and produces paper
position in life. So far as her daily thinking and feeling are
very region where present preconceptions are working in a
present thinking tends strongly to take its directions, since
place in a person's conscious life from waking until sleeping
consciously during our waking life belongs largely to the
falling asleep to that of waking, and this often influences our
I will introduce here because I am speaking of vocational life in
father and his son. They are walking together and, after the
in which I was walking by the lake over there and in my dream I asked
these four strings of life may interplay in many ways, making
of his life. I refer to what is there taking solid form; not
astral body manifests itself in a special way by working back
working of vocational karma.

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thinking of the present, and even though many of us suppose we
have attained to unprejudiced thinking, it is always well to be
especially the unprejudiced character of our thinking. Before
without taking into consideration that what appears in the form
while he was working on his report, the market changed, as
am speaking is no longer alive — he produced a very
societies had a way of dealing with human characters by taking

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vocation through the vague and unconscious working of certain
thereby making us a copy of our preceding vocation. In the
rather than taking fantastic ideas as truths — fantastic
Naturally, we are here looking out over wide perspectives, but
himself or herself in a connection with what is taking place
taking on the nature of China. As you can deduce from the
significant fact that the age is taking on a certain character
also give the impression that he is speaking from profound
our circles much.” Most of the occultists who were working with
truth as their objective but are really seeking quite different
discontinuity in his thinking. He is one of those people who
direction. There are, indeed, many individuals working as
the present distressing conditions. Right thinking about it
bourgeois nothingness. The Chinese way of thinking is the final
thinking.
thinking? Why may we not expect that the so-called most

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truth as it meets us in life with the one-sided thinking about
had a dream in which he saw himself walking over burning coals
without thanking him. He became fairly prosperous but not
taught Gustav Adolf, who later became the king of Sweden —
refrain from speaking my mind. For twenty years now, and indeed
and also of everyone who might support me in such undertakings,
Grace, as if I were seeking for support without a corresponding
the dream where he was walking over glowing coals and ashes.
that much knowledge is lacking in what many think. They
example of right thinking about the question of heredity. It is
certainly impossible to think correctly of it without taking
highest point — of materialistic thinking, feeling, and
with this materialistic thinking, and we shall still have to
may also be seen on certain occasions making use of whatever
while looking into the face of the one under whose nose he held
of all. But I saw so many decent working class couples here
knowing what has been working at the bottom of it before it has

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and so forth; we speak of these kingdoms of the higher
mineral, and elemental kingdoms within the earthly world. It is
the super-sensible world to the kingdoms of the human being, and
to the higher kingdoms that tower upward from below just as the
other kingdoms descend from above downward. The individual
ascends into the kingdoms of the angels, archangels, archai,
really looking only to an angel. If you examine all the
archangels and angels — then comes man, the animal kingdom,
the plant kingdom and the mineral kingdom.
this, believing on the contrary that he is looking up to God,
while really not looking up even to an archangel, he deadens
boundless pride that they are speaking of God, whereas they are
speaking only of an angel, and incompletely at that. In the
period of time. When we are talking about an individual's
is lacking in our age for a real view of the world, capable of
impossible when a person is really speaking of Christ. So the
making speeches here and there about these things and that what
ancient times because in speaking with words we must speak with
He is a real power. Now, while we are speaking about karma, we
believe that today's science is capable of thinking of the
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Taking
this looking up to an ancestor in ancient times? In those most
between waking and sleeping such as was universal in the
angel more, even making him often somewhat more egoistic than
earth into his spiritual kingdom. He had no interest in the
“Thinking is the true communion of humanity,”
knew very well in my youth, is again in the process of seeking
spiritual things. He is not seeking them in spiritual science
neutral person not taking sides with any of these opposite
book. As I said, I am speaking in this supplement to our

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forces, working into the present time. And to understand what
is working anywhere nowadays it will become increasingly
own that they are thinking of a great world machinery.
forces of this great world machinery is ruling and working;
speaking, simply as a kind of glowing ball in universal
who were thinking at the time of the Mystery of Golgotha,
Mystery of the Sun, making mankind forget this mystery, not
instance, they have today applied their way of thinking,
present time, are talking utter nonsense about their own
believe that they are talking, have talked, more
reflection that they are simply talking nonsense — pure
between sound thinking and the thinking of the times.
to follow the same theme that he used in speaking to his
the kingdoms of mineral, plant, animal and man; look at all
looking for the seeds of the real future of the world where
them in any other creation or any other kingdom. But before
spirit — saw through the kingdoms the cosmic All. If we
they saw Sun and Moon, air and water, the various kingdoms.
human organisation, with the human kingdom. It is literally
saying: Just listen: So and so has been speaking quite
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waking conditions. One definitely cannot say that the
other diagram of waking man saying: when physical man is
waking and sleeping man.
these formative principles will be working at their full
already known. There is a beautiful saga concerning King
becomes conscious during sleep. What today man has as waking
look within on all your memories you are actually looking at
ego sense, and the senses of thinking, speech, hearing,
suppose we have to note down as senses: hearing, speaking,
thinking, the ego-sense, and the senses of warmth, balance,
the interchange of day and night in his waking and sleeping,
might say ego-sense, sense of thinking, speech and so on.
by the concepts that are working in historical life.
years they have been thinking a tremendous deal. We can
gather up what they have been thinking for two hundred years,
about the various ideals, men have been thinking during these
quite different, by the thoughts that have been working and
In recent years people have been breaking each others heads
this head-breaking but have left those alone who have looked
abstract way to avoid the breaking of heads. Thus in a
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is something in them for which men should be seeking a
sense in speaking of Helios, the soul-Sun, or for that matter
anyone accepts when taking as his authority modern physics,
there is nothing there I am not speaking quite
instrument of the soul-life, of the thinking. The reverse is
brain and imagine we are looking at the soul-life of an
behind, checking itself, not so well able to enter, held up
of liking and disliking which I should have to give to the
all this ultimately of which we have been speaking but an
without reference to this world, means that we are speaking
are not talking of what lives in man between death and a new
between death and a new birth we live with the kingdoms of
a week, perhaps, we shall be speaking of them) shall we
sense in speaking of this figure only if we have first spoken
know everything that is working together in these souls, how
the higher hierarchies are working together on these souls.
There is no sense in speaking of this figure if our gaze is
yesterday and about which I shall be talking further in these
possibility of thus speaking was lost. And gradually the
(for those whose thinking is sound, it is amusing) in which
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Eurythmy, the Visual Expression of the Speaking Soul,
Eurythmy, the Visual Expression of the Speaking Soul,
evolving a theory, but only of making myself clear.
the individual, making him or a group of individuals into a
with difficulty was quite negligible, the remainder taking

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of the mineral kingdom; at most understanding something of
of our present age tends absolutely towards making this
developing its own economic thinking. The East would come
actually cultivating the soil, of working upon the immediate
the East by the West in an economic way. That means making
working-man, of world phenomena. There what rests an the
So it has come about that this way of thinking, which is
march of this Aestheticising making itself felt, especially
of thinking, the inner soul-constitution of the Bethmann and
Ludendorf way of thinking, and those human beings who guided

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only with ideas concerning the natural world, man is making
deeply into the material world that he is no longer speaking
thinking. Man is becoming a kind of automaton in the
altogether. Looking at clouds, mountains, rivers, at the
that surrounds us in the mineral and plant kingdoms, and to a
certain extent also, in the animal kingdom, but apart
Past. When we look at Nature we are looking at
something which represents the spiritual Past, we are looking
concepts, man has been making his inner being empty and void.
And to what end has he been making himself empty? It is in
highest kingdom of Nature are the point from which the Divine
speaking, the element we speak of in a representative sense

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The wise kings' heads.
By thinking
hierarchies by making the salutation more abstract. He wanted this

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to what extent it is valuable as a foodstuff, would be making a curious
of which they are fully conscious. The forces that are weaving and working
itself? It is true that during the 18th century a loose kind of thinking
over into another sphere of working altogether.
sphere of working. I beg you to take this truth in the deepest earnestness.
knowledge we acquire without making it a holy offering to the evolutionary
the teachings of Spiritual Science, nor of making them into a body of

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evident — from the moment of waking up to the moment of
which we can study our waking life and all that it
we do not only live in the world during our waking condition,
and we look back without really thinking about it into
obvious to our ordinary way of thinking that we must be
very elementary development of the thinking forces. Oriental
moment of waking up to the moment of falling asleep, he felt
different way of thinking.
before you schematically. In the waking human being, the Ego
vicinity of the head. Strictly speaking, when we are asleep,
without speaking metaphorically, that in the most remote epochs
waking up, the human being thus found in his head the deeds of
gods. And when he then lived through his waking life and was
essentially speaking, they had the same thoughts, feelings and
from his sleep, because on waking, his fully developed senses
during his waking condition, because his senses were not
Now, however, a time came — speaking generally, in the
really have to admit that this is the way of thinking of the
during his waking life man's own natural development no
will lie the possibility of breaking away from the forces

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earth's mineral kingdom; let us look upon everything
consciousness which forms part of the mineral kingdom. We
we study the vegetable kingdom from the standpoint of
kingdom as a whole is an independent being in respect to the
kingdom which develops upon the earth. The laws which govern
consciousness of the vegetable kingdom of the whole earth,
kingdom. In the height of summer the vegetable kingdom
external physical development. The vegetable kingdom is then
earth-consciousness pertaining to the mineral kingdom and the
vegetable kingdom have ONE consciousness; that is to say, the
thinking consciousness of the vegetable world (of the WHOLE
vegetable kingdom, not of single plants) is far more limited;
vegetable kingdom becomes aware of the secrets of the stars, it
when all human thinking developed under the influence of the
development of the vegetable and mineral Kingdoms during the

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and from there over again into the waking state, we see that on one
on the other side ego and astral organism. Though in waking state these
first have to make it clear to yourself, while looking at this large
But, while looking at the large red surface, during this time, the red
this wants to go. There is always a tendency like that taking place,
four times slower pace of the head has in its working all that which
it, so that the act of striking from outside will be sufficiently fastened.
kidney system works very fast and brings its inner working to the etheric,
will show. What is working there, what basically is a thrust pulsated
coming from the head is working, that wants to slow down these processes,

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animal, plant, and also partly from the mineral kingdom. But what man
we receive it ordinarily — at best prepared by cooking —
way the whole process is taking place. By taking articles of food into
outer surrounding, from the animal kingdom. But by eating it man drives
organism from the animal or plant kingdom, has to be thoroughly killed,
In our cooking we accomplish
in there the forces of,the astral body are working. This is then something
not working in us, which maintains us through the astral body within
higher animal kingdom, not with the lower animals, not even the gallic
if it is working too strongly. I had said, the ether body might be all
right;, but let us assume now, that it is working too strongly. If this
condition and the astral body working too strong the kidney is not engaged
enough. What is radiating across, because the astral body is working
too strongly, will be claimed by it without the kidney working along
not working together in the right way.
is stimulated too strongly, so that really everything that is working
it can also be that the plastic activity of the kidney, is working too
ourselves to looking at a God who is separate, but instead follow God
It is so, that the kidney also develops an activity of thinking. The
particular that kind of thinking which has also played a direct role
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it in this way: in him death is fighting. And making well one regarded
forces are working. Therefore one prepared these or other plants by
always was asking: what does one have to do regarding the ether body?
light comes from the plant kingdom. This we do not take up at all any
But all that is there in the animal and plant kingdom becomes something
one takes something out of the mineral kingdom. It does not matter if
especially in the plant kingdom.
transition from a mere looking at the darkness in substances —
today — to an imaginative way of looking, by “striking the
making a diagnosis of, let us say, an enlargement of the heart. He does
question of looking at what the finished organ is, since it simply is
are making a row — and now the tools for instruction are making
Fichte had something of an inkling beforehand of this in making the
of his Faust. It was really provoking for Goethe, of course! So one
of the West — or taking the trouble to adjust ourselves to the
The plants were, so to speak, drinking the cosmos light and man in turn

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materialistic thinking and feeling, on the earth became more
these things in their seeing, speaking and thinking. The
aims of Eurhythmy, not just superficially seeking sensation,
(naturally you must take this in the right way, I am speaking
gradually into their language, into their speaking into their
thinking something written over from the abstract to the
Where then is the concrete thinking,
or where in the whole world is there any concrete thinking,
conception of the right? Let us examine the matter by taking
means of such things that one can succeed in linking concrete
the fifteenth century. But this thinking in imagery has been
thrown overboard. We must once more cultivate this making of
conventional use of words. Who today in speaking of
adjective is much better than the noun. I'm speaking much
speaking of it for the most part, everything significant is
one speaking concretely the only possible conception is that
be speaking of spirit, spirit, spirit. Take the word
to think of Spiritus, spirits of wine: in thinking
will again support imaginative thinking. Through forming
should be made a practice so that in speaking one begins to
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People become more and more different in their thinking,
and farther afield making enormous demands of the people.
to abstract, unimaginative thinking. What must be evolved
Furche (furrow) we make in walking over the ground;
beings walking about on the physical earth, but with men
that language is a mere medium for making oneself understood.
consideration in it as a means of making themselves
speaks of a table he means a chair, or when speaking of a
merely as a means of making ourselves mutually understood is
others so that no one knows what the other is thinking. You
other is not thinking! Well now — we understand each
life because we happened to be speaking human beings; but we
speaking we are simply producing sound-gestures, hinting at
have been speaking, men must, if they are to evolve
light he was taking in: this feeling was an experience in
what man today holds to be most essential. For on looking

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must above all be borne in mind as a particularly striking fact at present
modern thought is taking, within the limits, that is to say, of what
still taking the standpoint that must be taken in Spiritual Science.
that has an extraordinary way of hoodwinking the modern thinker. It
shining lights of protestant theology in Berlin strictly speaking in
has schooled his thinking to the point of being able to grasp the whole
The curious thing is, however, that the abstract concept is not lacking
thinking back to the most elementary, the most instinctive perception
happening. It has to draw attention to what is now taking place in the
all conceptions enabling them to direct this conceiving, this thinking,
To make thinking in accordance
him? It actually takes him back into the animal kingdom. And this explains
images with the spiritual, by taking up the spiritual into our
him of sinking back to the animal. When man in primitive culture epochs
the animal. Strictly speaking man is thoroughly unobservant about his
all the warm-blooded animals. I was walking once with a university man
man would really arrive finally at thinking differently about himself

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world, making it necessary at present for man to take a new standpoint
taking into account all the prejudice belonging to certain religious
Pantheism that is forever talking of how behind the outspread world
today of making man capable of being permeated with the Holy Spirit.
in his acting, thinking, feeling, and that because the Holy Ghost is
working in him the practice of certain virtues becomes easy which otherwise
Rome. And it in widely recognised that anyone thinking differently about
St. John of the Cross, admits the possibility of God Himself taking
and cast its shell. And by then taking beliefs which has nothing to
today all thinking men are candidates. This exactly represents the progress
thinking men—in the actual sense of John of the Cross one turns
evil that would come were man to throw back the breaking wave of the
cosmic lrws in any case in the unconscious, is taking place in the soul
God Iho is working. ( within the soul, that is to

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For you certainly know that taking earthly evolution as a whole it divides
new relations are making their way into mankind's evolution. I have
the surrounding world in the mineral kingdom, plant kingdom, animal
kingdom and in his own human kingdom. This is what is visible around
man. And in the visible human kingdom there is played out what comes
side man can look upon the mineral kingdom and the plant kingdom; on
the other side he can look on the animal kingdom and the kingdom of
man himself. Both—mineral kingdom and plant kingdom as well as
human kingdom and animal kingdom—unveil themselves to him in such
of the way in which on the one hand the mineral kingdom and plant kingdom,
and on the other hand the animal kingdom and human kingdom reveal themselves
unwilling to go into all the doubts which arise from observing the kingdoms
the mineral and plant kingdoms, as well as in our view of the connection
with the animal and human kingdoms. Unconsciously men already have,
pressing on so that they come to this change. I am speaking in Imaginations,
looking at the mineral and plant kingdoms with this transformed power
people just get frightened. When such knowledge is acquired, on looking
at the mineral and plant kingdoms, one always experiences something
as if in a vivid feeling what is living in the mineral and plant kingdoms.
kingdom and the kingdom of man, there is always a sensation that can
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We have been speaking of
arises above all about this is why so many people today avoid making
far less liking today for sound human understanding than people imagine,
in mind our entire life in its alternating states of sleeping and waking.
to sleep and waking up again: (Compare Z-233) we do not know it, however,
the same things to begin with in which we are when making use of our
just from the external facts to gather what I have been speaking of.
Now in that I am going to say I am not speaking here to you individually,
to as the thinking about nature and natural phenomena. It is on this
to be active. Thus in social life there are always taking place between
clear thinking about these things is sent to sleep simply by men being
whether these, while thinking out their so-called social and political
making an objection. You will say: Yes, on earth matters are so arranged
to succeed in making all mankind into one family; whoever wanted this
it is not only physical sound speaking but the divine spiritual being
when speaking of such things as these, for the simple reason that people
stage not only of taking things materialistically in accordance with
science, but also of taking life itself materialistically confounding
men. To be sure, speaking of these things today, people believe one
really strikingly conspicuous, at times even taking grotesque forms.
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into harmony with the working of the Jahve God. The whole tragedy of
kingdom is in fact indicated, in which are the good and the evil and
this is rather different from the Kingdom of Nature. It may be said
man in that he was thinking about himself was nearer the divine not
taking place inwardly in mankind, he would have had to says mankind
then for earth to give mankind. In other words looking to Golgotha and
For what strictly speaking
the path of those seeking initiation in the Ancient pagan mysteries.
the external social structure for mankind. Christ became a special King,
be described as seeking a personal relation to Christ Jesus in contrast
the kingdom of ideas. When he spoke of ideas, it was not to the abstract
forth from his intimate inmost being because Goethe is so honestly seeking
does not grip the heart. what can modern man do if he wishes to awaking

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this force, for making oneself acquainted with the spiritual world by
outer form. It would be shocking prejudice to think that English civilisation
is working with all its power to bring to naught, to
him in the studies he was then making concerning the spread of mid-European
to be the spiritual king not only of mid-Europe but of all mankind.
lengths to serve as herald, had it been a question of making Goethe
king of all earthly culture. But neither can one get free of the other
the task of our time is to find the way back to Goethe. Strictly speaking
making every effort to model, to form the human, to work out of the
finds in them the thread to which to hold when seeking that way. There
has done. Goethe would have nothing to do with the abstract thinking
who really could give Goethe what was lacking in the intimate circle
case of Linnaeus, but, Goethe needed the possibility of taking from
which enables the bridge to be built from the kingdom of the physical
world of the senses to the kingdom of the superphysical; and between
supersensible kingdom may be experienced.

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representation of that which is of a spiritual nature, was lacking in
a certain intellectual thinking, an intellectual feeling concerning
with the sense of something new making its way into the development
about these things, but this evening we will begin by making a survey
way of thinking. This does not imply that the form of an organic being
quite originally and elementally, out of the intuitive thinking.
a natural organism, he then possesses a kind of thinking which is able
the lobe of his ear; if you have the right intuitive thinking and feeling,
On the line dividing the two will be the speaking-desk, on both sides
on the one hand it is an instrument for thinking and on the other hand
arches which can only be understood by organic structural thinking.

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that the law of change from Saturn to Sun is an inward law whose workings
can be seen. This inner law whose workings can be seen has been expressed
sinking from every-day consciousness into dreams we cannot sufficiently
and where possible avoid thinking, which is so very exhausting, when
we are following our everyday concerns, cooking or tending machines
for a shaking-up and not less for a becoming more aware than in ordinary
that it is exactly with regard to the things that are at present working
speaking of the paintings in the cupola, to speak more of many things

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thinking, especially in the art of painting must make itself felt. This
produces in the seeking man. You see it brought to expression especially
seeking few men as yet are conscious. Since the 15th century we have
freedom. self-consciousness. Humanity can only do this by breaking adrift
he who to-day is not himself dead as regards his seeking, finds in the
seeking of these principles an incentive to what makes man free but
Hero you see the seeking man, who to-day is under the impress, under
Trinity is to be understood: Death, the Seeking Man and the young Child
indeed our powers of thinking because we continually bear the forces
for the purpose of thinking to penetrate our whole organism we should
you must give up asking inartistic questions. When an artist paints
here wholly lacking.
here we are shown how man is seeking the state of equilibrium between
the point of view of the spirit: man is continually seeking the balance
is always seeking the balance between these two conditions, and we may
undertake the,risk of making it known to and understood by those to
to-day without taking up the impulses which come to us from this knowledge
which is fermenting and working in humanity, and the moment one occupies

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the further working of its impulses was something very
looking back to the ancient magic, to an older type of
self-knowledge; seeking the spirit within itself.
particular moment. Those who know the workings of the deeply
on working, and now they influence an action of Faust's which
sinking lower.
of sense, thinking, because he has an astral body. Faust
is rising higher but he is sinking lower.
and the physical body are working together in him, through
these impulses prevail, for the external barking of the dog
him, and by making use of the living force of what dwells
truth, are working, and now he sees himself with a clearness
— and represented also by his final waking. Then Goethe
short passage, and we may be sure that many seeking spiritual
“The King's crown should be of
by hunger. Throw hire the body of the King that he may
certain process. “King” is a name given to a
Wolf”, and the other the “Golden King”,
devoured the King. ...” It comes about, therefore,
mountains, is amalgamated with the Golden King, a certain
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irony. The underlying idea of linking this scene with the
calamity, Faust is to be seen full of vigour walking with
may be objected, no doubt, that is asking too much of us to
just thinking out something about spiritual worlds and their
speaking thus to a large congregation, for he himself
strange-looking individual with a pale face moving towards
before the other, but making himself glide forward. —
For this deeper element Faust is seeking
making use of the luciferic arts at his disposal, but how
given an accurate picture by Goethe of a scene taking place

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spirits of men were seeking with infinite enthusiasm for
mind of men like Fichte, Schelling, Hegel, when I'm talking
pit-goers, looking there, as Goethe imagined it, for
Faust has lived, while Homunculus traverses all the kingdoms
away by abstract thinking and the desire to live in abstract
Mocking itself, not knowing what befalls it.”
where Homunculus is speaking to Mephistopheles, by some
soul doing while the animal is digesting? The soul is taking
processes taking place within her, but truly, though all that
have to draw the processes taking place between the stomach
is lacking, on the other hand we have the inevitable parallel
when men talk so, they are indeed not talking of anything

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poets, in speaking of the Mysteries, refer to those who were
into regions, into kingdoms, that Goethe thought to be like
that kingdom of the Mothers into which the initiate into the
however, by an external cause end not by gradual painstaking
Mephistopheles, the force of evil working into the physical,
anthroposophical circles, are seeking knowledge of the
that takes place through the interworking of the cosmos with
embryo. That is not so. A working of the cosmic forces of the
those forces that, working down out of the cosmos, prepare
has the feeling that an unknown kingdom is making its
still working — working on into our own time. And those
prompter's box making his insinuations from there.
flowed into modern history, were already there, were working.

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Looking into
fundamentally speaking, was after all but a faint repetition
Faust sees the picture in the magic looking-glass. Faust, as
Witches' Kitchen, in the magic looking-glass, Faust is to a
magic looking-glass in the Witches' Kitchen. You can perceive
his Thinking. The ‘Classico-romantic
king Proteus was ruling. Slaves who had escaped from Paris'

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of the nineteenth century there have been working among human
speaking.
working in a magical way, — it was the descendants of
by Paris are accomplished by something taking place in the
Goddesses with the conflict that is taking place among them.
working of the Dark Powers since the, last third of the
you can tell from the whole context; the seeking of social
certain. This preparation, this making-ready, can, however,

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taking place and the lecture can therefore be independent of
wish to stress the fact that I shall not be speaking from the
We should discover the working-together, the mutual relations,
As I said before, I am not speaking to-night from the
surrounding us in the kingdoms of nature can combine to form
works. This is a heroic undertaking before which any other
knowledge of the kingdoms of nature. And that is actually the
feeling, thinking and willing as men, but we really only know
lies at the root of his taking Faust to Greece, of his
course than the ordinary life of waking consciousness. This
conscious, waking life in which our bright ideas run round,
springs than do his waking moments.
world-order is different from what it is in ordinary waking
us to perceive the difference between the life in waking
the point of view of our waking consciousness, we speak here
world out of which dreams are working, there are no such
are with our waking consciousness, no longer have meaning, As
asleep and waking. With our physical body we could not
asleep to waking, and out of it spring dreams.
is quite unlike the world we see today during our waking hours
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Title: Problem of Faust: Lecture VIII: Spiritual Science Considered with the Classical Walpurgis-Night
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making of man's being than can be known or fathomed either by
experiences in waking, life, between waking and falling
themselves to know a little more about waking. If they would
would find that, during this waking time, they do a great
between waking and sleeping is really only apparent. We might
say that not only do men dream during their waking hours,
things. As we all know, we are in a genuinely waking
Sleep-life projects itself into waking life. We could be far
evoking all kinds of images as they come and go, ideas that
his waking life, very often there are moments when he
thinking power, with which rightly to follow their daily
waking life, few are able to set the right value on
intellectual thinking, and yielding conclusions beyond the
totally different, from the experiences of waking life. We
in just one case as to how far dream-life differs from waking
people were the same in waking life as they are in dreams.
you speak, for speaking is only learnt in waking day life,
this were continued into waking life. You see, it is the
consciousness. That is all covered up in waking
man would never attain the ego-conscious thinking he is to
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thinking where natural science is concerned is precisely what
thinking. He took a peep through the prism; the wall was
this lies some kind of working together of super imposed
matter of any theory. Darkness and lightness are working
And he was looking for something of the same kind in the life
is willing to apply thinking only for assembling phenomena in
organization was such that while looking into things thus his
used by him that in looking at it thus he is not deluded by a
theories and hpotheses — for in the realm of thinking
phenomena but theories and hypotheses — and seeking to
thinking is developed, it is not possible today to unite the
the phenomena; it means making merely a useful servant of
thinking, but not letting it interfere in results. Where
conception — and death. And by looking on one side into
reflected in the other; that is to say, instead of seeking to
that were already being prepared in Goethe's way of thinking
thinking works with tremendous reality and in accordance with
which had been working in him since his childhood. It was
the sun with a burning glass, making it light his candle. He
the sense of the theory of metamorphoses through thinking of
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special significance in foresaking the land and sailing out
this is not said in any belittling sense — by making
of soul and spirit where, between falling asleep and waking,
origin and evolution of mankind. Thus, by evoking from the
abstract concepts, and taking them for symbols. the more you
whoever wishes to understand the sometimes grotesque looking
when so speaking? That is why very modern and sceptical minds
talking, even if it is about the spirit. Follow what is said
becomes free, even during the waking condition. Only, a man
active of the forces of nature — then we are speaking of
that can be created artistically, out of what is working in
— the waking world of day, and the world that is

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that the Greek felt when thinking of his Kabiri in
echoed in his own feeling. He expresses all this by making
applied, the same laws that he himself was tracking down. And
her he is making one look back from the superphysical to the
Homunculus-Homo problem by looking across to the
these elements overpower what is here taking place. And it
physical waking existence. These forces are identical. Every
over us unperceived. The holy mystery of waking is
concerning this waking. It may be understood in imagination
world, towards making a Homo of Homunculus, is dashed to
wished to do; the moment of waking has to be brought about so
making him wake to life in Greek reality.
penetrating the art of the south, of making the spirit of

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thinking and willing; sometimes it partakes more of thinking
consider the one pole of forming ideas, thinking, and then
an thinking and a willing being. But there are special
features about this thinking and willing. The
on the path of thinking, that with his thinking in the
thinking, my dear friends, it is exactly as if a man were
farther. And he says: Thinking, the forming of ideas, drives
be able to reach the goal thinking itself has indicated.
the goal of thought by thinking, he is doomed to
arises. It is not so much that in our thinking we are stopped
thinking and willing. But it is on these paths of complacency
intention themselves of making good. And then look at the
man does what he pleases on the physical plane, making God
feelings of the boundaries to thinking and willing may also
arrive at our own human nature, cannot with our thinking
only by looking clear-sightedly into these relations can we
very qualities you find attractive in the animal kingdom, in
animal kingdom rises to a certain height; then comes the
this Homunculus is. We come from the spiritual world seeking
clear conception just before waking, when all the
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intellect, the life of thought, making the intellect the judge
subsequently discovered. (Roughly speaking, this is how they
in the personalities of whom I am now speaking, the ‘I think’
the personalities of whom I am now speaking, it was a profound
speaking did indeed imagine the receiving of thoughts as a kind
Consciousness Soul. The human beings of whom I am now speaking
by the quasi-Arabian philosophers who, working from Western
Speaking of the ghosts of the dead, they meant precisely what I
intangible working into my soul. I cannot rise against it
so constituted that they were generally aware of the speaking
thinking even as in hewing wood, if I may use the trivial
comparison. Today the thinking of many people has become quite
active, basically speaking, to this day. The one — albeit
now only working from the spiritual world, yet all the stronger
that are taking place outwardly on the surface of our life, we
historic ones taking into account the concept of reincarnation
younger man said, ‘Thinking takes hold of men. Thought, the
reality. The realities are there indeed. Thinking itself is not
Spirit from our thinking.’
older man replied, ‘In thinking, through the very fact that man
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The Collegial Working of Doctors and Priests
made possible by their working together: namely, a new pastoral medicine.
Their working together has indeed often been discussed; it has even
during this course. A proper working together must certainly not be
two professions working together hand-in-hand. The course will stress
thinking, feeling, and willing, have had specific medical training.
the working together of the flame of offering and the Mercury staff
have been speaking more from the administrative angle. But the matter
Section of the Goetheanum, and the theologians are taking part in it.
receiving communion while recovering from a severe illness. Looking
at the spiritual aspect, one has to ponder on the working of the
everyday life, whether it is taking of nourishment, or exposure to
consciousness: waking, dreaming, and sleeping. The moment we apply an
instance, is surrendering to the usual process of taking nourishment;
then, if this has proceeded normally, waking, dreaming, and sleeping
you are working as a physician or therapist you draw the patient's
is spiritual. They take place before the waking consciousness of the
polarities working together in this world, and these are no
their working together were to consist of priests knowing a few

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The Collegial Working of Doctors and Priests
looking at things, to what they brought out as “criminal
organization. In waking life these four members of the human
Then, in the waking state, the so-called normal relation prevails among
the first place confronts us in the waking condition. Such people are
the astral body from their waking life.

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The Collegial Working of Doctors and Priests
that can never happen in ordinary consciousness: in half-waking or
quarter-waking or three-quarters waking condition they have conscious
perception and ordinary thinking grasp hold of the physical world.
their working together out of these two different fields, not from

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The Collegial Working of Doctors and Priests
have their physical organism. The most striking phenomenon in the
the artist working in the human being (who consists now in these
look at a tree, the same spiritual forces are working in it as those
body. During this time, therefore, the child is working with the
What is really working when spiritual forces are working? Obviously
that is working? In reality, whatever has to do with an ego nature.
reality, all this is working upon the child. And out of these
first life period very special laws working within all that activates
in all kinds of behavior after the onset of puberty is a working
depths of human evolution. We will stay clear of speaking of heredity
activity of the child, and in the child's human thinking.
been working in the body between the fourteenth and the twenty-first
that the moon forces are working there? After that period, even
the sun, moon, and planets are working in succession into human
middle is the point at which we stop working with cosmic forces and

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physical-etheric organism. This is in the waking state. What is the
again in the waking state. Then there is not illumination, as with
clouding, a lowering of consciousness — in the waking state
begin to talk about something quite foreign to what one is asking.
physical and etheric bodies — again in the waking state. Then
spiritual beings. We had there the bringing of waking-sleep into
have the opposite: dreams are carried over into waking life, with the
waking life: dreams do not appear, but an active “dream”
consciousness, a lack of coherence in daily waking life, and so
complete waking sleep given over to the bodily functions, which are
processes are working in a human being they do give human-like
body and making it weak. Idiocy will then appear in the latter part

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looking for the defects. And they did find defects in many instances.
But the man of whom I am speaking was no friend of animals. There in
the ones he tortured most shockingly.
(“The King of the Alps and the Misanthrope”)
something is working that appears in the rhythmic system,
remorse, of deeply crushing insight was working continually after
his breathing system, the upper rhythmic system, we see working in
The King of the Alps and the Misanthrope.
work. This is an example of karma working itself out completely, in a
something is working in from the anxiety demons. Sometimes you see it
Likewise, we must be able to see how karma is working in such an
longer bound merely to a physical healing process, seeking the why
working through the illness while keeping professional command of the

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outside the human being. Comparatively speaking, this science is good
then the thoughts about this are continued unchanged when speaking of
inhalation. It consists of our taking in external gaseous substance.
reality to be continuously creating the human being, working
of the lungs, we are looking at the coarse breathing process in the
process of which the inhalation is indeed a taking-in from outside,
not studied today in a real sense. It is lacking entirely from
of this other process that, to begin with, is the taking-in of warmth
looking at the single, separate processes of seeing, hearing, and so
that all this flows in, is taken in together with the taking in of
of the breathing, out of the paths of the senses and thinking to the
organism that wills. Thus thinking, feeling, and willing come
everything that is above: within, it manifests as thinking, but
thinking is unsubstantial. Behind it lies all I have described to you
paths for thinking.
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working with the sun forces. Then as blossoms unfold below, as leaves
working. On the one hand if we want to understand the structure of
working everywhere counter to the Venus and Mercury forces: namely,
in from the past. We can go still further. If we have working into
fairly easily, by strengthening thinking — strengthening it by
think very well. Thinking is not in the least extinguished, but
first, thinking remains the same, except that one can think more than
for instance thoughts about the macrocosm. Thinking becomes wider.
distinction between the kingdoms of nature on the earth. A person
in the etheric body thinking — the thoughts of the universe.
this shattering secret, but in picture form — the moon working
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alternate between waking and sleeping. You all know in general what
mineral kingdom; they are suited to the mineral kingdom. They are not
physical processes in the same way that the mineral kingdom is. We
condition during waking life. It is constantly interrupted by the
needs for waking life to unfold the next morning. If too many
place in the plant kingdom. During daytime consciousness, when the
going to sleep to the moment of waking, they take their course in the
same way that they do in the plant kingdom. Thus they too are not
from this point of view those who during waking life do not go down
missing. They go on without really any inner working
kingdom for that part of the ego that the person lacks, to cure what
waking life. Then we have the right remedy. If you give the substance
that the etheric body is lacking proper penetration by the astral
body. Then we must search in the plant kingdom for the proper
kingdoms of the world. It is the spirit, not the substance, that one
talking about during the last few days. They descend into their
etheric body. Now the normal human being in waking life has the
accordance (figuratively speaking) with their exact atomic weight.
memories of spiritual perception into waking consciousness. In
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do with the working, and the wanting to work, of the spiritual world.
the field of theology. For human thinking in recent times,
particularly scientific thinking, has come enormously under the
must be asked: How is it possible for active, creative thinking to
arise out of today's passive thinking? How must priests and
power in our thinking is connected with our education, which has been
one wants knowledge. With today's passive thinking one can only
our thoughts creative — for it holds the secret for making
Thinking can't go any further. Clairvoyance must then come to our
that? Sleeping and waking. Sleeping and waking are repeated 25,920
But now we must ask, what is this rhythm of sleeping and waking?
breath of sleeping-waking.
Sleeping-waking, a larger breath.
This way of looking
of our creative thinking. It starts our legs moving toward things we
mere abstract, intellectual thinking and to an external observation
arithmetic, all the thinking, all that can be calculated rationally
possibility of taking the wrong path in this endeavor. You can even

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did not simply take some substance out of the mineral kingdom if it
could be obtained from the plant kingdom. In other words, they looked
into the physical organism than they should in ordinary waking life,
gods come to human beings. They have been thought of as working in
beings, first in day-waking consciousness, then in night-sleeping
full waking consciousness individuals are living as they have been
this sense they belong in their waking state to the earth; by their
nature they stand within the sphere of the earth. In waking condition
balance by the normal course of sleeping and waking. Supernature is
ordinary human life at will. If someone is unable upon waking from
bring back into the full waking state, into the natural course of
it chapter after chapter, still you were making no progress in your
death on Golgotha not death but the working together of all that

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be made possible by their working together: a new pastoral medicine.
Their working together has indeed often been discussed; it has even
during this course. A proper working together must certainly not be
two professions working together hand-in-hand. The course will stress
thinking, feeling, and willing, have had specific medical training.
the working together of the flame of offering and the Mercury staff
have been speaking more from the administrative angle. But the matter
Section of the Goetheanum, and the theologians are taking part in it.
receiving communion while recovering from a severe illness. Looking
at the spiritual aspect, one has to ponder on the working of the
everyday life, whether it is taking of nourishment, or exposure to
consciousness: waking, dreaming, and sleeping. The moment we apply an
instance, is surrendering to the usual process of taking nourishment;
then, if this has proceeded normally, waking, dreaming, and sleeping
you are working as a physician or therapist you draw the patient's
is spiritual. They take place before the waking consciousness of the
polarities working together in this world, and these are no
their working together were to consist of priests knowing a few

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looking at things, to what they brought out as “criminal
organization. In waking life these four members of the human
waking state, the so-called normal relation prevails among these four
the first place confronts us in the waking condition. Such people are
the astral body from their waking life.

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that can never happen in ordinary consciousness: in half-waking or
quarter-waking or three-quarters waking condition they have conscious
perception and ordinary thinking grasp hold of the physical world.
their working together out of these two different fields, not from

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have their physical organism. The most striking phenomenon in the
the artist working in the human being (who consists now in these
look at a tree, the same spiritual forces are working in it as those
body. During this time, therefore, the child is working with the
What is really working when spiritual forces are working? Obviously
that is working? In reality, whatever has to do with an ego nature.
reality, all this is working upon the child. And out of these
first life period very special laws working within all that activates
in all kinds of behavior after the onset of puberty is a working
depths of human evolution. We will stay clear of speaking of heredity
activity of the child, and in the child's human thinking.
been working in the body between the fourteenth and the twenty-first
that the moon forces are working there? After that period, even
the sun, moon, and planets are working in succession into human
middle is the point at which we stop working with cosmic forces and

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physical-etheric organism. This is in the waking state. What is the
again in the waking state. Then there is not illumination, as with
clouding, a lowering of consciousness — in the waking state
begin to talk about something quite foreign to what one is asking.
physical and etheric bodies — again in the waking state. Then
spiritual beings. We had there the bringing of waking-sleep into
have the opposite: dreams are carried over into waking life, with the
waking life: dreams do not appear, but an active “dream”
consciousness, a lack of coherence in daily waking life, and so
complete waking sleep given over to the bodily functions, which are
processes are working in a human being they do give human-like
body and making it weak. Idiocy will then appear in the latter part

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looking for the defects. And they did find defects in many instances.
But the man of whom I am speaking was no friend of animals. There in
the ones he tortured most shockingly.
(“The King of the Alps and the Misanthrope”)
something is working that appears in the rhythmic system,
remorse, of deeply crushing insight was working continually after
his breathing system, the upper rhythmic system, we see working in
The King of the Alps and the Misanthrope.
work. This is an example of karma working itself out completely, in a
something is working in from the anxiety demons. Sometimes you see it
Likewise, we must be able to see how karma is working in such an
longer bound merely to a physical healing process, seeking the why
working through the illness while keeping professional command of the

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outside the human being. Comparatively speaking, this science is good
then the thoughts about this are continued unchanged when speaking of
inhalation. It consists of our taking in external gaseous substance.
reality to be continuously creating the human being, working
of the lungs, we are looking at the coarse breathing process in the
process of which the inhalation is indeed a taking-in from outside,
not studied today in a real sense. It is lacking entirely from
of this other process that, to begin with, is the taking-in of warmth
looking at the single, separate processes of seeing, hearing, and so
that all this flows in, is taken in together with the taking in of
of the breathing, out of the paths of the senses and thinking to the
organism that wills. Thus thinking, feeling, and willing come
everything that is above: within, it manifests as thinking, but
thinking is unsubstantial. Behind it lies all I have described to you
paths for thinking.
we are coming more and more to see the spiritual working in the

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working with the sun forces. Then as blossoms unfold below, as leaves
working. On the one hand if we want to understand the structure of
working everywhere counter to the Venus and Mercury forces: namely,
in from the past. We can go still further. If we have working into
fairly easily, by strengthening thinking — strengthening it by
think very well. Thinking is not in the least extinguished, but
first, thinking remains the same, except that one can think more than
for instance thoughts about the macrocosm. Thinking becomes wider.
distinction between the kingdoms of nature on the earth. A person
in the etheric body thinking — the thoughts of the universe.
this shattering secret, but in picture form — the moon working
The working of the
pastoral medicine is not just a theory, but embraces the working

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alternate between waking and sleeping. You all know in general what
mineral kingdom; they are suited to the mineral kingdom. They are not
physical processes in the same way that the mineral kingdom is. We
condition during waking life. It is constantly interrupted by the
needs for waking life to unfold the next morning. If too many
place in the plant kingdom. During daytime consciousness, when the
going to sleep to the moment of waking, they take their course in the
same way that they do in the plant kingdom. Thus they too are not
from this point of view those who during waking life do not go down
missing. They go on without really any inner working
kingdom for that part of the ego that the person lacks, to cure what
waking life. Then we have the right remedy. If you give the substance
that the etheric body is lacking proper penetration by the astral
body. Then we must search in the plant kingdom for the proper
kingdoms of the world. It is the spirit, not the substance, that one
talking about during the last few days. They descend into their
etheric body. Now the normal human being in waking life has the
accordance (figuratively speaking) with their exact atomic weight.
memories of spiritual perception into waking consciousness. In
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do with the working, and the wanting to work, of the spiritual world.
the field of theology. For human thinking in recent times,
particularly scientific thinking, has come enormously under the
must be asked: How is it possible for active, creative thinking to
arise out of today's passive thinking? How must priests and
power in our thinking is connected with our education, which has been
one wants knowledge. With today's passive thinking one can only
our thoughts creative — for it holds the secret for making
Thinking can't go any further. Clairvoyance must then come to our
that? Sleeping and waking. Sleeping and waking are repeated 25,920
But now we must ask, what is this rhythm of sleeping and waking?
breath of sleeping-waking.
Sleeping-waking, a larger breath.
This way of looking
of our creative thinking. It starts our legs moving toward things we
mere abstract, intellectual thinking and to an external observation
arithmetic, all the thinking, all that can be calculated rationally
possibility of taking the wrong path in this endeavor. You can even

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Pastoral Medicine: The Collegial Working of Doctors and Priests (1987).
did not simply take some substance out of the mineral kingdom if it
could be obtained from the plant kingdom. In other words, they looked
into the physical organism than they should in ordinary waking life,
gods come to human beings. They have been thought of as working in
beings, first in day-waking consciousness, then in night-sleeping
full waking consciousness individuals are living as they have been
this sense they belong in their waking state to the earth; by their
nature they stand within the sphere of the earth. In waking condition
balance by the normal course of sleeping and waking. Supernature is
ordinary human life at will. If someone is unable upon waking from
bring back into the full waking state, into the natural course of
it chapter after chapter, still you were making no progress in your
death on Golgotha not death but the working together of all that

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world-history it shall be possible for him, through the working of the
death is not an event that can be grasped by any thinking concerned
happened for mankind through the working of the Christ Impulse.
times, and especially into those times which possess to a striking
inner life. He had to learn to understand the words: “My kingdom
spiritual kingdom that could be reached only by inward struggle and
vision of the spiritual was now to dawn for man in a new kingdom of
delusions, he must be mistaking some demon for the Christ.
all his power to bring men out of the habit of looking to the spirits
for He is there. Through the working of the Event of Golgotha, He is
enough in these days to rest content with looking at life in any
want to gather together to keep the festival, all their thinking about

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striking but at the same time tragic article which included the text
thinking of the forcefulness with which a personality like Paul at the
times it was a matter simply of looking with the eyes, for the
looking to themselves alone, relying upon what comes with them at
intellectual apprehension. Intellectualism and materialistic thinking
are one and the same, for all the thinking that goes on in science, in
thinking unfolds only through processes of destruction,
death-processes, which are taking place in the brain. If this kind of
thinking is applied, as it is in Leninism and Trotskyism, to the
as a God, were also making sacrifice to him. The Christians could do
no such thing; the only King whom the Christians could acknowledge was
King” which appears on every ministerial decree, really mean
bring to fulfilment the words: “My kingdom is not of this

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physical existence the working of the spirit within the physical body
a continual process of dying is taking place, but is counteracted by
thinking must be applied.
Christ Who hovers above the Cross, looking down upon that which —
making the right preparation for the mood of Easter — which can,
the Man of Sorrows on the Cross, is looking down, not upon the eternal
the earthly into the cosmic. Modern thinking has made the

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symbol of all waking life — not only in Nature, but also in the
counsel with the divine-spiritual powers working and weaving in the
everywhere living, working and weaving. And at the moment when the
is today seeking super-sensible knowledge cannot proceed in the old
would like to know everything as quickly as possible without taking
related to the rays of the sun, how human forms of thinking are
speaking to their pupils. It is, of course, necessary to translate
taking possession once again of a physical body which has been
earth, and we look upon the moonlight in this way only, taking into
their way through space, they are all the time working towards the
such a moment very special processes are taking place in the plant. It
cooking-salt, we find the cube again in nature herself, and here we
thinking, earthly forces of will — are present in the root of any
What we do today only when we are thinking in terms of mathematics, we

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when speaking of these things and making use, as it were, of the
what is taking place spiritually. The true state of affairs can
You know that according to a more materialistic mode of thinking, our
solar system originated from a kind of primal nebula. Thinking that is
forces working in the growth of plants. Such an explanation of cosmic
materialistic thinking, a spiritual reality is contained and that this
The purely materialistic way of thinking and of formulating hypotheses
ideas, based on similarly materialistic thinking, of the genesis of
actually looking at something that is the product of an earlier stage
physical sun I am speaking of something that comes out of the past.
light, I am speaking of something that is preparing the future. The
rightly what is meant when, in what follows, I shall be speaking of
abstract, impersonal form, in the converse of which I am now speaking
the initiates were conscious of speaking to actual Beings,
which makes thinking and reflection possible; but they are also the
And so it is with all these forces. Speaking in accordance with the
way in which Saturn is working in him.
the Mars-forces are working too strongly, so that they break through

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therefore, we are speaking of the universe from the human standpoint,
we are speaking from within the universe, for we are standing at some
earthly existence but not answered there, because thinking can take
looking back upon the earth we see man once only, both in time and in
spirit-and-soul in face of the chemical processes working in his
the other side. — I am speaking, not of the fully conscious moral
as rooted in pure thinking, but of moral impulses in which there is
from the moral aspect. He is now looking back upon the cosmos. But he
understand them, not picking them to pieces with criticism; but as
conception sprang from the different modes of thinking, which were in

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this is why human thinking is so far from grasping reality and men
independent existence. Taking a human skeleton by itself, you must, to
animal and human kingdoms belong to it, just as muscles, blood and so
blossom. Generally speaking, it floats cloud-like over the vegetation
spiritual. The entire animal kingdom is at the same time intellect.
And this whole animal kingdom projected into man's inner life, so that
animal kingdom needs the lime-formation to build up its forms in the
Man has carbon working in his organism in manifold ways. Carbon is
knowledge, seeking the spiritual in all purely material things, and
people today who are already talking about a kind of revival of the
and waking if we could not immerse ourselves in nitrogen. Our physical
earthly existence. And when between falling asleep and waking we

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thinking that goes with it. As we look at what technology has brought
of feeling and thinking among those gathered together here in the
working, thinking and feeling together, there will develop what must
perceiving and working out of the spiritual life and essence of the
the scientific mode of thinking entered mankind's development.
times on various areas of natural scientific thinking,
research in recent times and the mode of thinking that can and does
essence of scientific thinking is easily misunderstood, if we look
different form of thinking, which was still active through the Middle
form of thinking. He is Cardinal Nicholas Cusanus,
In a manner of speaking, the Brethren of the Common Life were
return voyage, when he was on the ship and looking at the stars,
looking up at the starlit sky, his twofold soul mood characterized
what surrounds us in the kingdom of nature. But these concepts grow
repeatedly he saw how thinking extends itself over everything
which thinking has dissipated. Only if a man has developed (apart
realm into which knowledge gained only by thinking cannot reach.
thinking to the actual spiritual world (with which it feels united,)
By saying to itself that with all this thinking and theology it
It tells itself: This thinking, this theology, these ideas, give me
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thinking that goes with it. As we look at what technology has brought
actually taking place.
scientific form of thinking and research I described two men, Meister
can intercept by looking into one or another soul. Yet, by doing
Looking into this matter more closely, we see how a man like Meister
like living beings, permeating everything with spirit and speaking to
spoke to him. In consequence of the universe speaking to man, science
of speaking, the body was only the vessel, the artistic reproduction,
were speaking to him only out of a tradition preserved from earlier
working out the traditions of his age, withdrew into his quiet
Speaking crudely, I would have to say that the soul had inwardly
speaking crudely, the corporeal world became denser while the soul
ancient times. This contrast is the central trait of all thinking in
almost equally dim feeling, and an abstract thinking. Instead, he
Only now, at this point, does the modern era of thinking begin. The
in its primeval form. The second is mystical, taking the world in the

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thinking that goes with it. As we look at what technology has brought
scientific outlook and manner of thinking, such as we know it today,
whole character of this scientific thinking, emerging at the
depends on the way in which mathematical thinking was gradually
perception in regard to mathematical thinking itself. We are much
own manner of thinking.
system with mathematically oriented thinking of the kind to which we
of scientific thinking is to be correctly understood, it must be
I would term a self-sufficient inward capacity for thinking. What do
In view of the increasing superficiality of psychological thinking,
understand the origin of the later mathematical way of thinking that
corresponding to modern thinking. I divided the human organization
striking aspect of this member, we see that man accomplishes the
directions. In walking, we place ourselves in a certain manner into
taking place purely in abstract schemes of thought, when I find
direction in order to remain upright. I am also aware that in walking
which has appeared in recent times in mathematical thinking, was once
that you are walking slowly, one step at a time; you begin to walk
blood experience at each stage, with the slow walking, then the

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thinking that goes with it. As we look at what technology has brought
looking at a body found in it the image of spirit. One then looked
the birth of scientific thinking, the Copernican system. It is not my
am only speaking of the historical fact that the Copernican system
mankind's soul mood. The origin of modern scientific thinking
But to give the scientific mode of thinking its proper value, it must
thinking in general, entirely divorced from human experience. This
phenomena of nature with abstract mathematical thinking. Hence, as a
modern scientific thinking.
cleverness and thinking avail us nothing. No matter how much we think
than Newton was, but Berkeley illustrates the conflicts taking place during
the emergence of scientific thinking. In other respects, as we shall presently
It is indeed true that all thinking about these concepts is of no
the particular quality of thinking in his age, he already has the
fourteenth century. Thinking geometrically about space, man did not
rise of the scientific way of thinking. Berkeley had no quarrel with
always elude our thinking, as it were. Our thinking refuses to
absolutely necessary. The time that we are speaking about was the age
and imbued his mathematical thinking with poetry in order to retain
the new direction of thinking altogether and with it the whole trend
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thinking that goes with it. As we look at what technology has brought
thinking. Let us place this process once more before our mind's
looking around inside for whatever it was that, as an effect of the
wrote in his Mechanism of Thinking, though he himself did not
thinking. We see it entering bit by bit into the spiritual life of
It is interesting to place a recent example side by side with Locke's thinking.
from any connection between the world and his thinking, his inner
external sign is necessary. But this only proves that in his thinking
From the uncertainty that has entered all thinking concerning the
unlike today's thinking. Therefore anyone writing history
If we want to understand modern thinking, we must continually recall
phase of scientific thinking, we have come to the point where this
picture matter in a continuous form, making it convenient to conceive
will be periods when thinking favors either continuity or atomism. He
continuistically, they are thinking mainly of life. In one in which
they think atomistically, they are thinking primarily of death, of
other is suited to the dead. But there is no justification for making
The gist of this is that in the phase of scientific thinking

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thinking that goes with it. As we look at what technology has brought
moment of falling asleep to waking up, he knows that he is really
waking condition, man is only within himself, he cannot experience
and so forth are experienced. During the waking state, however, the
of thinking. I set it forth again, in philosophic terms, in 1911 at
waking state, but still remains inwardly independent. If one senses
scientific thinking since its first beginnings in the Fifteenth
taking place outside us in time and space. Such enthusiasts describe
neurasthenic. Through the peculiar character of this kind of thinking
scientific thinking since the Fifteenth Century. Then they will throw
that we must not constantly fall into the error of looking to science

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thinking that goes with it. As we look at what technology has brought
by asking: What do we experience in regard to it? We experience what
effects that are unquestionably working within us. We obliterate them
mathematics, a way of thinking which from then on was combined with
It is inert. Lacking an external influence, it continues on and on
experience; and to find ways to speak of space without even thinking
Looking at what lived in external nature and
see these if we look at nature. But, looking inward and focusing on
by thinking of moving points that do not alter their condition of
way, the world spirit's revenge for our making everything

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thinking that goes with it. As we look at what technology has brought
whole manner of thinking and feeling was quite different in former
risk of speaking disrespectfully of a work that is after all very
thinking, feeling, willing, as well as memory, imagination, and so
cast out chemistry and physics; thinking, feeling and willing were
people who still spoke of thinking or willing as late as the
person speaks about thinking, that he speaks as if this thinking were
Wahle, who declared that the ego, thinking, feeling, and willing were
In the age when man felt that his walking was a process that took
experienced thinking, feeling, and willing together with the world.
thinking, feeling, and willing, or in the circulation of the fluids
was taking place. He regulated his breathing process in order to
progress his thinking. He knew that thinking, feeling and willing are
experienced when the astral body is experienced in thinking, feeling,
Jacob Boehme's case a very simple man is speaking out of
speaking, so robust that they can grasp outer nature. Unfortunately,

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thinking that goes with it. As we look at what technology has brought
the soul life) and ego. Let us be clear that properly speaking the
other hand, thinking, feeling and willing, the subject matter of
we actually do when, in our thinking, we cast inwardly experienced
its mode of thinking can take hold only of the dead. The same is true
realize that we are looking at a corpse.
case, we consider today's manner of thinking to be the most
different, then we are looking at history the wrong way. As an
never get beyond mere semblance. The way thinking, feeling and
semblance, inherent in pure thinking, becomes the impulse of freedom
when inwardly grasped by man in thinking. If something other than
be free. But if this semblance can be raised to pure thinking, one
the anthroposophical way of thinking is applied in earnest to
in speaking to a smaller group of people. The
attained through cooperation, through people working together. So
thinking is; namely the semblance from which can be brought forth the
man really penetrates to pure thinking, then he finds in it the
today's mode of thinking arrives at the nothingness of his

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what the soul experiences in its activities of thinking, feeling and
volition, but rather something which is reflected in thinking, feeling
and volition. One cannot imagine thinking, feeling and volition

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by their very nature their real content, but in waking dreams, which
rather that of picture-making.
All ordinary thinking is dependent on the super-sensible spiritual
the rhythmic processes for their own regeneration. In a waking
possibility of thinking through the physical organism, though such
thinking is not rooted in a real world; only in an apparent world

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self-possession taking a purely psychic and spiritual course, impulses
In the process of viewing this progress the working of the etheric
of the conception, but rather in the form of the working of the
consciousness what in past times man had to experience in waking
his growth, and the chemical changes of his body, as in waking

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the body. When in waking the soul begins, with the help of the body,
soul-saving effect which corresponds in the waking condition to his
Christ. He overcomes his fears through the working of this into his
prevents it in the waking state. The leadership of Christ overcomes
that of the waking condition. The physical and etheric organisms
continues to have an after-effect in the consciousness after waking.
of the Twin Stars. As the bodily organs are sensed in waking, so a
into a purely spiritual world. That the soul in its waking state
unconsciously from falling asleep to waking up, he would have a
After the deepest state of sleep man returns to his waking state

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in the same way in which, in waking, they can become again the
this organism by working in the spirit world on the spirit-cell
The experience of the human soul in taking unto itself the etheric
is an active memory, an unconscious working of the physical organism

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sharp distinction between sleeping and waking. Dreams now are the only
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consciousness as does also the psychic activity of thinking, feeling
the previous studies, thinking is the first to be seized by the higher
consciousness. Without being lost first however, thinking cannot be
thinking. One does actually feel oneself as an independent inner
degrees. The inner activity grows and the power of thinking is kindled
passing through not-thinking and arriving at imagining, one
Such memories are at first lost when image-making begins. The past is
own life in image-making. The course of events in time is presented as
one into it. Ordinary thinking fully controls imaginative experience
When Imagination takes place ordinary thinking is recognized as
this ordinary thinking. Ordinary thinking may indeed be compared to a
sinks into the physical, etheric and astral organism. This sinking is

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of thinking, feeling and willing. In thinking we have a mirrored
In awaking, the astral organism and the ego enter into the etheric and
physical organisms. Through thinking the sense-perceptions are
this thinking, but its reflection is presented to ordinary
reflective activity of thinking in the physical organism, it can only
physical organism. In the waking state it is similar. The inner
differentiated inside the head-organization during the waking state.
the waking state; one building up through the etheric organism and one
during this experience in a cosmic world in the making is expressed by

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corresponding with thinking. At the same time we have in the astral
The connection between the thinking part of the soul and the
from it and remains psycho-spiritually alive. Only when the thinking
thinking part of the soul is founded on a destructive activity of the
physical organism. During the making of thoughts this destruction
human organization, as they are manifested in the thinking, feeling
begin working at the construction of the spirit-cell which is to be a
working for the future physical organism in conjunction with the

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Again in a striking way, in the 5th Post-Atlantean epoch,
Every time you go to sleep until the moment of waking, the
until waking up, there was a time in which all that they had as
ideas, as feelings from waking to sleeping, still continued to
work, but in other forms. Their waking life of truth dived
during the time between going to sleep and waking, there arises
talking of Mystery-knowledge and not merely giving forth
there would be no such thing as Birth in all the kingdoms of
kingdoms of nature and man, is dependent on the activity of the
throughout all the kingdoms, there ruled the laws of the Moon.
various kingdoms of nature. That is a deception, a maya. It was
Moon-forces are playing into it. (We know that even waking-man
“Try to recognise that in your waking-life consciousness
shines; for the Sun-Forces pour into your waking-life, just as
scientifically-thinking men. What we think and feel in our
Augustine was speaking, and for which there is no guarantee of
directions of their thinking, and one may say that Auguste
longer looks to metaphysical concepts when seeking the basis of
Christ is lacking in the Positivistic Church of Auguste Comte,
nor a worker, but simply a believer; I am not speaking of

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waking up that is, the sleeping condition. Of course,
lecture that in his waking condition, man does not grasp the
come to the consciousness of man by day: in his waking
sleep until waking up, or, let us say, if he became conscious
Although throughout the whole of man's working life he stands
consciously during the making condition; and that constitutes
the deception in man's waking condition. He remains aware only
waking condition man does not progress beyond experiencing this
become conscious that all the time there in working into his
when we so experience our thinking that, through the free life
sleeping until waking he is permeated by his Angel, that
humanity, we are generally speaking, already far more
until waking up, the reality of man's ego and astral body is
of the third Hierarchy. In the waking condition, the state of
working of our epoch of time. We are, as it were, compelled to
of the forces working through our present epoch of time, give
consciousness. The reality, the effective working of Christ
electricity and magnetism, only they are not working at the
man in the waking condition could perceive that his ego and
the Mystery of Golgotha, man in his waking condition stood in a
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sun, working in all earthly fertility, begins again to unfold.
nothingness at death. And so, in speaking of Immortality, all that is

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working in the development of our own age. First, however, I must
manner, taking them right out of reality, but the men of the fifth
present age than does Greece. Many souls among us are seeking the
thinking of the peoples of European civilization and culture, and of
and thus the thinking of the European upper classes who are involved
am taking Greece and Rome as belonging to modern times) a greater
working of the Greek idiom. Nothing has as yet come of his suggestion,
flesh and blood, as it were. (I am speaking, of course, of the soul.)
kings, who were more than myths, ruled and met their ends finally
this is taking place on Roman soil, Roman rule gradually spreads until
colonies and the peoples they conquered. Looking at Rome from this
history. If one were looking at the matter with sympathy or antipathy,
Latin as a language and thus came to Latinize its thinking. With the
world, who points down into the material world looking for the
moon forces light up again at a particular time, thereby making
political-legal thinking, although they did so in the sense of which
we have been speaking today. In contrast to what the Greek saw among
different kind of thinking, an imaginative thinking that was not yet
political thinking, a politicalization of the concept.

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post-Atlantean epoch. What was it they were really looking for?
soul world, in an everyday thinking, feeling and willing that would
decadence and a special luciferic kingdom would have begun. This did
always be that two forces strive together in this kind of working.
ahrimanic powers desired, because in Rome, too, something was working
and self-seeking, seeming to tend more and more toward a
brain-free thinking on the other is developed in Boundaries of
with reality. They must get busy, like Goethe, and, working in quite a
imaginative life was working within him. It must become free; Boehme
divine creative thing that was working in him. So Boehme was, in a
“I declare before God,” he says because he is speaking of
powers are working in this fifth post-Atlantean age to disturb these
working with primal phenomena. At intervals — by fits and starts,
impetus had to be present bearing along with it the after workings, in
the descendants of the old Atlantean teachers who were now working
working into the fifth post-Atlantean epoch — all this unrest,
it had upon her! You can observe how strong the specter-like working
or Charles V, the ruler of the kingdom over which the “sun never
We find, therefore, many forces working together when we set out to
thinking, we can place another great figure, Thomas à Kempis, who was
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our age of materialistic thinking, the ideas and concepts for doing so
are largely lacking. They must first be acquired through spiritual
that, on the whole, he has become somewhat lacking in courage. If one
such studies as we are now undertaking.
impulses of humanity living and working beneath the soil.
taking shape in the course of past centuries. The general population
“save” humanity, however — I am now speaking as Ahriman
examine the Society, we find that, in looking back over the twice

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spirit that is ruling and working within these little beings that we
can describe in movements or inner laws, are, figuratively speaking,
thinking and the very manner of life, then this difference becomes
Speaking in the Goethean sense, it is a leap when, through
forces making possible an intellectual grasp of the world through
achieving the faculty of making free decisions and developing freedom,
necessity in historical evolution because conscious thinking, through
of the thinking that had become powerless in the new age and could no
making experiments, for example, as to how one man affects another,
by the senses. The solution is to be found by thinking of individual
connections linking men with one another. The mediumistic
is to say, the souls who, speaking spiritually, are our
working that is felt in respect of the outer material natural order
modern way of feeling and thinking, as it has developed in the last
develop further the thinking habits already evolved.
I will not elaborate Ku Hung Ming's ideas on the methods for making
good through its own force; that is, a knowledge working morally

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“Better to be a beggar on the earth, than a king in the realm of
himself, as it were, Ahriman, working in the Roman Empire, set out to
impulses and workings had been victorious, these mysteries would have
all the forces of death in earthly working. These forces would have
into the kingdom of Lucifer and Ahriman.
The aim of his cult, working in opposition to those of Taotl, was to
when, in the Eastern Hemisphere, the Mystery of Golgotha was taking
Investigations into what is thus working in the subconscious reveal
that culture is really created by an interworking between the normal
ahrimanic forces alone because interworking has taken place between
sensory existence on the earth, to found a kingdom where the good is
thinking is influenced by the problem of death, and by the problem of
remember that the working together of the evil and the good, the union

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working from the past and interpenetrating the impulses of the present
in which the Golden King became the representative of wisdom. Since spiritual
completely under his control, thereby making Church officials mere
bondsmen of the kingly power in which gold ruled. He thereupon caused
a tool completely in the hands of Philip. Gradually, under the working
working so intensely, creates powerful forces in the soul. At the same
arose in Philip of what can be brought about by taking life in the
his willing, feeling, thinking and sense perception. These, indeed,
You are looking here into a life of soul of which outer history
“Have you denied the Host and refrained from speaking the words
into making these subconscious avowals.
working actively through the inspiration of Philip the Fair. We see
gold flow through the fairy tale, he is looking back into earlier
for which gold also stands, hence, “The Golden King of
working to attain it. Let us take his poem, “The Mysteries”

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civilized humanity's present-day thinking and feeling, the social
sentiment and thinking is essential to mankind, a transformation of
Official history today is really of little help in making a man
king's divorce could only be brought about through his creating this
strongest influences working in a spiritual sense in the eighteenth
had an immense influence on Voltaire, who influenced European thinking
through Hume, and later on through Darwin, human thinking is
specially developed, abstract rationalistic thinking that makes an
faculty lives that is transmitted to European thinking and feeling, so
it. This faculty creates a kind of thinking that is peculiarly fitted
thinking to the sphere of religious life. Not one of them —
to apply thinking to what he considers to be concerns of the religious
generations, centuries. This way of thinking about religious matters
into the progressive spiritual world in waking consciousness by having
Our age stands under all these influences — the thinking and the
this age are striking; they are grand. Over and over again people
nature of thinking in astronomical fields, that wonderfully effective
thinking from the sixteenth to the nineteenth centuries, has had
their thinking and reflecting, and also in their social organizations,
striven for in social thinking. Regarding our thinking, we — or

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The Experience of Thinking
thought, without looking at the outer world, and follow further in
abstract thinking. He may create world-systems, or he may make
this inner thinking, devoid of outer impressions, may develop, but we
thinking. You will find therefore a fundamental tone or feeling in this
far in their thinking as to experience in it an image of the outer
thinking something of a super-physical world, but it would have, to
and which is acknowledged by our thinking to be outside of us. Thus
this thinking which is within us would have to be able to experience
of thinking.
book thinking is so experienced that within the experience of
thinking we come to this realisation, viz. that if a man really
experiences thinking, he is living, even if at first somewhat
thinking experience with the cosmic secrets is the root-nerve of
you find the sentence, “In thinking, man lifts an edge of the
but it is meant to imply that when a man really experiences thinking,
man attains to the reality of thinking within himself he attains to
acquire this experience of thinking, he rests no longer within the
thinking as it is portrayed in the
in our thinking — and there are various things outside —
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the soul back into former experiences; thinking leads the soul, as I
a taking possession of the physical by the soul and spirit, and if,
tendencies.” As you see, this is a peculiar kind of thinking,
the habits acquired through observing the lower kingdoms of nature,
Luciferic and Ahrimanic kingdoms. These Beings work in the whole
in making efforts to put as much as possible into heredity, succeed
thereby in making the ego fit very loosely into the human being;
can be seen everywhere; I am simply speaking of something which can
himself to the feeling that his thinking is like a breathing in
light. Man then feels his thinking, he feels it like a breathing in

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memories — everything which arises in this way making us
falling asleep until waking up figures in this way as memories, that
born later), yet it is working already, for naturally it is bound up
The thinking forces

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the depths of the mineral kingdom. He is then able to grow together
there is a tower open at the top, then, because you are looking out
But the first feeling of which I am speaking may be
Roughly speaking, we can have no lead in us, but
speaking more accurately, we cannot exist without lead. What would
requires the same capacity to perceive the workings of metals in the
walking, in learning to speak and in learning to think lies that

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speaking of these things for they could only be present as such after
be compared with that of which we are now speaking.
cosmos. In the period of which I am now speaking we have to say: This
taking place the whole atmosphere was filled with sulphur in a finely
creation he has become prepared for his life on earth as a thinking
still of a psychic and spiritual nature, sinking itself in the ether.
from him, and which then became the other kingdoms of nature. They
him as an earthly human being with willing, feeling and thinking.
For that which man is today as a thinking, feeling and
kingdom. Owing to this separation they have metamorphosed themselves
manifesting only in colour, such as I have described when speaking of
from earth-forms. I arise out of the heavenly kingdom. I am here

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greatest possible range of speaking through his throat, and at the
same time to observe the surging up and sinking down, which is to be
forth. But in speaking, the air transforms itself into the next
feels as taking place within himself. But how does he feel this
look at a skeleton? We say: Do not merely look at it. It is shocking
the animal-kingdom lived in the Logos, in the resounding cosmic
macrocosmic, that which was the arising and evolution, the working
for a solution. Like a question the animal-kingdom arose within the
opportunity for looking spiritually into a revelation which leads us
wonderful colours — variously speaking colours — colours

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with the impression, which as I have already indicated was working
And now, because they had inwardly realized the working
And the other statue, as if speaking, said: I am

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my sense of thinking, in my sense of speech, in my sense of touch, in
images belong to it; Being is lacking. The pupil had now experienced

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thinking of oneself as enclosed within one's skin. Of such furniture
had earlier been capable, of dreaming in the waking-state of
Word spreads itself out. Everything in the Vulcan-planet is speaking
took place, which were really not so fearfully striking outwardly as
men of today represent them, which were indeed only striking compared
and more breaking in upon humanity, depending merely on the power of
the event was taking place in physical reality on another spot of

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of speaking, dimmed; that means that they could not develop any
their insight that the Mystery of Golgotha was taking place
necessary, for their way of thinking, and the manner of knowledge

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write a history of their own scientific thinking they should really

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those epochs of which I am now speaking further back still, towards
and as mountains, and the mineral kingdom, All these are simply
which he learnt to feel while speaking, and while the pupil

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to you; but speaking quite generally, one can say, that right up to
speaking now of that epoch which culminated in Rosicrucianism about
glycerin working there passes into the lungs, and into the air that
world is spread. Now, of course, radically speaking we find oxalic
Oxalic acid is everywhere in the vegetable kingdom, and we find
answered: You can no more learn Astrology through thinking or
through thinking, or experiments, or by observation would have seemed
hand the inner being of man, and on the other the weaving and working

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human thinking.
Just consider how far removed thinking lies from human
in an intellectual way; but on the other hand he cannot by thinking
bring about any change in his organism. Man's thinking has become
more and more powerless; but thinking is set in motion by the
organism can bring back power into thinking. It restores to thinking
body; thus thinking can be animated by gold.
between the substance gold and the cosmic working of the sun was
thinking, so that human thinking can work down as far as the etheric
becomes capable of working down into the etheric body. The etheric
pole, the opposite working, and this effect is what is produced when
should reveal to them the working and weaving in the processes and
conscious way. He felt the blood streaming and working through his
Macrocosmos, seeking the Cosmic Intelligences; and shuts it again

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making an unwarranted hypothesis; rather I am assuming thoughts
phenomenon for me. I would not be making an unwarranted hypothesis if
I assumed something like that; similarly, I would not be making an
insightful thinking, it becomes clear that what underlies them could never
sequential thinking within experience and making unwarranted
feeling, a definite kind of thinking. In social interchange we have
out of himself, shapes his willing, feeling, and thinking to a certain
thought element taking its own course in an emotional way. The

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foundation of all his thinking.
the inner formative force; this is what we develop in our thinking, in
In looking into the age of childhood one witnesses the work of
oneself to perceiving the developed thinking processes, but these
breakdown processes are particularly suited to making our
by taking the spiritual into consideration.
have to dam up what is active in this thinking, conceptual, sensing
point of unconsciousness, to a working of the spiritual in
If we are looking for the cause of physical illness, we must
processes of the sexual organs when speaking of hysterical phenomena
Spiritual science is not always simply seeking the spirit. This can be
everywhere we are driven into the social element if we are not seeking
human existence, of human community, if we are seeking with a truly
false seeking after the spirit, by materialism in the spiritual realm,
remaining stuck when seeking the origins of existence. The proletariat
like, if in its spiritual seeking the proletariat is compelled to

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especially in medicine, if one is not speaking to a purely
actually speaking about, attack nearly everything they call academic
organ, as it should, thus wreaking havoc in it. When this happens we
activity takes place in the waking state, when we perceive and form
images that can really penetrate into the working of something that
the case, that what is present in the upbuilding system, working into
organism, a poisoning and unpoisoning are continuously taking place
We are therefore unable to regard such a natural process as taking its
into two processes working against one another, where one is a process
working in a way too strongly poisonous on the metabolic system, its
on the other hand, the metabolic-limb system is working in a way too
strongly poisonous on the head system, which means working over
forces working downward with the forces working upward, tending toward
process. I can only indicate this here. By looking at how the
fundamentally speaking, the human being has the same form of forces in
him — if we consider the breakdown process working from above
in what is active in the forces working downward from the head system
taking place outside in nature and at what takes place within the
the human being, that peculiar process taking place as poisoning and
looking together at the outer workings of nature and the workings of
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system — working oppositely to the metabolic-limb system; these two
cause mischief there. In fact, by looking in this way into the
works in a certain way by virtue of its striving upward, working in an
the particular activity of the blood, through the working together of
activity, though working merely physically. In a certain way we thus
manifestation of phosphorus. I am speaking to you aphoristically and
extended further, combustible substances reveal themselves as working
examples. What I have just been speaking about could be illustrated by
the conscious life of the human being from waking to falling asleep.
for the head system, for the nerve-sense system, is waking
which consists of making conscious through outer measures what
digestion, the taking up of substance.
therefore, that the metabolism that proceeds inward is not working
are examples through which one really comes to see the process taking
blood, working in accordance with the ego-activity, is brought about by
Thus we see male and female working together in this way in
matter, who wishes to ask questions without seeking the spirit, is

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introduction to point out this peculiarity of the economic thinking of
conditions were taking their accustomed course in a way that might
almost be called medieval, human thinking was undergoing a fundamental
thinking. Why, they actually looked upon it as a real liberation of
way in which Richter or Lasker or even Brentano were speaking in
Now that people have knocked each other's heads in, instead of seeking
asking how to do the very thing which the Threefold Commonwealth was
Now I am speaking, in effect, for students. I am trying to show how
said what man needs for his thinking. The human brain, if we weigh it
Ladies and gentlemen, to think thus and to regard this way of thinking
Political Economy, human thinking upon Physics was in such a condition
economy of the animal kingdom — does not reach far up into the
human kingdom, Possibly in the case of the magpie we may indeed speak
that our economic thinking fails us once more in another direction.
story of the ambassador of the King of France who once came to
King of France was announced, he said: “Ask him to wait a
ambassador of the King of France.” But the attendant brought the
ambassador of the King of France!” Rothschild answered:
I am the ambassador of the King of France!” “Will you take
Human economic working has to a very large extent been drawn into what
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or sell. In the last resort the instinctive thinking of every naive man
on economic matters culminates in the process taking place between buyer
thinking to say that the land has not increased in price during the
— by seeking to grasp it with sharply defined notions. In the
ways of thinking remind one of many a method in book-keeping —
reasons. In fact, none of these ways of thinking comes near the
of taking hold of something static and giving it a definition, whereas
(thinking, to begin with, of the purely external economic aspect)
than their legs and wings. In seeking to build up economic concepts,
place to another, is irrelevant. If we are seeking the determination
Economics borders on uneconomic matters. Purely economically speaking,
thinking at this point is a colossal piece of nonsense.
just now, labour, economically speaking, is some-thing neutral and
Properly speaking, it is wrong to speak of an exchange of goods. The
thinking along these lines. For the apple has been picked somewhere
point in talking round and round about Value and Price. The important

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No one uses for himself what he produces. Economically speaking, what
Suppose there is a tailor, making clothes. Given the division of
labour, he must, of course, be making them for other people. But he
of his labour to making his own clothes, and the remainder — by
far the greater portion — to making clothes for other people.
tailor to make his own clothes and then go on working as a tailor for
labour. Consequently it is more expensive. Thinking the division of
speaking, egoism is impossible. I can no longer do anything for
economic life. Taking it, therefore, in its purely economic aspect, we
speaking neither idealistically nor ethically, but from an
their way of thinking, men had not yet been able to get beyond Egoism
follows: If a man is working in this sphere, for example
decrease in value. If on the other hand a man is working directly upon
will soon recognise it if you study the typical business undertaking;

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some of you a good deal of “brain-racking.” I refer to the
making clothes for other people, he bought his own from a tradesman in
will stand directly after he has finished making the suit of clothes.
We must not confuse the issue by thinking in the narrow spirit of
more expensive. Taking his total balance after a certain lapse of
so — so very near at hand. All your thinking on Economics will
half-absurd examples, so as to detach our thinking from the familiar
conceives the idea of making a cart and using horses to draw it.
still shine through. But the moment we emancipate ourselves, thinking
working in the economic process; but there is really nothing left in
Precisely the same thing that we do inwardly in our logical thinking,
be talking — economically — sheer nonsense. It is immaterial
economically speaking? It is, as we have already seen, a value. I will
present in the economic organism (taking as “Money” not
thinking, so as to be able to think a process through to its end quite
would have to he a creature taking part in the heat, boiling with it,
in that way. But with our thinking accustomed to see things only as

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working upon Nature, so that from the mere raw Nature-product —
process now goes forward by the Spirit “making good” the
for, apart from a few occasional hints, I have been speaking only of.
speaking of production. And yet, the economic process does not merely
force that is working itself out. There is here a true analogy with
diamond in the King of England's crown has such an immense value. For
credit based on the security of land — even to a person working
further the economic process by working upon it, then, you see, the
do so by working upon it. In so far as it is mere Nature, the land can
grow real and have real consequences. And, economically speaking, it
working of the English mortgage laws with those of Germany.
indeed speaking of realities. And, that Consumption is a reality,
speaking of realities. Ideas by' themselves have no effect in the real
taking part in the economic life — whether as producers, as
the necessity for an increase in the number of those who are working

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rents. Now, as I said, fundamentally speaking, the return for land
practice without taking additional steps. 100% interest for money
in economics is to be working from the past into the future.
— taking the word “market” in the widest sense. But
fundamentally by thinking. But spiritual work is not an easy thing to
of thinking begins the very moment Labour itself is organised and
the spiritual work of one who directs some undertaking within the
spiritual work. Nevertheless he is still working with the resources
speaking, we can call it free. For whatever materials are derived from
of our children if we gave them nothing. We are constantly making free
evolve real economic thinking. I think we may take it that anything
thinking. It is a thinking based on resentment, on feeling. People
it only from this point of view if we claim to be thinking in an
diseased through the fact that payment is not working together in an
working together in some way. If you abolish giving on one side, you
others. They make their thinking more mobile, and these others are
way that when too many people are working in any sphere they can be

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not foster the exchange of products, making the process not only more
them it is his business to impart to them a higher value, by making
enterprising or “undertaking ” spirit. It is really this
speaking now not of the Labour, but of the products of the Labour; it
it would become fixed, but into free spiritual undertakings where it
figures only within undertakings dependent on mind or Spirit —
working on into the next; in the other movement something arises
speaking, Spirit realised in the economic process; so that I can write
difficult; for when the thing we are seeking is shifting to and fro in
constantly be taking place. Such ascending and descending processes

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thinking into the actual course of economic life. For an economic
their own accord through the working of supply and demand. The theory
economically speaking, even to establish them. As contemplative
people into the market to observe how supply and demand are working.
enough into the working of the economic processes? Can you make any
trying to grasp. You look at the market; you see the working of
whole working of the economic process, he cannot become a supplier of
evolved from that which has, generally speaking, to be evolved for our
instead of making another pair of boots. He might do anything with it,
extracted from the Labour as a surplus value. By economic thinking we
same. Economically speaking, that which obtains as between the
“Every time I send a picture postcard, I cannot help thinking:
observe these things, we should be able to reckon it up: By making
men who stand in the most varied spheres, are working together.
changes, but of seeking for the proper associative union and
painfully, for at this point, after all, economic thinking does to
some extent coincide with moral and religious thinking. To me, for
a pun, but the genius of language itself is working here.)

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Europe. It is a striking example of the complicated way in which
farmers or estate owners speaking of their work, one often hears them
certain margin of profit. Taking the actual prices of rye in this way,
fortnight in which to go on making boots as before. Economically
speaking, we can now ask: Who manufactured the boots? Economically
speaking, undoubtedly — at this moment of the economic process
more, we come to the same conclusion: It is, generally speaking, a
economic process taking place within a larger whole, it is really
quantitatively speaking, of Loaned Capital, Industrial Capital and
at the head of the undertaking — Siemens & Gwinner, for
Further — and I am not defending or attacking anything, but
keep pace with things with one's clear thinking. In many places
ideas, by taking things that can be surveyed as a whole; but you will
Spanish possessions in the West Indies, because it was looking for
advance a step. Speaking of this second buffer, of the hunt for
industrial undertaking and its sources of raw products and its
especially serve the process of lending — I mean the banking
of the banking system, falls into the last two-thirds of the
evolution of the banking system, borrowing and lending develops on an
expansion of the banking system, the control of the circulation of
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speaking to a few among you. I mean the relation between Labour and
working in Capital which keeps the movement going. To begin with,
Speaking of this movement, we must be aware of one thing above all,
imagine, for instance, that a purchase is taking place: A buys from B.
In ordinary lay thinking, we generally apply the concept of profit to
I sell something, I must be so placed, economically speaking, that the
seen by taking another illustration.
Fundamentally speaking, the line of thought I have just opened out can
Economically speaking, what have the peas become by this process?
economic thinking the work or Labour which is active in
thinking about Physics. The physicist does this by developing a
more pronounced if there were not only a pressure working from here to
of making an advantageous deal is also present in me when I sell a
commodities which I possess. At this point, I am already taking a hand
the economic process in a striking way.
mutuality comes. In the division of Labour we have a process working
this feeling-experience is not to be eliminated. That is thinking in
process can grasp anything of it by working abstract concepts into it;
it is only by working imaginative perceptions into it that we can
with a picture-thinking. We must be ready to enter into the real
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While in the animal kingdom, for example, the more primitive forms can
gigantic farm — was the so-called kingdom of the Merovingians. It
was a “kingdom” in a quite external sense, but it was
Merovingian kingdom was really no different from this: — the
was this working together of private economies which they actually saw
the older economists retained to a large extent a way of thinking
radical example of what I mean by their working together industrially.
described as an actual working-together in the industrial life. But
“wholes” did not take place with the object of making
as in fact it did last were thinking in terms of national economies,
Economic Science capable of thinking in the spirit of world-economy.
thinking in terms of national economy. Whatever results they arrive
at, unless and until they are permeated with world-economic thinking,
speaking, world-economy exists today; and therefore, relatively
speaking, a Science of World-Economy will have to follow. The domain
actually on the way and our thinking will have to follow suit.
in the body social, even economically speaking, by this reshuffling
So long as we are only thinking in terms of national economy, it is

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in the subjective sense. Economically speaking, the subjective is only
different way of thinking. For instance, it is said: In the first
Speaking of money, the first thing we have to deal with is ordinary
beings, economically speaking, became money. The slaves became money.
value of the pound of meat cannot, properly speaking, change in course
purchase-money; for him it becomes working capital.*
that this working capital, this loaned money, has an essentially
seizes it. Human thinking sets to work and it is through this entry of
human thinking into the process that loaned money receives its actual
gift-money. Gift-money, fundamentally speaking, is all that is
where gift-money is working? It loses its value. Thus we may say, if
them wild, taking no pains to tame them. But we let money circulate
with money for my undertaking? Suppose, according to my calculations,
my undertaking must be planned for a period of twenty years. Shall I
of long-period undertakings young money receives its peculiar economic
suppose I have to embark on an undertaking which involves calculations
question of free gifts. If you are thinking in a true economic sense,
collective experience and taking the proper corresponding measures.

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on division of Labour, the Nature-product has, properly speaking, no
Obviously the first stage in the process — in the taking-over of
Everyone would be working with his hands and the spiritual life would
all, even in picking blackberries (which acquires economic value only
stupid and makes extra work for himself by picking where they are
worker are of less value, relatively speaking; he will not get more
into the picking of blackberries. (Things that take place in real life
taking hold of a real process. It is not that physical Labour is done
working-together, as between all that is represented by land-work
The first thing necessary is that we should begin working on definite
agriculture, or the working of the land in the widest sense, upon the
is that this problem, which should really underlie our thinking about
comprehensive way of thinking. There is no doubt that Spengler makes
consists, therefore, properly speaking, in spiritual work. But he

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which I have myself been taking part — is it my opinion that all
to give you pictorial concepts, ideal pictures, to aid you in making
unhealthy way. Or again, speaking of costs of production, it may be
each other. Nevertheless, by taking hold of the economic process from
given area, say x square metres of land, taking
Yet if the economic life becomes permeated with a way of thinking such
main value of it, economically speaking, consists in the Labour saved;
Looking at things in this way, we shall admit that even in our present
It is reality. Once more, speaking pictorially, let me say: While I am
fortnight, thinking through the realm of Economic Science. I thank you
us look forward to an opportunity of working at these things again

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Europe — it was by lifting it into consciousness, by making it
sketch. I could go on speaking of it for a long time. For the moment
and Thrones, press into the space that has been formed through the working
through the working of the Sons of the First Hierarchy, through
this? The further evolution comes about through the working of the
colour signifies a working together of Light and Darkness. But this
the fluid, the Element of Water. As, for cosmic thinking, the
shadowy. And yet we live today in this way of thinking, in this way
today, in a number of pictures, the nature and manner of thinking in
a chemist standing in a laboratory, making experiments with retorts

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into the fifteenth century. The spiritual streams that were working
recognise that behind these creations stands the working of
such was the manner of speaking in those days — and this
Earth, was now for the pupil like the content of his day-waking
could take place, guided by the teacher, but in reality taking place
able, by speaking with the pupil in a special way, to bring to his
He felt the inworking of the plant-world, in its blossoming, in its
Fundamentally speaking, all the seeking and striving of Meister
impulse was working in the twelfth and thirteenth centuries. The

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be placed out-side the kingdom of the divine-spiritual Will that
to human thinking as the means of attaining knowledge.
the Middle Ages we can see this human thinking developing and
speaking. There were however men who yearned for knowledge in the
few men were there gathered together, making devotion, so to say, of
seeking for it again in the world of the Spirit. For those however
All the more striking is
kind of shrinking back before this knowledge. Let me give you an
happens on Earth. Speaking in the sense of Pico della Mirandola we
this creative working from out of the unknown spiritual worlds. And
your attention from what you are trying to find in him by talking in
described. Such was their manner of speaking. And they might go on to
not give thoughts. What they gave, however, had an after-working that
more to say on this from many aspects. For the moment, taking my

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When men are speaking of knowledge nowadays it is very seldom that
here and there as a late straggler, as it were. But speaking
from out of the mineral and plant kingdoms, and the Sun then to
interworking of Sun and Earth, and only afterwards, going about the
the kingdoms of the Earth. Thus — they thought — should
none the less making the Fourth Hierarchy.
earthly kingdoms: mineral kingdom, plant kingdom, animal kingdom,
human kingdom. This was the picture of how Man stood in the world.
— has gone over into the kingdom of the Sun; the Sun has become
happened in recent times? (The teacher is speaking to the pupil.)

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far back, the whole manner of thinking was nevertheless entirely
than a talking around the subject, for the pupils were at that time
Thinking, unless you know that in reality man experiences Thought by
making their own organism into these symbols; for only so can symbols
are speaking, not very much could be attained on this path; something
You will find this where I am speaking of Spirit in
mineral kingdom itself they come together in crystallisation. When

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speaking to you again of the Rosicrucian Movement. Rosicrucianism, I
working naturalistically in the soul. (Even religion has become
what man discovers in the human and animal and plant kingdoms
battle of the upward-attacking Ahrimanic spirits who would like to
already told you, generally working as doctors. But at the same time,

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speaking to you again of the Rosicrucian movement. Rosicrucianism, I
creations of naturalistic art, or the religious sentiments working
what man discovers in the human and animal and plant kingdoms
battle of the up-ward-attacking Ahrimanic spirits who would like to
told you, generally working as doctors. But at the same time, while
forth once more to-day, man, looking back to this abyss, can relate

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corresponding Heathen festival, taking place about the same time of
Golgotha. But while this “memory” was taking shape, the
century A.D., instead of looking upward to the

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time and then met once more — I am speaking in modern terms,
of which I am now speaking, the Moon influences and the Sun influences
Sun is working; and this is the power that makes man free. Think for a
these forces of the Christ, looking down upon me through the cosmic
forces, the forces of the Christ, are also working in many different
beings looking upward to the Sun — this in their own down-pouring
of man, and then imagine he is looking into himself. But he is not
Suppose that I have a house before me here, and instead of looking in
But in thus looking inward he became aware of what had entered into
he already knew the kingdoms of Nature — he knew them in their
was the chamber of Thinking. Seen from outside it is the head. It is
discovering how man is organised in his organs of Thinking, Feeling
and drinking all manner of things. He knows: These things are now
earthly sight. Speaking in modern words — though they spoke with
do study it, we shall be talking in superficialities.
drives anyone who is seeking for real knowledge to despair when he has
by looking back to the ancient Mysteries, where the human being was

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other planets, taking the Moon, as it were, as the point whence the
could get beyond the mere looking outward through the eyes or

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it once more in sacred Mysteries working forth into mankind, or be it
But as the Temple burned something was really taking place.
forth from the working together of Alexander and Aristotle.
only learn to deal with. And fundamentally speaking, all that
say today: “Anthroposophy itself, in all its working, is an

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for speaking of many aspects of it — for illustrations will
were taking place in the invisible worlds.
that was astir at that time, linking it on to a personage who
always been engaged in the trade of making gods, and he is an expert
she still cherished. The Shaman at the head of the shrieking,
about Art except what is laid down by the canon for the making of
The chief character is a Polish Count; speaking to him
despot stands with a friend, looking upwards towards a high rock
breaking up around him, nor he himself who lives in the immediate

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the world as the outcome of a dialogue with the Spirits working in
I chose only two particularly striking examples from many that might
strength; without taking the Christ into the Ego, he desires to bring
prevailing in our time. We know that, properly speaking, the
ranking higher than men but who during the Old Moon period of
and so forth, is a very abstract way of speaking and leads to no very
intensified, enhanced. These higher Beings working in human bodies
the natural-scientific way of thinking, and who was told by a friend
have ever entered the kingdom of heaven has as high a place as a man
pious, and not one of the fools who have ever entered the kingdom of
world. Mere looking will never suffice even to understand the Mystery

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Fundamentally speaking — and indeed it is evident —
which I have been speaking here in recent weeks.
want to rouse themselves into embarking upon a genuine, individual
own individual forces of thinking and feeling. But this is not to
people's liking; they prefer to accept knowledge that is ready-made
of the great wave of philosophic thinking, the man of whom I am
speaking was young. He lived with all the great thoughts and ideas
of thinking to reach the sphere where the world-riddles are unveiled.
sought to show that a certain rigid, one-sided kind of thinking can
transition to the time when this thinking was held to be of no avail,
unveiled in this way. It was the time when men were saying: thinking
The man of whom I am speaking was one of those who still preserved
their belief in the power of thinking in days in the second half of
the 19th century when a certain mistrust of thinking became
lived on from the time of the sovereignty of thinking into that of
to abandon all seeking. A soul of this character is usually one who
that is blazoned abroad as great and epoch-making and that they
in a happy-go-lucky way accept such a discovery as epoch-making; but
from making similar mistakes at any time. He does not, however,
thinking, how easily it is prevented from making even an approach to
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Probably you have all, in thinking over the task of the physician,
to comprehend this working of cosmic forces into terrestrial
interlocking of this perishing heritage of the past with attempts such
newer medical thinking. Cellular Pathology derives all the
exist. They must operate. In seeking them we shall find that which has
unique and not to be found in the other kingdoms of nature. Forces
in action, as something working chemically from outside the earth into
purpose of working towards a certain restoration of medical science.

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Something is seeking for equipoise; it is as though there were an urge
and working up of food, and the upper activities, the lowest of which is the
offers a striking example of the interaction of various processes in
one another as positive and negative images. The particularly striking
organic activity taking place during sleep, which should really take
place during working hours, during full physico-spiritual awakeness.
Corresponding to the conscious soul and organic functions of our waking
hours, are always processes of excretion. Even our thinking does not
substance, that is, the qualities essential to its working when

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basis for every future consideration, taking into account what I have
speaking, that therapeutics are dealt with concurrently with pathology,
the nervous system; the influences working through the rhythmic
system, breathing and blood circulation; and those working through
vegetable, animal and especially the mineral kingdoms.
growth should strictly speaking be the immediately adjacent part, its
thinking, feeling and willing with these same forces, which I have
follow up the processes of thinking, feeling and willing, as to show
lacking. We help the organism by adding and returning what we first
discover among the products of the vegetable kingdom, the exact forces
mineral kingdom. The mineral kingdom was envisaged merely as being
mineral kingdom, a changing over of substance occurring at some
animal life to man, and another, descending to the mineral kingdom.
kingdom, but somewhere in the middle kingdoms of nature. There would
greatly lacking in internal formative force. During the whole span of

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The method referred to would consist in making every possible effort
individual result may be most striking.
rationale into what is otherwise merely an empirical thinking on a
in ordinary medical and biological thinking.
extremely well fed and healthy looking cattle. Would it occur to you
ruin of sound thinking, could occur.
thinking out of the gland itself. You perform the activity apart from
us, but working in the rest of Nature's order. The external natural
intestinal vegetation, which you deprive of formative powers, taking
you would not be a thinking being. You take away from your intestinal
upper: that is of making his lower sphere sick, by depriving it of
mineral kingdom that we must set free the forces opposed to the action
of the external forces of that kingdom.
Let us assume that you are making comparative investigations into the
for men capable of thinking, to arise on a physical basis; for man
possesses the brain, the organ of thinking at the expense — I repeat,

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has discarded and released the other natural kingdoms out of his own
details for later addresses. Strictly speaking, in the light of the
animal kingdom.
corresponding substances from the inner workings of light and other
interiorise them, making them their inner properties. This is the
metabolism; and as circulation is the bridge linking nerves and senses
is in fact nothing less than the image of this macrocosmic working.
kingdom; it has the forces that sprout into vegetation.
kingdom.

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working upwards from the earth, and on the other, something else,
working from above downwards, is inserted into the carrier.
We have to visualise the place and office of the imponderables working
position for working on a certain portion of our sphere. Assume Saturn
is the link between the workings of metals and the formation of
the light and is therefore akin to the workings of light; and we
divisions. All these ways of working are connected one with another,
taking us part of the way to our goal. We can take the standpoint of
and animal kingdoms to extra-telluric forces. And as I indicated
also within that sphere: but with the animal kingdom we leave the
minerals are also within that sphere: but with the animal kingdom we
hopes, completely masking the danger in the background.

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On the other hand and this is why I have emphasised the need of taking
extra-telluric factors working from birth or from conception onwards,
waking state, but its “installation” means that the collaboration
the working of the ego upon the three other human vehicles. It
earth has its own lunar principle working outwards from within.
destroys their working by developing its own urge towards independent
working of planetary forces in the earth's substances. Were it not for
it depends on making the cellular process remain under the
study the correspondence between the process working in lead, and the
follow up the same process working between iron and the blood, until
referred to and the workings of copper, mercury and silver.
the vegetable kingdom, as you will see later on.

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foundations of existence. But this must be done if medical thinking
the lime blossoms. Realise that something is taking place between this
taking place in your olfactory organs. The fragrance flowing from the
that of taste is more inward (we are speaking here with reference to
the whole plant-kingdom because one now begins to realise what takes
give the key, between the process taking place within the eye, and the
so close that we could hardly avoid looking for an analogy with the
sense of which you know from other lectures. For in thinking and the
thinking are simply continuations of visual images; compare for a
your own! In thinking we have an interiorised continuation of seeing.
carefully examine our thinking processes, especially the connection
our discontinuous, analytic thinking is very like its counterpart,
Thus we find thinking and representation as the one end of a
and radiates back into the interior in thought. In thinking we try to
crude: — Picture to yourselves man standing looking on into the
looking out and around. And suppose that the tiniest dwarf imaginable

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but into the mineral kingdom as well. You will find that the same
Law must be constructed upon all the elements obtained by the taking
upwards, we must consider the workings in man of the silicon process
Again, it should always be borne in mind that all substances working

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away from the blood the forces working normally by means of the iron,
can watch in this plant how the working forces diverge. The forces
substances which tend to the mineral kingdom, i.e., silicic acid, work
kingdoms of nature in himself; in addition to the human kingdom, there
evolutionary stages, with all the other kingdoms of nature. Indeed in
kingdoms outside, and are able to reabsorb what is needful for us once
that in the course of evolution we have detached the mineral kingdom
that seeking the relationships to the plants alone is simply
one-sided. Nevertheless the vegetable kingdom retains for us its
the mineral kingdom. At the same time, we must bear in mind that the
effort in assimilating and taking it into the human unity, than in the
interpolate here the emphatic statement that I am not making
food. Man throws upon the process of cooking, in all its forms,
and the same is true for the complementary process of thinking and
shows itself in the habit of cooking [i.e., changing] the raw
forces, manifesting in different ways. All peripheral working
Then taking these two diverticulums, we

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superseded by the working of higher potencies, to turn sharply at
the animal kingdom, are in perpetual motion away from the earth,
forces working down into the earth, and it is an absurdity to seek for
wonderful workings of the human liver.
vegetable kingdom from mankind.
hypertrophy were not checked by the workings of the extra-telluric
In seeking for the next process, situated still more deeply in the

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bond between the etheric and physical bodies; so even in the waking
the working of this correspondence. Pass in review all the substances
It is important to remember that in speaking of oxygen, hydrogen and
working of lead, as something associated with the fact that hydrogen
emergence of new types of disease shows the necessity of taking these
— to observe certain workings of extra-human realities in one's
to practise meditation. By taking that course, mankind decides in a
walk. It is indeed the case that the awareness of the iron working
working which comes forth from the upper bodily sphere, and ramifies
instance the vegetable carbon already dealt with — is lacking in an
the body, we are taking for the whole, what is only a part. The
account not only the workings acting from within, outwards, but also
all these workings which give a general direction to his organic

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in working order. Thus we may be sure of being able to do something to
workings, so as to make it a healing source. Our aim is to direct the
that the etheric body may once more extend its working to the region
or better, from the light workings of summer; there is something of
representative only of the light workings: but this subject forms a
of a certain conceptual rigidity, a blind sticking to a certain system
immense diversity, with its way of often working by mere indications,
masking of the true nature of the case; one fails to recognise an
The habit of tea drinking, on the other hand, helps us to avoid
linking up pedantically one thought to another like a professor. For
materially conducing to the habit of making aphoristic remarks and
sugar in the Western world of the English speaking peoples. And we may
large intake of sugar. Nevertheless in such cases, the fact of taking

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astral body and the ego, which are constantly working upon and
structure. Although we remain unaware of it in everyday waking life,
come to a striking difference between short-sighted and long-sighted
conditions, or the reverse, by looking at the
process working from outside. If we take the trouble to see and
emphasise it still more here. People are in the habit of thinking: an
untenable. It is making the same mistake to explain the human eye and
other hand, if the organism cannot help itself by making the
striking proof of the need to acquire this macroscopical view. One
working abroad signifies the formative force of the whole human
something which, working from out of the astral organisation, may so

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characteristic markings are due to this involvement in extra-telluric
begins to work, the working calls into activity the defensive and
External reason and external intelligence sharing in this working of
speaking they should not produce immediately — i.e., as excitements
being man really rests, and above all our human thinking which goes
we must search for in the mineral kingdom itself, in order to cure
of thinking is based on the disruption of mineral substance. On the
virtue of sulphur. Now sulphur is within the mineral kingdom that

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difficult to define these delicate workings of our organism in the
by external activity. These animals are really taking care of their
working centripetally. In the legs and feet, the will works through
metabolism, especially on that part of the metabolic process taking
These facts illustrate the interlocking of the individual regions and
thereby strengthen from within the forces of the cosmos working into
unless one is thinking of the human being, and it is essential to keep
developed in childhood and youth, remains lacking, and only that is
Suppose you educate the child in liking and eating some wholesome
remedial method. We are at present making efforts in this direction at
able to confuse the whole of human thinking. Indeed it is true that
a devastating effect on organs already too old for such working up.
also an extremely fine, spiritualised inward sucking action. We must

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different varieties — that is, comparatively speaking, for very
Indeed fluorine is always present in water, even in our drinking
aspect of the fluorine workings. The constitution arising if the
fingers and the legs become supple and skillful, is the working of
working. But if the external fluorine workings are disturbed, then the
importance usually bestowed. I am speaking now with reference to the
(in the wider sense, speaking of the whole organisation) has been
and one of great value for the whole reform of medical thinking that

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the forces working from the earth itself. There is a constant
solve the riddle of the working of bacilli in it. But unless we go
alternation between waking and sleeping. Every time we wake, there is
there is the other beat. And this rhythm of waking-sleeping
waking-sleeping, is intersected with other minor rhythmic oscillations
which are due to the fact that in the waking state, we wake in our
waking and sleeping.
breaking through of more subtle forces; but by this fact a special
working of the bacilli whether vegetable or animal — we need not
These physical manifestations include the working of the bacilli
tailoring or shoemaking, but with little knowledge of the craftsmanship
wider rhythm determined by the alternation of sleep and waking, form a
determined by the alternation of sleep and waking, form a separate
others of which we shall treat later. If this lower rhythm is working
breaking through from above downwards, and its main origin is as I
thinking activity is used mainly for the formative processes of the
direct working upon the physical; but the need persists in early
later stage, by the working of warmth. One might say that during the
more dependent on activities working chemically, then passes on to

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as shown among “bleeders.” You will find a striking phenomenon, known
If you analyse the aforesaid facts, you will find a striking concrete
coagulates. For coagulation of the blood is caused by forces working
working throughout, are in fact ubiquitous; and that if certain
Speaking in terms of the planets, it is the co-operation of Mercury,
antimonising forces are those which, working from the outside, so to
take place in working upon the substance introduced from outside. This
in some degree an antidote, restoring the rhythms between the working
regular interplay through rhythm. Indeed the real reason for drinking
especially rubbing with antimonial ointment and simultaneously taking
striking resemblance to the process of awakening from sleep which is
same process that occurs when in awaking dreams still hold their sway;
and tuned down: confined to the moment of waking. Now suppose you wish
awakening to that of full waking consciousness, and makes permanent

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indicate in these chapters: the “thinking together” of the whole human
accustoming the patient to practise walking backwards, as a form of
drinking to perceive his own interior. For his own organism now
of asking the patients how they feel, and where they suffer pain, we
irregular function of the astral body, working through the etheric

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spirit-soul. Soul life of thinking, feeling and willing only a
thinking builds the brain. Lower uses it as reflector. Metabolism
thinking, whose apparent defects are often those of will. Inherited
at the right intervals in speaking, so that either the words fall
thinking, feeling and willing, this means no more than that it has
possible grounds we can have for speaking of the normality or
stage of making pronouncements as to what is clever or reasonable, in
it manifests in thinking, feeling and willing. This soul life that
manifests in thinking, feeling and willing is, however, as we said,
process, a process of breaking down. Substance falls away.
outer world is reflected in it, and this produces the thinking that
functions or activities of thinking: there is first the one which
brain — this one is the permanent element in human thinking;
and then there is the thinking function that is not real in itself
we fall asleep; it subsides as soon as we stop thinking.
the basis of thinking. Whatever we have in us in the way of organs is
this body, he builds up a new body, working from out of his own
must therefore distinguish, when speaking of a child, between the
case how strongly the individuality is working.
organ. In the very young child, however, everything is still working
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Thinking, feeling and willing of the soul are symptoms behind which
stands the thinking which builds the brain synthetically and the
own ether body. This living thinking forms the brain which becomes
saw yesterday, the real life of soul is working. We cannot here enter
significance for you, in view of the tasks that you are undertaking.
think about any knowledge you have gained from looking into some
scientific way of thinking, you will find it full of the forms and
from the manifestations of the life of soul, from thinking, feeling
application — we must observe how thinking is related in its
thinking, feeling and willing as no more than symptoms. We saw that
thinking, as it expresses itself in the superficial soul-life, has
begin with, let us consider thinking, with the synthesizing activity
capable of thinking. One person will have a great wealth of thoughts,
thinking, science makes this very hypothesis; science is just as
Science (and we have been speaking of these now for more than twenty
we have here the symptomatic life of soul — thinking, feeling
nerves-and-senses system. For it is the living thinking that forms
earthly substance, in all its various processes and ways of working.
broken down by the activity of the living thinking, so that here
thinking but with the life in them being perpetually killed all the
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Difficulty of helping adults as compared with children. On waking,
have been speaking of the connection between etheric body, physical
difficulty. I am thinking here of illnesses of a particular kind, and
it is with ego organisation and astral body in the waking state, when
and here the etheric body, then, at the time of awaking, the
first the ego organisation. When, at the moment of awaking, the ego
as a force working in this direction — the direction of the
forces of weight. Now there are two ways of looking at the matter.
equilibrium, and so on. This is one possible way of looking at what
happens: on awaking we lay hold of the physical body with our ego,
so during the whole of waking life. All that we include under the
perceptions of sound, is in reality speaking merely of their external
being has no possibility of making direct connection, by means of
it were, making it impossible for the human being to find contact
time a fit occurs, an inner congestion is taking place at the surface
with them, making Eurythmy movements, or other gymnastic movements,
Watch some old man taking off his hat while he is walking across an
speaking of it later. Today I want only to show you how the things we
have been speaking more fully of the way in which the human being
him; and then we have to discern within this the working of his
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justified in asking the question — we do not formulate it in so
arises there. This causes fits. For what is really taking place, when
the secretion is not strikingly present, you will find that it can
looking at such things they are, of course, bound to bring this
said to be suffering from hysteria. He has difficulty in making
means. He has difficulty in taking hold rightly of the equilibrium
Spiritual Science. When speaking to those who will have to intervene
description can see it taking place in the patient before him. And in
inner anxiety or shrinking, the feeling of tenderness and soreness,
interior of the human being, making its appearance not at all quickly
earth takes place. But in the condition of which we are speaking now,
Working
speaking. And now we are at last rightly equipped for tackling the
combating this other trouble of which I have been speaking today. To
organisation. It manifests as a kind of working

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demonstrate a condition that is strikingly typical.
exact in our thinking, and do our best to grasp the matter as
astral body. But an interplay is always taking place in man's
taking place, all he can do is to describe. And since this is all he
into this beholding of the world — not a thinking about, but a
dense. The child will then be absolutely incapable of sinking his
catching hold of everything, kicking out in all directions with his

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therapeutic methods - taking medicines internally, injections,
namely, of sucking his thumb. Cardboard splints were on this account
which I was speaking yesterday. He is also learning quite quickly to
he's amused! I think Fraulein B. was asking him why he keeps his
therefore here a beginning of what manifests so strikingly in the
nothing else than a working of karma, for it can have no connection
inclination to start working upon the nourishment that does reach it,
metabolism-and-limbs system. The working together of the two systems
age of intellectualism. The thinking, the mental and spiritual
is adapted for making its way into the bony system, but in order to
now you can also see in this boy a striking confirmation of what I
to each single movement they are making with their hands, to see that
barking at the pony, and the pony is going like this with his
must obviously be familiar, making plain to him in this way that we
both are completely lacking in the pedagogy of the present day.
with lessons in painting, working in the way I indicated a little
it that needs our support, our backing, as it were? The nervous
the metabolic system. You reckon, do you not, on the medicine taking
metabolic system and nervous system, by making use of a secretion of
arsenic baths and Curative Eurythmy. With these three working

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speaking to it, talking with it and altogether treating it as a real
astral body is not in good working order. The astral body should by
would not be able to tell, from looking at the boy, how old he is. He
upbuilding processes and breaking-down processes. With the latter are
process of disintegration, a process of breaking down, is taking
to the outside world. Try asking the boy to do something which he
organisation does succeed after a time in breaking through the walls
process is taking place here which it is important to observe.
He has no liking for fruit or vegetables or anything acid, but shows
plants. And we must not omit to note a trait that is strikingly
looking at him. There is however another feature of the case to which
making its way right into the digestive organisation, has a hankering
there are signs that a natural betterment is taking place. We have in
be constantly making things himself. This will bring his limbs into
would be good if along with foods for which he has a liking, the boy
staff of teachers to train actors for speaking on the stage,
with instead of one. For if you should ever succeed in making some
importance to making the course of the lesson lead up gradually to a
while this is taking place, while you are undoing, as it were, the
all will be obtained by making direct attack on the symptoms

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dreams on falling asleep, not on waking. Treatment of these three
whom we shall be speaking later on. He makes very good pictures. He
the size of the head by looking at the little ears which are of
internal tendencies that make for enlargement are working. I am
A striking fact that
of course whatever we can observe for ourselves by simply looking at
the child — and then, working from these, win our way through
does one come upon such a striking resemblance as here stood
this child, the cosmic forces have simply continued their working
the same, extending its working beyond the change of teeth. Or again,
speaking, send its light into all the events and doings that occur in
egoistic in the matter. He is quite capable of making presents to his
things and just where they all were, making a long story of how it
falling asleep or before waking up. Up to now, according to this
But the waking-up dreams must also come under observation. If we can

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His interest is in "discovery". Good and bad mean liking
and disliking. Authority of teacher especially needed. Early
superficial thinking of the present day — that where the Earth
colour-blind. It's no use talking about colours to one who is
taking pains, that lives in the vowel sounds.
now for the other difficult child of whom I was speaking yesterday,
in their working, sharp and spear-like; whereas when the same forces
are distributed as in gneiss, they are mild in their working and
crisis. The child was crying, and blinking, and passing a great deal
taking its inevitable course. For one must, you know, retain the
frightened and disturbed at the turn the illness is taking. In cases
where breaking-down forces should be at work — and is not a
preponderance of upbuilding over breaking-down forces the fundamental
medicinal influence of lead. The knowledge of its beneficial working
the most powerfully working forces of cleavage produce in lead the
muscular system that is involved in walking had not developed
talking to him! A deformity is of course a bit of a shock to a boy of
Altogether, the breaking of some habit or trait of character in a
how in Eurythmy we have to develop an artistic speaking in order for
working of the Genius of Language we elaborate in Eurythmy, so as to
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to intervene with our pedagogical therapy. Taking as our starting
being is in his case lacking. Once, however, he can be brought to
especially taking care to see that the toes and fingers move with
are going on in his limbs, let him watch himself making the
nature of a life-work such as you are undertaking should not allow
children — taking our start, that is, from painting, and
and ether body is precisely what is lacking in a boy of this type.
making too great demand upon the astral body and not allowing it to
cannot be making their appearance for the first time at this somewhat
comparatively speaking, well able to have them. Anthroposophists have
speaking) beneath an accumulation of dust and rubbish.
speaking, people are not able to achieve anything of this kind in the
Taking it as your starting point, you will be able, by meditation, to
meditation; it will be like sinking into a snug, warm nest! No, the
feeling must be continually present in us that we are taking the
connection with the various undertakings that have been begun within
is deformed. We have already been making very careful tests here in
more striking manifestation of a sulphur-aura. Here it has the effect
process working outwards, so that little sulphur islets occur in the
to him; and having first had a good look at each in turn, talking with
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that is, not before puberty. Working on these lines, we must first
the first epoch of life. You can see at once what is lacking; the
need to find something which will have, while working together with
that he is incapable of making the right approach to the external
doing this, there will be clear signs also of a transformation taking
was speaking to you yesterday about the albinos, and I came to
find; and we have here a clear instance of how by looking at what the
takes place within the child iron will be lacking, whereas everything
of teeth is taking place — a time when particularly powerful
we turn our attention to striking facts such as those I have been
influence is working, wherever this complete irregularity is
importance of the task they were undertaking; they felt they were
members. Anyone taking such a path would find himself in danger of
— very early, comparatively speaking, and not without
what has been lacking all along is just the very thing that can
dawn upon Goethe — so I kept asking myself all through the
this kind of thinking that we can ever hope to attain insight into
made a speech in Jena on his sixtieth birthday. He was speaking on
of delivery — speaking slowly, with a good deal of “padding”,
of speaking and yet never made himself quite master of the art.

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related to blossom in plants. Making a map of illness. Old belief
and even the fruit can become deformed, we would be able, by looking
by looking at the matter in this light. Starting therefore from this
influence. Taking first the root, we have there something that works
still believed that the animal kingdom inscribes into Nature all
generally occurs only in the lower animal kingdom. These are
Earth consciousness; the true I can be seen only by looking back into
immediately before taking some decisive step, before doing a deed of
you have the intention of undertaking work with backward children.
we who are in this spiritual movement are constantly thinking: how
for the right working out of your will.

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of a man when he has inhaled a breath of air and is working on it in
of his message was formed, not by looking at the sunlight directly in
the Earth is in a certain way not speaking with the heavens, a time
human evolution by taking part in the right way with our own

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partaking in death in a human body He was enabled immediately after
divine heights and taking on the form of man, He became able actually
by His deed, working out of the heavens into the Earth, set forth the
Wherein then did the spiritual strength of man consist, making him

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or its imperfect way of speaking. As we connect specific
would be if we were to succeed, for example, in making the Michael
spiritual foundations, out of esoteric foundations, in making the
People today are like earthworms, I might say, looking for sunlight
rhythm: a physical-material, a spiritual, a working-in-each-other of
activity and the interworking of primordial trinities. And when we
their souls on what is taking place, but the activity of their own
counting a chance pile of sticks or stones. But the working of number
working, and hence to interweave it also into all human creating and
Christ. This means, taking the risen Christ into one's soul during
If then the time could come when there are actively working

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just in the sensible workings of Nature, as is the case today, but
the ancient times of which we are speaking did not have a full
full ego-consciousness was lacking; and when this is the case, people
of ancient times. We can characterize the human by thinking of it, in
side and the perception of the general mineral kingdom on the other.
speaking out of this later intellectualistic age, says: “I sing
configuration of the animal kingdom, streams back to the Earth on the

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with Nature. His whole thinking took on this character. If we want to
perceptive feeling and was not characterized through thinking —
particular trend of thinking, with his feeling way of perceiving, the
thinking, feeling and perceiving is a man who is
And thus again it will be best to have as the most strongly working
speaking in meaningful cosmic language. The trees are becoming bare;

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very soon realize that, properly speaking, it is not the physical but
will come when a great many people will find themselves asking: “Why
which, lacking the definition imparted by the senses, remain
I am speaking here of a familiar experience of dream-life. It may
groping in a phantasmagoria. But this way of working coarsens and
Mephistopheles — but in this case Mephistopheles is working in his

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hypothetically — delicate nerve-processes, and says: The thinking,
deeper and deeper root into the materialistic thinking of the near
following would be. — Suppose someone walking along a road discovers
man has also been walking on the road and made the other impressions
himself from this anatomical and physiological thinking and work
through to a spiritual-scientific thinking. Then he will feel as an
solve the contradiction of which we were speaking — that the gulfs of
Now the working of Lucifer and Ahriman is not the same in all parts of
Thinking, pure thought as such, is very little disturbed by Lucifer
generally speaking, alike. We have, however, already seen that this is
and backward orientation, looking before and behind. Instead of
where the effects of their working are thrown together in confusion.
working. We are beings of surface between left and right because the
working out of their creative thoughts and purposes, took as it were
find the plane by taking the skeleton and removing from it the skull.
working from without. It receives its distinctive character from
with the true cosmic working in the world. I mean our building here in
external and spatial. And in these aspects too, where the workings of
the human soul are concerned — if not in so striking a way as in the
all the activity of the soul, Lucifer and Ahriman are working one upon

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working outside the realm where they belong. We spoke on this subject at some
of Willing, Feeling and Thinking.
not of course see this willing, feeling and thinking. Only in its
movement, is continually giving expression to man's thinking, feeling
feeling as the most important force in man. But as to how thinking,
inability to form a correct idea of the relationship between thinking,
more the character of willing or feeling or thinking. It is exactly as
But by taking all three ages together we acquire a knowledge of
“man.” It is the same with willing, feeling and thinking. The
thinking, but willing is still a child. When it grows a little older,
it becomes feeling, and when it is quite old it is thinking. The
quite old willing (i.e., thinking). The different ages are in that
of making the will young. When the activity of our soul is streamed
soul-activity, he hardens it, it becomes old, and thinking is the
result. Thinking, the having and holding of thoughts, is quite
thinking. In between stands a region where Lucifer and Ahriman are in
expression of thinking; when the Luciferic forces are in ascendance,
us imagine, to take a simple case, that a man is walking along a road.
When he is walking along a road in the daytime with his ordinary
walking along a path by night. When we walk along a path by night, it
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breathe: that is also a way of taking in nourishment. You take oxygen
can see, since long, long ago there could have been no human kingdom
or animal kingdom alive on the earth unless plants had had a very
different character from those kingdoms. Plants do not take in oxygen:
Worms find no lodging in a human body if the head forces are working
then they become quite especially strong through the process of making
cooking it for them first! But human beings have come of themselves to
cooking the grains. And now, gentlemen, what happens when we cook the
do there with the seeds, grinding them, making them fine, I'd
doing those things, I relieve my body. And the same with the baking
itself: all the things I do in cooking, I save my body from doing. I
potatoes undergo a preparatory stage through cooking or some other
into the head. So you see, by cooking our foods, especially those that
late summer and autumn, when the sun forces are no longer working so
only their forces proceed to work, cooking is not so necessary. That's
we've planted, all those leaves that we eat without cooking because
into the body, making the work of nutrition easier.
state. And the assistant was shaking in his boots as he said timidly:

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what substances are in the manure and then taking them out of the
mineral kingdom: mineral fertilizer!
fields was really better. It's no use thinking that one can make
But if something is lacking in the diet steadily for weeks, then the
and he is in fine health. He is not so keen on thinking as on
our time, just to bring the newspapers out! All that thinking, it is
talking of the tendency to have it — your hay fever is a kind of
habit of thinking was good for us. Later, as it happens in life, we
should give him the things for which he shows an instinctive liking.
You see, if a child is watching all the time and thinking, when will
Father or Mother not be looking, so that I can take that sugar: then
article. But if you're a diplomat you can be talking about night clubs
at the same time that you're talking about the economy of country X,
— while there sits the journalist in the coffee shop, drinking one cup
food or drink can have on our whole thinking process. It is so, of

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Anthroposophical Society. And in this context may I begin by speaking
these paths on which human beings are seeking to realize themselves;
consist of working together with the beings of the higher
possessed of a homeless soul, became acquainted with a way of looking
group. And those who were not considered worthy of talking to about
and similar books by a group of people who were undeniably hard-working.
thinking in the spiritual world this was simply impossible.
quite what he was looking for: it was something or other in the

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were looking for at the start of our century as anthroposophy was
order to understand their thinking. After all, they gave expression
walking around in flesh and blood. The naive impressions of
talking in a language not of centuries, but of millennia past.
speaking theosophy. But Hegel, when in Zimmermann's view he allowed
possess something which is eternal. Zimmermann was seeking an answer
God in human beings who is thinking, but human beings themselves,
of course to everyone who subscribed to modern thinking at that time,
Now, by taking the biological theory of evolution seriously, it is
continuing their discussion and talking about theosophy I was
Boehme's thinking and extracting from it something which immediately
certain sense, taking into account differing national
they thought, making members of the first, second, third grades and

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Such things have to be taken into account when taking full stock
attacking us.
ignite, in a manner of speaking, in these female brains through the

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all thinking, their whole inner orientation, is directed toward this
talking about start to experience a vague feeling within themselves
give them anything for their soul life. A secret thinking, feeling
And now those souls are being born who can feel working within
room in which beer glasses were clinking in the background. And once
straddling the ages as human beings, making them stronger than the
could only be met by making it clear to them that the most profound

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Mysteries enjoyed in ancient times had disappeared, taking with it
follows. Let me begin by talking about Nietzsche, whose father was a
to what present-day traditional thinking and the modern faiths were
began by seeking a way into the Theosophical Society.
and making the right choices.
was present right from the beginning and was striking in its
making him the vehicle for the resurrection of Christ. There is

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to London and slowly began to feed, in a manner of speaking, on
to overcome. Many people were working towards something, but it was
the former to defend itself against modern scientific thinking during
fact that a critical assessment of modern scientific thinking took
theosophical subject matter by means of natural-scientific thinking.
A special version of this way of thinking was evident in the
authority of so-called natural-scientific thinking exerted its
valid way of thinking than the natural-scientific one. So there was
it began to grow at a very fast pace, relatively speaking, and we

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Now we are talking in the first instance about the start and the
he is engaged in organizing certain singular commercial undertakings
anything in speaking about or working on this material other than
Working from the centre like this, which was, of course,
were present here and working together; it must be emphasized that
In talking about these things in an objective manner, I do not
and were looking for something to fertilize their endeavours.
Researchers were no longer looking for atomic structures, as they had
movement if it can find a way of working purely from anthroposophical
thinking is carried unconsciously into the anthroposophical movement
not what they were seeking. For something happened which turned out
and in the book, without seeking links with any particular party
that has been put into practice so far has not succeeded in making

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working with these ideas it becomes evident that they take hold of
the physical world in a spiritual way. By making use of Goethe's
latter was achieved in ancient times by looking outward and seeing
his response to the direction in which modern thinking was
Napoleon could not understand how God was to be found by looking at
thinking had to be demonstrated and corrected by returning to his
Haeckel's thinking had pursued the approach of natural science to the
only emerged in the third stage, when people working in the
he has learnt. But a whole group of spiritual beings are working
way seeking the spiritual connections. The modern scientist says:
become mechanistically thinking Europeans, but spiritually thinking
endeavours to introduce anthroposophical working methods into all
to reflect on this issue to the extent of asking whether each
talking about in these lectures. What I certainly do not mean is that
we can achieve a great deal by making use of the sources of

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color and tone, and working with sculptural architecture.
rumbling and braking going on in the wheels and the engine of
notice on waking up that when the ego returns with the astral
machinery right up to the moment of waking.
into your waking consciousness, you will notice how little it
making a general allusion, of course, let alone a particular
can stand any amount of hammering and knocking and are still
right through the hammering and knocking of the ahrimanic
waking life of day, we are only conscious of our will life to
our waking day, too, we are involved in all that modern life
are speaking of the time which began with the fifth
hear people speaking like this. However if we speak like this
we are speaking Ahriman's language for this is using the
by looking quite superficially at what happens when we
of taking what we have extracted from nature and putting it
it like if we look below the surface? Looking at it from
him into his waking life all that he has experienced outside
not just a matter of taking in what spiritual science says
capable of speaking to the human soul forces that are asleep
person who is speaking out of the spirit of spiritual
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color and tone, and working with sculptural architecture.
considerations I shall be speaking to you about the important
acquisition of the upright posture is only the most striking
want to point out that the making of any movement involves a
than that required by a watch-maker in making a watch.
nothing but lie on the earth immobile, making concepts in
in our way of looking at things, that the etheric body is
attached to the physical body. Looking once more at any work
taking nothing of the etheric body, nothing of the astral
ego, taking with us what as yet can only be dimly felt of the
the human being has in turn seven members. So taking into
pointed out that properly speaking we do not sleep by night
At night it is principally the thinking and feeling parts
that in which we live when asleep dives down into our waking

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color and tone, and working with sculptural architecture.
must appear to our present way of looking at things as
everyday waking consciousness man does not know the origin of
divine will, working in the cosmos itself.
essentially a process of life taking its course in tones,
mankind. It is almost, one feels, lacking in modesty to say
Spiritual science must live in the soul, taking hold of all
science, taking in this case the last chapter of
this image will then be invisible inside us, thus making us
ourselves. And the more we succeed in making clear to

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color and tone, and working with sculptural architecture.
being in the world order equipped with thinking, feeling and
are also beings above the human stage of thinking, feeling
contain the most profound wisdom. Fundamentally speaking we
souls during the years we have been working with spiritual
feeling that infinite wisdom is speaking to us there and how,
it, feeling its influence, perceiving it and thinking about
order that the change we have been speaking of can come about
by looking at the realm where we find fraternity in its most
seriously it is not a question of abstractions but of looking
soul has been thinking materialistically and founding a

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color and tone, and working with sculptural architecture.
taking-in-hand of the evolutionary factors of our own soul,
making a point of always using our experiences for the
purpose of learning something from them and making progress
kind of devotion for things we were talking about yesterday
bring about in us, then to follow this with thinking about
macrocosm is speaking to us over these days in the most
that we are looking at a surface shining all over with the
impulse to change, an impulse which is breaking in upon

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color and tone, and working with sculptural architecture.
WORKING WITH SCULPTURAL ARCHITECTURE I
taking place in the rays of light so that the glow of dawn
of the living feeling we can have in looking at the sunrise
fellow human being speaking to us. But we have to learn that
with them, you will discover that we were making the attempt
grown-up? Fundamentally speaking, the materialistic age sees
musical-sculptural elements I have just been speaking about.
their way of saying that when a person has been working in an
science, by taking it down in a notebook; anthroposophy must
to consist of thinking that what you are doing and the people

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color and tone, and working with sculptural architecture.
is that is bound up with the whole way of modern thinking,
or harmful he will usually start off by asking, ‘Is
you see this even better in horses, but we are not speaking
moral action by telling us that we are working against the
without heads, as it were. Instead of taking up the basis for
of the physical body, and we concentrate the kind of thinking
blow of destiny, you are making yourself stronger, more
But now, right at the beginning, we must get used to taking
to see that the principle of taking things quite exactly,
would have been talking nonsense. Yet this is one of the

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color and tone, and working with sculptural architecture.
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apart at the seams. Picking it up and looking at the form of
insignificant-looking part on this side (north portal of the
up, it would have to be done by a force working from inside,
your formative artistic thinking and contract and expand
possibly the rather hideous-looking asparagus plant. But that
really making the inner essence the principle according to
would have to do a lot of talking if I were to go into all
For it will be possible to go a long way with form-making in
start with something we all know, namely, that during waking
during the past few days that, awake as he is between waking
But in waking life man only dreams with regard to how the
up a piece of chalk and make a mental image of picking it up,
about the actual will with ordinary waking consciousness, and
waking life a major part of our will activity is carried out
in waking day sleep.
circulation. That is, if you could follow the picking up of a
nerves — and, in the case of thinking, the nerve
on making its appearance. It does not need to be acquired
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That corpse that we were looking at is, in fact, after a
different. Originally there was a living, thinking, cosmic body-a
living, thinking, cosmic body!

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needs firm ground for walking. You can imagine that these creatures
swimming-fins — and what one needs for walking — feet.
firm ground, that is, for walking or crawling, have their bones set
walking, or swimming.
But at that time there was neither walking nor swimming,
half-swimming, half-walking.
gliding creatures (for they were not really walking and not really
breathing and half for taking in nourishment. What existed in the air
time, these structures served for taking in nourishment, that is, the
the dead mineral kingdom. But with this came also the possibility for
the present earth together with the mineral kingdom. And now all
mineral kingdom, but it is as if our mineral kingdom had become
means, he is taking in oxygen. Below, the oxygen unites with carbon
working of the silicic acid that was present everywhere. Since,
things in the way we have been looking.

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by making these cuttings we come into the depths of the earth. That
of a wild horse. Then he says: Well, now I'm walking on a stratum
in one place they see some funny little things looking like
would experience in his old age that he was walking on ground a
usually sees. Yet, comparatively speaking, all that happens is that
overturnings that are taking place in the egg cell are the same as
the same unprejudiced thinking as we do here, they would also come to

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than an hour, but while walking from Ravenna to the sea one finds
England, Scotland and Ireland, looking at the layers themselves one
people of that time did their thinking not with a solid brain, but a
quite certain that the eagle will not be making a statue of an owl!
civilization in only a sort of dense air, they had joy in making

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their kingdom was organized so as to be an image of the heavens. It
the citizen of a kingdom. He had no creed to profess; he simply felt
himself to be a member of a kingdom. Originally the Chinese had no
essential nature of their kingdom and its institutions. Their
it was a kingdom, it partook of the nature of a family.
All this was only possible for men whose thinking had as
yet no resemblance to that of later humanity. The thinking of the
related to the whole manner of Chinese thinking and feeling. Indeed,
intercourse among families in this old kingdom. They were not
recites the words to start the broom working. The broom gets really
Indians used to draw and paint. The Chinese, looking at a man,
painted him simply by entering into him with their thinking —
Europeans, who are not given to making fine distinctions, speak of a
paltry thinking; we are slightly aware of our feeling but almost not

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Think how you breathe: that is also a way of taking in
could have been no human kingdom or animal kingdom alive on the earth
unless plants had had a very different character from those kingdoms.
body if the head forces are working down strongly into the
through the process of making starch and sugar.
had to depend upon someone cooking it for them first! But human
beings have come of themselves to cooking the grains. And now,
see, what I do there with the seeds, grinding them, making them fine,
baking itself: all the things I do in cooking, I save my body from
through cooking or some other means, then the stomach does not have
cooking our foods, especially those that are counted among the
longer working so strongly, the stem can mature. But the leaf needs
in the intestines and only their forces proceed to work, cooking is
cooking because they are easily digested in the intestines —
give me my fat.” For animal fat goes over into the body, making
was shaking in his boots as he said timidly: “Sir –

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finding out what substances are in the manure and then taking them
out of the mineral kingdom: mineral fertilizer!
came out of the fields was really better. It's no use thinking that
missing some essential element. But if something is lacking in the
not so keen on thinking as on breathing, perhaps; but he can endure
thinking, it is much too much, it is not at all necessary-and we have
have hay fever, it's much better to have it cured: but we are talking
were in the habit of thinking was good for us. Later, as it happens
an instinctive liking. Naturally, if a fondness for something
thinking, when will Father or Mother not be looking, so that I can
But if you're a diplomat you can be talking about night clubs at the
same time that you're talking about the economy of country X, then
in the coffee shop, drinking one cup of coffee after another. You can
whole thinking process. It is so, of course, not just with those two

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this perfection — some talking of paradise, some of other
But, gentlemen, this is making far too simple a picture
that it was not they who were speaking but the spirit speaking
asking for the shirttails belonging to her husband. He would bury
thinking of the dead they tried to make themselves better.
earth, then they would surely remember him. By thinking of the dead
with the human being: his spirit in the beginning, though lacking
So you see, gentlemen, we are not justified in thinking
sometimes it shows the trend of people's thinking in a remarkable
small child, really a baby — and as its nurse, taking care of
of thinking. Hence, when anyone today who prides himself particularly
on his thinking comes across ancient documents, he looks for them to
Middle Ages did someone discover the possibility of making paper from
that was needed for making this paper.
what the wasps use for making their nests. The wasps found out how to
incapable of making anything if imagination had not enabled them to
them in human form in books: Wotan with a flowing beard; Loki looking
Indeed, in various ways the people were always talking
most beneficial. That is the intellectual way of talking. But if you
people, who were not yet thinking for themselves, could attribute the
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way that will lead to what you have in mind. You have been thinking,
have you not, of different kingdoms of nature: plants, animals, human
nature. For instance, in a place where people are drinking wine,
to be in a room where others are drinking wine or in a place where
fluid, and gaseous — one fact is particularly striking. Water
thinking. The dog could write a book called “The World as Will
foul odor. Suppose you are walking through an avenue of horse
rest of it has been transformed into an instrument of thinking and
of thinking. When a human being is born, his brain has to acquire
talking about the other day, namely, that many people, owing to an
more of the sensory brain would become thinking brain, so that

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still without bones. I described this to you when I was speaking of
by asking about the colors of stones.
mineral kingdom is from the plant kingdom. If the sun did not move

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one is looking for the reasons for abnormal weather. For naturally
and sinking. If you go up a mountain which need by no means be very
miles from the earth and is not, properly speaking, illuminated by
transit of Venus is seen to be taking place. (As you know, eclipses
field and makes thinking more mobile.
It is not simply a matter of taking botany in the summer because the plants
that is in yourself. The force I'm speaking of lies in your
sugar in the coffee. But I am speaking quite hypothetically because,
of which you are speaking. It is more probable that it is a

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you're out walking and you meet an acquaintance and take him along
it, making these tetrahedrons, cubes, octahedrons, icosahedrons,
independently thinking person? And yet it is slightly ridiculous to
modern times, in the 19th century. Thinking independently: that is
freethinker is one who is free from thinking! Well, in science one

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general. I think he means its significance also for the working
nourishment. Why is that? It is because something is working in the
can investigate the excellent results of natural science by taking
striking the earth in such a way that all the seas would surge from
been speaking is not the only one that was merciful enough to split
Instead of colliding with the earth and breaking people's heads it is
are dreadfully fatalistic, thinking that everything in the world will
requires genuinely scientific thinking — which was nowhere to
a man is working, he uses up inner forces. The forces are given up to
that those who had been working all day were much less fatigued than

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be rightly understood and answered only by looking back at the whole
be doing. So one must say: Something is quite obviously lacking. And
from the view of spiritual science, the thing lacking is knowledge of
think if the forces of thinking did not come from Saturn. But all
after series of calculations. Capital, working hours, wages, are
will. We perceive that the human being wills. But speaking generally
body. But that kind of thinking does not hold water if one really
it is absolutely incorrect to say that when a man is thinking,
something is always being destroyed, demolished, when he is thinking.
small scale is perpetually taking place there.
entire body when a man dies is also taking place throughout the body
So now we must ask ourselves: Does thinking originate
too tumultuous, a man loses consciousness. Thinking is not the result
So the fact is that thinking does not come from our
That is why we have to sleep, because we don't do any thinking then.
What is continually being demolished through our thinking is quickly
restored in sleep. So waking and sleeping show us that while we are
thinking, death is always taking place in the body on a small scale.
working within the body.
years. Taking this period to be one cosmic day, we would again have
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about whom I shall be speaking presently — these Chinese and
constituted a cult. In what might be called their kingdom, everything
later — a man became the citizen of a kingdom. He did not
kingdom. Originally the Chinese had no gods of any kind; when later
of their kingdom and its institutions. Hence these institutions had a
kingdom, it partook as a whole of the nature of a family.
for men whose thinking has no resemblance to that of later comers;
and the thinking of the Chinese at that time did not at all resemble
be adopted by us. So you must not think I am looking for another
thinking and feeling. Indeed the Chinese, and the Japanese of more
and the Chinese do not learn by looking at objects from the outside,
so in modern China. I am speaking of the regions where the Chinese
been gunpowder before. Berthold Schwarz, when making alchemistic
intercourse in this old kingdom. They were not conscious of inventing
words to start the broom working. The broom gets down to the business
paint. The Chinese, looking at a man, painted him simply by entering
into him with their own thinking — without light, shade, or
given to making fine distinctions, speak of the Chinese having a
be upright men when walking on our feet. This was discouraged for
we are conscious of our paltry thinking, learn something of our

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this, as you know, even looking superficially at the matter, there
interpreted this perfection — some talking of Paradise, others
way people are making far too simple a picture of man's evolution. To
that it was not they who were speaking but the spirit speaking
Empress asking for a piece of shirt belonging to her husband. It
the dead they thought of what was good, and by thinking of the dead
remember the sick man. By thinking of the dead, they would remember
human being whose spirit to begin with, though still lacking freedom,
justified in thinking that human beings were originally like the
it shows the trend of man's thinking. During our recent travels in
and its nurse, looking after it, an ape, an orang-utan. It was
really succeed in making apes look after children, we shall be
not capable of thinking. Hence, when anyone today who prides himself
particularly on his thinking comes across ancient documents, he
discover the possibility of making paper from fibre coming from
needed for making this paper. But the same thing — except that
making nests. The wasps found out how to make paper thousands of
incapable of making anything had not imagination enabled them to do
spirit, the spirit was working in them. It was not they who possessed
books, Wotan with a flowing beard, Loki looking like a devil, with
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asking his question the gentleman in the audience, as an expert
say that the life of the bees must be studied by making use of the soul.

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speaking.
very small quantities in which, relatively speaking, it is
the period of time during which the Sun, approximately speaking,
here. If this were to continue, only such Sun-workings would be there
working to the full, has remained, so to speak, entirely under the influence
external working of the Sun. But now the new Queen is born from out
become more numerous. In Nature, every need calls forth the working
Speaking
well to be aware of the fact that by working mechanically we destroy what

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moment this powerful chemical working occurred. This is why the ants
we could not have the right working in our bodies of the albumen we
develops a little prussic acid in the working of his muscles. This
I say, that generally speaking, twilight surrounds the bees. But when the
they get hold of something they don't stop their thinking, but
and they will go on working quietly. That does not mean that one
brought about by the light, but by the chemical working of the light.
the light in, suddenly making it light everywhere, this affects the bee
restless. They are thrown into these chemical workings of the light
great a part in waking life, whereas the sense of smell for example,
by sight, but much with their sense of smell. In the animal kingdom
animal kingdom, one must not look for such conscious senses as those of man,

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Money comes from the money-making force. Nothing is explained in this
saying that money comes from the money-making-force was a queer
working of honey on the human organism.”
also needs this hexagonally-working force. If one only mixes together
hexagonally-working force were a little stronger in milk, one could
powerfully-working hexagonal force that honey contains.
from the plant kingdom — indirectly through the bee. But it comes
the stomach you hinder the working of the acids. Thus, briefly put,
this is well-known, and one should really insist on making these things
of Herr von Osten, and be looking at him, observing his face so that
plant kingdom, for when the rays of the Sun come from the direction
full force of the Ram is working; by the end of the month the Sun is

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bee-master is primarily concerned with making a profit: it is the
only working on a small scale, and did not sell his honey. Erbsmehl is
one does not reckon on making a profit out of it, as with other
which the bee-keeper spends in working are noted down quite exactly in a
I found a hornets' nest in my bee-house. I was taking away the brood.
them. The working or nonworking of the remedy, so to speak, can
bee-keeping is entirely a matter of making it profitable).
take profit-making into account. He is simply driven to it by
circumstances. Today there are bee-keepers who as working men,
substances. But this making of colours from various plant-substances
a way that a painter working in sunlight could not have done at all. In

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arranged according to the workings of the gastric juice and the
already working in the direction of the special cultivation of
honey-making process of the bees. It is something so really wonderful
the wild figs. This is the method of improving the figs, of making
honey-making takes place. The bee is therefore a creature that
this whole wax and honey-making process is driven up into the figs,

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him, wake him up, rouse him out of his faintness by making him
generally speaking, a man will have quite a good sound heart if he
gout and rheumatism are lurking everywhere. Under these conditions, a
so many stings, was it after you had been working many years with bees?
is fed artificially. If anyone likes taking sugar with honey he can add
these attachments the wasp goes on working, mixing these substances
of houses, and behind them the cow-sheds where the milking cows are;

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their modes of life are totally different. Taking our starting point
again, one cannot get very far by speaking of mere instinct, for you
entirely different. When one is looking at some flower, and an insect,
let us say a bee, is sucking the juices of the flower, or from the willow
would have a picture of the plant kingdom of that time.
where the bee sucks. While the bee is taking something from the
speaking, the flowers sicken through the life-substances, and the little

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speaking of an especially interesting chapter of natural science, of the
if you knew how much, (of course, comparatively speaking,) how much formic
Looking at the
which I have been speaking to you, a knowledge completely lost to

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have, by preference, interest for talking in general
perhaps not working under conditions in which interest is
already present, but is working to awaken interest by the
soul-forces live, as you know, in thinking, feeling and
feeling and willing always active in our thinking, likewise
in our feeling, thinking and willing, and again in willing,
thinking and feeling.
thinking, and on the other to willing. And so, in the sense
with the workings of various instincts: The thinking which
people, a gossip session or the like. For I am not speaking
speaking of what should fill our souls, of what should live
speaking of the guiding line one needs to set one's self: Our
activity of looking at the letters, putting them together and
thinking about them, we draw forth a meaning. That is a
the rules for speaking with feeling, one will notice that his
reality to do neither with thinking nor with the will, but
listener, especially during the lecture. Working to rouse
sympathy and antipathy has the effect of making it seem that
art of lecturing. And it is chiefly a matter of taking in
start from an example, let us first take the teacher speaking
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For if there is to be speaking about Anthroposophy which is
appropriate, then this speaking must be entirely different
traditions of speaking. One has often fallen into the habit
of speaking also about anthroposophical matters in the way
one has become used to speaking in the age of materialism;
to do with the concept of the threefold order. Our speaking
unconsciously, to approach speaking about things as if they
speak in the same sense of making the threefold social
lecturing which is truly taking on new forms.
expression when one still learned speaking from the
speaking in the times when elocution had to be taken
on the special element in regard to speaking which was
speaking resulted, and language with its whole organization.
thinking.
transpired that the human being when speaking to others about
old way of speaking. There was beautiful speaking. And
speaking beautifully is definitely a gift which comes to man
from the Orient. It might be said: There was speaking
the singing of language, as the ideal of speaking. Preaching
is only a form of beautiful speaking stripped of much of the
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speaking. The first is to convert to one's own use the
working-class people — in turn with all possible
one sets about speaking. One ought already to transpose
social organism within the working-class population, —
for decades from the fomenting behavior of the working-
out of the experiences of the feelings of the working class.
working class, Franz Mehring,
Lessing's manner of working or style of writing —
working-class held the view that everything pertaining to the
concepts exist within the working-class, and the central concept that
Thinking these matters
continuing also through the war. The working-class therefore does
especially deeply into people's manner of thinking, although
didn't waste much time thinking about these matters. A poet in
working-class. He paid no heed to it. But the laborer did;
wage of three francs for the Proletarian working capacity, with the
matters. But these concepts arose from the working-class and in this
audience of working-class people and those of the middle-class, he
attention to the fact that the working-class could not help but
when he had cut off something with his scissors, would say, taking
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part it will be a matter of making it even comprehensible to
seemingly completely political, just as Swiss thinking is seemingly
ladies' working against a certain relatively harmless attitude
an effort. After working so hard in our professional life, who wants
processes of thinking, such consistent sequences of thoughts, which
realize that he is speaking to an audience that, according to the
about the relationship of speaking and the economic elements.
become a good speaker if he enjoys speaking, likes to hear himself
to speaking himself.
speakers. But one's own speaking must by no means be included among
speaker. A certain fluency is acquired by speaking but this has to
acquires a strong feeling of distaste for one's own speaking. And
speaking in the spirit of the aims of this speech-course if I would
not to be in love with one's own way of thinking and feeling.
back at the archer. In a debate it is a matter of picking up the
that theoretical, pedantic speaking affects the digestion, one can
continuous fun-making. The jokes of yesterday are not yet digested
dimension of speaking fits into the world of actions. The most untrue
expression concerning speaking, born of a false sentimentality that

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sense, a speech taking its course only in inward thoughts;
other person's position with our thinking. For instance, we
sozialen Frage (the threefold social order). By making it
evident that on one hand we are speaking from the other
So it is dramatic speaking, very strongly modulated, dramatic
that is the manner we should employ in speaking about the
facility of speaking freely, a speaking that only contains
should make the speech-organs pliable and adroit; but making
speaking. In the seminar courses that I held over two years
sounds? — then one makes oneself independent of speaking
pliable and fit for public speaking.
speaking of the sounds. I have tried to give an example of
speaking and singing, but actually, all of those are no good,
speaking. This implies that one should learn to speak in such
should only learn breathing during speech — in speaking
into the sounds, into the mode of speaking, the how
walking across a field. The content does not matter.
the speaking of one version you will not be confused by the
of mind in speaking, the following two examples can be placed
position, in speaking, to slap somebody down in a discussion
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aspect of speaking is, in general, something that must be
understanding through strenuous thinking, the more he must
For example, take the speaker who, in seeking the right word
speaking, it is also most important for listening. If the
the listener is somewhat shaken by it. Every relative sinking
with the formal aspect of speaking, you could learn a great
image. I must continually refer to a striking Jesuit speech I
namely, sheer logic. Logic is for thought, not for speaking;
was really talking about. I have gone all around asking what
this I have always found the following to be a striking
image: He who was later to become Prussian King Friedrich
father, King Friedrich Wilhelm III, had a minister who was
resignation after the ball. The King called him and said:
— The King said: Indeed, what is the riddle's solution?
the speaking that is heard. The rest is much more merely an
working days. How grateful we should be to the government for
taking such good care of our children!

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historian, by the element of imagination working in the condensation
the voice of objective truth, not that of subjective feeling, is speaking.
The mode of thinking and outlook of men underwent a metamorphosis. People
thinking of the day. He was also deeply concerned with the social problem.
thinking that has already been adopted by natural science, is employed
evidences of the kind of thinking that is current in the modern age.
that this kind of thinking was evitable because of the overwhelming
with the industrialist mode of thinking that had come to the fore in
Saint-Simon are born of the scientific mode of thinking which had become
It is a mode of thinking which directs all inner activity in man to
seeking for a reconciliation of these two opposing principles, find
fact that human thinking, in spite of every effort, is incapable along
of the eighteenth century, wrote his striking work on the Pope and also
man who is also a typical representative of modern thinking came strongly
of a thought is one thing and the mode of thinking another,
society directed by positive thinking, that is to say, by thought based
the essentially Catholic, reactionary thought of de Maistre is working
industrial thinking, the way in which the problems of industrial life
of scientific and economic thinking Herbert Spencer evolves a kind of
speaking quite generally this trust in the spirit was simply non-existent.
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had animated Greece and still animated Rome was not won through thinking,
question of admitting into the Kingdom of God which has objective
but through the ritual working suggestively upon them; however, these
always associated with places), when they describe their half-waking,
Gospel. But then we see that it is primarily into social thinking that
towns. That life of picture-like waking dreams which I have described
larger towns, in these towns another kind of thinking began to develop.
already began to develop the kind of thinking which was gradually directed
still other streams entered into what was taking place at that time.
above as the inner experience of the riddle, told in waking dreams,
of thought, Romanism lived on. But in the popular stream thinking
interpretation of natural phenomena, active thinking was born. And this
called logical formulae. That now becomes inward human thinking. Now one
of natural law was the achievement of a thinking that was empty of all
conquering the external world, but thought itself is making no
scientific knowledge, because their thinking has become void of content
super-sensible. But because this empty thinking had no content, it could
“This thinking of ours is all right for the external world, but it
of thinking, was born. The foundation of thought was laid. And now we
to what is taking place in the world around one politically and socially
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circles that social renewal must begin with a renewal of our thinking.
distinct when speaking in this way. One does not ask: whence shall come
working in fields other than the sciences believe that natural science
modern thought? It was the conceptions, the new mode of thinking that had
and how others have been influenced in their thinking by those circles?
all of man's thinking, all of his notional activity, was determined
mode of thinking, had set a limit to knowledge at the super-sensible,
that when contemplating nature we are forced, in thinking systematically,
so impotent in our thinking about social questions. Many today still
through the interaction of the senses and thinking with the outer world.
within that dull and dreamy consciousness or by looking back into the
with a waking soul. We need all this in order to remain human in the
time most desiccated and lifeless thinking: the concept of matter. And
of man in my thinking, in my explanations, in my comprehension.

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from modern scientific theories that can become a vital social thinking
any sense for the source of the mode of thinking that had entered into
could see that this mode of thinking had originated with Hegel and flowed
find that the Hegelian mode of thinking had permeated to the farthest
thought-forms. Hegel raised humanity into ethereal heights of thinking,
how can we find a mode of thinking that can be useful in social life?
clarity: one feels that, applied to social thinking, this clarity makes
can we achieve the clear conceptual thinking we need to become fully
thinking and perspicuity of mental representation can be won by man
thinking becomes useless the moment we strive scientifically for something
behind it atoms and the like I cannot bring my lucid thinking to a halt
to doubt when I notice that my thinking has only been borne along by
this web one has woven in a world created by the inertia of thinking
this law of inertia. He did not want to roll onward thus with his thinking
was actually seeking to do? Goethe wanted to find simple phenomena within
phenomena and if we strive with our thinking to come to a halt there
this very day philosophical thinking has failed in the most extraordinary

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of our knowledge through phenomenalism, through working purely with
If we are able by means of energetic thinking to differentiate sharply
in this way and then, taking the strict methodology, the scientific
entirely superficially what can be seen by looking empirically at this
anticipate this later discussion only by remarking that this sense of
perception. Also when we walk: we are conscious that we are walking
And a third inward-looking
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lead down into the depths of consciousness itself, about thinking elaborated
thought about thinking. One must understand what Goethe meant by this,
for one cannot actually think about thinking. One cannot actually think
thinking any more than one can “iron” iron or “wood”
the paths that are opened up in thinking when it becomes more and more
of mathematical thinking. If one does this, one enters via a natural
of Freedom. What one attains in this way is not a thinking about thinking.
One can speak of thinking about thinking in a metaphorical sense at
actual viewing [Anschauen] of thinking, but to arrive at this
“viewing of thinking,” it is necessary first to have acquired
a concrete notion of the nature of sense-free thinking. One must have
progressed so far in the inner work of thinking that one attains a state
of consciousness in which one recognizes one's thinking to be sense-free
merely by grasping that thinking, by “viewing” it as such.
first to make thinking sense-free and then to present this thinking
thinking as a simple fact, yet nevertheless a fact capable of rigorous
“sense-free thinking” has no basis in any kind of reality.
thinking, in the presence of which one realizes: you are now living in
reveals itself in its inner activity as a reality. Of this thinking
insubstantial metaphysics, which arises only when we allow our thinking
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boundary of the material world one must not allow one's thinking to
roll on with its own inertia, attempting to carry the kind of thinking
for the manner in which modern scientific thinking proceeds. They experience
knows that throughout the entire night, from falling asleep until waking,
falling asleep and waking. Everyone who returns from the theater actually
striving for education, seeking within modern science — and this
develop a thinking that can grasp the realities of social life. Similar

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consideration of what reveals itself at one boundary of scientific thinking
against those arising only in the soul — by seeking to comprehend
of speech, thinking, and so forth, an especially important element in
can only in mathematical, geometrical, analytic-mechanical thinking. When
It is this symbolism, this allegorization, this thinking about external
By taking this faculty
thinking into pictorial thinking. Then there arises what I can only
call an experiential thinking [erlebendes Denken]. One experiences
pictorial thinking. Why does one experience this? One experiences nothing
this place to all the corners of the earth, taking with them such ideas
and social impulses as really can buoy up an age so rapidly sinking

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perception, thinking, feeling, and willing in a way different from their
guides us in speaking — for this is also called a sense —
but not any outward authority — fundamentally speaking, what we
— have had recourse when seeking cures for patients suffering from
speaking here among adults — he washed himself with his own urine,
with pure thinking, with clear, keen thinking, so that finally one has
thinking of which I have become capable. One can experience just this
This book is actually a modest attempt to win through to pure thinking,
the pure thinking in which the ego can live and maintain a firm footing.
Then, when pure thinking has been grasped in this way, one can strive
for something else. This thinking, left in the power of an ego that
“attacking”
content remains, so to speak, hovering above. We exclude thinking inasmuch
a result of a kind of detour around thinking. We steep ourselves in
research concerning human physiology, thinking must be excluded and
a path of ascent and not of decline. Generally speaking, however, it
in speaking it is more possible to turn language this way and that and
of pure thinking he has attained. If one descends into the body with

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linking him with his fellow men. He chose a path different from that
engage his thinking activity on every page.
through this book with his own inner thinking activity and cannot confess
of one's usual thinking [Vorstellen] into a thinking independent
of the inner thought activity I myself have expended, what pure thinking
the view that pure thinking does not exist but is bound to contain traces,
philosophy is often pursued by people totally lacking any knowledge
of mathematical thinking. The pursuit of philosophy is actually impossible
without a grasp of at least the spirit of mathematical thinking. We
thinking, even though he made no claim himself to any special training
a reader who simply sets about working through
without thinking about them but still perceiving them. In ordinary waking
with concepts; in scientific thinking we interweave percepts and concepts
By having acquired the capacity for the kind of thinking that gradually
thinking from the process of perception and surrender oneself to bare
language, looking through thoughts, and feeling our way right through
for their descriptions, but they are speaking only of how one can touch,
gratifies a refined, inward-looking egotism of soul. As I say, much
touched before breaking through into the actual inner realm. Truth is
part, our thinking regarding
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are looking at siliceous earth. We call it a substance. But
process taking place in the entire universe. This process
the human head, we are looking at the member of the human
forces are working into the human being. In the forces we
processes taking place outside in the universe. Look outside
kingdom, which is especially significant in the earth's
essential kinship to the process taking place in the physical
described when speaking about the actual physical head is
by the process working in the organization of the physical
that we can encounter there. If we are looking for a
obtained. To a certain extent a struggle is taking place in
organism and provoking this process in the organism.
the ego, and what the processes are taking place outside the
human being the forces working organically in the head become

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head through thinking, feeling, and willing, because they
system of forces manifested in walking and in holding oneself
being depending on whether he is standing, walking, or even
not think of the forces working in chemical syntheses but of
forces are always diametrically opposed to the forces working
consider the matter in this way. Let us say we are breaking
etheric forces are working synthetically, just as when the
asking whether a person sweats or not. Its effect depends on
On looking at
those realms about which we are now speaking.
— processes like eating, digesting, working through the
same time necessarily communicate the art of making someone
and thinking is organically a system of forces that produces
working against the soul-spiritual constitution of the human
imprint of the irregular inter penetration and interworking
work back again: the process of nutrition taking place in the
with human sleeping and waking. In the waking state the
ego and astral body than in waking. This is a transposition,
waking.
what has condensed out of a process of becoming. Looking at
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becoming plant-like is taking place here, and this must be
taking place in the head and on the other hand by everything
taking place in the metabolism. Hence we must look for the
course in the human being, the rhythm of waking and sleeping.
passed over into the workings of the organism. Sorrows and
point of disturbing the rhythmic organism, making it
effect of hasty thinking, improbable as it may seem to the
thinking, a thinking where one thought jumps over the other,
which is a fundamental evil of human thinking in our time
— this thinking, where one thought steps on the toes of
system, making it irregular and producing illness. This
striking and significant realm of causes is that which lies
its surface. There is a profound process taking place between
earth where the process taking place between the
raying back the least, but sucking in the most of the
can be achieved in working against the manifestations of
diagnostic significance, of the moments of waking and falling

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and etheric organs continue to function as in the waking
phenomena in the waking state that accompany this inadequate
twitching of the lips or blinking of the eyelids, any
these are waking concomitants of not falling asleep properly.
which processes must first be called forth by cooking,
find something accompanying the waking process, what might be
the process of cooking when making use of what is dynamically
cases, what is lacking can be properly assisted by a diet of
It is here, taking into account the ego especially in its
In taking up
working through substances from within. But in the period
higher ego. In the child it is always the ego working from
age. You will find their outer expression in a seeking of the
there. What I have described as a seeking for the proper
interlinking of the ego ends in a healthy human being or in
metabolism, already in the taking up of substances and then
— that is, working through outer substances in a way
remedy from the outer kingdoms of nature?” This is a
weakness when the ego ought to be taking hold outwardly.
that this is not taking place in the right way, that the
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is continually taking place in the human being and is
especially strong at the moment of waking. We must realize
such research must be done in the right way, taking all the
working of the human organism. One must make the whole human
him the radiating force of magnesium, taking the whole
is taking place in his breathing organism, something also
The astralizing process working from below upward (yellow)
encounters the developing organs of speech working from above
taking place simultaneously below that especially interests
that a truly occult process is taking place there. Everything
manifestations of the excessive working of the astral from
the ego does not exhaust its phosphorizing activity in making
process of making static what is dynamic. I have frequently
speaking about here has to do with extraordinarily delicate
ego does in working into the capacity for movement of the
working in from without, and one must be able to study
the ego is working too strongly in the human being, causing

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our method of working.
than therapeutics. Only on thinking more about the matter,
materialistic thinking can hardly help regarding the
pay enough attention to it. Without taking into account what
lung, making it suitable for breathing, develop further, they
thought forces — the organic forces of thinking —
and strives to become a thinking organ. In trying to become a
thinking organ, taking up too strongly the forces properly
become thinking. In the head, breathing is metamorphosed, and
all functions of thinking, even the processing of
breathing and, instead of taking in air, takes in etheric
perceptions — that is, taking in food and working it
of the human being. The latter is, relatively speaking,
organ), everything taking place in the lungs and liver, and
lacking there, you must use the lowest potencies. As soon as

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working through sugar in the human organization involves a
it is possible really to describe what is taking place in the
concerned with working out of concrete processes.
working more toward the physical, becoming something that
antipyretic force; second, by working on the earlier
In taking a
something is working outward. In addition, you have something
expression in the sweat-provoking effect of this infusion,
something from the mineral kingdom that proves especially
this whole process working by way of the etheric activity in
working and weaving of the human organism and its connection
the ego. Taking all this together, you have everything
thoughts of spiritual science guide our thinking in the right
realize that we are evoking the reaction of the upper human

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it is often a matter of taking the effect you evoke on one
when we say: what makes a person ill when working in large
working in small quantities if its effect can proceed from
of the ego into the physical organism and, while making the
processes are lacking. On the other hand, one may easily
what is really taking place in the human being.
salts to the acids — looking, for example, at the
study all these processes taking place in earthly
process working its way out of the spiritual into the
kingdom. They actually represent the “unbecoming”
taking place here.” And if the activity you find here
digestion, in working through the absorbed food by the
is the opposite of the human process working from above downward
principle: “Can a human being, without taking anything,
stuck in the allopathic way of thinking, you cannot approach
sulfate would do as well will be making a mistake. This is

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formative tendency is working in from the collective
considering them as working towards the center and forming
sphere, not from the planets, for then they would be working
working from outside. They encounter forces which in man and
that we are taking hold of man as he shapes himself out of
the form is working centrifugally and making the head big,
joint deformation. This is a working outwards of plastic
outwards so that they leave man instead of working inside
inner, silent speaking joins what is done there externally in
our kind of thinking is asserting itself, and you will

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life, and which shows the necessity of seeking everywhere
— A man is walking along a river bank and, while still
day or two? Are we not justified in making a start with such
exercise of concentrated thinking, in order to essay any
is walking along a river's bank, died from a heart attack,
Science”. If on the one hand we are looking for a

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feeling, thinking, perception, willing, a different way of
speaking, what has come about since the dawn of the Fourth
impulses working in the blood, the nerves, the etheric and
naturally thinking of something that provides complete
is more to one's liking than the form given to the story
given by spiritual science, we can do so by asking: Where
and through a Middle European in his way of thinking.
interworking of the soul-forces in man himself. It will work
among the peoples may ultimately end in a new kingdom of

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found the following design when I was working out the forms
have for centuries been gathered together, making it
please, that in these lectures I am not speaking specifically
thinking and their German language. One of these filaments
not live in the thinking of the individual Frenchman, in his
Voltaire, one can feel what is meant by speaking of the
Looking for an
so can one survey, calmly and dispassionately, what is taking
European culture in which he perceives the interworking of
and also of everything that is taking place around us, seems
outcome of very profound thinking, W. H. Preuss had already
the etheric body of the man of Middle Europe. Looking over to
could be formulated only by a mind working entirely out of
is unutterable; it is seeking for a form of utterance. It
ask the question: Are people today still capable of thinking?
extraordinarily instructive. But what kind of thinking do we
bring out this point by asking two questions: “Are
people today still capable of thinking?” and “Do
go into the real facts, is lacking, even in high places.

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working in the various cultural communities are given
matter of indicating the principles involved, not of making
the more complicated. Thus if we are speaking of Danish
when we speak of our Building we are truly not speaking of
to say can be explained by taking a particular motif of four
course a matter of really sinking oneself in the character of
into the position of standing or walking.”
the lying position into that of standing and walking. When
of them, for when he is standing or walking the only area of
onward. Hence the experience of one who is looking at the
quite involuntarily when he is speaking belongs to what is
Consciousness, for a man is conscious of what he is thinking
thinking, when he lives in the thoughts. But he does not
always do this; when he is speaking he more often brings the
what originates from the will. Thinking must be irradiated by
“expresses” — Willing, Feeling, Thinking,
not have to consider Willing, Feeling and Thinking? We have
own nature, willing, feeling and thinking are mysteriously
secrets of the sphere of human Thinking.
recognition and taking the place of those that are current
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and Thinking in man are brought to expression in our
other that of colour, Fundamentally speaking, there are these
anyone with artistic sensibility, looking at a painting in
something that, fundamentally speaking, is not present in
in itself; for if a painter is concerned with making a
fundamentally speaking, anyone who might try, in the colour
is still not working with truly artistic impulses. But if one
we are not working with the true artistic impulses. But if we
Occult Hearing”. I said there that even in the waking
our house, and told me that he had been talking to an old
king's son who looked at things only through his window? And
And the element of thought, when thinking is not merely
of thinking at all. But the fact that there are still a great
thinking — we stand, spiritually, at the same point
of the mind, a slovenly kind of thinking, to conceive of
that thinking shall be in accordance with reality if sound
conclusion — just as one will find it on looking up
almost entirely used for thinking today, namely, the head. In
talking sense. But he talks nonsense when he speaks of having
I described yesterday in speaking of the inner experience of
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in the jugdment of man. An undertaking like this can of
days of which I am speaking it was almost forbidden to speak
somewhere made by man taking a leaf of a weed, an acanthus
leaf, working it out plastically and adding it to the
when it was a question of taking hold of something or of
walking one behind the other. They form the procession which
the circle looking on.
working of forces, he said to himself: ‘I feel myself
forces working and moving in man. Rigl remonstrates with the
always looking for symbolic interpretations such as,
negative forms of the baking mould. We should feel the walls
idea of the workings of form but what he lacks is the inner
to speak of sculptors) were asking themselves for instance:
conception is entirely lacking. All these things are
particularly those who are working so devotedly and

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thinking of what our feeling should be as we enter. How often
same as in the Greek age. Looking into the soul of the Greek,
we see him sowing his fields and working at his industrial
carrying out my pursuits and working on the land but all the
is working. In the Greek Temple it is as though he frees
with the pure working of the force of gravity; in the Gothic
should then be looking in the direction of the arrow
alt="Eye looking through panes of glass"
the earth with her plant kingdom. We must, however, pass away
wonderful relief of the earth with her plant kingdom from
seeking the way back to Paradise. I will speak of painting in
speak to us, we are seeking the path to the Spirits of the
' speaking ' relief proceeding from the earth herself in the
the Spirits of the Universe are speaking to you’
are still working at the building which will reveal, to those
spiritual worlds are speaking through the forms in the

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we are working from out of the future in our building, the
circle can also be understood by taking two points and
position, forces (from the cosmos) are working in from all

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only so, but they send forth their workings. Higher beings
myself what it really is,’ something is taking place in
Fundamentally speaking, of course, one can dispute about
coloured wall in front of him, he is simply looking at
the pulsating beat of his heart he bore the sun workings
the World-Spirit working in human evolution, of Whom we try

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see what was lacking in him. He wanted to draw ideas, to
modern city walking through a picture gallery or exhibition
thinking is concerned. The endeavour to build a bridge
of soul which feels the working of the very substance of
always be asking what things ‘mean.’ We should
not think of asking about the ‘meaning’ of the
world. So long as we have not ceased asking about allegorical
nerve are wholly lacking. The form taken by the most vigorous
very days one cannot help speaking of things spiritual with a
these words may be, they justify us in thinking of the
drawing on the blackboard while he was speaking. The

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have, by preference, interest for talking in general
perhaps not working under conditions in which interest is
already present, but is working to awaken interest by the
soul-forces live, as you know, in thinking, feeling and
feeling and willing always active in our thinking, likewise
in our feeling, thinking and willing, and again in willing,
thinking and feeling.
thinking, and on the other to willing. And so, in the sense
with the workings of various instincts: The thinking which
people, a gossip session or the like. For I am not speaking
speaking of what should fill our souls, of what should live
speaking of the guiding line one needs to set one's self: Our
activity of looking at the letters, putting them together and
thinking about them, we draw forth a meaning. That is a
the rules for speaking with feeling, one will notice that his
reality to do neither with thinking nor with the will, but
listener, especially during the lecture. Working to rouse
sympathy and antipathy has the effect of making it seem that
art of lecturing. And it is chiefly a matter of taking in
preparation affects the will; our enthusiasm the thinking of the
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speaking, correct speaking, and good speaking.
For if there is to be speaking about Anthroposophy which is
appropriate, then this speaking must be entirely different
traditions of speaking. One has often fallen into the habit
of speaking also about anthroposophical matters in the way
one has become used to speaking in the age of materialism;
to do with the concept of the threefold order. Our speaking
unconsciously, to approach speaking about things as if they
speak in the same sense of making the threefold social
lecturing which is truly taking on new forms.
expression when one still learned speaking from the
speaking in the times when elocution had to be taken
on the special element in regard to speaking which was
speaking resulted, and language with its whole organization.
thinking.
transpired that the human being when speaking to others about
old way of speaking. There was beautiful speaking. And
speaking beautifully is definitely a gift which comes to man
from the Orient. It might be said: There was speaking
the singing of language, as the ideal of speaking. Preaching
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speaking. The first is to convert to one's own use the
working-class people — in turn with all possible
one sets about speaking. One ought already to transpose
social organism within the working-class population, —
for decades from the fomenting behavior of the working-
Speaking cannot
be learned by means of external instructions. Speaking must
to bring to the lecture the thinking which lies behind it,
must be prepared so as to be dealt with in speaking. What I
brings along as thinking he should not weave into his own
single person. Only through use of one's own thinking in
lecture acquires blood, since through thinking it only has

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he is speaking to an audience that, according to the mood of
talking tomorrow about the interweaving of the
“economic elements” in speaking.
talk, and attaches special importance to his own speaking. A
speaker, even the worst, to speaking himself.
speaking oneself ought not to belong to these other greater
speaking oneself. A certain fluency is acquired through
speaking, but this has to proceed instinctively. What makes
speaking. And this distaste for one's own speaking is
yet manage to view their own speaking with antipathy, it is
one's own speaking is something that ought to be refrained
not be speaking about lecturing in the sense of the task of
this course if I were to enumerate rules of speaking to you,
with one's own way of thinking and feeling, but rather of
A striking
hits back at the archer. In a debate it is a matter of taking
seriousness; seeking out from the opponent himself what
a matter of taking up immediately what the speaker says, and
pedantic, theoretical, abstract, Marxist speaking one
nowadays in public is a continuous whirl of fun-making. The
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Lyrical speaking for spiritual life; dramatic
speaking for rights-relationships; epic speaking for economic
sense, a speech taking its course only in inward thoughts;
other person's position with our thinking. For instance, we
sozialen Frage (the threefold social order). By making it
evident that on one hand we are speaking from the other
So it is dramatic speaking, very strongly modulated, dramatic
that is the manner we should employ in speaking about the
facility of speaking freely, a speaking that only contains
should make the speech-organs pliable and adroit; but making
speaking. In the seminar courses that I held over two years
sounds? — then one makes oneself independent of speaking
pliable and fit for public speaking.
speaking of the sounds. I have tried to give an example of
speaking and singing, but actually, all of those are no good,
speaking. This implies that one should learn to speak in such
should only learn breathing during speech — in speaking
into the sounds, into the mode of speaking, the how
walking across a field. The content does not matter.
the speaking of one version you will not be confused by the
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aspect of speaking is, in general, something that must be
understanding through strenuous thinking, the more he must
For example, take the speaker who, in seeking the right word
speaking, it is also most important for listening. If the
the listener is somewhat shaken by it. Every relative sinking
with the formal aspect of speaking, you could learn a great
image. I must continually refer to a striking Jesuit speech I
namely, sheer logic. Logic is for thought, not for speaking;
was really talking about. I have gone all around asking what
this I have always found the following to be a striking
image: He who was later to become Prussian King Friedrich
father, King Friedrich Wilhelm III, had a minister who was
resignation after the ball. The King called him and said:
— The King said: Indeed, what is the riddle's solution?
the speaking that is heard. The rest is much more merely an
working days. How grateful we should be to the government for
taking such good care of our children!

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undertaking I should like to introduce this performance with
the entirely materialistic tendency in thinking which has
can recall it and let it stream back, asking: What kind of
has emerged, the situation we have been speaking about today

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the divine working of the cosmos in the realms of soul and
kingly magi, who bore within them the wisdom of all the
they are working for human evolution.
have been asking myself for years what can be done about the
point in believing that the result can be improved by taking
and that the civilization of today is lacking the
to fulfil this task by making the anthroposophical
and about which I shall be speaking shortly.
working group formulates its own statutes, but these must
working with her on the elaboration of the anthroposophical
have made it obvious that he is capable of working with

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keeping with our way of thinking, the ancient word of the
of thinking and perceiving with his head. Yesterday I
beat of universal rhythms working across millennia, across
system of his head, he will experience the ruling, working,
human being within the cosmic human being, working for the
at most in thinking, feeling and willing. For them human
head; the force of Christ working in the circumference,
the force of Christ in the circumference, out of the working
and so that in the future working of the Anthroposophical
warm light, with light that spurs on our deeds, our thinking,
The wise heads of kings.
are to practise rightly, working anthroposophically, what can

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who will also be speaking as the General Secretary of the
express deep gratitude to Dr. Steiner for taking on the heavy
Steiner for taking upon himself the leadership of the

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down this sentence I was thinking not only of external
will of course be the matter of making contact not only with
if their way of working has been observed. In such cases a
Italy and the direction it is taking be given now, or are we
is taking in general.
of any undertaking or initiative arising out of our Movement
from the start, thus provoking the danger of having it
say. They know that this is something new making its
appearance in the world. If you avoid speaking clearly, all
avoid speaking about the etheric body and so on, even if we

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representatives of the groups working in all kinds of places
esotericism must not be lacking even in the most external of
which does not like us today; if we keep asking ourselves how
illumine our thinking, to give wings and enthusiasm to our
friends here are already working out how much! You will find
refrain from booking their seats for the evening

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them, then these sayings can be felt to be the speaking of
constantly have the intention of working outwards in a living
relation to the working of the Anthroposophical Society. A
thinking of the following people: Mr Monges, Mr Collison, Mrs
in which I consider that the central Vorstand, working here
Society, will in future be taking up the function of
Switzerland, the working committee. On behalf of
matter by asking all those I have so far mentioned —
have been thinking about it for quite a long time, several
and that the civilizaton of today is lacking the
to fulfil this task by making the anthroposophical
have been working out of this conviction for quite some time
will be a performance of the Three Kings play.

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serve the purpose solely of asking any questions there might
public — this fundamental feature in the working of the
to present the working of the School of Spiritual Science
think along any given lines. What is meant by thinking along
usually the consequence of such a way of thinking? It is a
start by taking the activities that are already going on and
Is it not so that if more is to be done than merely talking
whole, while also taking on the leadership of the general
speaking. I shall carry out all that needs to be done here by
speaking of Platonic instruction and not spiritual-scientific
people would have been lacking here in Dornach who could have
have been thinking — if you would like to know a
we can keep them private morally by working towards a
said, I have been thinking about this question for ten years
attach great value to the meeting taking place at Christmas
time when this Christmas Conference itself is taking
‘13. Each working group
speaking countries, that is America, England, France, Spain,

Title: Christmas Conference: Lecture 11: Meeting of the Vorstand of the General Anthroposophical Society
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institution of this Vorstand. Looking at the structure as a
Grosheintz meant this in a statutory way. He was speaking of
standard at the level that seems to us necessary after making
with loans. A sinking fund (à fonds perdu) will be the
than that of paying interest. We shall be speaking about the
van Emmichoven declares that taking Holland as a whole, the
sum to the German Section by making up any shortfall out of

Title: Christmas Conference: Lecture 12: Continuation of the Foundation Meeting, 29 December, 10 a.m.
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Speaking:
Speaking:
Speaking:
voices in the universal word working as expressed in the
represented here: ‘The working groups in Poland —
spiritual teachings to the widest circles and by working
exceptionally reliable. Chiefly it will be a matter of taking

Title: Christmas Conference: Lecture 13: Continuation of the Foundation Meeting, 30 December, 10 a.m.
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The wise heads of kings.
Penmaenmawr I am sure that you will agree to my asking Mrs
some suggestions about working in public. What Herr van
People are asking about the soul of man and about cultivating
long, are in general breaking down. In this situation younger
colleagues but where those who ought to be working in the
purpose of this correspondence will best be served by taking
dreadful printer's ink. This is what I am talking about. It
others taking shape yet.
asking those friends to speak who have reports to give about
tomorrow's performance of the Three Kings Play to get their
day, I shall take the liberty of speaking briefly on the idea

Title: Christmas Conference: Lecture 14: Meeting of practising doctors, 31 December 1923 at 8.30 in the morning
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The wise heads of kings.
be achieved. In the face of the speed at which we are working

Title: Christmas Conference: Lecture 15: The Idea of the Future Building in Dornach
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for those taking part in the rehearsals, where they may wait
so on. There will also be entrances at the sides. By making
here or there, or of factories here or there that are working

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DR STEINER: Now that we are making a new
particular meeting nevertheless know that it is taking place.
making this proposal? The proposal is that the small groups
HERR STORRER: Looking at the Swiss branches, I would say
would not be good to apply this way of thinking to
such as is appropriate when speaking in public.

Title: Christmas Conference: Lecture 17: The Envy of the Gods - The Envy of Human Beings
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Looking
ago, let me begin by speaking about that to which the link
human hearts, especially when they can be seen taking shape
comprehend the language of the gods speaking out of gently
shining eyes. I am not talking figuratively. I do not want to
the heavens speaking out of gently shining physical eyes. In
Looking at
physical body, by taking in and transforming the mineral
kingdom, by taking in the human realm and working on it, you
without their seeking it and in a seemingly miraculous manner
speaking, then, yes then he could say to his teacher: I now
more to human beings. And this spiritual way of speaking is
mankind, such a way of speaking existed indeed in the forms
to have been making themselves free of this unfreedom. An
also, in making that vow before whatever forces are the best

Title: Christmas Conference: Lecture 18: Continuation of the Foundation Meeting, 1 January, 10 a.m.
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Speaking:
Speaking:

Title: Christmas Conference: Lecture 19: The Rebuilding of the Goetheanum
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working under cover. It will no longer be possible to say: If
there is no sense financially in talking a great deal about
entirely new kingdom in one's heart in order as a doctor to

Title: Christmas Conference: Lecture 20: On the Right Entry into the Spiritual World: The Responsibility Incumbent on Us
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still to plunge. Looking at those individuals who externally
looking. All kinds of foolish voices were raised in
going to sleep and waking up, were often to be seen
waking state but who approach him instead while they are
which so far as the waking state is concerned remains
spiritual world, then, waking up on their return, waking up
civilization to endure for a while. During their waking
time, so that the faculty of thinking and living in ideas
Arlesheim which is working so beneficially. In the very near
taken a liking to eurythmy, if they hear that Anthroposophy
liking to Anthroposophy as well. No one will say: First we
Speaking:
Speaking:
Speaking:
The wise heads of kings.

Title: Awakening to Community: Lecture V
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it again is to make sure that correct thinking prevails on the score
in the direction of making a new life in the Anthroposophical
the three natural kingdoms. The Oriental of an older time was just as
not the poet speaking; it was, he felt, the Muse speaking in him, and
from shining heights above was felt by the Greeks to be speaking
looking upon the human form and man's developing inner life as
the agency of human fantasy. Looking at a temple, one could see that
Instead, it was thought of as taking place on the level on which the
tragedy was being enacted, making it possible to experience in every
the gods were speaking to him in ideas and thoughts. He already had
some inkling of the fact that effort was attached to thinking. But he
walking evidence of divinity. He perceived his thoughts in the same
impressions. This meant that he no longer experienced the speaking of
speaking. Whereas the Oriental still heard that speaking, the Greek
with the living quality with which anthroposophical thinking and
and feel about nature's creations as a result of making use of our
side of modern natural science. Anyone who starts looking through
and welled over and submerged them, speaking much more eloquently
thoughts free of any taint of egotism, self-seeking, subjective
the sun to waking human beings.

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Stuttgart came to a close two days ago, and you are probably thinking
how things developed. You know from comments I have been making these
be taken as deprecating these undertakings, but nothing of the sort
have been making here in the past several weeks to round out the
undertakings to grow out of the soil of the Anthroposophical Movement
making their first appearance on the stage of human evolution. This
when it came to taking part in the life of his time, he became not
flunked. At that time — I am speaking of the 1850's —
In spite of this, he performed one of the most epoch-making feats in
less how many Egyptian kings' graves are opened; they are not much
sources of serving human progress than the opening of ancient kings'
the primal sources of their seeking, to the deepest origin of
undertakings was the “Union for the Threefold Membering of the
people had been working on it for many weeks, what it contained, how
talking past everybody else.
see how everyone was talking past the others and that nothing that
Society and the committee speaking for it; the other is made up of
who carry on their separate undertakings in exemplary fashion and do
procedure for everything. I see a man in the audience looking at me
they wanted to keep so they could go on working there.
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Title: Awakening to Community: Lecture IX
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Community building by human beings working in anthroposophy has
has come increasingly to the fore, has recently been making itself
could be achieved only by making the Christ impulse very much alive
suited to the present. To do this meant taking very seriously indeed
revelation is taking place. There had to be an ongoing evolution from
feeling level in people of our time. Ideas are a device for making
When members of a group speaking the same language come, in the
course of meeting and talking, to feel that they understand one
cultus is based on speaking words in the physical world in a way that
purposes of illustration, I have just described as taking place when
individuals are presently entering the Society, seeking anthroposophy
person and someone in a state of ordinary waking consciousness.
everyday waking experience. But he is experiencing it in complete
shared world when he leaves dreams behind and enters a day-waking
that rouse him to the ordinary day-waking state, and other people are
all previous ages people woke up from the dream state to day-waking
waking life one awakens only in meeting another's natural aspects.
kind is taking in concepts. They are, of course, rather different
beholding higher worlds — of waking up in the encounter with

Title: Awakening to Community: Lecture X
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waking life, that of dreams, and finally that of dreamless sleep.
physical world where he finds himself during his waking life.
and those of waking. A dreamer is isolated in his dream experiences.
day-waking state, into situations on the physical plane. There are
fellowman making assertions about things to which the other can have
experiencing. Then the degree of self-seeking that it is right to
individuals are looking for some special aspect of anthroposophy.
danger can be avoided by undertaking to transform one's soul
working on our ongoing egos. What we are doing behind the façade
of our dream pictures concerns only ourselves. We are working on our
soul, one's ego are working behind it on one's karma.
pouring into one's ears, waking one out of the self-begotten pictures
breaking through it, so can someone who knows the danger of
science together. Looking from this angle at the beauty of human
include taking an interest in problems occasioned by a constantly
— in other words, of making them the common concern of the
reproached for taking no interest in something launched before their
time and simply seeking anthroposophy in a narrower sense, as the
grounds for lawsuits. There is every indication that they are looking
enabling the Society to go on working for awhile. But there was a
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Title: Hegel, Schopenhauer, Thought, Will
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yet it is striking, I say, that which in people as the thought
striking that the backward aim in the thought element is a type
appears striking, the remaining elements of reality existing
at another point become a striking reality and then something
materialised and pressed into thinking and thus
philosopher of his age. As the thought provoking age, which the
from the breaking of waves of cosmic will. Schopenhauer, who
developmental reasoning or progressive thinking, but is the

Title: Problem of Death: Lecture I
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is working and active in itself. This is what we
almost entirely from outside, and that in this looking from
waking we should be able to see our astral being and our
disguising what is actually living and working in the soul.
waves of the air; so that while we are speaking, astral
in licking the sweet consists in the fact that the astral
lies at the basis of all seeking for fame, all seeking for
recognition, all seeking for authority in the world. At the
are not said for the purpose of making moral judgments into
self-enjoyment — even when speaking does not consist
be shunned, always to be regarded as something lacking in
and waking life it is playing into the human soul. You will
of speaking merely of a piece of literature but of speaking
idea of asking the singer to come to the country and do
looking ill and don't want to say so?’
no longer. I feel that he is sucking the life out of me
with a screen around it, and after talking to her for a
catch may not have been working. I was about to go over

Title: Problem of Death: Lecture II
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description of the working of the etheric organisation, the
corresponds with the facts of such a case, the working of
forces working in from the cosmos. This is a
period, we were looking at what is physically past as
tried to look within herself and outside herself, seeking
is contained the will that is taking shape; this
good reasons for speaking quite differently in each of the
question of speaking at the cremation of a dear friend
took a form as if the soul itself were speaking:

Title: Problem of Death: Lecture III
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of death, the spiritual kingdom into which we enter through
the Gate of Death, as being similar to the kingdom of the
kingdom on the other side of death somewhat as a kind of
continuation of the kingdom here. But one is then in error.
oneself and betaking oneself into other individuals. If one
ego-delusion. One must have succeeded in thinking
One must, if one has a strong predilection for speaking a
oneself, conquer this tendency; since this much speaking of
— is not possible to every child. But the linking
struggle to stand our ground in the consciousness breaking
not a matter of seeking all the things that we sought, but
of seeking Unity. That was an idee fixe with this
seeking for Unity, through this idee fixe of
necessity arises for seeking multiplicity. To seek oneness
thinking and feeling from where the dead is, to drive away
of artistic labour, the opposite is taking place. In our
model as one uses things in looking at them? He is then
catastrophe taking place before his eyes as the subject of
objectively out of this deep sympathy, making us love them
the same everywhere, thinking that when we have broken
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Title: The Bridge between Morality and Nature
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clear understanding of the actual basis of what we are talking
this scientific manner of thinking, concepts of soul-spiritual
mindsets which scientific thinking has brought about.
spirit-soul in relation to the body by only looking at the
death and a new birth. Taking this line as characteristic
thought. The modern scientific way of thinking clings most
working there are not the forces of the father and mother, but
recent times a new way of thinking has started regarding the
trinket of special people, we are talking about pure scientific

Title: Spiritual Science, History, Reincarnation, Culture, Examples
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various forms, reaching a total conception of what is working
influenced what we call the natural scientific way of thinking
historic development by actually looking at the events of
Relatively speaking it is not the greatest number of the
physically inherited features. Taking this as the total
help understand the Mystery of Golgotha. I'm talking about
experienced by looking actually at one another externally. This
apply to the mechanical materialistic way of thinking along
which they can feel called into making a choice to the one or

Title: Opponents to Anthroposophy
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different sides it was adopted, one could say, like a working
Anthroposophical movement, despite speaking to the hearts and
seen from the outside, so many discussions are taking place
for example the Evangelists, without taking on the
striking back on me personally because as a result it restricts
Quite tragic-comic, even joking, I might say, however is a
lacking `humility' in the sense of Mennickes, yet as publisher
working from an inaccurately active gastric acid —
enough will say: `He isn't attacking Anthroposophy.' — He
fear of Gnostic interpretation: What we are talking about is
God's depths. Speaking of people — who of you know the
matter. No mystery is created by taking ideas of ghosts or
fabricated article is working towards the destruction of the
any sectarian signs and then taking things simply as they are

Title: Eurythmy as Visible Singing: Lecture 1: The Experience of Major and Minor
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will arise of speaking about this understanding at least in an introductory
all, that in eurythmy we should get beyond the mere making of gestures
is to be true. The making of signs is not the essential thing, but the
when, in making the gesture, you feel: ‘I too am here confronting
In making the gesture for o, you form a circle with both arms.
I am going with my astral body out of my physical body, I am speaking
spiritual being too, while forsaking my physical body), this is just
I am speaking in musical terms.
In speaking of the experience
but in speaking this process takes place on a higher level — the
in the direction of the foot taking the step. Now you have made a second
gesture by making a light movement of the left arm, touching the right
your backward step with the left arm, taking care to hold the palm of

Title: Eurythmy as Visible Singing: Lecture 2: Experience and Gesture; the Intervals
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the human being sings or speaks, the experience of the singing or speaking
warmth. Let us suppose that someone is singing or speaking. Imagine
the stream of singing or speaking the element of warmth. The ego lives
themselves to the air and warmth. Singing and speaking do in fact entail
aware of how the human being perceives what is taking place here. We
saying this we are already speaking in gesture. There is not the least
seventh there is the feeling of breaking through the skin and going
with a major third. Then you will show inwardness by making the arm
out the arm, turning the hand while shaking it). The natural expression
of closing off, of giving it form, of making so to speak an enclosing
prosper if this mood is lacking, if this mood does not permeate everything.
you do speaking and singing. You must accustom yourselves, however,
the musical sound, taking hold of it, being able to hear it, and living
the senses or larynx have to do in singing and speaking.
speaking, Wagner's music is unmusical. [13] And it is really necessary
difficult, as well as not looking particularly beautiful, to jump without
the fourth has this striking characteristic, that here the human being

Title: Eurythmy as Visible Singing: Lecture 3: Melodic Movement; the Ensouling of the Three Dimensions through Pitch, Rhythm and Beat
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relationship, and it is strikingly characteristic that the hand, which
upon the forming and shaping of the actual language, upon making speech
(this is naturally still more shocking) in a terribly inartistic age
Try striking a chord and
When striking a chord you are faced with the problem of having to carry
you actually lead it over into Melos, making three movements for the
thing is not in the making of poses, but in the movement.
into these three different directions. He has to find some way of making
up-down and down-up (also taking into account what I have said about
downwards movement of the legs or head. When making pitch visible, we
The right-left is especially apparent when someone walks. Walking really
A differentiation may also be shown simply by taking a strong step with
Fundamentally speaking,
have already discussed, marking the third with its completing fifth.
striking from this. If we listen very attentively it is almost possible

Title: Eurythmy as Visible Singing: Lecture 4: The Progression of Musical Phrases; Swinging Over; the Bar Line
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of what I have been speaking about. The phrase starts with a G and progresses
it on. Fundamentally speaking, everything else does not add the spirit
wonder, amazement, shrinking back in fear, holding yourself in relation
i [‘ee’]. When speaking this sound i, you
i. When speaking dialect ‘Dörfl’
indeed world-shaking, importance. He went on to tell us what these world-shaking
tone eurythmy. Why is this? Fundamentally speaking, a large number of

Title: Eurthmy as Visible Singing: Lecture 5: Choral Eurythmy
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a musical impression can also be given by means of the concerted working
but also enter somewhat into the quality of working together in artistic
it is this power of making things manifest which constitutes the most
myself thinking of a very significant Austrian musician of the present
in the intervals, constituting that which we do not hear. In speaking
speaking of sounds is an art that in fact can only indicate a sounding
more than simply making or copying movements.
Taking
When making use of a chorus,
we approach very near to making this invisible element musical, very
then you can tell by looking at it that the right thing has happened.
with the third, making those presenting the tonic have larger movements,
as an instrument. Only think of all that goes into the making of an
means of making your inner bodily nature flexible, inwardly supple,
else (either singing or speaking in a reciting or declamatory way) to

Title: Eurythmy as Visible Singing: Lecture 6: The Sustained Note; the Rest; Discords
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a lot of modern music-making [1924] tends to lay special stress upon
more unmusical in the course of centuries. (I am speaking now of the
to understand the dream, I mean really to understand it by looking at
the possibility of looking for the essential nature of eurythmic movement

Title: Eurythmy as Visible Singing: Lecture 7: Musical Physiology; the Point of Departure; Intervals; Cadences
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by means of an interlocking of the fingers (folded hands), and now compare
And because movement depends upon making use of these muscles and bones,
with the human middle system, and at the other end (after making the
He is not looking upon it as an autonomous art, but is making use of
be as though a spirit were perched on the singer's shoulders, making
and in everything concerned with speaking and singing right out as far
same time, we shall begin by adding what is still lacking, and in retrospect

Title: Eurythmy as Visible Singing: Lecture 8: Pitch (ethos and pathos), Note Values, Dynamics, Changes of Tempo
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Generally speaking, the whole mental attitude should be suited to the
to someone accompanying his speaking with grimaces.
element of seeking meaning, enters into the musical element, and this
is its ruination. This introduces thinking into art, and the moment
of thought. This is certainly possible. But you must not be thinking!
[52] The same even applies to poetry. When a poet begins thinking he
movements lower in space (making each movement lower than the one preceding),
perhaps with minims, or half-notes, [54] and working up in ever-increased
arm, fingers or hand, looking at your own eurythmy, carefully following
a certain emphasis, or a certain dynamic marking. If this were not so,
from the will, whereas in piano the will-impulse is lacking. Here, then,
values by a use of the head, looking either towards or away. The dynamics
however, not to conjure up an active gesture of looking (looking gives
though, not to produce the gesture of looking, but of being swept up
expression of which I have been speaking, it will be necessary to engage

Title: Chance/Necessity/Providence: Lecture 1: Probability and Chance
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to convey to you how far from easy it is in thinking to keep all the
occupy us in the next lecture. I will be speaking then about the important
when they are thinking, but merely have what words convey, and that words
but one that was bound to emerge eventually in an age working its way
on it “And it would be like going back to childhood and taking
in it.” He believes that looking at all the things that happen
by chance is like becoming a child again and taking out of a magic package
one were to keep on making God responsible, as Spinoza, Hume, Kant,
example of Spinoza, Hume, Kant, and Schopenhauer in making Schopenhauer's
any person thinks, but on the thinking of a very scholarly, clever man.
Now there is a certain way of thinking about
I entertained myself working out an approximate
of striking the right key at every touch is not exactly small; it
striking the right key is 1/100. “But since, according to elementary
if producing Faust out of an upset typecase or the chance striking of
science not only with getting to know things but with thinking correctly,
taking into account all the factors involved in developing a sound train
Goethe thinking of the right way to reach into that container to get
The thinking of people like Fritz Mauthner
Now you would have to spend years making a really thorough study of
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Consciousness in Sleeping and Waking States
Consciousness in Sleeping and Waking States
states of waking and sleeping in human beings. I have repeatedly
the wear and tear of work and of our other activities during waking
products, which are then formed anew in the following period of waking
are really secreted during day-waking consciousness and destroyed again
and waking the development of a viewpoint from which to study these
of waking and sleeping, to concern ourselves with questions of the difference
waking and the sleeping states.
be able to say that when we are in the day- waking state, we cannot
studied during ordinary waking consciousness. Even what a person comes
on the subject of sleeping and waking were all that could be said about
his day- waking interest on it, is perhaps not particularly interested
were enjoying the external world. He is working his way back into sub-consciousness
matter if one studies the alternation between sleeping and waking with
between sleeping and waking to another cause, and say that we live in
little sense to say that sleep is the cause of waking, and waking the
sleeping and waking. This means asking what sort of consciousness we
waking than one possesses in the case of a full and an empty beer glass;
compact matter, that what seems to day-waking consciousness to be substantial
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Title: Chance/Necessity/Providence: Lecture 3: Necessity and Chance in Historical Events
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necessary in ongoing world evolution as smoking an extra cigar once
indeed from the fact of Fritz Mauthner smoking his extra cigar. We have
of sleeping and waking. But we recognize that waking consciousness too
again, our waking consciousness takes in nothing but objects in the
day-waking consciousness we must say that we experience what is around
a heightening of waking consciousness. In addition to experience of
I will write “Looking into ourselves”
here; we can call it a subconscious looking. Day-waking consciousness
can be set down as “Looking out consciously into the world.”
Then a third kind of inner experiencing that doesn't coincide with looking
into the world is the conscious “Looking into ourselves in memory.”
“Conscious looking into ourselves”
“Consciousness looking into the world around us” = day-waking
“Subconsciousness looking into ourselves” = sleep
is actually a deepened and more concentrated form of waking consciousness.
And spiritual science teaches us too that whereas our ordinary day-waking
its evolution; it must go on and on developing. Metaphorically speaking,
mental images and working one's way into the real heart of a matter.
Now if we are really thinking instead of
tries to make illustrative gestures, even as he is talking about it.
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from taking the prevailing modern outlook seriously. Mauthner arrives at
One can't help thinking of this on hearing
looking at things.” He finds no reason to think of the element
in addition to sleeping and waking. Remembering is still in its infancy;
our thinking, noting errors of thought where they occur, for they are
certain discrimination in thinking. In this connection I want to call
your attention to an error in thinking that crops up in Mauthner's case
in our present day thinking, feeling, and willing. What they went through
themselves by the terms of their earlier thinking, and the result could
how we are really looking back on a moon panorama when we observe our

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strengthening our minds and thinking by taking in and thoroughly mastering
Thus far I have been talking about necessity.
human perception during ordinary waking consciousness. Human beings
If we now imagine ourselves looking at the
Now imagine yourselves walking through a
by walking today through a landscape that is reflected in your inner
come of that? Why, beings who have no desire for such a linking up cannot
wise man.” He was speaking about the growth process of humanity,
“thus making itself the master of the element of chance.”
come to me asking questions out of the blue about this or that, and
higher worlds by taking in, in the form of sharply defined concepts, the
and conscientiousness, tracking down their wanderings and transformations.
cares only about the words derived from these views, for, to him, thinking
borrowings, looking for the various transformations that have come about
ritual and of Christian thinking may be studied in this book (cf. the
Walking on their hands, with their heads
a gradual working up to it.
fact that merely looking at the world conveys nothing as to the effect
deal we participate in goes on around us as we are speaking, without
But speaking of these matters brings us to
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Title: Chance/Necessity/Providence: Lecture 6: Imaginative Cognition Leaves Insights of Natural Science Behind
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sleeping and waking and related matters. I spoke of how the whole nature
alternating states of sleeping and waking. We tried to understand how
differently consciousness functions in the waking and the sleeping states.
they are seeking, they actually make a fifth wheel on the wagon out
that is dreamed up and totally lacking in reality; nothing remains but
that the spiritual energy underlying thinking changes when a clairvoyant
I've said that it is as though all our thinking comes alive. Instead
of living in the passive world of thinking experienced on the physical
plane, it is as though all our thinking comes alive and starts to tingle
by exerting thinking, but that is now left behind on the physical plane
insights by any other means than the most painstaking comparisons. First
and perceptions, making these into a fifth wheel on the wagon.
their realm. Speaking euphemistically of course, but in a way corresponding
the laws involved in watch-making.
do with the watchmaker who put it together, he would also be talking
by taking a state of consciousness into consideration. Then we will
by looking at them and making a one-time image of them analogous to
involved. It helps us to understand to say that all our thinking begins
living in a realm of elemental beings belonging to the plant kingdom
fluid. We are speaking here not of what it actually weighs, but of its
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Title: Chance/Necessity/Providence: Lecture 7: The Physical Body Binds Us to the Physical World
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from using the physical body to making use of the etheric body.
making use of our etheric bodies, except when we are sleeping, but we
case. But people who subscribe to this way of thinking do not grasp
not yet grown young. If we are speaking of physical human beings we
can say that they are growing old, but in speaking of the etheric body
and that that particular twist would produce the right working out in
grows, physically speaking, the more pronounced is this moment of wisdom.
us here by asking spiritual science what would happen if, for some reason,
to special soul-qualities would be lacking. People would simply not
taking place in them (see drawing, mauve); then, in red, the etheric
bodies of deceased young people, with various things taking place in
instead of taking an abstract approach to spiritual science, it becomes
for us a seeking out of impulses that flow into us as soul-warmth,

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Human beings spend all of their waking life
in the course of these lectures. Generally speaking, however, we can
answer to a certain question, namely, what were the heavens (taking
thinking, feeling, and willing, of his work, of his whole existence,
suggested how inwardly mobile thinking then becomes. But this inner
establish contact with a being of the angelic hierarchy by taking its
be aware of the dead really coming closer to us. It is a matter of making
quite absurd in the materialistic spiritualist's seeking to see the
again just this moment. An event, such as the breaking of a vase five
say that this picture is not another soul. Still, taking the entire
from it. Otherwise we would have had to keep on picturing the breaking
of the vase every minute of our waking life during the past five days.
spirit, for the breaking of the vase is neither of the spirit nor of
to our death as to the most glorious moment of our past life. Looking
as a whole. The thinking and feeling content of those dying in maturity
a truly thinking philosopher can go — one who doesn't know everything,
thinking restricted to the external),
in alternating periods of sleep and waking dependent on the sun,
in much he said; he had an inborn tendency to joking. You know, for
piece of writing against the scientific way of thinking. There is a short
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Title: Child's Changing Consciousness: Lecture I
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of his teachers “looking like a veritable cane,”
not use the cane. Speaking of this other teacher, Tagore
the slightest inkling that the activity of speaking could thus
dreadful, so utterly lacking in sense to me, that I could not
introduced to anatomy. Fundamentally speaking, this procedure
thinking does not consider it necessary to look at the human
the plant and animal kingdoms. Here scientists are fully aware
scientific mode of thinking, and one that will also shed light
calculate the length of time of certain processes taking place
three hundred years from now. Technically speaking, this method
speaking the calculation is correct, it has no relationship to
logically correct; but we have lost the habit of asking whether
little droplets of oil will shoot off at a tangent, making
educational thinking and practice.
Science, having scrutinized so minutely the three kingdoms of
thinking about outer nature now becomes the key to
to state: What has been working until the seventh year in the
child, working toward liberation during the change of teeth,
working in the physical body up to the end of the first
the soul forces previously engaged in working within the
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Title: Child's Changing Consciousness: Lecture II
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anthroposophical approach begins by looking at the human being
constitution of the human organism. Eating and drinking follow
called walking, speaking, and thinking.
characteristic way of walking. An inner adjustment underlies
children are seeking to relate their own equilibrium to that of
They are also seeking the specifically human relationship
seeking physical balance. But when freely moving arms and
hands, they are also seeking balance of soul. There is
child, work in full coordination in walking, while the body's
the legs are working upwards into speech, and how the content,
kind of walking and of the free movement of the arms.
third faculty the child must learn on the basis of walking and
speaking is thinking, which should gradually become more and
through speaking. In its early stages, speaking is an imitation
though without linking any thought to what it has heard. At
toward it. Thinking, which arises later, can develop only out
processes of development. Thinking, which is — or ought
thinking, as we all know. They arise in that part of the human
depths of the soul before penetrating the sphere of thinking.
The faculty of thinking, on the other hand, that we acquire in
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Title: Child's Changing Consciousness: Lecture III
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in this activity. Furthermore, we have seen how this seeking,
faculty, the new faculty of thinking is gradually born.
when walking is also is due to imitating the father, mother, or
however, one's thinking is even more accurate than that of
than with other people, then I really have been seeking this
When the child learns to think — well, with thinking we
ourselves to when as children we develop thinking from speech.
In speaking we still remain within a smaller circle of life. In
thinking, we enter the realm of humanity as a whole. This is
how the child's life circles are expanded through walking,
speaking, and thinking. And through discrimination one will
working. This astral body can also be observed in the animal
thinking, which has this universal quality and is also
working. Only when we come to human sense perception do we find
When looking at such a progression of development, we find that
organization, working in the I, astral, and etheric bodies, is
working on the physical body until the change of teeth. All
three members are working in the physical body.
phenomenon. What would you say is the most striking factor of
see, what has been working physically during the first period
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Title: Child's Changing Consciousness: Lecture IV
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existing school is something very different from making demands
that, ideally speaking, are justified. Here one does not have
they offer the possibility of working pragmatically and out of
of pedagogy. Generally speaking, education has followed in the
working — artistic impulses that allow the child to
working upon the physical organization and which now are being
or even complete words, you draw something looking like
we might draw something looking like this.
fewer men would be walking around with bald heads!
moral nature. This is what you have to remember when working
method of making words by adding single letters — a
example, they heard a dog barking, “bow-wow.” If
outer things. Simply by making these sounds, one is copying
photographer does when asking clients to look in many different
directions in order to capture their personalities while taking
their pictures (and thereby making these sessions so tedious!).
speaking about life's later stages of development. But it is
kingdom, because the children's newly evolving capacity to
talking about the Sun shining on it, about climatic conditions
teach botany as this is done in demonstrations — taking
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experience of looking up to the voice of authority with
of enforced authority here; the authority I am speaking of must
always feel secure in looking up with total confidence to the
forces were working in every moment of life. For me to use the
working,” may sound strange, but this is only because of
entire animal kingdom in order to discover synthesis of the
kingdom. To allow children to experience very intensely such
Until the seventh year, soul forces are working in all of the
matter whether actual picture-making is involved, such as
other forces are fully engaged in working on the child's
physical body; they are soul and spiritual forces working in
wisest to remain silent about this last point when talking to
you can see, much hard thinking has delved into the question of
Strictly speaking, this law applies only to the inorganic
leading you back to earlier times in your life, taking you back
the pedagogy we are speaking of here becomes instinctive, one
only at puberty — that is, the life of thinking and the
thinking.
removed from the sphere of thinking, is intimately connected
should not introduce students to the mineral kingdom until
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Generally speaking, people are far too unaware of what, in this
growth forces — working in the child in an inward
being of the child, without as yet working outward — this
If one compares it with the daily process of waking up, one
not joking, but speak very earnestly — the teacher must
the making of a teacher. Strictly speaking, the question of
who, fundamentally speaking, have not yet gained any practical
or her neck, mistaking it for a scarf — all of this

Title: Child's Changing Consciousness: Lecture VII
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thinking. And so there is always a danger that we will educate
much the ability to knit can help toward healthy thinking and
and that they gain a working idea of how paper is made, for
Speaking of failing an exam — and here I am speaking to
be accomplished than what is possible by making the kind of
box-making in our Waldorf school craft lessons, if it were not
us to change to bookbinding now, and then to box-making. All
reality. And if thinking is in touch with reality, judgments
each individual.) If, when looking at ourselves, we had to
bodies, thus making them useful for this earthly life, and at
the express aim of working toward the creation of such a
what, in our way of thinking, are the proper methods of dealing

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in the head. But when speaking about the three main organic
ultimately those of sleeping and waking — also belongs to
waking are based physically within the human organism. The
anyone who knows that spirit is working in all physical or
working of soul and spirit brought about by physical means.
mutual working of body, soul, and spirit can greatly benefit
of the working together of soul, body, and spirit into the new
considers taking an active role in Waldorf education must live
escapes one's notice. Nevertheless, when working together in
more important than events in waking life — they will not
circulation through taking some form of poison. It is important
learned to find a way into this kind of thinking. If you were
souls are seeking the proper stimulation for finding
speaking, is exactly the same when seen from a spiritual
also another way of looking at it — that is, one may find
awareness of the divine forces working within, one will be fed
the working of God, when it has led to an awareness of the
a result of working in this way, something has emerged in the
activities — into singing, music-making, modeling, and so
waking. This insight, afforded by anthroposophical
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know that, in speaking, air is moved. If we made a detailed
Air-forms that flow out more radially from a speaking person
term — stem from human thinking. If we could see these
but, strictly speaking, they have to restrain what wants to
could compare it to someone making a wry mouth or winking an
eye while speaking. Any quasi-mimic eurythmy gestures need to
which, strictly speaking, is unwarranted, because eurythmy then
example, if a poem speaks of a person hitting or attacking
talking about.
feeling of doing this with the larynx but of speaking with the
text he was looking for.
working in medicine on the basis of anthroposophical research,
thinking in terms of majorities — who recognize that such

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to explain everything by seeking to find everything already
vitalizing of the eye, by this waking up of the eye we notice:
substances, I discover the secret of making a red for my
and at least, as he was already packing up,

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and white. These are the most striking colors, black and white.
there were a cooking by the sun itself in his interior. Hence
ntinuous cooking going on within him,
Negro not only has this cooking in his organism, it not only
his walking. He has a less
warmth. They have not the right nature for taking up so much

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dentition begins or is taking place the human being goes into a
the second set of teeth is something which had been working in
spiritual was working in the body.
place between falling asleep and waking, something happens
asleep and waking — unable to transmit the same forces
waking.
realities amidst the condition of sleeping and waking, and then
asleep and waking up.
regarding the conditions between falling asleep and waking is
how there is actually a strong struggle taking place in the
growing forces working on in the child resists against what
striking, as meaningful as what later takes place between
— taking place in this moment in time.
side it is present in the condition between waking up and
the condition between falling asleep and waking, something
because with the schooling of natural thinking developed over
and intellectual thinking habits have been withdrawn, now
relatively total abstract way of thinking, as it appeared in
Comte. He said: I'm thinking about a concise remark by Auguste
yourself how things are taking place. Consider how our
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Title: Cosmic Prehistory: Lecture I: The Threefoldness of Space and the Unity of Time
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show how the constitution of man's soul continually altered. In speaking
of the above and below. He felt that in walking, he could move freely
looking towards the change in evolution from the divine to the non-divine
looking right back to the “Ancient of Days”, and eneompassing

Title: Cosmic Prehistory: Lecture II: Lucifer and Ahriman
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it is merely its appearance when we regard it as taking place in time.
than by looking back in age at youth — that perishes at death,
is the same being from birth to death, but his thinking, feeling and
thinking and also a part of his feeling is a transposing of himself into
spirituality and taking part in certain conflicts of one order of spirits
with another; similarly willing means taking part in certain conflicts
quite different from his thinking, feeling, willing in ordinary life and
the image of the forces striking together from above and below, So is
our life in maya between birth and death nothing else than a striking
our comprehending only in later years the thinking life of youth. Our
to endow us with a thinking, feeling and willing that trickles in, as
quantum of thinking, feeling and willing and then to conserve it for
will, and whose thinking and acting run their course automatically,
we have the idea: If the forces working in the rest of man worked through

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must necessarily have the effect of making men more materialistic? If
him the Ahrimanic and the Luciferic forces are working through each
to the working of the Luciferic principle. The Luciferic principle,
Conversely, taking the reverse
taking hold of him. And related to such an ecclesiastical truth is abstract
growth of materialism in man's lower nature. Speaking crudely, one might
while, conversely, materialistic thinking promotes a Luciferic spiritualism.
quarters whose thinking is incorrect for the present time — for
origin of the mineral kingdom. For we know that what we now call the
mineral kingdom did not exist in the same way in the Saturn, Sun, Moon
evolutions, There existed then the three elementary kingdoms which preceded
the mineral kingdom. The mineral kingdom entered earthly evolution and
kingdom into earthly evolution, man entered earthly evolution in his
in earthly evolution at the same time as the entry of the mineral kingdom.
the mineral kingdom. One could also say that in the human microcosm
the ego corresponds to the macrocosmic mineral kingdom;
the cosmic mineral kingdom has a crystal-formation. In school our children
in the mineral kingdom — octahedron, cube, and so on. When we
see these forms of the mineral kingdom which may be expressed in geometry
characteristic of the mineral kingdom. And the earth, when this kingdom
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Title: How Can Mankind Find Christ Again?: Lecture 2: The Entrance of Christianity into the Course of Earth Evolution
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involve a new formative thinking, whose Christian character
are speaking about the Christ, and yet you will find they have made
waking hours between birth and death is only the outer view, the phenomenal
speaking during these days.
has put humanity on a wrong track and gives every promise of taking
something that is working powerfully as the deepest meaning of human

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involve a new formative thinking, whose Christian character
last Sunday for a renewal of our Christmas thinking, I spoke of the
up to old age. (We are speaking now only of post-Atlantean epochs.)
distinct. People today are inordinately proud of their power of thinking,
but actually they can grasp very little with it. The thinking power
before birth were lost; but the thinking force that they had used before
thinking differed completely from our so-called normal thinking, for
the Greek thinking was the result of pondering over imaginations that
which imaginations had been formed. The waning of this thinking power
lies between — there was a continual decrease of thinking power.
it has declined. The thinking power, still highly developed, that was
for example, the thinking power was still there. But it gradually faded.
breaks upon the world. Christianity is born. The waning thinking power,
of it. This thinking power tried to understand the Event of Golgotha
from the standpoint of the thinking used before birth, the thinking
gnostic thinking came face to face with the Mystery of Golgotha. Now
Christ that today are termed heretical, shockingly heretical. Gradually
of Golgotha through powerful spiritual thinking; and the other teaching,
was the decreasing thinking power.
acute thinking power declining more and more. It was also reckoning
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involve a new formative thinking, whose Christian character
that we are speaking of an era in which most human beings still had
to the plant, animal, and mineral kingdoms on earth. This is a knowledge
just as he is born out of the kingdoms of nature on earth, something
from the kingdoms of earthly nature, but also something coming from
am speaking now always of the pre-Christian Mystery knowledge.) The
would not like to experience what the people of old seeking initiation
in those ancient times — remember that I am speaking now steadily
the expression—that is, a synthesis of the rest of the kingdoms
three-membered — speaking in the sense of the Mysteries —
with my thinking? Yet that was the real achievement resulting from the
of spirit; that is, he is seeking a world that does not contain spirits
they could only become such by first seeking in themselves what was
not to be found in the outer world, by then taking back into the outer
of a king: that is, he could try to rise through the four stages, just
early Christian era, is not to be found today by looking into man's
— factually — and asking himself what he owes since birth
Speaking somewhat grotesquely,
times reached knowledge of the world through knowledge of man. Speaking

Title: How Can Mankind Find Christ Again?: Lecture 5: The Change in the Human Soul Constitution
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involve a new formative thinking, whose Christian character
transformation of the whole human consciousness as is now taking place,
do you see your waking periods, but the periods of sleep appear in the
the English-speaking peoples. (Such societies existing among other peoples,
upon their original founding among the English-speaking peoples.) This
the secret-society view of the English-speaking peoples. Humanity is
one finds in popular world conceptions. Today many people whose thinking
perfectly clear. You see, the secret-society view of the English-speaking
people, looking up to what it considers as underlying the whole cosmic
Whatever course events may be taking externally, however chaotic all
in thinking, I am not, I am only an image. This being-an-image, however,
how the secret-society ideas of the English-speaking peoples have spread
anything such as we do here — spiritual science acquired by working
thinking has remained. It is applied today to oxygen, hydrogen, electrons,
is the same. Only through spiritual science can a new kind of thinking
of thinking. What stands in the Old Testament and the New Testament,
world-plan is seeking to be realized, that behind outer events something
persons seeking to gain supersensible knowledge, something that is radical,
spiritual science — yet even this kind of thinking can only be
change that is taking place in the constitution of the human soul. It
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Title: How Can Mankind Find Christ Again?: Lecture 6: Transformation of the Human Being in the Course of Evolution
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involve a new formative thinking, whose Christian character
but unconsciously. Therefore, when speaking of these things we are really
speaking of something that concerns everyone more or less, especially
later Protestantism, in fact, for all thinking Christendom. The Christ
thinking could have taken no other path than that which finally led
for seeking another path, a path of supersensible knowledge such as
been speaking during these days, especially yesterday.
of extraordinary significance was taking place in the soul of European
something constantly taking place, as I have said, in the vast majority
from his native city, Florence, to the King of Castile. He tells how
he was making the return journey from his ambassador's post and learned
at a certain moment when a shocking event confronted his soul, his soul-spiritual
time of which I am now speaking, the Pillars of Hercules are the experience
initiation, that he actually described what was taking place in the
For these first stages represent precisely what is taking place in the
to plants, and with regard to the skeleton in the animal kingdom, reveals
changed in our being, and taking our direction from a new instrument.
look into what goes on in the thinking process itself of Vogt and Clifford
remarkable comes to light. We see that the kind of thinking those persons
thoughts from sinking down and being laid hold of by the merely material
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Title: How Can Mankind Find Christ Again?: Lecture 7: Experiences of the Old Year and Outlook over the New Year (part 1)
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involve a new formative thinking, whose Christian character
are prone is not so easy as correcting the illusion one has while looking
your senses you observe the outer events taking place around you, in
events in the human kingdom. The world is engaged in the processes of
plant kingdom, for instance — which can be regarded for the moment
just one year for the plant kingdom, represented by an annual plant,
laws revealed in the plant kingdom.
thinking, all that lends wings to our thinking, in so far as this arises
from within us. It confronts us when we observe the kind of thinking
upon our thinking we move more quickly, than the pace of life outside
brought into consciousness but that is working in the whole soul experience,
kind of thinking a human being lives in such a way that actually he
thinking. When we are concerned with thoughts dependent on our will,
hand, in so far as we have will in our thinking, we move much more swiftly.
Sunday! — because, comparatively speaking, the weekdays seem quite
in a way, what has a greater speed, namely, arbitrary thinking, those
to want it to be Sunday but to use the weekdays too for learning, making
desire on the part of youth to direct their soul-mood to looking forward
holds back from taking up spiritual science, believing that he can attain
and the true being of man without taking up spiritual science, a man
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involve a new formative thinking, whose Christian character
is already taking place, through the Spirits of Personality who —
indeed had an intuition of the breaking-in of a new revelation —
shaking-up, a certain rousing, in order to notice that this wave is
by the ordinary scientific way of thinking is not reality at all, but
these things when one realizes that this scientific way of thinking
something that does not like the feel of this wave. It is breaking in
science. But the wave I am speaking about is pressing forward through
speaking, something else is present. What is flooding human souls, what
be told: I am making you into a seer because it will give you untold
were speaking more fully one would like, and be able, to put forward
immediately received a letter asking whether I did not know that reincarnation
of spiritual forces are working in human beings with which we have to
up completely to the modern way of thinking, that is to say, to the
thinking formed on the model of the scientific world conception. We
his soul. For that way of thinking is not suited to bring up into consciousness
It is a different kind of thinking from the thinking employed in the
influence of thinking that is dismembering, thinking that is differentiating.
This manner of thinking is a mask used with particular pleasure by the
apart. Speaking trivially, one could say that a large number of the
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Title: Community Life: Address 1: The Goesch-Sprengel Situation - Part 1
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sexuality, has spiritual roots; looking to sexuality for the explanation
of human behavior is therefore looking in the wrong direction.
great spiritual teachings in our time, but you are making them poorer
developed the habit of making promises and not keeping them. No one
of people working in our movement. On occasion, you have implied that
I am not talking about malicious or destructive criticism. Many of our
constructive criticism, and that is what I am talking about. The only
talking about a case like this one, where the criticism has already
spiritual energy on the useless task of seeking out hidden wisdom-filled
truth-seeking forces in themselves and thus fall prey to partial stupefaction.
ends. There is no question in our movement of real interaction taking
times for making students receptive to their teachings. Above all, they
been born, and the divine being working through the teachers had the
restriction of the ego's rights must also result in the teachings taking
them and taking a stand against them, will be of help to you in the
speaking for myself. I will not allow anyone to prescribe in any way
whenever I take the liberty of shaking hands with one of you or involving
I intervened in the inner being of Mrs. Goesch by shaking her hand and
asking her how the child was doing.
it must include taking personal initiative in what needs to be done

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sexuality, has spiritual roots; looking to sexuality for the explanation
of human behavior is therefore looking in the wrong direction.
— speaking more or less aphoristically — that I read you
fully taking their pathological nature into account, we allow them to
as a reproach, strictly speaking; after all, we are all human. But it
of personal vanity. Looking into history for this reason is the worst
put, it is nothing more than that. And it is good to be aware that looking
letter. I think if any French-speaking people were to read this letter
be for people who go around making insinuations, if we were to hold
That is what stands behind taking measures like this. It is impossible
to count on the outside world making positive assumptions about us,
Legally speaking, it is
not seeking closer relationships with members. On the one hand it is
the autonomy of individual souls must be respected in the most painstaking
do not have a viable idea of this painstaking kind of respect. After
most people have no idea of the painstaking regard for individual freedom
have made a habit of speaking much less affirmatively or negatively
you to see for yourself that all my efforts are directed toward making
you to say, “He is really making an effort to not simply lecture
number of undertakings that I would not presume to mention myself if
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Title: Community Life: Lecture 1: Requirements of Our Life together in the Anthroposophical Society
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sexuality, has spiritual roots; looking to sexuality for the explanation
of human behavior is therefore looking in the wrong direction.
give for taking this position have to be taken seriously. But let me
very different in its impulses and its whole way of thinking, feeling,
and doing from the thinking, feeling, and doing of the other people
as unjustified and lacking any basis in fact. To do this, we have to
what we are talking about when we speak about the ether body, but the
of people I know quite well. So you see, people who hear you talking
that you're talking about the ether body as if it were a physical body;
of speaking? Of course we do.” But just keep your eyes and ears
It consists in making one's thinking independent of the physical plane.
up with our ordinary everyday relationships, we are not taking the concept
certain ways of looking at things, people who would have done certain
in a barber shop — excuse me for talking about things like this,
recounting their own observatiOns and thus have a right to be talking
talking about their own direct experience and have a right to be talking
you're talking to, and imagine what it feels like!
says that Dr. Steiner is taking so-and-so's spiritual development in

Title: Community Life: Lecture 2: The Anthroposophical Society as a Living Being
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sexuality, has spiritual roots; looking to sexuality for the explanation
of human behavior is therefore looking in the wrong direction.
behind; we would be speaking metaphorically if we talked about the corpse
and scientific in taking this comparison further. If a corpse is not
taking the action of expelling a member will very seldom have any significant
who has done something wrong is simply taking the easy way out. That
points in our statutes. It also means taking an interest in the guidance
a certain principle of togetherness, of living and working together,
of a local pastor's article attacking our Society
kind of new religion if we invariably put on a long face in talking
taking its place in the world just as the Copernican system did, so
we have to learn to speak very exactly, and precise speaking must be
what can be done about it. That would mean that they are making their
cannot find out anything at all, even by asking around among people
that people are not taking an interest in its life and vitality. That
use that word deliberately — and were participating in the thinking,
it means making the Society an ongoing object of interest in a living
incorrect or offensive. I am not talking about private matters, I'm
talking about things that concern the Society. In fact, however, a large
talking about other things, of course, and because I also know that
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Title: Community Life: Lecture 3: Swedenborg: An Example of Difficulties in Entering the Spiritual World
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sexuality, has spiritual roots; looking to sexuality for the explanation
of human behavior is therefore looking in the wrong direction.
single expert of today. And we are talking only about his writings that
the Sun, and so on. He was accustomed to thinking that spirits have
spirits making certain movements, but was unable to understand them;
who usually understood the language of spiritual beings. I am talking
actually were speaking.
in us and are looking at us just as we used to look at objects on the
we're talking about. He was never able to ascend to the experience of
the things around us in such a way that we become accustomed to breaking
be pandering to people's unwillingness to exert themselves, and asking
way possible while taking in the information; your thinking has to become
of creation with reference to the Bible, in which the working of the
when the main thrust of their development was taking place. Because
talking about when they speak of the Tree of Knowledge and the Tree
denied us. If you are really thinking, my friends, you will arrive at
talking about trees? It is easy to understand what is meant by this
the gods we call the Elohim developed their characteristic way of speaking
is the kind of thing you can come to simply by taking what is in my
books and lecture cycles and thinking it through in the right way. It
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Title: Community Life: Lecture 4: Methods and Rational of Freudian Psychoanalysis
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sexuality, has spiritual roots; looking to sexuality for the explanation
of human behavior is therefore looking in the wrong direction.
his reproach is not on the alleged making and not keeping of promises.
a means of making promises to members and not keeping them, and that
members' good sense, that deliberately making and breaking promises
goes on working there. Its effects are lasting, and in some cases lead
school conducts this analysis with the patient in a normal waking state
then, is this: experiences of waking life are repressed and continue
being given and broken and working on in the subconscious — all
waking life have sunk into subconsciousness and are brought up again
rise to certain forms of thought that spread and affect all your thinking.
scene, she had already gotten the idea that shaking hands is a criminal
the origin of that theory about handshaking. Yesterday you all heard
and making the person aware of them again. Whether this method is very
thinking is often colored by an underlying pervasive sexuality, and
it reveals a striking agreement with the mental life of neurotic patients.
whole field of activity. Their whole life is spent working with ideas
factor in making an unbelievable mockery of something quite natural
touching, or even a baby's sucking a pacifier, is a sexual activity.
is, “The only deviant thing in this case is your way of thinking
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Title: Community Life: Lecture 5: Sexuality and Modern Clairvoyance, Freudian Psychoanalysis and Swedenborg as a Seer
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sexuality, has spiritual roots; looking to sexuality for the explanation
of human behavior is therefore looking in the wrong direction.
thinking that the human soul goes beyond what our ordinary consciousness
to extremes. It has done more than engulf their thinking, which is what
can really understand this way of looking at the world only if we can
or at least a certain type of neurotics, are walking around at age forty
have been speaking about for the past few days — after all, he
waking consciousness, but although she is unaware of the connection,
you that the philosophy of psychoanalysis is in fact seeking the relationship
that we are looking at objects, and this is the basis of our consciousness.
to try to avoid it, to avoid thinking in pure thoughts. Someone who
the kind of thinking that is free of emotion — to begin with,
feelings incline them to a more spiritual way of looking at things,
they have not yet achieved pure thinking. Only those people who take
moved on to a realm of thinking in which thoughts sustain each other
the stage of thinking in pure thoughts, when a sequence of pure thoughts
reach this stage of pure thinking. It is no longer possible to bend
Then your I is really uninvolved; it is thinking itself that is doing
the thinking.
However, your thinking only
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sexuality, has spiritual roots; looking to sexuality for the explanation
of human behavior is therefore looking in the wrong direction.
by asking the question, “How old is love?” There is no doubt
way of looking at things would immediately respond that love is as old
in thinking have seldom, if ever, had any understanding of love in
in our thinking, we have to replace our relationship to the spiritual
eroticism. On the one hand, then, we have the theoretical linking of
subjective emotions in spiritual forms. In making this appeal, I hoped
Society, so that clear thinking might prevail.
of natural human activity on the physical plane. Thinking about spiritual
vulgarized way of looking at the matter.
If we are making every effort,
sinking below the moral level of other human beings; rather we must

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sexuality, has spiritual roots; looking to sexuality for the explanation
of human behavior is therefore looking in the wrong direction.
have been looking at the theory of psychoanalysis, a singularly revolting
this principle is. It is indispensable in making any spiritual scientific
making sure we arrive on time is a superficial thing, but in the past
be necessary to make a special point of talking about things like this,
in movement, constantly inwardly active. At the moment, I am not talking
extent that we are speaking of our present-day physical nature, is a
Looking at any part of our
is completely wrong. The right way of looking at things is to explain
In looking for the right
As we have seen, it comes about through something spiritual sinking

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social question with a member of the working class now constituting
and social thinking he would not attribute much importance to so-called
To a man of the working
classes. When you voice this view to the working man, he will at first
engendered through feeling. A member of the greater mass of the working
employers must necessarily be the exploiters. A working man does not even
the following: The working class must become conscious of the prevailing
conditions, so that the working class itself may bring about a change
sense of moral responsibility, but that the oppressed, miserable working
a change in social conditions. One might well imagine the following taking
and the needs of humanity, the listeners who belonged to the working
classes would answer: “What are you talking about ? You belong
member of the great mass of the working population, should be taught
he delivered his great incisive speech on science and the working class.
is the modern working class movement. It is encumbered with all the
up that intensity of thinking which spiritual science can offer. F For
unable to think; the leading motifs for real thought are lacking.
territory, without taking into consideration that from a social standpoint
to our making a social problem out of the problem of population.
sharp, clear way of thinking which these questions entail.
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question, is now taking on a truly significant and a very practical
They do not find the possibility to develop the right way of thinking
their thinking! — certain forms of thought coming (though this
of thinking. People who think at all to-day, think in natural-scientific
But this kind of thinking
habit of thinking we cannot obtain any essential fact enabling us to
capitalists and their followers, and the working proletarian population.
the past centuries, they are firmly convinced of a manner of thinking
kind of thinking, and that the life which has now come to the fore in
the external world calls for a kind of thinking which entirely differs
aims, still contained an unscientific way of thinking, it contained
still based upon a far more universal way of thinking; which proceeded
programme are altogether adapted in their manner of thinking to the
so proud of their thinking.
thinking will be needed in order to reply to these questions, which
are not theoretical questions, but facts. This new way of thinking exists,
conception. This new way of thinking consists in the realisation of
practical requirements of daily life. A regeneration of thinking is
economic thinking. Let me read to you quite slowly what Jaffe indicates
the details of the digestive process, or the thinking process, or the
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cause and effect is maintained, this same manner of thinking can just
science. But if the natural-scientific way of thinking is applied to
their cost of living, but its aim is that of making profits, of increasing
a point of honour in making it as perfect as possible — this belongs
easy way of thinking is the cause of the present catastrophe!
in the field of thought. The whole way of thinking must be transformed.
waking up! Do you think that it will be easy to drive away these instincts,
unless people find access to a really unprejudiced way of thinking.
the case at all. Taking into consideration the circumstance that in
from many sides — by taking for granted that this must be considered,

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socialistic thinking and of modern socialistic aims. We might say: What
or proletarian thinking and willing; the proletariat simply does not
an opinion by consulting one of these books and asking ourselves: What
speaking either for or against the drinking of beer, but the point from
which these members set out, was that they were against beer drinking.
thinking. The greatest misfortune of our time is that love of ease leads
people into this disconnected, incoherent way of thinking and they remain
and unclear manner of speaking of the spiritual world, the spiritual
vegetable and animal kingdoms of the physical world. In the course of
kingdoms in relation tb man. This enables one to appreciate that which
of the physical kingdoms of the earth: Below him is the anjmal kingdom,
then the vegetable kingdom and the mineral kingdom. But if the vegetable
kingdom were able to have feelings and thoughts in regard to the mineral
kingdom, what would it say? “I bow down reverently before thee,
to thee". And so on, throughout the higher kingdoms. Each higher
kingdom bows down reverently before the lower kingdom.
way of thinking in such a direction. What is surplus value? In the eyes

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of working in Stuttgart to meet the demands of modern life, Herr Mott,
over the workers, are fundamentally a legacy from the middle-class thinking
and share in the working out of possible solutions, many root causes
true modesty need not be deterred when making itself felt, by the reproach
be raised by anyone who thinks in realities. For anyone thinking in
seen to have an effect on men's thinking. You may remember an appeal
be appealed to in a way to make them see that facts are speaking to
done in contrast to the former negative undertaking of the ninety-nine.
years, has not been willing to show itself. Instead of the feeble thinking
of ordinary traditional thinking end organisation. The economic life
something in common. They press for the socialisation of private undertakings,
must manage its thinking through the head and not through the lungs,
administration; each must have its own, working, however, in a living
working together of three corporate members. This is because they have no
according to the easier demands of their own thinking. They must come to
from Germany where our fiends had been working everywhere, in a suitable
capable of making the Appeal public, so that it is seen by those it
war was taking a decisive turn, I tried to help, on this necessary impulse
ago. For here, too, something should have been learnt if thinking is
ancient mummified, thinking.
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thinking, feeling and willing having developed in recent times without
in contemporary mankind there is lacking even the elementary basis for
made about the ways and means for paying an undertaking on some occasion
(I am not speaking of labour-power but of undertakings) it is always
less good but anyhow not yours? You see it is not a matter of thinking
to make this clear to you by an example. Taking given conditions of
thus is not the primary thinking I have represented. Thought out in
law and the system of stocks and shares. Strictly speaking, everything
understood. Then the organising factor, the thinking that has taken
organism demands, and other thinking adjusts itself to it, so that it
cannot happen that one thinking considers itself prejudiced by the other.
organism. Right thinking, realistic concepts on such matters can be
which I have been speaking here.
If man develops sound thinking and perceiving in this sphere, these
is one thing; that, in regard to thinking, is the way to come to Christ.
but by making an effort. It is this kind of idealism we need. We need
present them, taking them logically, point by point. As I once told you
in himself what I have called a re-birth, then human thinking will be
rightly in other matters by thinking and feeling rightly on these fundamental
human evolution. Otherwise all thinking will be dislocated and from
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deeds and actions, when there is right thinking about the essential
different man's whole thinking, feeling and willing have become since the
that the thinking underlying these people's will, takes on a definite
form. And from this thinking that has a definite form, in essentials the
it is extraordinarily interesting to observe the kind of thinking of
the structure of men's thinking, and upon our paying less heed to the
and how their thinking is directed. Finally, it is not of such great
there is only anthroposophical thinking that can guide men's thinking
Marx himself throws great light on certain aspects of this matter. Speaking
He has done no original thinking whatever about what the future of the
the State, all the human beings taking part in that State.
really striking even in Marx, in Lenin comes to its highest potency,
of Lenin's thinking. Here you see in greater potency what is to be found
this socialism. It is very interesting; for the way of thinking that
its ignorabimus, (we can know nothing) socialistic thinking,
that is, that those who today are thinking on socialistic lines are
only taking over the heritage of the bourgeoisie. Their thoughts are
as social thinking and social feeling established on the foundations
modern social movement is that these impulses are full of a thinking
soon as it is matured it prepares to die. Thus you see that modern thinking
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life, from all that is working in the sphere of man's economic life.
concept holds sway. It is, however, already making itself felt that
a certain predilection for purely abstract thinking. This love of abstract
thinking, however, has produced something else. This thinking in pure
itself particularly by everyone thinking first of himself and trying
are cooking there among themselves. Naturally he distrusts it and thinks:
of the pious way of thinking in these people's kitchens! — These
facts arising today in such a shocking way on the horizon of social
not stop there. What is read must be put into practice by seeking above

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consciousness in the soul, and what on the other hand is working in the
particular way of thinking socially differs from other ways. I have
This way of thinking is
here. The way of thinking we represent, aims at getting rid of all social
is just the element in which man can be so fused that from the working
cannot be just a question of thinking out what for the social organism
is to take. Our thinking, indeed, is not so advanced in the social sphere
in the most energetic way and in its purest form the thinking that was
thinking goes when a man wishes to draw it entirely out of himself,
out of his ego. And if one applies this thinking to the social structure
Only with deep insight can it be understood how thinking like Fichte's
is not suitable for finding the right social structure. Thinking drawn
their combined efforts — That is thinking in terms of reality
and experience! Fichte's thinking is born out of the pure ego and is
ultimately, though in a different form, Bolshevistic thinking. It is
an anti-social thinking because it is born out of the ego alone; its
whither the purest form of thinking, as arising in Fichte, actually
is that it is pure thinking, woven out of the content of the soul alone,
both him and his striving after pure thinking. Whence comes then this
at a certain period of his evolution at this pure thinking, this thinking
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is horrible. Only we are confusing dreaming and waking. Our task is
perhaps a dream out of which we are now waking. We are in a society in
way of thinking during recent centuries. For it is this customary thinking
really studies all the conditions. With this way of thinking many of
is because such men have applied their customary way of thinking to
These facts, working in the external everyday world, speak to us clearly
of material civilisation, Looking back before August, 1914, how comfortable
of thinking for its healing. For this healing nothing will serve but
the realisation that all other ways of thinking, not directed to what
of catchwords he classified alphabetically the thinking of the present-day,
thinking was contained. There, among other things, he deals with the
to soul, which may be described as the mutual working of soul to soul,
of sympathy and antipathy is working from soul to soul. In man on the
men. And the State is not in a healthy condition when seeking to establish
what has to go on working as antipathy, is experienced down here as
to go on speaking the old one for they think that will serve their purpose.
with external existence. My dear friends, indeed I am not speaking just
No, I am speaking quite objectively. In spite of this I venture to say
with his karma. Strictly speaking, no one has cause to consider any
throws as crumbs to those working at the machines what, in its inner
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little adapted to direct thinking towards what the purely perceptible
have actually learnt nothing, nothing at all from the lessons speaking
of making impression upon impression, conquest upon conquest. When I
we Europeans, with the new blood of America, have produced a thinking
a thinking entirely dominated by mathematical technics. We have become
to this thinking that it is also applied to the social organism. This
thinking about the living social organism, at least they find it very
born of thinking that relates only to what is dead in the living organism.
example. Modern socialist thinking is directed against capitalism. Socialism
is now spoken of absolutely conforms with the dead thinking of recent
are able to turn to living thinking needed above all for our Spiritual
which, strictly speaking, is nothing more nor less than capital. There
is no social organism that would not show the interworking of individual
of the undertaking, for unless he takes the responsibility for it I
cannot do my work. When there are directors of undertakings, however,
Where thinking is concerned they prefer everything to be easy. But this
taking it in its concrete condition at half-past-one, as a human organism
that you are looking at the concrete, the living, at two different points
products with the manual workers working with him, the social organism
socially estimated in a certain way by taking into account the current
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show how far from reality present-day thinking is, when in circles working
example of the thinking that has brought the world so much misery. And
unless we see that in place of this thinking estranged from reality
thinking what today can be told in the right way about the supersensible
how in his thinking. By this his thinking should gradually
on how through it our thinking is transformed. The question
the fact that socialistic thinking has proceeded out of modern thinking
already heard. I have pointed out that there is something lurking in
that modern thinking comes to expression with its particular
thinking. In the confusion of the last four-and-a-half years many inapt
go objectively into the matter of his thinking?
however, is not the art of subjective human thinking but the sum of
the perception of the idea. Ideas for Hegel are in a way forces working
and are not recognised by man, are ideas in themselves which are working
thinking. According to Hegel, logic contains the idea in itself; nature
to draw your attention to how the tendency of modern thinking is expressed.
superficial materialism but in the highest force of spiritual thinking.
impulse of this kind, experiences in his thinking a certain inner
satisfaction, which makes him overlook what is lacking. But what is
lacking is felt all the more strongly by anyone who is not the original
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Thorane, lieutenant to the King of France, arranged
case especially we can see his preordained karma working
According to such a way of thinking, we must presume that all
the profound working of karma.
years of age the youthful force would have been lacking which
that we sleep because we are tired, for waking and sleeping are
Think to what a great Order the rhythm of waking and sleeping
of the day; but the rhythm of sleeping and waking must be
This glorious Nature thou didst for my kingdom give,
waking and sleeping in man betrays an inner impulse. In a life

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The Cyclic Movement of Sleeping and Waking
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Broadly speaking, one thing especially must strike us when we
sleeping and waking. In waking life, we say, the Ego and astral
general, it is so: sleeping and waking represent a kind of
cyclic movement for the human being. Strictly speaking, it only
are working- upon man as it were from without—all that is
body, than it is in waking life. Indeed, we may truly say, the
man in waking life, —this influence they wield over the
illumines the other side of the Earth, making it daytime
loosened during our day-waking life. They are still there, but
column are more intimate in sleep than in our day-waking life.
between sleeping and waking. It will not appear altogether
and asleep in his waking life.
waking life man must be able to rise into his senses and his
in waking life between the soul- and-spirit and the
one-sidedly. Broadly speaking, we may say: Through the
loosening of the etheric body the entire waking life of man is
thereby, even in his waking life, he comes into a stronger and
and spinal nervous systems. Now we may ask, generally speaking,
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beings in our day-waking Life meditate in thought upon the
a manner speaking, the Saturn of Vulcan. The
and beginning of our physical body, which is still working in
place, which, working on in evolution, will attain on
upon Earth are working at their several callings, and as
thinking of it from the points of view which spiritual science
exposed to the danger of speaking after the pattern of that
for a simple reason: Those who do most of the talking about
blind people talking about colours. For a man of to-day, who
‘There goes Spiritual Science, talking of many Spirits, many
would pass one another by, seeking no longer any more than
mankind. Once men grow beyond the stage of talking

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man and its transubstantiation process involves a working
Taking transubstantiation and communion as a unified priestly
respiratory organs, but that we are continually taking in all
the cosmos, in the divine working and creating in the cosmos,
organization was working in a temporal way. While the
words, so that it's not he who is speaking anymore. The godhead
still say: when I speak magical cultic words, a god is speaking
epoch, some of the Protestant confessions which were working in
spiritual things in the real spiritual world. You were looking
inner experience of the working and weaving of spirituality in

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speaking in mystery language, for it was customary for people
It's rather shocking that we're surrounded by experiences today
which man felt that the macrocosm was a speaking universe. We

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today. The important thing becomes evident in a striking way in
definitely not speaking about present conditions. He is
speaking about future conditions. But those who were conversant
of the community. For they had the idea that the ranking
of thinking in the first Christian centuries, very foreign
Ephesus, where this particular way of thinking, feeling and
communities were thinking in their hearts. This kind of thing
drove out to where the castle of King Arthur and his twelve
arrive at a different number when it's a question of looking

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life today, since spiritual development is now taking place
way. The fourth post Atlantean epoch is still working on in
post Atlantean epoch, namely, people will see death walking
will experience this development of waking consciousness like a
moments when they pass over from sleeping to waking
has reached over into the fifth and it rules our thinking,
looking deeply into the special kind of consciousness which
how much longer he has to live; but he will see the working of
post Atlantean epoch. You're basically looking at life which
see the tremendous working and weaving of the spirit behind the
will see the working and weaving of spirit where the materially
know that when I'm here I give the people who are working on
our building one or two hours a week during their working time,

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today, but one initiated the person concerned into the working
people spoke about the cosmic, word, they were speaking about
abstract, by comparison with the kind of thinking which still
between the two the sinking of Atlantis and the rising of new
thinking if one connects numbers with events. If one learns to
world than a king in the realm of the shades.”
the earth, and in the future it will signify a walking before

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they do in Hebraic doctrine, one would be justified in speaking
have two kingdoms the kingdom of nature or the kingdom of the
Father, and the kingdom of the Spirit, and man is carried out
of the kingdom of nature and into the kingdom of the Spirit by
the two kingdoms, the realm of the Father and the realm of the
for man becomes man by taking hold of himself, by making Christ
For he foresaw the effect that the thing which was breaking in
Ahrimanic resistances which are working against the Son God
working further in the impregnation of Christianity with a
working into our time? As I have often pointed out, just take
However, due to the breaking in of Arianism, the
of a working of the spirit through the laws of nature. This is
who raises the kingdom of nature to the kingdom of the spirit
the action from the other aspect. Forces are working in it
of his muscles and his blood — I'm speaking of the

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which is breaking in upon what he feels is the real
fact the breaking in of Arabism gave rise to the great danger
Arabism breaking in behind the scenes of the Christianity which
that the sun demon was working there against the sun genius or
conditions which have to be experienced if the working of karma
the last third of the 19th century in order to go on working
showed himself in the thinking and feeling of the tortured
gods, and not just a working within earth events. This was the
working out of the spirit and into the material world, and this

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awaking, or he sees things in dreams, which emerge from sleep
sleeping condition is perceived by someone when he is waking
waking up. It was inscribed there already through the great,
were, and if one finds the divine being who has been working
leads through the Son to the Spirit. One was looking for a path
that this method of looking for ingredients from the earth in
earth's plant, mineral and animal kingdoms, and one knows that
effort to understand the Apocalypse cannot help asking himself:

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three beings, so that thinking, feeling and willing become
make faith and knowledge true;” not what the (King James
is not the same name he was talking about before; this is the
receive the word of God or the Creative word by taking the
name: King of all Kings, Lord of all Lords. That is the third
form. What is the nature of a king or the nature of a lord? If
Then the Lord of lords and King of kings will live in each
dignity presupposes that he, the leader, is a king over the
intensive way today. Human beings are walking around with masks
Christ who becomes the King of Kings, the Lord of Lords.
we're working and living with into the stream of prophetic
God,” the one who is King of Kings and Lord of Lords
other context than in the one I'm speaking of it here, where I

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period. He describes his visions of the breaking in of
spiritual world in a pure form for their working, thinking and
Something which is outside of the human kingdom falls, namely,
something superhuman is working directly in men with an evil
impulse, and it's not a matter of a weak nature working, as in
will see human beings walking around on earth who couldn't
There will be people walking around on earth who will be
is a power who is continually lurking around in our cosmos.
There is something sinister about this lurking of Satan. One
should be walking, and it would be taken into quite different
become of these walking human bodies over which the ego and
see certain men walking around in their bodies, who are men who
taking place in accordance with the laws of nature. It will
thinking and feeling, for it is a real priests' truth, that is,

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very striking way from the views of the Apocalypticer.
today we don't perceive the working of the spirit in the course
were working harder in the bordering ocean, where what was
Atlantean epoch was that one could clearly see the gods working
to this point in Atlantean evolution they saw a birth taking
Apocalypticer is speaking of very real events which concern us
who was understood by men in their visions, who is now walking

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which someone is speaking in order to understand him, so the
American appendage, for the breaking in of Ahrimanic powers
really very shocking.
who get to the soul stage but are lacking an ego.

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exists as feeling during the waking state, and as pictorial
waking state and the other is its content during sleep. What we
threshold by mankind is taking place in our time. In our
their thinking and will are stunted. Then there are people
will; their thinking and feeling are stunted; they charge like
organized in an Ahrimanic and Luciferic way, their thinking is
rainbow men. Their thinking is relatively inactive, they mainly
Thinking and feeling get increasingly stunted the further we go
instance, through this whole external way of thinking that
sense of the word, who have only developed their thinking. They
rainbow people who are not the thinking type at all. On the
can do this just by looking at their names. A real Magyar has a
will see that our age is speaking in them. He is a rainbow man,

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you have a unified working of what occurs in men and of what
mysteries in a sentence that had a terribly shocking effect

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the workmen is taking in terms of their content due to the
would never have been given today if we had not been talking
about fixed stars he is talking about the divine spirit, as
he speaks about planets he's speaking of angelic intelligences
speaking about the forces and activities of comets. Once you
interesting. He made very nice calculations, and taking

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form. Instead of the spiritual world breaking through the
stars, you were able to see everything that is working in the
hierarchies for us; instead of looking up to the stars' sensory
amounts to thinking. If the brain would only be a continuation
when one sees the weaving and moving and working of the angels,
we're looking into things in the future that we need and which
difficult to understand, stop thinking about it and start to
particular age one has to ask: what are these people lacking?
the knights around King Arthur's table could still read the

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intellectuality occur within human thinking and reflection,
within thinking, wishing and reflecting.
intellectuality that is breaking into his individuality.
of the world powers that he is taking possession of it —
working from man to man in the way that the old divine powers
statistical, intellectualistic way of looking at things that is
Thus this Satanic power is working hard today and he turns to
Intellectuality is breaking in now and men are becoming more
inspiration. That is breaking in. But on the other hand mankind
Through the efforts that the Satanic power is making to acquire
or a true way of working is becoming less and less important
the evil powers whenever one is speaking about the spirit. In
whole being, which one should not receive without looking upon
hidden spirit and the working of the Seraphim, Cherubim and
whether or not the Apocalypse is speaking about you depends

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observe that all of them are taking part in what descents from above.
been discovered, souls who still are looking up to the clouds, in honest
I might say “the imaginative looking of humanity” did gradually
these early centuries, when making oneself a picture of the world, people
they remain. And we really do not understand the working of the spiritual
now still working in a manner so undefinable and chaotic that the people
external existence.” There was the awareness: Looking at nature,
with its ice-fields of lacking spirituality. Raphael, the person from
by looking at pictures of today, where the Christ is pictured as a human
visualizing nature merely as speaking to the senses.
able to bring through his own thinking, through his ego standing on
If Man seeks a picture of nature out of his own thinking, then he finds
The contrast between that which is viewing and that which is speaking.
of the speaking Paulus:
his thinking what Steiner intended to communicate to the listeners.

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there is the spiritual world, and this picture is looking out of this
a certain looking at substance like things (Steiner used a word, which
equivalent might be “substancelynesses”) which are breaking
speaking immediately out of the spiritual world. The interest was above
a different way of looking at it than the points of view I stressed
last year. This “working together” of the Middle-European
The secretive workings in
is the ending of the age of pure speaking, of that age where the ability
us, where he, as an old man, looking back upon his life, does speak
occurrence, of development. Looking towards the East, one finds the
expression of existence, of being present, of calm, of the calm looking
as though they were looking out of the spiritual world are seen, but
in an Oriental way. We are definitely reminded up here of a speaking
rules, and at the same time you feel in such a description the breaking
of the oriental thinking one can immediately visualize the spiritual
8. Stephan Lochner, The Adoration of the Kings.
characterize. You are looking at a before and an after. You see presented
11. Stephan Lochner, The Adoration of the Kings
especially how this joining into each other, this working into each other
He does not express them through looking at a model. Here, you can already
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are always based on old ways of thinking, which, when used nowadays,
must appear again as that which is working into the sense-world out
next motif, the "Presenting of the Offerings to the King”,
sign” to enter? Because in the sign, the Magic was seen, the working
to show especially how here the manner of working grows out of the nature
post-Atlantean age. You can see how the manner of working is based on the
in a way purely by human will, but so that just through making certain
working with the gold, the joy of using the jewel, the noble, the precious
observed — I would call it: a last sounding — of this working
was being worked against it by making alive the great Mystery of the
working. What is heathen comes to meet from the North in such a way,
way, of the spiritualized nature, by the taking of the Greek ability
to show how this working together of the old time with the new would
Christian needs to work itself into a thinking of the spiritual together
many times, how for the human being of the present, that thinking of what
horrible occurrences passing through the present. For, when thinking
of gold, be cast into the Rhein, this sinking the treasure into the
necessary to have the old heathen thinking taken over by the new Christian
For instance, we are looking
Christ-Impulse. We see that working together, which later blossomed in
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element in art?” (I am speaking now from the purely artistic
single soul that enters the body at waking and leaves it on falling
figure, but the cosmic strives with the individual which is working its
characteristic of the great Oriental kingdoms of the third post-Atlantean
working with the earth. But if you look attentively at the Christ-figure,
world-dominion. (I am not making a criticism but merely stating facts.)
being attempted at the present time is a reflection of all that is taking

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themselves therein, taking part in the work, giving force and
therefore, it is necessary to leave off speaking in general in
civilisation, is the extension of intellectual thinking
intellectual thinking human beings according to the modern idea
intellectual thought. When we look at all those Kingdoms of
entire organism. Now our intellectual thinking does not depend
thinking. Then if we look to the kingdom of the Air, there too
we find events taking place; these processes are continued in
nothing directly to do with our intellectual thinking.
with what is our intellectual thinking. But when we look out
thinking. We therefore as human beings, are incorporated into
to special degree with the mineral kingdom, with those forces
have become the thinking beings we have become, especially
working of the mineral forces in the human organism which has
man. Hence man's intellectual thinking was not then the most
higher spheres) in all these are working Divine Spiritual
come from His own kingdom. Then He breathed that which comes
mineral kingdom, he developed an element foreign to Jehovah.
That kingdom then, in the recent age, since the 5th Post
intellectually, with a fully waking consciousness, if he were
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by bringing forward something linking the various things we
come to sense impressions, is horizontal, — speaking
perceptions? We bring to meet them our thinking, our forces for
the earth, and as we dig into the earth, making our little
is the opposite of a MAN. The reality of man is the man walking
all your feeling there lies the metallic working of the earth,
something with his hand. He has the idea with his waking
feelings is the counterpart of the working of the metals.
horizontal working of forces but through forces working from
as is the case with waking man today, he cannot be conscious of
centre for the working of the gold stream lies in the astral
eyes, etc., this can occur, because a gentle sleep is taking
have the ordinary power of thinking, that illuminates your
beside him, but excludes his physical body, making it a sense
working of the stars and starry constellations. But these work

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walking into the dark room with a lamp. They would feel that they
were walking into the world of the senses and illuminating it with
spiritually speaking — on
people walking in the physical world; they sought Christ there
are to be transplanted half into the kingdom of shadows where the
[Charlemagne (724–814), KingNote 9]
ages Charlemagne was seen undertaking the first crusade against the
undertaken on the physical plane; they let it continue working in
shadow figures walking on the earth really believe that you are
outer working of the living dead. It was a peculiarity of those
knight of the Grail was working here in the physical world was
[Henry I (c. 876–936), first German kingNote 12]
imagination. They knew that the angel, the guardian, was working in
herself was speaking in the Roman way, and then to the mingling of
looking at the human beings around him this Saxon peasant-priest
not their way of speaking, we can describe Mendel's fate in these

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comes to meet us as the mineral kingdom, at least it confronts us
kingdom in the wider sense to include water, air, the phenomena of
warmth and the warmth ether, we can study within the mineral kingdom
physical world manifests its workings, for instance, in gravity and
physical world within the mineral kingdom. As soon as we come to the
plant kingdom, the ideas and concepts we have formed for the physical
each other in the same way as the objects of the mineral kingdom are
the mineral kingdom, was not adequate for the study of plant life.
that I should see; in a manner of speaking, the physical has become
those applicable to the mineral kingdom. It is extraordinarily
right way we can say that in the mineral kingdom nature is outwardly
visible all around us, while in the plant kingdom physical nature has
physical nature are still at work in the plant kingdom; but they have
animal, something which cannot be grasped by merely making our ideas
its totality without taking this inner liveliness into the
of speaking, the moving, living concept; with the animal we have to
receding chin and a strikingly projecting forehead. Everywhere
Anyone who saw Fichte walking through
this way. Generally speaking, then, there is very little external

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soul working together to impart to man his true dignity, in
kings that appear in the fairy tale aren't properly real either. They,
in-spired into the golden king, the silver king, and the bronze
king before they could really live in the spiritual world.

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of culture. Looking back we shall see how those people, in whom these
full consciousness of the I did not occur suddenly; it was taking
for our taking hold of the corpse of our spiritual and soul being is
surge of God the Father through the earthly world; and looking out
walking on the earth who experienced within themselves something of
the human physical body the mineral kingdom, in the human etheric
body the plant kingdom, in the human astral body the animal kingdom,
they saw walking around on the earth something that went beyond the
souls, looking down upon the physical bodies now received by the
bear Christ as the being who is actively working within them, as the
being who is even actively working on their bodily nature. And then
The divine principle working as Christianity
were to enter, then basically speaking it would not be a fully
Fundamentally speaking, this challenge

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through this religious working community depend upon the
spiritual movement. A strong current working from within, truly
realities are there. Events taking place on the surface develop
Just as we are speaking about this at the moment, there is for
its old form yet working strongly on the soul and even more
yours, it must be a question of working with real concrete
through telephone wires in the air, making people into actual
nerves and then again one in the counter direction working in
newer impulses, impulses capable of making people independent
carry the awareness within you that you are working with Truth,
uncertainty may limit speaking about the relationship of the
subjective needs can we start talking in a fruitful way. ...
feeling you are speaking with reverence then you can convey
reverence within speaking is of course the start. As a result,
talking is then not only about content but physiognomic, it
genius of speech. Through this, you start to discover talking
within the process and therefore realize: you are not speaking
and etheric part. Between falling asleep and waking up the physical
and ether bodies work on the level of the plant kingdom. What
the human being has as remnant of the plant kingdom is found in
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allowed by those with a scientific way of thinking regarding
of thinking which only takes the half, that is, the scientific
simultaneously with the spirit into nature's wisdom, making the
are working with a path of knowledge. The religious renewal is
no inkling of the existence of such rethinking and
What actually makes a community? A communal thinking and
fundamental change in thinking has never existed before, even
taking these things profoundly and in all seriousness. One
among the authoritative personalities, speaking about something
the spiritual world, brought down into earthly form, making
this harmony by asking the question: ‘Could any ritual which is
The world's working approaches
the priest, when working with the communion, must also
Mass. Then he could well say: ‘I refrain from working with my
we don't follow the route of thinking?
they don't have the ritual. Stopping thinking is a danger of
substance left in the eyes upon waking, “night's
by both sides making mistakes of omission in their
the beginning. We were looking for our field of work as
Movement working with me. At burials I will no longer speak

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your Movement, of which I intend speaking to you today. You see
awaken the awareness that our speaking sinfully enables us to
the experience with the word “thinking,” how many
true sense of the word language is so little understood, making
thinking, feeling and willing as an unveiling of her inner
the exchange of activities taking place between the earth's
found in all areas of existence, working in all cosmic
undertakings, is a communion of the opposites between the
reality in our minds. Similarly with the rising and sinking
to West in width and breadth, also working on you. You are also
what is working in the heights and depths and in the horizon
the genius of speech, taking them to the higher Genius so that
taking these things I've spoken about into your priest

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in many areas. They are approached with intellectual thinking
feels that within his ego is the inner working of the Father
looking back at the consciousness of unblessed mankind,
also applies to the Words of the Gospels taking on quite a
becomes obvious by taking the Greek Text which says:
not come down to directly taking the sentimental value attached
of the ancient working. We can find examples of these
hope that we can continue with our working together in this

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The Redemption of Thinking
century, in a way that is hard to comprehend with our thinking
your thoughts in the way of thinking of Thomas Aquinas, his
both men, and without looking at this event, it is not possible
by an astute thinking of which the modern philosophy
He does not differentiate between thinking and sense
a Greek had experienced. He was forced to a thinking that still
strictly speaking Plato's dialogues and in the least the
Epoch-making Sometimes (1876).
philosopher who was epoch-making as a dangerous romanticist at
Talking about abstract concepts did not make sense to a
and his followers grew up. For them such talking about concepts

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The Redemption of Thinking
humanity. Without looking at this process, it is equally
foreknowledge, but that it concerned taking
that the pure thinking proceeds with mathematical security from
One has only to mind that this thinking
of the world. This thinking could still develop the pure
technique of thinking by other circumstances. Today it is
difficult to develop this pure thinking. Since if one tries
contours proceeding activity of thinking which is
the church with the most astute thinking. Imagine only what it
thinking. One has to look into the inside of the scholastic
taking this way you cannot reach God. However, one has still to
spiritual-mental forces stop working on the bodily.
and dialectic thinking is an outflow of the general human but
just that astuteness of thinking has to decide. One had brought
sphere of thinking, of the ratio. This is the nature of the
The scholastic thinking struggles with this
figure of the world problems. With this struggle and thinking,
with the thinking, with the astute logic; on the other side
Aristotelian unmoved mover, the first cause. The logic thinking
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The Redemption of Thinking
European thinking had more and more if it put the question of
development of western thinking.
I am, therefore, my being is confirmed with my thinking. I am
being with my thinking.
from the thinking and is in this respect only the echo of
those who wanted to find Him with thinking only which is so
would arise to this thinking. This thinking appears in its
about the world and myself at first. However, this thinking is
not yet developed. This is the thinking after the Fall of Man.
says to himself, by the development of thinking this thinking
Plotinism, the spiritual world arises again to the thinking as
it were if this thinking strives for the spirit. The spirit
fulfils as intuition our thinking again.
while we rise with our thinking to intuition, while we are so
thinking, but it changes intuition into theophany, into the
speaking nothing but a transformed and on top of that
this philosophy together but not a humanely thinking
speaking understand nothing of philosophy, which degenerated,
associated with sense-perception and thinking, how the
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Title: Anthroposophic Movement (1938): Lecture I: Homeless Souls
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too, very often, when occasion gives rise to it!) ... looking
where his own life consists in working in company with the
that during the time when they are making ready to come down to
— in numbers, — numbers relatively speaking, of
striking in their numbers to the eyes of their contemporaries.
talking now of the musical element only, but of Wagnerianism as
talking of all sorts of things, when one of them came in, who
his own thoughts. At any rate, he came later, and began talking
course, ‘making observations’ did not mean sniffing about like
a dog with a cold nose, but taking a warm, whole-hearted
volition, — the seeking for a spiritual world, —
as regards any sort of scientific thinking, and nonsensical
was looking for something. One couldn't make out what it
was he was looking for, — something or other in the
But he always went on looking. He was looking for the Point in
learn was that he was looking for the Point, the Point. And so
unusually striking way.
these homeless souls, who had begun by seeking a new home for

Title: Anthroposophic Movement (1938): Lecture II: The Theosophical Society: A Common Body with a Conscious Self. Blavatsky Phenomenon
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seeking, by many and various roads, to bring to development in
What was it, then, that such souls were seeking, who at that
Amongst all the many people who were seeking, whether along
— or indeed, more truly speaking, it came forth at once
Looking at the ‘Theosophical Society’ and the whole intention
the people actually walking about before them in flesh and
speaking, as a kind of ghost-society. For, to the extent which
often then it was a striking contrast when one came to meet the
society they do not as yet, truly speaking, exist; because
there is lacking just this sense of ‘belonging together’;
world-conceptions then taking place in the civilized world, as
— there was that great, I might say world-shaking
is not a god thinking in the man, but the man himself who is
thinking, then the result is five logical ideas, — at
Here, then, one might say, taking the evolution of the
Waking of Lazarus. So that this Lazarus problem therefore, as
Man's evolution upon earth. And in a certain sense, and taking
calmed their uneasiness by thinking: ‘What must have happened
been an infringement, strictly speaking, of our rights.’

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evolution, which must not be forgotten when speaking of the
societies I am speaking of, who kept a certain spiritual
betrayal; and that then Blavatsky had been the means of making
some way wanted to set this old knowledge working once more
thinking was terribly abstract! — What in particular
little shaking-up. And so I held a lecture on Thomas
past and its ideas, for talking of the darkness of the
dreadful! — they said: — Here are we, taking every
but self-mistaken spirit, spirit which cheats itself by taking
looking back, then, to its first beginnings, which must be
besides, when speaking about the age from the anthroposophic

Title: Anthroposophic Movement (1938): Lecture IV: Blavatsky's Orientation: Spiritual, but Anti-Christian
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things, — and especially not for liking or disliking
else, and only at last taking up more and more into modern
would begin. Pictorial, — speaking to the imagination,
spirit speaking.
come together in societies such as we are speaking of, there
the sense: There is something inside me — it is working
card-playing is more strong than the liking to listen, —
me. There is a secret thinking and feeling and willing that
dreaming; and this inner dreaming is an after-working of the

Title: Anthroposophic Movement (1938): Lecture V: Anti-Christianity. - The Healing of the Gulf.
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am speaking in these lectures. With Nietzsche it went so far as
old Mysteries. And, truly speaking, if one takes the whole of
asking? What are the questions stirring in their inmost depths?
to speak to these souls, it was because these souls were asking
souls are asking, what their souls want to know. And therefore
people their perfect liberty of choice: Will you go on taking
With the people who were more intently seeking, and had,
spiritual fashion, — a good way of taking the first
which we were speaking? — At its root lies the desire to
those people who happened to be asking the questions.

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Taking, to begin with, the first period, which lasted down to
have just mentioned. This gentleman was talking once in company
way of thinking, and one of a quite peculiar kind, took place
was, strictly speaking, allowed to ‘go through’ in the
science way of thinking to the proof of what his feelings
thinking, might be seen in the discussions that for a long time
amongst us who are making war on the Atomic doctrine, that this
science, and talking in reality utter nonsense. The people
Programme-making is the very worst thing for a spiritual
discuss now. And then it came to picking out that boy who was

Title: Anthroposophic Movement (1938): Lecture VII: The Third Stage: The Present Day. - Life-Conditions of the Anthroposophical Society
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what are, truly speaking, the life-conditions of the
course the external arrangements involved making all sorts of
the same time, however, it meant taking the first essential
we may point as marking the expiration of this period, is the
commercial undertakings not unconnected with Communist
was necessary to go on working very actively after 1914.
spiritual inner treasure, which is now seeking revelation for
working up this spiritual store of wealth, of doing anything
the thing could be carried forward successfully, was by looking
This practice of working solely from the central source, which
sixteen or seventeen nationalities working together side by
scientific element began now, in the third period, by making
and earnestness of which I was speaking just now. So long as,
after all, a good deal still of that style of thinking, which
is to point out clearly where they are making false statements.
the third period, by making itself felt in precisely the
earnestness of which I was speaking just now. So long as, after
all, a good deal still of that style of thinking, which is
is to point out clearly where they are making false statements.
be for my not speaking there? The only point was, that
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king-dom, still it was at any rate possible to indicate
to the animal kingdom as well. And in my book, Goethe's
live and live-making ideas from the source. — That was
certain definite level. And whilst thus working one has the
speaking, in a spiritual element. And though one is applying
most strikingly apparent when one started out from something
of the natural world, in the workings of wind and weather, in
the workings of earth, in mechanic workings, this man of a
skies in order to learn the workings of the earth, even to
above them; for there is no sense in talking of all these laws;
Nature’, ... since what Man is seeking to express as
order in the world. And by looking at the inside of all
Well, as you know, I tried to do this by picking out two very
striking and remarkable instances as subjects for discussion.
how, by looking up at the stars with a telescope, one can find
speaking, in Nothing, — for they are not to be found in
working, the tendency of the stream itself led the direction of
seeking along the scientific path.
for those who are seeking along this scientific path, it is
working from the central source of Anthroposophy. It is
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Title: First Class, Vol. I: Lesson 1
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honest seeking. For all this can only constitute a basis for
Begat this ghost within your thinking;
Begat this ghost within your thinking;
the spirit, it resorts to mocking spiritual knowledge.
third beast is lazy thinking, the kind of thinking that would
the world's phenomena with passive thinking. Man is too lazy
and comfortable to activate his thinking. Humanity's thinking
cannot. And existence cannot be comprehended by thinking with
thinking if we want to grasp the spirit.
thinking and we want to activate thinking, if we do not wish to
Begat this ghost within your thinking;
the Threshold, what is necessary in feeling, willing, thinking

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Then do you turn your anxious seeking soul
sensation that by looking out into the external world we gain
such insight were provided to everyone walking down the street
Mightily working, in the cosmic ether,
that this looking back, the perception in looking back,
knowledge which reveals the contamination in our own thinking,
Begat this ghost within your thinking;
thinking. When we create with ordinary consciousness we create
correctly prepare ourselves for creative thinking, the
spiritual world streams into our creative thinking. And then,
our thinking, feeling and willing in order for the three beasts
to be defeated: thinking, the thought - phantom; feeling -
from real knowledge, firstly in our thinking. Normal human
thinking is reflected in the thought-phantom of the first
is the image of ordinary human thinking which thinks about
thinking is a corpse. Where did the being live whose corpse
this ordinary thinking is?
contemporary civilization - when thinking from waking in the
us in school and in life itself, our thinking is a corpse. It
human figure. You must imagine this related to thinking. A
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Title: First Class, Vol. I: Lesson 3
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which one will actually take when seeking access to the
leads to the spiritual world, and provided the thinking is not
thinking, your feeling, your willing are held together by the
physical body. You are a threefold human being: a thinking,
immediately becomes a triple being. His thinking goes its own
thinking flies out into distant space and that his feeling goes
his feeling does not stay with him. Thinking at least goes out
Begat this ghost within your thinking;
this threefold splitting in which one's thinking goes its way,
Of thinking, that denies itself
Forsaking the spirit-force
The second beast's mocking countenance
our gaze within in order to be alert to what our thinking
that they instruct us what should enter into our thinking,
in our thinking to accept the challenge with our selfhood which
Just as through the first mantric verse we enter thinking, we
enter the inner world of thinking through the second.
aside thinking and try to observe your own feelings. In
thinking everything is semblance. But when we descend into
First of all, selfhood had to “revere” by sinking
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of the gods with all your thinking, all your feeling, all your
speak to you, appealing to your thinking, feeling, willing, and
different relationship of thinking, feeling and willing in us
everyday consciousness, thinking, feeling and willing are bound
closely bound together thinking, feeling and willing are in
possible to separate thinking from feeling in the artistic
esoteric is said, it must be possible to separate thinking from
we do not understand them if we do not use pure thinking to do
engendered through thinking. Such feelings should be developed
from thinking.
from out of the esoteric, he is speaking from the godly sphere
which pertains to thinking, can by grasped only when we feel
thinking:
able to withstand the separation of thinking, feeling and
thinking, feeling and willing together for everyday
the conception of my thinking also arose. If the tree didn't
exist, I would not be thinking today. My hand is only necessary
order that I can be a thinking being. Why should the hand be
in a field looking up at a star-bedecked sky. It becomes
heights are speaking. And just as we can grow in love together
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constitutes man's inner self - thinking, feeling, willing -
became clear to us how in a certain respect thinking, feeling
the spiritual world, in a certain sense thinking, feeling and
evening. Thinking, however, is the force which relates upwards
thinking the higher powers.
in the plant, mineral, animal kingdoms, to which we have access
to human beings. So here we stand, apart, looking inwards at
our thinking, feeling and willing, aware that our thinking,
materialistic age we have even ceased asking humans, because
also when looking into the inner human we see what for normal
consciousness is passive thinking, with which we can indeed
own thinking, that every thought is captured light - both for
thinking is in your head. Think that your willing is none other
than the moving, living, active air element working within.
thinking that you are, if you do not begin to experience the
fact that when you are thinking you are living in the entire
say to himself: If in my thinking I merge completely with the
I merge with the light in my thinking, light-beings grasp hold
thinking, make him one with the light, rend him from all the
aware of the true nature of thinking. Therefore we should
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gets to know the world by observing the kingdoms of nature
which are external to his own being - the animal kingdom, the
vegetable kingdom and the mineral kingdom. These relations
what is revealed between the things. We see the three kingdoms
friends, behind the kingdoms of nature we have what is called
them as we speak of the other beings of the nature-kingdoms,
vegetable kingdom. There is something in you that is as sleepy
toward the kingdoms of nature when we feel that we belong to
them as well. We feel the inner relationship to these kingdoms
look out at the animal kingdom. We observe the indolent animals
because we stand alone and the kingdoms of nature are beyond
can see how in reality all thinking - this is unknown to people
- is nothing other than a refined breathing. Thinking is
breath circulating there is known as thinking in the physical
world; sublimated breathing is thinking.
in this abstract thinking existing as a kind of tenuous
which we designate as thinking.
thinking. When breathing, completely refined, strikes the sense
refined-to-thinking breathing process is like an organized
rapid speaking ...] a mineralization process. One
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taking the School seriously must lead to the cancellation of
Generally speaking, it is not difficult for a person to leave
being which expresses itself psychically in thinking, feeling
and willing. In reality they are three humans: the thinking
naively appears physically to be.) In looking up you must
and other earthly forces. In our thinking - which as earthly
thinking is only capable of understanding the earthly - we must
verse is spoken while making the sign before the head:
speaks the verse while making the sign before the breast:
speaks the verse while making the sign pointing downward:
the sensory world we think that the site of thinking and mental
But this thinking in the head is always mixed a little bit with
the sensory world the whole extent of thinking and a small
reverse: a small amount of thinking and much widespread willing
know that when thinking is not considered as a function of the
that thinking does not belong to an individual, but to the
Thinking's germinal-waking cosmic-life.
thinking as feeling in respect to cosmic being, when you
thinking to be concentrated in the head, here [in the first
thinking is brought directly into connection with the limbs,
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questions about any field of life posed by honestly seeking
wish to begin today's lesson - without you taking notes, only
listening at first - by speaking the mantric formula which
world, in the kingdoms of nature, see the colors and the
star, cloud on cloud, creatures of the kingdoms of nature which
that he will realize: In this light-filled kingdom of earth the
soul-life, thinking, feeling and willing, here is this
earth-life are held together by our physical bodies. Thinking,
this. Feeling (green) extends into thinking (yellow); willing
following [drawing again]: thinking (yellow) is freed,
physical body had held thinking, feeling and willing together,
soon as we leave our physical bodies with our thinking, we
perceive this thinking as one with all that is manifested in
instrument of our thinking. But now we begin to feel the stars,
the other planets. Between what we experience as thinking in
What must be perfectly clear however, is that our thinking, our
thinking.
Dear friends, dear sisters and brothers, this thinking which
before we descended to this physical world a living thinking
earthly corpse-thinking. From it spring forth - but dead - the
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First - without taking notes - let us be reminded of the
my warmth; one must say: I enlighten myself by thinking through
man, see yourself in the kingdom of elements.
holds thinking, feeling and willing together through its own
experiencing, thinking, feeling and willing are no longer one,
thinking and separated from willing.
if we are able to grasp thinking in such a way that thoughts
are freed from physical existence, it is as though our thinking
the threshold: my thinking rests in the resting stars; my
unites with the earth forces. So thinking, feeling, willing are
not need to bind thinking, feeling and willing together,
unity. Thinking, feeling and willing would be constantly
other side of the threshold, they are divided so that thinking
doing this we must experience thinking, feeling and willing in
such a way that we can communicate to thinking, which has gone
thinking and willing; to willing, which is bound to the earth,
something of thinking and feeling. This something we indeed can
there is where your thinking lies. But I will bring the starry
incorporated feeling and willing into thinking, which is bound
system. Then I have assigned thinking and willing to
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sinking into something where it can find neither strength nor
civilisation lacks the strength. And lacking this, it lacks
“What is good?” they are asking, “What is
good absolutely?” They are not asking, “What
are asking about absolute Goodness and Truth. They are
not asking about what actually exists in the concrete evolution
question, but the temperament is lacking. On the other hand,
materialistic fashion, yet it has got in it the makings of a
appendage, for working it out and giving it shape; but no
socialism is, strictly speaking, peculiar to Asiatic
working for a reconstruction of our civilisation. One cannot
doctrine of Karma picture it working, as though Justice were
never really willing to go to the root of what is taking place
globe, — of which the American is making towards
possessing the impulse of freedom (for talking about freedom is
their very way of speaking that the altruistic spirit is
this one third only of the impulses that go to the making of a
talking about realities, and all the while are lying to
they would not be astonished; but if they met a pig talking
that Blavatsky was as if a pig should start talking like a man!
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A Different Way of Thinking is Needed to Rescue European Civilization
attention is actually directed to what is living and working in
in which a new civilisation can be founded than by making it
Reason — Ethics alongside Science, — making a
When they talk of Thought they know nothing of real thinking;
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taking place through the transference of estates from spiritual
speaking, as I am doing now, of the Pharaohs as
talked to anyone and spoke of spiritual facts, one was speaking
Christ, — roughly speaking, with the foundation of Rome.
at the moment, the epoch-making moment, when the belief in the
Science, one thing, — a separate banking- account; Faith,
another thing, — a separate banking-account, and they
certainly! But then, that banking book, — religion must
written in banking-books, “By the Grace of God,”
epoch by taking away the land and estates from those who have
be willing to regain the faculty of looking on their
taking on a body here on earth again. And it is just those
looking up to men who are far, far worse than themselves, as
and that the solid ground we tread on is actually breaking up
beneath us. But it is not only the mineral kingdom of the earth
that Is breaking up; all organic life that moves upon the earth
physical is breaking up; everything physical on earth has begun
it, it would be continually breaking down, continually falling
perceive that the earth's physical life is already sinking to
making out of the old religious creeds, — taking all
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science of chemistry and physics, the seeking of the
as in the East of Europe was there so much thinking concerning
the basis of their thinking, so we can show that in the Eastern
thinking is directed to the question of Evil and of Death. The
Please just bear in mind how this thinking concerning the
Strauss becomes a kingdom of shadow, which only seeks to show
element working in Christ Jesus, — for this personal
of their own thinking, and it was no external facts of
lived under the impulse of thinking along these lines, even if
Sea-Pirate of the 16th century, John King. John King, who then

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which I have given you a shocking example in the Bureau of
Science; — the real working and weaving of the spirit in
the West people are seeking after secrets which relate to
seeking to drag certain complexes out of the human organism,
spiritual beings who are working behind existence. These beings
have a one-sided power, i.e. thinking, reasoning; and
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only penetrate into the life of those human beings working and
speaking, works in a weakening way on all these forces which
that in our entire human nature, not merely in our thinking but
This method of looking at things ought to become general. If
developed from a Spiritual method of looking at things. That
digested and re-appear as a force working socially. We can get
social impulses in no other way than by taking up Spiritual
Divine workings of thought.
things amongst themselves, they are working exactly under the
life these same instincts remain, and are working. But now we
light into this working of the instincts, for that alone can be
working socially are permeated by instinct. Into this instinct
it is really necessary for our modern social thinking that we

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Science), or of our practical undertakings, that we carry into
Southern Railway and entered a great business undertaking,
undertakings; and one could very well learn from that what one
my thinking in a very different way of the connection between
means a strong shaking up in one's inner soul, and because they
see that mockery is not lacking, especially shown in the
Here you see, a man is speaking of my relationship with the
Only one thing is lacking, and that is my relationship with
filled with a striking intensity; and above all my dear
friends, a waking-anxiety is necessary on the part of those who

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kingdoms of nature, or man himself, or the Hierarchies next to
who have such a horror of sharp clearly defined thinking, who
mineral, plant, or animal kingdoms. All those are simply
our waking-intelligence depends upon the union of the soul with
making of it. Those physical forces will fall away and be of no
the other hand, to absorb themselves in dry, barren thinking;
There is no question of our speaking of Cosmic beings as better
would be working for the Luciferic being; nor shall we seek him
working for the Ahrimanic being; But we shall endeavour to pour

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kingdoms of mature, or man himself, or the Hierarchies next
defined thinking, who rebel against forming clear concepts of
mineral, plant, or animal kingdom. All those are simply
waking-intelligence depends upon the union of the soul with
making of it. Those physical forces will fall away and be of
thinking — dividing and separating everything up
question of our speaking of Cosmic beings as better than
gravity, that would be working for the Ahrimanic

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undertaking was calculated to shift industrial production
consciously; people imagine they are talking about the issues,
backing is minimal. Yet, what would happen if Lloyd George were
replaced? The minister taking his position would himself
speaking in such a way that the others can't discern how they
then things will have indeed reached a breaking point. So it
matters that will turn people into thinking human beings. For
could resume talking. Something like that can happen. I
sucked the ink out of the man's small wound, since pricking

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forces are working like a sculptor to build up the whole
substances are lacking. Say you were working on a statue
the universe. Its roundness indicates the working of the whole
upon the skull, which is sometimes covered by a stupid looking
have an influence on an organ, or to cast a horoscope thinking
required for making machines. Nothing can be said against this
right way. Once social thinking is ruined, nothing rational can

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come to a strange-looking thing — a veritable snail
Eustachian tube. When another person is speaking to us, the
his forehead they saw an eagle looking out, from the heart, a
I did have time after all to get to your question after looking

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manner of thinking ignores something I have repeatedly
secretion. By thoroughly checking into all the experiments made
instance. Cheerfulness is engendered by drinking wine but,
accomplished by working with such substances in the
of our society and who was looking for a cure here. This brown
advanced age because the gonadal hormone is lacking and
rejuvenation methods can really be compared to taking sleeping

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wall; you are looking through the transparent skin all the way
that colour. It is like looking through the window of a dark
the lens thicker when looking at something close up, or relax
hunter, however, frequently looking into the distance,
act of speaking is separated from hearing, but with the eye it
fools. We say of such people that they are talking to
drives food substances all the way into his hair, making

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Europeans cannot make at all. It is a clicking sound, somewhat
like the cracking of a whip.
have its heart in the right place, speaking strictly
abnormalities like this have to become an obstacle. Taking such
habit of making pronounced gestures. What does he do when he is

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kingdom around within us. Later, however, when we enter grammar
forces from the nerves for thinking. We draw these forces
out and use them for thinking. This is extremely interesting.
Ordinarily, it is assumed that the nerves do the thinking, but
the nerves do not think. We can employ the nerves for thinking
away for thinking. It is really so. When we truly ponder the
completely lacking. But since we cannot use the sensation of
really not disposed to walking on the earth. It is suited
enough, the urge to fly away. When the manure's stinking odour

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as one who states that rain comes from croaking frogs. Frogs
constitution were such that in walking around everywhere we
spiral nebulas; that is correct. But if by looking out there

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drinking and eating. Hunger is the beginning of an
like the beginning of a disease. Every act of drinking or
overexerts himself walking. In both cases the astral body will
consists not only in hearing but also in speaking faintly. We
turn makes us contract the flu. It is like making soil suitable
asking the right questions and in being familiar with the
drinking; we free our water, so to speak, from what is

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still taking place to-day. In all the restlessness one hears the
lacking. It appeared to the oriental as if everything he sees in
over into men's thinking of what is purely mechanical. Whenever he
sees how the European has reached the point of taking treasures
streaming to them from the paintings on the walls, and speaking to
thinking of all those bitter experiences and of how, almost 40
Executive Ministers, listening to advice, asking questions and
it must be admitted, the modern European is absolutely lacking in
understanding for this whole method of thinking and feeling; that
was speaking within him. Who is there to-day who understands deeply
working of Dionysus in man — that again we must take in all
Universe, and so on. No, such thinking about World Riddles is
probably go on manufacturing, striking, colonising, militarising,
America. That consciousless, blind, self-seeking of gold is the
is the cold sense for self-seeking.’”
simply a bit of professional barking at something which, of course,
It is justified ten times over. But behind his barking there is not
had when, on looking at man from outside, he dramatised his
but bones. And so, not now speaking allegorically, but in truth,
looking, and calling out, as it were, to Europe what the Asiatic
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not — in reality no thinking person should — pass by
knowledge, was as regards the real world walking over a fiend of
it were, the Spirit itself is speaking to the world in
evil-minded women, Anastasia and Milizza, daughter of King Nicholas
themselves up, so far as can be, to seeking the eternal in what is

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went about speaking with a certain emphasis of his inner
played, he continued talking and then the girl played again.
by looking into man's inner being with the usual consciousness,
reflected from within. By looking inside us, we only come as
without breaking it, so we cannot look into man s inner being.
looking into man's inner being. What can be seen within
been able to evolve your thinking. For your thoughts must
thinking man must possess in order to acquire the
thinking which must exist in front of the memory-mirror,
effects the continuation of thinking into the etheric body. The
unconscious feeling and continues working as an unconscious
before you by making an old Oriental sage say it. Perhaps it
looking over such things, it is possible to look deeply into
falling asleep and waking up, he penetrates into this world.
of thinking, so that nothing real and essential is reached; yet

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specially directed against our practical undertaking, against
Anthroposophical view of the world. Economic undertakings are
what lies at the basis of such undertakings and see how they
capable of evoking into being that living spirit which lives in
now, in what concerns our practical undertakings we find people
these undertakings are all conducted by Anthroposophists
undertakings, and so on. Other people perhaps nay be
admitted to these undertakings and concerns, but they will
concerns, we find, in the place of the individual undertakings
obtain insight into the way in which human beings are seeking,
Regarding now what concerns the practical undertakings, —
make these undertakings better than similar undertakings
undertakings. If you open your ears, and this is necessary

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therapeutics and health, but phenomena from all the kingdoms of nature
isn't working properly, you will find that something is
manage, I have stimulated the brain into working harder than
before. If the brain can overcome it, it is like asking a
wishes nor taking them literally, it is much easier to satisfy
execute experiments, and so on. You are not thinking at all
thinking. If we look into the brain, we see that the hindbrain
is related to breathing and to thinking. Breathing has, in
fact, a pronounced relationship to thinking.
Picture the following case. A person lacking the benefits of
fine-looking human beings. What a woman does with her head
during pregnancy becomes the source of the activity taking

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The Brain and Thinking
therapeutics and health, but phenomena from all the kingdoms of nature
The Brain and Thinking
thinking, that there are no thoughts where no brain exists.
thinking. But if those people, who in fact make little use of
thinking, however, are contained in the statement that the
like a brain, which is supposed to be the thinking apparatus.
animal, a female wasp, heavy with eggs, looking for an insect
Nevertheless, intelligence is working in what they do, and it
fly around seeking it. They arrive at the new location but do
world. To this day, however, he is not making use of it in a
can see that it is a matter of correct thinking. But those who

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therapeutics and health, but phenomena from all the kingdoms of nature
appears in the morning after an evening of too much drinking.
Due to the drinking the night before, the circulation of a
of drinking every once in a while, therefore, instinctively do
they do? Surely, you have seen this; they continue drinking,
making the morning pint into a special cure.
What does this continued drinking signify? During the night,
Through renewed drinking, the body is stimulated once again, so
aware of that. Additional drinking in the morning thus
more drinking are in the worst shape, because gradually, as
What happens when people who have been drinking heavily for
some energy left, stop drinking? It is an interesting fact that
stir. They have been drinking for a while, let us say, drinking
stirs and they stop drinking. What happens then? If they had
been drinking for a long time begin suffering from delirium
tremens when they stop drinking.
head from the side effects of drinking, his overall condition
he discontinued drinking.
the red and white corpuscles, asking where in the body these
drinking alcohol have reached the bone marrow, does the really
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therapeutics and health, but phenomena from all the kingdoms of nature
well as men, influence the egg cell or semen through drinking,
employ their tails in working on their constructions, but that
avoid too much speculative thinking. This might sound strange,
thinking only results when one simply allows the facts to guide
related to drinking. Why are they related in such a way that a
little drinking does not make such a difference but heavy
drinking does? You can figure this out from the following.
alcohol it. needs, as I have explained. In drinking alcohol,

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On Taking Absinthe
therapeutics and health, but phenomena from all the kingdoms of nature
Meat Diets — On Taking Absinthe
introduced into the human body through smoking and through
for two reasons — first, because of a strong liking for
Smoking is something that has only come about in humanity's
beneficial to administer nicotine to cure him. If smoking is
nations transform plants into flesh by making use of the forces
is in the habit of thinking! A person who cannot think does not
kosher food. Kosher cooking follows the ancient Mosaic dietary
every day, which they keep under control by drinking the
this is what drinking the waters and taking the baths at
two eggs rather than one. But the striking feature of identical

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therapeutics and health, but phenomena from all the kingdoms of nature
details. Much depends, for example, on whether a speaking child
moment in time, the speaking children were born and the mute
four speaking children were born, in which case, the reason
shooting upward. Because the skin activity is no longer working
Because the, skin's activity from the outside is not working
kidneys' activity is not working properly, this indentation
optic nerves that cross are not working properly, we see
how a person who enjoys drinking can tell whether or not he is
room in which she was resting, thinking it was all right to do
be brought about through the working of the solid part of the
something is not working properly inside. The heart is not a
circumstance, perhaps through drinking, I become afflicted with

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therapeutics and health, but phenomena from all the kingdoms of nature
it were, also be found to exist inwardly. Making a sketch of a
system for my thinking. This is a most interesting point.
throughout my life on earth in sleeping and waking. This is
require much thinking. But anthroposophy wishes to begin to
thinking. In anthroposophy, however, one must exert oneself,

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therapeutics and health, but phenomena from all the kingdoms of nature
can easily bleed to death during an operation, making such an
undertaking extraordinarily difficult. Hemophiliacs are forever
Naturally, if medical thinking is so muddled that one takes the
how this aeriform element works by making a comparison.
still on the ascent, they abhorred all this drinking. They only
through the sea. Looking at this gigantic expanse of the ocean
explain this if you don't have the possibility of looking into
that, in a manner of speaking, says, “We shall renounce
capable people. Drinking absinthe, however, produces incapable

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therapeutics and health, but phenomena from all the kingdoms of nature
Now, this way of looking at things was completely abandoned
by Basilius Valentinus. He cannot help thinking that he is
thinking really can be absorbed in the outside world. This is
taking into consideration the natural history of the whole

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activity. Therefore let me begin by speaking to you in a rather more
abstract way of the different kinds of universal law and working, and
later crystallise out, as it were, that special kind of working which
confronts us most clearly of all in the mineral kingdom. There are
within the lifeless kingdom the causes of all lifeless processes.
lifeless kingdom is really self-contained. We may not be able to say,
effect confronts us, if we are looking for its causes, we must seek
death. All that was working and living in him before he went through
now we may go farther. Study the plant kingdom. Here we come
merely from causes which lie within the plant kingdom — in the
same kingdom where the effects occur. No doubt, there is a science
They will go on speaking like this for a long while yet. For it is
not so. If you wish to make research into the plant kingdom you
and good: the causes of effects occurring in the plant kingdom of the
earth are not to be found in this kingdom on the earth itself. Let us
hand, the cosmic ether with its forces is working. It works inward
from the wide spaces. The ether is working in on every hand, from the
kingdom, we must actually pass into a second realm of the universe.
man also partakes in what the plant partakes in. The forces working
kingdom. Of the plant kingdom we must say: its causative forces come
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lifeless kingdom — the physical corpse. And on the other hand,
from the plant and the animal kingdoms. Moreover, what he absorbs
from the mineral kingdom bears a remarkable relation to that which he
will come to the conclusion that what comes from the mineral kingdom
kingdom; such is the nature of the mineral. That which sustains the
is it then that is working in the plant-kingdom? What is it that is
working so that the forces pour in from the wide ether-spaces,
body? What is it that is working? Here, my dear friends, we come to
the plants to grow, and working also in ourselves, inasmuch as we too
ether-body compounds the living fluids in us, making us grow short or
depends upon the fact that not only the plant-kingdom but the animal
kingdom also, peoples the earth. Think what different kinds of
elephant inhabits, where the elephant-creating forces are working in
Kyriotetes. In the animal kingdom lives the earthly image of the
the animal kingdom.
we rise into the human kingdom as such. For we live not only with the
aware of the immense intricacy and deep significance in the workings
human kingdom. All that thus happens to us is deep in the unconscious
we here see established within the physical, another kingdom; and in
this kingdom we are living. We live not only in comfort and
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causes. But the world of causes, none the less, is working as such
are either deficient or altogether lacking in contentment in this
clear-cut, they are all so clever — I am not speaking
It rather went its way through the world without “knocking up
the things that were taking place on earth after his death.
connection. He imagines that what wells forth in human Thinking is
of my walking is due.” Now and then it led to quite a long
Looking at this, you might argue: Well, I am free in a certain
seeking to avoid its necessity. Quite the contrary; for as you now
man feels embarrassed in walking because the ground is there beneath
the realm where the necessity is working — just as the fish

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unconscious cannot go on working as it did when our souls were
education, but this concrete way of looking into life, to see where
it — generally speaking — whom you may confront so as to
(generally speaking, at least; there may of course, be
of Goethe's in this life, generally speaking — according to
speaking to you, or doing any actions that come near you? What is it
walking down the Schillergasse, let us say, towards the Frauenplan in

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Speaking
begin by asking how he inherited them. If, for example, he appears
model to take with him into life. Then, working on the model, he
the modern man's way of thinking, it is no doubt an grotesquely
later life. If, in his working on himself, he is altogether dependent
of man's working on the model. While he is doing so, the original
not at all to your liking that you should come down again for a
say, with the air of making an objection: “I have seen children
themselves have set themselves the ideal of taking on the form of
the working with the spiritual beings, with whom he is then together,
carries them over this, they become limp, lacking in energy and

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soul-life of man. The life of the human soul falls into Thinking,
Feeling and Willing. Thinking finds its corresponding physical
our feelings as between the thoughts which we have in our day-waking
our dreams. When, on awaking from sleep, we recollect ourselves and
(namely, that you are actually taking hold of the watch) following on
not speaking from the physical standpoint; from a physical standpoint
willing. Therein are working and wielding all the impulses from our
preceding life on earth; only they too, even in waking life, are
are. Deep sleep (even in waking life) is the condition in which our
volition is. We are asleep in our impulses of will, even in waking
is taking place.
making pictures of them. The mental pictures come and go; they are
perception. In effect, our day-waking consciousness consists in
where, in our waking-day consciousness we form ideas — it is
let us go down into the region, psychologically speaking, of feeling:
corporeally speaking, of the rhythmic organisation, out of which the
the human head, i.e. with our thinking. If they were not concerning
themselves with our thinking — with that which is going on in
birth, we look still further down — as it were, looking through
us. We, all the time, are working with the Beings of the Second
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hazardous undertaking to speak of individual karmic connections, no
we will consider certain examples of the working of karma, remote
hazardous undertaking of speaking about the karma of individuals —
mode of thinking, adopted it himself. The absorption in
off-hand. He also had very striking personal peculiarities. To take
friend of mine once paid him a visit, knocking politely at the door.
shall find when we come to consider the working of karma — that
striking. But the reality is there nevertheless, and those who take
can often be astounded, outwardly speaking, at what is possible in
which he was in the habit of taking in Spaun's company, was paid for
after all, people have been talking about the Theory of Relativity
was clarity of thought, and there is no clear thinking at all in
maintains that there is no clarity of thinking here. What does “minus
probably be, he would have to be looking at the orator and at all the
way of thinking and his astute perspicacity, applied to literature.
In order, presumably, to make it plain how his way of thinking
with Frau Elizabeth Forster-Nietzsche and was working on unpublished
respect of karma, the most striking thing about Dühring is that
other way — leaving aside the abuse and taking only the

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pre-earthly experiences. But in speaking now I shall give second
undertaking such investigations it is absolutely essential to get rid
peoples who were making their way down to Sicily from the north.
the individuality of whom I am speaking had received a thoroughly
natural-scientific thinking in the second half of the 19th century is
time as men who were steeped in the natural-scientific thinking of
thinking.
Vischer working at the destruction of his own aesthetics! We see how
you, could flare up in rage, making him into a thorough brawler; on
waking in the morning. It was extremely difficult to get a picture of
in the way of art and, I will not say of subtle “thinking”
conflicts now again taking place between the Moors and the

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these lectures we are speaking of karma, of the paths of human
working is due also the instinctive sensitiveness of the soul to this
speaking, it is not, as you know, very easy to pay real attention to
just as these men felt the Spiritual in the workings of nature and
like the breaking of a storm! You must imagine it shouted as it were
conscious in man, all his conscious thinking is of less significance
though they were making a casual remark, and that is the really
the impulses for looking at things in the right way arise of
the result will not amount to anything very striking. But now let us
striking feature in a man's life, we shall not be able to discover
whereas the rest of the organism — which, physically speaking,
whereas, speaking generally, the organism of man apart from the head
the next incarnation. A man who is lazy in his thinking in one
laziness of thinking becomes slowness of limb; and, vice versa,
sluggish, lazy thinking in the next.
East, and the individuality of whom we are speaking absorbed it all
cleverness really lies two incarnations ago and is working on from
as soon as one realises that the cleverness in it is working on from
when one came to know Eduard von Hartmann personally and was talking
is not the one who is talking; behind him again is a third, and it is
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that at every point some light is shed on the workings of karma.
epoch appear again, born into communities speaking an entirely
yet working still with the same fundamental impulse. In an earlier
an individuality as Haroun al Raschid passing through death, looking
looking down, that is to say, upon the outward extermination of
so what may have disappeared, outwardly speaking, from history, is
“culture,” as we would say today, of the attacking Arabs,
that had been carried over to Asia was taking effect. Muavija, who
one whose thinking is no longer patterned in absolute conformity with
get this striking impression. — During the life between death

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cases, it is all a matter of seeking in the right way. Let us then
we come to consider the features of his life, looking especially for
speaking, however, it was the great world that interested him. While
looking out from Rome as it were over all Italy, he must have been
now, taking part as he did in all manner of movements in Italy in the
was out at sea, on board ship, looking landwards through a telescope.
dynasty of Victor Emmanuel should rule over the kingdom of Italy,
with, comparatively speaking, quite a small force of men,
undisciplined yet filled with enthusiasm, of how the future King of
had accomplished — the whole story makes a deep and striking
impression. Fundamentally speaking, if we may put it in somewhat
appearance. It would have been unthinkable for the future King of
unthinkable. Nevertheless the King's advisers were against it.
the King had come — what does one say in such a case, putting
generals, making wry faces, were obliged to join with Garibaldi's
working with him may perhaps have been better at leading large armies
the three kings in Nathan the Wise, he wants to show how the
there is, properly speaking, no possibility of ignoring it.
are, of course, risks in speaking of these matters, but in view of

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There is still another very striking event in his life. The
So you see, there is this other very striking fact in Garibaldi's
king only over a liberated Italy. And we have on the other hand
among them is, without doubt, Garibaldi himself. Taking into
behind him. We have in Garibaldi a most striking example of
much in his arguments and in his whole way of speaking that was bound
I am speaking metaphorically — with spiritualistic pictures,
little difference. These things, fundamentally speaking, are
them by looking through to the individuality behind — would be
Many secrets are hidden in the things of which I am now speaking.
certain fact will become clear, a most striking and surprising fact.
properly speaking no mathematician at all. He understood, for
delightful about his way of doing things! Fundamentally speaking, he
see karma working itself out. Once, long ago, he goes across from the
of many other striking, paradoxical things. Today I wanted to give

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working upon it spiritually between death and a new birth. Only when
working of human forces and the part they play in
of which we were just now speaking. It was before the formation of
work — with making plans for regaining his property. He hated
his opponent. And while he spoke, he was looking to see whether the
talking in those days of the enormous advantages that would accrue to
developed in him, on the one hand, a liking for the Germanic nature

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we have been speaking of definite karmic relationships — not
have been all manner of undertakings within the Anthroposophical
undertakings.”
way of speaking, we must not forget that there are
No, these leading spirits were also working through the souls whom
find that his working was such that an Initiate stood behind him. The
— working with external methods, seeking out similarities in
Bacon, Shakespeare, Jacob Boehme, and a fourth were working on the
their death but in their working beyond death, where they work on and
things may be somewhat shocking for men of the present time. So for
them was one who was the greatest. (I am still speaking of the
precisely by taking into account the life beyond the earth we have
effect, like a pedant speaking to the heart. Nevertheless, being a
learnt to understand many things by taking into account repeated
before you, we have observed this marvellous working across from one
once working in England. It is connected somehow with Canterbury. I
comes across Thomas à Becket, Chancellor of King Henry II in the
half-forgotten in his subconsciousness, for I am speaking of course,
King Henry II and Thomas à Becket of Canterbury, whose fate he
Becket at the instigation of the King of England. All of these
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is like studying a plant without looking beyond root, green leaf and
certain very striking example now to be given, is associated with
in days of antiquity, and at the time of which I am speaking it was
animosity in the slaves. When the personality of whom I am speaking
were in Dornach before Easter, is particularly striking and
also in respect of the whole way of thinking and feeling. And if we
breaking away from the physical body. Study the nobler poems, also
happen. — There are men who have a habit, let us say, of making
actually making the gesture. But the gesture does not remain as it
us say it is a gesture used in picking up a book, or some similar
the instigation of the King, because he would not agree to certain
Beatrix is an extraordinarily alert and active personality, taking
way of working. There he was in a room; around him were several
was the walking to and fro in front of the open books, as well as the
atmosphere, when we understand what it means for all our thinking to
say that if once this ‘thinking in common’ is an active

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man's whole way of thinking and perception, in all his views of
the world and of life. Generally speaking, man is less interested in
this Initiate was walking one day in the wider precincts of his
the Initiate of whom I am speaking.
in the monastery and making a number of important investigations.
thinking, flung as it were across centuries, is now applied to human
badly. For the Platonic conceptions and mode of thinking cannot
case of the animals. With man, however, it is a matter of seeking the
another cooled, but in their whole way of thinking they grew apart;
connected with the strong resolution that is required before making

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to participate in the great change in thinking and perception that is
enthusiasm in their seeking, enthusiasm for what is implicit
— and the soul actually taking pleasure in it
to be responsible for making this announcement to his people, and he
demented, seeking an external entanglement in the love affair, and so
...” — quite out of the blue, and I could not help asking
as man experiences them breaking into, shining into, his individual
purely materialistic-naturalistic thinking which has become so
existence wished to spend his whole life without taking adequate
And so, looking at
shall be right thinking. The architecture that would have fulfilled

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life and soul; so that in taking our place in the world as human
adequate study of the working of karma in actual life, the life in
descends again into earth-life. Thus the conditions for the working
instance. Suppose you enter a society — I am not thinking now
of observing in them what is striking and significant. The fact that
I was walking one day along a street and I had a picture before me. I
see a ship-wrecked man. His ship is far away, and sinking. The man is
boat will reach land and his life be safe! He is looking at the
following: — When you look at the thinking element in man, as
themselves to taking this kind of thing specially into account if
karma, it is a question really of looking through a human
you no longer think of him as walking or moving his arms and hands.
you disregard man's thoughts, the direction of his thinking,
you. For in the moment when you observe the working of Saturn in a
merely see this fact, the picking-up of the chalk, then I know
man who is walking here at my side, becomes transparent for me, ever

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Looking around our
see how much you will find lacking, how much you failed to observe,
all the little things of life in full waking consciousness, there,
and let thoughts run their course without taking them in hand, then
is making me have quite definite feelings.”
probably experience on waking after the next night — when you
precisely on waking the third day you find it again within you. It
unknown to-day, they would not appear so striking if they were worded
more mildly. They must appear striking. But the whole experience,
come again and again, asking one thing or the other. In the majority
inner working, and as such it must be brought into the picture. Now
breaking and everything is as it was before — if you want to
get hold of a karmic connection, but the thread is always breaking

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talking to you in the afternoon, will tell you that they saw a lady
looking and then turning away. Afterwards he went to the person in
always been looking at the place of the missing button and this gave
him concentration. Always to be looking at the place where a button
I have been speaking. You need only remember what I have frequently
study of karma has a certain significance for taking one's
earthly life. If we drift superficially through life, without taking
picture of his previous earthly life. There is no sense in working at
is engaged in a handicraft of some sort. But because in his thinking
thinking in their past life. (Of course, one needs other grounds for
thinking in their past earthly life. People with many freckles have
attention merely to spiritual abstractions, but also to the working
recognise the spiritual workings within matter.
the working of the spiritual is expressing itself. Matter is the
lacking in interest, but he was dull; he could not really do anything
speaking of the physical. To-morrow I shall speak more about the
has strong, steady forces working out of his previous incarnation
continue working, working on in the proper way. On the other hand, a
man becomes an incessant chatterbox, laughing even when he is talking
of the gravest matters, when past earthly lives are not working on in
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to the workings of karma in the life of soul.
moon, taking up their abode in the cosmos as Moon-inhabitants, Moon
as a kind of magic, taking effect inasmuch as the influence of the
influence of warmth upon the working of the human will must be taken
when the primeval Teachers were working on the earth, for nothing in
sleeping life (not his waking life) backwards. When he passes through
strikingly apparent.
striking fact. It is the intense reality of the experiences that is
been replaced by something else, namely, abstract thinking. The human
taken thoroughly into account was that all his thinking had a certain
incarnations) and his thinking was lit by a gleam of consciousness
man's thinking has more affinity with the soul-constitution of
the Moon Beings than has the thinking of an average scientist like Du
him and he does not understand them. This, broadly speaking, is the
striking figure in this connection is the philosopher Jacob
only imagination. He said: imagination is working everywhere;
thinking became customary, is able to blend with the substance of the
said about these matters. I am not speaking here of anything that has

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everything belonging to the earth, all the beings of the kingdoms of
attitude a man adopts in his life of soul towards the kingdoms of
same instinctive basis as the influences of the kingdoms of nature.
... when our thinking is occupied exclusively with what comes to us
Moon Beings of whom I have been speaking to you.
impulses of will in our souls and what we see taking effect in
take together the workings of Moon, Mercury and Venus, we have,
Sun-existence, that is dependent upon the workings of the head. I say
death and a new birth, making him truly ‘man’,
below, by the metabolic process or by the workings of the rhythmic
that is dependent upon the workings of the head.
but trivial, and for speaking the language of ordinary life. To do so
talk as though they were speaking of natural laws, but these are
processes taking place on the earth. Hence the spiritual workings
resemble the workings of nature, but are stronger, of greater
of the Beings in this realm has reference to spiritual workings,

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plant and animal kingdoms, and must be regarded as having all these
three kingdoms of nature within him — in a higher form. In a
certain respect man is related to the mineral kingdom through his
the external mineral kingdom into a higher form of
kingdom within him.
within him these external kingdoms of nature, so does he bear within
him — but in respect of time, not of space — the kingdoms
the mineral kingdom works upon man, we have to do with the processes
draws from kingdoms higher than the mineral, are reduced, in the
kingdom, we know that man has within him life-forces, vital forces.
Again, in reference to the animal kingdom we know that through his
sequences of processes in the three kingdoms of nature as well as
can follow the workings of the higher Hierarchies in man's life
operating in the three kingdoms of nature in space. Equally, we must
kingdoms of the Hierarchies work into it. But here we must study, not
etheric body and astral body but in connection with the working of
taking effect in the human being according to his age. When, for
life, we find what is characteristic of the animal kingdom especially
the working of the higher Hierarchies upon man the difference is even
Hierarchy embraces, properly speaking, the first three periods of
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working, in the first phase of their influence until the 35th year
Thus in looking
the personality of whom I am now speaking. But at that time,
steeped in Mohammedanism but working along particular lines:
is why I am taking examples of this kind.
looking down at the clouds. And now imagine that you are looking, not
the working of his breath. Living reality of Being was experienced in
the Mexican Mysteries by the personality of whom I am speaking. He
of whom I am speaking was born again in modern civilisation as
yourselves walking over the earth. As you walk you see nothing of
speaking to you not long ago about the Hibernian Mysteries, I told
of whom I am speaking lived through all these experiences again with

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generally speaking, the man of modern times is entirely unfamiliar.
another, spiritual laws are working, spiritual laws which will be
spiritual realities. Generally speaking, people to-day are
year, but we do not find the Archangel when we are looking back only
can succeed in taking his destiny earnestly, this experience will
Archai; and it is they who are now working within the human
significance is taking place.
In looking at a

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speaking of them here, there begins, in the fullest meaning of the
But truth to tell it is not only the facts experienced in his waking
waking consciousness of the one whose biography is being
time of falling asleep to that of waking. These impulses are at work
of the surface remain visible. Anyone looking at the picture would be
that in a biography, karma itself is speaking. It would of course be
such and such a form and now it takes this. Such a way of speaking
working in the Goethe and Schiller Archives in Weimar — in
where karma is working in the life of a man.
of falling asleep and that of waking, man lives in his astral body
falling asleep and waking. I shall describe it in outline
— speaking in terms of space — is rather more extensive
man as he wakes. When we observe him at the time of waking we find
through the limbs. Thus at the moment of waking the astral body comes
waking from sleep we have in us only a small part of our astral body
that we wake as a whole man, all at once ... yet properly speaking,
up to the point of waking ... in perspective, of course. What is
same way the astral body may be short-sighted, figuratively speaking,
the individual earth-lives begin. But broadly speaking, the fact is
beings. How am I to put this into words? In speaking of it as
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Speaking now with
breaking into the orbit of human life on earth. We witness
we live among the three kingdoms of nature — the mineral, the
plant and the animal kingdoms.
are interwoven. For this interworking must be known if we are to
waking-day life, we see the sun up there in the heavens. Through the
how we allow what is above us, and what is around us in the kingdoms
thinking can be reasonable, indeed no other way is sound or healthy.
thinking.
upon it, and behind and through the workings of the sun weave the
waking-day consciousness.
truly if we say: Within and through and behind the workings of the
dazzling strength of the noontide sun I behold the working of the
we are looking at something hazy in the distance. And when we learn
that the physical and etheric bodies are left to themselves, working
etheric body. All that man has thought during his waking life from
been thinking during the hours of their waking life, this will give
thoughts and ideas of thy waking hours.” — Deep reverence
Angels during our hours of sleep. It is so indeed: during our waking
working of the Second Hierarchy, but striking right to the other side
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relationship not only the working out of karma, but also the living
emotions, of an element in human nature working entirely in a
For on looking
speaking, karmically connected or at any rate have some link with one
see karma working quite differently in these two
of the kind of which I have been speaking. The ordinary natural laws
and steady decline; a subtle, gradual decline would have been taking
the karmic course of their life by the working of the Ahrimanic
prepared, a world of experiences belonging, properly speaking, to the
is cast on the rubbish-heap by the working of human emotions, where
interworking between the earthly and spiritual worlds the destinies
being waged. And in making such conceptions our own we are led again

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intellect, the life of thought, making the intellect the
things subsequently discovered. (For roughly speaking, this
personalities of whom I am now speaking, the ‘I
personalities of whom I am now speaking, it was a profound
speaking did indeed imagine the receiving of thoughts as a
Spiritual Soul. The human beings of whom I am now speaking,
quasi-Arabian philosophers who, working from the West of
Speaking of the
working into my soul. I cannot rise against it — I am
generally aware of the speaking of the dead, at least for
conscious of fatigue in thinking even as in hewing wood, if
I may use the trivial comparison. Today the thinking of
fundamentally speaking, to this day. The one — albeit
now only working from the spiritual world, yet all the
things that are taking place outwardly at the surface of
taking into account the idea of reincarnation and leading
said, ‘Thinking takes hold of men. Thought, the
indeed. Thinking itself is not to be attacked, but only the
thinking.’
replied, ‘In Thinking, through the very fact that man
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been speaking to you, those with whom we elaborate our
absolute consistency of this instinctive working with human
addition, all that took place instinctively in the working
By merely thinking in theories — enumerating so many
so by thinking the realities that are enacted there.
aspect of the Sun he beholds what is now taking place. He
Thinking thus we
out into this new kingdom: — ‘All that took
what this means, my dear friends. We are thinking truly of
death and new birth, They bear it into the kingdom of
thinking rightly if to the first and the second saying we
similar to the weaving of thought. Looking up into the
witness to the immense importance of what is taking place
he did and experienced on earth go working on — and
as soon as two human beings are working together, something
more arises, — more than the working out of
working-together of men on earth, is for ever in connection
oneself: — Here you are speaking to a human being of
age. This is one of the more intimate workings of karma
of Ahriman are working today in a more than usually evil
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as the heart is an expression of all that man feels working
wide universe. We see this human life taking its course on
earth is to be found on the one hand by looking round about
without thinking of some star which the human being as it
will yourselves perceive that what is taking place here in
Society must be seeking for Anthroposophy. And the
the world today, and of whom — looking at their
that a soul finds its way into Eurhythmy out of the working
all the domains of life. Souls are there today, seeking the
(I am speaking in an introductory way today, hinting at
as a kind of longing and expectant feeling. Working out
when it observes what was taking place in mankind,
returning had shared in all that was taking place as
violent opponents. Let us observe the working of karma in
attacking especially the larynx, — and (this being a
Christian teachings are spread abroad; they are taking hold
with the greedy longing to make gold, and, with the making
time if one had been successful in making gold. On the
that entered into him from the time when he was seeking to
speaking, having become a person again in earthly life,
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in the epoch of which I am now speaking, the possibility of
thinking of Kant (“das kantige Kant'sche
whom I am now speaking — could not find his way into
the ‘angular thinking of Kant.’ Yet everything
old Pagan impulses had still been working in them strongly,
imagine this a very learned kind of thinking. They may
thinking has little meaning for them until a certain age.
approaching such realities as these and thinking a little

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now speaking of the karma of the Anthroposophical Society,
Looking at the
waking life becomes very different from the experiences
which we have in our waking life today.
not so in the times of which I am now speaking. The Ego did
they were only pictures, something was taking place there.
waking. It was delicate, it was light and intimate, but it
that all the souls, of whose life I was speaking the other
waking life man looked out upon Nature differently. He saw
light was working in a rather gentle way; — but seen
the spiritual, working and weaving.
speaking. And when man beheld these things directly after
Word of the Father-God is speaking. My etheric body is
be heard in the waking state. And on awakening man had the
world of Nature in his waking life, he felt this world of
in truth: the innocence in the kingdom of Nature. He spoke
of the pure and innocent spirituality in all the working of
good spirits and evil spirits too were speaking. Of the
I am here speaking, had been to a greater or lesser degree
waking and sleeping. Recognising one another by these
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in the first Christian centuries, partaking in that former
lives in the animal and human kingdoms. And they saw,
creative power of the Goddess Natura, working creatively in
kingdoms of the four Elements which pour themselves in all
Christianity, speaking still of Natura the handmaid of
seven Liberal Arts. All these things were working in the
was still making itself felt. It was still to some extent
much of this was still working at the University of
of significance. But they were working mightily, helping in
principle of that time. Such was the spiritual working,
flow together the workings of those who were on the earth,
this working from the other side, but those who were
working on the other side were all the more conscious. It
sent down its Sun-rays thence upon all that was working on
pupil of Alanus ab Insulis of whom I am speaking, —
lifted into the spiritual world and went on working there:
working in individual human beings in the most varied
For the speaking of the Spirit of the Time was a great call
who were working in the great School of Chartres in the
world — today again they are working together. The
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he attain to that independent Thinking which we may call:
we are surrounded here by the three kingdoms of outer
Nature, the mineral, plant and animal kingdoms in the
spiritual world by the higher kingdoms of which we have
spoken in so many connections as the kingdoms of the
Hierarchies. Even as we descend into the kingdoms of
kingdom, so, as we ascend to the super-sensible, we come to
the kingdom of the Angeloi. The Angels have the task of
kingdom of Angeloi.
to the kingdom of Archangeloi, who have the most varied
the Beings of the kingdom of Archangeloi has the spiritual
that region where civilisation is predominantly taking
Alexandria. It was a great cosmopolitan movement, seeking
Mystery of Golgotha was taking place.
they know how to value what is taking place, as they
witnessed what was then taking place for the World, from
was called by a different name. We are making use of the
Michael was working in him and giving him the thoughts.
— looking down on to the earth — they saw this
clarity as to its meaning. Looking down from the spiritual
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Mystery of Golgotha? Christ at that time was taking His
our gaze to all the leading Spirits in the kingdom of
some sort of reflection of what was taking place in the
the wondrous crystal shapes of the mineral kingdom, in the
amorphous mineral kingdom, in the hundred-and-thousand fold
forms of the plant kingdom, in the forms of the animal, all
seeking to cultivate the message of Michael. There are some

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Michael. We have accordingly considered the working of
powerful. Taking their start from the spiritual, they work
working with man and upon him. It is thus that the karma of
Working as they do upon the whole human being, they work
has been taking part in the battle even in the outer world,
workings of karma he became incapable of using his
prevented by a friend or someone else coming and taking him
prevented from partaking in what was karmically set before
physical world was taking place in the last third of the
thinking, as we see him, where can this man belong? We
sympathies and antipathies. Now all this is taking place
this connection things are taking place which reach up into
the next kingdom of the Hierarchies. For you must see,
kingdoms than he could do before, while the Angel who
taking place. To this, my dear friends, I would now direct
single and uniform kingdom of the Angeloi is being turned
into a twofold kingdom of Angeloi, a kingdom of Angeloi
above it the ascending and the descending Angeloi. Looking
intense conflict that is taking place, as between the
meeting-rooms where everyone is smoking his pipe or his
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The Working of Ahriman into the Once Cosmic and Now Personal Intelligence
THE SPIRITUAL LIFE — THE WORKING OF AHRIMAN
age of materialism. All that is taking place, by forces of
taken hold of in their souls by a power that is seeking to
talking in public meetings. As we cannot escape becoming
it will be a question of making no mistakes, even in such a

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we have been speaking of the karmic facts and conditions
through Africa to Spain and went on working there, in the
would have been their answer, cosmologically speaking.
passed through the gate of death, and looking back upon his
was actually taking place. And now transplant yourselves
beings we must first consider the kingdom that is nearest
to us, concretely speaking the Cosmic Intelligence will be
Angeloi. If we are speaking concretely we cannot say
and who had been united formerly with the Michael kingdom
— went out and left the kingdom of Michael. Such
they leave the kingdom of the Sun and become no longer
facts. Certain Angeloi remained in the kingdom of Michael.
who were then in the kingdom of Michael. To all the souls
of human beings who lived in the kingdom of Michael and of
remained in Michael's kingdom. But there were others who
Michael Angels to leave the kingdom of Michael? It does not
reflections on that which is taking place, even to
other way. We observe the things that are taking place
into all the future that which is Eternal in his working,
Angeloi work together; and in their working together karma
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Christmas Foundation, the concrete working of karma in historical
since the Christmas Foundation, I shall be speaking to you in the coming
speaking of things which are also indicated, briefly, in the current
same way of speaking about the subject, only put rather more
waking consciousness;
waking consciousness we confront the outer world in such a way that we
taken in through the senses. Then in this waking consciousness we grasp
in bed in the morning, still in the process of waking, does not look out
concerning this dream-life, which may play over into waking life when
becomes all attention. — Just think of it: the man is looking at
of falling asleep and the moment of waking. Everything else he has to
experience again with the help of his waking consciousness. A dim,
asleep and waking is all that remains from dreamless sleep.
to-day these three states of consciousness: waking consciousness, dream
investigation of which we shall be speaking here in the coming days
different in character. What we experience to-day in our waking hours
but for his ordinary waking consciousness the forms would have been
analogy: if in the evening of a bright, dry day we are walking through
the sleep that is invaded by dreams links on to the waking state; again
has waking consciousness, dream consciousness, dreamless sleep
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cannot help taking out his pocket-handkerchief and blowing his nose!
manner of speaking, frivolous in relation to this, his proper calling.
reincarnated as the seven Kings of Rome. For the Seven Kings were no
— I mean, the Castle of the Dwarf King Laurin. The daemonic nature
in the district of the Castle of the Dwarf King Laurin made a profound

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form of the working of an Initiate.
Haroun al Raschid taking the following spiritual line of development
was taking place externally. But at the same time, if we may describe it
taking place in Constantinople where it was declared dogmatically that
working of this kind in a pre-Christian Christianity. For at this place
King Arthur Legend referred to later times by a scholarship which is not
may receive when one stands at that place, looking down into the sea,
Knights of the Round Table of King Arthur did in their gigantic castle.
water. Then the next moment there is wind and tempest. Looking with
the twelve who belonged to King Arthur. We see them standing there,
the 9th century of which I was just speaking.
It was the task of the Order of King Arthur, founded
sense. We must see in it on all hands the working of elementary
Golgotha. And in all that the Knights of the Round Table of King Arthur
Table of King Arthur into Europe, even as the real campaigns of
that name. Strangely we can see the life around King Arthur radiate into
seership a member of the Round Table of King Arthur, who lived the life
the Round Table of King Arthur was born again as Arnold Böcklin.
be solved in connection with the Round Table of King Arthur.
many of the circle of the Round Table of King Arthur, were
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reality been lacking to mankind and notably to civilised mankind.
Looking back
human action upon earth was everywhere connected with what was taking
been lacking to the greater part of mankind in recent times. No —
but the courage has been lacking to attach the concrete deeds and
we connect what is taking place in one earthly life with that which is
the Michael Power at the very time when the Council of 869 was taking
speaking of the threefold human being, of body, soul and spirit. For the
more intense was that spiritual life which has been working for a long
service of King Arthur; and as I explained, all this took place under
all those who belonged to them. They went on working in the spiritual
other personalities were working within the same stream, partly in the
teachers speaking to larger or smaller groups of pupils, and telling
waking life, the Goddess Natura shows only one part of her living and
creative being. While on the other hand, in all the working in the
consisting of natural laws, speaking and thinking in abstract terms,
elemental beings are working with you. But you also bear the soul within
working and weaving of the Elements, Earth, Water, Air and Fire, it was
then he met the Goddess Natura who built up the kingdoms of Nature in
maintaining a continuous connection with those who were working on earth
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knowledge, still sought it in the living weaving and working of the
working for a while on earth.
Broadly speaking we may say that there have
Transplanting oneself into these moods, and looking back, one could
here. When there are such karmic impulses working deep in the
we find many who are seeking for the Christ in an abstract sense. The
several groups. Thus, for example, I am now speaking on Pastoral
the last resort from the workings of the streams of karma. In time to
working together, on the subject of man in health and in disease. Now
these researches especially, seeking the ways of entry from the physical
knowledge-forces which arise by picking up the threads of karma —
workings of the human organs, that those perceptions also arise which
We shall continue speaking of it in the next

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speaking, who had now returned as Tycho de Brahe, could not submit to
life as Tycho de Brahe, seeking to enter the substance of his
unimportant in itself, but very striking. He foretold almost to the day
foretold it. Here we see ancient perceptions working into a later
ones, were taking place on earth below. For otherwise the materialism of
devastating way even than it did. Similar activities, taking place in
the great ether-workings of the universe and the human workings upon
You see, the souls were constantly looking
towards the approaching dominion of Michael. They were looking
centuries, and they were looking towards it again during the enactment
working together with them supersensibly, from the spiritual world. Thus
spirit of his working through the centuries and the thousands of years.
esoteric impulse of this stream of Michael, whose working to begin with
super-sensible. You are well aware how Goethe's working (even after his
we find after all that what was working in isolated spirits of the end
recognise that I was seeking to point to something of the soul and
lives on in simple retirement at Munich, until at length the King of
very modern way, and yet with old spirituality quite evidently working
I read this review, I could not help breaking out into the sigh —
again there is something working in from higher worlds, so that we must
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working of karma, but on the wider importance of karmic knowledge for
domain of the spiritual life. We cannot understand the real working of
ways of the working of karma would never become clear to us if we
and animal, and human kingdoms was contained germinally. We human
our Earth is not what we have in the kingdoms of Nature, and not even
how much must be achieved before we can speak of the working of karma as
“free-thinking religion” if one may so describe it. Having
conditions of waking and sleeping. Already in the periods of sleep man
experiences reminiscences of the day-waking life pictorially, but he is
only the day-waking states. Nor do we bear in mind what the chain of
workings of modern intellectualism find expression in him.
challenge. For I said to myself: something is here, which, working from
thinking, with that which lives in the subconscious as darkened, veiled

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During the past weeks we have been seeking
through all that is necessary for the weaving of karma by partaking in
a Cynic in his way of taking things. For he was really very fond of
making light and joking about most important things that met him in the
an easy-going way of taking important events of life, a certain
his thinking was a kind of clairvoyance. It was still so even in the
perceive whence thinking receives its inspiration. It became one great
longing in him to find the source of thinking in the spiritual world,
in the atmosphere of that which, looking backwards, came immediately
next his death. He saw the human being thinking.
in pictures the Thinking of the universe.
sharp-witted thinking — a thinking, however, in perpetual flow,
Then, seeking for a new human body, this
Looking at these examples, I think
sacred mystery from secret and mysterious truths, and thus making them
marvellous working of former into later lives. We must only not be
profane in our inner life or in our way of thinking and then we shall

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I am speaking, in her incarnation as a woman in that time, was able to
through the most intense experiences in looking backward over their
speaking. But he has to do with them through the history of the time in
working of karma) — once again there arose an intense
But into his thinking life which he tries to
thinking had been coloured in a Cabbalistic way, so that far more became
those years, looking out through narrow slits into the sunlight of
what he missed at that time is working again. And at the same time all
child but working precociously, with the maturity of the thirties of
life. — Such is the play of karma, working with all that was
indeed striking how rapidly the boy learns Spanish, a language remote,
liking for it. This again is a working of karma. And it signifies a deep
it show? It shows that the dog has lost something, something is lacking
he acquired the habit towards the end of his life of looking out through

Title: Karmic Relationships, Volume IV: Lecture X
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seeking to enter in from former incarnations. He cannot even do so when
life. Speaking of the coldness of the intellect one has in mind the
you by an example how strong and inevitable a force is working in this
personality whom I now mean, the after-working of former spirituality is
possibility of taking over into Christianity the immediate essence of
shrinking back from it. Platonism comes forward in his consciousness not
head simply cannot give expression to all the Platonism that is seeking
Mid-Europe as a modern Greece. Here we see his Platonism striking
personality of whom I am speaking is none other than
wonderfully in Schröer's life, so much so that the breaking of the

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The Inner Experience of the Activity of Thinking
Inner Experience of the Activity of Thinking
In speaking about man's external observations and
strengthen thinking by means of
thinking because by force of habit he allows the
thinking. Modern man can achieve this,
the whole of his being into the activity of thinking, to give
himself up to this thinking with all inner intensity and, with
thinking.
especially in geometry. As regards the activity of thinking
being, to experience the nature of this thinking in its
one has an experience of the activity of thinking when
Nobody can understand the human being by looking at the
gained about the processes working within the alimentary track
When we now intensify thinking, it is
we develop a consciousness of the etheric working in
way of thinking is to absorb in the right manner and really
this awareness of the activity of thinking in relation to the
Inner Aspect of the Activity of Speaking
Our next experience after that of the activity of thinking,
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the inner life of thinking.
activity of thinking even when it is free from
This experience of thinking is at the same time
kind of thinking — which is by no means so difficult
through this inner awareness of thinking a man enters into the
And finally, looking at the third kingdom of nature, the
of consciousness: there is the waking state from the time of
awaking until falling asleep, and the sleeping state from the
time of falling asleep until waking.
During his waking hours man lives entirely in the
returns to it on waking, that during the time
when sleep interrupts his waking life he lives in
etheric-astral element, so that on waking it
waking, appears to him only as a reflection in a mirror, as
and waking had appeared to him in
world, one has to get behind the ordinary ways of thinking,
the abstract, dead thinking, as it were, to the inner, living
thinking. If one is to enter into the world of the deep
is necessary not only to develop the faculty of living thinking
behind the ordinary dead thinking, but to be
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speaking of man's place in the Universe. On the one side we
living thinking in order to experience our
surrounded by the three kingdoms of nature besides his own. But
manifestation of the working and weaving of the spirit-and-soul
must say: For the etheric world the inner living thinking
thinking we touch this world of flowing colours and
thinking is the element of touch in relation to what
between birth and death. Looking back I see
death and a new birth. Looking
then, looking far back through all that has just been
to sleep and waking were to stand revealed before the soul. It
astral body? In the soul we have our thinking,
also grasped the meaning of thinking, feeling and
is not enough to go on talking only about abstract divisions,
‘chair-doctrine,’ thinking in terms of
through living Thinking
the etheric world: through living thinking: touch.

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feelings, you can find in him the driving, working forces and
renew, as he called it, a way of speaking which belonged to
damaged by the natural scientific way of looking at things.
of healing the blind, making them see, this is the saga
stinking Lizaveta who is seduced by the old drunkard. She
epoch making works about psychiatry; he gives talks to

Title: Things Past and Present: Lecture II: Deeper Secrets of Man's Soul-Spiritual Nature
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the physical world, he perceives his thinking, his feeling
experiences this thinking, feeling and willing as being
inwardly perceives this thinking, feeling and willing.
this “I” with this thinking, feeling and willing,
speak in a general way, to be sure you may say: Thinking,
thinking exhausts itself. Just as we as human beings stand in
the impulse to the thinking which exist in the astral body is
However, the thinking develops itself as a thought only
whole thinking would remain unconscious to us as physical
our thinking were to merely flow along just as dreams flow
thinking is actually a very complicated process. It has its
important task of making the soil fruitful as they crawl
want to ask the question: Is our thinking process and memory
with eating and drinking, so do the Angels, Archangels and
first place, so that we feel it as thinking; we feel the
world of the astral body as thinking. However, the thinking I
into the ether body so that the thinking itself cannot be
conscious of your thinking there, but you become aware of
impulses. Just as in our thinking beings of the Third
thinking, but your thinking in so far as it is turned to its
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Title: Things Past and Present: Lecture III: A Fragment from the Jewish Haggada, Blavatsky
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had, in the deepest sense, very striking psychical
become special instruments for spiritual working, for
thinking, feeling and willing. That which thinking, feeling
different from what one can experience through thinking and
thinking logically. This is the faculty which the Western
working in of occult science proceeds which always was
incisive occult working has always come out of the British
comprehensive working occult schools actually stand behind
French element was still working, and the Anglo-Saxons were
the British kingdom who did not work in a very significant
was more French and Scottish blood working together and very
Slavic peoples who exist in isolated kingdoms. And the
and there was opposition against making the Russians

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position; they learn certain grips by taking hold of someone
thinking will dominate. Whenever a child is born, one will
genius, a seeking for genius. This is what will come from the
thinking, a sort of law which will have the aim of
suppressing all individual thinking. On the other hand there is
individual thinking into pure materialistic thinking where
machine back into proper working order? According to the
effect of which will be to exclude all individual thinking.
very happy with that. We do not need to do any more thinking;
working together in order to produce certain objectives. Such
perceive what is really working in this realm of the external

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beings that lie at the base of the mineral kingdom are called
gnomes, those at the base of the water plant kingdom are
how there are beings working down from the spiritual world
in winter. This means that we have an elementary kingdom
kingdom and there streams down, one cannot say an
interworking between the spirits of the higher hierarchies
interworking with the divine spiritual. And it was said that
stands in direct interworking with the beings who permit
inner experience of thinking. Man does not need to use his
beingness. In a similar way man felt the working of the
channels. For example, they are talking about Strindberg's
they can see the spiritual world breaking in everywhere.
world breaking into the short story entitled “Cardinal

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the architect of King Solomon who according to the legend
built the Solomon Temple with King Solomon and then as a
thinking, the perception, the willing, the feeling of your
working together, of this head organism with the rest of the
thinking. If it were not through this external imprisonment,
of his brain are imprisoned. Then that which we call thinking
thinking, depict the population of Middle Europe as being
stands in reality; whereas the abstract thinking which
corresponds to the materialistic thinking does not bother
this, my dear friends, show how limited the thinking is when
thinking, feeling and willing. Only through the fact that man
besides taking into view the mortal body, takes into view the

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following way. One says that you are looking for the lost
body is working and exists in him in a beingness way within
animal kingdom on the Earth, we find the most manifold
outspread animal kingdom; that means that all the possible
forms of the animal kingdom would appear. It would really be
on. Thus we carry the whole animal kingdom inside us in our
outspread animal kingdom which is held together through the
formed as in the divisions of today's animal kingdom and at
kingdom. Today's animal kingdom is no longer that which
kingdom from the parts that were spread out in space and
ancient animal kingdom are in a certain sense extracted, as
that we are speaking or singing. Now, it is purely prejudice
animal kingdom lives in our ether body in the way in which I
about in the animal kingdom is at the basis of the situation.
outspread plant kingdom. Through the fact that we have an
astral body, the different forms of the plant kingdom really
manifoldness. If you study the whole plant kingdom in the way
human being not only during our waking period, but also that
mineral kingdom with all its differentiated mysteries of the
the elasticity of thinking which human beings today possess,
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people to go along with the King. This was the sort of
everyday thinking and that which draws up out of the depths
thinking and the spiritual experience, a connection does not
speak of making him a saint. However, when you have such
historical thesis without speaking about Christ is actually
we have anxious priests working against the spreading of this
quite different world between going to sleep and waking up, a
different through the working of his occult experiences. The
working of these occult experiences caused Thomas More to

Title: Things Past and Present: Lecture IX: Celtic Symbols and Cult, Jesuit State in Paraguay
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all human thinking right into the simplest mass of people, is
first prepared to become a tool for our present thinking, of
magical working. But a working which today is impermissible
body and brings the thinking into a certain direction. This
see that the whole inter-working between the Jesuit Fathers
Indians were, relatively speaking, primitive people. The
was the one that was actually affected. When speaking to a
described; however, there is a possibility of working in a
vibrations. All this is the working in of the ahrimanic
you influence the thinking of man as such, that it is very
this occur? Thinking habits develop themselves in the course
habits and one is little protected from this sort of working,
else, you would not think of looking into it. In a similar
a wide-spread way. We are talking about Maximillian Hardenz.
working more strongly in them. Indeed, my dear friends, the

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The Riddle of The Human Being, The Thinking, the Perceptions
thinking than most of today's learned people are able to
The way in which people today are actually looking up to
kingdom was not present in that ancient Moon existence. This
mineral kingdom only gradually crystallized itself out. We
qualities and we also have the mineral kingdom in us. We are
permeated by the mineral kingdom and this enables us to be
mineral kingdom. Just read in my Occult Science how this Moon
kingdom was not present. You read how everything was a soft,
our waking concepts, a strong light overpowers this week
which the German intellectuals are taking to spiritual

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Thus, this indicates that these two scribes of King Solomon
cognitive moment in the life of King Solomon. Now, remember
that King Solomon was not wise because he was clever in the
the earth as is the animal kingdom. As far as his external
know very well that if you see a person walking along the
working than we are, there you have the significance of the
the sons of Shesher who had been the scribe of King David.
to the scribes of King Solomon who also stood in connection
necessary to put himself in a certain connection with King
Solomon, which means that both scribes, as well as King
here. This did not mean that King Solomon wanted to protect
in King Solomon is indicated by this story. Rabbi Joachin
descends from King Solomon, you have the physical
working of Lucifer and Ahriman. But this working of Lucifer
predetermined, so that even taking a step in front of my door
and you will find the after-working of this insoluble

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thinking. Now, I am not speaking about something abstract,
finding of the ego. As long as a person is looking for his
himself from this seeking for the self, this egotism, he must
longer afflicted by the seeking for the self, therefore
of the ego into the seeking of the ego, that person is really
the ego, astral body and the ether body are lacking.
intellect, the intellectual thinking in its 5th
of the would has to be added to this intellectual thinking.
by Gerhard Hauptmann because you are looking at it from the religious
to make our thinking healthy, to enable our thought forms to
people from developing the sort of thinking that deals with
“Thinking according to reality” when you read my
has written as an epoch making creation. It is not really
thing when the thinking of the human being is confused by a

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body lives and moves within him in his hours of waking consciousness.
instead of working outside as a channel of communication with
set to his working in Greek and Latin times, for he was then still in
I have shown how deeply he has entered, taking as an example an
Ahriman must be there ‘enticing, working, creating, as the

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to say for the life of soul unfolded in waking consciousness between
other than those of normal waking consciousness. Spiritual Science
is not a product of ordinary waking consciousness. It cannot, in its
acquired. The ordinary memory which functions in our waking
finds its place in the cosmic ether. In ordinary waking consciousness
Lucifer is working as the Tempter and Ahriman as the Lying
In addition to taking care that our thoughts shall be formulated in a
learn to regard the process of thinking as a searching and a seeking.
faculty of thinking is not bestowed upon us for the purpose of
they may be rushed into the world. The gift of thinking was not
thought but for the purpose of searching and seeking. Thinking as
thought should be a process of seeking and that thoughts should be
their waking consciousness men do not realise how strong is the
attempt to use their faculty of thinking as an instrument for
seeking. No! they must immediately formulate their thoughts. Of
making ourselves free. As a residuum of this, a kind of relic,
perceive in our ordinary waking consciousness. An unknown world is
but for the most part it is lacking in substance, for the reason that
want to get through their thinking quickly and not to make it a path

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Thinking that Accords with Reality and Thinking that is in
Without speaking the superficial language that is characteristic of most
inner being. That Eve could set about making herself fair to
kind happens — and I am not now speaking of a particular
as conviction in ordinary waking life. The occurrence must be
think of many examples. Just think of all the things match-making
sphere. You remember perhaps that in speaking of At1antean times I
attacks which Lucifer is so prone to make, precisely by taking
capable of making statements as the outcome of passion without any
exists, simply taking the things of the world as they are and
the onward progress of humanity. Thinking in accordance with reality
influences which have here been described. Thinking in accordance
for it comes into clash with whole world of unreal thinking. A
between our Anthroposophical Movement and unreal thinking; —
thinking that is in accordance with reality with thinking that
Pharisees has not died out! It is still working to-day, in a
thinking that is in accordance with reality and thinking that is

Title: Lecture: Riddle of Humanity: Lecture One: Greetings to the Builders Working on the Goetheanum. Otto Weininger, a Decadent Genius. Distorted Pictures of Imaginative Knowledge.
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Greetings to the builders working on the Goetheanum. Otto Weininger, a
shocking some aspects of our buildings may now seem, it will not be
long before they cease to be shocking and appear as the obvious result
I am speaking about Otto Weininger,
Now there are some individuals walking about who are not properly here
traditional way of speaking. Those who have much M have the great
school. While the teachers were talking about things that bored him,
there entered into his thinking the idea of a kind of modern Christ,
world's lack of understanding and asking himself how long it will be
fundamentally speaking, no one can learn anything from these two
We are really talking about imaginative knowledge, therefore, but in a
for looking at the things he had experienced while outside his
many things that make death magnificent — and I am speaking now

Title: Lecture: Riddle of Humanity: Lecture Two: Two Spheres of Existence in Nature and in Man: the Realm of Regularity and the Realm of Irregularity. The Ancient Hebrews' Jubilee year as the Expression of Formative Powers of the Soul. The Christ Incarnation.
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was a matter of logical thinking, he could reckon, pass judgements and
storms we experience as waking dreams or as lightning flashes of
think outweigh the dreams in most cases. But when waking consciousness
The contrast in human nature between the regularity of normal thinking
thinking, to the kind of regularity which governs the appearance of
his healthy waking consciousness a person also has, living in the
The forces upon which waking consciousness is based really do mirror
pathway of the stars were not a part of us, we would have no waking
the second king of Rome. I once described to you how he wanted to set
own as the second, and five others that would follow his, making a
king of Rome: the sevenfold order he constructs is the same as the
human institution was preparing human souls for thinking the great
our waking consciousness to shape our human social life so that it is
Thus, everything that is connected with our waking consciousness is
hearts, — in short, everything connected with our waking
with the macrocosmic representation of our waking consciousness. Then
the irregular happenings of the external world. Looking up to the
waking consciousness. Looking down towards the Earth and its
the depths of our souls. Our waking spirit thinks in accordance with
governing your waking consciousness, and the extent to which

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waking consciousness can be traced back to the influence on man of the
makes waking consciousness possible. The remaining parts, the parts of
working into usual waking consciousness — the noblest part of
occurrences and human waking consciousness. We saw how that which can
the stars, creates an image of itself in waking human consciousness.
Man has a waking consciousness because, in the first place, he is able
world beyond. Why, you will be asking yourselves, would such
or earthly life. They were thinking of the contrast we just mentioned
produced on earth, of course, but that is not what I am talking about.
in order that the heavenly forces working from the head can continue
the style of Weininger, by taking some elevated, mystical standpoint
through recitation, although speaking has nothing to do with the work
contents were to simply rise up out of our soul and appear in waking
long since become so accustomed to thinking that we do not ask this
question any more; we have grown so fond of thinking. Like eating and
drinking, we are used to it, so the question does not arise for us.
machine. Thinking is too heavy a burden to them and they flee from
nature fashioned man so that thinking is not even included among his
free individuality by virtue of his thinking. Such a question,

Title: Lecture: Riddle of Humanity: Lecture Four: Human Organism, Results of Prenatal Formative Powers. Dual Nature of Man. Powers behind the Existence of the Body as Expressed Pictorally by the Body and as Expressed in a Draughtsmanlike Fashion by the Head.
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thinking about the location of the faculty in a very materialistic
way. For the most part, such a person is only thinking of how the
understand the real connections must conceive of the act of speaking
Today it does not occur to someone who is speaking about the speech
so one always has to limit oneself to speaking only about particular
in matters of thorough-going waking consciousness, our head is the
world into waking consciousness. The waking consciousness comes
striving for truth, we are talking about the head in relation to the
talking about the head in relation to the body. And when we speak of
morality, we are talking about the relation of the body to the rest of
body, so that we are talking about the relation of the entire human
am speaking of something that has its rightful place, not of something
I . Working down from there, it affects the astral
are working on the other side where another weight is hanging. The
entire body with our waking consciousness. The I
be applied to waking life. So you can see that morality involves a
birth, as well as life between birth and death. Relatively speaking,

Title: Lecture: Riddle of Humanity: Lecture Five: How a Person Grows into the Three Spiritual Realms of Wisdom, Beauty and Goodness. How These Shine Down into the Spiritual Part of Man.
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of nature — the mineral, plant and animal kingdoms — flow
something happens that resembles the growing into the three kingdoms
realm of truth, of wisdom, naturally we are speaking more or less
must enter the mineral, plant and animal kingdoms. But the three
most directly in the mineral, plant and animal kingdoms, and lives
over his desires by thinking about them, feeling his way into them and
thinking of people of today. Observing man as he presently is on
continues to live in the depths of his being, working and weaving. And
experience guilt. But that is a superficial way of looking at things.
the shapes of the plant kingdom. And as for how that is connected with

Title: Lecture: Riddle of Humanity: Lecture Six: The Transformation of the Physical Body into the Head of the Next Incarnation. The Cosmic Significance of Human Knowledge.
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When one is speaking of the being of man and of mankind's relation to
Those who are misled by Lucifer into speaking in such a fashion do not
talking about forces. Of course, the material of the rest of the body
Initially, I can only explain this error by speaking pictorially.
by investigating its suitability as human nourishment would be making
exist for the purpose of making pictures of external things; it exists
from its original purpose all the knowledge that we use for taking
the use of our head. We acquire the knowledge necessary for speaking,
travelled without looking at very much. They have followed their

Title: Lecture: Riddle of Humanity: Lecture Seven: The Connection between the Human Being and the Cosmos. The Twelve Regions of the Senses and the Seven Life Processes.
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Nevertheless, throughout all our daily waking hours, the harmonious
being that is doing the thinking and forming the concepts. That
is what happens if one turns one's thinking, one's living thinking,
towards the being of another. Through living thinking one can behold
separately. The other senses about which we have been speaking are not
discussion. What I am talking about now is the very life that flows
it. Thus we cannot call it a sense, properly speaking, although Moon

Title: Lecture: Riddle of Humanity: Lecture Eight: How Twelvefoldness, Sevenfoldness, Fourfoldness, and Threefoldness are Mirrored. Pathological Experiences of the Soul. Thinking Backward as a Preparation for Spiritual Experience.
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Schleich). Thinking backwards as a preparation for spiritual
spiritual-scientific presuppositions lead our thinking and our will.
soul and body. So we are justified in speaking, let us say, of the
necessity of making our concepts and ideas more mobile in order to be
spiritual science, his thinking is still wholly materialistic. But he
were describing, then you would see some people walking about with
himself with a pen while working in his office. There is a slight
show was there, the whole thing was able to well up into his waking
to prepare for the future by getting accustomed to thinking backwards.
thinking backwards, just as they take hold of the physical world by
means of thinking forwards. Our ability to imagine the physical world
is a result of the direction of our thinking.
proceed further if I introduce a completely different way of looking
at things: a way of thinking that proceeds backwards.
thinking. But for someone who has gone only a little way beyond the
contemporary modes of thought might shrink in horror from thinking
contemporaries. We could picture one of them asking himself, ‘Is
thinking backwards and drawing particular philosophical conclusions
from the impossibility of thinking backwards.
to the fact that thinking backwards is especially difficult to imagine
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Title: Lecture: Riddle of Humanity: Lecture Nine: Enlivening the Sense Processes and Ensouling the Life Processes. Aesthetic Enjoyment and Aesthetic Creativity. Logic and the Sense for Reality.
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must forgo speaking about some of the interesting things that go on in
thinking, feeling and willing: here is another triad of soul
faculties. The new faculties differ from thinking, feeling and willing
are on Earth. When someone is able to sustain this sinking-back into
On the one hand, spiritual science has the task of linking the
aesthetics nevertheless contain something of what we have been talking
is forced to think in a certain way; thinking is not at all free. What
or does not love, and when his thinking follows or avoids inner
had to be in that era. At that time thinking was not yet spiritually
being in accordance with reality is lacking. Crystallography and, at a
their powers of abstraction, thinking up new abstractions. More, and
increasingly more, there must arise a thinking that accords with
reality and is not merely logical. Thinking alters the whole course of
Madonna from the standpoint of thinking that accords with reality?
materialistic way of thinking but, like so many things produced by
The following experiment has been carried out — I am taking just
Greeks did not yet possess the abstract manner of thinking that we
appropriate for today. But the manner of thinking is not the important
experience of speaking to many people who, like yourselves, are

Title: Lecture: Riddle of Humanity: Lecture Ten: Loss of the Ability to Orient Oneself in Reality and the Helplessness of Modern Scientific Driteria in a Materialistic Age.
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analysis of some recent directions in recent philosophical thinking. I
which has been lost. I am speaking of Ernst Mach. Today I can only
the concepts produced by the thinking that preceded his time-all the
thinking up to the last third of the nineteenth century. Although it
approached its concepts more or less critically, this earlier thinking
most economical for our thinking, the one that requires the least
ways of thinking that we find most comfortable — these are the
manner possible serves nothing beyond making one's life more
in the dark, seeking for the director-in-charge. But this faltering
like. That really is a picture of the kind of thinking on which
false is a totally impossible way of thinking. One makes judgements.
thinking I have just described is that it has spread to practically
thinking. The following interesting example demonstrates this. In the
wholly absurd. For our thinking attributes all sorts of qualities to
fictions. One must be fully conscious about making fictions. One must
has become available to mankind. At the same time, men's thinking has
become increasingly powerless. Thinking has lost its sovereignty over
abstract thinking is another factor. One did not think so much in
earlier times, but one tried to keep one's thinking connected to the
external world and to actual experience. It was felt that thinking
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Title: Lecture: Riddle of Humanity: Lecture Eleven: Memory and Habit as Metamorphoses of Former Spiritual Experiences that were Subject to Luciferic and Ahrimanic Influences.
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the terms of present-day thinking. This condition had to end because
man lives on Earth, whatever is developed in his waking consciousness
Looking at these matters in the way we have just done enables one to
agreement between what we are thinking and the physical facts. In
Matters such as those we have just been talking about give one a

Title: Lecture: Riddle of Humanity: Lecture Twelve: How Thoughts are Engraved into the Substance of the Cosmos and the Consequences Following from This. Metamorphosis of Memory and Habit.
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imaginative consciousness as thinking.
development on Earth and thus applies to the usual kind of waking
apply to the consciousness that is related to waking consciousness and
does not derive from the same sources as normal waking consciousness.
— while one is making discoveries in the spiritual world, the
thought by man. In the case of our usual waking consciousness on
must gradually learn to adopt towards thinking.
desires, it is possible, broadly speaking, to understand thinking as
Ahriman can do with our thinking. But Ahriman is on the alert once
thinking has been taken to the point where it is ripe for
responsibility, we need to learn to view all thinking as a kind of
the facts, putting them together and looking at them from all sides.
can search. Thinking is to be seen as a process that can remain for a
the maxim of using thinking as a method of seeking, and of suspending
must know everything. People never use their thinking to search out
also requires our thinking to traverse a certain path. For this truth,
At present there are many shocking circumstances which show us the
these are things you can lay your hands on — I am speaking
symbolically: these are, spiritually speaking, things you can really
people want to go in the other direction. They do not want thinking to
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Title: Lecture: Riddle of Humanity: Lecture Thirteen: Allocation of the Whole Human Form to the Cosmos. Technical Discoveries and the Human Physical Organization. Collisions between Thinking that Accords with Reality and Thinking that is in Opposition to Reality.
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thinking that accords with reality and thinking that is in opposition
lacking, or are included in a form very different from the form in
within. Lucifer has to be there alongside Eve as she sets about making
can be experienced repeatedly. Others come along thereafter, asking
men as well — were thinking quite clearly about the situation a
speak of it, referring to the consciousness of normal waking life.
particular thing — in the kind of thing I was just now talking
life — in this case, into the human sphere — while taking
spiritual forces working in the cosmos it is, of course, necessary for
materialistic age, the notion of thinking in accordance with reality
describing; thinking that is in accord with reality has become a
today collides with all the contemporary thinking that is at variance
anthroposophical Movement again and again collides with thinking that
and thinking that is an enemy of reality show what is involved in
standing up for the truth today. That other thinking is opposed to
understand this distinction between thinking that is in harmony with
reality and thinking that is an enemy of reality.

Title: Lecture: Riddle of Humanity: Lecture Fourteen: Metamorphoses of the Twelve Sense Zones through Luciferic and Ahrimanic Influences.
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entirely different is involved when we ourselves are thinking; this
thinking is not an activity of our sense of thought. That still
materialistic thinking speaks of only five senses, for it only
thinking — or thought. Nor, because of the nature of the thinking
Materialistic thinking is happy to restrict its view of the world to
inadequate views of modern thinking is the view that we always more or
walking upright on two legs, putting one leg after the other or
body, in so far as the body is appended to the head, making of the
not talking about the sense of life. What is in question here is not
am not speaking about our ability to hear the tones, but about our
related to the other? How is speaking related to understanding speech?
experiences of the human soul. Speaking originates in the realm of the
portion of the organism of movement, and speaking occurs when will
understand it by not making this gesture. Because I do not make this
fingers, but I hold back the motion, delay it, block it. By blocking
perceive the whole direction of another's thinking and to live in it,
thinking. What a man says to us through the words we hear is almost
thinking. If there had been no ahrimanic intervention, if the things I
I am speaking, when they come to describe how the ego is supposed to
I . We are talking about fine distinctions, but they
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Title: Lecture: Riddle of Humanity: Lecture Fifteen: The Twelve Senses. The Reorganization of the Seven Life Processes by Luciferic and Ahrimanic Powers. Francis Bacon Inaugurates Materialism and the Science of Idols.
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ahrimanic influence. One can say, broadly speaking, that if it were
O Sun, of this world thou king,
Though all in vain lacking Venus' patronage.
being, is the king of this world. The Sun also exists spiritually for
Though all in vain lacking Venus' patronage
true that we know this verse, “O Sun, of this world thou king,
materialism and into materialistic thinking, feeling and experiencing.
post-Atlantean epoch inaugurated this way of looking at the world; it

Title: Wrong and Right Use: Lecture 1: Secret Brotherhoods-1, -or- Wrong and Right Use of Esoteric Knowledge-1, -or- Individual Spirit Beings and the Undivided Foundation of the World-Part 1
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Individual Spiritual Beings Working in the Human Soul,
hold of a person's thinking, feeling and willing —
fast making headway and will continue to advance for some four
the evil that is making its way into human evolution. Just as
This way of thinking has been very tempting always, in all
longer prevented by the body from working destructively
anything can be promoted by talking about it in an opposing
spreading the doctrine of materialism; they are taking
making this knowledge our own. It is not yet too late. I have
already talking of the spirit.” But a person can remain a
these methods I have told you about, this working with the dead
unclear thinking about all such connections. While the evil
these things by talking of the “unconscious,” for
actually do wish to substitute for the working of Christ the
working of another being and are ready to use any means to
should cope with eating and drinking if we had to acquaint

Title: Wrong and Right Use: Lecture 2: Secret Brotherhoods-2, -or- Wrong and Right Use of Esoteric Knowledge-2, -or- Individual Spirit Beings and the Undivided Foundation of the World-Part 2
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Individual Spiritual Beings Working in the Human Soul,
reached, not only those who favoured it will be looking for
spiritual world, it is always a question of looking for the
speaking of facts, then — just because they are facts
to 1918. A diagram will naturally show them taking their course
working of a single principle, but that is not how things
independent of each other, are working into these events. We
individualities who are working either with or against each
Once again we see clearly that we have to do with the workings
united band. Each of the four kingdoms is in a certain sense
phenomenon the working together, let us say, of fire-spirits
thinking is widespread to-day; and philosophers such as, for
epoch by taking hold of the forces of evil and turning them to
from which should come a fruitful working out of
This speaking, this communication, is the important thing
post-Atlantean epoch, for then, before speaking leads to
taking decisions. The initiates who sent these colonists to
be working against mankind. In this fifth post-Atlantean epoch
working life: the fit were kept on and the unfit discarded. The
making the fit ever fitter and fitter ... and by that means a

Title: Wrong and Right Use: Lecture 3: Secret Brotherhoods-3, -or- Wrong and Right Use of Esoteric Knowledge-3, -or- Individual Spirit Beings and the Undivided Foundation of the World-Part 3, -or- German Philosophy: Kant, Schelling, Hegel, Goethe
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Individual Spiritual Beings Working in the Human Soul,
What is lacking among people to-day is the courage to embark on
This should of course not prevent us from taking note of such
I gave you the example of how an American way of thinking tries
third great question concerns ways of thinking about human
rhythmic alternation of waking and sleeping in man. Just as a
have repeatedly told you that certain groups are working
alchemists sought to observe processes in which the working of
this, too, can be done by making use of the cosmic
working on the physical body — preparations are
would take their course: certain cosmic workings would always
beings working in from the cosmos can mediate the secret of the
of the sun unites itself with the influence working from the
astral form. This working together of the duality in man gives
determine the working capacity of human beings, in the way of
am making these remarks — obviously they cannot exhaust
forces which emanate from certain brotherhoods who are working
it has the kind of spiritual significance I have been speaking
health-giving one. And what good is it to be always talking
your own meditations. I have been speaking aphoristically in

Title: Historical Necessity: Lecture 1: On the Functions of the Nervous System
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importance of scientific methods of thinking, both for the
introduce scientific thinking gradually into the conceptions
— often in a shockingly amateurish way. This is only
one of the channels through which scientific thinking will
way of thinking entered the evolution of mankind at the same
scientific way of thinking.
explained that the scientific way of thinking was obliged at
human thinking, ever since 1879. In the scientific sphere
will dawn for human thinking (it is terrible that such things
an anatomical and physiological sense into our waking life.
place. “Walking” will be the result, and the real
waking way. But what we experience here as unconscious will
understand it. The forces working on the plants below this
are still in the experimental stage. Man's thinking must
which he develops, in order that his thinking may regulate,
show how really sound thinking ceases when scientific
think that I am the King of Spain; undoubtedly this would be
“over-valued” if I really happened to be the King
otherwise we must believe the King of Spain to be afflicted
with nerve troubles because he thinks that he is the King of
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Title: Historical Necessity: Lecture 2: Concerning the World of the Dead
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such an event — as something which, generally speaking,
usual waking consciousness.
dreaming. The dream life extends itself over into our waking
of what is termed “History” with waking
waking consciousness. In this soul relationship also the
waking life and the world which remains subconscious for him,
basis of the willing life, just as in waking we live through
from him in our waking consciousness by means of our senses
quite seriously: what then exists for the waking
non-clairvoyant consciousness from the time of waking until
so-called mineral kingdom, for which the sense organs are
forth out of the mineral kingdom, builds itself up, so, for
itself upon the mineral and plant world, so the kingdom of
the Angels, Archangels, etc., forms a higher kingdom in the
beings of the mineral and plant kingdoms — as a result
when plucking roses similar to the one they would have were
accomplished — through the sticking out of his finger,
lowest level there above in the animal kingdom. And just as we
kingdom by means of our sense perceptions, so is the departed
actually live in the animal kingdom — in order that
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Title: Historical Necessity: Lecture 3: Our Life with the Dead
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dream enters the ordinary waking consciousness and,
our feeling life, of which our waking consciousness,
at all. The waking consciousness knows less still concerning
is his lowest sphere. As the insensible mineral kingdom
had to bring in connection with the animal kingdom) in such a
speaking, or you know that you are thinking when you think.
departed one is speaking. You are dimly conscious that the
with the lowest one connected with the animal kingdom (just
evolves to the point of becoming familiar with the kingdom of
although it is merely figurative — with the kingdom
he belongs to the highest kingdom. It is not thus with the
kingdom of man evolves and grows out of the mineral, plant
and animal kingdoms, so the departed one feels himself
kingdom of the Angeloi, Archangeloi, Archai, etc., can be
experiences by taking up ideas. In the spiritual world we
kingdom, man is, as it were, connected with the animalic,
Then he is connected with the kingdom immediately above this
one — the kingdom of the souls with whom he is directly
or indirectly linked up through Karma. In this kingdom man
relationship with the kingdom of the Angeloi gives rise, at
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Title: Historical Necessity: Lecture 4: The Rhythmical Relationship of Man with the Universe
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concerned, we only experience in a waking condition what we
speaking in comparisons). This reality lying behind the sense
less the same as breaking the mirror to see what is behind
breaths a day, by taking as the basis 18 breaths a minute
within the entire solar system, by taking sunrise and sunset
as parallel to our falling asleep and awaking; through our
earth, you can hear yourself speaking to him — you hear
outside at the events taking place on earth. According to the
you are looking down on the earth.) When you are dead and
not contained at all in your waking consciousness; your own
will — and does not enter our usual waking
if you realize that only a Maya is contained in the waking
thinking, because pure thoughts cannot cause or produce

Title: Historical Necessity: Lecture 5: The Members of Man's Being and the Periods of His Life
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— in reality — man, as he lives between waking
and sleeping, in his usual waking day-consciousness, has some
waking life; during our usual waking consciousness, our
lives in the kingdom of the dead lives with us in the sphere,
else must be added to this. In the life of ordinary waking
waking consciousness is concerned. For what is the real
nature and being of this ego? The usual waking consciousness
everyday waking consciousness. He prefers to limit his
mind once more the fact that — roughly speaking —
someone speaks from the standpoint of the usual waking
the physical plane and for the usual waking consciousness;
ages. But man is under a great illusion in making everything
what we call our understanding, or our thinking consciousness
of self. When our understanding and our conscious thinking
thinking are really essentially younger than we ourselves
that which develops in our thinking, independently of the
not too distant a future, instead of speaking of all the
the one we know through our waking consciousness, in the form

Title: Historical Necessity: Lecture 6: New Spiritual Impulses in History
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also like to interpret the events taking place in the course
thinking very clearly when they say this, that all events,
habit of thinking that this reality can be embraced in
obstacles from taking up this imaginative element.
although generally speaking we do not feel inclined to take
physical, etheric, and astral body and ego (roughly speaking)
child of 7, in a man of 28 (without taking into consideration
right time what was taking place. If you have a house that
Golgotha, as documents in the same sense. The way of thinking
looking upon the Event of Golgotha, described in the Gospels,
ascended to the spiritual kingdom of the so-called dead,

Title: Historical Necessity: Lecture 7: The Inadequacy of Natural Science for the Knowledge of the Life of the Soul
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apparently clear; in reality however, they are as lacking in
about this object as if we were speaking of a gourd, for it
when we are speaking, but upon a certain perception,
clear, precise thinking is above all a necessity, a striving
fantasy, this means out of a thinking which is not ruled by
the process of disintegration and willed thinking.
thinking; it is there in any case, in fact it is always
disintegration with something coming out of pure thinking,
weakness of the present way of thinking. And this weakness
birth the so-called departed one has the animal kingdom as
his lowest kingdom, just as the mineral kingdom is our lowest
kingdom. We have also pointed out in a certain way, how the
kingdom, and has to build up out of the laws of the animalic
incarnation. We have shown how as second kingdom the departed
world. A second kingdom thus arises for the departed one,
kingdom through which the human being then passes can be
conceived as the kingdom of the Angels. In a certain sense we
Fundamentally speaking, the Angels are those Beings among the
the Kingdom of the Archangeloi and Archai.
waking state and he is aware of everything, for his life
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Title: Symptom 2 Reality: Lecture I: The Birth of the Consciousness Soul
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When, looking
came from ‘on high’; esoterically speaking it was
control. Independent thinking became possible only when he
now begins to undergo a transformation. That a king or an
sees in nature. Imagine you are looking at the world of
England. English kings extended their dominion to French
differentiation was taking place at the same time. Whilst for
are speaking the national impulses were particularly active
very striking. We need only compare the real driving forces
the impulse of the Consciousness Soul which is breaking
see, striking at the very roots of religious faith, the
consequence of this turning point in 1805. Looking back a few
external appearances when looking at the symptomatic
James I was King of England a hidden current rises to the

Title: Symptom 2 Reality: Lecture II: Symptomatology of Recent Centuries
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figure of James I, King of England, at the beginning of the
Persian Kings, of the Mongol Khans and even in the century
Parliament when the King and his chief ministers were
of king or pope; it is not a question of suppressing these
offices, but simply that if a king or a pope already exists,
king. Thus papacy, royalty and democracy would be realized at
speaking more than figuratively, I am speaking
here — I am speaking quite dispassionately. I merely
especially the false esotericism of the English speaking
when speaking
am now speaking figuratively — makes use of incense and
induces a condition of semi-consciousness by evoking a
liberal opinion ... soon to be called free-thinking
of political thinking. The latter-day liberal parties were
thinking that was peculiar to his class and which was simply
has a different outlook. But his way of thinking too is only
marketed since the sixteenth century, a way of thinking
in consequence a different way of thinking. And because a
of production has become the ideal of the working class.

Title: Symptom 2 Reality: Lecture III: Characteristics of Historical Symptoms in Recent Times
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seeking to discover the real motive forces of evolution, this
of thinking.
course speak of the scientific mode of thinking in terms of
thinking. But it is important to consider in what respect
this scientific thinking has become a historical symptom like
Soul, the scientific mode of thinking has steadily increased
thinking and that is why scientists themselves have gradually
thinking of scientists or even of monistic visionaries that
must engage our attention, but the mode of thinking of the
counterpoise is a universal thinking that is in conformity
mode of thinking — after it had achieved certain
inconceivable without the support of scientific thinking.
give heed to this scientific thinking, if, from the point of
scientific thinking that it can only apprehend the
conscious thinking to a superabundant vitality. This
conscious thinking, this very core of man's being grew and
inner circles of the occult lodges of the English speaking
Characteristically the dead hand of scientific thinking has
— a way of looking at nature that is concerned above
scientific thinking, different from that of Copernicus,
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Title: Symptom 2 Reality: Lecture IV: The Historical Significance of the Scientific Mode of Thinking
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The Historical Significance of the Scientific Mode of Thinking
death. It is a question of making new ideas effective. As you
developing ideas. (When speaking of these matters I never
with a sprinkling of working class elements, formed the party
by sucking out the air in the glass jar of an air pump and
but there is no mistaking their origin. But the essential
but in the majority) that what they are looking for in
for cafe gossip. Equally the new banking practices, etcetera,
working conditions and the daily output of mass production.
workers are talking of realities, even if they are the
working class at their finger-tips, from the invention of the
lacking today. And so in social life a far more radical, a
painstaking work of Oskar Hertwig
mean by looking around you. How few people today have
inner psychic development. The thread linking birth and death

Title: Symptom 2 Reality: Lecture V: The Supersensible Element in the Study of History
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that it is awakened. When speaking of these matters one must
is to wear down the rails, one would obviously be talking
many respects modern thinking — and again this is not
The thinking current in modern science is almost without
exception typical of the kind of thinking that says: the
thinking will prove to be inadequate if we wish to create in

Title: Symptom 2 Reality: Lecture VI: Brief Reflections on the Publication of the New Edition of 'The Philosophy of Freedom'
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heritage of Liszt. And also making its influence felt —
the occasion when he unearthed one of the striking aphorisms
teaching and allows his thinking to be determined solely by
are taught to harness their thinking only to the sensible
and political questions. For a thinking that is tied to the
been positively stifled by a thinking that is conditioned in
knowledge of freedom by self-disciplined thinking.
advocate publicly. Shortly alter taking over the Magazin,
— that of the socialist working class. In view of the
is lacking is precisely what
thinking freed from the tyranny of the senses, in genuine
scientific thinking.
introducing spiritual ideas to the working class. But the
leaders of the working class movement refuse to consider
weaving and working in the life of the time. I had been
accurately — tapping with his walking stick on the
finally my speech lasted one and a quarter hours. Taking up
basis of free, independent scientific thinking. Their ideas
were the product of a thinking corrupted by its attachment to
when we recognize that we must build upon a thinking freed

Title: Symptom 2 Reality: Lecture VII: Incidental Reflections on the Occasion of the New Edition of 'Goethes Weltanschauung'
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asking: what must I do, what must others do? For the majority
striking incident and one could find countless others of its
Kingdoms and “lands” represented in the Federal Council’,
the educational system of neighbouring states. But looking
for a modern way of thinking, a teaching that enabled me to be
association with scientific thinking to the fact that the
scientific thinking.
link with scientific thinking. It is to this scientific
thinking that I owed the impulse which is fundamentally
one could not avoid — unless one was asleep—taking an
Looking back
aware that his outlook and thinking had nothing in common
factors enabled isolated individuals in the German-speaking
Kingdom of Saxony, and again at Strasbourg university in
extent the response was lacking. As I mentioned recently the
Goetheanism could determine men's thinking, their religious

Title: Symptom 2 Reality: Lecture VIII: Religious Impulses of the Fifth Post-Atlantean Epoch
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habit of thinking. I do not mean, of course, the thinking
that is the proud boast of modern science, but the thinking
English speaking peoples the Consciousness Soul. This is the
either professor or King of Spain. You will recall the legend
of the King of Spain who declared, when a much less
an inner aura impregnating the thinking and feeling of this
ordained by Christ the King, the Invisible Christ as
different forms without provoking hitherto deepseated
the personality, seeking to arrive at inner understanding of
aim of Jesuitism is to drag down the Kingdom of God into the
that the Kingdom of God operates on the physical plane in the
form of a temporal kingdom of the Christ. It wishes to
King, or as a soldier serves his generalissimo. The
Kingdom of Christ.’ He must visualize this Kingdom with
1. I conjure up a picture of a terrestrial King chosen by God
I observe how the King addresses all his subjects and says to
consider how his faithful subjects must answer a King so kind
refuse the appeal of such a King would be deserving of
example of the terrestrial King to Christ our Lord in
regard an appeal of the terrestrial King to his subjects as
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Title: Symptom 2 Reality: Lecture IX: The Relation Between the Deeper European Impulses and Those of the Present Day
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flourished. The king as leader surrounded by his vassals,
original Celtic impulses was King Arthur with his Round Table
the many legends associated with King Arthur, all this shows
injunctions and direction from the King.
as both a spiritual and temporal King.
empire akin to what developed out of the various kingdoms of
decreed. And as kings and emperors governed by decree, so too
especially amongst the English-speaking peoples, what may be
Celtism, in the English-speaking peoples, that attempts were
element which is associated with the legend of King Arthur.
became still further emasculated. Thus the modes of thinking
the God, to the idea of whom enlightened thinking leads, the
of looking at things. Hobbes,
For the People of the Church: Christ is King, a conception
the King; for the People of the Lodges: Christ is the
only infiltrated the Lodges, that high-ranking Jesuits are in
given you a kind of picture of what may be called the working
the Lodges, we are speaking from the standpoint of the
religious orientation, you see the working of the
taking place (i.e. in 1918) in the external world are simply
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Title: Fundamental Social: Lecture 1: The Transforming of Instinctive into Conscious Impulses
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these instinctive impulses are seeking to be transformed into
reality, looking over these three and three-quarter years of
consider many things in the social thinking of the 5th
is of peculiar importance for the forces which are working
to the 16th century, do we see this conscious thinking about
life, in whose sphere the certainty of instincts was working
very dawn of conscious thinking on economic matters you see
himself. Roughly speaking, this is Adam Smith's idea: We
social and a socialistic thinking of the present day, which
proletarian thinking at the present time. For on the economic
sharp ideas on these things, and if you know the thinking of
force in the proletarian thinking of today, from its most
thinking this idea no longer exists in the same radical form.
iron Law of Wages, were thinking of the determination of
political economy arose. Fundamentally speaking, it was the
proletariat, however, the conscious thinking about the social
thoughts. And the conscious thinking about the social
Marxist, proletarian thinking.
into the socialist thinking, which, however, modifies and
driving force of proletarian thinking. And now the thought
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Title: Fundamental Social: Lecture 2: The Logic of Thought and the Logic of Reality
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rational thinking, abstract thinking, natural scientific
from the usual thinking of today to the Spiritual Science of
we mean this, we are making a great mistake; for the results
ordinary thinking that runs on purely abstract lines may fall
the metaphysical legalistic way of thinking has taken such
it. That you cannot conclude by thinking, that you must see.
of sight is a different thinking from the logic of mere
so-called logical sequences to which modern thinking has
have been speaking to you now for some weeks — in the
especially through the way of thinking that is prevalent
think that we are making a great mistake. Spiritual Science
manner, the form, the structure of his thinking has changed,
Spiritual Science, should enter our thinking, for only in
Natural-Scientific type of thinking something that cannot
conceive the social life, not with the kind of thinking that
himself: “What a weedy-looking
an ugly-looking pedant.
“respectable” thinking. We should naturally
professor in Zurich, and those who are now working as
taking it as an empty phrase. Yet it is truly symptomatic.
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at a time when — I hope I am making no undue
the English-speaking people and on the other side the life of
the Russian-speaking people; he observes them as they come to
expression in the characteristic ways of thinking of these
but the inner man, the inner Mid-European man, looking to the
West, to the English-speaking people, and contemplating the
peculiar thing is this. Within the English-speaking
English-speaking people. The English people has a native
English-speaking people let the intelligence sink down into
Russian Intelligence, seeking to preserve itself for future
is the very opposite of what we find in the English-speaking
as the Nation or Folk is working in them. They are
Out of the impulses in the different peoples it is seeking to
throughout the Earth, and with the ideas I am thinking out
seeking to realize itself. Then I drew your
but they are making a mistake. They no doubt will say: In
It is the working of the heart upon the head, upon the
English-speaking people the abdomen fumes up into the head
working in it. Take all the science and scholarship that is
Protestantism. This inner impulse working through
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and with the whole way of thinking of the present age. And
tested, by anyone who wishes to do so, with the thinking
— and notably with the scientific thinking — of
towards the future, new revelations are breaking through the
new Revelations are breaking through into the spiritual
generally speaking, they had certain ideas inherited from
spiritual way of looking out on the world, which was quite
revelations of a spiritual kind are breaking in upon us,
behind the revelations that are breaking newly into human
is taking place as yet only in a preparatory way, not with
working from the spiritual realms. You may read about their
also have to play a creative part in the other kingdoms.
things — things only now breaking in upon us,
see over against them certain Spirits of Darkness, making
the new revelations of the heavens breaking in upon us with a
of certain errors, certain aberrations of human thinking in
the last few centuries, human thinking has in a certain
working of machines, but they are really useless for all that
thinking which takes its start from mechanistic ideas is
thinking. But from this point onward it is necessary to turn
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speaking for weeks past of what is needful to mankind all the
inwardly active, partaking in the inner impulses of all
— especially the English-speaking — peoples, this
working in one or in another territory of the Earth. They
individual human being as to his moral qualities. In seeking
taking on the character of Creators. They become different in
dear friends, in the deepest sense, if, looking back on the
talking in abstractions; it is something real and concrete.
are working over the face of the Earth. And this will be a
World and its relation to mankind, but all this talking
we should be speaking a pretty unintelligible language for
thinking — was influenced by this. It is quite true,
they are making their appearance once more. Not that the
kingdoms of Nature. Life will remain unintelligible to men,
the records in the archives — by looking up the records
own forces, and you will find that the God is speaking and
modern working man. One thing has been left behind, namely
are unwilling to do so. And yet, I know I am speaking in the
not speaking of the individual human beings but of the
our way of thinking at the present time much that belongs to

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today, almost universally, a kingdom in itself, — a kingdom
the last three or four centuries. Most people today when speaking of
speaking of the spirit, only when we mean the spirit as creator of
modern thinking, sensibility, feeling, and willing. We have in the
conceived as a description of the lost Luciferic kingdom — it
an abstract spiritual kingdom, he does not find the spirit at all,
Kingdom of Christ is spoken of, and so on? What relation is there
people one group believe themselves capable of speaking about God and
development; leaps never!” Well, nature is continually making

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kingdom was often accused of having deserted the divine-spiritual
with longing, so to speak; it built upon longing, upon seeking,
believing that it was possible to be more successful in this seeking
could only be done by linking it in one way or another with something
it in somewhat the following way: When he said in speaking of any
what may be called seeking balance between opposite poles.
man, and between them stands the essential being of man, seeking
present time will succeed in his seeking only if he unites this
seeking with the struggle for balance.
on, we can also say, speaking physiologically, that the one pole is
fundamentally in seeking the balance between the insipid, the and the
of the seeking human being, the human being striving for balance.
him, while he is looking upon the Being who gives meaning to the
human being. And the working and weaving of the individual
you hear such people talking (indeed, sometimes in this day their own
consciousness cannot be revealed to profane humanity. (In speaking
accomplished, whether working with tools or cultivating the ground,
ordinary social thinking, and so on; and how they must be spoken of

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speaking at times more generally, in connection with what was said
complete transformation of learning and thinking with regard
in learning, a change in thinking, then the moral deluge will
thinking and learning — it is important to realize what it
because of sheer laziness in thinking and feeling. You should not be
so inclined to sneer at what can be won only by working upon the
fructifying of human thinking, feeling, and willing from the
everything: the manner of speaking, the seriousness with
from making fruitful in the natural and social realms that which is
the middle of the century, approximately speaking. The new forces
he encounters as taking place in time. But the first experience
seriously accustom our thinking to the canceling of time. In
following the third, and so on; and our thinking is always an image
à. If we reverse our thinking, so that it goes from
of from morning to evening, then we are thinking against time. We
If we are able to continue such thinking, going back in our life as
thinking, feeling, and willing become separated in the consciousness.
In the ordinary present-day consciousness thinking, feeling, and
experience, thinking, feeling, and willing become independent powers
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concepts about truth (I am still speaking of the social life),
call the thinking faculty; and indeed they were the first
Brahman as the descendants of these people who combined the thinking
their primal characteristic is that they combined the thinking-power
extinguished, and the thinking-power remained to them. Among the
are asking: Well, what are we to do? The first thing of importance is
by making the spiritual life independent.
It was taken from the Orient. And further: When in English-speaking
is at the same time a proof of the necessity for making the spiritual
Speaking somewhat radically, this Roman Catholic ecclesiasticism is
taking under the influence of the degenerating spiritual life derived
drawing), the middle stream empties into self-seeking; and an
degeneration of humanity through Ahriman; the second is self-seeking,
and self-seeking, of Lucifer. So the third, a worthy companion of the

Title: Man: Hieroglyph: Lecture One
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Rudolf Steiner explains that this maxim is not asking us to study
through intellectual thinking, to recognition of the stern Necessity
of a star, by looking at these three dimensions of space. Now man
speaking, in the inhaling and exhaling of the air, or in what we
living in them he is taking part in certain movements of the Earth and
seeking for a right understanding of the three dimensions. It is
symmetry has something to do with our thinking. If we
if we wish to express decisive thinking in dumb show. When we place
discriminating that goes on within us, all the thinking and judging
plane of discriminative Thinking. The second plane, which
straight line. If however, we learn to describe Thinking, Feeling and
in space as psychic-spiritual beings, with our Thinking, Feeling and
human Thinking, and the second plane with human Feeling, to consider
say: Man is a thinking, feeling and willing being. As an external
being, he is connected by Thinking with one plane, with another at
Thinking, Feeling and Willing appear to human knowledge as terribly
ask oneself conscientiously, when using the word Thinking, whether it
making of phrases, the using of lofty words, and go back to
pictures; even when we take just that one picture for Thinking
and in our thinking too, there is a sort of handling or feeling of

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Rudolf Steiner explains that this maxim is not asking us to study
We must ask the question: If it is true that our Thinking is to be
instead of thinking of the yearly cycle of the plant, we turn our
taking part in any of the movements, but withdrawing itself in a very
one, that abstractions have become possible. All abstract thinking,
all thinking on the plane of pure thought, is bound to this head
upon looking out of the window, you would see that it is moving
organism produces in you during the process of making itself
independent of the Earth-organisation, you observe that you are taking
the Earth, because you are then ‘looking out of the
outside continually changing, so do you, when looking out of the
man — the human heart. For it is by taking our start from the knowledge

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Rudolf Steiner explains that this maxim is not asking us to study
have their source in the whole materialistic mode of thinking in use
The conception of the world which, in its abstract thinking, gave rise
following way. Suppose you were to set about making deep researches
of thinking concretely about the Cosmos and penetrating into the
plane of Thinking; that is, our Thought Plane would be co-ordinated to
there in asking about a place for souls?
lies on this or on the other side of the plane of Thinking. We feel
different velocity, seven times as slow, thus taking seven times as
demonstrated in the alternation between sleeping and waking. Positions
What does this alternation between waking and sleeping signify to us
human beings? It means, roughly speaking, that we go about at one time
respect on the cycle of Nature. The cycle of waking and sleeping, in
him of the sleeping and waking states shows however that he still has
between waking and sleeping, and Nature alternates between day and
night, and how Man is still today bound to the alternation of waking
the other condition manifest themselves. We may say that in our waking
sleeping and waking. Our free choice does not enter here. Here
In all these things, I am speaking of quite simple everyday matters,

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Rudolf Steiner explains that this maxim is not asking us to study
between going to sleep and awaking.
to sleep and our waking.
assimilation; at all events, it is a material process, though taking
awaking, we experience in the environment which then surrounds us,
trace this rhythm in its after-workings when you dream. Man steps
them again upon waking — always in conformity with the same
per minute, making 1,080 per hour and in 24 hours 25,920 respirations;
Taking this as the cycle of the precession of the equinoxes, and
purport of all this? The meaning of it is that as we pass from waking
important changes taking place within the individual soul at these
something less than empty space — a sucking, absorbing body, in fact,
‘sucking’ nature. Ether is sucking, absorbing. Matter
presses. Ether absorbs. The Sun is an absorbing, sucking
sucking or absorbing. We are a combination of both; whereas the Sun
see this working of inner law in other connections and
speaking now in the sense of physics, and I shall have to show later
course, here we are speaking not of physical sunlight, but of the
matter of the Earth, something absorbing and sucking, while the latter

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Rudolf Steiner explains that this maxim is not asking us to study
But Astronomy cannot, and does not, deny the fact that when speaking
proved when we realise that during waking hours the astral body
the different directions of Space. At one time the Sun's workings
Taking the case of an inhabitant of our own part of the globe, we can
say, through its absence. At one time we have the direct working of
these differentiated regions of space, at another time the working of
some extent to bring into a kind of relationship that which is working
analogy is the taking of food; you were hungry, the food was not there
In order to find the working of the extra-Earthly, we must penetrate
form, we are looking at a product of the extra-earthly.

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Rudolf Steiner explains that this maxim is not asking us to study
taking place in and with Man, and the processes that take place in the
are speaking of the building up of the eye. We must imagine this
approaches him it is, relatively speaking, immaterial whether
human organism and those taking place outside in the Macrocosm. For
the same way what takes place between awaking and going to
sleep and what takes place between going to sleep and awaking. Just
sleep and awaking. If you do this with an unprejudiced mind, you will
waking state. When you awake, you are, from the standpoint of your
the other, the only difference being that of direction. Awaking
means passing from sleep to the waking state; falling asleep is the
points of awaking and of falling asleep. We must find a line which
the lemniscate. Here you have the point of awaking in one direction
the movements of the outer Universe the equivalent of movements taking
organism, taking place upon the periphery and occupying still longer
undergoes complete change. We must not make the mistake of thinking
that we have in waking and sleeping a copy of day and night, having
animal kingdom in a great variety of forms, while in Man they manifest
are the forces of the animal kingdom, and as we evolve beyond them and
that we do remains and works in the world. The processes taking place

Title: Man: Hieroglyph: Lecture Seven
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Rudolf Steiner explains that this maxim is not asking us to study
harmony existing between the process taking place in Man and the
the animals. Science contemplates the animal kingdom and then builds
transformation taking place between two physical lives, the whole
incarnations that may be compared with putting on a glove, taking it
We can now say that the organs of the body (taking ‘body’ as
We confront the outer world, taking it into ourselves in the form of
speaking of ‘hypochondria’ for example, did not speak of it
— or metabolism, which expresses itself in the taking of meals at
year, taking the beginning and end of the year as corresponding to the
Through looking at the matter in this way, we have indicated an
with his lower organism he is related to the processes taking place

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Rudolf Steiner explains that this maxim is not asking us to study
observe in the mineral, plant and animal kingdoms, and add thereto the
atoms to be seen within the molecule. This way of looking at the
substance of which we speak as filling space. When speaking of this
You cannot logically ask: If the ether has merely a sucking, absorbing
ether stands, figuratively speaking, in the same relation in respect
to ponderable matter — I am speaking now in a picture — as
speaking of the life between death and re-birth, to realise that this
of the Cosmos — and as beings taking part in cosmic life we

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Rudolf Steiner explains that this maxim is not asking us to study
life between waking and sleeping. You know that in the abstract the
relation is something like this: In the waking condition, the
— separated from them at any rate in comparison with the waking
consciousness in the same way as our dream state to our waking life.
Between waking and falling asleep, we are only really awake in our
between birth and death, is in an intermittent waking state in respect
limb nature, directed inwards. So that in speaking of the will-nature
putting it into practical effect that is lacking.
of the processes taking place in the nervous system as the will acts
of putting his hands in his trouser pockets while speaking, it may not
speaking in favour of either of these points of view, but you will see
programmes, but of taking in earnest that for the whole training of
makes to the thinking whether I understand how to move my fingers
our thinking. These things must be followed with understanding and
the middle finger over the first with elasticity, making a serpent and
is taking place in the external world, we must say that empty talk,

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Rudolf Steiner explains that this maxim is not asking us to study
manifested. We complete one revolution, of taking nourishment and
effect, speaking diagrammatically, that we acquire the head as the
sense-free thinking — that is to say, in the processes taking
place in man when he directs pure thinking by his Will and orientates
sense for reality is wholly lacking in modern humanity. Why is this
the waking and sleeping conditions of man. These are contrasting
through a zero-point of our existence. The moment of awaking and the
the conditions of awaking and falling asleep should fall apart; and
line, a lemniscate. When we say: Man falls asleep out of the waking
awaking through the same point as the falling asleep.
waking and sleeping. But if we rightly observe life, we cannot exclude
night, we can say: we sleep, and on awaking come to the same place
Thus when we observe the alternating conditions of waking and

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Rudolf Steiner explains that this maxim is not asking us to study
go round the Sun. Looking at Jupiter, we assign to him a revolution
that we can also include those whose sleeping and waking do not
it in thought as a line in which the points of sleeping and waking lie
are bound to place the point of waking over that of falling asleep.
conscious of my environment from the moment of waking; before that all
preceded by life, I lived again, back to the moment of waking; but
this, you picture it so that the moment of awaking and the moment of
awaking always crossing the point of falling asleep. If the curve were
an ellipse or a circle, then awaking and falling asleep would have to
waking time runs from your awaking to your falling asleep. During that
until awaking. Then you have only physical body and etheric body. You
etheric body. Strictly speaking, such a thing should not be. Your
falling asleep to awaking. He is then like the Earth in summer; and
the Earth in winter. So that we may say that the time between awaking
asleep and awaking is our summer. For the year of the Cosmos — in
Earth's sleeping time, the winter her waking time. Outer perception
waking time and winter as her time of sleeping. The reverse is the
have to say: A year — that is for the Cosmos sleeping and waking;
waking of the Cosmos, and in summer its sleeping. If we now consider
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Rudolf Steiner explains that this maxim is not asking us to study
speaking roughly, I always say about the middle of the fifteenth
Marxism. Others have ridden other hobby horses in seeking an
only say that virtually, speaking generally, she always turns the same
from the astral body and Ego in sleep, and in waking unite them. We
influences us, it does so of course in the waking condition. This
Ego. There is however, a difference in their reception of its working.
been speaking have nothing to do with one another; they only work

Title: Man: Hieroglyph: Lecture Thirteen
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by that of Sirius; so that the Egyptians had arrived at making

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Rudolf Steiner explains that this maxim is not asking us to study
the heathen world-conception, taking it in the widest sense (for
— knocking at the door and opening it, these were his first
happened, the breaking of the axle, would then of course be explicable
in this domain some moral thinking was introduced. That of course
striking. If we have studied Spiritual Science seriously, we know that
the tragic fate, that the harmonious working is split apart, leaving
together from these two streams. Thus for man's thinking the world

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Rudolf Steiner explains that this maxim is not asking us to study
of civilisation; otherwise there would be no ground for speaking of a
and so forth. This is, roughly speaking, left to the physician; and
opposition to it the necessity of working out of something quite
felt himself to be a member of the whole Universe, taking part in the
but, looking out into the Cosmos there were within me, in my brain, as
planets. The Sun makes the beginning in working in our earthly part;
organ of taste, and, taking up the substances of the Earth through
have now apportioned man, taking him in his totality, to the starry
One arrives at no perception of man by thinking that he can be studied
of Thinking. English translation of these lectures by A. P.

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Rudolf Steiner explains that this maxim is not asking us to study
is lacking actually to put to the test the depth of thought underlying
on the heat within him. In speaking of man's bodily nature pure
with a more cursory description.) If we observe this inter-working of
Taking first the whole of the rest of man, and then his head, we can
be called the transition to pure thinking. All the material substance
study the legends of King Arthur and his Round Table, those
we have the last ramifications in the twelve around King Arthur's
for thinking, the Earth will cease to be a cosmic body. And what man
Precisely in the domain of heat such a change is taking place
united with scientific thinking. This comes about because man says:
Christ cannot find His Kingdom, he can rise only to the Universal
grasped when one understands the nature of sense-free thinking.
Sense-free thinking however needs again the connection with the world,
waking consciousness of how widespread these things are? That they

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powers that are meant when speaking of the normal orders of the
elemental beings are to be found in the three kingdoms of
who have a disinclination for severely contoured thinking and
does not depend on the mineral, plant, animal kingdoms, which
reasoning and intelligence. Our waking intelligence depends on
is not a question of talking of cosmic beings as superior to

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the stages in the animal kingdom, has founded his evolutionary
that lives, that is alive even to the mineral kingdom. To
purely through Banking procedure the cheque was the occasion by
of thinking has been taken hold of by such things and has
be found in the animal kingdom but in a somewhat other form.
lacking, let men be filled with the consciousness of belonging
Ahrimanic concepts, the picture of the ossified, slinking,
skeleton-like, haggard, slinking round our abstract
into — speaking spiritually — slimy mysticism nor

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have often spoken to you of the different streams working
two and which is best expressed by speaking of the
going to sleep and waking, is the will-life with its bodily
Elohim whom I will draw so (yellow), working in this sphere
really like to keep him above the mineral kingdom. They would
it, have drawn him down into the mineral kingdom. But
has been pressed down into the mineral kingdom, because the
earth-man. He has been incorporated in the mineral kingdom
has come down into the mineral kingdom, now let us tear him

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different Spiritual Beings have inserted themselves, taking
speaking in general in such an abstract way about the Divine,
extension of intellectual thinking throughout the whole
intellectual thinking human beings according to the modern idea
When we look at all those kingdoms of nature which are outside
intellectual thinking does not depend in any way upon what
— none of that stimulates us to intellectual thinking.
Then if we look to the kingdom of the Air, there too we find
events taking place; these processes are continued in our
thinking.
with what is our intellectual thinking. But when we look out
our intellectual thinking. We, therefore, as human beings, are
kingdom, with those forces which appear in crystallisation and
become the thinking beings we have become, especially since the
since the middle of the fifteenth century, it is this working
intellectual thinking was not then the most significant
higher kinds of ether — in all these are working divine
was not his own kingdom, for the forming of external man. The
human sheath which could not come from his own kingdom. Then he
earth,” that means out of the mineral kingdom foreign to
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working according to law, penetrating everything. One
into this working of the human intellect. It is just in this
looking to many other things for their real interests but
phrase, “one who is fond of talking shop”
inner fire all that is given by science. By taking the various
love working out of each human being. Through the
individual, does not raise it to pure thinking, that is not
curve of the sickle bends inwards. So that one is speaking

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force in man had diminished. Moritz Benedikt and thinking that
workings of these physical forces. It is theoretical
not have such perfect organs of thinking, in the purely
heaven that people in Greek times did not possess thinking
drawing on left). He exerts his organs of thinking and
thinking done with so little cleverness as in the middle of
contain the completely abstract thinking of later times which
speaking, a staunch philosopher, a disciple of Herbart,
force we can, from the outside, observe working in dream life
way, we become aware of the working of the dream force in his
organism. When I describe this actively working dream force,
but then he can think less, because, for thinking, he
aided them in this thinking the most was the physical body.
But this physical thinking was connected with the special
thing working in the human being. Human life had indeed taken

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Errors in mere thinking and errors rooted in actuality. The latter, for
The nature of imagination; essence of reflective thinking; objective
In thinking,
processes of human thinking. I pointed out that it so
of an ascent to Imaginative thinking is to have before your
and remembering it again something is taking place
thinking, of thought and perceptual experiences, with what
leading to memory as recollective thinking — and in
our modern thinking, in the thinking of today's civilization,
lives. You will not find an Herbartian who, in making an
metaphorically speaking, the rhythmical system is not the wax
manner of speaking, below what thus realizes itself as an
process, in thinking which arrives at objective knowledge.
of life. Thinking, ordinary perception, is not related to
arrive at a comprehension of thinking. To be sure, what we

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from looking back still further. For the next stages would
Oriental civilization, which consider looking upon the
certainly not taking the easy way out. It tries to do

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through taking the spiritual heritage from the Orient and
later ages, though already taken up by modern thinking,
based on man's physical thinking and takes hold only of the
thinking based on cosmic insight to the specifically
coming out of the cosmos, looking up at the stars, that

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instead steeped in the flood of juristic thinking, which
abstract thinking in the Roman world maintained itself in the
cannot fully attain to humanity on earth by merely looking up
king in the realm of shades”
Greek ideas did appear, and Greek thinking constantly sensed
then connected with thinking, with external perception. But
since the whole ego experience is bound up with thinking, the
special visit then. But upon waking in the morning and
not looking for the meaning of external facts, but are
had fallen victim to abstract thinking, the old etheric
period in time, this whole trend of abstract thinking had
those of man's inner being. Fundamentally speaking, it has
external kingdom in Jerusalem in opposition to Rome, letting
into people asking questions. Modern mankind had to and still
It is, in a manner of speaking, woven into the text that

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problem for the thinking influenced by the Greek world view.
looking up into the super-sensible, and increasingly to imbue
[it, and gave unto them, saying, This is my body which is given for you: this do in remembrance of me.KingLuke 22:19].
souls. The active taking hold of the soul forces, the inward
very decline for the time being everything working with the
tendency towards evil is making itself felt everywhere

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human nature, with his thinking, feeling, and willing,
painstakingly edited out everything he had written in
into it, but he did this by seeking the all-too-human truth,
impression he had of himself, as if ravens were shrieking
to speak the truth based on this form of thinking and yet, at
modern thinking could not give him any content for them.
lacking, and the enthusiasm is missing from the assertion of

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thinking concerning numbers was dealt with in a significantly
more. hence repeating the same act of thinking. We can repeat
is simply a third element, abstractly speaking, but by
thinking about numbers, we have to illustrate this a little,
for this older way of thinking about numbers is foreign to
imaginative thinking in the qualities of numbers did
in which case we are not thinking of measuring something. For
relation to the totality of the human being without thinking

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abstract form to penetrate the doctrines with its thinking.
man's physical body (red). As I said, I am making a schematic
being, and he perceived them inwardly. From waking in the
is dulled from the moment of falling asleep until waking
possessed no independent rational thinking. If this
independent rational thinking, this actual intellectual
thinking, is to develop, it has to make use of the instrument
intellectual thinking is acquired in the period from waking
until waking up, you dwell in a different content in the
intellectual and Dadaistic, a neo-Catholic movement is making
developing inwardly cramped thinking so that they can avoid
waking up, with becoming inwardly active. Its intelligence

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thinking turned into human, subjective shadow images, causing
separation into merely logical thinking and a will left to its own
century of bringing reality into shadowy thinking by way of the
along, in a manner of speaking. Yet, in a certain sense, this
kingdom, of water spirits and spirits of the air, and so on.
ordinary waking. Thinking about something was a process still
had a certain feeling in regard to the more profound thinking
Nowadays human beings do not have the feeling that thinking
morally good and yet engaged in thinking. In a sense, they
reproached themselves for thinking even though they were bad
to be, but I can engage in thinking. Up to the fifteenth
Hence, already in the act of thinking, they saw something
real; in a manner of speaking, they viewed themselves as
in thinking. It was not that they decided to activate the
thinking occurred. We can almost say: During that age, human
evident when we look at thinking before and after the
fifteenth century. When we look at thinking prior to that
body a certain structure. If we look at thinking now, it runs
human beings increasingly have taken their thinking out of
shadow image of what was once cosmic thinking; hence, since
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sense the culmination of the materialistic way of thinking
with materialistic thinking, feeling, and even with
thinking. Indeed, it is the call for spiritual science.
mind what it is that I am seeking to bring up from the depths
speaking, all dissemination of learning was based on oral
Before taking
not allowed to be kept working in factories for more than
the broad masses of working people demand today as the
Louis-Philippe, for example, becomes king of France, and so
which, in a manner of speaking, still retained a bit of the
thinking from Hegelianism, namely, Karl Marx, went over to
consideration, and that, by the way, is making a most

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the economic mode of thinking of the Anglo-Saxons with their problems of
mankind's looking up to the light, encountered in a
derived from this Roman Catholic thinking. Thus, we have to
it is coming to life again, assuming new forms and seeking to
representing the kingdom of God, the other representing the
kingdom of this world. The followers of this view look upon
belong to the kingdom of God. They are the ones who still
world, he either belongs to the kingdom of God, or to the
kingdom of this world. It only appears as though human beings
belonged to the kingdom of the world, worshiped superstition,
the children of the Kingdom of God, who are destined to save
manner of thinking in Russian culture, and the element coming
composition, a spirit that belongs, in a manner of speaking,
speaking, we see the obsolete, archaic light of Ormuzd. On
attacking an important personality, the one who made his
which then greatly influenced French thinking.
whole modern way of thinking that, according to de Maistre's
the point from which Locke proceeded, this way of thinking
element working through that individual. What Locke wrote
uttered such words against the spirit working through Locke,
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intellect that the human being, in a manner of speaking, has
in the womb, a great deal more is taking place than what
In seeking
drinking, they have entered into the human being, but there
between birth and death. Roughly speaking, what lies in this
out of the nerves, thus making people nervous. In a cosmic
active in thinking (see outline p.
thinking, after all, is also based in a certain way on a
part of the astral body is active in thinking than in
thinking. The effect of Jupiter deals mainly with the astral
thinking that develops in us has to do with the first twelve
thinking, so Mars has to do with speech.
Jupiter — thinking
thinking. And it depends on the Mars effects within us that
namely, speech, thinking, and the whole conduct of the human
being of man, working from outside only on the human
its forces are effective by taking hold inwardly of the human
Jupiter - thinking
that Jupiter is connected with thinking. Let us assume a
period when his physical organ of thinking is in the stage of
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rise to a new kingdom of nature between mineral and plant in the form of
century; their activity becomes possible only by way of a thinking that
unification of clear thinking with artistic perception in a science
being in connection with the whole universe. Yet, when asking
to the human being and the surrounding kingdoms of nature
Saturn, Sun, and Moon being, no mineral kingdom existed as
yet in his environment. The mineral kingdom and everything of
moon leaving the earth, before the mineral kingdom in its
and the incorporation of the mineral kingdom into
mineral kingdom. The human being became a personality and
seeking to enter this earth existence. Just as the Vulcan men
say, seeking to gain a foothold in earthly life through human
concrete when we say: Spirit beings are seeking to come down
But imagine that people were to continue thinking in this
human kingdom — these thoughts of human beings that
kingdoms. They will be beings resembling automatons, with an
unreal thoughts people are thinking will be endowed with
seeking to descend since the last third of the nineteenth
mineral, plant, and human kingdoms. Already in the plant
kingdom science must change into art; still more so in the
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John Scotus Erigena's thinking, an expression of a developmental
metamorphosis between ancient visionary and intellectual thinking.
thoughts as yet on a social doctrine. Erigena's thinking: still
each other on the soul level. When speaking of such a major
thinking of the ninth century
of thinking that is still completely under the influence of
Franconian kings then had ways of attracting such
permeating the Franconian kingdom, even spreading from there
Franconian kings.
confidence in memory working from generation to generation
on him. For the mode of thinking found in this Dionysius was
by God and divine thinking that it can only be expressed in
considering the ninth century and also taking into account
existence as possessed by things to God. Yet, looking upward
with the thinking employed by mankind today. We understand
of thinking with the etheric body. Fundamentally speaking, it
we encounter a form of thinking that was not yet carried out
with the physical but with the etheric body. This thinking
rigid concepts. This former thinking with the etheric body,
which certainly was the form of thinking employed during the
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World decline and world dawn. Erigena between old and new thinking. The
way of thinking, differed in the first centuries
they themselves were working with thoughts. What we have
the angel working within man. An angel inhabited the body of
proves that the whole way of looking at the world had changed
mode of thinking and conceiving prevalent in the first
actual creator of all things. In the Christian thinking after
we have to place ourselves in the whole mode of thinking of
This way of thinking was in turn structured on the basis of
of wisdom. Fundamentally speaking, the further back we go in
actual truth, the elements working in the human body depend
containing the mineral kingdom — and in the blood.
on the forces working in the earth. This truth, which we are
element. The primal ancestor was believed to be working
nature spirits, they actually believed in a kingdom of the
thinking to what has not yet become blood nor flesh; direct
looking upon what the sun lets shine forth upon the earth.
Human thinking had been turned to something purely spiritual.
speaking, organically brewed up in them and then arose within
thinking in this manner do we actually approach the concepts
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in ancient Egypt experienced the working of certain forces
the waking state from morning until evening, I know
ancient human being was aware that in his waking state he was
being in the waking state between birth and death
more or less outside my soul experiences in the waking state
that experiences itself in the waking state between birth and
"Better a beggar on earth than a king in the realm of
modern man calls his soul! When people speak of thinking,
they are, in a manner of speaking, an expression of the
they had an awareness for taking a stand in life, for
speak, not for looking at the body but for making the spirit
experienced, taking its stand in the world through grammar,
now established in accordance with the following thinking:
thinking referred to something real. He would have laughed,
of Justinian. These seven wise men fled to Asia, to the king
speaking, the transitory soul element of man is ensouled with

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beings as the physical beings of the other kingdoms of
walking about. This cannot be integrated into the earthly
consider taking the cosmos into undefined distances; somehow
mineral and plant kingdoms, for the human being, of course,
to speak in terms of space even when speaking of realities.
etheric life working from the cosmos. This etheric life

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water element, the striving toward the periphery, the sinking
own way of thinking. The ancient Greek would say,
ideas.” (I am thinking now of a Greek of the
the plants and thinking of this plant world as embedded in
meant when speaking of the element of air, whereas in
speaking about the earth one simply encompasses everything
actually cease, but in speaking about immortality one appeals

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to the fact that, in a certain sense, our thinking is indeed
image. And thinking that arises in ordinary
consciousness — that thinking which is the pride of
simply the case that this thinking, which has served modern
of thinking, since the fifteenth century — this
thinking perishes as such with the physical body, it ceases
incorrect, it is not true. This thinking, which is
during our waking life — even when we do not go beyond
all chemical forces of the mineral kingdom, and so on.
They shut out sense perceptions, but then thinking is also no
however, while at the same time thinking remains alive, then
perceptions are suppressed. Our thinking must remain just as
intellectual thinking we have only the pictures of the soul's
real in our thinking, but we develop ourselves to a picture
freedom is based on the fact that our thinking is not real if
it does not become pure thinking. A mirror image cannot be a
element. If your thinking is a reality, then there is no
freedom. If your thinking is a picture, then your life
causes reside in thinking. A life that is a life in freedom
life that is in us is not a real life as far as thinking is
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embarking upon the sort of investigation that would be
being, where we at first perceive our thinking, feeling, and
at first materialized. Working from this inner being, the
liver organization, and so forth. You reach a point, looking
When speaking
been able to speak of the head, in speaking about
the standpoint of ordinary life. Let us take a striking
good reasons for existing, but everything working in this
you an idea, asking you to think it through, to make it a

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behind it. Let us look at the matter in this way, asking
and thinking being, which pushes against the veil of the
is taking place? One perceives that an arm is lifted —
in the logic of the mental image, of making judgments, and of
Already with this kind of forming mental images, making
official thinking believes them to be. Only forming mental
down stretches his etheric legs. Making judgments is not
walking. The human being has his arms free so that he can be
thinking and perception lies above the membrane of memory,
strives more and more to intensify the process of making
formula in the appropriate way. This whole way of thinking
an education that overpowers thinking. There are already such
tested them by asking them questions like, "How large is
working toward the mobility of thoughts, then these thoughts

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course, quite outlandish when Bulwer traveled about, speaking
when looking in to one's inner being with ordinary
reflected by our inner being. By looking into our inner being
behind a mirror without breaking it. This, however, is
something of the power of perceiving and thinking, which is
is also the origin of the forces of will. In looking out into
your thinking, for you must develop thinking by permeating
thinking. This strength of thinking that man must have in
time, this strength of thinking which must be there in front
thinking into the etheric body, and the etheric body thus
permeated by thinking works destructively upon the physical
again that rational thinking, which is the highest attainment
looking at things in this way. The world that manifests as a

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often suggested, to something like a breaking of the inner
characterized as the hardening and strengthening taking place
to the point of thinking in a living and spiritual way about
with a certain inevitability this modern thinking leads
theology, too, has fallen into that way of thinking which has
speaking in this way, because for him both the Father and the
science will have to become permeated with ways of looking
for when we behold moral laws working upon matter that has
of the spirit taking place within us in a natural way. We
speaking are separate and distinct, whereas in our inner
inner chaos, we have a substantiality where speaking becomes
at the same time hearing. Hearing and speaking are once more
modern natural scientific way of thinking? He learns that out
we look at nature, we are looking in a certain sense at the
colors interpenetrate, thus taking on life, becoming living
rainbow into the flesh color, making it into a living unity,

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life thinking, feeling, and willing. It is true that
thinking, feeling, and willing play into one another in the
distinguish, within this flowing life of soul,thinking,
thinking purely from feeling and willing, because one comes
loosened thinking.
livingly grasp thinking, feeling, and willing we grasp at the
during waking life the physical, etheric,astral bodies, and
moments of awaking and falling asleep. These moments of
falling asleep and awaking can be observed by Imaginative
awaking a whole world appears before the soul. As quickly as
actually able to grasp the moment of awaking with this
moment of awaking is not concerned with reminiscences. These
scientific training, or even in the moment of awaking.
appear dreamlike, and the state — before fully awaking,
before the impressions that the senses have after awaking
awaking and receives the outer physical impressions of the
whether we are asleep or awake processes are always taking
as it is in the waking state. It must be grasped in the way I
always present in the sleeping and waking states, with our
awaking is actually grasped with the presence of mind I have
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there is the moment of awaking when man plunges into his
thinking develops itself in that region which is in fact the
that does not rise to thinking, to a life of thought, but
pictures that we form during waking consciousness, stream
body is essentially what is taking place in the animal. It
that the aroused activity taking place essentially between
dream pictures, the picture taking the place of feeling. We
the one we have between sleeping and awaking. The plant is a
as we human beings have in the waking state between birth
winter, when there is a kind of waking of the earth, whereas
rather in a dreaming, state, while the waking state exists in
kingdom. We incorporate our deed into this event and thus
mineral realm shows us only its outer side in its working
that we find on awaking between the etheric body and the
on awaking and know to be identical with what enters through
soul content of the human being that in the higher waking
perception. As soon as we advance to thinking, something is
objective for this thinking, which is given for Imagination
consciousness, through which we pass in the waking condition
death by taking with us the most essential content of the
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possess within our thinking activity merely in pictures, what
therefore only reflects something within our thinking
is a working, weaving, active web of thought. Indeed, it
the place where our subjective thinking also lies, for we
come right to the senses, in looking upon them as being what
thought to his past karma. Looking at man from the viewpoint
and thus forming a sensory world conception, in working over
systems, that is to say, in thinking out crystal systems in a
thinking.
in the life of soul we cannot simply separate thinking, feeling,
thinking, however, in subjective thinking, we are conscious
thinking? In a delicate way, the will lives in thinking,
particularly in subjective thinking. We must be clear,
therefore, that in thinking there lives on the one hand the
in thinking. Now, if the thoughts strike against us here (see
during our waking life. We do not see down below into the
thinking. Present-day natural scientific thinking does not

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man's intimate inner life, taking its course in a threefold
form in such a way that the thinking aspect is situated
— and eight days ago we were speaking of this from
make man's physical life on earth comprehensible by asking
thinking, and how man eliminates everything in the way of
earth does not come about, a deepening of human thinking,
ensouled by one's taking the appropriate religious inwardness
kingdom where we are dependent on the star constellations
formerly, when we were in the kingdom of the archangeloi, the
for grasping or for walking — what makes of them organs
become capable of speaking about the spirit in all its

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the other kingdoms. This, too, you may gather from my Occult
what is the mineral kingdom (see drawing
mineral kingdom that is also in the clouds — for there,
mineral kingdom intelligently, allowing our gaze to peruse
this mineral kingdom, we can say that in all this mineral
activity there is working inwardly that which constitutes the
for outer reasons — call the mineral kingdom a
non-living, dead kingdom: but we must also call it a dead
kingdom in the sense that at first the human thoughts, the
death, work into this mineral kingdom.
regarding the mineral kingdom that in this dead kingdom live
left are striking in their sureness of touch. When one
maya, speaking in general, in the abstract. When we explore
experienced from the working of the planetary world on his
taking place in the mother's body between the embryo and the
upon the animal consciousness as working back but must rather
into what is working in the human being and follow it out of

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thinking, feeling, and willing in the spaces, as it were,
from the depths of our being. Thinking, feeling and willing
various ways with this working in the immediate present. In
forces working outside in earthly, physical nature destroy
human soul carries out in connection with it in thinking,
us as our life of soul, differentiated into thinking,
being. It is there that thinking weaves between the physical
our soul element (bright) in thinking, feeling, and willing.
The thinking separates, as it were, the physical body from

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relationship to the world, a relationship that he is seeking
the soul element, I was able to describe to you how thinking
comprehended according to thinking, feeling, and willing only
shadows, making some mathematical calculations that proceed
must participate actively with his thinking; he prefers
attain through merely passive thinking what should be

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thinking, feeling, and willing, then of course we find that
the thinking component, or what we experience directly as the
sleep and awaking. The will lives in us dully, and yet it
way, though dully. We can have a waking, conscious perception
existence. It can fill us only as we, in waking condition,
only abstract, pallid, intellectual thinking. Our pictorial
thinking, all of that we do not take along through death. A
waking state, then his inner experiences are formed by the
how this materialistic thinking sees nature as being all there is
believes that all thinking about the divine-spiritual is only
these chemical workings, these chemical etheric workings.
Chemical workings:
completely unrealistic way of looking at the matter. For let
living being. Then he experiences chemical workings in
then, different pictures from those of our waking life
that makes thinking so powerful that it is not merely a pale
of pure thinking that I have described in my
If we act freely out of pure thinking, however, such as I
if we really have in pure thinking the impulses for our actions,
thinking, to this intellectual thinking — in that it
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example, preserve it in our memory, making it therefore in a
which fills his waking consciousness. If man views his
waking mental images, then all this is not appearance; it is
appearance, which constitutes our waking life of perception,
human being in his waking condition was surrounded only by a
organs, and in short, everything that, symbolically speaking,
is necessary in order to develop freedom also by looking into
thinking. Just as much, however, as the human being lacks
passing through the portal of death without taking with him
way of looking at the beginning and end of the earth.
own human force, not only through the forces working out of
Christ. When speaking of Christ, the ancients pointed to the
a looking to Christ but a being filled with Christ.

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am speaking now, the process of inbreathing was extremely
now speaking, were able by way of these cosmic forms to pass from the
state of consciousness midway between waking and sleeping, it was
man during the night and during the clairvoyant periods of his waking
the whole character of the workings of the Spiritual on the earth
speaking. In a certain respect they were extraordinarily helpless and
meaning of a phenomenon as striking as that of the mummification of the
inbreathing and out-breathing. Looking back to those ancient times of
manifested, later on, in a more external form — looking back to
and whose head has a striking pose, the portrayal is good enough to
course, speaking metaphorically — perhaps he deliberately made
in studying history to picture the weaving and working of Spiritual
working in human deeds which have become increasingly free and we shall

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the human physical body. When the modern man is thinking, he has only
modern man is not conscious of the forces that are working in these
intellectualism, but he must spiritualise his thinking, he must bring
the intermediate state of consciousness between sleeping and waking to
Egypt by making use of the Spirits who had a dwelling-place in the
If, instead of speaking
that, when they are talking, their thoughts jostle to such an extent
that neither of them listens to the other; they are both always talking
anything at all is to result from it. The two men are really talking
to you, before speaking in the lecture tomorrow, about what must come
capable of looking into the spiritual world. He uses a strange picture
understandable, because in speaking of the spiritual we cannot speak as
been no Creation. Are you, therefore, taking your religion in earnest

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without taking history into account. You speak of what is happening
taking shape since primeval times.
nature, with the kingdoms of the animals, the plants and the minerals.
knowledge about these kingdoms of nature came to man from the Spirits
nature, on the kingdoms of the plants, animals and minerals, from the
kingdoms directly, but only indirectly, in this sense, that the
turn, obtained enlightenment about the kingdoms of the plants, animals
During the hours of night, however, when a man is not thinking, no
background, and are carried on more out of a liking to dabble in
Lodges working with ancient ceremonial forms, men of vision have been
thoughts naturally and need no such stimulus. But when they are working
when he was speaking of Goethe. Again and again when he was lecturing
on the works and biography of Goethe, a striking phrase would fall from
the first elements of intellectual thinking unfolded by mankind in the
though an angel were speaking. And in other domains too, in the
significance, taking place behind the veils of outer history, and they
making it possible, in this way, for forces from beyond the earth to

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SPEAKING to you about the secrets connected with the mummy and
Looking upwards to the world of stars, we see the moon as our nearest
in the mother's body through the combined working of the whole universe
would have spoken to his pupils just as I am speaking to you now,
organism, not in the brain itself. Whereas the working of the external
taking shape there as the breath passes onwards, is a form like the
waking life. Observation of the etheric body gives the feeling that
world seeing someone working with a machine or tool, say for cutting
rock and breaking his skull. If the real truth were told, one would, of
senses, everything that is present in the kingdoms of minerals, plants,
plants, animals, clouds, the forces working in wind and weather and
animal kingdoms will disintegrate in the universe, but the perfected
The kingdom of plants, of animals, of minerals, all that lives in wind
aspect and historical happenings must reveal to us the workings

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Modern Abstract Thinking and Living Thinking of Future Times, or
Thinking again of
namely, the theme of ordinary human thinking, how this thought-activity
is exercised by man, how he gradually unfolds the faculty of thinking
thinking, this intellectual activity, is a kind of inner corpse of the
soul. Thinking, as exercised by the human being in earthly life, is
thinking, of human thought, is that it cannot, of itself, have become
in the life of soul, is our human thinking. Those who have known best
deathlike character of abstract thinking. I need only remind you of the
comparison with this inwardly mobile, live thinking, which quickened
the abstract thinking of later times is veritably a corpse. Nietzsche
possible to experience thinking as a living reality and not believe in
the pre-earthly existence of man. To experience living thinking is just
experienced living thinking — and this applies to Greek
thinking of the East wherewith it was known that man comes down from
spiritual worlds into earth-existence, and the thinking that is a
in the East, men experienced living thinking. But the Egyptian sage was
experience of living thinking had faded away, was no longer within his
grasp, and abstract thinking had not yet begun. A substitute was
thinking. It was from the human corpse that dead thinking first came
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Thinking, to begin with,
understanding what was working more or less unconsciously through human
undertaking linked, as they felt, with the most sacred concerns of the
about the birth of the Crusades, and we cannot help asking ourselves:
What impulses were working in the hearts and souls of Europeans at that
making their way, in a much modified and changed form, across Southern
coming of the three Magi or Kings from the East. With their knowledge
there by the noble King Titurel; he built a Temple for the Chalice and
Looking over to the East
thinking.
Looking from the Rome of Pope Nicholas I towards the West, danger
loomed. Looking towards the East, again danger. The stream outspread in
the East and making its way far into Europe was seen, in reality, as a
arose, taking hold of the religious and also the scientific life of
himself to the workings of his etheric body? — Just as in the
experience the inner nature and working of their own etheric
counterpart, the Round Table of King Arthur. There men did feel the
esoteric stream itself takes on a materialistic mode of thinking, that
mode of thinking which in later metamorphosis becomes the materialism
is what drives men over to Asia, seeking for what they had lost in the
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Walking, Speaking and Thinking,
through the taking of food. When we are living between death
From the time of going to sleep until that of waking, we have a
of existence is that thinking gradually begins to
permeate feeling and will, making them more mature.
Thinking, on the other hand, is developed by the child only on
faculties of walking and speaking, which in reality are
acquired before the faculty of thinking.
through walking, speaking, and thinking, what a tremendously
being by taking substances from the parents — is endowed
in the spiritual world. These three faculties are: thinking,
speaking, and walking — which are essentially
us take walking, and everything that is related to it. I might
walking, and when a tiny child begins to raise itself upright,
Walking, then, is connected with the force of gravity. It is,
with whom he is then working. This is how he finds his
taking place between death and a new birth.
Logos is speaking within us.
world), he is not organized for thinking or speaking in the
earthly sense, nor for walking in the earthly sense, when
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waking state, where the ordinary consciousness of modern man
functions, the two sides are related through thinking, through
were, into the etheric body and the physical body, thinking,
when man is asleep, thinking, feeling, and willing cease. But
begin with, we turn our gaze upon the plant-world. Speaking in
plants is going on, spiritual events are also taking place. In
as physical processes, are everywhere permeated by workings of
face, then indeed the eyes of our soul are looking right
Sun, of which we say, outwardly speaking, that it sends its
the Sun penetrate into the plants, making them green, making
into the plants, making them verdant’ — but we shall have
growing from it, coming to blossom, you have there the working
consciousness are so dull and lacking in vitality that these
distances of the Universe. Indeed without speaking
sleep and waking — that stores itself up during the
artists even in their thinking. The logic we are generally at
strictly regulated in the sense that thinking and feeling are

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man lives in the alternating conditions of waking and sleeping,
we must first be clear that it is in the waking state that his
forces is actually established. During waking life he perceives
waking and sleeping states. But they differ in the two states.
during waking life and breathing during sleep. To begin with we
outer world during the waking state through his senses and
us then start from the fact that during his waking state man
must not be forgotten that while, in the waking state, after
is also the case that during the waking state, man's Ego and
fettered to the Earth through the fact that during the waking
inner processes taking place in man during sleep would have not
take their course during waking life.
of the higher kingdoms of the Universe. His bodies, the
then in the condition between falling asleep and waking, these
sleep and waking.
is exposed between going to sleep and waking. He is actually
speaking it is a fact that man does not carry over at all, or
succeeded in making a man assume an etheric body that is not
his normal one, then, instead of bringing the lawful working of
accustomed etheric body on waking, such a man bears into
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Title: Man/World of Stars: Lecture IV: Rhythms of Earthly and Spiritual Life. Love, Memory, the Moral Life
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with the beings of the three kingdoms of Nature. Basically
speaking, everything in his earthly environment belongs to one
of the three kingdoms of Nature — to the mineral or the
plant or the animal kingdom, or indeed the physical human
kingdom, which in this particular connection can be taken as
belonging to the animal kingdom.
communion with the beings of the three kingdoms of Nature. What
environment, is also related to these three kingdoms of Nature.
what his senses convey to him from the three kingdoms of
entities belonging to the three kingdoms of Nature, we feel
saying, ‘I pick the flower.’ But if this way of speaking were
obliterating through our cosmic consciousness all thinking and
waking life, so between death and a new birth there must be
faculties in man's earthly life as walking, speaking, and
thinking are transformations of certain activities in
What we experience in pre-earthly existence in working together
going to sleep and waking. Nevertheless, as I have already
from the time of going to sleep to that of waking we were to
it into consciousness, then every time on waking we should want
sleep and waking, must accustom himself to an act of
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Title: Man/World of Stars: Lecture V: Human Faculties and Their Connections with Elemental Beings
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could not be. Again, when you are looking at a statue it
speaking of this I come today to a domain of Spiritual Science
them in their thinking. But it is misplaced gratitude, for
there is a whole kingdom of beings who support us in our
Ahrimanic kingdom, but who have an altogether remarkable
Ahrimanic realm, to the elemental kingdoms, and therefore are
everywhere, that is present just as the Nature-kingdoms are
promote enthusiasm for art, but again there is a kingdom of
beings too belong to the elemental Nature-kingdoms, and we must
experience of this beautiful speaking — but it must be
really beautiful speaking, genuine oratory, and we must
misunderstand this whole kingdom. For after all, why do these
other beings in the elemental kingdoms of the spiritual world
foundations which need the three spiritual kingdoms I have
ocean of ugliness. And the Good needs a kingdom of beings who
the good — for this, three such elemental kingdoms are
normal elemental kingdoms — that is, the kingdoms of the
of crystals, but rather in the breaking up of everything
the three kingdoms of Nature on the Earth; picture all the
keeping to their own element and not looking upwards to what is
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Title: Man/World of Stars: Lecture VI: Spiritualization of Knowledge of Space. The Mission of Michael
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real home to be what he called the Kingdom of Light, the
Kingdom to which he belongs between death and rebirth, and he
Kingdom of Light. He wishes to fight against those beings who
Kingdom of Light may not be hampered by these dark beings; he
Kingdom of Light. And if we then pass on to the Egyptian and
the beings of the mineral, plant and animal kingdoms.
kingdoms of Nature upon Earth, but to know it in such a way
which still give a faint picture of the kind of thinking that
soul, in the scene where Wagner is working in his laboratory to
condition of rest taking their share in cosmic happenings. This
That something is taking place in Time is quite clear, but the
his thinking. And today this thinking in terms of Space has
Space ‘devotees’ among us often cause difficulties by making
belittle, let alone reject, the mode of thinking engendered in
this mode of thinking in which, as you know, Space is the
must shed light into them by its way of looking at things.
Inwardly considered, what is it that we are seeking to achieve?
thinking. When the Gods looked down to the Earth they beheld
perspective. But thinking in dimensions, if I may put it so, is
human kind into these domains. Hence human thinking has become
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Title: Man/World of Stars: Lecture VII: Inner Processes in the Human Organism
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Sense-Perception, Breathing, Sleeping, Waking, Memory.
means become aware of the processes taking place in those
outer perception were taking place, we should never be able to
merely thinking actively in our ordinary consciousness.
sense-organs, but speaking generally it may be said that this
supersensible Beings is working and weaving, passing in and
see, when our astral body between waking and falling asleep
alternating states of waking and sleeping life.
every twenty-four hours between waking and sleeping.
Consequently between going to sleep and waking the astral body
waking and going to sleep it is related only to what goes on
or these two processes: the astral body between waking and
to sleep and waking in connection with the outer world, no
with his astral body between sleeping and waking.
something else, namely the moment of waking. The moment of
waking is as it were something that is more intense, more
world making an impression upon my eye. When I close my eyes I
infinitely often during the waking life of day, in connection
astral body as I do on waking, only then my whole organism is
involved as a totality. On waking I draw back my whole astral
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Title: Spiritual Communion: Lecture I: Midsummer and Midwinter Mysteries
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Looking back into very ancient times we find that the Mysteries
between those of full sleep and waking, in states where dreams
Mysteries were working at the development of a wisdom composed
his own activity of thinking. He forms chains of thoughts in
product of his own thinking. The man of olden times
other Beings are thinking — Beings who are higher
all too easy for the Luciferic powers to invade man's thinking
Those who were capable of thinking in this way in the epoch of
When therefore we are looking at the root of a plant, or even
the right sense. By looking back over the evolution of humanity
seeking for knowledge of the world in ancient times, men
relation of man to the universe by looking upwards to the Sun
times. But it once pleased a French King (whom even history

Title: Spiritual Communion: Lecture II: The Mysteries of Man's Nature and the Course of the Year
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indicated yesterday, namely, by looking back over the process

Title: Spiritual Communion: Lecture III: From Man's Living Together with the Course of Cosmic Existence Arises the Cosmic Cult
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the one side, man's life of thinking and feeling is confronted
of this way of thinking have said that a man believes himself
given here that the natural scientific thinking of the modern
‘necessity’ do we find in man's thinking. Even in early Greek
necessity, the working of forces, and these, in their whole
being done by spiritual forces working with purposes and aims
forces; and just as today, when his thinking is in line with
anthroposophical thinking.
naturalists. They fight shy of taking into account the
interworking of the details, he will never be able to build up
brain and then we have another relative whole; taking the two
processes taking place in the plants and also in the minerals
phenomena. They form a whole, just as the processes taking
Speaking in what sounds a rather trivial way, but you will
us begin by thinking of the cycle of the year. Reviewing
change so quickly that the minute changes taking place from
state and the waking state. We know that during the waking
waking life, the following comes to light. When the Ego and the
be found in external Nature in the mineral and plant kingdoms
period of sleeping and waking life, we have before us in
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Title: Spiritual Communion: Lecture IV: The Relation of the Movement for Religious Renewal to the Anthroposophical Movement
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patient devotion to the taking of these steps which must bring
that in more recent years the way of working had necessarily to
thinking, feeling, and will.
help in what they were seeking and could only find where
anthroposophical Spiritual Science is making its way into the
must not be drawn into the forms of thinking and ideation
Taking for granted therefore that the Anthroposophical Movement
Anthroposophical Movement, and so on. Taking into account the
If he were to do so, he would be working for two ends: firstly,
working together must take place in the right way. In
— working for the destruction of the Anthroposophical

Title: Spiritual Knowledge is a True Communion, the Beginning of a Cosmic Cult Suitable for Men of the Present Age
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simultaneous Summer influences working in another region, the
the same in our waking life. As long as man is awake, his
Winter working together in man, not turning away from one
and physiology. Say, for example, we are walking. There is
expression of the spiritual events taking place within him,
there is not one set of natural laws, but two, working
the soul and spirit of man, unaffected by the working of Nature
and as it were, burn them up. This is walking man, with the
crumbles during his waking hours. There is a sort of plant-like
begins with the taking in of mineral and vegetable matter. The
which, during our waking moments while our physical and etheric
waking hours the Winter condition of the physical and etheric
have actually the present only in waking hours in our
inworking of a past, a past moreover that was spent in the
mineral and vegetable kingdoms exactly what we see in man. In
external Nature, altogether lacking in astral thought, as well
vegetable kingdoms make her, she would be doomed to die, in the
Conception, that such thinking represents the spiritual

Title: Esoteric Studies: Easter: Lecture I: The Mysteries of Adonis, -or- The Evolution of Our Festivals from the Ancient Mysteries
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the sea, a lake served the purpose; and lacking this as well,
memory was gradually taking shape, the awareness of the
Century, instead of seeking Christ in the Sun from the Mystery

Title: Esoteric Studies: Easter: Lecture II: Moon-Birth and Sun-Birth
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Harking back to
be asking too much of anyone to admit that at any given period of his
imagine he is looking into himself. But in reality he is not.
before me; but is it not childish to imagine I am looking into the
house when I am only looking at this pile of rubbish? Yet that is the
moment the neophyte learned this looking inward he experienced
kingdoms of Nature from their spiritual aspect before descending to
everything connected with thinking. Seen from without, the head is
of his organs of thinking, feeling and willing; he learned about the

Title: Esoteric Studies: Easter: Lecture III: The Secret of the Moon
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yesterday, it was possible to get beyond looking outward and

Title: Esoteric Studies: Easter: Lecture IV: Decline of the Mystery System and the Rise of Freedom, I-A-O is Man, Aristotle's Categories
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what they heard, as though the goddess were speaking, was

Title: Easter Festival: Lecture I: The Mysteries of Adonis, -or- The Evolution of Our Festivals from the Ancient Mysteries
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While this memory was taking shape, awareness of Christ's
seeking Christ in the sun from a Mystery temple, now look back

Title: Easter Festival: Lecture II: Moon-Birth and Sun-Birth
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prehistoric times of which we have been speaking, the effects
sun forces, the Christ forces looking down upon them through
making something of themselves here on earth.
Mysteries the sun forces could be reached only by looking up
yet to be achieved. Today it would be asking too much of people
dissect a human corpse and imagine we are looking into
with the kingdoms of nature from their spiritual aspect before
could learn not only by looking inside with his eyes and
with respect to the organs of thinking, feeling, and willing;
speaking, which is the only one I can use, been comprehensible

Title: Easter Festival: Lecture III: The Secret of the Moon
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explore the mysteries of speech by asking the moon-beings about
conscious of taking leave for a while of their physical bodies
Rather than looking within themselves and knowing that
christophor looking at the sun from his newly-gained
sun, making the following Sunday Easter. Our method for fixing
center to Mystery center seeking knowledge, were able to have
be a ceremony of burial, one that goads us into working, just

Title: Easter Festival: Lecture IV: Decline of the Mystery System and the Rise of Freedom, I-A-O is Man, Aristotle's Categories
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B.C., king of Macedonia 336–323,
are looking at a crystal clear night sky, allowing your
your life, you read it. Physically speaking, what precisely did
because impulses are now working their way in from the cosmos

Title: Festival of Easter: Lecture 1: The Mysteries of Adonis, -or- The Evolution of Our Festivals from the Ancient Mysteries
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of the inner soul-forces, the waking of sight. This
because the Christ rose higher than the souls of those seeking
who lived in the 8th century, instead of looking out from the
with this the direct connection linking it with the festival of
with the greatest intensity. When looking on the death of the

Title: Festival of Easter: Lecture 2: Moon-Birth and Sun-Birth
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is easy for him to see how, when looking to earthly forces,
kindly feeling of love for these Father-forces, a looking up to
of which we are speaking the action of the sun and that of the
science can discover — I would like to ask, taking for
compulsion. It is the Christ-force looking down on me through
of making something out of himself — the Sun- or
Generally speaking, all sense of their connection with the sun
kingdoms of Nature; he knew them from their spiritual side
The neophyte seeking initiation then said to himself: Thou
was important that those seeking initiation in the second
sinking down into himself
fourth. It affected the man seeking initiation in the following
outside him. It was clearly explained to those seeking
least to understand what men seeking initiation experienced in

Title: Festival of Easter: Lecture 3: The Secret of the Moon
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just been speaking. He then lived with speech, not as formed by
when looking at Nature, sees only that which works
only those people who, seeking wisdom, journeyed like
part of him, by looking to his resurrection in the spiritual

Title: Festival of Easter: Lecture 4: Decline of the Mystery System and the Rise of Freedom, I-A-O is Man, Aristotle's Categories
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Making use of a modern expression, one might
can venture to say that, when those taking part in the Mystery
enforced the J O A, making of it eh v,

Title: Occult Movement: Lecture One: Seership and Thinking
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Ways of thinking and the corresponding spiritual and social structures
groups of human beings working systematically for good or evil. Steiner
gives an account of the activity of these groups working behind the scenes
thinking, is not the outcome of man's arbitrary
evolution know that, fundamentally speaking, in all earlier
the heritage of the Old Moon clairvoyance was working in
majority of human beings had lost the faculty of looking into
in those olden times, when full waking consciousness of the
dead who had been near him during life. In the waking state a
only upon the thinking. The reason why so many people avoid
philosophy is because they do not like thinking. And
otherwise sinking below the surface were quickened to life.
get to the point of thinking to any great extent about what
was seen, for their seership sufficed. But now, thinking too
times man was occupied with his visions and thinking lay, as
directly through their vision. Thinking first began to affect
also in very ancient Greek culture when thinking, still
In those times, thinking was not the laboured process it is
only. — Nothing special is to be gained by looking at a
into materialism? Dare we simply look on while this is taking
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Title: Occult Movement: Lecture Two: Mediumistic Methods
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Ways of thinking and the corresponding spiritual and social structures
groups of human beings working systematically for good or evil. Steiner
gives an account of the activity of these groups working behind the scenes
our Movement. You know that outwardly we began by linking
of super-sensible perception — to investigate by making
The middle party were in favour of making exoteric the
He had indicated that this individuality was John King by
Olcott speaks in a remarkable way about this John King. He
in the Occult Movement. It was this same John King who, by
speaking, retained its Indian trend. Although no longer with
King, the Indian trend persisted. What I have now described
own self-seeking interests? And if it is God who acts in
this other rolls on further, we think of the striking of
the second by the first as analogous to the striking effect
conceived as thoroughly human in his thinking and
whose origin does not lie in thinking. This — in his
Theosophy, in so far as it is carried into earnest thinking
Coming of Christ. At the time of which I am speaking, she

Title: Occult Movement: Lecture Three: Materialism of the 19th Century
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Ways of thinking and the corresponding spiritual and social structures
groups of human beings working systematically for good or evil. Steiner
gives an account of the activity of these groups working behind the scenes
thinking, man could not possibly arrive even at a
through the spirit — for thinking is possible only for
also essential here is to reflect about thinking.
genuine thinking will not admit the existence. But ever and
her! With a trained physicist — and I am not speaking
century: Atomism is an assumption, a working hypothesis which
day-waking consciousness only; but if a man thinks of the
again on waking, he will have a peculiar experience. During
them during his waking life; in the act of waking he feels
of waking is much more complicated than can be conveyed in a
Thinking is an activity that is carried over by the ego and
cause of consciousness is that in acts of thinking I
who consciously experiences the process of waking; when he
does. At the moment of waking man dives down into
get behind it. Similarly, at the moment of waking a man comes

Title: Occult Movement: Lecture Four: The Attempt Made by the Occultists to Avert the Lapse into Materialism
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Ways of thinking and the corresponding spiritual and social structures
groups of human beings working systematically for good or evil. Steiner
gives an account of the activity of these groups working behind the scenes
brain-racking.
very striking fact, a fact which caused the right-wing
world. But a man can be a materialist in his way of thinking
making a distinction between the representatives of the two
fast to the thread of thinking. Without this far-reaching
thinking, materialism cannot be surmounted. But if Ahriman
head produced a thoroughly materialistic kind of thinking but
present in him. He therefore had every aptitude for seeking
speaking penetrate into the life of soul and colour the
were really intent upon seeking the spiritual world. And that
from materialistic thinking and not easily fathomed. —
that in regard to his evolution he stands under the workings
work, intent upon making the one or the other influence
mineral kingdom was added for the first time during the Earth
kingdoms is the mineral element that has been impregnated
itself the mineral kingdom, to be mineralised, as it were.
it might not work in the old way. And so when speaking of the
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Title: Occult Movement: Lecture Five: The Eighth Sphere
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Ways of thinking and the corresponding spiritual and social structures
groups of human beings working systematically for good or evil. Steiner
gives an account of the activity of these groups working behind the scenes
physically speaking, spatially speaking, from the same place.
to say, a transition of the third elemental kingdom —
kingdom took place. The mineral element was added. Otherwise
is our organ of thinking, the brain and the skull, and there
substance is sent over into the Eighth Sphere is taking place
cannot penetrate it with his thinking, everything that is the
working as nature; it is there that Jahve has outpoured in
the dead were speaking to them. But the occultists then knew
dead were alleged to be speaking. Lucifer and Ahriman could
when they saw what course things were taking and they took
day through his thinking that atoms do not exist — so
that will not be very fertile soil. But human thinking can
making decisions through their own power of judgment, they
us is that, fundamentally speaking, the occult life in its
possible for the forces working against our
myself to say I am breaking no oath, and violating no

Title: Occult Movement: Lecture Six: The Dangers of Aberation Along the Path into the Spiritual World
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Ways of thinking and the corresponding spiritual and social structures
groups of human beings working systematically for good or evil. Steiner
gives an account of the activity of these groups working behind the scenes
thinking of the whole course of human life from birth until
has not succeeded in making this evident. Truths relating to
he is not speaking of the physical blood but of what
but that while external nourishment is taking place, extracts
thinking shall never be neglected. You know that life
kind are used with the intent of shaking the truth to its
is furnished for provoking hatred against the Movement.
is no more plausible way of attacking our Movement than by
nature of our Movement, must be based upon making the

Title: Occult Movement: Lecture Seven: Investigation of the Life between Death and a New Birth
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Ways of thinking and the corresponding spiritual and social structures
groups of human beings working systematically for good or evil. Steiner
gives an account of the activity of these groups working behind the scenes
the needs of the present age, taking into consideration all
was necessary to give a different form to the way of working
exercise great reserve, speaking of them only when they could
speaking of the first years of the life between death and a
from taking root among men. You will know from your own
approach by asking, for example: What is the best way to find
Or an awakening can take place in waking life itself. But
between waking and sleeping, man always remembers the periods
of his waking life. In what does his life really consist?
Waking, daily life, sleeping; waking, daily life, sleeping
waking life is full of such remembrances. But it is different
consider the life that embraces both sleeping and waking,
is much more active during sleep than during waking life.
corresponds to what goes on in our waking life when we make
death, the remembrances we have of the waking life now ended
has actually tested and verified, this kind of talking goes
into the physical world are working there; we discover that
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Title: Occult Movement: Lecture Eight: The Purpose of the Use of Symbols
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Ways of thinking and the corresponding spiritual and social structures
groups of human beings working systematically for good or evil. Steiner
gives an account of the activity of these groups working behind the scenes
Spiritual Science. Right thinking is essential here. It must
the right wing are wholly against making public anything
century, it can be said that the Orders working with
of thinking, and especially of the proclivities consequent
followed up in your own thinking and experience, and also in
striking. But the attention of one who has absorbed something
this by speaking of Dante's destiny. Dante was banished
their hidden working.
of his subconsciousness were gradually making him into a man
make us more capable of clear thinking and the like than we
pre-eminently interested in making them very astute, very
degenerated into mere straw, lacking all real substance. On
consist in taking secrets of some Order as there preserved,
and making them exoteric. If that were to be done — and
it would amount to my taking some ancient secrets of an Order
good could come. This means that the making public of any

Title: Occult Movement: Lecture Nine: Investigation of the Mineral World
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Ways of thinking and the corresponding spiritual and social structures
groups of human beings working systematically for good or evil. Steiner
gives an account of the activity of these groups working behind the scenes
you that, fundamentally speaking, the appearance of
acquires that which, fundamentally speaking, he must acquire
enters, to begin with, into the kingdom of Ahriman and his
nevertheless. Fundamentally speaking, they render humanity
kind of thinking and intelligence; they have feeling,
are working all the time within us. They are always there
what I have been speaking about. It would without any doubt
thinking, feeling and willing. But in the form in which this
our own soul as thinking, feeling and willing; the true
reality lies behind this thinking, feeling and
bodies at pains to indicate that the thinking, feeling and
thinking, feeling and willing which are themselves of the
to us. When we die, our thinking, feeling and willing do not
reincarnated with new thinking, new feeling, new will, and a
our soul here on Earth, we are speaking of something that
soul which comes to expression in thinking, feeling and
actions and trend of thinking these pastors of souls
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Title: Occult Movement: Lecture Ten: Human Consciousness between Objective and Subjective Reality
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groups of human beings working systematically for good or evil. Steiner
gives an account of the activity of these groups working behind the scenes
consciousness of which we have been speaking during the past
own life of soul, of our thinking, feeling and willing. The
thinking, feeling and willing in their human form, to
against making too great an advance towards the one side or
power working objectively in a realm outside the souls of
speaking trumpets. It is extremely important to keep this in
takes full advantage of moments when, in full waking life, a
thinking, not simply skimming over things in thought as is
habits of speech, we are not exercising thinking — even
due strength of will is lacking, ideas arise which a man
thinking is materialistic, who acquire no understanding of
the need for strenuous thinking. Equally I have been obliged
the way in which we have been working for fifteen years, you
organism. And thinking of it as such we may also say that it
a dread of really exact thinking and yet wishes to enter the
within him — and instead of thinking, instead of his
try more and more to make our thinking conform with the
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Title: History of Art: Lecture X: Disputa of Raphael - the School of Athens
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to this we observe that these individuals are taking part in
something descending from above. As a result we see, by looking
step to looking into the higher worlds. If we say: up to the
permeate their Christian thinking with highly spiritual
being stuck, yet still working in a chaotic, indefinable way
on the basic saying of the Gospels: “My Kingdom is not of
The West depended on reversing the sentence: “My Kingdom
Kingdom of Christ in this world. As a result we see Europe had
from the sentence “My Kingdom is not of this World”
by actually constituting a worldly kingdom, a kingdom for
Roman pope gradually became the one to say: My Kingdom is the
Kingdom of Christ; but this Kingdom of Christ is from this
world; we have constituted it in such a way that this Kingdom
that Christ's kingdom was not one which could be based on the
the same time existed something of the spiritual kingdom.
if at all possible; such a kingdom, such an empire — not
under the signature: My kingdom is of this world and this
kingdom will increasingly become more of this world. However
this kingdom which is of this world was founded nearly from the
Raphael. Raphael, even when he was looking around in the outer
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Title: History of Art: Lecture XI: Fourth and Fifth Post-Atlantean Epochs, Medieval Art in the Middle, West, and South of Europe
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an interest in relating stories, an interest in the working of
human souls. During the centuries we've been talking about,
taking place here, born in the human soul, binding the soul
us visualize this flowering of city freedom — by roughly taking
depths. See for yourself how those angel faces looking up are
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inner feelings. He didn't depict them by looking at a model.
an ongoing journey, because the saints are taking a trip, they
will become even clearer for you, what I've just been speaking
characterized this way and not by working with perspective does

Title: History of Art: Lecture XII: Greek and Early Christian Art, Symbolic Signs, the Mystery of Gold
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future considerations; I'm thinking of the next time when it
Offerings of the Kings”:
Still today an echo of this urban working with gold and
during the great synthesis taking place between Roman elements
the incorporation of the symbols into the working of the gold
ornamental, linking the magic of the symbols to the sub-nature.
the naturalistic depiction of spiritualised nature taking the
and later became seen as the interworking of darkness and
artistic expression of this interworking between the olden and
spirituality working in outer reality. In the 5th
feelings but have a heart for the monstrous events taking place
terrible events which flash through the present. By thinking in
geography, making geography plausible to the soul, the heart,
working together in Regensburg a blossoming later as in the
comprehended things, even thinking of the direction of the wind

Title: History of Art: Lecture XIII: The Changes in the Conception of Christ During a Certain Period of Time
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When we start looking for the starting point of when people in
certain degree in the minds of those looking at the content of
speaking from an artistic point of view. So much has been
universe, but that through their thinking they considered the
were adopted. By contrast all that was working in the soul, the
with the individuality, how the one is working against the
which we have been speaking about. Exactly as a result of this
been speaking about.
you. Just by taking these images of Christ in various biblical
forces working from the beginning, which are then taken up as
but it is already in it. It is again working from the

Title: Golden Blade, 1962: Lecture 1: Natural Science and Its Boundaries
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worlds depends upon a man himself deliberately undertaking
perceptions, and with thinking, feeling and willing.
another person. In speaking of these three faculties:
shall be speaking to you some time on this subject
without seeking for anything behind it. He guided the stream of
working with the mantras had brought the soul to the point of
inner, not an outer, authority. (Fundamentally speaking,
only with egoism and lacking in love, this is a pathological
when a man is seeking for Inspiration in the way I have
speech and of thinking, the path leading to the Ego of the
very well indeed — who were seeking for the
... we are speaking here among grown-ups ... he washed
viewed with scepticism. Fundamentally speaking, it is the
sought his wisdom more by sublimating the forces working in the
with pure thinking, with clear, keen thinking, so that finally
through with all the clear thinking of which you have become
This book is a modest but real attempt to achieve pure thinking,
that pure thinking in which the Ego can live and maintain a firm
footing. Then, when this pure thinking has been achieved, we can
endeavour to do something else. This thinking that is now left
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Title: Golden Blade, 1962: Lecture 2: Paths to the Spirit in East and West
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bridge linking him with his fellows. He preferred to avoid the
speaking, thinking and ego-perception. I showed
speaking. Other soul forces have emerged, so that it is not
way of spiritual development. A reactionary harking back
reader to co-operate by thinking for himself.
lacking. If he cannot do this, he is not reading
this kind of thinking has freed him from dependence on the
thinking really is.”
pure thinking does not exist, but is bound to contain
without the remotest understanding of mathematical thinking.
least the spirit of mathematical thinking. Goethe's
Let us imagine a reader who simply sets about working through
phenomena, so that we absorb them without thinking about them.
In ordinary waking life, you will agree, we are constantly
permeating out perceptions with concepts. Scientific thinking
acquiring a capacity for the kind of thinking that gradually
follow when forming concepts, but by working on our perceptions
kinds of sensory impressions. As our thinking gets to work on
and sound impressions unconsciously, they were working
speech and our ego-perception and making them
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This was a truly epoch-making teaching. For the Star Wisdom had been
influence working in the process of the birth of a human being is
that of the Moon, so the influence working in Christ Jesus is that of
power working in the person of the Pope. The power of worldly
Most of the really epoch-making discoveries were made by monks (the

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all be trained to read with their finger-tips by making them touch
making it more delicate.
fixed by asking: When does spring begin? March 21st is always the
the forces of the Moon. Between the leaves, the Moon is working. So
forces working in alternation. In a field of growing plants we behold
character, come from the Sun. I told you this when we were speaking
had been harvested and the grape picking was over, when winter was
Easter Festival. — This kind of thinking was already an outcome
truths. — I mentioned this when we were speaking about the
really signifies; and to-day people have come to the point of asking:
world; for three days after death he is still looking back on the
Everything in the universe is alive. In thinking of the Easter

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thinking.” Man's life of soul was quite different. To-day you
fact that they never get away from their abstract thinking. It is
both pray to this one God to bring them victory, they are asking the
both. Generally speaking, men are very lax about clarity of thought
living in all the phenomena of nature; God the Son, working in man's
obvious of all in one particular field. Fundamentally speaking, Christians
abstract thinking. This abstract, Jehovistic medicine fits in with
their whole mode of thinking. Anthroposophy alone, in that it takes
kingdom there. He was, and still is, taking a very active part in the
people are averse to making any picture or image of the
and heartbreaking to read how in the Middle Ages the Jews lived in the
this suggest to the materialistic thinking of to-day? It suggests an
people. Thinking of the different peoples, we say: Indians —
are made — by people talking among themselves.) The second man

Title: Cosmic Workings: Lecture I
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Cosmic Workings In Earth and Man
blood flowing rightly through the body and, moreover, taking a
striking impression. It is red, it contains all sorts of substances
working into the earthly. You see the same thing in the eye, it is a
told you that recently we have been making researches in our
harmful practice of making children learn everything with the left
earth-forces are working on the side upon which one very frequently
somewhere or other shows us with what forces she is working. When one
those people who are lacking in these substances. Through the nose in

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Cosmic Workings In Earth and Man
see, the whole of universal space is working.
therefore that when they are working to-day out there in the mountains,
continually sinking in the very regions where these polyps are
working in universal space.
arose through the in-working of heavenly forces and died out. Then

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Cosmic Workings In Earth and Man
plant kingdom; they are of course present in other foodstuffs, too, but
man's life. The most common form, of course, is cooking salt,
reach the brain if we are to be capable of thinking. If a person is so
absolutely essential. The spirit working as the creative power in
nature needs substance. And if spirit is prevented from making use of
his speech. And so we may say: the salts work mainly upon thinking.
The carbohydrates work, for example, upon speaking and the organic
outside. When he is awake and the astral body is working in the
During waking life, fat acts as a constant lubricant; during sleep,
during what is called his waking life — although it really
evidence to us all that the whole process of digestion is taking
digestion, properly speaking, has to take place in the brain. When we
potatoes, it becomes incapable of thinking in the real sense,
the purpose of really active thinking and little by little man loses
incapable of genuinely spiritual thinking. It is through the front
happened is that really deep and inward thinking began to wane in
thinking, can easily be imposed upon. The potato as a foodstuff is
Thinking
astral body and the “I” are still only making their way
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Title: Cosmic Workings: Lecture IV
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Cosmic Workings In Earth and Man
and waking; the regular rhythm of breathing, circulation of the
can literally bellow when he is talking, you need not worry whether
is lacking. Man's need of iron for his free will is shown
in us that has to do with thinking. For soda is sodium carbonate
that is connected with our thinking, with our head, with our inner light,
serves the process of the taking of nourishment. And so there is: a
and the Mars forces are not working well together. Mars creates in us
think about what did. But a man who is always thinking about things
so general nowadays. It is crippled thinking ... after all, when
people continuously lie what is it but crippled thinking!
it is not the iron which is lacking, or the chlorine, but the trouble
when the two cannot come together one needs to strengthen the working
it is a matter of looking for something which is not just at the end
than his nose. (Those people to-day who are always looking through
ordinary iron. Why? The connections can only be discovered by looking
when something is inwardly lacking in a human being — as
is connected with an irregular working of Mercury in the organism. If
something is outwardly lacking, this is connected with an irregular
working of Mars.

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soon as our cerebellum is not in full working order, we become
able to follow its working right into the sap. It is really so.
dangerous. It is shocking when there are only geologists, botanists,

Title: Cosmic Workings: Lecture VI
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speaking about the insects recently, we heard
its own specific way of working. Arsenic is sometimes used to destroy
living there begin by taking tiny quantities of arsenic without any
very striking contradiction! Such contradictions are to be found not
only in human thinking — which as a rule is full of them
course, live without drinking
alternate in waking life, only the alternation is so rapid that it is
there is a constant swing: waking, sleeping; waking, sleeping. And
tiny quantity of arsenic, or if he is in the habit of taking such a
because he is taking it already) then the astral body begins to be
body is more active than it was before, when he was taking no arsenic.
someone who was once in the habit of taking arsenic and then is
rid of the habit of taking arsenic. They collapse before they reach
when a baby is drinking the lukewarm mother's milk, one of the
body. And this drinking of black coffee really means that every time
the taking of food because it actually works
The habit of drinking coffee fulfils a useful purpose, for it helps
they feel extremely comfortable. And so the drinking of spirits
the blood. Speaking quite generally, therefore, it can be said that
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Schücking. Sehen Sie, die Leute
müsse. Schücking sagte zum Beispiel: Ja,

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that is named after him) — Cimabue was working at about the
are connected with the Mystery of Golgotha and with its workings.
something working in with abundant power from distant worlds.
enter fully into the material reality, taking leave for a time of
experiences of every single man, a looking away from the golden
Earth. St. Francis and his followers, looking away from all these
in space, rather than speaking to us out of the flat surface.
long been working at his Hymn to Nature — the great and
copied from the reality of earthly life, looking out from the
source to which I just referred, working its way into an ever
wonderful progression in human feeling. Looking at this work of
expressions of these men: ‘Ours is, indeed, a kingdom not
human characters are working under the impression that has been
itself, seeking to penetrate into the human being. It is
Angelico. He emancipates the human working once more towards a
high degree, the Leonardo da Vinci, there is a working-together
working-out of human characters. Especially in his Last Supper,
him working very, very long at this wonderful picture, for he
this power of composition, this working from the single parts
an echo of the working from the whole into the single parts, a
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Speaking of former epochs,
speaking. And when in later times it emerged again — in pietist
other day when speaking of St. Francis, — it was imbued with quite
kingdom; going but a little way above, a super-earthly. We might almost
the working of the formative
hand was working, therefore, from a many-sided understanding of the
him afterwards, on his return to Florence, working at a battle-picture,
over Rome, making Florence arise again in Rome.
intensely into all that was taking place through the political conditions
this undertaking was an element which could not but inspire him with
as it were, alone within the time; and yet taking its start from Raphael,
of an artist seeking for inner clarity, completeness and perfection.
him which comes out especially when, instead of taking the chronological
at a serene composition while seeking to express individual character
before he reached his independence, working in Florence, perhaps under
and Michelangelo was working at it in the very latest period of his
by achieved the final composition, but that this whole way of thinking
the cosmos, — Beings into whom the whole cosmos is working. They
working then: — how the artistic life sought and found its place
speaking most of freedom have any understanding at all of what freedom

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things will always feel through it the working of ancient runes,
working more from within outward — from the impulses of Will
and not contemplative vision. This imagination, working forth from
you will realise, working in all this, a Northern impulse that
contemplative Vision — the Southern impulse, properly speaking,
conceptions of Nature, seeking to unite with bold intelligence
Heaven and Earth — seeking to comprehend all other things by laws
Faust himself working and weaving in the wondrous twilight of the
this most wonderfully. Here we already recognise the working of the
and all that lives therein. This is Dürer's kingdom. Hence he
earthly kingdom.
works derived more out of the Gothic thinking. We will show some
of the working-together of Southern and Mid-European impulses, we
than any other, was working at the perfection of the hands, in
there lived, artistically speaking, a goodly piece of Faust.

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what I might call a slow and silent working towards the deepening
movement and emotion — all this was working its way up from
Renaissance) has essentially the quality of looking upward to the
the human soul — this speaking from an inwardness of soul in
looking down towards her. If you could see the face you would see
18. King Stephen. (Cathedral at Bamberg.)
19. Head of King Stephen. (Detail of above.)

Title: History of Art: Lecture V: Rembrandt
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indicated when speaking of Michelangelo, there came the
truly as an outsider. Fundamentally speaking, even Leonardo, Michelangelo
in the ever more perfect working out of light and darkness. Color to
his life, because of the elemental forces working in him so strongly,
were, to reveal the working of the pure distribution of light and darkness
somehow is lacking in depth.
long time, my dear friends, making one observation or another about
at the outward reality, not merely seeking to observe it realistically,
of Rembrandt and his wife; they are both looking into a mirror:
547. Adoration of the Magi. (Buckingham Palace.)
in which, beside all the devastation that was taking place in Europe,

Title: History of Art: Lecture VI: Dutch and Flemish Painting
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several figures are already made larger or smaller in proportion, taking
We see a King, for example,
is actually looking at the picture must entirely obliterate himself!
making itself felt.
5. Angels making Music
the idea which is here expressed. Not by man seeking in pride to rise
beyond himself, seeking to kill his lower nature, but by experiencing
which we here find expressed. The Lamb is One, yet no one being is striking
continued working at it for many years, and scholars have long been
Hayden's work, there is a certain drama in the working together of the
One of these is King Philip
of Burgundy; this one, who is just taking off his hat, is Charles the
transferred into the artist's immediate present. For the Kings who come
of things is working its way through more and more. Man as an artist
how strongly the Southern influence is already working in the element

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Plays of which we have been speaking in the last lectures. We shall
taken from an old Gospel Book. We see them looking up in adoration,
their inner being, and looking up to the Star wherein the Spirit Who
that the Gospel is taking into account the connection with all that was
Shepherds, and then of the Three Wise Men or Kings.
hold of here by all that I described to you — the working out of
34. Fra Angelico. Adoration of the Kings. (St.
41. Giovanni Bellini. Adoration by the Kings.
42. Rogier van der Weyden. Adoration by the Kings.
(Buckingham Palace.)

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view are by no means the only ones), — looking at it in a Christian
Looking at some of Raphael's
and principle had to be working in his very soul. This is, indeed, the
age of thirty-seven, he is working at the Transfiguration, which
Looking back once more over
of the cities, working its way towards the Reformation. Nor does he
a cosmic principle working through his soul, as we can in Raphael. But
and its seeking, its longing and striving.
Looking at such a portrait,
the time, expressing the mighty transformation that is taking place.
44a. Holbein. Death and the King.
to the King, to tear him away from his royal life.
with the whole system of the Church, working its way upwards with its
But it must be said that the people whose home was in the German-speaking
the spatial working of the light itself. Space is born, as it were,
succeeds in making any real distinction between foreground and background.
might call it) are seen, you have to look high up above. We are looking
and woodcuts, — is lacking still.
surface, but working forth from the flat surface with the help of light,
the impulses working in the different regions of Europe — you
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they are working hard to turn him into a kind of carnivorous monkey.
as working towards the ideal, to “monkeyfy” the human race.
In looking at the several

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of the earth, or below it. When we consider the kingdom of the birds,
of looking at things. I have often drawn attention to the fact that,
When looking at the etheric bird one immediately comprehends that the
perception into the nature of the sun's working, we understand why the
convolutions of your brain? What makes your brain capable of taking up
that inner salt-force which is the basis of thinking? What really
is thinking like a peacock, when he is thinking like an eagle, or when
he is thinking like a sparrow. Apart from the fact that the one is
upper air to the bird-kingdom; away from all that lives in the
And now, if we wish to look at what is similar in man, again seeking
earth-forces, which project their working into its digestive organs
nature within himself as I have shown, that he bears the bird-kingdom,
the lion-kingdom, the essential being of the cow within him, then we
upwards to the bird-kingdom. If one is to understand the human breast
points back to ancient customs. It is a striking phenomenon that
against the ancient Hindu religion — it is striking that in his
course. If you look at the cocoon of the silkworm you are looking at
egg-formation is taking place. In the etheric this certainly
again in the kingdom of nature.

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outermost part of our planetary system the working together of Sun,
the Sun in such a way that they are composed of the working together
our present age something particularly alluring is working upon the
sound through the world seeking to tempt him with their allurement.
but weigh, count and measure, making everything else disappear. For
with the working of air, with the forces of the circumference, and
everything connected with the working of the stars, would be
west, so that it would succeed in spreading its way of thinking and
one-sided way in this kind of thinking and mental attitude, then, in
the animal kingdom, if we can conceive it as an immense and mighty
shibboleth of man's strength, and thinking, and activity:

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as to be adapted to the beings of the kingdoms of nature, up to the
physical forces are working. Only we must be clear as to how these
forces are working in the physical substance of the head, this
bird-kingdom. When we consider the eagle, we are in fact considering,
working in the eagle's plumage.
representative of many creatures of the animal kingdom. Here digestion
spiritualized in the earth through spiritual forces working on earthly
his substance, as is done in all sorts of ways by the bird-kingdom as
the earth are working into spiritual substance. In the cow
bird-kingdom; and what man is unable to do as regards giving spiritual
perceive that, fundamentally speaking, knowledge alone can provide
making armorial crests; cows are physically useful because they give

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kingdoms of nature which we know today did not then exist, how the
behind in the earth what, speaking in the widest sense, may be called
time in which, speaking generally, earth-evolution took its course
the Sun-metamorphosis. Broadly speaking, this is what we find when we
element, or better expressed, the working of the forces of weight into
shimmering, to the working-in of Saturn-Jupiter-Mars. The
plant-world are assuaged in looking up to the insects, in particular

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environment of earth-existence, the direct working of Saturn-activity
super-sensible spiritual forces, which are reflected in our thinking,
naturally I am still speaking pictorially — as though in the form
ever and again flash up into light — what the bird-kingdom, what
kingdom of the birds. If we call to mind something which is already
This is not the case with the bird-kingdom. The birds lay their eggs.
same way the bird, in speaking of itself, would only speak of the
speaking in an absolute sense when we say that fundamentally the bird
rucksack growing out of his back, making him appear a perfect
cosmic memory; and by the kingdom of the birds — this is cosmic
thinking; and by the bats — they are the cosmic dream, cosmic

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plant and mineral kingdoms, which are connected with man, we must
higher beings and human kingdoms have evolved out of what is lifeless,
that the animal kingdom was added, then during the Moon-period the
plant kingdom; and the mineral kingdom, as we know it today, is in
seen as having its representative in the eagle. The bird kingdom arose
Sun-period there arose the first rudiments of that kingdom of the
when the sun separated from the earth, working from outside, only then
when the force of gravity was working, giving form to what is
extremely crude form, and were in fact walking stomachs and entrails,
walking stomachs and intestinal tubes. And only later, during the
distinguished-looking head-system. Only look at the frogs and toads,
thinking away everything of an earthly nature which has alighted upon
the bird a being of warm air, taking account also of the nature of its
a diagram. [* earlier diagram of Cosmic memory & thinking with
rays what the bird-kingdom yields up to the cosmos every time a bird
dies, so that the spiritualized matter from the bird-kingdom is rayed
one beholds a shimmering corona emanating from the butterfly kingdom
taking into consideration the fact that in the blood-circulation life
We shall now have to penetrate further into the plant-kingdom, and
then into the kingdom of mineral-being, and we shall see how the
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into the whole weaving and working of plant-life.
need such a superfluous thing — a training in thinking? The
have no liking at all. They bustle about in the earth with ideas of
strong connection with the earth, to avoid taking on earthly form.
universe. They can only yield themselves up to the weaving and working
have its ego within itself but in the bird-kingdom, that it is at the
inter-working of sylph-light and undine-chemistry. This is a
Plant within the plant from light, and from the chemical working of
And what now results from the combined working of gnome-activity and
idea that marriages should be taking place over every meadow. This
only the physical plant is seen, but also that wonderful working of
inter-working of the downwards streaming force of love and sacrifice
this inter-working, where the two streams meet, plant-life develops
inter-working of world-love and world-sacrifice with world-gravity and

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depend upon the etheric body when making use of his soul, and upon the
physical body when making use of his spirit. The physical body, which
head to those animals where this is lacking. Birds, however, as I
complement the bird-kingdom in regard to what corresponds to the
with the earth, that is the bird-kingdom. The sylphs are indebted to
the bird-kingdom for their ego, or at least for the consciousness of
were attacking him from all sides, as if the light were something
sleeping-dream, so can he also penetrate through waking-day life. But
also man is totally unable to perceive how, in his waking life, he
can remain completely in waking consciousness, but nevertheless stand
thinking being, while standing firmly on the earth, then he will
for instance, those which I described yesterday as working in the most
latter are always drawn more to the plant and mineral kingdoms,
whereas the ill-disposed are drawn to the animal and human kingdoms.
kingdoms of the plants and the minerals. But one can gain quite a fair
quite clear. Here below processes are taking place — let us leave
out the rhythmic man — and here above processes are again taking
place. If you look at the processes taking place below as a whole, you
and gnomes. Generally speaking, when we go back to these more ancient
inter-working of both these kinds of beings does one really understand

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beings about which I have been speaking and shall continue to speak in
sea, something which proceeds from north to south; and looking at
kind of being existing in the world shares in the task of working upon
There they take part in the life of the earth by working on the
plant-kingdom in the way I have described. Then, however, they pour
always present in what is there taking place; and the fact is —
the weaving and working of these beings, that we ourselves take part
idea of how these beings of the elemental kingdom characterize
walking, in our standing, in our moving of the arms and hands,

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mineral kingdom. We live in a state of reciprocal action with the
mineral kingdom. We take the mineral element into ourselves through
within us. If you eat a grain of cooking-salt, this grain of salt must
kingdom inasmuch as he develops the plant-element within himself. He
the Earth-epoch — thereby making our further studies of this all
the phenomena, from the taking of food into the mouth, from the way
always on the way to making our whole organism ill. Every digestive
circulatory system. Speaking broadly one substance induces quicker,
But through this curative working upon the digestive process he
through the inter-working of all these activities man came into being
what must already be made use of in pure thinking when developing the
into spiritual processes; and, working backwards, spiritual processes
thinking should be schooled by means of more perceptible things,
the whole working of the head-processes, and their relation to the
We must only apply them to man. This is the wonderful inter-working of

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surroundings, what belongs to the mineral, plant and animal kingdoms
earthly. Everything, for example, that comes from the mineral kingdom
cooking salt, or whether it becomes so as with sugar — into
result that they produce a heavy sleep, and dull the brain on waking.
yourself in its place, thinking: What would such a Kamaloka be like
is not good to promote them by the drinking of milk. In the case of
consumption of milk the formative forces working from the head
spheres of the spiritual: the kingdoms of nature — mineral, animal,

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imagine man to be a firmly built form taking into itself the products
fundamentally speaking, in so far as he is a spiritual being, man only
actual etheric corpse. Here we are looking at something which no
taking with them as they go what remained unnoticed during life
of love. And to the degree in which these qualities are lacking, moral
but think with it, then, thinking with our hand we follow our Karma.
word occurs to me — comes from the fact that all his thinking is
not in a dull way, but marking the beauty of his step, and what is
with t he walking man, the grasping man, man as he moves his fingers.
spiritual beings of the higher worlds are there working together with
man. They work with those human beings who are working upon
blossoms of the plant-kingdom we see, as it were, human conscience
animal and plant kingdoms really are here on earth, and into the acts
mistletoe — spiritually speaking — it sucks its life from
— speaking spiritually — a parasite in human nature.
dear friends. Its way of thinking in the cultural sphere is the same
the civilization-carcinoma about which I have been speaking. Well, at

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organization at the moment of waking up, in the same way in which
falling asleep to the moment of waking up, we therefore confront
between sleeping and waking. It is not an analogy, but an
takes place in the cosmos. If we discard old habits of thinking,
falling asleep to the moment of waking up, we pass through the
processes. Does not man's waking condition resemble autumn and
which the summer produced? Our waking hours are the soul's winter
say, of the waking condition. During our waking condition, the
thinking, only to the extent of asking: What external realities
way of looking upon thought: it can be measured in accordance
in our ordinary waking life. Consequently the CONTENT of thought
have confidence in our thinking, for we cannot find our way in
thinking and can trust in the guidance of our thought. Imagine
could not rely upon our thinking! This would shatter us; it would
physical world we learn to rely on a kind of thinking which finds
waking condition. We know that the habits of thinking during the
human being finds support and strength by checking the fear that
thinking power and we ignore our subconscious fear. But this also
it limits itself to speaking of the spirit in general, but they
their time in checking all the calculations presented to them in
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direction of a future scientific manner of thinking, but this
than our modern scientific thought, and this new manner of thinking
greatest life-element, namely, the alternating conditions of WAKING
sleeping and waking. Indeed, in a certain way, we may consider the
alternation of sleeping and waking in analogy with the breathing
sleeping and waking. For when we take up in ourselves our ego
in and out. Thus, we have a movement of the etheric, taking place in
falling pertaining to our waking up and our falling asleep.
marking the barometrical heights on one particular day. He then
scientific way of looking at things, and in order to make the right
the human beings. Those who are now working their way up to
and of waking up. When we fall asleep and when we wake up, in these
waking up, this moment will be the best one for entering into
communication with the dead — particularly the moment of waking
waking up. To gain full control of the moment of waking up, means, in
Mysteries, certain feelings were first cultivated, before taking into
a physical body, we really mean, when speaking of man's physical
manner of speaking which I have just now characterized. The Russian
present, distorted way of thinking of materialism. For this reason, I
from a methodical aspect, only in regard to its way of thinking,
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the kingdom of man, and as retarded Angel-Being's they are active

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of Michael. We have accordingly considered the working of these
Intelligence. But Michael's impulses are strong and powerful. Taking
Hierarchies are working with man and upon him. It is thus that the
Working as they do upon the whole human being, they work also very
connected with him. Since then, Michael himself has been taking part
refined workings of karma he became incapable of using his
friend or someone else coming and taking him away to a different
and matter-of-fact way. He was prevented from partaking in what was
of Michael into the physical world was taking place in the last third
thinking, as we see him, where can this man belong? We think it a
and antipathies. Now all this is taking place already now in a
connection things are taking place which reach up into the next
kingdom of the Hierarchies. For you must see, there is a counterpart
learns to find his way still more deeply into the spiritual kingdoms
separation is taking place. To this, my dear friends, I would now
single and uniform kingdom of the Angeloi is being turned into a
twofold kingdom of Angeloi, a kingdom of Angeloi with an upward
Looking more deeply into the world to-day, one can perpetually
the intense conflict that is taking place, as between the things that
everyone is smoking his pipe or his cigar like a chimney-pot, and you
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necessity. There is, however, something much more striking than the
thinking: such a demand can only be made of a very few. But we must
from our time. The heart is often lacking for such artistic
ego gains for itself by working upon it. And in spiritualizing the
from us, which leaves us looking after I with a certain sadness,
attacking and the blue retreating — which makes you feel that you
speaking thus, but we have to approach this future with an eye
asking: What does this or that mean? We do not have to ask what the
have not accustomed ourselves to stop asking about symbols and
talking about the “spiritualization of the human soul,” that
us in thinking of the narrower affairs of spiritual science with all
looking in at our windows.

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into the fleeing red. We shall then be taking part with our whole soul
when, looking at the picture of Capesius, he says: “I fain would

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fell into a kind of waking dream, and saw, as if issuing
this one case, making it as comprehensible as possible.
swearing and the cracking of his whip could not deflect her.
the horses plunged into the river. Thus the shocking incident
developed, in the other thinking.
Thus an “epoch-making” discovery was made by a
fact that men are divided into thinking men and feeling men is
knocking upon the doors of knowledge. Seekers are also
thinking humanity the problem of the restlessly slumbering,
this thinking works. I ask you if it is sensible to say:
thinking is not only to become therapy, but take the lead in
Schopenhauer was working upon his thoughts.

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thinking type, and the feeling type. From this starting point
he assumed that in cases of the thinking type, subconscious
nebulous thinking, without working out your
scruples of the ordinary consciousness, taking the
will be a nice contribution to thinking people who
events taking place in the 14th and 15th centuries were
quite perverted thinking, his whole statement. Many of our
lecturers, and speaking in the first person. It would be
that it is speaking against walls to try to break through what
deepest respect for real scientific thinking, and for the great
powers of the soul: thinking, feeling, and willing. Remember in
which the soul lives in the spiritual world. Thinking,
thinking (yellow). But if I were to indicate their direction
have to show how thinking (yellow) becomes independent upon the
thinking, will becomes independent too (red, right), as I
sketch it here diagrammatically, so that thinking, feeling, and
health, then the interaction of thinking, feeling, and willing
essential secret of our ego that it holds thinking, feeling,
the spiritual world thinking, feeling, and willing
left). Then thinking swerves aside (yellow, left), mingles with
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is impossible to seek there anything but a working out of the
cannot exist in a world in which individualities are working together
evolves through the most diverse working together of intentions. If
before us perhaps a working together of fire spirits and undines. One
that lives in the human soul, the life of thinking, life of feeling,
emerge unless our life of thinking beyond the threshold were not to
influence our life of thinking, our life of feeling, and our life of
thinking, life of feeling, and life of willing (see drawing, T, F, W),
all a system. Meanwhile the life of thinking leads to one world (W1),
taking up the struggle to allow what appears to him as evil to be put
who are closest to human beings, the spirits belonging to the kingdom
of the angeloi, wander about within the human kingdom, because they
were thrown out of the spiritual world into the human kingdom and now
exist within human impulses, are working through human impulses. I
of darkness had remained above in the spiritual kingdom would they
which I have spoken, ascending from the earth and taking hold of the
period, emphasis must be put today on speaking out, on communication,
least intellect, not the least capacity for making resolves, should
taking into account at that time the characteristics of earthly

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them. What man is lacking today is the courage to enter into the real
how, following the American way of thinking, an attempt was made to
waking and sleeping. Just as man cannot rise above sleep, so, in
that showed the working of God in process. They tried to produce the
humanity likes to use it in speaking about these things, even
only another form of expression for abstract thinking in which such
relationship to other substances as within thinking the thought of
which the embryo is being formed are working forces from all
In the same schools about which we are speaking, virtue
which man can become good, but rather by, let us say, taking copper
hidden spiritual workings. Only one who knows in the true sense that
manner that certain cosmic workings are always interrupted during the
through the most materialistic forces, yet working spiritually with
earthly existence and, because these spiritual beings working in from
actively working beings from the opposing sides of the cosmos are
cosmic forces that, through the working together of two cosmic
necessary for human beings to prepare themselves by not taking
one is constantly speaking in outer, exoteric life, but with entirely
involved in making a large number of human beings from all over the
as they present themselves to truly unprejudiced thinking.
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impulses working at the present time is not a congenial task, for
primeval wisdom, a wisdom underlying all the thinking, all the
stream then making preparation for Christianity had to be introduced
mineral, plant, and animal kingdoms, but they felt that the forces
working for his future incarnation must be brought to light.
any way to the spiritual. At heart they are always asking: What is
soulless devouring of material food leads to the side-tracking of the
arrogance! For it means that such persons, making use of ideas which
indeed they are working to this day.
of which may be expressed in the following way. Ahriman, speaking to
them all there in a dossier, but when one starts talking, this lawyer

Title: Lucifer and Ahriman: Lecture I: The Incarnation of Lucifer in Asia in the Third Millenium B.C.
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deeper impulses working at the present time is not a
the thinking, all the perceptions and feelings of those
account of which Judaism, the smaller stream then making
the mineral, plant and animal kingdoms, but he felt that the
Ahriman is working for his future incarnation must be brought
always asking: What is the good of it? How will it help me to
material food leads to the side-tracking of the spirit. It is
persons, making use of ideas which have been presented to
in the early Christian centuries; indeed they are working
following way. — Ahriman, speaking to Lucifer, says:
there in a dossier, but when one starts talking to him he has

Title: Influences of Lucifer/Ahriman: Lecture Two: The Advance Preparation of Ahriman for His Future Incarnation
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inevitable result of an Asiatic influence taking effect in the
qualitative element is entirely lacking. The number three
thinking to experience in connection with all the things of the
respect to knowledge, humanity was, relatively speaking, at the
themselves on being realistic in their thinking. Darwin and John
him. He has not an inkling that he is simply talking about his own
banking procedure, or the stock exchange, or single or double entry
— I am making no such suggestion. But to come to grips with
lacking.

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Asiatic influence taking effect in the future.
element is entirely lacking. The number 3 always remains the
it to be reality. It is the ideal of present-day thinking to
of knowledge, man was relatively speaking at the zenith. But
in their thinking. Darwin and John Stuart Mill are
he is simply talking about his own characteristics. This
it irksome to acquaint themselves for example with banking
tackle the matter again — I am making no such
is very largely lacking.

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example in the mineral kingdom, or the plant kingdom, let us say on
happened in the mineral kingdom prior to this particular point of
time. People think: the mineral kingdom takes its course and what
attributed entirely to what once took place in the mineral kingdom as
epoch — thinking of it for the moment in the wider sense, as
catastrophe to processes in the mineral kingdom; indeed it is a fact
not occur to those who base their thinking on the principles of
mineral, plant, and animal kingdoms alone.
kingdom, the plant kingdom, or the animal kingdom, it is a
matter of seeking the causes. The causes lie at certain points which
are to be found everywhere. You can picture what I mean by thinking
all working together, producing a combined effect.
takes place in the mineral, plant, and animal kingdoms on the earth.
kingdoms lie within the human organism. (This does not apply to all
the forces working in these kingdoms of nature, but to a large
these matters, we must not follow the geologist in speaking of an
and chemical forces? We are speaking, remember, of present-day
being and the mineral, plant, and animal kingdoms of nature today is
waking life, human intelligence is of little account as far as the
planet earth is concerned. During waking life we cannot really
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kingdom, or the plant kingdom, let us say on November 9th,
in the mineral kingdom prior to this particular point of
time. Men think: the mineral kingdom takes its course and
took place in the mineral kingdom as such; the fact that man
our present epoch — thinking of it for the moment in
mineral kingdom; indeed it is a fact that one part of the
those who base their thinking on the principles of modern
kingdoms alone.
When something takes place in the mineral kingdom, the plant
kingdom or the animal kingdom, it is a matter of seeking the
found everywhere. You can picture what I mean by thinking of
all working together, producing a combined effect. These
the mineral, plant and animal kingdoms on the earth. It is a
mineral, plant and animal kingdoms lie within the organism of
man. (This does not apply to all the forces working
in these kingdoms of nature, but to a large proportion of
not follow the geologists in speaking of an earth in the
— We are speaking, remember, of present-day humanity.
and animal kingdoms of nature to-day is such that his will is
the bridge of feeling. But in his waking life, man's
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to its fate, to win humankind for a kingdom alien to the kingdom of
of thinking. Speaking and thinking are, in their origins,
shall not be withheld. It must be known that the art of speaking and
the art of thinking have become part of evolution only because they
can still be observed in thinking. Speech, which has for long ages
principle is differentiation. What would thinking be if it were not
If thinking were not
thinking. If you were to contemplate each human individual, each
would be little prone to luciferic thinking. But anyone who was to
that the universal thinking implicit in pagan wisdom has gradually
But the result would be the establishment of Ahriman's kingdom on
and of thinking were transmitted to humanity. Just as it devolved
Wonderful, epoch-making results have been achieved, above all during
words. What is taught in the lecture halls about thinking, feeling,
between sleeping and waking, between waking up and going to sleep is
of falling asleep and waking up, that sleep is not merely a cessation
of the waking state, but bears the same relation to the waking state
This kind of thinking has a

Title: Lucifer and Ahriman: Lecture IV: The Luciferic Origin of Ancient Wisdom, Ahrimanization...
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win mankind for a kingdom alien to the kingdom of Christ.
faculties of speech and of thinking. Speaking and thinking
from mankind. It must be known that the art of speaking and
the art of thinking have become part of evolution only
The Luciferic element can still be observed in thinking.
thinking be if it were not Luciferic?
If thinking
Luciferic thinking. If you were to contemplate each human
prone to Luciferic thinking. But anyone who were to attempt
matter is that the universal thinking implicit in Pagan
the result would be the establishment of Ahriman's kingdom on
the faculties of speech and of thinking were transmitted to
the primeval wisdom has run dry? Wonderful, epoch-making
the lecture-halls about thinking, feeling and willing, is
sleeping and waking, between waking up and going to sleep is
at the moments of falling asleep and waking up, that sleep is
not merely a cessation of the waking state, but bears the
same relation to the waking state as debts bear to
thinking has a great deal to do with the present situation.

Title: Lecture: Mission of Michael: Lecture I: The Power and Mission of Michael
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plant, animal, and human kingdoms, but that we have to deal with
the one which exists in the various kingdoms of the earth. Consider,
with our blood-circulation, speaking in the sense of external
intention to make the kingdom of man and the rest of the earth,
prejudice, we must enter an unbiased sphere of thinking. We must
ourselves to be deceived into thinking that by giving a certain name
prevail today. If we are serious in our anthroposophical thinking and
decisions. We are faced with the necessity of taking very seriously an

Title: Lecture: Mission of Michael: Lecture II: The Michael revelation.
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from the general popular thinking of the last few centuries. But I
thoughts which relate us to the bodily element. Thinking, willing,
this is not possible, all scientific thinking has taken on the
being, regardless whether we are speaking of soul or of body. From the
for sense perception or for thinking, we have to look far back into
In a certain respect our head has become our organ of thinking. Our
organ of thinking is that part of us which, if we may use the
sense perception and thinking, it would be continually dying. Its
are constantly cancelled, do thinking and sense perception take place
Whoever in a materialistic fashion attempts to explain thinking and
thinking are breaking down processes, processes of destruction. The
destroyed; then above the organic process of destruction the thinking
namely sense perception and thinking. If a soul undergoes the
thinking, to sense perception, and simultaneously perceive what
breaking down process which has continually to be compensated by the
animal, but with an evolution already retrogressive; with a breaking
moment of waking up; with a part of our being we sleep the whole day
through. We are awake only in regard to our thinking and sense
waking up. But if we ask: By what path alone can knowledge of the
head, through sense perception and thinking, but only to the path that
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Lecture III: Michaelic Thinking.
Michaelic Thinking. The Knowledge of Man as a Supersensible Being. The Michael Path and the Deepest Impulses of the Social Question
in making the human head as living as is the rest of the organism.
Physiologically speaking, it is Lucifer's constant endeavor to send
Psychically speaking, Lucifer is constantly endeavoring to give to the
Speaking from the soul aspect, I would have to say: everything that
of the upward trend by looking upon that which leads the human being
consciousness at every moment of waking life constitutes the Michaelic
mode of thinking; to cease conceiving of the human being as a
reason in our thinking about the being of man.
prevented from making the human being desert his predestined divine
battle of the beautiful with the ugly. For only by looking upon the
which really, at every moment of day-waking life, is conscious of the
making himself understood to the human being. The greatest Messenger
today cannot be solved with the thinking of the past. They can only be
“Change your thinking, for the time is at hand!” At that
time, however, human beings were still able to change their thinking
thinking we have merely the image of reality. Thinking would be of no
consequence for us if we would exist within reality with our thinking,
if thinking were not merely an image. We must become conscious of the
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Title: Lecture: Mission of Michael: Lecture IV: The Culture of the Mysteries and the Michael Impulse.
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thinking in order to comprehend what prepared
the Mystery of Golgotha and what followed it. Greek thinking became of
What took place in the thinking, feeling and willing of the Greek was
certain mode of thinking, a certain way of visualizing.
how he was the great teacher of thinking, of that thinking which,
mode of thinking is only the last echo of the Mystery culture, for
were gradually lost. But the way of thinking developed by the Mystery
thinking, then, again, in Medieval thinking, in the thinking of the
Christian theologians who acquired this Greek thinking in order to
continuation of Greek thinking, that which has flowed into the world
of Golgotha and Greek thinking. The elaboration, the
Greek thinking, of Greek dialectics. Up to the Mystery of Golgotha,
dialectics, Greek thinking. Then the Mystery of Golgotha takes place.
must employ his thinking in a way that is quite different from the
mode of thinking took hold of mankind. In the middle of the fourteenth
humanity was trained for natural-scientific thinking. It is easiest
With the fifteenth century A.D. a new way of thinking begins which we
might call thinking in the style of Galileo. The period of time that
of thinking and the Mystery of Golgotha. But while the latter period
nature. To be sure, since the appearance of Greek thinking the
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Title: Lecture: Mission of Michael: Lecture V: The Michael Deed and the Michael Influence as Counter-pole of the Ahrimanic Influence
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them part of his question of taking fully into account — I made
the natural-scientifically orientated thinking began to take hold of
Let us focus our attention upon this natural-scientific thinking in
natural-scientifically orientated thinking which might be mentioned,
nature and human freedom. The natural-scientific thinking
natural-scientific thinking. If we think about the being of man in the
thinking with the thinking about human freedom. Some people take it
concept of God was more and more elaborated in human thinking, a
concepts still held sway. In thinking about the Divine Being, people
Wisdom was considered the fundamental attribute of the Divine Being. The concept of Omnipotence only gradually penetrated the idea of the Divine Being, from the fourth century onward. It continued to develop. The concept of personality was abandoned and the predicate was transmitted to the mere order of nature, which is conceived of more and more mechanically. And the modern concept of the necessity of nature, the omnipotence of nature, is nothing but the result of the evolution of the concept of God from the fourth to the sixteenth century. Only, the qualities of personality were abandoned and that which constituted the concept of God was taken over into the structure of thinking about nature.
they are thinking without prejudice about man by considering him as
includes man; for the animal kingdom will only be included later on in
taking these beings into consideration. And these beings, who are, as
is still asleep today in his waking state. Man does not notice how
recognize where the Christ impulse is lacking. Yesterday we showed
present-day human thinking, the holding sway of an instinctive life

Title: Lecture: Mission of Michael: Lecture VI: The Ancient Yoga Culture and the New Yoga Will.
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wind, the perception of the shaking tree was no different for him from
People said: If a tree is shaking, this is the God outside, and if I
lost. That means, we have to acquire the ability of taking hold of
post-Atlantean cultural period. Roughly speaking, we might say: In the
have been made to enable human thinking to grasp the Mystery of
that the air of the earth has become soul-void, making it impossible
but spirit, soul, and body working into one another. This will be
of the earnestness that is necessary in taking a stand in these

Title: Social Forms: Lecture I: The Waldorf School, Spiritual Science, Outer World, Inner World
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proficient individuals capable of working in the spirit of
to anything of a spiritual nature. When talking about
with a specific case. When speaking about any ideology today,
explains to him his way of thinking, how he sees man's
in the wrong way; we must consider this manner of thinking an
unhealthy, sick thinking. We must replace the merely logical
— which expresses itself in atomistic thinking. This
feeblemindedness through atomistic thinking concerning the
working in the way it did during the first seven years, then
a certain manner of thinking, feeling and willing for human
speaking and the following is pointed out: Everything that is
of public life. They are incapable of taking these things
the earth, they oppose each other, seeking to gather a great
realities when we stop talking about right or wrong and begin
speaking about healthy or sick. We begin to rise to realities
when we cease talking about programs of parties or world

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areas, it is a matter of looking in the right direction.
held that what dwells as thinking, feeling, and willing in
this; he is just thinking-matter. Today, the time has come to
transcend the state of being merely thinking-matter. One can
accomplish this by thinking thoughts that have not been
thinking, but they wish to think these thoughts with their
physical thinking. They sank deeper and deeper into the
their own thinking was something that should have given them
only brains that were thinking; materialism was quite
only say concerning Y that a brain was thinking
have become body-bound and that their thinking, along with
the way of looking into the spiritual world that leads to the

Title: Social Forms: Lecture III: Man's Twelve Senses in Relation to Imagination, Inspiration, Intuition
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linking it to an old theme already familiar to many of you.
You know that in speaking of the senses one usually lists sight,
is, materially speaking, much more inward than tasting.
organized in a much more inward way, materially speaking of
consciousness in the waking condition; when we perceive that
world, we can say: Ego sense, sense of thinking, word sense,
completely inward processes taking place within us, which
the body through the sense of thinking, we penetrate into the
and the sense of thinking but only as impressions of
manner of speaking, upon our senses. Through these senses,
waking consciousness, which is something you are not aware of
whether we are walking or standing still, jumping or dancing.
particular and striking thing we discover is that when we
that when one speaks from beyond the threshold, speaking out

Title: Social Forms: Lecture IV: World Events, Initiation Knowledge and the Impulse toward Freedom
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By linking much
expects of each individual seeking to participate in it that
a little thinking, researching one or the other subject which
the way indicated above without looking left or right,
knowing much about it, but nevertheless thinking along these
a sense with the natural scientific mode of thinking. On the
they are imprinted into humanity's whole thinking, attitude
to have fallen victim to such pathological thinking. As I
the world by the initiation knowledge of old is lacking in
One aspect is lacking, however; there is no reference at all
had his own ways and means of seeking out his pupils and
working with certain forces and impulses of the group soul
kingdoms, also constitutes us human beings in the physical,
our thinking and our conceptual capability. When we reflect
thinking, and permeate these with what we call our religious,
capable of taking a completely different viewpoint from that
what is frequently called thinking, feeling and willing today
knowing. What is taking place in the process of cognizing
paradoxically. We cannot persist today in talking in the
speaking, a falsehood, because in reality one only pictures a
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looking at things. The course of human evolution is such that
really are. Speaking from the other side of the threshold,
making judgments is concerned. When I say that a person makes
This implies that We are capable of taking the side of the
counter-forces so as to remain in balance in spite of taking
responsibility to face what is actually taking place.
means of thinking. One has to clearly understand that some of
governing and taking charge. If a person occupies an
this out by thinking about it. One must be in harmony with

Title: Social Forms: Lecture VI: New Social Forms, Soul, Material World
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seeking the divine, or the spiritual underlying our human
spiritual world of which we are speaking — I have
base it solely on time, thinking of it as a world of time.
proud and arrogant regarding its thinking, yet it can
to overcome space within our thinking. Otherwise we will
doesn't come anywhere near the etheric body by just thinking
spiritual, only by transforming our thinking to what is
general thinking of natural science. We can no longer develop
of thinking that humanity has become accustomed to owing to
any demands on people's thinking. It is precisely here that
an organism asking to be understood by means of its symptoms.
— began talking about all sorts of social questions,

Title: Social Forms: Lecture VII: Trends of Souls in People of the East, West, and Middle of Europe
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humanity. In an age of abstract thinking and mere
differences in the mode of thinking, and so on, you will also
Europe, in the East, people imagine that they are thinking
what is really taking place. Thus, people will live to see
that in our thinking we continue life after death, but not
looking up into the supersensory world, which was brought
establishment of kingdoms, the social structure of the
thinking. The West will have to experience that something it
It is a form of thinking
thinking brings about what I have often described as the
them with those of the East. On looking back to the ages when
social organism. Fundamentally speaking, all that we have
studies how this manner of thinking has pervaded and lives in
for economic thinking; and one day, when the economic life of
made the mistake of applying their form of thinking to
thinking is in order when we train ourselves by means of it
arrives at economic thinking in the West. For both directions
view of life is concerned, this Western thinking then does
particular thinking of Mill, Buckle, and Adam Smith
originates. We find that Oriental thinking has basically
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Speaking of the
science, popular books, or journalism. There, all thinking
thinking which can then be utilized in the economic part of
kind of thinking which stems completely from the
he had used this same thinking to set up factories and social
man had the misfortune of breaking a leg as the result of a
breaking a bone. That is to say, he who already in the second
this West is asking for the ascent into what lies beyond
thinking, trained by natural science and the
form of thinking which should be applied neither to
comprehended in their working together and in their
all the details of this structure. Looking even at its

Title: Social Forms: Lecture IX: Hegel
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attempts at working out his own ideas of a world view. He
thinking, but in such a manner that one sees how these
that Hegel underwent while working out his
physically speaking, the Luciferic force is that element in
ossification, calcification. Speaking of the soul level, man
and intellectualistic sphere. Spiritually speaking, man must
awake again and again, striking through him with a violence
sinking down into matter. As in a picture, humanity appears
to be sinking into the material element, with Hegel standing
in the center, working himself out of it with all his might
liberation, without which we will not achieve pure thinking.
element dwelling in man, but can rise into human thinking.
actually has to be saved for human thinking. On the other
himself on Hegel, taking up Hegel's thinking, but is gripped
found that it is the economic thinking that flourishes
particularly in the West; in the East, spiritual thinking
since been enacted historically in such a shocking way. The
life, the tendency that is seeking to transform even the

Title: Social Forms: Lecture X: The Tapestry of the Senses, Memory, and the Spiritual World, -or- Spiritual-Cosmic Tasks of Man
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mankind has reached the point of looking at itself, so to
speaking sweats out of itself what is present as organs in
than those gained from waking life, from what lies between
when speaking of the hierarchies of the Angeloi, Archangeloi,
working world through the human being. The reason man has
evoking chills. This cold, rigid world of forces holds the
experience the time between falling asleep and waking up.
between waking up and falling asleep. The whole of modern
is actually referring to these forces when speaking in this
fmd the bridge to a certain form of social thinking.

Title: Social Forms: Lecture XI: Man as a Mediator of the Spiritual Beings of the Cosmos
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waking, but in reality we then dwell in it without
Inasmuch as we go through the world as thinking beings, we
take place? Well, social thinking is different from thinking
out of the spirit. In the case of spiritual thinking,
In the case of social thinking, one can, for instance, figure
are easily obtained by taking a thousand twenty year-olds
spheres of thinking and forming judgments. One has to
thinking of the West, statistics play a major role. Yet, the
thinking during this catastrophic, world-historical moment
the past. That does not work. The world is asking to be built
here as if asking, “Does the world confront this with

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thinking developed throughout the central regions of the
Orient originally possessed no actual political thinking,
particularly not what we today define as juridical thinking.
from the mode of thinking defined in the Occident as
economic form of thinking has developed in the West. As I
followed in consequence of this in a manner of speaking. From
tinged by legalistic thinking. There is a radical contrast
conception. This legalistic thinking lies entirely outside
predisposed for the juridical and political thinking.
to examine how a purely juridical thinking is produced from
partly a fully conscious thinking; something that is, for
example, the special charm of Hegel's mode of thinking. A
Western economic thinking. Here, for the first time, mankind
humanity's thinking by becoming acquainted with the attempts
thinking, say, the attempts of Spencer, Bentham, particularly
scientific way of thinking. A strange feeling pervades us
thinking, for instance, about the state, about the legal
thinking. He would experience something like the following.
on the other hand, in the West as primitive economic thinking
self-preservation, and the whole animal kingdom's struggle is
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the animal kingdom, we cannot help but say that the human
kingdom as the evolution theorists would have it. He is not
kingdom; he is also a composite at a higher stage. Therefore,
the plant kingdom, it has the tendency to become plantlike,
to the kingdoms of nature surrounding us. With our astral
the content born out of the mineral kingdom. He creates from
is, basically speaking, transformed mineral kingdom.
example, that you are looking at a Greek statue. There is, of
consciousness from the mineral kingdom.
kingdom. Whoever pursues these matters without prejudice will
transformed content won from the mineral kingdom.
kingdom.
kingdoms of nature on the one side; on the other side, we are
and ego that we carry out in successive earth lives. Looking
This gives our soul a certain configuration. Simply speaking,
the mineral kingdom; it is something that we basically carry
Animal Kingdom
Plant Kingdom
Mineral Kingdom

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kingdom, the astral body toward the plant kingdom and the ego
toward the mineral kingdom. We have seen how, as a result of
speaking of ourselves; for we lived under quite different
added what results from economic thinking. Bacon was one who
this Western economic thinking which, as I have indicated,
their thinking to bring order into economic relationships,
when employing their particular kind of thinking for the
Later, legalistic, political thinking began in Greece and
at first, by way of Greek thinking, and then quite strongly
by way of Latin thinking. Thus we must say that our entire
himself as mere intellect within the economic thinking of the
thinking habits of the present it is not an easy task to
age. That is what is meant by working toward realities.
looking at the realities of the future. What is to be real in
thinking, feeling and will. There is only one social reform:
modern thinking with the same ardor with which world outlooks
that now is taking hold already of the physical environment.

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of the cosmos by looking up to the course of the stars. One
life taking on the aspect of life in the barracks. We also
are taking place in the world, one behaves as one has always
said that, fundamentally speaking, all our spiritual life is
imperial Roman time, juristic thinking was developing out of
those benign spiritual powers capable of working against
produce thinking. We know that this is not so. Those
the liver or the stomach would cause no thinking at all. Up
thinking. If you wish to focus on those brain processes that
have something to do with thinking, and you wish to compare
quite dir dreams. We arrive at clear thinking precisely
Thinking only functions parallel to processes of elimination.
useless to it that thinking establishes itself out of the
thinking that has developed especially since the middle of
the fifteenth century, the thinking of which modern man is so
scientific thinking of the past few centuries has emerged
thinking processes. Do not think that what we develop without
processes employed are thinking processes! If you try to
destructive, just as thinking processes in the brain cause
destruction — exactly the same thing. Thinking, applied
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Title: Social Forms: Lecture XVI: Changes in the Meaning of Speech, -or- Dreams and Human Development
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become used to this way of thinking; based an spiritual
manner of thinking. No attempt is made to find one's way into
the transformed new way of thinking.
thinking and conceptions comes about for no other reason than
language. Because of their easy-going habits of thinking,
something lacking in capacities, lacking in images. This
element lacking images only unites with the ego. It is
animal kingdom, the plant and the mineral kingdoms, is not
those images, or, strictly speaking, those forces of
referring to the soul when I am now speaking of
is the same as not thinking of a miller who grinds corn when
imaginations for their waking life. Even those who have
was walking along a path; everything around him filled him
being today, namely, making inner soul demands out of sleep
fifteenth century. Man brought along into the waking state
must gradually begin to bring into waking life what has been
spiritually experienced between falling asleep and waking in
from the earthly manner of thinking, and will draw us with
Golgotha into the central point of human thinking and
the imaginations halfway by making pictures of our
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Title: Poetry/Speech: Lecture I: The Art of Recitation and Declamation
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spiritual impulses working through the physical human beings. If
taking form. In the delineation of such a scene one has nothing to
Looking at the German, the Weimar
of the smoking wreckage and the blood of her slaughtered loved
who didst fold the outcast daughter of the mighty king in your
seeking for the
king.

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midway between speaking, or reading, which are not artistic, and
organism. One must learn to trace this working of the spirit in the
I saw pale kings and princes too,
tell Court-huntsmen, that the King will ride,
Aske for those Kings whom thou saw'st
rare mood of good humoured and friendly mocking. It comes from
pedantic number; but, generally speaking, we may say that the
second inhaled and exhaled; and, striking into this, the rhythm of
strikes, as it were, upwards; thus we have the will-pulses striking
heart-rhythm striking into it: long, short, short; long, short,

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who, working in this way out of a folk-disposition, give poetic
Thus be my thoughts disperst, thus thinking
nurseth a thinking,
In Manala’s lowest kingdom,
outward: and instead of checking consciousness before it leads to
morning morning’s minion, king-
King Hrodgar
Came to the King.
The intention was to show you, taking the art of recitation and

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is constructed in such a way as to be specially capable of taking in
life on earth. Roughly speaking, we have our head because our limbs
This is what in future will become our head: thinking man. But we
of a human being, but he sees objectively the thinking man which his
that it is not a question of thinking in terms of a new physical
world, a new edition of it, as it were, if we contemplate thinking man
seen as light, or better, experienced as light. Being thinking men, we
because as thinking men, it is ourselves. You cannot see that which
see the thought-element as light. So that in speaking of the whole
This is precisely your thinking, it is a working in light. You are a
But your thinking which you unfold, is living in the light. And I you
light — by day of course; but in reality you are looking at this
at myself therefore as a thinking man, I should see myself radiating
Thus it is a question not merely of making for oneself a picture of
the world through speculation, but of taking in the world with the
blue crosses over to the red. That is our own colour. So that, looking
pedantic thinkers, merely working with the head; we know that what

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connection there is, on the one hand, in the Kingdom of Nature with
the human Kingdoms; a condition however which would somehow, even if
and say: as we now go through the world as thinking men, these also
went as thinking beings with human character through that world. That
that the phenomenon of sleeping and waking means that man is released
consciousness. Think of the moment of waking: what is it? When
awaking, we say: In going to sleep, man passes out from the field of
feeling of being possessed again by weight on awaking, as a personal
You note, we are speaking of several different weights, issuing from
of the soul. We are seeking, again, in looking out into universal
are looking at the world physically, and, at the same time, morally.

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in working with speech itself. Just as a painter can learn most
speech from speech itself: from actual speaking, from handling the
to artistic speaking. This aberration might almost be called
Speaking about the art of reciting
gestures. It will all flow into this special way of speaking, so
Of all forsaken, and forsaking all;
reality, the recitative-declamatory speaking of prose-poetry is the
perceptible in this kind of recitation. In speaking a prose-poem
trembling, trembling and unfolding, a breaking light, an opening
flower, it spread in endless succession to itself, breaking in full

Title: Curative Eurythmy: Lecture 1
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in the larynx, a second man, in a manner of speaking, who is, to be
frontal lobe in the speaking man. The thyroid must co-operate with the
When we breathe and this breathing expresses itself in speaking or singing,
in movement, reciprocally conditioning each other in motion, that thinking
consequence is that chaotic or sloppy thinking transforms the rhythmic
thinking as such carries within it the tendency to slow down the rhythm.
manner of thinking as well which one can compare with what happens in
figures. He cannot understand a geometric figure by looking at it. However
concurrently and you can tell by looking at the person — that
imitation, as in speaking “E” the larynx carries out exactly

Title: Curative Eurythmy: Lecture 2
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In speaking of vowels today, we will speak purely of the meaning of
out, one could make it more complicated by taking more positions; one
is to be easily tired in walking as well. That is a technical difference:
to walk awkwardly and to tire in walking are two different things. When
the person is tired by walking, one has to do with the
tired by walking would be technically expressed as not being able to
making the “O” so often and by extending it to this
dynamic tendencies at work in making a person obese is in fact carried
first as children often react to taking medicine: with resistance. They
will follow the various workings further. If you have a person with
by carrying them out in walking. And you will achieve a great deal for
“E”-motion as we have just done it in walking; he should
In taking a step forward
while walking. You will say that complicated movements appear as a result;
in the form that one carries out while making the consonants, as though
consonant, first with the right hand, now with the left, but taking
it backwards, now taking the right hand back, and “M” with

Title: Curative Eurythmy: Lecture 3
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of living into the world vigorously; of making himself selfless and
this going out and taking hold in the external world of what man today
place in speaking it; since — in respect to the characteristic
of which I am thinking at the moment — the eurythmic element must
taking place inwardly.
narrowed and the lips can vibrate. You can see that in speaking one
etherically speaking, a fat-head — not really a fat-head, but
how this inward E-making in man sums itself up into the vertical. As
clearly what one observes taking place in weaklings. They have the tendency
case however: they try to stretch the etheric body thereby making a
that once again. Before we proceed to working out the sounds particularly,
testieren”, is expressed more what comes from within, the working
cause of illness; I am speaking in coarse words now — but then

Title: Curative Eurythmy: Lecture 4
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this B in walking as well. Try to walk in such a manner, however, that
and this particular manner of making sounds, of making consonants.
with an attempt at making knock-knees.
attached to it. One should accompany the H in walking as follows: one
vowels. As we considered the making of vowels in eurythmy I had to draw
pronounce an R, who are quite shocking in their pronunciation of the R.

Title: Curative Eurythmy: Lecture 5
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happen. But because one in reality doesn't go to sleep while making
consists in shaking the head to the right and left with the movement
at the same time that you don't collide. It is this taking notice of
oneself to doing this movement with the shoulders and making an A with
the possibility of making this etheric body into a workable instrument.

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us make clear to ourselves what is taking place here, proceeding however
association of sounds. That is something which man in his waking,
and the astral body glide over what they are taking in, they live into
is awake. During this dampened sleep taking place in the listener the
while listening. You can see what is actually taking place.
of growth in the human being. You are working directly into the person's
editor) is taking place here. When the rhythm pulses up against it,
transition taking place between the chaotic vigour in the lymph and the
what spiritual activity is: when man thinks and from out of his thinking
the case — with making war and so on. These peoples must see these
possibility of working most effectively in this direction; one can bring

Title: Curative Eurythmy: Lecture 7
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what lies without the planetary sphere a formative working into the
connection we may conceive of these cosmic powers as working centripetally
forces working in from outside and not from the planets, for in that
this such a process of secretion is taking place. When you descend further
is working centrifugally, thus making the head large, and, in doing
have a deformation of the joints. That is an outwardly-working tendency
ray outwards, leaving the human being instead of working within him as
thing crosses the other; then an inward silent speaking joins what is

Title: Colour: Part One: Colour-Experience (Erlebnis)
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figures walking over a green meadow; or blue beings generally, they
must, of course, speak comparatively when speaking of experiences in
greenness is, indeed, in its physical body, making green peculiar to
dividing it abstractly, taking the greenness from the plant, it is
but this colour, speaking generally, is that of the human skin. Let us
flesh-colour. What this means can best be realized by looking at a man
turn to the mineral kingdom, but we will try in another way to form an
If we take the kingdoms of Nature in this way — the lifeless
kingdom, the living kingdom, the ensouled kingdom, the spiritual
kingdom, we ascent — precisely as we ascend from the lifeless to
plant, animal and spiritual kingdom — in as far as man is the

Title: Colour: Part One: The Luminous and Pictorial Nature of Colours
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speaking. So that we can get this colour only in a roundabout way, and
Taking the colours we found yesterday, we may say as follows: By its

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or, as we say, applied to the Vegetable Kingdom. And so in the
Vegetable Kingdom we have expressed the real origin of applied colour
that the Vegetable Kingdom was
Kingdom darker in its separate shades and then to cover it with the
generally speaking an inartistic element has been introduced into
you the breaking away of the moon, as you find it described in my
with the sun. But, generally speaking, if we look simply at the earth,
workings of the Cosmos. We cannot explain the colouration of inanimate
And now you will find that we can ascend again to the Animal Kingdom.
If you want to paint a landscape in which the Animal Kingdom is

Title: Psychoanalysis: Lecture V: Connections Between Organic Processes and the Mental Life of Man
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of natural science is as far removed as possible from embarking
life, where we meet primarily our thinking, feeling, and
a first result we realize the absolute folly of speaking of
more materialized. Working in this inner direction, not
organism, and so forth. Looking at them within, you reach a
When speaking of the power of memory, I drew attention to the
systems, in lung, kidney, liver, and heart, after making a
describes. You need only to take a step in walking and a
taking place is not simply the chemical process which may be
the standpoint of ordinary life. Let us take a striking case: A
of good reasons for existence, but everything working in
pointing out to you an idea, asking you to think about it

Title: Old/New Methods: Lecture One: Ahrimanic and Luciferic, Human Body, Soul, Spirit
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the working of Lucifer and Ahriman in the threefold organization of the
working in manifold ways. This initiation science has to select all
satisfied in today's scientific thinking when we are ahrimanic, when
guardian of beauty and art. So in seeking the right balance between
instance in the alternating states of waking and sleeping. In the
waking state the spiritual part of our being is fully given over to
form are only real if we are capable of perceiving the working and
adequately comprehended in the right way by thinking and by contact
circle or another recently I have a number of times given a striking
working population from following their radical social-democratic
this example not because it is political but because it is a striking

Title: Old/New Methods: Lecture Two: East, Weat, and Center, -or- Asiatic Spiritual Life
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the working of Lucifer and Ahriman in the threefold organization of the
about important aspects of life. We see congresses taking place
who are speaking with one another but members of various nations.
speaking with one another. What is actually speaking through each one
that it is the folk daemons who are speaking with one another, rather
and with the utmost impartiality, if we refrain from looking with
This special spirituality of today has the characteristic of taking
scientific thinking and have sought those impulses of social life
which derive from scientific thinking and which mankind will need in
a global working together in the spirit should take place can be seen
thought forms into his own thinking. If you are thoroughly familiar
Soloviev with a thinking prepared in the West you will have to
today only imagine a person to be capable of speaking in the way
is a working together of the different regions of the earth, and this
order to enter into the kind of global working together which will be

Title: Old/New Methods: Lecture Three: The Development of Religious Experience in Post-Atlantean Civilization
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the working of Lucifer and Ahriman in the threefold organization of the
preparations for today's waking state, and also their dream
whom we are speaking, however, religion and the content they
courage and their will. Thus, speaking of their own deeds, they were
life more outside the earthly realm than within it. Looking for
of this globe are distinguished from one another. Looking eastwards

Title: Old/New Methods: Lecture Six: Methods of Initiation, Old and New - 1
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the working of Lucifer and Ahriman in the threefold organization of the
only way of speaking about the Christ-being. We naturally use the
thinking became more mobile and more intense. At the same time it
These days all such things have to be attained by working with soul
enabled to perceive their element of spirit and soul by partaking of
to understand, when speaking about earthly evolution, that the
withdrawn from the element of spirit and soul. The working of the
the Middle Ages to be the cosmic working of ‘the prince of this
something ahrimanic working in them. Flushed redness, on the other
prince of this world’, on the working of the human head.
for man. So by looking at what is going on in a general way we come

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the working of Lucifer and Ahriman in the threefold organization of the
stated that the human being seeking initiation is capable of
Only by taking possession of the body can it become capable of making
which had the external task of working for the community and caring
which relieves human beings of the effort of thinking, but it does
along and relieves us of the effort of thinking. In ordinary life we
think with our body, our body is our thinking apparatus. If we pursue
for thinking but would itself be able to think. This is, basically,
the organ that does the thinking so far as higher knowledge is
first person that second one develops, capable now of thinking
perceived in initiation is a strengthened thinking which does not in
into him. In taking this first upward step towards higher knowledge
grow up from childhood our spirit and soul element keeps making an
times. But it would still be incapable of thinking. As I have said,
the events which take place between going to sleep and waking up. The
through our external eyes. Our will exercises are not aimed at making
looking through our eyes. And we do not see into the spiritual world
directly, but only by looking through ourselves.
thinking to an extent which makes it independent of the brain, and
world of colours without looking through the eye. We have to look
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Title: Old/New Methods: Lecture Eight: The Passage of the Human Soul and Spirit through the Physical Sense-Organization
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the working of Lucifer and Ahriman in the threefold organization of the
what lives in our thinking during earthly existence. If we seek to
that period of human life about which I am now speaking. In the life
use expressions which will seem unusual as far as ordinary thinking
goes, but ordinary thinking lacks points of reference which might
serve to describe these things. Ordinary thinking lies far from all
between falling asleep and waking up again. If they were to look down
the way to making us into an image of our physical earth, of the
mirror. So, in speaking of immortality, there is absolutely no point
of the different kingdoms of nature, this culture saw everywhere the

Title: Old/New Methods: Lecture Nine: The Threefold Human, Reincarnation, Heathens, Jews, Christians, Calderon
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the working of Lucifer and Ahriman in the threefold organization of the
feelings. Human beings felt the world as well as thinking it. Only at
thinking, this life has died. But our sympathy with the world around
speaking pictorially — in the convolutions of the brain. And
Thinking
a corpse in the power of thinking. The real spiritual vision, which
Alexandria was incapable of looking back — it all turned into
different kingdoms of nature, are external manifestations which pose
as we do today, but also the working of divine, spiritual beings in
and a new birth, taking no account of the side of man which belongs
absolutely shies away from looking at the externally
centuries of the Middle Ages we see the struggle taking place most
Cyprianus, a kind of miracle-working magician; in other words he is,
Cyprianus feels incapable of making a full approach to Justina, so he

Title: Old/New Methods: Lecture Ten: The Threefold Human, Four Elements, Imagination, Inspiration, Intuition
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the working of Lucifer and Ahriman in the threefold organization of the
the temple with the four Kings.
working to bring the second part of the drama to a conclusion, Goethe
the earth, so that ever since then, when seeking the spirit which
Looking
So, looking at the human being of nerves and senses, we can say that
making contact with the airy element. The rhythmic life is
taking place at a previous level. We see how Justina tears herself
eighties of the last century, Schröer was working on
rather vague intuitive faculty when making his diagnoses. Instead of
observe things from vantage points not open to most, he is seeking an
be made, although the most urgent warnings can be shockingly
But the only real way of taking up a stance with regard to these

Title: Old/New Methods: Lecture Eleven: Faust and Hamlet in Relation to the Turning Point of the 15th Century
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the working of Lucifer and Ahriman in the threefold organization of the
a representative of all those seeking personalities who lived at that
personality living in the midst of this seeking and striving that had
see that the special nature of this seeking and striving, as it
post-Atlantean period were still working in him.
centuries. Goethe has depicted him strikingly well, for this is just
that of Professor Faust himself — I am speaking only of Faust
any sense of all the various commentaries. We are talking about a
this is not only the working of his daytime consciousness with its
resembles a looking over one's shoulder in a dream. Think of the mood
he is simply speaking about what he senses to be the riddle of his
age; he is speaking not theoretically but out of what he actually
King Lear
What the poet learnt by taking these human characters and leading
the kings. He does not follow this specific theme in the historical
dramas, but the indeterminate forces work on. Taking Shakespeare's
Goethe is attacking this
system of princes and looking back to times which preceded the age of
from Shakespeare in seeking what they wanted to find through their
spiritual intentions, whereas they see what is taking place on earth
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Title: Old/New Methods: Lecture Twelve: The Transition from the 4th to the 5th Post-Atlantean Period, Shakespeare, the Spiritual Struggle of Schiller and Goethe
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the working of Lucifer and Ahriman in the threefold organization of the
speaking about the tasks facing the leaders of spiritual and cultural
soul, but what is still entirely lacking, what was still quite
continue working on the drama.
situation which led Goethe, on once again taking up work on his
to the forces working together in the human being. Goethe, not only
the fact that Goethe gave up speaking about the being of man in
times when, in seeking knowledge, human beings caused beings from the
Goethe, the statement that thinking, feeling and will work together
instead he depicted a place where there were three kings, one of
being of man by using the kind of thinking to which intellectualism
if we succeed in not thinking, then it is given unsought, unbidden.
of course be achieved without thinking — but in order to
not mean merely a dull absence of thinking. But he is quite sure that
with it by means of our intellectual thinking. This is even the
witches’ multiplication table? Goethe did not like speaking
Thinking comes to a standstill! So then you enter into a state of
any thinking. — Such things are always an aspect of Goethe's
youth he was not at all sure whether looking into the universal
extricate himself from that confounded capacity of thinking —
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Title: Old/New Methods: Lecture Thirteen: The Transition from the 4th to the 5th Post-Atlantean Period, Shakespeare, Schiller, Goethe, -or- The Search for the Spirit
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the working of Lucifer and Ahriman in the threefold organization of the
nevertheless a kind of looking back to the time when human beings
by taking the side
King Lear,
historical dramas about the kings, he goes over more into realism
working together of the spiritual with the physical —
which the spirit plays. The East flees from the external working of
he was making the acquaintance of Schiller, Goethe felt impelled to
to go through the world without asking too many questions. As a
to describe such things. But if what is taking place in mankind is to
this clearly, even almost in grotesque detail. Looking at the human
I have chopped wood! In what is taking place out there in the
looking in a mirror! If someone were to do exactly what the words
taking the interconnections into account is it possible to understand
waking. The Grail was seen as the place where all truly Christian
set out on conquering expeditions under such mottos, thus working
the spiritual realm working everywhere in the social realm. People
themselves, at best looking in the mirror as if they are owls, they

Title: Old/New Methods: Lecture Fourteen: The 5th Post-Atlantean Period, the French Revolution, Schiller, Goethe, the Freedom Problem, -or- Berlin University Course Report - 2
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the working of Lucifer and Ahriman in the threefold organization of the
here on earth of human thinking, feeling and willing. This is
kings learnt from the priests about the will of human evolution as it
Roman times, the times of the Roman kings, the endeavour was made to
human beings achieve satisfaction with regard to their thinking,
say: The human being is actually only free when he is working
is capable of working artistically he is also capable of unfolding
could not be given to him through logical thinking and that it could
removed themselves from a thoughtful and hard-working way of life. It
the recognition of the spiritual in thinking. In Schiller's
experience must be added a free experience in the realm of thinking
to offer in the realm of thinking is something unfree, something
can also be recognized in the realm of thinking and in the realm of
that in such heads every capacity for thinking clearly has ceased;
and for what is healthy and unhealthy in human thinking and in human
lacking amongst our contemporaries. Most of them do not notice these
things, they read them without taking them in.
For human beings definitely need that freedom of thinking in their

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earthly organism — does not yet contain the faculty of walking
pre-earthly existence, orientation does not refer to walking and
with the thoughts we have here as with the thinking. Thinking is
we first focus on the mediating member of man, man's speaking,
civilization lies in speaking. Through speaking, people come together
here on earth; speaking is the bridge between two persons. Soul
unites with soul. We feel that in speaking we have an essential
speaking of these forms, one is not always referring only to the
sculptural form of the human organization. Not speaking symbolically
looking at them fundamentally from the viewpoint of the consonants,
the breathing process unites with the movements taking place along
also into the head-breathing. When man shifts from speaking to
our thinking system. It is the thinking system that influences speech
Lacking the bodily instrument, one enters a tonal world colored in a
world of the stars. Though it appears that I am speaking
it sings to you in speaking, speaks in singing, and your perception
is actually a hearing of this speaking-singing, singing-speaking.
speaking human beings in two ways. Take the consonantal human

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give a biographical description of man's waking life, so one
human being experiences during his waking hours is experienced
one speaks of man's waking experiences, they necessarily
waking life. Likewise, man is in another world during sleep; this
in the waking state, we turn our eyes or other sense organs in the
that dwell in all things. Our organ of thinking is simply something
bearer of his physical and etheric bodies. In a manner of speaking,
bodies. In a manner of speaking, man withdraws his experience of the

Title: Lecture I: The WHITSUN Mystery and its Connection with the Ascension
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another, but, speaking generally, at the time when the Mystery of
earthly mission. The Ahrimanic and Luciferic powers working in
takes its course, as we know, in the alternation of waking life and
from the time of falling asleep until that of waking, the ego and the
is taking place. There are many such happenings, but the everyday
conclusion: ‘This is the path man's etheric body is taking. The
upon a man's waking state, but it can make no impression on his sleeping
produced its effect in the waking life of men who had no knowledge of
between falling asleep and waking — and this is only possible
when knowledge of this Impulse has been acquired in waking life.

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Looking
human being, our way of speaking of body, soul and spirit, of the ego
the year's course.) Pictorially speaking, the modern human being has
who, after drinking a glass of water, says his tongue produced the water.
Not exhaustively so, for he still had a vivid experience of thinking,
how this expression roused Greeks to a direct and striking perception
of the hero; so striking that he stood before them in his essential
between thinking and organism was as self-evident as the connection
within human evolution while looking for the divine in his forebears.

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Well, this is only one detail. But all contemporary thinking tends
of the past, though not a very ancient past, asking to be understood:
Therefore no artistic person will say: That human being is striking

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red with the green, then the green with the red, making these motions
tickets to a play enacted on a stage closed on four sides? Though speaking
working up out of the depths. At first it was Dionysus alone, then Dionysus
of will, making use of human beings to bring to manifestation not the
Muse descends and, making use of man through his head, proclaims man's
the subterranean will of the gods rises up from the depths, making use
working their way upward through men's wills. We have to penetrate earth
the epic element sinking down from above; he experiences the lyrical

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I discussed during the last two lectures. Looking at the physical
Through thinking man strives to solve the riddles of existence. Modern
perhaps awakens him to the full meaning of earthly existence by making him
working. He took up what was robustly earthly without feeling any necessity
presentation. Oh, there exists no more striking satire on novels about
And, again, no more striking satire on the mawkishly emotional trying
he sends packing.
in which mankind, looking up to the divine-spiritual, strove to create, in
for a new unfolding of spiritual life, must give up seeking for what

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our looking for this culture in present-day primitive peoples) we must
everything on earth a reflection of events taking place in its cosmic
thought-form the after-image of a constellation. Thus his thinking
Thus man as thinker felt as though the force of his thinking were
images of his thinking existed in the heavens.
most certainly felt, asking, Am I allowed to do that? to fix with my
a dinner party where poems were presented making fun, satirically, of the
Speaking of the Soma drink, they felt themselves in direct soul communion

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into the sensory, proclaiming its being even in the sensory. By speaking
forsaking the living-in-color.
colored as they are, it would be a great offense. I am now speaking
Mary must be in every instance, artistically speaking, an offense. But
Apostles; we cannot conceive of them otherwise than looking upward in
or view a picture in a frame, we can imagine ourselves looking out through

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for the greater part of the time between falling asleep and awaking.
between awaking and going to sleep. Animal “wakefulness” is
You see, when a man is in the state between going to sleep and waking
Man with his waking consciousness sees only the outside of minerals
beauty. But there is no sense in speaking of goodness among these
Waking Consciousness:
want to have the idea of goodness, we must turn to the state of waking
way of looking at things, to the state of sleep. And as I have always
no more important than knitting a stocking, because after all the
gave their pictures the luster of gold, making it irradiate them from
We see how in all provinces it is a question of making an effort, of
mankind waking up. It is this we ought to take up — this impulse to

Title: Lecture IV: The Sun-Initiation of the Druid Priest and His Moon-Science
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on the Earth, but, when it is a question of taking the spiritual
way even today penetrate into the whole manner and mode of working of
But we must always bear in mind that we are here speaking of an epoch
information about the time of the year. The only booking in existence
emanate from the Sun-forces, but from the Moon-forces working together
kindling his human being even into the physical. Yet this working into
swept with its giant forces over the Earth, working destructively;
their right limits in the kingdoms of Nature. The chosen places where
working and weaving of wind and weather as they sweep over the Earth
— the working together of the water and the airy nature, the
plant kingdom. Then they observed what happened to the plants when
they came to the point of taking the plants themselves, and imitating
The Druid priests said to themselves: “Looking out into this
world of Nature we behold the destructive working of the giants, of
had a remedy against this habit of sinking into one's inner being, or
Cosmos, seeking for his religious, social and medical conceptions from
giants is working with threatening danger and destruction works
Thus the Druid in his way perceived the varied forces and workings of

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the warmth interests him. He is talking nonsense, of course, for when
And now comes the Fourth Hierarchy. I am speaking now with the thought

Title: Lecture VI: The WHITSUNTIDE Festival: Its place in the study of Karma
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it in the mineral kingdom, the etheric as we find it working in the
plant kingdom, and the astral as we find it working in the animal
kingdom — all these are to be found in the environment of man here
when you are looking at a small fragment of Ether, you see nothing with
Universe, revealing its presence, making itself known in the blue of the
stroking you, holding the fingers a little apart, and you were then to
— like the gently stroking fingers — on the etheric organism
Universe. It lasts far longer than the stroking of your cheek. But in
there is a “stroking” of shorter duration. For it is true
time looking into the flow of Time.
looking into the Sun we are looking out of Space into the world of Time.
we are looking out of Space. And from that world, outside of
stroking. The Spirit-Selfhood that is behind them is indeed the Being
true Sun-movement — an image cast into Space. If we are speaking
then the moment came when they experienced the working of this mighty
— the working and weaving of the Hierarchies.” It is

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fact that a few chimneys are smoking again and the trains are
the question: How can we orient thinking so that pessimism
inner nature of what is working in social, political, and
spiritual life, one who sees how all that is so working strives
traditions of the past, you will be making something which is
instincts,” that you are speaking on the same basis as

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ideas — was making the effort to present a sort of
thinking was itself involved in this decline; and because he
the obtuseness of thinking which by no means is equal to the
thinking of the present, I have again and again found it
striving of present-day thinking for clarity of view, I have
ordinary thinking does not discover how resilience works in
thinking is employed.
definite kind of thinking is what humanity has achieved since
simplest and most primitive kind of pure thinking, can he
thinking, as it holds sway in lifeless nature, can later rise
to the other processes of thinking and of seeing —
present-day thinking rests upon. And those who have become
aware of this power in the thinking of our time know that this
thinking is active in the machine, that it has brought us
modern technical sciences, in which by means of this thinking
start to deal with plant-life, this kind of thinking,
thinking — appropriate in its abstractness to the mineral
thinking about the plant-world, will have before him in the
confused thinking, a mysticism in the very worst sense of the
the means by which he has developed his clear thinking.
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poor opinion of thinking in general. For Oswald Spengler
what results from thinking, but in his opinion the more
with him thinking really floats above life, as something
gained from thinking; and I said more or less jokingly:
speaking, in the middle part of the Middle Ages.
to do with these events. Looking back into ancient times we
people were not thinking about the mass, the elementals began
thinking if they wished to use their minds; but they have no
think; everything just rolls past. The tiny bit of thinking
with active inner thinking has been slowly and gradually
almost entirely given up thinking. If a lecture is given
because active thinking does not enjoy a high degree of favor
thinking. Since the sixteenth century an extraordinary
meals — well, that is speaking figuratively, for usually
arising from indeterminate powers and working into the
— what cannot even be employed for sausage-making is used
and of course, we are not speaking at all in an accusing
lacking — in other words, there is no lady. The muse
clothes-closet of modern thoughts. Thinking does not exist at
is lacking is the substantial content which should come from
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Fundamentally speaking, everything that is said about the
taking place in Asia and about which Europe is still silent
consider a machine. It is entirely transparent to our thinking.
what sucks out the human heart and soul, making man dry and
thinking about nature; that is, thinking fashioned after the
humanness. If they were to continue thinking in the way they
child's education by doing, thinking, and feeling only what he
Nothing is worse than for a child to get accustomed to making
will have to be consciously directed toward awaking in a child
right way, freedom is lacking; and when imitation is not
behind Oriental and Occidental thinking are very different; but
lack of will. It is courage that is lacking, courage to look
proletariat, the working class, strives upward. It still has
to a real taking hold of the social problems of our time. There
social thinking of the present adheres to these three

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thinking and willing.
means to risk taking such a step. So, he went to his home town
have to develop our conceptual ability as pure thinking.
to birth. Our modern thinking has been bestowed upon us so that
we may reach with this pure thinking our spiritual nature as it
does not comprehend the fact that it possesses thinking in
To the Oriental the activity of working by means of machines,
making the sparks ignite the tinder, he is connected with
thinking to a knowledge of reality that does not stop with the
working one's way up to the spirit as I have stated, there is
ourselves to will out of the spirit. Our thinking has to be
modern man feels when looking at this picture is something gray
Sistine Chapel. One is stirred to asking how it was possible
to looking into the origin of man and the life after death.
Truly, the most striking fact of modern life is that there are
from the seventh to fourteenth year, thinking, feeling,

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human thinking. Therefore, observing these thought-bereft facts
from imaginative thinking. Otherwise there will be no
imaginative thinking is not incorporated in the social organism
yourself in sports and use your working power in this way. You
speaking of democracy, not at all of monarchy). Civil rights
accustomed to thinking what they have thought for ages. Today
Steiner's social thinking these rights are only those which

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looking them up in a handbook. The examiners pay no attention
we can say that our way of thinking is inclined to place these
inwardly mobile thinking, this unschematic thinking. For only
thinking, feeling, and willing live. The idea that this ego
systems, in speaking about immortality, chiefly bear in mind
toward head-thinking, the unegotistical point of view urges him
astral body that is active in walking. Now the child becomes
life-giving element of the chest-man, the walking. What remains
the astral body in walking; the ego through growing. Thus, the
relationship to the world. A walking child discloses to you the
astral body. The gesture of his walking — every child

Title: Education as a Social Problem: Lecture V: The Metamorphoses of Human Intelligence: Present Trends and Dangers
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IN THE observations we are making here we have to enter
see; by merely thinking I only grasp what is
transformation of intelligence is taking place. Although it is
another element will be added by taking in what can be gained
become active for the good only through taking in the true

Title: Education as a Social Problem: Lecture VI: The Inexpressible Name, Spirits of Space and Time, Conquering Egotism
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we feel for his soul after death, our thinking about the world
questions of destiny, is the most striking phenomenon.
women use the concepts of the present in their cooking, in
their cooking as something particularly desirable, but the
cultures. In looking upon our cultural surroundings we have not
the working age up to his death, in the form of a pension. It
adjust ourselves to a genuine transformation in our thinking
influenced by the working together of our anthroposophical and
graciously the people who show an interest in looking at this
humanity's spiritual powers; making men more amenable to what

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like to begin by speaking to you about the conditions and laws
begin by looking at the so-called lifeless nature which,
indeed, confronts us most clearly in the mineral kingdom, in
kingdom of the lifeless we can find the causes themselves.
causes within this very same kingdom. In fact, we proceed in
kingdom.
be, you should seek the cause of its forms in the kingdom of
the lifeless itself. And thus, this lifeless kingdom shows
now proceed further. Let us consider the plant kingdom. Here we
lie in the plant kingdom itself — that is, in the same
kingdom in which the effects appear. Certainly, there is today
the plant kingdom. Different forces must be active from wide
plant kingdom are not in the plant kingdom of the earth itself;
we must actually cross over to a second kingdom of the world,
kingdom.
plant kingdom. We must say that the causative forces of
the plant kingdom conn* down to earth out of the reaches of
if we look at the living, at the plant kingdom, and become
aware that the causative forces for this kingdom come out of
kingdom.
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Title: Karma: Lecture II
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human being from the mineral kingdom come in a roundabout way
through the senses. We see the mineral kingdom, we hear it, we
being consumes comes from the plant and animal kingdoms. And
what we receive from the mineral kingdom relates itself in a
can be shown by experiment, by taking a pair of scales —
taking a bath. By simply sitting in the bath he found that his
the mineral kingdom, that what we receive into ourselves as
independent of what exists in the surrounding mineral kingdom.
He takes into himself from the mineral kingdom only that which
acknowledge that the mineral kingdom actually exists as the
mineral kingdom, we would not be free beings. For the moment we
ascend into the plant kingdom, we are no longer independent of
that kingdom. It only seems as if we directed our eyes toward
the plant kingdom in just the same way we direct them toward
the crystal, toward the widespread mineral kingdom. That is,
however, not the case. Here, on the earth, the plant kingdom
Through this ether body we are related to the plant kingdom.
Certainly, if we look upon the mineral kingdom, we see about
plant kingdom. For the moment we attain imaginative knowledge
such a nature that they are enclosed in the mineral kingdom.
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Title: Karma: Lecture III
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without striking against objects. Instead, it was filled
what wells forth from human thinking is caused in the
people, however, contradict themselves in talking at all. As I
certain causes, which bring my walking into effect.” This
looking at this, you may assert the following. You may say:
walk is also there. No one feels interfered with in walking by

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in asking: Whence come the individual members of human nature
have to describe the process more in detail by taking the
their fellow-man, or boxing his ears, striking him, or doing
aid education, but in looking concretely into life in order to
(generally speaking, at least; matters may, of course, be
lives. Generally speaking, the human beings of, let us say, the
question: “How would it be if I, walking down the

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must do it in the following way — shocking though it may
Shocking as it may be to human beings of today, if they are
modern human being's way of thinking, this question is
him in his later life. The human being who, working on himself,
heredity, this has even passed over into our way of speaking.
your liking that you should come down again to earth in some
this, they become flabby, lacking in energy and vigor in the
visible in his environment, he remains incapable of working in

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of the human being. His soul life can be divided into thinking,
feeling, and willing. Thinking finds its physical expression
in waking life and our dreams. Our feelings have no greater
dreams. If on awaking from sleep we recollect our dreams and
as a visualization — your taking hold of the watch,
in time. And by looking back, you must really always insert the
present. Thus, in looking back in memory, in spite of the fact
sway; only, even in the waking human being, they are sunk in
even during our waking life.
thinking occurs. And in order to add a further stimulus —
of the impressions, making pictures of them. These are only
by looking inward, you visualize the blue. The first
So that our day-waking consciousness is actually to be found,
waking-day consciousness we visualize — there only
let us descend into the region, psychologically speaking, of
feeling; corporeally speaking, of the rhythmic organism,
thinking. Were it not concerned with our thinking, with that
by us. And while we are working with the beings of the second
looking downward we relate ourselves, between death and a new

Title: Three Streams: Lecture I: The Lower Three Human Members and the Spirits of Form
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and beings working behind the scenes in human evolution. This series
states of sleeping and waking. In the sleeping state it is represented
only by chaotic dreams. In the waking state, not content with
It is in this ego that are really enacted all the thinking, feeling
ranged above man, just as below him are ranged the three kingdoms of
nature — the animal, plant and mineral kingdoms. As soon as we
forces we call the Luciferic and the Ahrimanic, the Luciferic working
outer world of the senses, or the historical life of man taking its
form of thinking different from that which I recently described to
Taking people as they are and being quite clear that everyone is as
not far wrong in calling Ahriman a “prowling lion seeking whom
of ideas have been devised for making the world happy! And in the
thinking is of an airy kind, soaring aloft and taking no account of
in our earthly existence which is connected with space through taking
difficulties for Western thinking is to form a conception of
of Form. They play into the kingdom of evolution in time. But
is constructed, and so is our thinking dependent upon our bodily nature.
is working in his soul. We know why the time is past when man could draw
forces working upon him in time.
sense. That, however, is really no different from speaking of a
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Title: Three Streams: Lecture II: The Fifth Epoch, Semitic and Greek Cultures, the Christ Impulse
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and beings working behind the scenes in human evolution. This series
climax, the climax of the usefulness of their working within human
that, strictly speaking, in the Atlantean epoch (I am talking not of
to what I said recently: when Lucifer is working particularly
sphere. On the contrary, it means that, because Lucifer is working
the Luciferic was working with great strength, and times when the
Nietzsche has called the “tragic age,” we are looking
waking they first caught sight of the sun. They did not talk merely
us with warmth and light, making of each one of us a
this I made clear when speaking to you about the perception of the
one or other person was thinking would concern us very little. We can
very well take the measure of the Luciferic in a man by asking: Is he
the opinions of others. Had the Luciferic gone on working in
in their souls, each thinking only of his own affairs, each holding
speaking, valid only for earthly evolution; we are intended to become
the working of the Christ Impulse into mankind during the centuries

Title: Three Streams: Lecture III: The Mystery of Golgotha Must Be Approached Supersensibly
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and beings working behind the scenes in human evolution. This series
speaking yesterday, and have repeated in essence to-day.
abstract way of human thinking, and had come in other
in the kingdom of nature. It is just on this account that He has been
them first together with his complete awareness of the inter-working
to the unconscious working of these inherited forces. Things
example, we are learning about folklore, we are always speaking about
are speaking of qualities belonging to the realm of heredity,
with the mysteries of birth, is indeed a wide realm, and when talking
about external life we are often speaking of the facts and forces of
have shown — we count human death among the phenomena taking
thinking falsely because, were it able to think in accordance with
making our picture without them — then we should have a picture
characteristics as a direct continuance of the working of the God
nature, seeing it as the direct working of Jahve — for as long,
working of inherited characteristics.
that fact evoking its opposite. Man's life runs its course in the
Ahrimanic spirits. And the effect on the soul of looking for heredity
way human thinking wasted astray; it was unable to see that the
the kingdom of Lucifer.” That was the true meaning of their words.
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and beings working behind the scenes in human evolution. This series
that these are in line with scientific thinking. This line is
we have to consider pursue a scientific kind of thinking, but that
working in the general life of men, even when they believe themselves
Everywhere to-day in external life, in the widest circles, thinking
achievements and of the scientific kind of thinking that goes with it.
speaking of Richard Wahle, who has written two big books and all
prove, out of the scientific method of thinking, that there ought to
scientific thinking.
convinced that the majority of you, on taking up these books, would very
working with inadequate means.
speaking of the spiritual knowledge most suited to this particular age.
everyone should be speaking with conscious awareness, and that is

Title: Three Streams: Lecture V: Free Human Personality by Self Training, Justinian and the Schools
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and beings working behind the scenes in human evolution. This series
for example, some event prevents our undertaking something we should
intellectually, never asking what might have happened — it is
given. We fed the working of unknown forces. And it is strange that
the keenest thinking was united with a certain visionary capacity
would have arisen, but materialistically thinking men, men entirely
arisen, with its particular method of thinking? What I am now about
scientific method of thinking, as I described it for you yesterday,
Western scientific thinking.
little do men to-day know of the sources of what is working in their
souls that they imagine they have a scientific thinking free from
prejudice, whereas this “impartial scientific thinking”
that has so deeply influenced Western thinking, and can in fact be
are seeking solid matter, there is in truth nothing, and they find
Strictly speaking, we get no more than this image from what is taught
— I think, therefore I am. Men believed that in thinking they were
the moment we develop purely inward thinking, we are no more.
throughout life he experiences as a conceiving, thinking being. Then
speaking to you; only the images of it have been allowed to pass
must just put up with it. It is no good thinking out a poison, like
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and beings working behind the scenes in human evolution. This series
later developed as the scientific method of thinking was already then
Jundí Sábúr, in the new Persian kingdom. And
beginning of our era without the working of the impulse of the
of Christianity, seeking to find in Manichaeism an answer to the problems
speaking, outside the narrow circle of Christ's activity, this would
keep people from understanding them, even from asking what anything
earth-shaking occurrences which precede a great spiritual event of
was seeking to enter the world sacramentally, they looked to
been speaking to-day, to be understood from the standpoint of the
by human evolution; but in such a way that while looking at the forms
taking from Christianity as much as suited it, became the Catholic
people nowadays who believe they do a great deal of thinking, in fact
fact as we have been speaking about yesterday and to-day is of very
the name which goes with the empty phrase-making of rhetoric —
the kind of phrase-making which anyone really permeated by

Title: Challenge/Times: Lecture I: East and West from a Spiritual Point of View
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inevitable. I have said that what we are seeking to set
Indeed, this is the very thing that has been lacking for
lacking in social understanding. It is not surprising,
manner of speaking will vary greatly among themselves, for
instinctive so long as the impulse is lacking to see the
that the image of the human being lurking instinctively in
discover, after taking into account all the historical
does not belong at all to Romanism. In English-speaking
be altogether the product of the Latin way of thinking,
a strange manner, working just as a nightmare does when it
something that is working in our own epoch for the first
future as the undertakings of the British Empire becomes a
insight are such as pertain to the character of our thinking,
and the manner in which this thinking streams forth from the
is that the thinking characteristic of the Old Testament
haunt our age in spectral forms. This Old Testament thinking,
“Upon what forces does such thinking as that of the Old
This thinking
thinking, what lives in our blood, is Old Testament thinking.
Our thinking is made up of two members, two parts. One part
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their thinking. But the events that have occurred over a
not been accompanied by thinking. The leading classes have
with their thinking, the modern proletariat has evolved out
of humanity may in the future be followed with our thinking.
working for a certain number of hours in order that I may
This very habit has taken form among the bourgeois of looking
presented to you, there is no question of anyone's looking
accomplished by that vague way of talking I have heard even
satisfied with the mere abstraction, the unthinking

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social thinking should take today. I should like now to add
speaking of an inevitable historical phenomenon, and not for
asking ourselves what must be done for our epoch? What are
harmony with reality. We are working against reality when we
approximately with the founding of the ancient Roman kingdom,
sentences I uttered today of making an absolute principle out
societies of the English-speaking peoples. This is something
Secret societies among the English-speaking peoples, on the
politics — were those of the English-speaking peoples,
West, among the English-speaking population of the world,
the English-speaking peoples, are taken in the last analysis
This is the mistake of thinking, “But what good does it
shall not employ merely that kind of thinking generally
English-speaking peoples. The essence of the matter is to
make the English-speaking peoples into a population of
English-speaking peoples. Mechanistic occultism will not only
English-speaking peoples. This is known in their secret
English-speaking peoples, but only of the inborn
regards conception and birth from taking its course according
circles of the English-speaking peoples that these capacities
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today precisely in his thinking, in his conceptions, he likes
his soul, according to thinking, or conceiving, feeling and
must see clearly as regards conceiving, thinking, that in
fact that man is a thinking being, he is antisocial. In this
state of dreamless sleep between falling asleep and waking,
you are then, with regard to your thinking — and I
speak now solely with regard to conceiving and thinking
develop through your conceptual life, through your thinking,
through our thinking into still another antisocial stream in
the waking state. Suppose you stand face to face with a
confronting individual persons. You are a thinking human
not a thinking being. I am speaking now only about thinking;
thinking human being in the presence of another person, it is
other. What must you do, therefore, as a thinking person? (Of
your thinking to sleep, not your feeling and willing. Now, if
you wish to continue to be a thinking human being, you must
thinking. You have to take defensive measures against being
thinking. Of course, this does not come into the ordinary
enemy of our thinking. We must defend our thinking against
thinking, and can become social beings only by educating
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Title: Challenge/Times: Lecture V: Specters of the Old Testament in the Nationalism of the Present
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ahrimanic and luciferic powers working against man must
human souls and the clamor for social harmonizing, working
a nature that is distributed over the whole animal kingdom.
the waking state. While man is asleep, he stands in a
waking is similar to the life that we live from conception
the life of abstract thinking, which was called in the Old
abstract thinking is, of course, the brain. This brain is
continual vibration occurs: with exhalation, a sinking of the
process of abstract thinking. This is the secret of the Old
thinking. Jehovah wisdom is adapted to abstract thinking.
his breath from falling asleep until waking. Because of this
between falling asleep and waking. Now, this was not
things are not so simple as people suppose in thinking that
to the objective of making well. In a certain way, this is
confront for the first time what is working in the whole

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is typical of the abstractly thinking man, living entirely in
inclination toward abstraction, toward a thinking alien to
of thinking, great significance therefore attaches to the
revolutionary thinking by those men who are conceived,
revolutionary way of thinking gives rise to certain
regime they were seeking to establish what would really
the will of the people and proletariat thinking were driven
back into the old habits of thinking and acting, just as
where such thinking is revealed in its illusory character,
configuration of this thinking. I wish to show you by means
of individual examples how this thinking betrays its utter
striking so-called victory — it came about in a strange
something brilliant in a merely abstract way of thinking when
thinking of such a revolutionary manifests itself in a
thinking, developed in connection with what these people have
brought to your attention the fact that the English-speaking
under the influence of the English-speaking peoples. The
English people — I am by no means speaking of
descent who are united with the English-speaking peoples. The
structure of the English-speaking peoples. It is decisive,
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year 1875, thus in this very period of which I am now speaking. In
fulfillment of what men were seeking in the time now past, in the
illuminating circumstances making possible the present untrue fight
his regiment. I am not making polemics, I am simply citing a
awake, and it was out of their waking consciousness that such things
waking consciousness, the latest inevitable achievement, the
not making polemics, I am merely stating historic facts. But these

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declared all modern thinking to be heretical. Then on top of that
fact is awake and is working systematically against the approaching
the difficulties of working on the faithful in modern times and
Pope Clement XIV, who had a great liking for the Jesuits and was at
world history, history made by Frederick II, King of Prussia, and by
never states whether he is speaking ‘ex cathedra’ or

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But really the dream differs far less from ordinary thinking than is
same as what underlies one’s thoughts, only that in thinking
thinking ordered in accordance with quite external relationships, is
Century has certainly been sufficient for the making of technical
have something to do, and just as the statesman is always making
the purpose of making of it a dull communal consciousness. Now one of
seeking to emerge as individual consciousness in the souls of men. It
is a fine undertaking so to work under authority as to write articles
from rancor, one is making a great mistake. Naturally, we must fight
is a mighty and diabolical undertaking.
means of working on human beings. These magical means do exist. And
investigate such things, and I set myself the task of making certain
did not spend their time in the way they do but were working at
undertaking which in a certain sense they had been given. But I was

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habit of looking at these systems within rigid contours, we
realize that the so-called etheric body is working in this
fundamentally speaking. It is dependent upon planetary
organization. Suppose I am walking, simply walking. When I am
walking, I take hold of my warmth organization with my ego
actually making the legs tremble. The thing is inconceivable,
and so on. For if the human organism, working from out of the
organization. Suppose the ego organization is taking too
ego organization is taking hold of the kidneys but in the way
kidneys if you really succeed in making equisetum
organism with the cosmos and with the three kingdoms of
looking through the microscope? The aim is to be able to see
enormously magnified people imagine that its workings will be
looking at something that is untrue. Microscopy is only of
week. We had been speaking of bees and a very interesting
the typically modern way of thinking said that surely a bee

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develop the material given yesterday by speaking of the
components of it. These are the peripherically working
must be included. Looking at the physical body of man as it
nothing fundamentally in common with the forces working in
physical body is destroyed by the forces that are working in
so that, finally, if the ego organization is working
again. When the body is no longer capable of taking food, it
sum total of the destructive forces working inwards. It
of nourishment. In every single organ there is a working
in-working processes of disease, and of a continuous dying
life. In the waking state (I shall yet have to speak of
nonsense, gives a picture of the process of the breaking-up
sense organs. With the eye we are exposed to the working of
and ego are working on the human being. Therefore the heart
separate components of the milk is like taking a clock and
looking at the brass, the silver, the other metals in it, the
thinking with the mind of the mechanic, when we are concerned
processes of nourishment are continually taking place. I am

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of the earth. In speaking of the etheric body, we found that
from the periphery, from the cosmos. Taking these two kinds
thing is that when we are walking, the head, the brain,
condition, is not changed when we are walking. Nor is this
true only of our walking, but, in a curious manner, it is
reality, not heavy. But it is so, nevertheless. Thinking of
of an earthly nature but only from the in-working cosmos. I
looking at a skeleton. Take away the skull and you have taken
the earthly forces of the possibility of taking shape; this
thought. It is a striking fact — a fact to which no
therefore, we see that there are working, within the human
being, the same forces as are working in magnesium in the
thinking about them — thereby, we become a personality,
looking, say, at this piece of chalk, not to be entirely
caught up in the simple act of looking at the chalk.
speak of something that is very striking in connection with
interesting about magnesium. When speaking about education I
antimony to the etheric forces. This is a striking case, but

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working of the mica by way of the ground water. The etheric
Dornach we are working from esoteric impulses. People have
growth of an attitude which aims at making the remedies
understanding will begin to realize that with the taking of
Whenever he came to a district where the soil was strikingly
the district, one does not easily take a liking to them. They
found, in its most concentrated form, in the mineral kingdom,
form, the drop form in the plant kingdom. The principle of
working through the human being make the nails grow again.
being arrested, a congealment taking place and the smell and
quicken life in your medical thinking.
the soul receives in looking out into the universe around.

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sections of the work. And you who are seeking to find your
today by looking at the root, stem, leaves, flowers, pistil,
my dear friends — the root, sinking into the soil,
on speaking about hydrogen, oxygen, carbon, nitrogen, sulfur,
working in the human head, the warmth that provides the rest
theoretical ideas but with inner, moral impulses. Looking at
were looking at the Sistine Madonna. A scientist might come
the fire there is working, active will.
Yes, but how do I get to know that there is active, working
wherever there is fire, there, too, is active working will
there is active, working will. In order that you may also be
you actually see it as active, working will. When you are
working, active will is akin to fire. You will live out into
working will; it belongs to me, just as my own finger belongs
think of fire as active, working will — if you can take
– Working, Active Will

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thinking and sense observation could only be applied to those
thought has been working. The forms in the human organism of
ascend from thinking to imagination. With imagination we can
counter-working. There is always action and reaction with
you insist upon thinking along the ordinary lines, you can,
thinking to an inner comprehension of the world, as I have

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of the hand, or a stroking and then what is happening is that
for generally speaking, the life of soul is otherwise
Naturally, the purely chemical working is not excluded, but
what is working in a muscle when we attain to pictorial,
of the working of the healing forces, so that medicine would

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with looking at things as they are looked at in ordinary
walking.
takes you into the realm of the forces working between earth
the world. Speaking generally, it is dangerous for the human
soul is in the body, and you are looking at a human being,
working in oxygen. In the etheric body, as you know,
realization by taking the following meditation, not as mere
be a real exercise. You must practice with the aim of making
practice with the aim of making your body into something that
waking life, too, the condition must be such that although
the more delicate workings of the organism—and the
taking the vowel sequence: A(ah), E(ay), I(ee), 0, U, in
to the lecture thinking that he would find confirmation of

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the most striking example of a human-cosmic relationship that
also hold good in the working of mantric power. Mantric power
constellations of the stars in the working of a mantram.
with lead, with silver — then you are working in
the human being and you are looking not into the past but
intellectual striving and, to begin with, taking the content
it be in your consciousness, then your ego is working in you
therefore, the cosmic forces were working upon man's nature;
moon and in the sun were working in the human being because
moon and sun lies in the forces working in from the cosmos.
if you observe this inter-working truly you can see how, if
time, working into the physical very strongly and having,
that it damages the model by striking up against it
shrinking back, a wish to mold the in-taken substances more
his astral body and his ego are taking hold of the milk you
must realize the remarkable process of working up what is
an excessively strong working of the spirit and soul, the
a too feeble working of the spirit and soul which wavers in
make in the act of ordinary, intellectual thinking.
long as we persist in thinking that evolution goes forward in
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ordinary theologians). All kinds of people are looking and
seeking for knowledge of the being of man. The only ones who
are not seeking for it are the lawyers, because jurisprudence
ought to be speaking of something quite different. You should
physician I was looking for something different in scientific
former colleague. He was speaking of a peasant doctor in the
important. You are right in thinking that I did not want to
abusing it for they are talking about something of which they
capable of working also in the world, so that the real will
patient comes. But what is lacking is the kind of thinking
severe poisoning. This was still working in him. I told him
lacking, the most significant things will be forgotten. That

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centrifugal forces are working within the human being and
were only capable of making him into a round, spherical body.
You find the form which the working of these forces produce
working from a position in front of the Pleiades and the
because the constellations of Mercury and Venus are working
we are inwardly ensouled because the sun is working together
are not here speaking of the sun's own forces). It is then
working, in the air, upon what affects us through our
primal substance, from the Saturn forces that are working in
afterworkings in the human being and it is an influence quite
spiritual life finds a place in what, figuratively speaking,
the moon regulates his form, Saturn — working from the
power is lacking, so that the human organism is becoming too
their origin. They remain through tradition. Human thinking
they cannot, properly speaking, become memorized truths. You
present time, of course, I am speaking much more radically
Taking human
of knowledge — such men are, speaking in the widest
for eating, drinking, walking, standing, sitting, but they
working for civilization.

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working for some centuries.
(1561–1626) and with his kind of thinking which was
natural-scientific thinking, from the West. Such was the path
that are working in natural science and especially in
mode of thinking. Those who have read the first course of
medical thinking. The reason can be found if we can
factor alone that modern orthodox medicine is working. No
speaking, no heed is paid to them, least of all is any heed
led back to the element of warmth. Saturn is working in the
evolution — it is all working in the human being, but
Saturn is working in the human being; we must understand how,
in the phenomenon of fever, the cosmos is working in by way
of the Saturn forces which, spiritually speaking, have been
once, not as something that is now working on the earth but
as the after-working of the Old Sun, when with true feeling
how far the substances that are working in the human being
are not taking on the human form but are adhering to their
workings of metabolism, you are, in reality, investigating
this attitude we should be able to feel, when we are speaking
really lacking and has been killed, in spite of the fact that
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physical world in waking consciousness, the spirit and soul
organ ego organization and astral organization are working,
when the human being is in waking consciousness.
organization. This, speaking quite generally, is the cause of
physical illnesses. Speaking generally, the cause of physical
dreamy than he was before taking the melissa preparation. In
in walking, for instance, is all known — if I may put
in the real sense, produces a gentle working of the spiritual
human being is in waking consciousness, the soul-spiritual
is taking on the structure of the physical and etheric, when
body or ego organization, or one of their parts, taking form
physical-etheric are interlinked in the waking consciousness
thinking were actually touching them, so that it seems as if
the embryo were tangible to your thinking and you were
harder, but, on the contrary, as if he were sucking at you.
foam of a breaking wave or along the surface of clay. This,
There will ring forth in cosmic tones The working of
looking at things, the deathblow is struck at what he
entered into our external, material way of looking at things,
the modern age was lacking in understanding in this
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imaginative thinking — we have the drop form. One
today. The thinking which is accepted today is brutally
Speaking
One is looking at a bird's structure or skeleton in the wrong
making images through expansion and indentations in this way
want to form imaginations you should get used to looking at
has the possibility of working upon the surface and that the
by taking some soft, plastic material or clay with one hand
happens first if one is in the habit of thinking in a

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human being is studied by modern scientific thinking,
the earthly human without speaking of the etheric body which
if we are thinking merely of the solid organism which is shut
that by taking these different organisms into account we come
Etheric body — Thinking — Fluid Organism — Chemical
waking; therefore the interworking of the Chemical Ether and
falling asleep to the moment of waking, the astral body is
organism during waking life. We can speak in a similar way of
mechanistic thinking takes no account at all. But everything
during the waking state; the Ego and the astral body are
to consider waking life, from what has been said we shall
during sleep as during the waking state, when the Ego and the
cosmos and which in waking life we have driven out through
Waking life
permeated by the cosmic spirituality which on waking we drive
out through our Ego, for in waking life it is the Ego that
of waking to that of falling asleep. But thereby we come to
principles of spiritual-scientific thinking and do not
in waking mental activity and perception. Nevertheless at a
waking, finds that he is feverish or is suffering from some
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consciousness known to us in waking life from the moment of
waking to the moment of falling asleep. We perceive the
waking consciousness, there is dream consciousness, and we
again on waking. It is through the deprivation undergone
between falling asleep and waking that we are able to feel
Taking this
Through our theoretical thinking, matter —
pictorial thinking, matter and cosmic energy are
world-order — which in actual fact it does by speaking
thinking, and the ideas thus formulated constitute a force of
ever and again be asking ourselves: How can any moral
stars, they were speaking of spiritual beings.

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thinking, contemplative beings on the one hand, and as doers,
the pole of thinking and the pole of deed, of action. Only
through the fact that we are thinking beings are we human in
thinking human being in this way, when we realize that the
— Not by taking in as many thoughts as possible from
the sphere of thinking, the more spiritual we become. When we
like. Thereby, however, our thinking becomes what I have
‘pure thinking’. We think, but in our thinking
within us lies in the sphere of thinking. But pure thinking
thinking we reach the realm of will, when we become inwardly
free; our thinking attains such maturity that it is entirely
thinking we prepare ourselves for what I have called in the
has now become thought, or our thinking that has now become
ever mightier and mightier force in our thinking.
contained. But think how, in speaking, deliberate intent and
organic life; speaking is largely connected with organic
life; walking really very little; what we do with the hands,
inherent force, into our thinking, when we permeate our
thinking with will. We bring will into thinking and thereby
develop freedom in our thinking by letting what is of the
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every thinking man.
if you understand the heart's language, hear it asking from its unconscious
the surging waves of thinking, feeling and willing confront him. So
he looks into himself, asking: How is Nature related to my soul? he
kingdoms of Nature, experiencing all this in his fluctuating inner world,
we are looking at a wide ocean. The waves rise and fall. There is a
On looking
matter, making this a vehicle for the radiant expression of the
the questions Anthroposophy has to answer. Human hearts are speaking
in the way we have described and asking where they can find that knowledge

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at all. Though we see how man, through eating, drinking and breathing,
of the different kingdoms of Nature. They are, today, just what they
different from those of today. What we see around us in the kingdoms
we may regard our physical organism as organised for taking in external
so to strengthen our power of thinking — the power whereby we form
ordinary thinking I am really quite passive. I allow something to happen
through the force of inner thinking itself. In this way our thinking
stronger if we use our arms. At length we notice that this thinking
When we have so strengthened ourselves within that our thinking has
same time, to perceive with our strengthened thinking the external things
my dear friends, I look at a stone with such strengthened thinking.
a crystal of salt or of quartz with this strengthened thinking, there
thinking. So we may say that, if a man takes trouble to develop such
thinking he perceives, besides the physical, the etheric in himself,
In the external, mineral kingdom alone it plays no part; still, it is
is only present in me in the waking state, not when I am asleep. If
going on during both waking and sleeping states. One might doubt this
my raising an arm can only take place in the waking state. The etheric
in order to strengthen our thinking, but eliminating again the strengthened
thinking so acquired — i.e. emptying our consciousness —
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that way of looking at things of which I spoke in the lecture before
On looking back on my life it seems as if every step had been so ordained
to say more than other people while talking just as they do; it really
— will say: True, I don't hear a person speaking within me, if
lives in the depths of our will is, indeed, like a waking dream; but
he hears those with whom he has a karmic connection speaking from within
him. Of course he remains sensible and does not walk about speaking,
we can deepen our consciousness on looking out into the wide spaces
of the cosmos, and on looking into man himself. And the more we look
there is no sense in merely speaking of abstract laws of Nature. These
speaking, actual events have nothing at all to do with the laws of Nature.

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inner need of finding, or at least seeking, the paths of the soul to
one quite simple fact. You are looking, let us say, at some part of
life, i.e. our thinking, which can confront us fairly clearly, our feeling,
thinking, feeling and willing.
you bear within you your soul life — your thinking, feeling and
we fall asleep to the moment of waking, a certain time elapses; and
when, in the waking state, we look back on this interval of time, we
joy in life, no firm foundation, no security. With the form man's thinking
saying: True; man's thinking, in the form it has so far actually taken,
thinking.
we cannot, by mere thinking, influence our own ‘will-organism’.
To feel deeply the powerlessness of this thinking is to receive the
but thought; you cannot begin to think about the world except by thinking.
Our thinking, however, is not fitted for this. So we are unavoidably
— a way by which our thinking may penetrate more deeply into
we may say, consists in experiencing thinking in another way than usual.
in this way. We must begin to experience thinking. One does this by
taking a thought that is easily comprehended, letting it stay in one's
of my arm thereby. So, too, we strengthen our thinking when we exert
contain nothing but what one is actually thinking.
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are working. Here is weaving the ether revealed to one in
‘pictures’ when one has strengthened one's thinking in the
Here we have only a kind of appearance — a beam. It is like looking
there was once a Spanish king who was shown how complicated the structure
fact it is always there, working into man. The 3rd of January 1904,
stage was that of ‘strengthened thinking’ in which we
attained by emptying our consciousness after strengthened thinking.
stage in cognition is attained by making the power of love a cognitive
life on earth, working in subconscious depths, that is the ego proper.

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expressed in the alternating states of waking and sleeping. It is from
the facts before us. In the waking man there is, first, the inner
during sleep; sense activity and the thinking based upon it are, however,
the active life of feeling that connects willing and thinking, standing
taking place between the psychical and the external world, cease in
waking life we are aware that our thoughts act upon our bodily
active, in sleep as in the waking state. Moreover, all the processes
a vitalising, but a devitalising element. Physically speaking, we take
the spiritual beings of the cosmos speaking ‘into’ him. He
we receive a striking impression. It is as if what confronts the sleeping
during waking life, initiating, with the help of the inhaled air, the
during waking life, begins to be very conscious in sleep. It comes before
warmth-processes, you perceive the real ego, working from times long
active within, working upon the breath provided by the mere respiratory
processes. You behold the real, active ego of man, working from primeval
state, or has returned to his former lives on earth. When talking simply
explained. It is this that manifests as the rhythmic alternation of waking
All this becomes quite different at death. The most striking change
is so. Thinking, feeling and willing live in our soul, but over and
sort of thing is a very model of confused thinking. For the whole belief
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speak of the alternating states of sleeping and waking, which are known
waking state, when we have full use of our bodily organs and experience
is not a real experience; it is merely looking at them externally,
pictures of waking life — those pictures that it otherwise takes
body between falling asleep and waking up.
to the end, we can compare our result with a man's behaviour in waking
in life as in dreams; in the weak man instincts are working, and once
study the alternating states of waking and sleeping in this intimate
then advances beyond the ordinary more or less empty, abstract thinking
to a thinking inherently pictorial, called ‘imagination’.
through conception and birth — strictly speaking, from before
And we cannot help asking how this comes about.
making up his mind to do something, forming certain intentions.
dreams and, on waking, take these very seriously; indeed, they take

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with waking life. I have often emphasised that one who attains really
more painstaking, conscientious observer than without the faculty of
present I am only speaking of ‘imagination’ — is quite
more seriously. Indeed, only imagination justifies us taking our dreams
as follows: a countenance comparatively wise looking, perhaps even somewhat
One might also say, speaking paradoxically (one must begin to speak
really swing to and fro, as it were, between dreaming and waking if
life on earth. What he experiences in the waking state is the relic
imagination leads directly from a study of the waking and sleeping man
is preserved in memory occupies a quite special place in the waking
up to the present. Time becomes space. It is like looking down an avenue;
To take it for a reality is like taking a cross-section of a tree trunk
to the other kingdoms of Nature, has another side. Let us assume that
though he calls the lion the king of beasts, he still feels himself,
as a human being, superior. Man feels the creatures of the other kingdoms
to judge him. He is above the other kingdoms of Nature.
the inferior kingdoms of Nature, but kingdoms of the spiritual world
that are superior to him. He feels himself as the lowest kingdom, the
man's life on earth. There are waking states interrupted again and again
what the gods think about the deeds and thoughts of our waking life,

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man experiences in concrete, everyday life, in thinking, feeling and
we may say that, after all, all learning consists in linking new
method depends on finding the most rational way of linking the new things
and, strictly speaking, only our unsatisfying, painful or sorrowful
the ordinary kingdoms of external Nature — mineral, plant and
animal kingdoms — for these belong to the earth. But in that world
external kingdoms of Nature, so now, with spiritual beings of different
is taken from us. Through our body we hold together what is really seeking

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and beings working behind the scenes in human evolution. This series
states of sleeping and waking. In the sleeping state it is represented
only by chaotic dreams. In the waking state, not content with
It is in this ego that are really enacted all the thinking, feeling
ranged above man, just as below him are ranged the three kingdoms of
nature — the animal, plant and mineral kingdoms. As soon as we
forces we call the Luciferic and the Ahrimanic, the Luciferic working
outer world of the senses, or the historical life of man taking its
form of thinking different from that which I recently described to
Taking people as they are and being quite clear that everyone is as
not far wrong in calling Ahriman a “prowling lion seeking whom
of ideas have been devised for making the world happy! And in the
thinking is of an airy kind, soaring aloft and taking no account of
in our earthly existence which is connected with space through taking
difficulties for Western thinking is to form a conception of
of Form. They play into the kingdom of evolution in time. But
is constructed, and so is our thinking dependent upon our bodily nature.
is working in his soul. We know why the time is past when man could draw
forces working upon him in time.
sense. That, however, is really no different from speaking of a
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and beings working behind the scenes in human evolution. This series
climax, the climax of the usefulness of their working within human
that, strictly speaking, in the Atlantean epoch (I am talking not of
to what I said recently: when Lucifer is working particularly
sphere. On the contrary, it means that, because Lucifer is working
the Luciferic was working with great strength, and times when the
Nietzsche has called the “tragic age,” we are looking
waking they first caught sight of the sun. They did not talk merely
us with warmth and light, making of each one of us a
this I made clear when speaking to you about the perception of the
one or other person was thinking would concern us very little. We can
very well take the measure of the Luciferic in a man by asking: Is he
the opinions of others. Had the Luciferic gone on working in
in their souls, each thinking only of his own affairs, each holding
speaking, valid only for earthly evolution; we are intended to become
the working of the Christ Impulse into mankind during the centuries

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and beings working behind the scenes in human evolution. This series
speaking yesterday, and have repeated in essence to-day.
abstract way of human thinking, and had come in other
in the kingdom of nature. It is just on this account that He has been
them first together with his complete awareness of the inter-working
to the unconscious working of these inherited forces. Things
example, we are learning about folklore, we are always speaking about
are speaking of qualities belonging to the realm of heredity,
with the mysteries of birth, is indeed a wide realm, and when talking
about external life we are often speaking of the facts and forces of
have shown — we count human death among the phenomena taking
thinking falsely because, were it able to think in accordance with
making our picture without them — then we should have a picture
characteristics as a direct continuance of the working of the God
nature, seeing it as the direct working of Jahve — for as long,
working of inherited characteristics.
that fact evoking its opposite. Man's life runs its course in the
Ahrimanic spirits. And the effect on the soul of looking for heredity
way human thinking wasted astray; it was unable to see that the
the kingdom of Lucifer.” That was the true meaning of their words.
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and beings working behind the scenes in human evolution. This series
that these are in line with scientific thinking. This line is
we have to consider pursue a scientific kind of thinking, but that
working in the general life of men, even when they believe themselves
Everywhere to-day in external life, in the widest circles, thinking
achievements and of the scientific kind of thinking that goes with it.
speaking of Richard Wahle, who has written two big books and all
prove, out of the scientific method of thinking, that there ought to
scientific thinking.
convinced that the majority of you, on taking up these books, would very
working with inadequate means.
speaking of the spiritual knowledge most suited to this particular age.
everyone should be speaking with conscious awareness, and that is

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and beings working behind the scenes in human evolution. This series
for example, some event prevents our undertaking something we should
intellectually, never asking what might have happened — it is
given. We fed the working of unknown forces. And it is strange that
the keenest thinking was united with a certain visionary capacity
would have arisen, but materialistically thinking men, men entirely
arisen, with its particular method of thinking? What I am now about
scientific method of thinking, as I described it for you yesterday,
Western scientific thinking.
little do men to-day know of the sources of what is working in their
souls that they imagine they have a scientific thinking free from
prejudice, whereas this “impartial scientific thinking”
that has so deeply influenced Western thinking, and can in fact be
are seeking solid matter, there is in truth nothing, and they find
Strictly speaking, we get no more than this image from what is taught
— I think, therefore I am. Men believed that in thinking they were
the moment we develop purely inward thinking, we are no more.
throughout life he experiences as a conceiving, thinking being. Then
speaking to you; only the images of it have been allowed to pass
must just put up with it. It is no good thinking out a poison, like
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and beings working behind the scenes in human evolution. This series
later developed as the scientific method of thinking was already then
Jundí Sábúr, in the new Persian kingdom. And
beginning of our era without the working of the impulse of the
of Christianity, seeking to find in Manichaeism an answer to the problems
speaking, outside the narrow circle of Christ's activity, this would
keep people from understanding them, even from asking what anything
earth-shaking occurrences which precede a great spiritual event of
was seeking to enter the world sacramentally, they looked to
been speaking to-day, to be understood from the standpoint of the
by human evolution; but in such a way that while looking at the forms
taking from Christianity as much as suited it, became the Catholic
people nowadays who believe they do a great deal of thinking, in fact
fact as we have been speaking about yesterday and to-day is of very
the name which goes with the empty phrase-making of rhetoric —
the kind of phrase-making which anyone really permeated by

Title: Thomas Aquinas: Lecture I: Thomas and Augustine
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once when I had put before a working-class audience what I must
part in all that empty phrase-making which went out into the
crown of creation on earth, the kingdom of man as the highest
kingdom or at least as the crown of the animal kingdom.
still walking it, is to it only a pitiful remnant of that being
the man now walking the earth. The being now walking on earth
kingdom of light itself. But the demons have managed
sense in which one is justified in speaking of cause and
distinguish, as we do, between thinking and outward use of the
world, the world really of the kingdom of the spirit. I might
the sea, and looking upward to the surface of the water, we saw
looking up to the spiritual triumphed in Western Europe —

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the thoughts of the philosophers of what was taking place in
those Western people who rejected the idea of taking the whole
but rather a question of taking a definite stand, whether
what surroundings this thinking took place. It was not a
thinking that took place as it now takes place in the noisy
otherwise far from the busy world. It was a thinking that
understand it, if we consider, looking beyond what I already
found, but by taking both one finds the divinity at the point
— but working throughout life as understanding. That is
understand the working of the Schoolmen's souls without taking
form of world-problems, this form of thinking, and thus stands
centuries; it is to be attained with thinking, with the most
by looking into things. We cannot — it is the
the First Cause. It is inherent in logical thinking to
so united, forming such a unity, that everything working
the thinkers before Albertus and Thomas speaking of two truths.
through Christ seriously. But they had not the thinking power
Aquinas died in 1274 this question, historically speaking,
find the grounds for thinking that the creation in Time is the

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psychic as working itself into the physical. When through
existence is assured through my thinking. My roots are, so to
evening before to the morning, but we have not been thinking.
thinking, soul-life, not by being content with everyday life or
seeking to range itself as a corrective side by side with
and what I see thus is just what is lacking in the visible
branches. I gain reality by working for it. Through the fact
himself by changing ordinary thinking into what I called
“pure thinking,” which rises to the
thinking and human soul-life.

Title: Search for the New Isis: Lecture I: A Christmas Lecture
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Anyone speaking of the Christmas Mystery today must make

Title: Search for the New Isis: Lecture II: The Quest for Isis-Sophia
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in this: that they are there in the present, working as seeds for the
to the wise men from the East This was the twofold working of the
luciferic. Of course if we are speaking of the inner aspect of the
Working in man:

Title: Search for the New Isis: Lecture III: The Magi and the Shepherds: The New Isis
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Mystery of Golgotha. Speaking generally, however, what we are going
perception of the starry heavens. Looking at the starry heavens in
as the mineral and plant kingdoms in their spiritual reality. It was
and therefore of green looking different from what it does today, and
Guardian of the Threshold means that willing, feeling, thinking
Just as man, the knower, must realise that his thinking,
higher knowledge: Submit to the separation in thinking, feeling and

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not only work into the lower kingdoms but also within the human
the earth kingdoms below him. And as in olden times man was much more
workings of the earth within him expressed themselves more in his
really be so, something else must, after all, be working in man,”
God. But then there arose this strong instinct: “Looking into
refrain, thinking of the famous speech in Shakespeare's Julius
earth with her covering). This same power-giving Being, working from
taking of certain substances. In the East, men tried to quicken
vision of the macrocosm by drinking certain juices from plants; in
external means, by the taking of substance which they called
of times, relatively speaking, not very long ago.
the workings of many substances we use in everyday life. We stand
within these workings and experience them. Modern scholarship does
intercourse between the banks and industrial undertakings and most
executant musicians. Self-seeking interests and rivalry have put off
cannot help asking: Where then are the cultural interests of the
practical life what can come out of Spiritual Science are working,
adheres to a way of thinking which rejects the Saviour. It is such
everything that he said. When I was speaking afterwards I said that I
me a few days ago and was talking to me about his studies. All that I
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Title: Man as a Being: Lecture 1
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related to thinking: the ego sense, the thought sense, the word sense,
way of looking at the matter is not satisfactory, because the province
thinking is something quite other than the perception of the thought
Customary thinking overlooks the fact that hearing, since its physical
inwards than is the sense of hearing — I am not talking about the
words, about what he says to you. Just as in drinking vinegar you have
an unpleasant experience and in drinking wine a pleasant one, so in
drinking wine or vinegar or eating some kind of food. Everything
inner experience. You do not feel this chalk; roughly speaking, what
quite objective processes, for physically speaking it is a matter of
of movement is only there in order that what is taking place in the
is a world-process that is taking place. But I cannot say that what
Such a way of looking at things as I am now putting before you is

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related to thinking: the ego sense, the thought sense, the word sense,
thought, and is incapable of thinking that there could be any other
seeking to apply an intellectualism, the spiritual origin of which had
modern thinking really has its roots in the sense of smell, in that
thinking is bound up with the brain — thus not at all with the
How can that be done? On the one hand by attacking the doctrine of
dogmatic belief can seek out its kingdom.

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related to thinking: the ego sense, the thought sense, the word sense,
THIS cleft in human nature of which I have been speaking also finds
speaking about the being of man himself or of his relationship to the
death and even plant death, all in the same way, without taking into
and that will is entirely lacking. The fact is that feeling and will
Why are we making a point of this? Because to-day man needs to be able

Title: Driving Force: Lecture I
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the hours of waking life only. The physical body is closely
looking at a human being he stands there before us in his
of going to sleep and waking.
in speaking, in thinking, in whatever is revealed through the
brain into the perfected organ of thinking, the elaboration
as observation of a human being during his waking hours the
going to sleep to the moment of waking, two biographies of
in the life as a totality. Indeed the evolution taking place
connected with the waking life for certain forces in the
rôle played in human life by speaking, by speech in
in waking life participates in the act of speaking. The
physical body in the act of speaking may cause surprise. But
the physical body is doing in acts of speaking, whereas the
etheric body in acts of speaking — activity which then
this: because in speaking the main part is played by the
speaking is dependent upon the physical sounds. We, as the
the moment of going to sleep until the moment of waking. We
ordinary way between going to sleep and waking.
human environment. The life of feeling, willing and thinking
sleep and waking, he has to cultivate intercourse — if
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material life, we call the kingdoms of Nature. We speak of
the three kingdoms of Nature — mineral, plant and
must be regarded as a fourth kingdom; but then we must go
higher and assume the existence above man of the kingdom of
the Angeloi, above that the kingdom of the Archangeloi, then
the kingdom of the Archai, and so on.
kingdoms are not, to begin with, accessible to external
sleeping and waking in human life. Today I should like to add
still working from the spiritual world.
his life the child's waking hours are few: that is to say,
the three visible kingdoms of nature and their forces. When
going to sleep until that of waking has, however, a great
deal to do with the earthly world and with the three kingdoms
kingdoms described in my book,
elemental kingdoms, the world of beings who are at a level of
nature. These beings of the elemental kingdoms indwell as it
were the other three outwardly manifest kingdoms of
earthly kingdoms; while he sleeps, he lives — in his
beings of the elemental kingdoms.
with the elemental kingdoms. Just as in the waking state in
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In speaking
mineral, plant, animal and human kingdoms, extend on into the
four kingdoms of mineral, plant, animal and man. If we then
continuation of these kingdoms: the kingdom of the Angeloi,
Archangeloi and Archai, the kingdom of the Exousiai, Dynamis
and Kyriotetes, and the kingdom of the Thrones, Cherubim, and
we shall look at it from the other side, as it were, taking
organ of our thinking merely taps the cosmic reservoir of
thought forces, taking the thoughts into itself. Accordingly
by degrees during the course of human evolution. Looking back
would not perceive music as something taking place within us
‘I am making music’ was senseless to them. But it
something working in them personally but as something they

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so on. These, then, are the three kingdoms behind the world
receives the impulses at work in his thinking through the
Archai. The result is that thinking, although it remains
reflection of a spiritual struggle taking place behind the
Thinking of one
constantly interpenetrate. A reflection of what was taking
ourselves to the following study, by asking: What would have
are looking at Europe, in the West the impulses of the
speaking, the Archangeloi take a South-to-North direction,
working from North to South. Something deriving especially
West-to-East impulses (diagram). And, working together with
from the typical thinking of evangelical Protestantism but
speaking only of an abstract Divinity no true vision is
happenings taking place behind the scenes of world-history in
We see how, in the East, Archangeloi working for the good as

Title: Driving Force: Lecture V
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in our time a mighty event is taking effect. It is the event of
them when seeking to find the causes of world-happenings and
though he was seeking to find in them the causes of his own
men were seeking primarily for the origin of the world, but
cosmic thoughts and to promote thinking, the unfolding of
received the task in the cosmos of linking the thoughts of
incarnation, when looking back on the earlier one, we should

Title: Driving Force: Lecture VI
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vitalization of thinking in order to grasp the living content
real nature of human thinking. In the present age, since the
well-known point of time in the 15th century, our thinking
imagery. People take pride in this kind of thinking which as
above-mentioned epoch; previously to that, thinking had been
pictorial and was therefore a living thinking in the real
ourselves of the essential character of thinking as it is
today. The living essence of thinking was within us during
postAtlantean epoch, our thinking is the corpse of that
living thinking between death and a new birth. It is just
because our thinking now is devoid of life that our
thinking that is only a corpse of what thinking was in us
sense-world outside us and the dead thinking within us to be
thinking. But then, is there death also outside in the world?
sense-world by means of thinking, because dead thoughts are
thinking. Man thinks, then, in an element quite other than
birth, our thinking is the corpse of what it was before our
itself in the sphere of thinking and knowledge in the form of
thinking; it is this that is responsible for the fact that
modern style and based on the modern way of thinking.
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Title: Driving Force: Lecture VII
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an important event — in connection with what was taking
interesting when, here or there, striking phenomena are still
striking phenomenon, mention is made of the fact that the sun
thinking which have very little to do with the whole being of
thoughts — and this is the striking characteristic of
soul, precisely through our thinking, we have united with the
are weary of thinking about these things, when they have

Title: Healing Factors for the Social Organism: Lecture I
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the same way of thinking and research with which our times thinks
different conclusion, than the conclusions of logical thinking.
as in the both kinds of logic, also exists for the working of the
traditional religious confessions, and for the working of
magnified just through this one-sided speaking about the eternal
civilisation of the earth, but towards making people really die
today. Indeed, today people bypass each other without taking
thinking in the supersensible element. Whoever shies away from
thinking, in your abstract thinking, turn to the divine: you
recognises such connections is lacking very often in the sleeping
you find a speaking, to be sure, out of the decadence of a
this thinking loose from matter. However, the tearing loose from
matter, from this true materialism, is not merely the taking on

Title: Healing Factors for the Social Organism: Lecture II
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then is reality, effective working. We are concerned with the
abstracting, making thin his inner soul experiences.
animal kingdoms, and let us ask ourselves: what is then actually
coming to a religious consciousness merely through looking upon
earth development he needs the taking up of the spiritual element
worked hard for, by the human being. Thus the taking up of the
science of the spirit is not a theory, but rather is the working
out, the working for, of something real. It is the filling out,
comes thereby only to making the inner into something external,
working toward comfortably convenient practices) into all sorts
beings who constitute the highest kingdom of nature there, is the
senses. Fundamentally speaking it is the stimulation by all the

Title: Anthroposophy/Civilization
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as Salt, Mercury, Sulphur, or Waking and Sleeping of Man, Formerly and Today.
Waking and Sleeping of Man, Formerly and Today.
the world as fluid; then when with especial vividness looking
interchange between waking and sleeping, that the physical and
spirit seize the physical body more than in waking, and that
as if they were just waking up, they felt themselves especially
from the body. What you call waking, for us is sleeping,
right. We wake up from our moment of waking until we go to
is the time from sleeping to waking up. Thus, it is that we
waking condition, but now we are in just that period when
we have to be wakened up into a new waking state. What
the heavens are creaking,” Stickl (who is half asleep),
“Let them go on creaking, they are old enough.” Of
memory of the ancient waking condition.
must learn to come out of his physical body in a waking
“Stickl, the carters are cracking their whips in the
street.” “Well, let them go on cracking, they have
world secrets by means of energetic thinking. But that is just
thinking, because it is thought which first of all seeks to
this kind of thinking with such energy.
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Title: Human Soul/Evolution: Lecture I: The Human Soul in Relation to World Evolution
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knowledge, there well up impulses of thinking, feeling and
within his thinking, feeling and willing, and, on the other, in
impulses. Between thinking and will lies the sphere of
between, linking itself to either, the life of
concrete process is taking place in the external world.
Therefore, our soul life appears threefold: as thinking —
as will. The two opposite poles, thinking and will, are
being physical. Speaking symbolically, we could say that light
process is unconsciously taking place in a comparatively
taking place in the eye itself (see diagram) we can actually
continuation of processes taking place in the external
have for making comparison — also in regard to the external
speaking of the soul, for a spiritual-scientific method

Title: Human Soul/Evolution: Lecture II: The True Nature of Memory - 1
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Taking the lungs as an example I showed that the moment we rise
moment of our waking life. This reveals that whenever we
the process taking place parallel to that of forming mental
taking into account his soul nature, then from one
gradually filled with all that results from the process taking
into the process taking place when memories are formed
and pain in the events taking place in the world. This means,
world-shaking event. And certainly those who experienced
the parallel process taking place beneath it. This approach of

Title: Human Soul/Evolution: Lecture III: The True Nature of Memory - 2
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to the alternating states of waking and sleeping and we know
states of consciousness in ordinary life — waking, dreaming
consciousness we experience thinking — i.e., forming mental
consciousness than thinking. Feelings surge through the soul
state between waking and sleeping. Anyone who has a sense
consciousness is the movement of our limbs or the event taking
place in the legs when walking or in the arms when we lift them
falling asleep and waking. So we can say that while we are
awake we experience all three conditions of waking,
waking; and, on the other, as willing, feeling and thinking.
between falling asleep and waking up, is outside of what is
speak, neutral fashion. When we dream, either on waking or
you can see that the soul is taking hold of something
therefore, within us when after waking we begin to think. We
us? We can perhaps find a point of reference by looking at
draws into our organism by taking hold of the breath as we wake
towards the brain. In our waking state the astral also moves
Our soul life is dependent on the material processes taking
suddenly make mistakes repeatedly when speaking. He does not
ailment, and the mistakes in speaking are merely a
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Title: Human Soul/Evolution: Lecture IV: The Human Soul in Relation to Moon and Stars
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distinguished realm, thus making it feel closer to his human
taking place in the stomach or intestines or in any other
This also leads to a significant insight into the working of
am taking into account only the sun's apparent
till waking. At first, we do not see ourselves. When we have
described it: We feel ourselves to be within the sun, making
One simply cannot speak about man's soul without speaking also

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interpretations. So it must be said that a thinking which is
going out is accomplished in pure thinking in the way it is
sought; here one goes out with a thinking that has become
independent of matter. It is a thinking that sustains
itself, so that, through this self-sustaining thinking, the
emphasis on thinking. According to them it is just too
making something which will be destroyed together with that
world with his Christianized thinking, to transform from
thinking. Independent thinking can still be restored within
personality except for the very last: pure thinking. The latter

Title: Human Soul/Evolution: Lecture VI: The Formation of the Etheric and the Astral Heart
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speak of puberty as marking the actual birth of the astral
comparable with making an impression on an elastic
makes — no longer kicking, but reasonable movements
all this taking place in man's inner being, practically nothing

Title: Human Soul/Evolution: Lecture VII: Modern and Ancient Spiritual Exercises
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kingdoms of nature, the men of those times beheld spirit and
the surrounding world. Suppose a man of that time was walking
our senses and nervous system as instruments of thinking. The
taking place, of which we are normally unaware because the
also experienced a soul element in his thinking within the
process of thinking, which he had hardly felt as a function of
Thus, the Yogi did not feel thinking to be merely a
shadowy, logical process, he rather felt how thinking
followed the breath. When he inhaled he felt he was taking
then let flow with the breath into his thinking. With his
thinking pervading his whole being. This made him aware
of his thinking particularly in the rhythmic air-current within
does not pay attention to his thinking as such. His senses
thoughts into the breath. This soul-filled thinking pulsated
the breath, but along the more inward path of thinking itself.
sequence; it is a thinking that is much more alive.
ancient times. He blended thinking with breathing, thus
thinking from breathing. Thinking is not on this account
torn out of rhythm, because as thinking becomes separated from
external rhythm. By setting thinking free from the breath we
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Title: Human Soul/Evolution: Lecture VIII: The Elementary World and its Beings
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kingdoms of nature, in every star, in every moving cloud, in
explained yesterday, this has the effect that thinking, by no
thinking out of ourselves into the external world, whereas the
one has in mind their physical aspect only, when speaking about
through our thinking with the world rhythm, then we shall
seven or eight, making out that two times two makes eight, or
Nothing is achieved by looking at these things merely from an
spiritual stream is seeking to enter our present civilization

Title: Human Soul/Evolution: Lecture IX: The Contrasting World-Conceptions of East and West
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is obvious that our contact with the world between waking and
course and content of his waking state. However, our existence
within the world embraces not only the waking state but also
Between waking and sleeping he felt that thoughts were granted
speaking, it is only in regard to this region that man in sleep
of his thoughts, during waking life, it was because during
not inspire man directly during his waking life; they did it
is now. This is assumed both in regard to his thinking, feeling
orientated towards the external world. In his waking state he
waking state. You will remember how I have often spoken about
remains unconscious even during the waking state. In
man's natural evolution prevents him, to begin with, from taking
between falling asleep and waking, but his present nature
his waking state all that remained of this experience was a
he only felt after waking that he was inspired.

Title: Philosophy, Cosmology and Religion: Lecture I: The Three Steps of Anthroposophy
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research so that it will be the foundation for making life in
thinking is devoted nowadays to justifying those ideas,
feel that he stands solidly in reality. Only a person working
based on sense observation, experiment, and a thinking
from sense reality that are combined by thinking. One
the manifestations, the inner experiences of thinking,
designated as an intermingling of thinking, feeling and willing
actually, this thinking, feeling and willing between
thinking and feeling grow. As the body calcifies and we see it
phenomena of thinking, feeling and willing gradually
in mere thinking, feeling and willing. The ancients perceived
death. What lies beneath — of which thinking,
man birth and death are only outer manifestations. Thinking,
knowledge of etheric and astral man, of which thinking, feeling
combination of thinking, feeling and willing cannot defend the
to the modern way of thinking, what has the ego, this true
of thinking, feeling and willing conceived of as a single,
with every sleep but underlies both the sleeping and waking
sleeping and waking as the foundation for both, needs to be
sleeping and waking.

Title: Philosophy, Cosmology and Religion: Lecture II: Soul Exercises in Thinking, Feeling, and Willing
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Soul Exercises in Thinking, Feeling and Willing
II - Soul Exercises in Thinking, Feeling and Willing
differing completely from that of abstract thinking in which it
we must develop a way of thinking that takes its course in the
the scientific thinking we utilize in mathematics or natural
Such fully conscious, pictorial thinking that relates itself to
“When I think in the physical organism I am making use of
it as a tool. To be sure, thinking itself does not run its
thinking; thereby I become conscious of it. “
Without the physical organism the thinking of ordinary
realize clearly that all ordinary thinking takes place only
that in meditation a pictorial thinking activity is brought
thinking. But when the imaginative thinker — at the level
the full consciousness of ordinary thinking what the
taking it in with his ordinary, healthy understanding he feels:
thinking is attained, a true philosophy will be restored
senses or from thinking. The soul must be awake but have
consciousness lives itself out in thinking, feeling and
senses and his sense-bound thinking, he now confronts the
thinking. Now, however, we must try to place these events in
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Title: Philosophy, Cosmology and Religion: Lecture III: The Imaginative, Inspirative, and Intuitive Method of Cognition
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physical body; a different activity from that of thinking,
Thinking certainly takes on the character of reality. Just for
this reason — that man now feels himself in his thinking
growth, or his life processes — this imaginative thinking
supersensible thinking would also reflect back into man's
super-sensible thinking man would alter his physical and
the faculty of hovering, as it were, with his thinking in the
etheric world, he can look back in this thinking upon his
etheric thinking has not interfered with it.
With this etheric thinking you feel quite outside your physical
this etheric thinking one moment — which is experienced
entirely real — and in the next moment, as this thinking
etheric realm. Then a true imaginative thinking is achieved. I
imaginative thinking works.
thinking to such a degree that one can test what the spiritual
perceiving the world through his senses and for thinking.
development, thinking, and so on. Man now surveys
abstract thinking separate from the general forces of growth
faculty of abstract thinking. The metamorphosis of a part of
its forces of life and growth into the forces of thinking
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Title: Philosophy, Cosmology and Religion: Lecture IV: Cognition and Will Exercises
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of earth existence behind man's thinking, feeling and willing.
one can also gain a conception of what thinking, what the
consciousness, grasp the real nature of thinking and the
the person was alive. Even so, in looking at the corpse,
thinking or mental picturing that we have in ordinary
thinking and conceiving were something quite different; they
as our ordinary power of thinking is a remnant of that
realize that we must treat this thinking as a corpse of the
earthly thinking back to a supersensible, life-filled
thinking.
ordinary concepts and thinking signify, if we trace them back
reflection. This reflection is our ordinary thinking and
this ordinary thinking is fundamentally remote from
aspect of thinking, we vaguely feel that the way it appears in
thinking and conceiving of ordinary consciousness. Then only
thinking is basically brought to life again through the
true nature of our ordinary thinking, we can also, by means of
behind human thinking; that is discernible through inspiration.
thinking and forming of ideas as of something that is dying,
thinking as a young child is to an old man, except that in
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Title: Philosophy, Cosmology and Religion: Lecture V: The Soul's Experiences in Sleep
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human soul undergoes between going to sleep and waking.
in a man's life than experiences of waking consciousness.
humanity's outer progress, the waking hours are of
their after-effects play into waking life. Man's general mood
of soul during his waking hours is permeated by the
permeated also. They too are influenced during waking life by
thinking, feeling and willing. Except for the
what in waking consciousness is cultivated in his soul as
of reality to a philosophy worked out during waking life.
being undergoes from the time of falling asleep to waking
this stage of sleep, occurrences of waking life now
experiences in waking life as inner religious devotion to
and that Mystery during his waking life, have after-effects in
live in the physical and the etheric body and work into waking
“markings” of all the relationships we have had
day consciousness that man's general mood, making itself felt
lacking morality, and on the other side a moral world order
waking life. So, we can say that what the soul experiences in
the cosmos between going to sleep and waking is more real and
constellations such as we have in waking life. Instead, the
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Title: Philosophy, Cosmology and Religion: Lecture VI: The Transition from the Soul-Spiritual Existence in Human Development to the Sensory-Physical
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falling asleep and waking. These moon forces, that is their
own working toward earthly life that is to come. If, here in
in this philosophical conception is lacking. It

Title: Philosophy, Cosmology and Religion: Lecture VII: Christ in His Relationship to Mankind and the Riddle of Death
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man finds himself in waking and sleeping, have always belonged
be pictured as different from the thinking, feeling and willing
difference that exists between waking and sleeping in man today
states of waking and sleeping, and between them, dreams. While
pictorial “waking-dreaming,” as one might put it.
waking consciousness. These pictures were similar in form
have this, namely, that in looking back upon my pre-earthly
contrast between sleeping and waking, and, in between, the
sense world and upon a thinking based on impressions and
cosmos by means of looking up to the cosmic Christ Being.
man. Looking back to the pre-Christian mysteries one can say

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When we look at the two conditions of waking and sleeping
thinking, feeling and willing is also extinguished. Everything
Meditation must first deal with ordinary thinking in
order to produce imaginative thinking. I have described
When thinking is used in meditation in the manner I have
degree, thinking is, as it were, for a short time forgotten. It
in his soul than he has had earlier. Thinking begins again.
higher state of consciousness, man possesses a thinking with
our capacities of thinking, feeling and willing were
certain sense man passes from ordinary thinking across an
abyss to a thinking that experiences its own etheric body.
developing imaginative thinking in this way, strict
moments when you are within this imaginative thinking. The
thinking comes to the surface, which now has as its content his
thinking. From the vantage point of imaginative consciousness
he can now look back on ordinary thinking and arrive at
unconsciously, carrying this substantial thinking within
as active thinking, slips in ordinary consciousness into the
At the moment, however, when active thinking sets in through
imagination there is substance in thinking. In every
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inwardly experienced manifestations of thinking, feeling
other hand, in the waking condition only that enters clearly
in his waking state, man were fully capable of
astral body, there would descend into his waking consciousness
complete ego being during waking consciousness, he would
this is suppressed during ordinary waking consciousness.
Man experiences nothing in waking consciousness of the ether
experience in ordinary waking consciousness of the many
their activity from the moment of waking up until the moment of
being is reflected during waking life onto the physical body.
next occupy ourselves with the details of how the waking
speaking, the head's activities would be completely
physical organism, making it feasible for a spirit organization
alternating states of waking and sleeping may also be
characterized by saying that during the waking state the astral
appearance of man's etheric body during the periods of waking
becomes increasingly undifferentiated during the waking
has an abundance of shapes in these areas during waking hours.
of the astral organism in the waking state exercise their
possessed by the rest of the etheric organism during the waking
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existence on earth come to expression in thinking, feeling and
thinking relates in a specific way to the head organization;
When we examine how the nature of the thinking-soul is
etheric replica of the part of the soul involved in thinking:
therefore, when man really thinks in waking everyday life, he
cannot actually observe the process of thinking in himself but
because the replicas of what goes on in thinking can really be
as is the case with the thinking-soul, nor is it a rhythmical
this: When, for example, our thinking-soul takes hold of a
arriving at an act of the will. Through the thinking activity,
belongs to the thinking-soul spreads out from the head
in a weak replica in thinking, it appears on as an impulse in
thinking-soul, revitalizing ones in the willing-soul. This
between birth and death. Inasmuch as we are thinking soul
soul elements represented inwardly as thinking, feeling and
difference between making a child memorize only so much
as is good for it, or making it memorize too much so that its
Now, if we gain insight into the various kingdoms of nature
in part the animal kingdom — we find everything
can only be perceived by looking into man's organism in the way
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am astonished to find certain people thinking that the
arranged entirely according to the thinking of the physical
in thinking and feeling; standards and judgments otherwise
thinking, the ordinary judgments applied to the physical world.
thinking and of feeling must be acquired for the spiritual
the physical plane we are accustomed through our thinking,
apply in acts of thinking, feeling and willing, nothing we do
whatever we apply in the form of feeling or thinking in order
whatever we do in thinking, feeling and willing in order to
us no knowledge of the higher worlds. Through thinking our soul
of investigation, this kind of thinking, does not help him in
thinking and investigation are of significance only because
through this thinking and investigation the soul becomes more
skilful, more mobile, that trains our thinking, makes our
detail in my books, by making ourselves ready to receive the
someone is looking at a bunch of flowers, then with his Ego and
you extend over the horizon which you survey. In waking
the egoity of ordinary waking consciousness. We exclude
everything that is connected with the egoity of waking
spiritual world only by taking what it presents to us as
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thinking system, feeling system, willing system.
declares that the face he sees when looking in a mirror,
said yesterday that, generally speaking, we can regard these
which I have been speaking. Z his must be realised. What I have
whom we are seeking. As a rule, in such striving, curiosity
an undertaking presuming in advance that it will succeed,
speaking, as I am doing now, of a theme like this which
any resemblance to be found between what we are seeking and the
into me. Now I am thinking what the dead is experiencing in his
soul. That is what I am thinking now. I am connected
with him; he is now speaking to me and I am listening to
keep my former example, that of speaking with one who is dead,
the dead is speaking from within the Zodiac.
Now the world at which we are looking is within our
saying; he is speaking within the circumference ... I hear him
Once again, I will return to our example. — I am seeking
sinking down into the pictures, I become one with them. At this
speaking from the periphery that we ourselves have formed
thinking that what I have described has anything to do with the

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this is speaking in the abstract. We could also ask: All that
can only happen through someone taking away from us the
death. Whenever we are thinking, whenever we are active in our
over you, guard and protect you, taking away from you what you
concentration, something approaches which one is seeking
Cosmos. And then it is like waking up, but not out of a sleep,
waking, we know: This was not sleep! We have not passed through
have gone through something as a thinking being (only
“thinking” here has a much higher significance than
thinking being. But however highly developed you are as a human
function of thinking for you and think in you. You cannot
yourself do the thinking. You can only remember afterwards what
this Being thought in you. It was an Angelos who was thinking!
kingdoms. On yonder side of death we enter the realm of the
made by making the physical world a motive for a kind of occult
mineral kingdom and is as if a soul were expressing in living
understand this by thinking of the cases in life where a man on

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their place and in their own mode of working are entirely
birth, then — I am not speaking of myself here but quite
generally, of one who has seership and is seeking for a dead
the way to him. When we are seeking one who is dead, this idea
Angeloi. But it is no longer correct if we are seeking for a
lives at this point, 1914, and is seeking a dead soul or a
weaving and working of the Cosmos, not only one-pointedly,
spiritual generality, but a living weaving and working in a
our own achievement, our thinking, feeling and willing. The
into greater detail. But the characteristic weaving and working
most easily by taking the physical body in the same way as we
what he has to communicate to you, what he is thinking, feeling
obliterating it again, figuratively speaking, when it is no
accustomed to taking words differently from what is the case
not merely look at a man kneeling or making some gesture, but
word. The building on which we are working is intended in its

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with our waking state. To the unprejudiced observer our feeling
will-impulse, in the expression, the working, of the will, is
moment of falling asleep to that of waking.
consciousness, so that, even during our waking hours, what
experiencing it as an idea. Sinking ourselves in these
would be like something happening outside in nature, taking
necessities from which our thinking would be unable to free
thus definitely. In the life of soul, we see what is taking its
thinking as an actual process — feel it to be as real a
the material nature of thinking, of the conceptual faculty; we
mineral kingdom (see red in drawing).
our thinking. In fact, to Inspired cognition the thinking
drawings, of all our thoughts. It is the working and weaving of
the ego in mineral kingdom, in that kingdom which alone makes
it possible for us to possess the faculty of thinking.
crept in — that it is the purely spiritual ego making
taking place it is driven inside. It is the life-giving process
forces within us, but through those actually working from
thinking, through the relation of the ego to the mineralised
accompanies thinking is a mineral process in us, something
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have been speaking are present, and how we need to stand consciously within what is essential and
in lack of control where the life of thinking is concerned. For, rightly conceived, the life of
thinking that they seldom find their way into the spiritual worlds.
this. And something else is connected with the present unreality in thinking namely, men are
surprised. But they will not have anything to do with what is really working in the world, and
Working merely with ideas, one can from any side
upon himself the task of making a real study of both the life of Goethe and that of the spirits
essence of human thinking appears. This conception is upheld by Santayana, a professor at Harvard
and is entirely characteristic of present-day thinking. The appearance of
you have eyes to see it, this kind of thinking meets you in every sphere of so-called modern
fundamental evils. One fundamental evil shows itself in the sphere of thinking, another in the
In the sphere of thinking we have gradually reached
the point where men can only think in the way the thinking takes its course when it is strictly
bound up with the brain. But this thinking, so closely connected with the brain, this thinking
and confined. And the most significant symptom of present scientific thinking in particular is
soul, and not just with abstract thinking, will see that it makes a man more dexterous and fits
murdered, looking-glass, the murderer's victim. And they sit there, poor lambs, in front of the
three words murderer, looking-glass, the murderer's victim, and are supposed to look for a
victim has a looking-glass in which the murderer is reflected so that the victim is able to save
on his victim and sees himself in a looking-glass. His face appears to him in it as the face of
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should like to give this sketch in such a way that it can be said: we are looking at the profile
of speaking about the limits to human knowledge would be the following. In observing the world it
by making this whirlpool in front of him, as it were, salute man. So that here he is surrounded
barrier. Did this limit, this barrier, not exist you would always be looking down into what is
particularly in the case of many such mystics who really believe that in looking within
united with the external world, otherwise in the waking condition everything would go through

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the fifth post-Atlantean epoch, and it is still impenetrable. And people are knocking at the
already today these things are breaking through, though not very often. I have frequently
making their presence felt in the soul of an extraordinarily gifted man who cannot act in
the desire to order and harmonise this life of soul through what can be acquired by working for
The things of which I am speaking now were actually
that coming-in — no longer perceptible to the external world. When speaking to most
that should only come later. Whereas in oriental thinking, in oriental conceptions, even in the
In this trekking through the primeval forest, in
here, not merely the "what" — the feeling that in all this something greater is speaking
sounds much more as though the man were speaking out of whet lived within him as a kind of
seeking to found for himself the Kingdom of the spirit. This would be possible only were certain
that of America then is recognised. The most striking feature of the American tendency, as you
means for making these things known, and for removing the scales from men's eyes! For this reason
picture — this is one of seeking to receive spiritual knowledge as if it were a lullaby to

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which humanity will perceive the working of Christ in the etheric world.
points to a way of looking at history like this, a way which looks to significant moments, such a
and a Greek also living at that time in the kingdom of the Franks. The
theory that this Greek developed from his thoroughly Greek mode of thinking, which was now just
Now criticism of Alcuin's way of thinking is not
on speaking in the way he had just done, but moves the whole problem into a completely different
And we are directed, by looking at these two individuals, to that fluctuation which took place on
impulses. For what is expressed in these ways of thinking went over later into the feeling life
thinking right down to Plato — the impulse of eternity of an ancient world-view —
oriental way of thinking, reaching to Plato, and what followed later is expressed in this
spread of Romanism? There had entered that way of thinking which one has to comprehend through
of all, a legal one. The Occident brought logical, legal thinking so strongly into the oriental
way of thinking that we ourselves find religious feeling permeated with a legalistic element. In
thinking. There was nothing there like guilt and atonement or redemptinn. For
[in this oriental way of thinking]
the concept of karma. Later, however, everything was fixed into a way of looking at things which
within this occidental culture, the way of thinking which comprehends primarily what takes place
of dialectics, of logical-dialectical-legal thinking is there, in which everything is tending
— this is a pupil of Kant's speaking like this! And Fichte says:
in which he is actually asking: `How must the world be so that things can be proved
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which humanity will perceive the working of Christ in the etheric world.
importance. For it is not simply a matter of individual human beings thinking in an egotistical
way, 'we are individuals': it is rather a matter of the whole development of humanity taking such
action of spiritual powers working into the physical life of humanity on earth. But precisely
in earlier epochs, and very exceptional things are making their appearance within humanity's
scientific way of thinking about social life, a certain view of life has been developed. This
Strike movement are significant precisely as a characteristic of what is taking shape in this
This arises because the Bolshevism making itself felt there is in fact a foreign
all that was then forced upon the social life through the modern scientific way of thinking and
all its achievements. This way of thinking and its achievements, together with the inherent
a completely economic way of thinking, out of the impulses of economic ideas. This is why
arose. On the other hand, in the West where thinking follows the lines of economics in the sense
brutal — this arose nevertheless from an economic thinking. When, in modern times,
what preponderates here is economic thinking. Whereas Germany has gone to pieces because the
completely different spirituality is working into present-day human beings and it will be an
fact that it is given to the West to develop a specifically economic way of thinking. The
This is the characteristic we find when looking
expression of the present epoch — in economic concepts, economic thinking.
heritage and, on the other, there is also working in him that which comes out of the present
dreams, or simply during sleep, so that the human being in a waking state then bears within him
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which humanity will perceive the working of Christ in the etheric world.
soul-configuration of the people living in the Orient; by working as imaginations into the
consciousness of certain human beings of the East — perhaps by working during sleep into
it, in the after-effects during waking. And in this way they bring in everything they wish to pit
dialectical thinking. So what came from oriental wisdom penetrated then into Western
thinking. And one can only understand the role played by what then developed out of the Roman
understood by looking at it in this way. This human being, as regards his soul-configuration, his
pre-eminently suited to adopting and Anglo-Saxon developing natural-scientific thinking and to
Let me state expressly that what I am talking about
were the people of the West. Initially they left the spirit out of consideration, taking body and
artificial head on top as spirit, in the materialistic way of thinking that arises out of
in their true nature we can say: When they were awake there was working in them something of the
of thinking in the
inclination in the whole people to adopt the natural-scientific way of thinking, which is so
exceptionally suited to the economic life. I have shown you how this scientific way of thinking
from the working together of what pressed from the West as reason and what pressed in from the
and revelation from the East came together. Both influences were working in the human being and
the economic life without having economic thinking. For everything that the economy did in this

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which humanity will perceive the working of Christ in the etheric world.
the King of Wisdom (the Golden King), the King of Semblance (the Silver King), the King of Power
(the Copper King) and in which the Mixed King falls to pieces. Goethe wanted to deal with this in
it in these three kings; in the Golden, the Silver, and the Copper King. And what cannot hold
together he gives in the Mixed King.
a certain way — even though Goethe had not himself yet done so — how the Golden King
the King of Semblance, the Silver King, would correspond to the political State: how the King of
Power, the Copper King, would correspond to the economic aspect, and how the Mixed King, who
instincts and that of the free aesthetic mood — and in Goethe's three kings — the
Golden King, the Silver King, and the Copper King — we see a prefiguration of everything
in the social organism, the Golden King; to the political element in the social organism, the
Silver King; and to the economic element, the Bronze, the Copper, King.
soon as it gets hold of the economic life in the uniform State, in the Mixed King, destroys that
life. The working together of the spiritual limb of the social organism with the economic element
organism, one should be under no illusion that the economic thinking of the present is a
could also be the preparation for acquiring that configuration of thinking
become Goetheanists feel how, in the very nature of German Central Europe, this singular working
between rational knowledge and revelation is attributable to the working of the spirits of the
Golden King; from the West the sphere of the Copper King. From the East, Wisdom; from the West,
Power. And in the middle is what Goethe represented in the Silver King, in Semblance; that which
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which humanity will perceive the working of Christ in the etheric world.
spirits are again working which in earlier times were perceived by the human being in nature. In
everything must be added to it which supersensible research is seeking to find.
will again develop a kind of group-soul, taking in hand what the individual at present cannot
who calumniate and slander one when, working out of the modern scientific approach, one tries to

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which humanity will perceive the working of Christ in the etheric world.
the form of speaking about the Mystery of Golgotha in the way that was possible with these
but in which this intellectuality already lived. Dialectical-legal thinking spread out and, in
turn, led to civic-political thinking. This spread from the South into those northern regions
forms. Many external facts show how this dialectical-legal, political thinking, in which the old
speaking of the time in which the Mystery of Golgotha approached or was already accomplished.) In
the kings and other princes — were ascribed with a certain authority on earth, and ascribed
dialectical-legal mode of thinking, calumniates everything which resists being fitted into the
the modern age arose. And we see this mutual interlocking particularly in the first half of the
old what is still left by a dreadful tightening of taxation or they fill what is lacking by

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which humanity will perceive the working of Christ in the etheric world.
habitually stick to what was once instilled into them. At most, one can notice a breaking out
and yet understood nothing of the situation mankind is in - when these people began talking about
this earth; a being who, not with theological mendacity but in very truth can say: "My kingdom is
For man will have to say to himself: 'My kingdom is not of this world.'
how lacking in knowledge is this official 'erudition which has the education of contemporary
is what is working under the name of 'scientific conscientiousness' in official science.
prepared to look where things are lacking, we will not make progress. All declaiming about social
born of deep need. But without also looking, in truth, at everything that is blocking this
inner pleasure-seeking, to bow down to tradition — and if people do not want to be aware
4. 'My kingdom is not of this world' John: 18,36. Return

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wanted to apply materialistic thinking consistently, he would examine the
this thinking and pointed out that what is generally called materialistic

Title: "Heaven and Earth will pass away but my words will not pass away"
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kingdom through the Archangeloi. The dream-conception of the Moon-man
Jupiter's animal kingdom. The concepts of earth-man develop —
body, so that in our waking life on earth we are able to perceive
awaking and falling asleep, — by these ‘contents’ we mean
And so, during waking
clear perceptions of waking life. And yet this Moon man resides in us,
on the Moon: he dreams. And because, during waking life, we do not
take notice of them. As we go through the world with our waking
equivalent to our vegetable kingdom shall come into existence,
should produce a vegetable kingdom; in the depths of their souls they
laboratories, etc., we shall find that everything is working in the
production of the equivalent of our vegetable kingdom — is
adding, upon the mineral and vegetable foundation, another kingdom, the
imaginations, foundation of an animal kingdom through the
human being of the earth himself to erect his kingdom upon Jupiter, and
significance for the various kingdoms of nature, — for instance,
no means, the same process in the human kingdom as in the animal world.
human kingdoms this abstract manner as identical, one could with equal
biologists, thinking themselves particularly advanced, say: As many
only in an unreal, dead Ahrimanic thinking. And more and more will
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two aspects: that which man receives as knowledge, as inner working
natural, has made use of already existing ideas in asking itself:
ever working in a living way. Hence it could only grasp the mystery
inwardly feels the continued working of the divinity animating the
should have experienced the after-working of the dried up, fading
of the old Romans, and the Latin culture had gone on working in them,
after-working of the Latin knowledge in the European life, and that
two-fold utterance and its working in early times in the development

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The alternation of sleeping and waking
particularly in specially clear and aware moments of waking up, can
come before his soul that at the moment of waking he, as soul-being,
from waking up to going to sleep. It will certainly have already
struck many people, in waking, that they lived during sleep in an
they were when awake. The majority of men must on awaking have said
that I cannot bring clearly enough into the waking consciousness. And
waking up to going to sleep. One was with one's whole being
completely forgotten in the moment of waking.
waking life. This fact too, of which everyone can really very easily
evolution which has entered through the partaking of the Tree of the
sleep as for waking. But this was not to happen. And thus for the
how we actually spend our life between going to sleep and waking. We
spend this life from going to sleep to awaking —
echoes to us in waking, then this weaving and living in what does not
the Jahve-Godhead that on awaking he should possess in his etheric
that on his awaking the etheric weaving and living which has been
awaking. I have already in various lectures indicated that it is
sleep to awaking, in the element of which we men are to know nothing,
But in the moment of waking, something
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mere sense perceptions to thinking about percepts
every moment of his waking life — does not feel
world-conception that the thought, the act of thinking, is an
actuality in our inner self as man, that we do something by thinking,
that thinking is an inner activity, an inner work.
It goes on working continually and again and again replaces what dies
externally, but we are always working upon our being through our
speaking, until our death. Thought is thus at the same time a
definite inner activity, a working on our own
consciousness arise, in our Western thinking, that thinking is
the result that man does not get a conscious feeling: thinking is
connected with inner fashioning, but feels instead that thinking is
separated. Thus in respect of thinking they evoke a feeling that it
Thus they falsify our thinking.
thinking in this manner, alter it, externalise it, who endeavour to
in thinking one must seek for the inwardly forming, shaping of the
the living element of thinking about the external. What they get hold
applying thinking to outer things. Lucifer must of course cooperate
this element of making thought human into the external form and
actively working and weaving thoughts had been gathered up and poured
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Harmonizing Thinking, Feeling and Willing
way — especially in the case of Western thinking
the same time as he is conceiving and thinking, something is also
willing, and as his outer world his thinking, which leads over to
our thinking, our intellect and conceptual life, is connected with
in which we, as human beings, apprehend our thinking and conceiving
lives in our intellect and shuts us off from looking into the inner
thinking.
conceiving and thinking in the right way with human nature. This they
relate thinking to ourselves as we do now, but we should look back to
thinking wished to unite with our inner being, wanted to belong to
the moment we now pass over to thinking, we look back to the Old
instead of merely looking to Christ Jesus, a whole cosmology is
with the Mystery of Golgotha? Because it is asking too much of them
and human kingdoms, it is not possible to observe such a birth. That
breaking in pieces. And so it is with the whole of outer nature.
and spoke with us, so, on looking at the earth we should look back on
working upon another person e.g., upon Man #1 (Diagram Pg 2) and if
already in him. But that reverberates below; during the waking day
whether the working upon the medium of the living, of what lives in
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causality, there need be nothing lacking in the chain of cause and
thinking of the Sleeping Beauty) passes out of time and enters the
only Lucifer who bewitches us into thinking that our concept is now
if we truly grasp what I have said, we are really looking into
thinking of possessing a piece of water, flowing along in a brook.
taking the red in an object, eliminating the space-boundary and
poet produces something in such simple incidents as a boy's plucking
describes the simplest incident of the plucking of a rose. For into
Boy declared: I'm picking
Rosebud said: I'm pricking

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adapted for making perceptions as the human being makes perceptions
just as they are during waking life; only the ego and astral body are
obvious that just the same would happen as during waking. We can
is perception of the outer world and working-over of the perception
activities. Thus the direction of the Luciferic working radiates from
leave them that man in his thinking would look back to the old
Moon-existence, and in this thinking would apprehend what the
another. Only through the working of Lucifer is it possible for us to
other side. He penetrates not only speech but thinking, and out of
questioner to a gradual working himself out of the illusions of life
oneself be held back through this from making the way into the
this circle, Lucifer and his hosts were assuredly lurking
ordinary waking state, there meet together in the periphery of his
sense-periphery, my dear friends, we come to thinking, to the
in its turn on the physical body. And this working upon the physical

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of John Scotus Erigena emanate from a mode of thinking
the middle of the 4th century onwards, the thinking of men
were attributed to the Angel working within the human being. An
soul. This very fact indicates that man's whole way of looking
mode of thinking of the first centuries of Christen' dom.
now we must try to understand the kind of thinking in which such
it must be remembered that the forces working in the body of
kingdom within it, the forces of the Earth are working
colder zones. The bodily nature and the forces working in the
is done — simply by sinking plates in the Earth. The Earth
the blood, in the whole human body, were held to be workings of
were working upon the being of man, but this is not the
case. The Moon is working in the neighbourhood of the Earth. In
short, the Earth is not working alone, but together with the
forces working upon body and blood were woven into this ancient
he saw an Ideal world. He beheld the workings of certain forces
Father God had never succeeded in working alone but had been
combined with the kingdom of Nature. It was from this
Nature Gods are working in Nature but at a certain stage they
by speaking of God not as essentia but as
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wrong even so to see it as a matter of looking at this alone. Well into
standpoint with regard to even the most mature way of thinking. The
nature builds up the human countenance — making every
all have the mineral kingdom. We have this mineral kingdom to a certain
— we were talking about artistic monuments
said, much of recent art is formed on the basis of this way of thinking,
hardly come to any other judgment than in asking themselves,
naturalism, but strictly speaking it is
attempted to do in various fields, making clear to ourselves what the
Yes, my dear friends, in taking counsel with oneself quite honestly, one
experience to act of themselves as necessity demanded. In speaking to one
connection. In one's presence, while speaking, people
that one would be incapable of doing something, merely because making the
beyond our immediate circle; albeit really and truly! Taking these things

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complete truth — that in America they are thinking of declaring
ruler or king and so forth no longer express the feelings about the
consistency, for the way of thinking was so different then from what
consideration. That a king has real divine power and dignity is
back to the oldest form of imperialism, we find it based on the king
priestly, where the priests were kings; on the other hand the
year 1806, but more as a shadow, retained in kings and paladins as
to crown them. Istwan I was also crowned king of Hungary by the Pope
were symbols for an inspirational kingdom of heaven.
the west that the Anglo-American people lived, the king, who earlier
The English speaking peoples bring other
king at the top. Naturally a person whose head has been cut off
imperialistic, without having a king. It has to do with the mood of
But the English-speaking peoples
during the first imperialism the kings, in the second imperialism the
earthly reality; the priest-king came from the mysteries. The second
Only then can there be a kingdom of Christ
on earth. For in that empire a reality must exist: “My kingdom
is not of this world.” In the kingdom of this world, in which
the kingdom of Christ will propagate, there will exist much that has
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be especially possible if all English-speaking peoples realize that
so radically, as they can be seen through by the English-speaking
societies which possess great power in the English-speaking
platitudes, so that we have, especially in the English-speaking areas
first in the English- speaking world, then in the rest of the world,
far east as they would go when they became the apostolic kings of
far. One doesn't advance today with small thinking. It is necessary

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write in: “The king's will is sublime law” — what
completely lost: that the spiritual kingdom shines through into the
physical kingdom. And then one arrives at such definitions as I
common: “The tree is green.” This is a manner of speaking
of human thinking and feeling will have to take place within the
influence of the thinking characteristic of the second stage this is
arises, when we realize that we are living in the kingdom of
for a knowledge of the spirit, one which speaks of an invisible kingdom,
a kingdom which is not of this world in which the Christ-impulse can
Apostolic King of Hungary, King of Bohemia, Dalmatia, Croatia,
titles was also “King of Jerusalem!” The Austrian Emperor
also carried, until he was no longer emperor, the title “King
real thinking again when the inner soul-life is filled with substance
were seeking mystical spirituality turned to those whom they had
the seriousness of life. We avoid looking at the truth inherent in
himself a Christian who has not grasped the saying: “My kingdom
This means that the kingdom of
Christ must become an invisible kingdom, a truly invisible empire, an

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honest seeking. For all this can only constitute a basis for
Begat this ghost within your thinking;
Begat this ghost within your thinking;
the spirit, it resorts to mocking spiritual knowledge.
third beast is lazy thinking, the kind of thinking that would
the world's phenomena with passive thinking. Man is too lazy
and comfortable to activate his thinking. Humanity's thinking
cannot. And existence cannot be comprehended by thinking with
thinking if we want to grasp the spirit.
thinking and we want to activate thinking, if we do not wish to
Begat this ghost within your thinking;
the Threshold, what is necessary in feeling, willing, thinking

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Then do you turn your anxious seeking soul
sensation that by looking out into the external world we gain
such insight were provided to everyone walking down the street
Mightily working, in the cosmic ether,
that this looking back, the perception in looking back,
knowledge which reveals the contamination in our own thinking,
Begat this ghost within your thinking;
thinking. When we create with ordinary consciousness we create
correctly prepare ourselves for creative thinking, the
spiritual world streams into our creative thinking. And then,
our thinking, feeling and willing in order for the three beasts
to be defeated: thinking, the thought - phantom; feeling -
from real knowledge, firstly in our thinking. Normal human
thinking is reflected in the thought-phantom of the first
is the image of ordinary human thinking which thinks about
thinking is a corpse. Where did the being live whose corpse
this ordinary thinking is?
contemporary civilization - when thinking from waking in the
us in school and in life itself, our thinking is a corpse. It
human figure. You must imagine this related to thinking. A
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which one will actually take when seeking access to the
leads to the spiritual world, and provided the thinking is not
thinking, your feeling, your willing are held together by the
physical body. You are a threefold human being: a thinking,
immediately becomes a triple being. His thinking goes its own
thinking flies out into distant space and that his feeling goes
his feeling does not stay with him. Thinking at least goes out
Begat this ghost within your thinking;
this threefold splitting in which one's thinking goes its way,
Of thinking, that denies itself
Forsaking the spirit-force
The second beast's mocking countenance
our gaze within in order to be alert to what our thinking
that they instruct us what should enter into our thinking,
in our thinking to accept the challenge with our selfhood which
Just as through the first mantric verse we enter thinking, we
enter the inner world of thinking through the second.
aside thinking and try to observe your own feelings. In
thinking everything is semblance. But when we descend into
First of all, selfhood had to “revere” by sinking
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of the gods with all your thinking, all your feeling, all your
speak to you, appealing to your thinking, feeling, willing, and
different relationship of thinking, feeling and willing in us
everyday consciousness, thinking, feeling and willing are bound
closely bound together thinking, feeling and willing are in
possible to separate thinking from feeling in the artistic
esoteric is said, it must be possible to separate thinking from
we do not understand them if we do not use pure thinking to do
engendered through thinking. Such feelings should be developed
from thinking.
from out of the esoteric, he is speaking from the godly sphere
which pertains to thinking, can by grasped only when we feel
thinking:
able to withstand the separation of thinking, feeling and
thinking, feeling and willing together for everyday
the conception of my thinking also arose. If the tree didn't
exist, I would not be thinking today. My hand is only necessary
order that I can be a thinking being. Why should the hand be
in a field looking up at a star-bedecked sky. It becomes
heights are speaking. And just as we can grow in love together
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constitutes man's inner self - thinking, feeling, willing -
became clear to us how in a certain respect thinking, feeling
the spiritual world, in a certain sense thinking, feeling and
evening. Thinking, however, is the force which relates upwards
thinking the higher powers.
in the plant, mineral, animal kingdoms, to which we have access
to human beings. So here we stand, apart, looking inwards at
our thinking, feeling and willing, aware that our thinking,
materialistic age we have even ceased asking humans, because
also when looking into the inner human we see what for normal
consciousness is passive thinking, with which we can indeed
own thinking, that every thought is captured light - both for
thinking is in your head. Think that your willing is none other
than the moving, living, active air element working within.
thinking that you are, if you do not begin to experience the
fact that when you are thinking you are living in the entire
say to himself: If in my thinking I merge completely with the
I merge with the light in my thinking, light-beings grasp hold
thinking, make him one with the light, rend him from all the
aware of the true nature of thinking. Therefore we should
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gets to know the world by observing the kingdoms of nature
which are external to his own being - the animal kingdom, the
vegetable kingdom and the mineral kingdom. These relations
what is revealed between the things. We see the three kingdoms
friends, behind the kingdoms of nature we have what is called
them as we speak of the other beings of the nature-kingdoms,
vegetable kingdom. There is something in you that is as sleepy
toward the kingdoms of nature when we feel that we belong to
them as well. We feel the inner relationship to these kingdoms
look out at the animal kingdom. We observe the indolent animals
because we stand alone and the kingdoms of nature are beyond
can see how in reality all thinking - this is unknown to people
- is nothing other than a refined breathing. Thinking is
breath circulating there is known as thinking in the physical
world; sublimated breathing is thinking.
in this abstract thinking existing as a kind of tenuous
which we designate as thinking.
thinking. When breathing, completely refined, strikes the sense
refined-to-thinking breathing process is like an organized
rapid speaking ...] a mineralization process. One
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taking the School seriously must lead to the cancellation of
Generally speaking, it is not difficult for a person to leave
being which expresses itself psychically in thinking, feeling
and willing. In reality they are three humans: the thinking
naively appears physically to be.) In looking up you must
and other earthly forces. In our thinking - which as earthly
thinking is only capable of understanding the earthly - we must
verse is spoken while making the sign before the head:
speaks the verse while making the sign before the breast:
speaks the verse while making the sign pointing downward:
the sensory world we think that the site of thinking and mental
But this thinking in the head is always mixed a little bit with
the sensory world the whole extent of thinking and a small
reverse: a small amount of thinking and much widespread willing
know that when thinking is not considered as a function of the
that thinking does not belong to an individual, but to the
Thinking's germinal-waking cosmic-life.
thinking as feeling in respect to cosmic being, when you
thinking to be concentrated in the head, here [in the first
thinking is brought directly into connection with the limbs,
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questions about any field of life posed by honestly seeking
wish to begin today's lesson - without you taking notes, only
listening at first - by speaking the mantric formula which
world, in the kingdoms of nature, see the colors and the
star, cloud on cloud, creatures of the kingdoms of nature which
that he will realize: In this light-filled kingdom of earth the
soul-life, thinking, feeling and willing, here is this
earth-life are held together by our physical bodies. Thinking,
this. Feeling (green) extends into thinking (yellow); willing
following [drawing again]: thinking (yellow) is freed,
physical body had held thinking, feeling and willing together,
soon as we leave our physical bodies with our thinking, we
perceive this thinking as one with all that is manifested in
instrument of our thinking. But now we begin to feel the stars,
the other planets. Between what we experience as thinking in
What must be perfectly clear however, is that our thinking, our
thinking.
Dear friends, dear sisters and brothers, this thinking which
before we descended to this physical world a living thinking
earthly corpse-thinking. From it spring forth - but dead - the
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First - without taking notes - let us be reminded of the
my warmth; one must say: I enlighten myself by thinking through
man, see yourself in the kingdom of elements.
holds thinking, feeling and willing together through its own
experiencing, thinking, feeling and willing are no longer one,
thinking and separated from willing.
if we are able to grasp thinking in such a way that thoughts
are freed from physical existence, it is as though our thinking
the threshold: my thinking rests in the resting stars; my
unites with the earth forces. So thinking, feeling, willing are
not need to bind thinking, feeling and willing together,
unity. Thinking, feeling and willing would be constantly
other side of the threshold, they are divided so that thinking
doing this we must experience thinking, feeling and willing in
such a way that we can communicate to thinking, which has gone
thinking and willing; to willing, which is bound to the earth,
something of thinking and feeling. This something we indeed can
there is where your thinking lies. But I will bring the starry
incorporated feeling and willing into thinking, which is bound
system. Then I have assigned thinking and willing to
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within — if only by means of thinking — and become
to the mineral, vegetable and animal kingdoms around us. And
gawking, but of reading. And what we read are the spiritual
to imagine that someone is speaking to you from a spiritual
depth, as though you were not thinking it, but as though you
were hearing it, as if another being were speaking. You really
imagine that another being is speaking to you from an unknown
which you are doing. As though someone were speaking to you from
current streams through our thinking, feeling and willing. And
leave the physical body behind with our thinking, this magical
thinking which we experience through the gravity of our soul's
given here without first asking permission. Only with

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active. We notice that when the head is ailing, thinking is
about this; we are only taking into account what is visible
activity on earth: our thinking. And so we must imagine:
The angel answers, looking upward to the source of the trumpet
The Angelos replies, speaking to the gods in the circling
world is speaking” as we can say “We are
speaking”. This gradually enhances the character of the
walls. It is all becoming clear for the soul's senses, making

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this working and weaving.
the point where you can sense the speaking, that you sense the
you are speaking. Try to sense the speaking in your organism,
something, due to someone talking to me or some other event
Well, if you have learned to sense speaking, then you will
easily be able to sense the thinking which is directly induced
sense than speaking, but it can be sensed. And you can learn to
sense, to feel thinking by sensing speech.
thinking. Then you will be able to touch, touch internally that
profile]. When speaking is sensed so that it must be moved here
[red], you will sense thinking here above
[green]. That is, the sense of thinking is moved
speaking, but where we inwardly meditate hearing. We imagine
Listen to the field of thinking.
of thinking through a spiritually cosmic experience.
That is the Guardian speaking.
Behold the forces working in your thinking.
apprehend thinking; we do not sense it, we do not feel it. The
admonishes us: “Behold the forces working in your
thinking.”
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souls how by concentrating on the field of thinking we could
Not meant is our everyday thinking, but
the thinking which acts behind that everyday thinking, which
thinking.”
thinking can be perceived in the human organism itself
loud, we feel the speaking within and we can designate the
place where we feel the speaking within us. Then we have a
And over the speaking, more toward the
rear of the head, we can find the inner thinking through
which we can discover the Angeloi; in the speaking itself the
Archangeloi; and in remembrance, under the speaking, the
speaking:
Perceive the field of thinking:
Behold the forces working in your thinking.
– the cosmic distances speaking to us, the
Guardian of the Threshold speaking to us, the ranks of the
hierarchies speaking to us, if we can vividly imagine it as
come to sense the thinking above the place of speech in the
Cosmic being in spirit kingdoms:
Imagine yourself walking, and perhaps moving your
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normal human waking life.
Thus the person realizes that before he enters the kingdom of
from the physical, when one — symbolically speaking —
impure willing, feeling and thinking — that they first
willing, feeling and thinking appear in three animals —
Then the Guardian of the Threshold shows us how thinking, feeling
we associate with the beings of the three nature kingdoms and
that when we cross over with separated thinking, feeling and
are still present in this thinking, feeling and willing.
paralyzed, though otherwise in a fully waking state, has been
One gets to know this way of speaking in all its intensity, my
ourselves speaking the words after the Guardian has been

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kingdoms of nature, much of what is derived from them being
be found in all the kingdoms of nature; that it cannot be
asking. This answer, which the cosmic-powers themselves
abyss, warning us with his right hand extended, asking us
the higher spiritual beings as we do about the three kingdoms
outside of us the essence of stone, of the mineral kingdom,
standing among the three kingdoms of nature. We must also
kingdoms of nature. Just as we must learn to be physical
we have learned to know the beings within the three kingdoms
of nature. We belong to the three kingdoms of nature with our
etheric-physical nature. We belong to the three kingdoms of
three kingdoms of nature and to let them flow through us, to
kingdoms of nature.
Feel! as we feel in your thinking.
in our thinking; it is their feeling. They bring it to our
consciousness. And just as the Angeloi feel in our thinking,
something. Human thinking, human feeling, human willing, are
not mere processes in humanity. While we are thinking, the
Feel! as we feel in your thinking.
solidity the way minerals do. In our thinking we would not
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existence speaking to us.
belonging to the kingdoms of nature. We observe the glorious
over the abyss, for with our thinking, feeling and willing
Feel as we feel in your thinking.
Will the spirit's cosmic working in the
passed through the gate of death, looking back at our earthly
situation: the speaking Guardian of the Threshold — his
Guardian of the Threshold seeking help. It is a unique
experience: not yet light, but the light is making itself

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We saw how the Guardian then speaks to the I, asking three
— looking up from the earth
as it appears in memory, looking from behind, then the rainbow
colors, taking them into their own being.
resurrecting world comes into existence through the workings of
Thus we hear them speaking, not to us; we are witnesses to a
meditation that we hear the beings of the hierarchies speaking to
with the spirit's eye something else taking place. We have
Feel our cosmic working:
When we create thinking;
Feel our cosmic working:
When we create thinking;
Feel our cosmic working:
When we create thinking;

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Feel our world working:
When, thinking, we create.
Something. And we call the Nothings the kingdoms of nature. That
deeply, deeply: We now know that we have gone from the kingdom of
illusions to the kingdom of truth. Earnestness, holy earnestness
is silent. Now we are witnesses to the gods speaking to each
beings in their thinking.
That we may illuminate their thinking.
Angeloi receive enlightens, without our knowing, human thinking.
Now we realize what acts and weaves in human thinking: the
That we may illuminate their thinking.
human thinking. And we feel: everything in the compass of cosmic
kingdoms here in earth.
That we may illuminate their thinking.
person from olden times. When he was not working, and was resting
was thinking back, pictures arose which he experienced in his
Bearing with me thinking's legacy,

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hear them speaking in harmony as a chorus.
Feel our world working:
When, thinking, we create.
When human words resound, then human thinking
resounds, then cosmic thinking speaks through the spirit's
hierarchies. They form and shape everything in the kingdoms
Thinking soul-forming at work:
Thinking soul-forming at work:
Thinking soul-forming at work:
word-created cosmic thoughts. It is not mere thinking, it
is not mere speaking, it is force, forces streaming in the
Cosmic-Word, cosmic-thinking, cosmic-body; the
speaking, thinking cosmic-body is what the Guardian's third
Thinking soul-forming at work:
this in the spiritual world. We should always keep looking

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anthroposophy before the world with all his thinking, feeling
you — I'm speaking now to those of you who are here for
middle and below. Let us look at the mute kingdom of minerals,
at the sprouting plant kingdom, at the mobile animal kingdom,
at the thinking kingdom of humanity on earth; let us direct our
seeking, my dear sisters and brothers, you will be rewarded to
grows and exists and lives around us in the kingdoms of nature.
phenomena and instead seeking an abstractly chaotic path; but
cloud formation taking shape, it becomes human-like, not
in its threefold character of willing, feeling and thinking. We
force of healing: human willing, human feeling, human thinking.
feeling, thinking in their true form — the Guardian
Begat this ghost within your thinking;

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We heard him speaking: for everything spoken here resounds from
feeling, our thinking appear before the countenance of the gods
thinking is not yet human; it is still animal-like. There the
beast emerge, which represents thinking.
Mockingly it lies with warped countenance,
Begot this ghost within your thinking;
mockingly it lies with a warped countenance,
Begot this ghost within your thinking;
our thinking; about the second beast, which is interwoven with
earthly thinking.
this thinking by which we acquire the things and events of the
unreal. What is then this thinking?
must place what this thinking really is before our souls in
the thinking that we have between birth and death is the corpse
of the living thinking we had before descending into earthly
Only, my dear sisters and brothers, when we feel our thinking
true thinking, the dead afterimage of which lives and pulses
long as we consider thinking as something living, we are not
coffin of dead thinking, and we feel it deeply, are we
when we turn from thinking and observe our feeling, then we
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true bridge to what the human being needs for his thinking, for
his willing, for his working in the world if he wishes to be
willing, feeling, thinking — appear to the eyes of the
thinking, feeling and willing, he shows us — in the
down into our thinking, but that this thinking is of a seeming
[While speaking the trochaic rhythm symbols
correctly in our souls. Only when this speaking down to us by
[while speaking, the iambic rhythm symbols
[While speaking the spondaic symbols ( — — ) are placed over the
speak to our thinking so that it integrates itself in the
grace, speaking about humanity's true wisdom.
The Guardian instructs us on Willing, Feeling, Thinking:
must look above if our thinking wants to unite itself with the
because he wants to instruct us about thinking, feeling and
In that realm, where your thinking
now we must again consider, looking back at earthly life

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of all the kingdoms of nature and all the kingdoms of spirit to
thinking as they appear before the visage of the spiritual
above, where a battle is taking place between the light and the
dark powers in the realm from which the force of our thinking
the right way, by seeking knowledge, the origins of our
thinking, the force of our thinking in our humanity — to
look up to that realm from which our thinking comes, where
the light which wants to guide thinking along the right track,
and the powers of darkness, who want to divert thinking from
thinking is rooted above. We must know it to be so rooted if we
selfhood and find the equilibrium for our thinking between
the warmth of soul are working all the luciferic powers, the
unfree and lacking independence if they were to catch us.
there we are at the yawning abyss of being, still looking, as
behind us the gleaming colorful kingdoms of nature, to which we
In that realm, where your thinking
In that realm where your thinking
O man, observe yourself in the elemental kingdom.
O man, observe yourself in the elemental kingdom.
powers. Then he lives with his soul in the spiritual kingdom of
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enough, from all the kingdoms of nature and the hierarchies of
what the true shape of our willing, feeling and thinking is
feeling and thinking. It must be a shattering experience for us
however, how our thinking, as we use it in normal life, is the
corpse of the living thinking which was in us before we
thinking, which lies in the coffin as a corpse. But we use this
corpse for our usual abstract thinking between birth and
Once we grasp how dead this thinking is, we can learn from the
our thinking when we become aware of its deadness, and realize
that it is the corpse of the living thinking that was in us
gradually find the transition to living thinking, we should
our thinking — when we look up to the cosmic thinking in
which our earthly-physical thinking is rooted — between
from this apparent thinking, from this dead thinking
into the living essence of thinking. For this we must be
When you enter the spiritual world with your thinking, you may
flying for your thinking when you are in the spiritual world.
strength to grasp thinking in a way that it can serve you in
Guardian of the Threshold therefore teaches us about thinking
realize that our thinking is at first animal-like. We must
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him from all the kingdoms of nature and from all the spiritual
thinking, we grasp the world feeling, we act in the world by
willing. But thinking, feeling and willing are interwoven in
thinking, feeling, willing — is closely related to our
world. We are at one in thinking, feeling and willing.
illusion of thoughts as in ordinary thinking.
ourselves: There is our flowing, living thinking. It doesn't
thought, all our thinking, is there as the first brightness
thinking merges with willing? The thought — of what is
will be — in thinking, feeling and willing — no
universe, we are Three: our thinking merges with light across
thinking: All our senses and thoughts are distributed over the
(thinking, feeling, willing; man is split in three)
Look: thinking, the spirit's head, becomes the will; feeling
remains feeling, but rays out to thinking on one side and
will's thinking, your thinking's will, the awakening seed of
    Will's thinking, thinking's will.
    Will's thinking, thinking's will.
think that — the will's thinking, the thinking's will
beside ourselves. Then the will's thinking becomes the thinking
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asking the will of Michael, which since the last third of the
kingdoms, what sparkles down from the stars, what acts into our
not come walking with earthly feet, where one flies with the
been looking at what appeared to you as black, night-cloaked
his thinking through the impulse of the head.
is like looking into a dark cell, for you do not see the
thinking over there in the sensory world is mere seeming, mere
earthly thinking is the corpse - as we have heard in previous
lessons - of a living thinking in which we were immersed in the
There thinking lived! Now thinking rests as dead
thinking, as seeming thinking in the coffin of our bodies. And
all the thinking we use in the sensory world is dead thinking.
what has this thinking accomplished? It has created everything
which rests within as thinking's support, has been created by
living thinking. [The interior of the head, yellow, is drawn on
the blackboard.] It is living thinking that creates the support
for our earthly semblance of thinking.
brothers, observe the semblance of thinking in the dark cell,
then you will find in what is felt above as thinking [drawing:
thinking, so that each thought is streamed through with will.
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