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- Title: Lecture: Goethe and the Evolution of Consciousness
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- there was a moment when he understood the voice of the birds
- That which in the song of birds ripples along the surface like the
- Title: Fall/Darkness: Lecture 10: The Influence of the Backward Angels
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- that the future could be told from the way birds would be
- from the flight of birds and the entrails of animals. In time
- flight of birds and so on.
- Title: Lecture: On the Nature of Butterflies
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- made based on the flight of birds, dragon-flies, and so forth, but
- the birds have wonderful colours the sun has greater power. What effect
- Title: Karma of Vocation: Lecture II
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- birds bring on springtime because spring follows their arrival.
- Title: Mystery Centres: Lecture IV: The Ephesian Mysteries of Artemis
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- and butterflies, from the birds, and so on.
- Title: Mystery Centres: Lecture V
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- bears upon it in the way of plants, animals, birds of the air, and so
- Title: Spiritual Science and Medicine -- Lecture IV
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- is far from being the case in birds, even in carrion birds, whose
- birds from both the Mammalia and mankind. (It is just here that
- perpetrated the greatest errors). In birds there is a remarkably poor
- that we are led to the important fact that birds are unable to
- Let us return to the Birds. As a result of the absence of a bladder
- between nutrition and evacuation. Birds can evacuate their waste
- the birds on the evolutionary path, in the phrase that meets
- have descended below the level of that order. For birds do not need to
- functions we are on the same grade as birds. We have a large intestine
- in these respects, we are birds; these organs are actually absent in
- suffering accordingly. So when we observe the birds with their
- his coarser organisation which has descended below the birds — then,
- my friends, you must study the processes of the world of birds
- superiority over birds as we have in our physical; for the etheric
- birds on the one side, and the mammals, and finally, man, on the
- Title: Spiritual Science and Medicine -- Lecture XIII
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- birds from one tree to another. The plant would become extinct were it
- not for this service of the birds. In a curious way, the fertilising
- elements of the mistletoe choose the path through the birds, and are
- Title: Spiritual Science and Medicine -- Lecture XV
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- chapter, the wisdom of the blackbird — or of other birds, who act in
- body, namely the brain; birds' understanding operates more through
- the cosmos, as birds still think. These are aptitudes that we must
- Title: Lecture: Curative Education: Lecture 11
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- thieving, and in consequence the other birds will have nothing to do
- Title: Lecture: The Cycle of the Year: Lecture I
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- yon, in the birds with their multicolored feathers traversing the air;
- Title: Lecture: The Cycle of the Year: Lecture IV
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- said: It is learned from the songbirds. For
- they understood in a deep way the whole import of the songbirds'
- My dear friends, mankind has long ago forgotten why the songbirds
- Title: Lecture I: Nutrition and Health
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- grain raw, just as they come from the plant. The birds would have a
- Title: Evolution, Earth, Man: Lecture I
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- present birds are the descendants of the original animals that
- rest of the body was built around it in later times. The birds are
- added the fish. One could say that the fish are birds that have
- become watery, birds received by the water. You can gather from this
- that the fish appeared later than the birds; they appeared when the
- fish-like. The birds looked fish-like in spite of flying in the air
- Title: Evolution, Earth, Man: Lecture II
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- birds have had to acquire what they need to live in our thin air;
- what you see today as the birds' feathers. With this flesh mass or
- our present birds lose their feathers. These former creatures
- creatures. And whereas our present birds sometimes behave in the air
- abdomen with clumsy limbs. The birds above were finely organized,
- the fore-runners of our birds.
- We can say, therefore: In our modern birds we have the
- Title: Evolution, Earth, Man: Lecture IV
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- I have told you that birds were also different in
- ancient times from what they are now. Birds once consisted entirely
- filled with air. The birds were once creatures consisting only of
- air, but of dense air. And the present birds formed their feathers
- and so on when our kind of air originated. Just think: if our birds
- large part of our civilization. But birds can't build houses —
- they would fall down; neither can birds become sculptors. They can't
- they let go of the needle, it would fall right down. If birds had a
- even so, it would disappear at once. Other birds could fly to see it,
- other owls also, and admire it. Birds can't do that today! You may be
- Title: Evolution, Earth, Man: Lecture VI
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- plant. The birds would have a hard time getting their seed if they
- Title: Evolution, Earth, Man: Lecture XIV
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- case, of course, this is not so noticeable! And what about the birds?
- Title: Nine Lectures on Bees: Lecture VIII
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- white, so-called ants' eggs, which are given to caged birds. They are
- birds feed on them. Throughout the whole of Nature there are these
- Title: Nine Lectures on Bees: Lecture IX
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- birds, contain something of that poison which must pervade all that
- so when the birds eat the juniper berries every morning, a certain
- birds come to eat the juniper berries the earth is quickened through
- men of olden times watched the birds on the juniper trees with the
- as a kind of Christmas tree, and which is the same for the birds as
- Title: Ways/Architecture: Lecture IV: True Aesthetic Laws of Form
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- body. In the very colours of birds' feathers and skins of
- and climate. The reason why humming birds in certain regions
- to be of a negroid black. The birds have been worked upon by
- Title: The Karma of the Individual and the Collective Life of Our Time, Goethe
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- believe that the water-wagtails or similar birds bring
- Title: First Class, Vol. I: Lesson 6
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- rapid ones, and the flying birds. We observe the inherent
- Title: Health and Illness I: Lecture VII: Spiritual-Scientific Foundations for a True Physiology
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- libraries have been written about the flight of birds, but the
- autumn the birds follow the extremely delicate dispersion of
- that the migratory birds fly to the equator and then back to
- but, of course, the other birds do.
- Birds do not think. We have only to observe them properly to
- Birds do not think, but we do because we cannot fly. Our
- Title: Health and Illness II: Lecture V: The Effect of Nicotine; Vegetarian and Meat Diets; On Taking Absinthe; Twin Births
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- what is inside its body. Among birds you know that there is
- something called moulting. The birds lose their feathers and
- Title: Health and Illness II: Lecture VI: Diphtheria and Influenza; Crossed Eyes
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- the father of the children tore the tongues out of birds. Could
- birds in his youth, as you say, can be determined only after
- Title: Man: Hieroglyph: Lecture Two
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- of all in the case of the migration of birds, is because they do not
- Title: Man: Hieroglyph: Lecture Ten
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- particular birds can fast. He made out a beautiful schedule. He had
- large cages of birds placed in his corridor and he starved those birds
- are not correct, for I had such pity on the poor birds that I fed them
- like way. Someone in the background has ‘fed the birds’
- Title: Materialism/Anthroposophy: Lecture VII
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- of wasteland birds.” He had no home because this is the
- Title: Therapeutic Insights: Lecture III
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- animals — birds, for instance — something very
- Title: Spiritual Communion: Lecture II: The Mysteries of Man's Nature and the Course of the Year
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- of birds, in all the changes that take place in the lower
- Title: Cosmic Workings: Lecture I
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- Fish and Birds
- before our eyes and is such a wonderful spectacle: the birds of
- water and fresh water and the birds between the colder and warmer
- of warmth, birds must go to the south and there they develop their
- Title: Cosmic Workings: Lecture II
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- I can explain to you the flight of birds from another aspect than the one
- very abstractly about the flight of birds in autumn and spring. In
- spring the birds leave their warmer haunts and in autumn, when it
- birds which fly over the ocean in a south-easterly direction and they
- birds sometimes take. Moreover they fly very high and it is not
- people make out how these birds find their direction. It is sometimes
- always inherited it from the older ones, and the old birds instruct
- birds of passage do this. In the case of migratory birds in South Africa,
- for instance, when spring comes here with us, the older birds fly
- there because they are still strong. The old birds get away earlier
- said: Oh, well, birds see to a great distance. In fact if it is a
- very forces by which the birds find their direction! Only we men have
- no longer a sense for these invisible forces. The birds, however,
- Title: History of Art: Lecture I: Cimabue, Giotto, and Other Italian Masters
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- naturalist. The birds are his brothers and his sisters; the
- Title: History of Art: Lecture III: Dürer and Holbein
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- 51. Dürer. Hercules fighting the Stymphalian birds.
- Title: Man/Symphony: Lecture I: Man as Microcosm
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- immediately above man — the birds, which live essentially in the air.
- It certainly cannot escape us that the birds which live in the air,
- of the earth, or below it. When we consider the kingdom of the birds,
- origin than any bird. Those birds which, like the ostrich, have been
- Those birds which live freely in the air — eagles, vultures
- the birds by the Moon and the Earth, whereas the rest of its nature
- different species of birds their variegated colours, the special
- through the world with the birds and find expression in their plumage,
- birds. We remember, we have memories, and see the world of
- Title: Man/Symphony: Lecture III: Physical and Spiritual Substance
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- our gaze to the world of the birds, represented for us by the eagle.
- is thoroughly performed. The eagle, like all birds, digests in a
- thorough way. (In the case of some other birds this is even more so.)
- Title: Man/Symphony: Lecture V: Butterflies, Birds and Bats
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- of the birds.
- 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.
- have not air-sacs like the birds — these creatures are the bats.
- cosmic memory; and by the kingdom of the birds — this is cosmic
- this what comes from the dying birds; but also, streaming back towards
- minded, butterflies flutter, birds fly, bats flit. But this can really
- Title: Man/Symphony: Lecture VI: Evolution of Animals and Man
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- butterflies, of the birds and of such species as are represented by
- BUTTERFLIESBIRDS, LIONSCOWS, REPTILES, AMPHIBIANS, FISHES
- they are today. When you look at the butterflies and the birds you
- himself: In the butterflies, in the birds, we have something
- Looked at with understanding, butterflies and birds are a memory
- physical forms of the butterflies and the birds are really the
- beholds what streams out from the birds.
- the birds. For the true reality of these feelings dwells deep in the
- Title: Man/Symphony: Lecture VII: Gnomes, Undines, Sylphs, and Salamanders and their Relations to Ethers and Plants
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- where birds are winging through the air. If a sylph is obliged to move
- and weave through air devoid of birds, it feels as though it had lost
- on the other hand, is attracted towards birds, and has a sense of
- prevented by the cosmic ordering from becoming birds, for they have
- birds flying about. The fire-spirits have this experience, but to an
- Title: Man/Symphony: Lecture VIII: Gnomes, Undines, Sylphs, and Salamanders and their Relations to Various Animals
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- head to those animals where this is lacking. Birds, however, as I
- head-organization. The sylphs add to the birds in a spiritual way what
- metabolic limb-system in man. If the birds fly about in the air with
- birds that the sylphs have their ego, have what connects them with the
- and fire-beings complement the birds and butterflies in a downwards
- them. But just look at the thrushes and blackbirds; they perch on the
- become corrupted on the earth in the belladonna, whereas birds such as
- thrushes and blackbirds, which should really get this in a spiritual
- Title: Man/Symphony: Lecture IX: Gnomes, Undines, Sylphs, and Salamanders and their Various Activities and Attitudes
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- find the dying birds. I described to you how these dying birds possess
- emanates from dying birds, that which makes their lightning flashes
- Title: Poetry/Speech: Lecture II: The Art of Recitation and Declamation
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- Title: Poetry/Speech: Lecture III: The Art of Recitation and Declamation
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- Shoot our water-birds in welcome!
- Title: Old/New Methods: Lecture Three: The Development of Religious Experience in Post-Atlantean Civilization
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- following picture: Imagine a swarm of birds close by. You see each
- Title: Arts and Their Mission: Lecture II
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- Title: Colour: Part Two: Dimension, Number and Weight
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- vertebrates, birds and mammals. – Ed.)
- Title: Young Doctors Course: Appendix: Evening Gathering with Young Medical People
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- appendages. Birds' legs are always stunted.
- Title: Anthroposophy/Civilization
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- Anthroposophy points out that the birds in the forest are
- generation, “the birds have tiny heads and have soon had
- Title: First Class, Vol. I: Lesson 6
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- rapid ones, and the flying birds. We observe the inherent
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