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Title: Lecture: The Alphabet
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value as sounds. In Greek culture we still have a name for the first
as Man called the first letter of the alphabet ‘Alpha’, he
expressed in the first letter of the alphabet.
learned how on his way down he first gathers to him the influences of
in the abstract by saying: Man is composed first of physical body,
The first is abstraction, the second reality.
nothing to do with the first. The one is not concerned with the other.

Title: Lecture: The Moral as the Source of World-Creative Power
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these men pictured the sun, we must say: They pictured it first and

Title: Lecture: The Path to Freedom and Love and their Significance in World Events
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within us a seed, a germinating entity which, first and foremost, is

Title: Lecture: Search for the New Isis, the Divine Sophia: The Quest for the Isis-Sophia
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of humanity ever since. Many things in human evolution may at first appear
course of many years. I have told you: We look back into the first
Isis had to set out on her search for him, how she first brought him back
a new way. They must realize that they must first of all seek Isis, in
Christians in the first Christian centuries, and who felt the Mystery of
peace, only because first of all it brings an inner peace into the hearts
understanding the one who appeared among human beings on the first

Title: Evil and the Future of Man
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tendencies to evil. We must, in the first place, altogether abstract
domains. The first is this: Man as he evolves towards the future will
On various occasions, as a first step towards an understanding of this
will require of mankind the first suggestions of these things —

Title: Lecture: The Human Heart
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the first periods of life, and it is many years since I first
our usual standards, but it meets the case exactly.) The first etheric
structures, radiantly present in the astral body in the first days of
first place that every single organ bears within it, in a sense, an
mist, new differentiations come into it from another side — first
hold together what he had first formed within him as an essence out of
first drawn together his etheric body, comes into union with this. But

Title: Lecture: The Invisible Man Within Us
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have first the ego organization (yellow); then we have the astral
organization without first passing through the astral body and
first runs along the pathways of the nerves. This has an essentially
blood. But the ego flows in such a way that it first ensouls its
physical organizations. After first taking along the astral and
of the organs. Foreign bodies are then formed, which are first
active in the right way if it is first permeated by the ego and
the peculiar symptoms of poisoning occur. First the point of origin
how the breakdown processes first resist and then only gradually
and buzzing in the ears arise, because at first the breakdown

Title: Lecture: Outlooks for the Future
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pilgrimage through the starry world. The first thing which they had to do,
We are now living in the fifth epoch of the first post-Atlantean age;
evolution of humanity which we can mark with a thick line. At first,
which come to us from outside. We face a time in which we shall first

Title: Lecture: Self Knowledge and the Christ Experience
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time, dating from the first third of the fifteenth century, is the time of
particularly since the first third of the fifteenth century, has trickled
A first stage in the reception of this stream consists in man noticing that
and he notices for the first time that it is there. It rises, filling him

Title: Lecture: Social Understanding Through Spiritual Scientific Knowledge
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As you know, the first of the capacities that leads man into super-sensible
puberty, and from puberty till about the twenty-first year. If you do not
man's organization during the first seven years of his life, become, as it
twenty-first year — it would be too much of an assertion to say that this
considerable difference in this respect in the first, second and third stage
twenty-first year. The will working in us up till the seventh year works
So we have the earth's interior in the first period of life; encircling air in
first year. Not until the age of twenty-one does man tear himself away, as

Title: Lecture: Spiritual Emptiness and Social Life
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first time, that the essentially corpse-like quality in the findings of
Germanic world during the first centuries after the founding of

Title: Lecture: The Sun-Mystery in the Course of Human History
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being. Two aspects of the will can be distinguished. — There is first
first time in the days of Constantine, had destroyed. Countless
Indeed during the first centuries of Christendom, Christ was still a
priests of the Romans, and even the first Emperors — Augustus, for

Title: Lecture: Truth Beauty and Goodness
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A single lecture first published 1927 by the Anthroposophical Publishing
As the human being stands before us we see, in the first place, his
first to “prove all things” he utters, to set due restraint on all

Title: The Individuality of Elias, John, Raphael, Novalis
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which first made it possible for man to be, and for the Earthly to be
wrote was unfinished and incomplete. The first book he undertook was intended

Title: Lecture: Exoteric and Esoteric Christianity
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the first centuries after Christ, no longer exist. They may exist, at
modern man finds it very difficult to understand that the first men
“knowledge” by us. The first men who lived on the earth
considered to be their own particular wisdom. This wisdom at first
death. The gods themselves had first to send down to the earth a
approach the divine worlds which they had left. In the first period
that the first heralds of Christianity attached great value to the
of the most innocent of all. First, this conviction must be gained
— Christ is the first-born who passed through death from the

Title: Lecture: The Origin of Speech and Language
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It is the first lecture in the series The Human Being in Body,
in order to grasp this, we need to look at something else first.
consonants. First they form the sound A; then they add
first enters the human body, moves up the spinal column and enters
change something. Gentlemen, we would first have to change the entire
First of all, the brain of a young child is surrounded by a layer or
was unformed mush. The mountains first had to be pulled out of this

Title: Lecture: The Sense-Organs and Aesthetic Experience
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acquire a true comprehension of the world unless we first recognise
consider first the opposite question: What would happen if there were

Title: Lecture: A Turning-Point in Modern History
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that man has first to become inwardly free before he can achieve
Hierarchy: foodstuffs, First Hierarchy: and in between is the Second
trinity, composed of three members. First, economic activity, the

Title: Lecture: Elemental Beings and Human Destinies
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periods of about seven years in length. Roughly speaking, the first is
the third to the beginning of the twenty-first year, and so on. All
human being about the twenty-first year of life is, for one who can
ego-consciousness unfolds, as you know, in the first seven-year stage
sphere of willing, then we live, first of all, in the sphere of
It is our anthroposophical spiritual science which for the first time

Title: Lecture: Man, Offspring of the World of Stars
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the first three periods of ten years. This is the period of growth,
during the first twelve years of life. Again we find the parallelism
learns to utter the first sounds of speech in a period which
In the first epoch of Post-Atlantean times, when the ancient Indian
what has first been sent out into space from the Earth and comes back

Title: Lecture: The Three Stages of Sleep
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human being, but which must first be sought if it is to rise up
state of sleep there emerges first the life of dreams. This
cave in the mountain. At first it is dusk, and then it gets
have two entirely different pictures. In the first dream we
drama through which the soul passes; how there was first an
essential thing is the process of intensification: first
first thing that they will find when they enter the
the cosmic formative forces if we have first acquired
the first hours after awaking. I am sure that many of you are
possible either in the first or in the second condition of
sleep. In the first state of sleep, the content of which can
either the world of pictures, in the first condition, or into
ourselves out of the first state, and out of the second state

Title: Lecture: Spiritual Wisdom in the Early Christian Centuries
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go back through the Middle Ages to the first Christian centuries we
us in modern times to have any true conception of the first three or
certain personalities in the first three or four centuries after the
century A.D.) only the first, elementary traces of this kind of
of the first to change these imaginations into abstract concepts and
wisdom because it was still cultivated in many places during the first
South of Europe during the first four centuries after the Mystery of
first centuries of Christendom there were a number of men who were
many hands in the Roman world during the first Christian centuries and
by Romanism over the first conceptions of the Mystery of Golgotha!

Title: Lecture: The Recovery of the Living Source of Speech
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Now they hearken to the Inspirations of the First
Hierarchy of the Archangels is at first the receiver of Intuitions;
receive through the inspiration of Beings of the First Hierarchy,
has to-day reached a kind of culmination, first began to show itself
true Orient out of Deussen's translations. The first thing
of Plato. The first philosophical pedant
unless we see in him the first philosophical pedant and at the same
in another aspect the first pedant philosopher, for he made out of
Cherubim, Thrones — the First Hierarchy. Whence do they receive
Imagination? There is no Hierarchy beyond the First! The Imaginations
Hierarchy beyond the first. Certain Archangel Beings were therefore
the First. If we have a right understanding for this event in human
contained in the First Hierarchy. There is one thing that up to that
on Golgotha is an event whereby the First Hierarchy reached up into a
the Trinity as standing above the First Hierarchy. In reality It only
Christ first made Himself known to men, during all this time while He
behold first the evolution of the Archangels and all that takes place
again. We must first be able to observe in the spiritual world. Above
life of the First Beginnings to flow again in language, what a

Title: Lecture: Gnostic Doctrines and Supersensible Influences in Europe
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Greece they were known as Aeons — of the first rank, the second
civilisation no longer than the first three, or rather no longer than
the first three and greater part of the fourth centuries of our era.
were among the first. It was the age of Scholasticism, of European
this, a task of first importance for the evolutionary progress of

Title: Lecture I: Ancient Myths
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myth which I should first like to discuss — but as already
grasps this externally in the first place — we shall have to

Title: Lecture II: Ancient Myths
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General Ideas, are at first as certain Ideas in God: those are
them, they call him the foremost, the first, Fürst (Eng: Chief,

Title: Lecture III: Ancient Myths
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that at first could only be divined when the Egyptian felt the words
It is in the first
of action which is bound up with the new Isis statue is at first only
one finds a second time what one has found a first time, one takes

Title: Lecture IV: Ancient Myths
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a means of further studying the riddle that was first propounded.
passed by, the first post-Atlantean culture-epoch arose. This
of Cancer at the vernal equinox the first post-Atlantean civilization
one can characterize this first, ancient Indian culture by saying
very insusceptible to these things. During the first
world-conception of this first post-Atlantean culture-epoch. A man
growth and thriving, of everything imaginable, so, in the first
sensitive in the first post-Atlantean epoch, all intimate concepts of
concerned, precisely in the first post-Atlantean epoch, with the
in the first post-Atlantean time — is less closely connected
And just as in the first post-Atlantean epoch the
decanates of the first post-Atlantean age, the Cancer-age, are Venus,

Title: Lecture V: Ancient Myths
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as first interesting us after the great Atlantean catastrophe,
humanity as such, the reverse is the case. A man is first child, then
first epoch after the great Atlantean catastrophe man remained
great difference in the first 2,160 years after the great Atlantean
draw on hundreds from every part of Europe. In the first half of the
with mixed feelings that one leaves off reading. For in the first
higher members, in the first place of what we have called the
first spiritual member in us continually becomes more vigorous and
one grows older! At first glance it is not always immediately
standpoint. He has, in the first place, only seen the parties which

Title: Lecture VI: Ancient Myths
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that sounds strange at first hearing but which corresponds to a deep
complexity. But we will first consider the duality which we see when
the first place a true apparatus for spiritual activity, for all that
learn; I must first be as old as he before I can find it in myself.
in the first place to serve as the point on which the hatred
first of over eighty Waldorf Schools was not founded until 1919.]

Title: Lecture VII: Ancient Myths
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the rest of the organism must first affect the head (it can do so of
Swiss first performances by Pulver and Reinhart were discussed, where
studio window in the very first scene ought to bloom only at the end
fifth epoch, following the first, second, third and fourth epochs.

Title: Lecture: The Dual Form of Cognition During the Middle Ages and the Development of Knowledge in Modern Times
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intellectualism, as such, has made its first appearance in the course
Aristotle. Aristotle is, as it were, the first man in human evolution
followed the first four hundred years after the Mystery of Golgotha.
starting with the first Fathers of the Church up to Duns Scotus and
as yet exist, for Darwin's first epoch-making book only appeared in
terrestrial existence. In that year the first attempt was made to
above examples, to social life. The first more important

Title: Lecture: The Remedy for Our Diseased Civilisation
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important than continually speaking of God. Perhaps, at first,
Scholasticism, which constituted the first freeing deed; and

Title: Lecture: Goethe and the Evolution of Consciousness
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accustomed, their first reaction will be one of astonishment and, for
Leipzig, Strassburg and Frankfurt, and for the first period of his
into a closer union with Nature, in whose arms he first of all seeks
after having first composed it in the mood of the Germanic North. Nor
After he had been to Italy, Goethe really hated the first version of

Title: Lecture: Salt, Mercury, Sulphur
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has Spiritual Science to say to this? When in the first place we
which were first dissolved begin to build up again. When we eat salt,
it is first dissolved by means of the fluids in the organism, but we
shrouded in the darkness of dogma. That was the first step downwards

Title: Lecture: Some Conditions for Understanding Supersensible Experiences
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The first requirement for understanding the super-sensible world is
light itself, then for the first time he becomes aware that thinking

Title: Lecture: The Relation of the Movement for Religious Renewal to the Anthroposophical Movement
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say in the first place that already for a long time now the
thinking, feeling, and will. I remarked first of all to those who
I said: It is quite obvious first of all that it is not only a
is to be reached in Anthroposophy can be attained first of all in the
are at first unable to set out directly along the path to the
come to us from the spiritual world should first of all enter the
very first ceremony in this Movement, performed it under my guidance,
were to do so, he would be working for two ends: firstly, for the
what would the Anthroposophical Society be if it first needed
Movement for Religious Renewal who is himself first a good
(The following night the first Goetheanum was destroyed by fire.)

Title: Lecture: Concerning the Origin and Nature of the Finnish Nation
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consciousness was first spread out.
take up what comes towards it, it must first be prepared for this. We

Title: Lecture: Perceiving and Remembering
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of this is that the human ego and astral body first receive a revelation of
case. We meet a man today, whom we first saw five days ago. We remember that
what occurs; the first thing we have to take into consideration is this, that
first meeting; and because man is always with part of his astral body and ego
gates of death, the ego and astral body are naturally at first far more
it, throws off and allows to pass before it. During the first few days after
be done in ordinary life? Why is it that we first perceive the results of the
matter to be understood without first preparing the soul for it —
on all that can only be reached by a soul that has first prepared itself with
must first know what must happen and recognise clearly and without any

Title: Perception of the Nature of Thought
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something that was first implanted in us during the Saturn period,
namely, the first rudiments of our physical bodily nature. What we
look out to the stars in cosmic space we do not at first find what
must be clear that at first there is nothing so directly (I said; at
first, so directly) in our surrounding field of vision; external
nature contains in the first place in the main no forces which
before he can first draw breath. It is active from the conception to
overcome as soon as the human being draws the first active breath for
the human embryo before it draws the first breath, enfolding it and
of Philosophy are distinguished. I have called the first period “The
The characteristic of the first period consists in the fact that a
thought-life first awoke in the 7th, 6th century B.C. Before that
thought-perception. Thus in the first period we are concerned with
the first stimulus to create thoughts from within outwards. This gave
tree? Doubt first began in the third period when men became aware
outside. There is still at first an appeal to traditional dogmatism,
the external. The thinking of Thales, of the first philosopher was
general. And for the first time since the 16th century we
them during the second period. Preparation is made in the first
comes from Spirit itself, philosophically at first, otherwise
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Title: Lecture: The Spiritual Individualities of the Planets
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First and foremost, then, the Moon is a mirror of the Sun's light.
strict seclusion, and reflects only what is first radiated to it from

Title: Lecture: The Elemental World and the Future of Mankind
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which began in the first third of the fifteenth century and has
the yogi had first to develop in himself.
the case with the yogi, one first had to struggle to attain
intellect — as already mentioned, this was from the first

Title: Lecture: A Picture of Earth-Evolution in the Future
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a lecture (first published in English in the quarterly, “Anthroposophy,” for
existed. The mineral kingdom as we know it today came into being for the first
first time that the human intellect began to grow shadowy. This process has

Title: Lecture: The Spiritual Communion of Mankind
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Mysteries we must think, first of all, of that part of the evolution
man: contemplation, first of the inner aspect of man's being and
that we think, first, of the human being as a whole, with heart,
within outwards. In ancient times it was the other way about: first
The old tradition of the first

Title: Lecture: Technology and Art: Their Bearing on Modern Culture
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When a man who has reached, shall we say, the first
has taken even the first steps of the initiate-life lives differently
through. The difference between one who has reached the first steps
to an actual science of Nature; this has been done for the first time
takes place in two stages. The first stage consists in destroying
know that when Nature is demolished — the mineral world first
part of the first stage. We demolish physical Nature and thereby
The first stage can therefore also be called: Eviction
belong to the hierarchy of Ahrimanic spirits. In the first stage,
day. No wonder that when someone who has reached the first stage of
Therefore one who has already taken the first steps on
has taken the first steps towards initiation wants to find his way
other sentence there, and so on. ... At first hearing this may seem
organism and in human life, man is connected — in the first
[The first Goetheanum.]
the aim has been to take the very first
very first steps — towards a new form of art. The attempt that
in the first third of the Fifth Post-Atlantean epoch. These things

Title: Lecture: The Inexpressible Name, Spirits of Space and Time.
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described in Anthroposophy. That is to say, we first have before us
things, it would first of all recognize the living essence of the
During the first post-Atlantean epoch we have a deep influence
representative of the 5th post-Atlantean age, in its first

Title: Lecture: The Coming Experience of Christ
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This lecture first appeared in English in The Golden Blade of 1952.
Christ-Experience of the first half of the twentieth century will
characteristics inherited from parents and grandparents. The first
inheritance from the first, second, third and fourth conditions what
manifestation of the Christ in the first half of the twentieth

Title: Lecture: Modern and Ancient Spiritual Exercises
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first consider the people in general from among whom the yogi emerged
you will find that one of the first exercises shows how to
schematically. Let this be the yogi (first drawing, white lines). He
the soul-spiritual from the bodily nature. The first discovery, when such
increasingly required, is not forthcoming. The first resistance to be
higher worlds. They make a start and the first delicate spiritual cognition

Title: Lecture: The Meaning of Easter: St. Paul and the Christ Impulse
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will be the first full moon of spring and upon this full moon will fall
is the first after the full moon of spring, then is the time to keep the
first of all to consider the part played by the figure of St. Paul
it — first of all, seriously, and secondly, with courage. As a
first Sunday after the first full moon of spring. The tradition we have,

Title: Lecture: The Universe
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should then consider first of all man's life as a
us first consider the human form
first stage of fitting himself into the cosmos by saying:
First:
first take the simplest farming existence — by
third, second, first post-Atlantean ages, to the last
being reaches birth, the first four force impulses lie
being, but the first four force impulses and the last four
The first one, the head, is in reality the transformation

Title: Lecture: The Templars
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Mystery of Golgotha on the part of modern humanity. First of all, a small
say, he wanted in the first place to possess their treasures. But Philippe le
ineffective the Templar Movement in the form it had first of all
of the senses; for these worlds must first be overcome before Man can enter
intensity and strength with which it was at first lived out by the great
was, as we know, Richard Wagner who first presented Parzifal again, and then
the first beginnings of this spiritual development the best powers of his
and the Moon time; the I we have for the first time in this life of earth.

Title: The Year as a Symbol of the Great Cosmic Year
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time to another. This may at first appear simply a matter of
Earth, we do not in the first place see in the geological-mineral
must regard the plant world, in the first place, as an independent
these physical senses, can at first know nothing of this great
frosty night of winter we receive the first intimation of the dawning

Title: On the Duty of Clear, Sound Thinking
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world that act on the senses of the soul. That which was at first
images: for the object must first make an impression on us and our
conditions, these living conditions reveal what first leads us
advanced at first but slowly. These hindering conditions have
Men fly from the first glance of it.
do and of what mankind stands in need. We must in the first place

Title: Lecture: Evil and the Power of Thought
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The first of two
— one cannot help characterising it in this way at first
penetrate first through the etheric body, and the etheric body,
that seized upon the pupils of these Mystery colonies when they first

Title: Lecture: The Seeds of Future Worlds
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implied in this. First, the belief that the message of the Father God cannot
to see the world in this double aspect. We see first the Father God,
cosmos. You see the moon like this: first a circle, then a smaller,
down into our selves, then we look first into our own inner chaos, into

Title: Lecture: Exoteric and Esoteric Christianity
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First
crucifixion. It was, at first, impossible for Paul to conceive
that were still extant during the first centuries of Christendom
mind to understand, is that the first human beings who lived on
for the first time, to feel that there is a significance in
truth of esoteric Christianity came to him for the first
Being had passed through death. Christ is the First-Born,

Title: Lecture: Realism and Nominalism
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But it must also be said that in Greece we often find the first
at first to take part in the movement for a religious renewal,
fully as a human being. First you must awaken something in you which
one for himself. At first they interest me, each one for himself.

Title: Lecture: Fundamentals of the Science of Initiation
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To-day we shall first speak of something which lies in the
this talk of the higher hierarchies which must first be known? What

Title: Lecture: Cosmogony, Freedom, Altruism
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the decline of our civilisation, the first is the lack of a
the last question first, and if we contemplate the state of
foundations for religious altruism in the first place, and,
of the social question; but the Europeans would first need to
first instance — and though indeed it even tries to get
real. It was in Rome that the “Citizen” first
in the first half of the 18th century, or a little later,
appeared, Eduard von Hartmann was one of the first to receive

Title: Lecture: Brunetto Latini
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self-knowledge is none other than the first elementary
Behind it is the etheric body; but man in the first place is
The first
sense. He must first get out of the sense-organs —
these things. We must first go through the understanding of
You must first learn to know the aspect of the super-sensible
light when one has first made oneself familiar with that
understand the first truths of the Mystery of Golgotha. We

Title: Lecture: The Shaping of the Human Form out of Cosmic and Earthly Forces
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you put the first quarter here and the last quarter there
the human being the head is the first thing to take shape.
first passes by and works upon the formation of the human
first unable to work on the human being; you see that he
head again, and the form of his head is prepared at first in

Title: Lecture: Speech and Song
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essentially adapted to earthly conditions. In the first place it is
and acquire here on earth the language which serves us in the first
we first attain Imagination or Imaginative Cognition, as I have often
song, he himself is living. It is so in the very first days after man

Title: Lecture: Concerning Electricity
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final scene of my first Mystery Play can show you what it means to

Title: Lecture: The Problem of Jesus and Christ in Earlier Times
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first centuries of the Christian era, we find great spirits arising,
Now, let us first
Clemens of Alexandria looked up, first of all, to the Christ as a
preparation — humankind first needed to become acquainted with
comes the second current, or stream. Whereas the first stream is
the Christ was first able to manifest only through angels, and that
could feel Jesus in his purity of form in the first play, which is so
first appearance of “Jesus” — gradually conquered
mysticism. Thus, on the one hand, we have the first appearance of the
described in the first pages of my little book on the progress of the
There I spoke of the first
the same thing that permeates the human being during those first
experience externally for the first time: hatred.
first is considered speculative and cosmological, the second

Title: Lecture: On the Dimensions of Space
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the soul-and-spirit works upon the bodily nature. But in the first
and the soul and spirit which we cannot in the first place assign to
first place, anthroposophical science must
first prepare ourselves for this experience, but if we do so we
thereby it becomes a being of Feeling. First we see a cloud of light.
the Thinking is only lost when we let the first dimension vanish.
second vanishes, and through the sixth the first vanishes, and we
to one, or two, or to the third or fourth ray. But the first

Title: Lecture: Thinking and Willing as Two Poles of the Human Soul-Life
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the lecturer, by an unknown translator, and first published in
during the first seven years of his life, up to the time of the
the first weeks of his life and you will certainly say: The child has
first won for himself the power of making these sprawling,
pendulum we swing first towards the one, then towards the
“Muspille,” a poem which was first found in a book

Title: Fall/Darkness: Lecture 1: The Driving Force Behind Europe's War
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awareness and therefore no need for destruction in the first
the last decades of the nineteenth or the first decades of
nineteenth and the first decades of the twentieth century
world the lamentable statement: ‘First one thing

Title: Fall/Darkness: Lecture 2: Humanity's Struggle for Morality
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physical and etheric bodies. The first beginnings of the
come off. I discussed this in the first part of my essay on
that although they may at first sight appear to be satirical,
may not end in failure. The first condition is, however, that
happened on Atlantis — we come first of all to ancient
to the twenty-first and later to the fourteenth year.
and twenty-first year, and perhaps be a forceful personality
up to his twenty-first year. But unless he is able to develop
him in the first twenty-seven years of his life and who did,
was a thorn in the flesh at first, being in opposition, but

Title: Fall/Darkness: Lecture 3: The Search for a Perfect World
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spiritual truths will first of all activate low instincts,
actions. In the first place I am going to impose two rules an
is the first rule. Do not come to me, as people have done in

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this question, first of all considering why from now on
book. If you read the first three chapters of the book you
cry for knowledge of the devil in the first chapters of the

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— first and second age,
The book will have three parts and an appendix. In the first
at first sight. It shows that in a time not all that far
first of all notes a form of hatred or dislike arising
own free will. Firstly in the light that the words are an

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First of all we consider the fact that human beings have the
which exists first of all in the mind. Later on we shall
thoughts unless we first consider the true nature of the

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In the first
emphasized today that for the first seven years, up to the
their first to their seventh year they cannot understand at
first. And if this cooking process were to include the

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anything which emerges in the physical world has first lived
concerned, with things living first in human thoughts and
crockery in the first place. This is more or less the
you no longer know which way to turn; first I tell you the
first railways were being built in Central Europe. Speaking

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consider this battle to have been in the first place a battle
Michael and the dragon — happens first of all in the

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fire. The first thing we must know is that, seeing that these
third of the nineteenth century and the first half of the
first thing, or one of the first things, will have to be
a science of education. And one of the first principles to be

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only come in later years; children must first of all be able
first, impulses to consider life in a truly comprehensive
glance at the first essay in the journal, which is on the

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and gradually. Today we shall first of all consider some ways
The first is
become poets. Speaking of the time when they first began to
The first step
for the twentieth, twenty-first and later centuries. This will be only
1880s, 1890s, and the first two decades of the twentieth

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some excellent truths which are of the first magnitude. But
preparation during the first, second, third and fourth

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consciousness of this independence first arose as the
consciousness soul appeared in human evolution in the first half of
although the first references are present already in my
must in fact first learn the language of Christ, the language
mature adults, but as little worms. But at first they are in the
first of all, it is not as great as the intelligence ruling in
in the sense world first of all and then carry this education, this
first, especially while it was still connected to the Theosophical

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appearance of the idea in sensible form?” First we must know
only be redeemed through the Christ. Christianity must first be
the first thing which is needed is to realise that intellectual and empirical
first decay and become spiritual, in order to change into skull-bones

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schematic way, say, on the first Sunday in April. From the
one on the first page of which [in German- speaking

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in the age of a lost science. The first beginnings of a

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significant task of the present times. We should feel that first
realize that we must first rise to an understanding of Christ's
birth. We should remember that we first have to gain an

Title: Lecture: Man and Cosmos
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first be distinguished; they are united in an alternating
activity, and in order to understand them we must first study
we do not dig a hole into it; if we first had to dig a hole into
recognize in the first place what is dead, and this pertains to

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development, from which undefined forms first condensed
the world. What arises in that case? In the first place, we live

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different stages. The first stage or degree was one of
first idea of what the Mysteries revealed to him. The subsequent
the first chapter of Nietzsche's description of Greek philosophy,
past epochs, but we ourselves must first find the way to it, we
that in spite of all efforts to built it up again, the first

Title: Lecture: The Golden Legend and a German Christmas Play
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Edited by Harry Collison and published for the first time in
Edited by Harry Collison and published for the first time in
was first shown just at Christmas time, how the Cosmic Word sounded
We might say that that which binds man to the Earth is at first
within us, but at first only builds up our physical body. It first
Mary. Thus at first it was attempted with simple art; later an
Scripture. And it was at first really to acquaint them with what had
them by the priests. The people first learnt to know of them in this
At first the people understood absolutely nothing about the child
there were even districts in which all was quite serious at first,
holiness on a performance which could not at first have been called
Christmas had first to conquer mankind. And it conquered the people

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Edited by Harry Collison and published for the first time in
Edited by Harry Collison and published for the first time in
its first task is to form our body. To begin with it creates the
Joseph and Mary. At first they used a very naive sculptural
figures. This came first from the side of the clergy. Thus priests
participation developed. There were even regions where first a
first had to conquer the people. And the story conquered them to

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Translated by A. Innes and published for the first time in
Translated by A. Innes and published for the first time
where it hangs. It first attaches the threads and then vanishes into the
cocoon. So we first have the egg, then the caterpillar and now the
the butterfly exists as such, four things are required. First of all the
way to observe things in Nature. First, quite a significant idea is
creature. This is the first thing we see. The second is the deep
created out of light, but light had first to take up matter, form a case
butterfly arises from light which has first been imprisoned.
their minds. He had first to prepare himself for such an experience. It
so it goes on right hack to the first ovum of all, which is Eve's. So
has first to disappear for the butterfly to arise. It arises inside
instance matter must first be destroyed and vanish, thus enabling the
Fertilisation signifies that matter has first been destroyed. A minute

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down within the soul. We ought first to consider what kind of
of these things already emerge in the first seven years of life
body, it is especially important to observe in the first epoch
effect, notably in the first seven years of life, when the

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magnificently described. He himself is in the first train to
when the first train goes over, the bridge collapses and he is
been in the first train, but had been sitting quietly at home
first place, he is a really great and gifted poet. And
first President of the Theosophical Society, Colonel Olcott.
was an excellent jurist and a first-class worker. What
system. Now he is a first-class lawyer. What does it mean to be
a first-class lawyer, as judge (or public prosecutor)? It

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necessary first to gain a broader basis; I must explain some
man does within the social order, is the first seed of
its course in this way: There is a first section, approximately
twenty-first; and so on. (For instance, there is another
comes the period from the fourteenth to the twenty-first year,
understands what was spiritually at work in the first centuries
Stuart Mill and Herzen! Mill, speaking in the first place
turn. I have told you how the ‘Grand Orient’ first made efforts
be the first to die. We can look up a certain so-called occult
our eyes must first learn to see. And we can only learn to see
understanding we have first received of the Spiritual

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say, in place of the Angel whom he first desired to worship
of the first calls on every one who finds his way into
the Word. It was the Christ. But men must first find the
this end, however, we must first learn to understand a little
placed by his calling or vocation. To do so, we must first
beyond it, first and foremost by learning to understand
relation to the cosmos, for to do so one must first see
lines of Natural Science — 1763, when Watt first raised
this end, however, we must first bring before our souls certain
first had to disappear from humanity; it had to be
first understand the true interpretation. Watt was not

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like first to remind you how events which take place behind the veil of
light, presenting themselves first as a kind of riddle to be
souls. A man first observes it quite externally: when spring comes he

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have, first, a solid core in the centre
oxygen: that is only a first approximation. All water, wherever
we can say, first of all, that in so
therefore we observe the Earth in the depths of winter, we have first
will first consider salt-formation,
the basis of salt-formation, the effect is, first of all, that the
— after all that has first to happen in order that a new human
first as an embryo, is in this sense wholly Sun-activity. The embryo
what it became after imbibing its first drop of milk. That was the
the new-born infant was a Sun-being, and that through the first
Hence the new-born infant did not at first belong to the Earth at
First we have the Moon-Earth element, spread out below the Earth's
the first Christian centuries, and of which the last echoes have

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factor in winter-time. We will study this first in the limestone
in the small dome of the first Goetheanum, and in Rudolf Steiner's
into the life of the Earth itself: first, the extreme that man would
clouds, as in Shakespeare's play, a shape which looks first like a

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characteristic raiment — the raiment which first lights up in
Its meaning first dawns upon the mind when as human beings we learn
convincing power, if — I might say — one has first
like this. The first words endeavour to represent how the gaze of Uriel

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And here I would like first to say something by way of introduction.
then they are very little understood. So in the first part of
possibilities of illness during the first seven years of life, and
complete picture. First, the summer picture at the time of St. John:
healing forces which he has first — one might say —
understands the first stage of healing. If he knows what salt should
forces. If we first see this for ourselves and then, having perhaps

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For what first makes our world into a whole, raising us above Maya and
really the first half
Already I have said that in the first half of the 19th Century, people
consciousness of this still existed up to the first half of the 19th
Century in the life of mankind. As the first clairvoyance described
of the first half of the 19th Century — you still find —

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observation. For what first makes our world into a whole, raising
literature, was really the first half of the 19th century. Then
have already said that in the first half of the 19th century people
of this still existed up to the first half of the 19th century in
the life of mankind. As the first clairvoyance described here was
first half of the 19th Century — even if it cannot be described

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This lecture is the first of fifteen lectures in the series entitled,
This lecture is the first of fifteen lectures in the series entitled,
the first stage that the ideas of man tended mostly towards
Demonology. The first stage of evolution in the Comte sense is
demons and little demons. That was the first stage.
they first thought demons, elementary beings, were behind all
first abstractly and philosophically for a bridge between the
he came at first to all kinds of abstract thoughts in the
course of this bridge-building. While he first built on the

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of the Foundation Stone of the first Goetheanum at Dornach, 20th
of the first Goetheanum at Dornach, 20th September, 1916.
This is the first of 6 lectures in the lecture series,
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of the first Goetheanum at Dornach, 20th September, 1916
thought was first conceived of building a sanctuary for our
begun is very imperfect; a first tentative groping towards
which, however, I am enabled to impart for the first time
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first place, as we trace back in historical time, we see a
us first call to mind our own soul-life. I will take an example
rhythmic memory. Thus we have first, localised memory;
memory first made its appearance which we with our lamentable
declining and the first Post-Atlantean peoples were wandering
eastward in the direction of Asia. For we have first the

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various epochs. In the first part of my lecture I attempted to
the highest realm, the First Hierarchy: Seraphim, Cherubim,
thought and feeling. Thus these Eastern peoples had first their
ancient Asiatic period. The first two states of
compensation of meeting in the forest Beings of the First
the first place, we had the transition from rhythmic memory to

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In the first two introductory lectures we have been at pains to
Epic is called Erech, dissensions arose in the city. At first
cosmic world of those Spiritual Beings Who were the first great
succumbed to the first temptation that assailed him and fell
the first to experience the descent of the Ego-consciousness,
Asia, was first and foremost cosmic knowledge; its wisdom and
everything that is of a plant-like nature. At first it was in
view. These personalities who had first in the Egypto-Chaldean

Title: World History: Lecture IV: Atlantean Wisdom in the Mysteries of Hibernia, Gilgamish and Eabani at Ephesus, Logos Mysteries of Artemis at Ephesus
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us first form an idea of the nature of such an initiation, that
matter, first to experience with one's whole inner being, with
Hibernia, and continued so to come until the first centuries of
new knowledge. First of all, the real nature of human
Lamprecht; the first German secular epic poem.]

Title: World History: Lecture V: Mysteries of the East, West, and of Ephesus
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and, in the first place, to Greece. This change was of the
first to be turned westward. As such, they had already that
light, and he will at first be dazed and stupefied. He will be
[Herodotus of Halicarnassos, the first Greek
the first prose historian, appeared. And from this
and Alexander the Great, there was living in the first place
significance for later times. Of the first importance however
asserting itself in the West, first as Rome, later under the

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of mankind, we have first to bring about a change in our power
had not been followed first by Greece and then by Rome.
Ephesus we first find a difference. There the pupils in the
times of year. There the first sign of personality makes its
makes its first appearance in the Roman period. Think, my dear
the very first lectures of this course, when I described the
Mystery of Golgotha. Hence the first way by which the Mystery
exception. Do but make the experiment of reading first Plato

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in the first third of the 15th century, and that marks the
and good. In the first instance these terms are mere words: but
the words and gives them their content. We ask first: what
quartz-crystal was first formed in the mountains. It was formed
the human being we may see working together, first of all the
further. And now, first the etheric and then the physical body

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that time. To find the Rosicrucian master the pupil must first
through the mineral world, he is united with the first
those earlier times and on into the first third of the
spirit in which at a certain moment of our life we first sought

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or that town, for if people first see Eurythmy without hearing

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came the time of the first epoch after the Mystery of
the first epoch after the Mystery of Golgotha, that was not
Thus in the first Christian Centuries it was endeavoured to
was the first, because some one had to be first, just as
in the Divine Hierarchies also, one had to be first. A memory of
social structure, was lost. First the Gods, later the metaphysical
of Truth simply did not exist in the first Christian

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at first the child grows into the world as in a kind of
to perceive the being truly, we must first destroy something
as an idea, as a perception. Thus you must first create in
look first at summer time, outside us we see in this summer
if it is not rooted in the process of death. As in the first
shedding first of the physical and then of the etheric body,
first the misty realm of the spirit and then the whole true
hear that to become spiritual the trees must first decay,
dried-up tree-trunk, it is really showing for the first time
its spiritual appearance. There must everywhere first be
and really experiences individually what has first to build
We need not be clairvoyant at first but must accustom

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this, we must put first, and take in the deepest sense, what
from the head is at first bound up with experiences which
process carried out is this, that we first move out of our
over the whole cosmos is that which man mast first
world. In the physical-sensible world, we first have correct
we must first develop ideas — we must make every effort
spiritual-psychic principle which first worked on the bodily,
elsewhere, man first found his fulfillment, then there

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must take into account from the very first the marked
for aesthetics, was slightly disillusioned when he first called
on science, and this is what he did at first. Jurisprudence,
revolutionary spirit of the first rank storming the culture of
in every possible kind of quarrel and battle during the first
called the first version of this drama, if we choose so to
them to be of first importance at that time, but they were only
first importance. He was a far better statesman than many a
arrived at his first important scientific treatise entitled,
escape. We must not forget that he then, for the first time,
from his earliest youth. This was his first introduction to the
that Rome was the first city through which he viewed the
first returned than Schiller's youthful works. But the two men

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likewise in Goethe, even though we might at first consider him
into certain periods. The first proceeds in such a way that we
we study the first part of Goethe's life up to the year 1775,
life? To further understand the life of a man, we must first
in the first scenes of Faust. In order to write the
sense and in the right light, these first scenes of
his soul as he wrote these first scenes. Then, the Duke of
first had to experience his own rejuvenation in Rome. It is for

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first formation, so that our brain system really has its most
systems, enters consciousness at first only in a small degree.
The forces with which they dream must first be applied in the
have to indicate the first potential toward shoemaking here at
must first familiarize themselves with what is a beginning.
accomplishes: first the most insignificant work in a profession
karma with his vocation until we first know how his labor,
But I had first to introduce these matters so we might attain a

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cosmic complex as it may at first appear. I pointed out that,
where the first potentialities of the physical body were
intimately bound up with evolution that we owe the first
their vocational activity that will be the first potentiality
for Vulcan, just as the Saturn activity was the first
spiritual science. Only by learning first to recognize the
be an empty phrase. In the first place, people will see that
necessarily create the first cosmic potentiality for a
be said that we must first begin to understand the meaning of
ever more intimate. It will appear first in those areas that

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soul must first investigate the significance of such a ruin in
at first be preserved in the depths of the soul where it may be
appears during the first seven years can be more thoroughly and
primarily into consideration during the first period of life is
life. As a matter of fact, during the first seven years in

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instructive: first, because he is really a great and gifted
the first president of the
presuppositions, we must first acquire a clear perception and
Frequently, what needs to be done is to direct one's gaze first

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accomplished within the social order is the first germ of
There we see that human life first
third to the twenty-first, and so on all the way to the
then the period from the fourteenth until the twenty-first year
spiritually at work in the first centuries of the Christian
the sixties of the last century! Mill, who speaks first of his
the effort was made at first by the “Grand Orient” to lure
would be the first to meet his death — You may consult a
eyes must first learn how to see. The direction of one's

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influences that people today like to emphasize, let us first
in those days, he at first pursued the study of Greek and Latin
university, studying medicine at first — excuse this just
grace's letter was heartily welcome, first, because it lets me
occupied with geometry, and at first taught his son music
things the first time, your feelings for the man were probably
of what I first related? It was his personal fate. Apart from
words, I first told you what his daily affairs were, but
considered solely in connection with it. I first told you the
potentialities that may be similar. First, there is a certain
primus in orbo deos fecit timor (fear, first of all
twenty-one, I went to a metropolis for the first time — not
your attention for years — that the first generation will
them first before Arthur, then before the stranger all the
is a question we must study: what lives at first in the thought

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fix our attention first on the beings of the lowest hierarchies
angel, whom the person at first wanted to revere but whom he
— at first, their beginnings — is decadence that extends even
that one of the first demands made upon those who enter
say, “I am the Word.” This is the Christ. But men must first
unless we first learn to view things concretely. Someone
today was first made applicable in 1719 by Newcomen
when Watt first made the steam engine useful, was a year by no
first survey in thought much that is connected with the
of a vacuum. First, the belief in the horror of a vacuum had to
i was first written on the blackboard without a dot, and
you yourselves must first understand the interpretation of this
fact. Watt could not at first accomplish what he intended

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Being signifies for the earth, we must first acquaint ourselves
argumentation since it is justifiable and must first be
earthly evolution of humanity, let us first consider this
areas. The first is that of educating and teaching children. We
first time that he associated the voice of his wife with the
mankind. This question was first raised in the fourth decade of
1915, Sir Oliver at first related the message which had
scientific personality of the first rank who, when writing in
at the matter more closely. In the first message by the medium
very means. This may not be clear at first blush, but it is

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diagram), only the first is inside the second. Thus I boldly
draw the second over the first. This is again an image of the
third that again embraces the first and also the second (see
here drawn diagrammatically, first above, an image grown

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we saw how first of all we have to point to man's head. In a
had it not received its first form in those primeval days of
first that is experienced between death and a new birth;
consciousness because they are first of all directed toward
Theosophical Society was first formed it had as its basis

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should find first what we could only call empty space. Where
sense in speaking of this figure only if we have first spoken
in one of the first numbers of

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have gone by we have developed the subject. At first we

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For him no man was a complete human being who had first to
reincarnated Greek; and we see how the first dawn of the
what I attempted to say in the first chapter of my
At the first
they were concerned he was not there. And at first I had to
that at first sight, but the matter goes further. One finds
time. They have objected that the first counsels given there
them. They are right. right The first counsels given
Movement there existed a certain disinclination at first

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independently of each other, that during the first three or four years
true. In the first three years of life we learn a very great deal; we
and a great deal more besides. In those first three years we learn very
for the first time in the modern age. Among the Egyptians it was nearly

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First printed in English in the Anthroposophic News Sheets of the
First printed in English in the Anthroposophic News Sheets of the
is, at first, unknown to the ordinary human consciousness.
through our life in the external world. At first, it seems
rightly so, as one of the first who stimulated man to form
not the first stages of spiritual life of the East, for these
first stages were never recorded in writing. During the
eyes, first began to be receptive to the impressions of the
distant future. The first traces of this spirituality,
work. This capacity must first be developed in

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First published in English in the
First published in English in the
dear friends, many secrets of the spiritual world must first be
into another. To be sure, this may at first appear to us a mere
spiritual science we must first look upon it as an independent

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the anthroposophical point of view, as we have done before, we first
what happens first is a play of processes in the ego and the astral
absolutely clear about this: what first comes into consideration in
first have to make it clear to yourself, while looking at this large
red surface, that you are an ego. You have to separate first the ego.
So, the first thing we have
(diagram, dark blue). This kidney system belongs first of all to the
the impression from outside, which had at first really been in the ego
complicated. The head-organization of man is, at first so (see diagram
you, or what one reads is, at first, in the ego and the astral body
the head, first into the liquid, and then wants to consolidate, — to
about the threefoldness of man, and keep at first the rhythmic organization
of man which are first the physical carrier of what has been grasped,
have to permeate first the etheric and physical organism in the right
cramps, because here the right rhythm must assert itself first in the

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change inside his organism. The first one is that when we take up food
exists in our environment. Let us look at first other things, which
First every trace of life
out right away just through the first stage of digestion (varverdauung)
must first be achieved on the way from the mouth to the bowels, that
food at first must become dead in us and then must be revived again.
be first removed. Then, what we receive this way must be taken hold
into all that which is being formed there. First we have the foodstuff
nothing astral from outside. All this he has to transform first inside
They are conducted first through the stomach, through the heart, to
who have fashioned the Parsifal-motif, they were pioneers, the first

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first absorbed, which had been enlivened in the woods, enlivened on
at the great turn in the first half of the 15th century that one did
and that he really is “sick”. He must first, through his
goal. The first is that one learns to know what is related there; but
the first time, you will strike another time, and so on. That is how
and not strike it. But the fact is, one must first know the match, otherwise
on too fast, such phenomena as an enlargement of the heart occurs. First

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transformations into vivid imagery but now is the first to
specters, first the “principle”, were generally
twenty-first to the twenty-eighth year the sentient soul,
the first place that the life of rights that has separated

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language think first of poetry. You have often heard the
in the early years, first babbling, then gradually learned to

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For us here, however, the first part of what I read out must be of special
ordinary conception it acquires of an object by first smelling it, of
learned idler of the first water. (I don't think I can praise him more
than by calling him a learned idler of the first water.) Through his
be applied to comets; but they first gave way only where the nucleus
with those abstract concepts that we have first to form. We differ from
must first acquire, namely, the abstract concept, is just what the animal
it. We have first to form it which the animal has no need to do. The
Science. It is true you will first seriously have to take stock of what
Lecture IV) And in this intellectual age man actually first arrives
for the first time anyone hears the kind of things I have been saying
not. I should like to ask you, in the first place, whether among the

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First, therefore, we must
as an orthodox Father of the Church. Take these words first in relation
to if men first received three signs. The first of these signs by which
of the senses in special outer and inner imaginations. Thus the first
first find myself completely in harmony. There is absolutely nothing
The first sign would be
what St. John of the Cross describes as the first sign. This sign is

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is first perceived by us when we pass into the spiritual world through
fear of what is making its presence so inevitably felt as the first
for first making a conception. There can be no social reform without
schooling to begin with, without men first being instructed. And when
Science, for at the first possible moment they will get done with things,

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is that entrance into the spiritual world is certainly not at first
first arose when they noticed our claim to speak of real spiritual experiences.

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death and rising again. This event at first remained unnoticed anywhere
Let us therefore first consider
would have it. This modern theory of evolution imagines, first, what
which were first advanced to pure thought by the Greeks—all these
first arises in a quite different form, a form that is intimate and
a gateway. “You must first pass through this”, they said
first worked themselves up to the heights on which Plato had already

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understanding on this point we must first be permeated by the knowledge
with you yesterday it may be said: The Christ came first to the man
impulse? We might first consider how Goethe actually stood within European
will then be the first beginnings of understanding that we have to overcome
is only the first part of an incomplete trilogy, or the fact that in
three personalities having such a great influence upon him are, first
he dramatised this history and moulded the first figure of his Götz
This he first succeeded
of Golgotha the intellect must first be re-forced; it must move itself,
would bring about its own death, the grave which above all, first of

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at Dornach Switzerland. They are the first three of ten lectures in the
It is first of all necessary
thought first occurred to me to erect a building with twin domes. But
Here you have the picture of my original model. I wanted first of all
(Zentralbauten) ones, will be developed, because a first beginning

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at Dornach Switzerland. They are the first three of ten lectures in the
terrace through the main entrance and step into the first Hall, turn
our view that which shuts off the space above, the first two pillars
of the first column to the right and left, and above that the architrave.
you see the first pillar and I want to call your special attention to
out of the first and where also the architrave motive is transformed
pillar develops itself out of the first — that is to say when
pillar develops out of the form of the first pillar. The whole of it
The first pillar has been
essential thing is the relation of the second pillar to the first and
the first to the second pillar. The essential thing is the change from
together with their particular architraves. You see how in the first
that this trend at first is towards the more complicated forms but just
the simplicity of the first form you will say to yourself “here
is a simple roughly drawn line” (referring to the first one) “but
For then we understand for the first time how evolution progresses in
been noticed before. If you take the capital of the first pillar you
been born out of itself. The convexity of the first Pillar fit into
The first pillar. You
must be made, first, to demonstrate that a building which is designed
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at Dornach Switzerland. They are the first three of ten lectures in the
to the wider public who has not first seen them here. The attempt has
imperfect; even the gothic architecture, when it first appeared was
come firstly, in which it will be possible not to have to approach closed

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at first Faust looks back to an era preceding his own, he can
peak of the animal world; in the very first design of
By the first line a moment tarry,
first tries to do this with what he has received from ancient
stands actually facing himself. Now for the first time the
The first is that men buy ancient books and studying them
to acquire it headfirst to show himself wholly fitted to
passed through the first seventh part of our culture-period,
mysterious electrical power is! It was first drawn out of its
moment when it began to twitch, and for the first time he was
electricity. When Galvani established this for the first
day, a man who presents the first beginnings of a spiritual

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it was then he began to write the first scenes. In 1800 or so
veracity. But first priest replied: I would rather believe
attention in passing to the fact that the first part of the
Walpurgis-night. In the first place., in these copies,
assigned to him in all editions). Only the first three lines
things begin to go better. First there enters the
now. According to legend Lilith was Adam's first wife and the

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In the first
death! — It was a spiritual struggle of the first
first showed us Faust being drawn into the luciferic channel,
the ‘realm of the Mothers’, at first having her
Faust had first to be taken down to the underworld, they are
existence. This scene was first written down when Johann
the dot over the i first used? The student knew that at once
beyond the fact that in his Bulls the i was first dotted. But

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First the entire world
impulses. Knowledge of this force was first of all given to
actually different from what it appears at first sight. What

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emerges for the first time what is afterwards developed in
very different from one another. In the first, in the
first place — I beg you to observe this well — in
a first experience in the course of human evolution on the
Earth consist? It is indeed a first experience — an
the first time. They do not belong to any abstract theory or

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itself, entering in as it did in the first third of the
continued on his way to Thebes, and his first decd was, as
First, the universal course is really led and guided by

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life man first gains, through his bodily organism, the
being. We only understand man by first becoming clear to what
Hierophant, in the first scene of the second Mystery Play,
as earthly man, can pursue it, If man had only first awakened
these things has come about in the first half of life we do
in the first half of his life, although it is not the
luciferic influences are present only in the first half,
been told here that in the first half of his life man is
he is in the first. And if we look into Goethe's soul-life
through the human forces of the first half of life. And this
how alarmed you would necessarily be at first by the
men; they first begin to have meaning when translated into
appear in this scene. In the first part of the scene, Goethe
first part of this scene in which he is describing things out
Goethe doing? He first pictures what goes, on down in the
different form from that in which he gave the first. He makes
was the mountain nymph, the Oread, who gave the first

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reflections, they would be every possible thing. In the first
picture character is, at first, no different from the world
to you yesterday how, in the first half of the scene in the
first have Thales' advice. And Thales deters him from
emmets. This is merely an image. Anaxagoras first turns to
world where he first experiences evil. For it is then that a

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for dispatch. However, he thought he would First have a quick
there now grew first his science of colors, and, secondly,
unite them through abstract concepts, having first developed
understood, we first arrive at a notion of thespiritual world
birth. man gains the power for this perception by first

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should first be emphasised, on the one hand, that what Goethe
Imagination. And he does this first in the Romantic
must first advance to the world of Imagination, Inspiration,
and so on. That is how the nature of man should first be
all this. First, Goethe shows a festival of the sea, or
first three. The old ideas of the Kabiri centered round the
first Homunculus had sought out. Now, Goethe is neither a
spiritual world nearest man, the world man first enters on
first who tried to represent Gods in human form, that is, to

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that is in the Romantic Walpurgis-Night of the first part of
Goethe first presented was the one in which all ancient
physical human being can arise. It must first be fertilised;
those ancient artists who first depicted Gods in human

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all this life will first pour in future through the
actual limit of the first period in life is the change of
the first life-period? It is a consolidation, a hardening, of
the twenty-first year when the third life-period ends,
again expansion. The twenty-first year has more to do with
When in the eighties of the last century I wrote my first
evolution as proceeding in a straight line, say: First there
in the first place to the Duke of Augustonburg, he had
much concerning the evolution of mankind. First he learns
expressed in the last scene of my first Mystery Play,
first writs articles of genius about animals, and later, to

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recognised condition for so doing that one's heart should first
the spiritual inwardness, has passed away. It must first be

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course we are bringing together for the first time the members
importance. We must inquire, therefore, first of all into the reason
In the first place I would like to point out that perhaps this course
First and foremost, dear
nothing of a medical nature. In the main it contains, first, the
stress repeatedly that the first task of the pastor is to make
First, let us consider
intervene, in human life. First, the process that is active in the
at first this may remain unknown to the ordinary consciousness. You
takes place there in front of the congregation takes place first of

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first at certain phenomena in human life that easily slide over into
the physical organism in the first seven years of human life are the
humans first received on earth, which therefore is in its first stage
the meaning of the first verse of the Gospel of St. John: “In
the first place confronts us in the waking condition. Such people are
The person only goes through this sequence if the first condition,
four stages — the first very slightly abnormal, the others as I
again in contact with this person and finds that the first unstable
have gone through the stages in sequence, with the first stage almost
first stage and call what they perceive “the first dwelling
space: “the first dwelling place of God.”
human being that must first be met with understanding; then it can

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What appears at the threshold of perception is the first stage for
such people and is called by them “entrance into the first
dwelling place of God.” In the first stage this is perceived
first experience: an indefinite experience of a presence, of being
spiritual beings that were present. First they tell of the feeling of
the first to the second stage have only the vaguest feeling that
they will only reach the subsequent experience properly if first they
have described, the first stage consists of the ego organization
entirely united with what they are experiencing. They know this first
part of oneself. That is the first stage: the experience of “a
second stage. First, these people have all kinds of feelings of being
with the eyes. When you see, the external stimulation occurs first in
First it affects the ego, then it goes to the astral body, then to
what is the nerve-sense system — pushes first, actually, into
in pain what it is experiencing. That is the first part of the
transformed into ecstasy. It is really so. First there is pain in the

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First of all it is
First, human beings
physical organism is that in the first period of life they have what
we call “first teeth,” which last until the time we call
basic statement can be made for the first seven years. Human beings
really holds good only for the first seven years of life. Only for
those first seven years is it true that a person's characteristics
come from parents and grandparents. The physical body of those first
individualities resemble their parents very closely in the first
strongest sense of the word, heredity only holds good for the first
during the first seven years, it is not yet able to receive other
Now in the first seven
since birth, the first body that is it's very own, a physical body
first life period very special laws working within all that activates
physical worlds during the first seven years of life will be seen as
great deal to do in these first seven years of life. It works quietly
transformation in the child's soul-life when the first life period
the teeth, in the first life period. This now remains in the
the first seven years into the physical development and is now
depths of human nature. During the first seven years these soul
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individuals, we find that as a first stage the ego organization
first type. Individuals who feel the presence of spiritual beings,
first stage.
understand the first type of person requires the soul depth of the
soup.” It can happen that he comes entirely away from the first
he will only stay put the first day, possibly a second day if he is
these people one can observe a very definite situation. First we have
giving certain kinds of treatment. First of all, there will be
can actually be done. But first I'd like to carry this further, to
such as, for instance, that of St. Teresa, such as her “first
body to itself. We see how the first condition advances to this
medicine would come about. People do not realize that the first
world. And we have seen the opposite pathological states: first,
psychopathological impairment as the first stage. We can be
counteract certain conditions in the first life period, between birth
When it appears in the first life period, however, we should be
prevented from shining down into the first seven years of life that
following way. If in the first life period, between birth and change
putting into the child's first years of life something that should
puberty. This brings on the first stage of a pathological condition,
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healing activity to karma. For this, we must first be fully aware of
of him presently as he was in the nineteenth century, but first I
house that he tortured, first among his relatives, and later when he
in our age, in the first half of the nineteenth century, and in this
to be able to liken him to Shakespeare. First of
had freed himself from the first obsession, but karma continued to
So now, first, we have
processes in some people to be combated. First of all we have to
useful first of all to make the necessary connections with human
illnesses as well. But we must first open up the way to see that
medicine is first being presented to priests and physicians within

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body is first and foremost within the human organism; therefore for
house can be built one would be a fool to say: The first thing we

Title: Pastoral Medicine: Lecture 8
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first just at its top in the blossoms we find the forces of Venus
Let us consider first
first, thinking remains the same, except that one can think more than
consciously in an etheric body are at first devoid of warmth or cold,
said yesterday. When the sun forces are going in, first they must
the other side. Look first at the moon activity in human beings. See

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ego are also by themselves. Turning first to the physical and etheric
be a healer requires first and foremost a spiritual outlook on the
were intensely interested in healing, for they were first and
when I hear them say, “The first thing we must do is to join
something concrete is there first.

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forth. If first we confine our inquiry to the rhythm that has the
on the first day of spring, the twenty-first of March of each year.
first of all as a small interval, that is, the rhythm of our
at the tremendous time periods, at first
What do we find there? First of all we have inbreathing-outbreathing,
the first form of the rhythm. Second, as we live our normal human
Thus we stand first
themselves — shyly perhaps at first, for they are not
once. First they only present a kind of Akasha photography, and one
— pastoral medicine. But the essential thing is that first of

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stimulus, as in a certain sense just the first chapter, the beginning
So first I would like
achievement takes place for the first time through the activity of
the individual during the first seven years of life. The first body
first seven or eight years is entirely stripped off.
universal recognition that a person does not in the first place unite
earth had been physicians or priests. The first need of every human
rebirth. And these first steps had to be shown to them by a physician
the threshold they were first made acquainted with the activity of
important, but it only becomes so after one has first obtained full
form. That was the first requirement. After that, the substance was
them as a fabric woven of the four elements. That was the first
beings, first in day-waking consciousness, then in night-sleeping
what should first of all bestow healing upon physicians. We can
first that medicine is related to this mystery, but it is. It is so
it is what is to be brought together so that first through the

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spiritual work together for the first time. This is of special
importance. We must inquire, therefore, first of all into the reason
In the first place I would like to point out that perhaps this course
nothing of a medical nature. In the main it contains, first, the
stress repeatedly that the first task of the pastor is to make
First, let us consider
intervene, in human life. First, the process that is active in the
at first this may remain unknown to the ordinary consciousness. You
takes place there in front of the congregation takes place first of

Title: Broken Vessels: Lecture 2
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first at certain phenomena in human life that easily slide over into
the physical organism in the first seven years of human life are the
humans first received on earth, which therefore is in its first stage
the meaning of the first verse of the Gospel of St. John: “In
the first place confronts us in the waking condition. Such people are
The person only goes through this sequence if the first condition,
four stages — the first very slightly abnormal, the others as I
again in contact with this person and finds that the first unstable
have gone through the stages in sequence, with the first stage almost
first stage and call what they perceive “the first dwelling
space: “the first dwelling place of God.”
human being that must first be met with understanding; then it can

Title: Broken Vessels: Lecture 3
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What appears at the threshold of perception is the first stage for
such people and is called by them “entrance into the first
dwelling place of God.” In the first stage this is perceived
first experience: an indefinite experience of a presence, of being
spiritual beings that were present. First they tell of the feeling of
the first to the second stage have only the vaguest feeling that
they will only reach the subsequent experience properly if first they
have described, the first stage consists of the ego organization
entirely united with what they are experiencing. They know this first
part of oneself. That is the first stage: the experience of “a
second stage. First, these people have all kinds of feelings of being
with the eyes. When you see, the external stimulation occurs first in
First it affects the ego, then it goes to the astral body, then to
what is the nerve-sense system — pushes first, actually, into
in pain what it is experiencing. That is the first part of the
transformed into ecstasy. It is really so. First there is pain in the

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First of all it is
First, human beings
physical organism is that in the first period of life they have what
we call “first teeth,” which last until the time we call
basic statement can be made for the first seven years. Human beings
really holds good only for the first seven years of life. Only for
those first seven years is it true that a person's characteristics
come from parents and grandparents. The physical body of those first
individualities resemble their parents very closely in the first
strongest sense of the word, heredity only holds good for the first
during the first seven years, it is not yet able to receive other
Now in the first seven
since birth, the first body that is its very own, a physical body
first life period very special laws working within all that activates
physical worlds during the first seven years of life will be seen as
great deal to do in these first seven years of life. It works quietly
transformation in the child's soul-life when the first life period
the teeth, in the first life period. This now remains in the
the first seven years into the physical development and is now
depths of human nature. During the first seven years these soul
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individuals, we find that as a first stage the ego organization
first type. Individuals who feel the presence of spiritual beings,
first stage.
understand the first type of person requires the soul depth of the
soup.” It can happen that he comes entirely away from the first
he will only stay put the first day, possibly a second day if he is
these people one can observe a very definite situation. First we have
giving certain kinds of treatment. First of all, there will be
can actually be done. But first I'd like to carry this further, to
such as, for instance, that of St. Teresa, such as her “first
body to itself. We see how the first condition advances to this
medicine would come about. People do not realize that the first
world. And we have seen the opposite pathological states: first,
psychopathological impairment as the first stage. We can be
counteract certain conditions in the first life period, between birth
When it appears in the first life period, however, we should be
prevented from shining down into the first seven years of life that
following way. If in the first life period, between birth and change
putting into the child's first years of life something that should
puberty. This brings on the first stage of a pathological condition,
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healing activity to karma. For this, we must first be fully aware of
of him presently as he was in the nineteenth century, but first I
house that he tortured, first among his relatives, and later when he
in our age, in the first half of the nineteenth century, and in this
to be able to liken him to Shakespeare. First of
had freed himself from the first obsession, but karma continued to
So now, first, we have
processes in some people to be combated. First of all we have to
useful first of all to make the necessary connections with human
illnesses as well. But we must first open up the way to see that
medicine is first being presented to priests and physicians within

Title: Broken Vessels: Lecture 7
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body is first and foremost within the human organism; therefore for
house can be built one would be a fool to say: The first thing we

Title: Broken Vessels: Lecture 8
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first just at its top in the blossoms we find the forces of Venus
Let us consider first
first, thinking remains the same, except that one can think more than
consciously in an etheric body are at first devoid of warmth or cold,
said yesterday. When the sun forces are going in, first they must
the other side. Look first at the moon activity in human beings. See

Title: Broken Vessels: Lecture 9
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ego are also by themselves. Turning first to the physical and etheric
be a healer requires first and foremost a spiritual outlook on the
were intensely interested in healing, for they were first and
when I hear them say, “The first thing we must do is to join
something concrete is there first.

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forth. If first we confine our inquiry to the rhythm that has the
on the first day of spring, the twenty-first of March of each year.
first of all as a small interval, that is, the rhythm of our
at the tremendous time periods, at first
What do we find there? First of all we have inbreathing-outbreathing,
the first form of the rhythm. Second, as we live our normal human
Thus we stand first
themselves — shyly perhaps at first, for they are not
once. First they only present a kind of Akasha photography, and one
— pastoral medicine. But the essential thing is that first of

Title: Broken Vessels: Lecture 11
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stimulus, as in a certain sense just the first chapter, the beginning
So first I would like
achievement takes place for the first time through the activity of
the individual during the first seven years of life. The first body
first seven or eight years is entirely stripped off.
universal recognition that a person does not in the first place unite
earth had been physicians or priests. The first need of every human
rebirth. And these first steps had to be shown to them by a physician
the threshold they were first made acquainted with the activity of
important, but it only becomes so after one has first obtained full
form. That was the first requirement. After that, the substance was
them as a fabric woven of the four elements. That was the first
beings, first in day-waking consciousness, then in night-sleeping
what should first of all bestow healing upon physicians. We can
first that medicine is related to this mystery, but it is. It is so
it is what is to be brought together so that first through the

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will be the first full moon of spring and upon this full moon will
is the first after the full moon of spring, then is the time to keep
matter in a true light it will be necessary first of all to consider
theology, if only people took it — first of all, seriously, and
is supposed to be celebrated on the first Sunday after the first full

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earlier times. For Paul was the first to declare that neither blood
century. The first impulse which came to the fore and gained an ever
been found. The anti-Christian impulse makes its appearance first and
first to find the way through tradition and then through documents and
Angel again being able to say — or rather to say for the first

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The all-embracing wisdom by means of which in the first centuries
prepared. It was not until much later that these first, still feeble
everything that can befall the physical body. Men needed, first, the
Spiritual understanding finds in the Resurrection thought the first
the fact that since the end of the first Christian century, Western

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as Jacob Boehme, whose first work was called, as you know, Aurora,
the moment of sunrise, when the first rays of the morning sun carried
Such an initiate said to himself: “When the sun sends the first
with spiritual Beings, must first be laid by him within the stream of
soul can be reawakened, but man must first win back for himself his
the earth herself. In the human embryo it is the head which first
apply to the whole realm of nature truths which first come to us as
first conceive of the cube, and then proceed to find it again in

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will, which reaches, first, the Sun-existence, the Sun-sphere.

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of the spiritual. Words that are suitable have first to be coined. Any
the first time he finds the solution of those questions which cannot
them. He knows, firstly, what I described yesterday. And from a
contemplated from the earth is firstly the physical cosmos (including

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slaty kinds of soil. I will confine myself, first, to these two main
If, first of all, we observe what, as part of the earth-skeleton,
first place, their scientific side; we learn to know the world only

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not at first sight appear to be related to the thought and feeling of
external trappings of scientific conceptions one can see the first
and enter the outer world. At first, he accomplished this by studying
strange. In the first place, Cusanus preaches in the most rousing

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starting point of which I have assigned to the first half of the
was called spirit in those ages when he was known. This is the first
the first place, the spirit lived in him as in one of its many
within ourselves is directly experienced and need not be first
begins. Once upon a time, in the first phase, the soul experienced
regularity. In the first epoch, man beheld god and world, but god in
We see how the first phase extends to the Eighth Century B.C. to the
third phase now. The first is pneumatological, directed to the spirit
significant characteristics, therefore, we trace the first phase

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existed in the first centuries of Christianity, as can be
mystic of the first Christian centuries, mysticism was something that
Of the first experience, that of movement, you would say that you
so self-evident today — to come into being in the first place.

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natural phenomena is that what has first been mathematically thought
Take a concrete example, the first phenomenon that confronts us after
the essential facts. Newton is pretty much the first to approach the
Newton's physics we meet for the first time ideas of nature
the first to completely mathematize and separate space from man,
one particularly characteristic point. This whole procedure of first
concretely, he might well have said: First you kill the whole world
it in a personal sphere. Newton at first proceeded from a purely
he has first completely divorced from man through his external

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feeble, this was seen as a first mild degree of dying. Death itself
the division of unicellular organisms? He would have said: First I
organisms cast off by the first unicellular being were for the moment
in and out, so we must, supposedly, think first continuistically for
inanimate, the atomistic. When, in the first part of the Nineteenth

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scientific thinking since its first beginnings in the Fifteenth

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us focus first of all on the basic reason why science has developed
Galileo's main aim was to determine the distance traveled in the first second
Instead, he measured the distance traveled by the stone in the first
his own inward experience. This happens first with the inner
corporeality, although this space had first been torn out of the body
us go back to a scientist of the first Christian centuries, the
traveled in the first second. One arrived at a “law of

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experienced. Yesterday I referred to the Galen who, in the first
knowledge was handed down and still existed as tradition in the first
of freedom in a theoretical way for the first time.

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separated from it in the first place. Instead of the mere movement,
I have tried to put a certain end to this talk. The first time was in
whereas real being would do so. This was my first effort. My second
first, semblance-like, seed of future worlds.
a person who first lets all knowledge of the preset, as inaugurated

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mathematical problem. The point is that at first this organization is
simultaneously lost its character of reality. We must first of all
to regain its character of reality. This must mark the first of the
We must first re-establish a clear cognition and knowledge of the true

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Anthroposophical research seeks to attain this in a first stage of

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systematically and intensively. The first result of meditation in the
The first experience which we can win through such an inner labour is
intelligible for the first time, for not only all that his senses take
first men had. They were in as close a connection with the inwardness

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strengthened. For at first we attain only to a review of the course of

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At first, in falling asleep, a man finds himself in an inwardly vague,
philosophical ideas in the first occurrence in which sense-phenomena

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further away, as if he was growing out of it. What is at first a
first its experience was permeated by spirit, and by God, and that
first phases, and only develops into a fainter one by degrees.
faced by a revealed spirit-cosmos. The first phase of this experience
the growth of the physical organism which man at first experienced

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the previous studies, thinking is the first to be seized by the higher
consciousness. Without being lost first however, thinking cannot be
Such memories are at first lost when image-making begins. The past is

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At the time of the Mystery of Golgotha and during the first Christian

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connection of the will-part to the physical is at first felt to be
for the attainment of ‘Intuitive cognition’ we must first

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Here are the first two lectures from the lecture series entitled,
the first stage that the ideas of man tended mostly towards
Demonology. The first stage of evolution in the Comte sense is
demons and little demons. That was the first stage.
they first thought demons, elementary beings, were behind all
first abstractly and philosophically for a bridge between the
he came at first to all kinds of abstract thoughts in the
course of this bridge-building. While he first built on the

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Here are the first two lectures from the lecture series entitled,
remained. Then came the time of the first epoch after
In the first epoch after the Mystery of Golgotha, that was
Third Hierarchy. Thus in the first Christian Centuries it was
(Fürst), was the first, because some one had to be first,
just as in the Divine Hierarchies also, one had to be first. A
structure, was lost. First the Gods, later the metaphysical
concept of Truth simply did not exist in the First Christian

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century, for the first time actually in the year 354, in Rome, that
In the course of the first four centuries of Christendom this longing
Church Fathers in the first centuries of Christendom as to the manner
We turn our eyes first to the manger in Bethelehem, to the Child lying

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working in the development of our own age. First, however, I must
find far more to interest him than he will in the first chapter.
attention to this chapter than the first, which can only provide
fourth post-Atlantean epoch, than to the first, the Greek stream.
to learn Greek first rather than the customary Latin because in his
history of Rome. It is the content of the first chapter that
persons and criminals and made them his first Roman citizens. They
In the first era of its conquests Rome took over Greece. Then we see
the first time, the Republic was developing into an empire, and Greek
imaginations, Rome formed a definite concept that first came to life

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another side that Ahriman's intention was hindered. It was, at first,
prevented by something that, at first sight, might be regarded as a
bodily forces — must be active. First, a clear perception of the
not only gave the first impulse for perceptions free of any visions
more or less instinctive, is nevertheless the first impulse to a free
strongly at first, but will continue to work in our time and on into
will first consider these phenomena in a purely historical way in
Let us take first a phenomenon in which we all necessarily feel the
that lie near at hand. We have first of all a modern instance in
from the times of the first beginnings of the earth to its final end,

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are largely lacking. They must first be acquired through spiritual
paper. Why is all this so? In the first place, because the ahrimanic
fifth post-Atlantean culture has been saved from the first attacks.
candidate after the first murder, but further and higher secrets were
future. Thus, out of this first impulse, the picture of each human
especially like to inscribe into your souls today. The first is: A man

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or written page and say that we can see first a stroke upwards to the
history, inasmuch as they first show themselves to us in forms that we
character of the present, that it completed the first small segment of
but a first stage reached its conclusion in the middle of the
them after they had undergone a certain severe moral test. First came
years ago as an important personality when his first book on European
Chinese civilization but rather the first part of his statement. It

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attacks begin actually to operate first during the fourth or fifth
delusions. Later on it was possible to coarsen what was at first
men were directed primarily to two problems. First, the problem of
activity down to the very tilling of the soil. The first of these
men first felt as an impetus of the good, they perceived a vista of

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post-Atlantean epoch were first laid down in germ, back before the
earliest impulses were given. We learned about these first impulses of
among much that originated soon after the Crusaders won their first
Golgotha. Its first important home was close to the place where
superiors usual at that time, the first Knights Templar pledged
knights had accomplished for Jerusalem stood first, and then what
sacrificial service. At first in the Crusades, then in the spiritual
Chimera). In the very first canto of the third section of
Mosen speaks as he sends his Ahasver toward this region in the first
There the Great Spirit in a first embrace
When thus the first creation came to naught,
the first time in the eighties of the last century, I faced the
the Temple and the Beautiful Lily, who appears at first as without
short time ago how the first elementary scientific foundation for the
still but little understood; he must first become familiar in the
other works on Goethe. It is filled, however, from the first to the
as it would take too long, but one's eye is first turned to a part of

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VIII reigned from 1509 to 1547, and that he had six wives. The first,
Now, taken purely historically, the divorce of the first, Catharine of
events to see this. The first was that Henry VIII, the Defender of the
Let us first consider the fact that a religious body was created in
English spiritual culture became ever stronger, first in the West and
Founded in 1119, the Knights Templar were first active in the
that souls were carried up into the spiritual world having first
living. These causes, and many others, would first have to be
something fundamental. The first to speak of it, Julius Robert Mayer,
about when the earth turns back again toward the other side. The first
The first time, the human being moves up with the earth above the
yet time today; mankind must first have knowledge and know in
the past centuries. This mystery must first be grasped on its depths;

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experiences thinking, he is living, even if at first somewhat
may not at first believe that such a vivification of past experiences
you might at first regard as an illusion, that the dawn is related
have described. Let us take the first feeling which can be brought
the experience of the first Hierarchy.
Gesture-experience: first Hierarchy.
earth; and we learn how the Beings of the first Hierarchy work. When

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lived super-human beings who were the first great Teachers of
existence, he enters first into the sphere of activity of the moon,
Ahrimanic forms. It is absolutely a fact that, during the first
lies in Karma, but has first to be woven into a man's Karma by means

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mind, at the same time what was explained in the first of these
learned to speak and walk, during which we received our first, the
because they are the recipients of the very first memories of
memories of the first years of childhood are especially remarkable
In the first seven years of life everything has been
inherited that is of a bodily nature. The first teeth are entirely
the first seven years of life is essentially inherited. But after
especially for the child in the first periods of life, that it should
We find therefore first of all the spirits of nature,
age. I was given a school-book. The first thing that happened to it
the stream from east to west; and that is the stream of the first
which he himself had first given to nature. He can perceive on the
That means, the thoughts which are first experienced in
the head pass over into the whole body. They first fill the body and
flowing from west to east, the stream of the first Hierarchy, the
the first Hierarchy. But the Ahrimanic forces as they appear in

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studies we made here on the last occasion leads us today first of all
itself developed independence, whereas in the first Saturn period it
That is the first acquaintance which man makes by means
the earth there come to him the first impulses which accompany such a
But the first feeling of which I am speaking may be
here. The first necessity is to find the right approach to the
The first thing, for
the first years of its life a child learns to walk, speak, and think.
for these things can see in the way a child makes its first steps, in
child or a man walks — whether he first raises his toes or his
other. It is always the case that we must first hear a truth, then

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the earth's atmosphere. The first thing to be fashioned from out of
the cosmos is what I described in the last lecture as the very first
We have, therefore, first of all to look upon the plants
coagulated jelly or gristle thou didst will first of all that the
First of all cloud-like structures, continually arising and
Thus we have first a vegetable-animal creation
way they become somewhat denser and develop the first indications of

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the first verses of the John Gospel points to the Mysteries of the
Mysteries at Ephesus centred in the first place in that which sounds
intimate. Let us consider first of all the external side of speech,
The attention of the pupil was first directed to the way
from the mouth.” The pupil had first to notice how, to a
The creatures which then arose, first of all, the animal
himself. The Word was first of all sound. The Word was something
cosmos, and we can decipher the cosmic mystery contained in the first

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we look into the preparation which, first of all, the candidates
things. The first was, that those who were to be prepared were led to
The other statue was such that first of all the eyes of
When they were led before this statue on the first
of the first, and in the second case the plasticity in which the
the first statue. And it then appeared as if the sun were further
These were, so to speak, the first two Acts of the

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firstly, the nature of these statues and secondly, through what
were first made in the case of both statues, for the impressions
significance. That which the pupil at first experienced when he gave
one to which I am wholly unaccustomed. I can actually at first make
This was first of all communicated to the pupil through
to work on the soul, manifested themselves first as bodily
first, which arose out of a numbness, he had clearly the feeling that
which first rises in pictures, out of which you wake with a beating
of this annihilation first of all something like nature-dreams are
now summarized for him by his Initiators. The first condition, when
World-Being first vanishes
World-Being first vanishes

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led them to gain an insight, first of all, into what is possible to
actually at first only in a watery, in a fluid condition, but not
the experience which now led him into his own inner being, first, to
That was the first condition, and the pupil again, by
actually when after the first Initiation, when the pupil leaving the
undoubtedly in the first period of the devastating Thirty Years' War.
In the first half of the 17th century there flowed in that which was
But we cannot really fathom them if we have not first

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in the first centuries of Christian development, we find here and
knowledge, in order to find in the first Christian centuries those
These lead-forces first enter the etheric body of man, and from the
Child, a cosmic Child, Who must first grow up in the Cosmos. Those
Greek civilisation, as the fourth century began, this first

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the metallic secret. First he learnt the secret of the plants,
But at first, that which was clothed in mere
natural knowledge. Alexander had first to bury these secrets of

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of the Northern Greek Mysteries through his gaze having been first
universe. Now he knew that the form assumed by the first of the
during the first few centuries after the foundation of Christianity.
the earth: humanity had first to pass through a transitional period
saw an earthly being, they said: In this there lives first of all
below first the earth itself, then the watery element, then the airy
and then came a middle epoch, which passed away in the first

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In the epoch during the first centuries after the rise
As when at first I went to school.”
we find a faint echo of this in the first part of Faust in the

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investigating first part of the liver and then part of the brain,
when the Venus Intelligences first began to combat the Intelligences

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consideration certain extreme cases of the pathological, first in abstract
At first we can only say that we find something appearing within the
have sketched here. Imagine that the first extreme did not reach the point
unable — we wish to present this first through an analogy, for then we

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create nature.” Generally what is first noticed when a genius comes
simply a man of genius, could arrive at the first sentence out of his
forces that permeate the organism in an organizing way in the first
which were active in a correspondingly heightened degree in the first
the first period of childhood were held back due to some process;
In this way — just as Troxler suggested in the first half of the
knowledge. First we must arrive at the point of recognizing that in an
actually an absurdity similar to the first sentence, yet this sentence
nature,” points us to the first age of childhood, and actually to life

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the Plants there is a sketchy rendering of the first composition, the
first elements that are to be studied about the nature of the plant in
at least in accordance with certain types, at first in accordance with

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must first gain certain anthroposophical understandings of the human
now takes place from what was described in the first case today. Let
extraterrestrial into the human being, which must first be penetrated
confronting us in the outer world illustrate what was first gained
was first known by spiritual scientific means. The objection often

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during the first half of the century, what was practically the modern
first half of the nineteenth century: and those who wanted to think of
come into being by the first third of the nineteenth century. Through
as the first third of the nineteenth century. Starting from this time,
first third of the nineteenth century it still essentially
first third of the nineteenth century were essentially old:
from what it was in England during the first third, or even the first
half, of the nineteenth century. In England, during the first half of
system. In the first half of the nineteenth century Germany had been
character still existed in the first third of the nineteenth century.
This was the course of development. First the economic and industrial
remember when the “Threefold Commonwealth ” was first
perfectly. But, after all, the first thing needful is to counteract
time when men first began to think about Political Economy at all. If
with the buoyancy. The substance must first lose its weight. Only then
may say: Whatever foodstuffs we consume, they must first, to a very
quite wrong. The first thing needful is to describe the economic
The latter must indeed be understood, but we must first gain an

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It is precisely in this sphere of Political Economy that the first
in Price. We shall, therefore, first have to consider the problem of
bought there but is first transported to another place, B. Our
everything is due in the first place to the capitalist, who can only
difficult in the first lessons: but as a result of it — you will
apparent Labour. And this must be our first object — to approach
Labour. It is only here that a true economic value first arises. So
the animals. But the moment you take the very first steps to put the
creating values, but we must first get our concepts pure and clear
This, therefore, must be said: The first thing needful in grappling

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Our first need is to discover what is really the proper form of
so as to give rise to acute distress. In the first place, then, we
the first lecture, in former epochs — nay, even as late as the
interesting study — especially for the first centuries of the
Thus one of the first and most essential economic questions comes

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Let us begin today with Nature. In the first place, human Labour must
have, in the first place, nothing else than this: it is Labour
penetrated by the Spirit. The first phase of Capital always consists
of course, in the first place, Money. Money is nothing but the
now the man who first emerges as a creator of Capital, being able to
it again. In the first place, Money is an abstract thing, for, as we
Labour has disappeared ”? It is twofold: In the first place it
difference of level between the first position of the Capital and the
dividing up of those processes which were performed in the first place
the substance to which the Spirit first applies itself — but it

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into Nature. But you must first call to your aid another idea if you
the present. First the elaboration of Nature by human Labour, then the

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without first having to be manufactured, becomes dearer when the rate
out in practice. In all such cases, the first point is to see with
which must first be settled on economic grounds. Which is more

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their true level is as follows: First, forestry, then farming, then
rents harmless in the economic life? But in the first, place we must
taken on by the next, but goes in the opposite direction; the first
first movement, something arises through the former member always

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supply — namely, money — must also first have been evolved
also first have been evolved or produced.
supply and price. For he will in the first place arrange his supply of
economic process. Thus we may call our first equation — P = ƒ (S,
We may say: What I get for my own needs comes in the first place into
from someone else. Why not? Because first, it must somehow be
always have the first equation in his head. He himself will trade
process becomes confused and deceptive. We must first get to the root

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In the first place, everything that circulates within the total
arrive at a healthy economic process unless, in the first place, it is
part of the world. What I said in the first lecture is most decidedly
This is indeed the case. Right up to the first third of the nineteenth
before the War) — up to the first third of the nineteenth
nineteenth century and the first decades of the twentieth. With the
word to express it — impersonally. Thus, as I said in my first
were brought about in the first place by very real forces afterwards
Down to the first third of the nineteenth century, there were true

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I refer in the first place to that which we may call economic
matter whether the food is flesh or vegetable, the first thing

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economies, joined together into a larger complex. In the first place
first premiss: the total consumption by all the human beings

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of wages. Accordingly, the first thing to investigate is: How does
different way of thinking. For instance, it is said: In the first
Something must first be done to make it so. It is therefore once more
Speaking of money, the first thing we have to deal with is ordinary
at first only an article of exchange. It follows from this: Whatever
animals for some kind of labour, the first thing we do is to tame
first place, gift-money, which is the oldest, must be handed over to
its real essence; this must first be recognised and known. For it is

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that contributed to this reshuffling of values? In the first place,
first taken over by human Labour.
Obviously the first stage in the process — in the taking-over of
first-rate people. They will be able to stimulate all manner of
The first thing necessary is that we should begin working on definite

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cannot enter with them into the realities of life. For you would first
first place we need only bear in mind the universal bookkeeping of our
without more ado. First we must say: “Nut” signifies a
the very first place the land itself — reduced to the form in

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aspect and nature. It will be necessary first of all to say
Beings of the First Hierarchy: Seraphim, Cherubim, Thrones.
into this realm of the activity of the First Hierarchy, it would feel
by Beings of the First Hierarchy did verily once take place in the
through the working of the Sons of the First Hierarchy, through
Warmth he has to see Beings of the First Hierarchy, behind Light and
reflection of the Hierarchies, first Air and then Water. The
existence, the second Hierarchy over the Sun existence and the first
First Hierarchy, behind Light and Air the Second Hierarchy, behind
There you have the first
clever, very clever indeed! Of course, if you first take away the man

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events of which I would like now to speak. Let me give you first, as
forget it. The Spirit of his youth vanished. The first phase of the
second conversation was different from what came from the first; for
Raimon Lull that one must look for the secret of speech first in the
for the sounds of speech, are recommended to turn to the first three
was an intensive striving, first to immerse oneself in man, and then
instruction of the Rosicrucians, of the first, original Rosicrucians,
teacher and the pupil, at first upon a high mountain and then down in

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spiritual world. These symbolic revelations were the first pictures
were organised by the first Rosicrucians.
by the first Rosicrucians grew to a larger brotherhood, who always
have before us here. For the first time we are confronted with the
then one may meet and recognise such a person. At first he is
when freedom was first beginning to flourish among men. I shall have

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would have had to say: First Hierarchy: Seraphim, Cherubim,
Ptolemaic system was first set before him, in its true form, as it
“The first was so, the second so.
Were not the first and second, then
First, Second, Third, Fourth — we have in either case a true
In the first place there are all kinds of signs — Triangles,

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Lecture V: Occult Schools in the 18th and First Half of the 19th Century
Schools in the 18th and First Half of the 19th Century
of the ideas that were still to be found in the first half of the
First Quarter, Full Moon, Last Quarter, New Moon; they learned to
astral what has its place here in the head and nose. At first sight
approach the minerals, you experience in the first place their Form

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the spiritual world since the first third of the fifteenth century
side the first Post-Atlantean epoch, the ancient Indian. At that time
century A.D. Even among the first Fathers of
brought back to them in a spiritually real language what had first
first be carried forth, so to speak, and offered to the Gods, that
this knowledge. But man must first bring towards Them what he can
of the resistance of the solid earth. When the first Initiate of the
Science of today the true basis for spiritual seership. Learn first
must always first overcome this writing when one wants to read in the

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in quite another relation to the spiritual world since the first
side the first Post-Atlantean epoch, the ancient Indian. At that time
remained until the 4th century A.D. Even among the first Fathers of
least have ideas. You would first have to make sure of it in the
what had been conceived at first in abstract ideas.
realised that that which man receives in modern knowledge must first
knowledge. But man must first bring towards them what he can learn
of the earth. When the first Initiate of the old Persian epoch
Learn first by Natural Science to know the properties of air, water
That, however, is a thing to which the man of to-day must first
one very much from reading in the astral light. One must always first

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In the first centuries of Christianity — not at its immediate
foundation but in the course of the first centuries — Easter
have to undergo what the human being undergoes in the first three days
visible in picture form, in that the first half of the sacred ritual
Yet even in the first centuries of Christianity there were only few
They fell into a solemn, earnest mood. This was the feeling they first

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in the first centuries of Christianity, could learn to know the
Christian conception as the First Person of the Godhead — the
name and the civilisation of that first epoch existed on the soil that
first Christian centuries which intended that all knowledge of such
second birth was the Sun-birth of the human being; the first was
candidate could attain true Knowledge or initiation, the first
being at all, but said: “I must first become a human being.”
it was the very first requirement. The candidate must in all truth,
self-consciousness of man, he could not be one. He must first
Such was the first stage of Initiation in the ancient Mysteries. Now
on the other hand, was thus instructed in what was called the first
universe; one learns to know its spiritual nature. This was the first
outside me, and now they are within me. He breathes the air. First it
canst not know these things when thou art uninitiated. Thou must first
as a chemist or pharmacologist that he would first feel himself in
calculate when is the first Sunday after the first full Moon after the
Sunday following the first full Moon, indicating (as I shall explain

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first be necessary to touch upon some of the facts relating to the
with the physical man on Earth. And the first and nearest relationship
impinging first upon his limbs, upon his feet and legs and then
for his Ego and astral body to unite with the physical, he must first
himself, goes out towards the Full Moon, the first Full Moon after the
first Sun-consecrated day, towards the first Sunday that follows after
Thus we have first the beginning of Spring, the 21st of
first Sun-day after the Full Moon and that is Easter Sunday. Thus all

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We know in the first place that human individuals themselves return to
first expounded to Alexander and learn to do the same with them as you

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have to be given of what was presented in the first place more in the
first we are told how the great sinner who has made the nostrils too
of how the first symptoms of madness already became apparent on the
speaks deeply moving words to him. First of all, she declares that

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the first six of their seven members, incorporated in men who
Atlantean epoch? First and foremost there was the wisdom which must
were, a first impulse to which other impulses must increasingly be
world through his senses. But this union must first be achieved. How
first and third Gospels” and refuse to admit that the

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been studying. I should like, first of all, to direct your minds to
And so in the year 1821 he writes the first edition of a short
first main epoch after Atlantis), then comes the sixth and then
beings, first of all the Christ in an etheric form and after that
go forward to a time when we find, first of all, Christ as an

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bias the medical mind in a certain direction from the first; and it is
In this series of lectures I should like, in the first place, to
the first place adapted, cause certain changes in the normal life
was the first attempt at medicine in the Occident. But this is a
conception in medicine. In the first half of the nineteenth century
in this introduction, the first elements; we shall later on proceed to
from the system of Hippocrates. The first set of forces in the
have intentionally chosen these first elements which are to lead us to
Troxler taught medicine at the University of Berne and in the first

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is an interaction in the first place between the liquefied foodstuffs
will speak in the first place of indications of disease in the
functional or dynamic, i.e. of the first signs of a morbid condition.
And if we speak of what is first indicated in the etheric body or in
the first symptoms appear on the functional side, in the etheric body
what was at first merely a tendency to hysteria, may take physical
negative. This phenomenon, in which so to speak, the first physical
sadness is, so to speak, first hand and direct; mine arises
first of all, the effect of those internal irregular interactions to
first. It is certainly not always and under all circumstances
It is obvious that if we first realise the correspondence between the
cardiac function, then we can understand the first fore-shadowing of
substance, it has at first certain distinctive qualities. These

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You will remember that we first considered the form and inner forces
In this work, I first of all tried (and many empirical data confirm
introduction of arsenic or tin into the human organism. But, first and
first is not the immediately neighboring, but one lying far removed.
have first armed ourselves with the preliminary knowledge outlined
lacking. We help the organism by adding and returning what we first
to the most complex. The lower organisms were first studied in their
first of all, not an abnormal but a normal process of nature. And the

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First and foremost, we must consider the importance, even in the most
topics with me, and I have often been amazed. My first question was:
first consultation with any patient. They are chosen as examples, but
organo-therapy. Let us be clear, first of all, as to the actual basis
sort of threefold division to the threefold nature of man. First of
from the lower sphere into the upper in the first instance. Thus in
This furnishes you with the first rational method (as indicated by the
For when serotherapy was first introduced, Behring proceeded in a

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Let us first consider the formative process of plants as such, in its
outside the earth must first be considered and we shall find that the
the universe. For us, the first and nearest agency that holds the
it will be necessary to subject these to combustion, in order first,

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shows first the struggle, and then the collapse to a temperature below

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atmosphere contains, in the first place, and all that lies outside

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needs a more delicate method of observation. At first, no doubt, these
earthy and solid structure of the region in question. One of the first
the organism. First there is the principal bifurcation of excretion,

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We must remember that the substances we take in, are at first
their operations as the male seed itself. The first stages of human
first one is amazed at such a comment as the following, which comes

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which appear first of all, are revealed. Just as the spendthrift, who
form of efficiency tending in the same direction as the first
special manner; first to delineate a curve and then, on arriving at
apply substances such as vegetable carbon to man. First let us take
the minor forms of illness and reason as follows: we have first and
the atmosphere is first of all what may be described as a sort of

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remedy, which would, we must admit, help them, on the first steps of
then, is the first possible attainment (through meditation); the
organism. This is as it were the first thing which becomes perceptible
first period, ending with the cutting of the permanent teeth, means,
defective at an early age. As soon as the first tooth appears, the
substance — for during the first years of life, man is mainly a link

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first includes all facts connected with the origin, development and
be the first to approach the standpoint of spiritual science. They
First of all we must observe the precise manner in which the varieties
sooner by the following symptoms than by any others; firstly the

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I must first of all repeat that the exclusively physical study of man
from the other one: the tendency to internal exuberance. The first
The treatment of this scaffold can proceed on two lines. Firstly, it

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remote from the experience of contemporary civilisation. The first

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first of our lessons here, the heavy down-draw weight, the massiveness

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first confinement and childbirth their teeth are defective. This
as the first tooth makes its appearance of course it is possible to

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inflammatory tendency is first manifest in the upper sphere, one form
of disease ensues; if first manifest in the lower sphere, there ensues

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chief preventative measure is first and foremost to do everything to
of weaker will. Here is a first line of differentiation. Antimony

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first acquire a general view and conception of man, must illuminate
be prepared, first of all for a whole system of dietetics, and then
the dissolving effect in the first region of the digestive process,
re-transformation of what has been done in the first part of the
first, the dissolving process stimulates the liver's activity, and
reversal of processes. In the first place the dental process is a
much passes through from the first digestive area into the region of
For iron is first and foremost the metal of most importance to the
an excessive impact of the first process on the other. Just as
If an individual falls ill, subjective symptoms appear at first, pains,
calling for comment. At the first glance one is almost in despair, for
here and is perhaps even now in its first stage of development, must

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periods. In first period body is an inherited model. In second,
FIRST LECTURE
at Lauenstein. [The first two
is obvious, in the first place, that a thorough knowledge of
all by applying this kind of criterion, and the first thing the
For the first-mentioned life of soul is not that in man which
us think first of the human being in his three systems: nervous
functions or activities of thinking: there is first the one which
build it. In the course of the first seven years we thrust off this
shape the second body like the first, which was shaped by the
has passed his twenty-first year, an abnormality appears in the liver
in the will, the first thing we must do is to ask ourselves: with
the first seven years. There may be defects due to heredity. It is
the first seven years, neither can he transform it rightly. The
that exist for a child, in this first period up to the change of

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have seen how during the first seven years the body presents a model,
us, first of all, our brain, and then in the wider sense, our whole
the child this alternation — first, a strong liver-stomach
described is set up: first, a powerful development of astral and ego
the point of being able to observe what happens, first in the moment
require courage. This inner courage is the very first thing needed,

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individually. But you must first have some knowledge — and it
the first place, to have our own sanatoria; and even then the healing
essential first of all to know what underlies the illness, to know
of first importance for us to know, when we set out to understand
first, the connection between physical body and etheric body. This
first the ego organisation. When, at the moment of awaking, the ego
Let us be quite clear about these two ways. The first is as follows.
firstly, with gravity — that is, with the element of “earth”.
gradually building up, first his second body, and then his third. He
balance. You must, therefore, proceed first of all to investigate
to do this. But first of all we have of course to be able to
considerably from one another. There is, first, the condition where
the will. The urge may at first show itself in a comparatively

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reality. This shows itself at once in the first picture people begin
ego organisation). The child who from the first brings his astral
as the result of it is first of all “digested” in the
then? Having first tried to bring him to do as much as he with his
we are faced with depression in the child. The first step will have

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the first two epochs — even perhaps also through the third.
such a way that there is first of all, on the outside, the ego
second being changed into the head of man, and our first changed into
been received by our head, it goes first into the ego, and into the
first time, a watch. It interested him. But his limb organisation is
at the child. (The first thing is, of course, to know the child,
to make oneself thoroughly acquainted with him; that is the first
paralysing the first. We say very softly: “Forget the watch! —
into movement at all — then that is for us a first sign that
begin with, but it is in the legs that we shall notice it first of

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forceps. In the first year, he was well and healthy, and there was no
at first he would pass people by with indifference, he now recognises
notice. Let me draw your attention, first of all, to the strongly
know, this is the part of man that is the most developed in the first
that we have been describing is, you see, due in the first place to a
able to attend the First Class in the “Gymnasium”.
been from the first a marked characteristic.
painting. We must, in the first place, be careful to avoid getting at
first take part in conversation. Now he does. Listen, and you will
to do. For this we must, of course, know, first of all, the true
the first and most essential qualification for a teacher of these

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toys and encouraging him to carve forms. The first boy again. His
In the first four months of pregnancy the mother was on the stage and
the first four years he was apathetic, but greedy for food. The first
be noticeable. Taken altogether, the boy is backward. In the first
organisation in the first period of life — that it is the
it lacks the ability to bring about much deviation from the first
the model body of the first seven years. The boy is behind-hand also
fact that the mother was acting on the stage during the first four
late in learning to speak. And then, as I told you, the very first
me remind you that what ought to happen during the first years of
disintegration. Let us look, first, at the boy's head. In the head a
this way, first forwards and then backwards, they help to regulate
course in the first three years without any marked individual
highly probable that the first body, the model body, was exceedingly
is stated in the report given us that development in the first three
in the first three years.
approaches — the age that is halfway through the first
during the first seven years the ego and astral body are unable to
state of affairs, the outlook seems at first distinctly serious; it
you as you did today, you can see at once the first thing that needs
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weak in embryo. Boy an example of infantilism. Return to first boy,
64 cm. When we first admitted the child, the measurement was 44 cm.
must refer to the earlier time when the child was first brought to
for it provides the first clear evidence that the ego organisation
first half year. It was not entirely normal; but the lack of right
remind you that in the first few months after birth, the orientation
first months the development of a child outside the body of the
the bodily nature of the child undergoes at birth is concerned, first
out over the later development; but the first epoch of life may do
exactly half-way through the epoch of the first seven years and is a

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desired result, it is of course essential that there be first the
first place, and then gradually lead over to this appeal to the
we observe in this child? What strikes us about him? First and
fact, I overestimated at first the results that could be attained by
nerves-and-senses system. This then will be the first rule we set out
like this, where anything may happen, we must first be perfectly
can, you know, be very thankful that we have now surmounted a first
made first on a small scale. Altogether, a most interesting
walk in her first year, and learned also to speak at the proper time.
keep her still, we have to resort to mechanical means. First of all,
developed the I organisation. And one of the first things that
dealing with the growing child it is of the very first importance to

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would like to speak first of that eldest boy of yours, who is sixteen
way. Care would also have been taken, first of all, to watch all the
several years older. The first thing that claims our attention in his
first thing to do therefore is to see that the boy is placed where he
cannot be making their appearance for the first time at this somewhat
First,
will learn to understand the whole of man. You must, first of all, be
cognisance first of all of this fact: at the age of three the growth
Let us take first, in considering these two children, the stream of
are thus present in combination. You can study first the presence of
shall have first of all to give ourselves to the study of that which
us. We must first find the right questions to ask; when once we have
to him; and having first had a good look at each in turn, talking with
little group of us who were taking part together in these first
weak and ailing. Their first child, at whose birth the mother was

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Our first task will be therefore to induce strong impressions, in
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
in his physical body for rest and quiet. The first thing to be done
yourselves what is just the right pace), first forwards and then
together. First, you must provide a dispersing influence that works
this. First, put the child into a bath of moderately warm water, and
have influence in such cases. Let us now first ask our expert on
first this horoscope (of the elder sister). It will probably
Venus and Uranus. Consider first Mars. For this child, who was born
the births. On the first horoscope the Moon is in Libra, and here on
predestination of the will, and our first concern must be to see that
in Jena.] was the first to undertake the education of backward
do you mean? That Trüper was the first to concern himself with
fact, the first step in this direction dates much farther back. But

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range of plants — if we were to observe first how the root can
influence. Taking first the root, we have there something that works
to regard first the mother's milk, and then the astral which hovers
the first half of the nineteenth century the power to behold what is
first half of the nineteenth century people still had the idea that
conceptions in the first half of the nineteenth century; this idea of
for yourselves and observe the difference — first, when you
The first thing you have to do is to study and observe the pedagogy
was first begun, the condition was laid down that it should not be

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Let us first look at the Earth at the time of the winter solstice, in
This is the origin of fixing the time of Easter as the first Sunday
* This is the first occasion on which Rudolf Steiner spoke in a
first allusion to the subject at all had been in a brief reference
Easter is on the first Sunday after the spring full moon. Within the

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It will first be necessary for mankind to reacquire a knowledge of the
But in the first three centuries of the Christian era, the last
preparation began for what has come to full expression since the first
us first of all in the fact that this earthly life comprises a certain
something concealed at first, as something which cannot be penetrated
sub-earthly. And the Michael Mystery, as we have said, will first
the first Christian centuries about how the Easter thought is to be
At first humanity in its evolution had only the one pole, the Easter
in the period that dawned in the first half of the fifteenth century,
The first thought, the Easter thought, pertains to the Christ;
In the first centuries of Christianity, this feeling perception was

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First of all, we must understand clearly that during a certain epoch,
just as if we had in a container, first, a uniform fluid in which
forming the first trinity. Then comes the trinity interwoven with it:

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afterward, the listening. First, there was the active
element, now in the depths of winter everything was first prepared in
actually had first to be made aware of what he was through the Earth

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present state of unfoldment. First, he had gradually to push out of

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we enter an ethereal, fluidic world, and when we experience this first
experiences, the first of which was particularly significant in the
it is beginning, gradually, to take shape. Whereas the first

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respect of certain problems in spiritual knowledge. But first let me
and saw for the first time how the tracks he had observed from below
The first of these riddles conceals itself under all manner of
vertebrae and the surface of the diaphragm. You see, you have first to
consider it merely as it appears at first sight; we only understand it
The first building, destroyed by fire on New Year's Eve, 1922/23.
case of spatial man, yet here too, what meets us at first is found to

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foods to the human body. Well, first of all we should gain a clear idea of
the human being is really related to various foods, one must first be
Now the very first thing one needs, the substance one must have
has at first almost nothing but a head. He begins with his head. His
But now if we compare a potato to a carrot — well, first of all it
up the potatoes, the hairs have already fallen away. Only in the first
But now, when we eat potatoes, first they go into the mouth and
healthiest food for them. They must first have healthy bodies, but
cooking it for them first! But human beings have come of themselves to
So if we first apply external heat to the foodstuffs, we help the
cooked first, the foods have already begun the fire process, the
warmth process. That's the first result. The second is, that they have
become different? Well, first I have ground the seeds. What does that
Therefore, we must distinguish between two kinds of bodies. First
non-vegetarian, who has it done first by an animal. That's the
vegetarianism! It must always be first established whether a person is

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activity when he manufactures his own protein. First he divides the
Dr. Steiner: Well, first of all we should establish the exact nature
people don't like to be wearied by logical reasoning — “in the first
place — secondly — thirdly” — and if the first and second

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than they at first anticipated. But there is something which all
It was, of course, difficult at first to understand Richard
I then encountered several of those people, whose first spiritual
homeless souls. And anthroposophy at first grew up, one might say,

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to take into account two questions. First, why was it necessary to
talk about the Anthroposophical Society, the first thing of relevance
first one was the direct impression on meeting someone. But the other
first, that there is a spiritual realm
about Central Europe, in the first instance, the philosophy of
Idealism from the first half of the nineteenth century presented a
Take a look at the first of the three parts of Hegel's
becoming, existence; and then the world was first of all logically
then five logical ideas emerge. First, there is logical necessity;
degrees on their members, who advanced from the first degree to the
they thought, making members of the first, second, third grades and
the secret societies. Those who were shocked by the first book, and

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the first instance everything which took place outwardly, and simply
the depths of the human psyche. First there is our life before birth,
immediately after that first lecture on “No Matter without

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concerned first with her personality as such. The other aspect is the
Now we might be surprised by two things. First, that it is
a spiritual life are very specific souls driven by two things. First,
For example, in the first years in Berlin I had to lecture in a
movement, because the first lecture cycle which I gave was

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the first instance simply as a fact in the development of mankind on
The tradition remained. The Gospels existed, kept secret at first
lives were lighting up within them, took the first thing on offer
souls. And the first necessity was to find out what questions resided
traditions of the Theosophical Society. At first the members of the
Nevertheless, in the first seven years of my anthroposophical work
a kind of sphere of influence — first of a spiritual nature,
symptomatic significance. The first lecture by Annie Besant which I
from England in a spiritual way, the first, apparently innocuous step
Indeed, as soon as the first period came to an end, the complete
first lecture, lecture cycle in fact, was entitled “From Buddha
so many people came to the first lecture that it could not be held in

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first two periods of the anthroposophical movement. But in order to
stage, I still wish to deal with a number of phenomena from the first
The first period, up until approximately 1907, can be described as
first period. Some hope was definitely justified in this period, up
Yet within this first period in particular there was a great deal
its first period.
place in a very specific way during the first period of the
specifically in the first period, and the difficulty which existed in
faculties. The first person says: It is no business of mine be it
That is, of course, piffle of the first order. But it is exactly
most important cosmic truths, had to be made public during the first
right at the outset of the anthroposophical movement. At first it was called
society. The work in this first period was such that between 1907 and
This period also included what I might call the first expansion of
in London on both the first and second times, I experienced how its
objective. The first step on the slippery slope was taken with the

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progress which was achieved in the first and second phases by
I said that in the first phase — approximately up to 1907,
anthroposophy. But it also meant that the first significant step was
which first created the opportunity for our opponents to find an
Now we are talking in the first instance about the start and the
the first steps along a road which a large part of mankind will later
recurred in the third phase which was already present in the first,
field. At first they remained rather in the background. Until 1919 or
had happened in the first phase. In the latter period people were
about anything without their first adopting a more positive attitude

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realized how an interest in anthroposophy was at first to be found in
first steps into the spiritual world were possible.
into the spiritual world. The first one is through his scientific
first thing we have to think about when we talk about a conception of
first was Nietzsche, who, in contrast to everyone else, was honest in
decided to develop a philosophy of amorality. Thus the first three
should have been called: first book,
be utilized in my first anthroposophical lectures with the help of
in our age began in the first phase and was worked on particularly in
objects. The first was to build universal fraternity among mankind

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are able, by means of the first stages of the life of
first steps in the life of initiation will pass differently
different for the person who is in these first stages of
need only have taken the very first steps in initiation to
develop modern technology. What is happening in the first
place is just work being carried out in two stages. The first
first instance by smashing and wearing down the
is, in fact, what is constantly happening during the first
dwelling places. Thus we can call the first stage the casting
Thus at the first stage we encounter nature spirits who are
person at the first stages of initiation, bringing back with
has already taken the first steps in initiation will
who has taken the first steps in initiation tries to meditate
first steps in initiation also go through this struggle of
man, by way of elemental spirituality in the first place, to
is meant to be the very first step, really and truly the very
first step towards art of this kind, and not anything perfect.
through, because we are in the first third of the fifth

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to look at the human being, the part that first strikes us,
happens in the etheric body: The hand is at first horizontal;
hand moves, following what occurs first as a development of
first step towards initiation is to gain an understanding of
only receive the very first indications: the art of
upon the capacity to surmount the first ideas presented by
the very first steps, and that we can imagine what these
first steps will lead to, long after we have laid aside our

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with the first sphere of observations, we see that by
essentially at first inner human processes. These initiation
the first step should be taken in relating our present
present culture. Our boiler house is a first small step in

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First of all, however, let us hear the legend of Olaf
came first and then the experiences in the realm of water.
in the first centuries of the fifth post-Atlantean epoch, in
the first centuries of the fifth post-Atlantean cultural epoch
notion of from the first four centuries of the fifth

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first about the transformation the power of reverence can
first Mystery Play.
were created when we entered upon our first earthly

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first time, and in a small, elementary way — in our
look at the teacher. During the first seven years of the

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future, for these beings are the first advance shadow images
earthly human beings also contains the first germinal
what we know today as the first exercises in
to us. The first of these to impress upon our minds is:
life and blood for the first time through what spiritual

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realm. I will not touch on the first one today but only refer
The first
first have to be turned round, and you would not see the
the double dome and its additional constructions. First of
first half of the nineteenth century. Then the second half of
course. Now I said that it was chiefly the first half of the
the first half of the nineteenth century, of this connection
at the literature of the first half of the nineteenth century
them in the books of the first half of the nineteenth

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workers are here. I will do this by first describing the original
does not show at first sight what it actually is.
there in the first place, nothing at all can be solid or fluid. So we
Now the first thing to come about in connection with
substance cools down from above downwards, air is formed at first. So
cosmic body formed out of the first; the first was pure warmth, the
reason the human being could already live as soul during the first,
element of the animal. In the first condition, therefore, we have man
particularly in the first months, there is no deposit of mineral;
he must first be conceived. The conception takes place. But does
skeleton, forming solid bones. So at first we have the air-bird, then
of the earth. If it had been there during the first condition, it
Man was already present during the first condition of
some mineral from the womb; therefore, the womb must first possess
be born. He must first have acquired mineral constituents. With the
animals were there first and that man simply developed out of the
the ancient first condition that I have in the drawing called Saturn.

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that time, we must first look for those that lived in the thickish
earth lost certain substances, and for the first time the mineral
of the moon brought death for the first time to the earth and with it
One discovers this when one first gets to know the
last time that man was there first. But he lived in the warmth purely
was already there. He was first of all, before even the air was
when the earth looked as I have now described. The moon had first to

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investigate, so let us examine first what lies on top, what we walk
there it would lie. Now at first it remains on the surface. But, as
first look for fossils.
at the top is lowest of all. One must first find out how all these
first quite simple, a nucleus in the center with an albuminous mass
no accident, it was genuine science by which one first reached this

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spiritually. Physically — that is, in a body — man first
first we pass over a stretch of land, then we travel over the
water disappeared, low foreheads appeared at first, and then they
they dug themselves in. But for that the earth must first have become
We also breathe air. First it is outside; then it is in

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Now the first peoples we are able to investigate have
regions where the Chinese were first established. In the times from
made the first written record of the knowledge possessed by the
know how they taste, we first have to sample them on our tongue. For
for the instruction of young people, we have first to teach them to
as it is in the first; nothing special is to be seen there. From the

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relation of various foods to the human body. Well, first of all we
various foods, one must first be clear about the kinds of food one
Now the very first thing one needs, the substance one
in the womb, he has at first almost nothing but a head. He begins
first of all it looks quite different. Of course, the potato plant
Only in the first moment when you are lifting a potato loose from the
But now, when we eat potatoes, first they go into the
bread, it is really the healthiest food for them. They must first
had to depend upon someone cooking it for them first! But human
So if we first apply external heat to the foodstuffs, we
being cooked first, the foods have already begun the fire process,
the warmth process. That's the first result. The second is, that they
has it become different? Well, first I have ground the seeds. What
bodies. First there are the bodies that do not like fat, they don't
within one that is spared the non-vegetarian, who has it done first
vegetarianism! It must always be first established whether a person

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complicated activity when he manufactures his own protein. First he
Dr. Steiner: Well, first of all we should
reasoning — “in the first place – secondly —
thirdly” — and if the first and second were not there,

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of human evolution. First of all, it is not true that all civilized
in nature too, anywhere in the world. You first have things in a
the fibers of plants, fibers worn threadbare after having first been
mountain was to give the first signal by running up and lighting
“superior” humans, first arrived in America and also
intellect. Intellect first came to man in the fifteenth and sixteenth

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Well, let us first consider what causes smell. What is
smell? You must realize first of all that people have varying

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first have a maggot form before becoming a chrysalis — and the
but then, for the first time, we begin to “decrease”. If
mineral, solid matter took shape for the first time, how there were
in the heavens, let us say in the spring, on the twenty-first of
where the sun rises on the twenty-first of March, we find behind the
twenty-first of March is different every year. A year ago the sun

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science in the 19th century that first caused people to have
days; it was in the 16th century that spectacles first began to be

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everything must first be wiped absolutely dry. It must not be
an idea of it only if one first of all rejects the dictum that the
today. Now imagine that I draw this tetrahedron, that I first fling
constellation of stars, for instance, must first work upon the earth
You see, what I drew first, the powerful warmth going
imply? Well, we did that too in the laboratory. First we threw

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First and foremost, we must realize that people are
different forms! When the steam engine was first invented, a small
meteorites was given for the first time in a learned assembly in
they came into use for the first time in the 19th century. Before
build the first railroad between Berlin and Potsdam, the Director of
because he was the man who first brought potatoes to Europe.
and watch the first Social Democrats — they still wore big

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through first gaining knowledge of the stars. Today, the moment
earth, we see his body first and foremost. We also notice that he
We receive our first body from our father and mother;
had during the first years of life came from our parents; we could
body he has for the first seven or eight years of his life comes from
very first breath we take the soul into ourselves, and it is then the
As I said before, with his first breath the human being breathes his

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Now the first peoples we
were first established). In the times from which the Chinese have
Christianity, people like Lao Tse and Confucius made the first
of religion; only later did religion enter into what at first was
they taste like, we have first to sample the pepper, salt, vinegar on
young people, we have first to teach them to read, write, and so on,
tip of the nose is the same in the first hour as it is in the second,

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anywhere in the world. You must first have things in a perfect state,
plants — worn threadbare after having first been used for
posted on the nearest mountain was first to give the signal by
“superior” men, first arrived in American, and when even
for the Greeks still lacked intellect. Intellect first came to man in

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the bee-keeper is first of all interested in what he has to do.
the first thing we must notice. Now there is another very remarkable
twenty-one days; then it returns again and the first point is again
very strange at first, as high as possible in the air. The Queen-bee
first the little larva appear, as Herr Müller has so well described,
find first developed in the human embryo, and which subsequently remain
being too soft, and collapsing. Of course, in the very first
of view — that modern bee-keeping methods seem at first very
being in the natural way. Only, at first these things are not

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like to add something about swarming. At the time of the first swarm
when the bees are swarming, it is well known with us that the first swarm
cannot therefore say that the bees were first driven out by the
about the first swarm, when the new Queen is not yet there, when you cannot
yet speak of her. Well, have you ever seen a first swarm when even the

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82%. The elder child had at first 70%, and on leaving this had risen
laboratory; one has always first to find out the age of every
doubtless do), that he would first get bad stomach disturbances and
something else. One can at first give the man very highly diluted,
I want first to
first absorbs and then pours it forth again with its rays. Thus, it

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to impure honey in hotels I would like to say that first-class hotels
forced. This change can be observed through the first, second, third
something like a lump. At first one could not make out what it was.
one finds people unable to digest honey, one has first to look for

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the body of the bee when it must first gather the nectar from the
not known. What Herr Müller had mentioned at first, was excellent
They have first to be persuaded that this is not the case. It should,
but first, will we consider a certain species of wasp. There are
was first prepared in nature, and we find once more an instance of
grower always starts this process in the spring; he first lets the
namely that of the wasps, that honey is first prepared in the realms
must first learn to recognise the spiritual in Nature. Without this

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we have first the fertilisation of the Queen during the nuptial flight.
remember that we distinguished four different parts of a man; first
someone has gout or rheumatism; the first question must be — is
this is not the only anxiety one has, for one has first of all to
must first be reduced and the poison, as far as possible, removed, in
longer remember the first time you were stung. After the first time one gets
doubt, stung for the first time. When one has once had a poison in
more especially the ants, must first allow these flower juices to pass

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need. Sometimes however, it happens that these creatures do nct first
of this kind, all make their first appearance as grubs, also the
I have already told you, these grubs when they first emerge are very hungry,
discover their meaning, one must first say; we have the plants growing out
they had not first been living men. The inhabitant of Mars who had
never seen living men, and saw only the dead, would first have to be
first get strange illnesses because he would have too much formic

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The wood-bee comes along and first of all bores a sloping passage from
some food next to the larva which first eats what has been prepared for
it, and grows till it is ready to creep out. First we have the time when
the fully formed insect to fly out through the passage that was first
that is still younger; because the mother insect had first to make
insects all this occurs in the strangest way. First think of the
not the oxalic acid first been there. The little creatures hovering
organism unless it is first transformed by an astral body from oxalic
the first thing that I told you can show us this. The wood-bee which I
connection. We have man, and we have the earth. Let us take first a young
beside a dying man one really has the feeling that in dying, he first tries

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first few lectures. Thus, I should like to shape this course
soul-forces we propose at first to turn our attention.
first sentences touch on something that, until now, had not
was supposed to give a lecture. At first he deals with his
first no interest for him. — He writes these thoughts
first to pick them up in order to be able to sit down on the
thoughts however, he surely has no sympathy at first. Also
start from an example, let us first take the teacher speaking
with some chapter in class, that he first of all call up
speaks from the first sentence on under direct inspiration,
personality, because the vibration of feeling must first be
first sentences in such a way that certainly the feeling of
verbally formulated the first, second, third, fourth, and at
have a frame: The formulation of the first and last
lecturer, even if at first one is no lecturer, even the
lecture will come out right the fifty-first time. Just
the following: first one has completed the thought content,
enthusiasm what we first represent to ourselves in thought.

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out of it, — then we must first of all hold before our
We shall first
the central issue of the threefold order that must at first
must slowly lead to the imparting first of a feeling for this
would first ripen in fifty or a hundred years. One glides
independent spiritual life was first pushed into the
slipped into the universities, which are localized at first,
is the economic organization first receive a certain
cities emerge more and more. Then the cities, in the first
One was supposed to speak beautifully! That was the first
speaking beautifully is no longer taken into first
it arises first of all quite corrupted. How does it arise?
Well, in the first place, language has become abstract. That
picture. — The first thing which I had to oppose in my
into the realm of the ethical. And then it must first of all
things abstractly, but livingly, then the first thing into

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speaker it will be a question at first of entering in the
speaking. The first is to convert to one's own use the
lecture, — this is the first consideration.
has experienced first-hand about the matter in question,
extraordinarily difficult in the first place to connect onto
the first lecture, then actually a maximum is attained as
terminology right-away in the ear — not first in the
actually occurred — that one first has to have political power.
in the Academy of Sciences, where he presented the first beginnings of
the first chapter of this Lessing-book in condensed form in a speech,
the first place through its reality, through the value-producing
first had to change over to universal communications, then to the
will have to speak first of all in such a manner so as to call
the first page. There, it says on top of the page, “In
attention, for, indeed, this religious element appearing on the first
“In God's Name” on the first page. I don't
today tried to show you how the material first has to be
step. Today I wanted more to show first of all in rough

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I tried to describe how the first part of a lecture
class — the first naturally in a more revolutionary, the second
in the West in the first place.
must first call forth a feeling in the West for the fact that the
during the dreadful catastrophe of recent times (the First World War)
is indeed something quite special. For, first of all, Switzerland is
First I see the man in his formal black attire, afterwards I see the
him in the first place.

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the first two realms — namely that of the spiritual life
should be such that we try hard first to sense and then to
ourselves first in imagination, in inner experience —
market-relationship in the first place? Bascially, from the
speech; instead, they indicate: first, second, third, fourth,
in the first four lines.

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First, I would
deal from the Jesuits. They are very well trained. First,
The first is the fruit from the field
first is a fruit from the field; the second is something
first syllable is a fruit of the field, the second syllable
— Here, then: The first syllable is a fruit of the
since the very first efforts toward the realization of the
whole of human life. First we must actually have an
thoughts to formulate a program: firstly, secondly, thirdly

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This lecture series consists of the first two lectures in the
nineteenth century — and the character of the first twenty years
Leading minds in the first
In the first half of the
The problem was to discover a form of social life in which, firstly,
mind among the reactionaries in the first half of the nineteenth century
of humanity. — There is, firstly, the ancient, mythological period
may thus be achieved. Implicit in every thinker during the first half
the first half of the nineteenth century. Their individual views are,
during the first half of the nineteenth century. Herbert Spencer is
In spite of this habit, however, eminent minds in the first half of
Herbert Spencer, Buckle and many others in the first half of the nineteenth
of men, and this was actually the case in the first fifty years of the
of thinking came to the fore in the modern age, during the first half
reaction in a laboratory, that his soul must first be suffused with
from the time of his birth, from the time he draws his first breath,
and produced his first works, he yearned with all his heart and soul
which becomes manifest for the first time in the fifteenth century.
can ever be. I wanted, in the first place, to describe the facts from

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This lecture series consists of the first two lectures in the
Now it might at first sight
they were thus settled that they first experienced the southern oriental
But these ancestors first began to be worshiped long after they had
configuration of soul that constituted first Greco-Roman culture and then,
first elements of knowledge, which we should to-day call primary education,
the north in that the pictures that came to the northerners at first
that the human being should first be prepared to receive baptism, for it
masses was something like this. At first there were only village
first and foremost under the influence of human nature itself. It was
centuries there developed the first trace of that intelligence which we
First of all there is the
was born, evoked through subjective activity — for the first time
spread everywhere in a most systematic way first in the villages, then in
at first Nominalism had the victory. All that happened in the historical
yesterday, the winds of the first half of the nineteenth century, such as

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What do we see? We see first of all that an attempt is made to acquire
Enigmas of the World,” but in the first lecture he spoke of the two
material world that first builds up our bodies and unfolds its own
evolution of humanity. Consciousness, as it is now, was first kindled

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out of the first half of the nineteenth century: Hegel. Only in the
really observed it for the first time, he said: “But father, how
such a phenomenon. And thus there stands before us in the first half
social life. We thus are confronted in the first half of the nineteenth
within the first half of the nineteenth century, but carrying over into
human. In a certain sense we must first lose ourselves in order to find
at first — what place do these occupy? We shall have to return
everything that relates to space and time we must first construct within
us outside of ourselves; we must first take them in; we must first perceive
first perceiving them. The other things we must first perceive. Regarding

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that we consider in spiritual science. So we must first of all ask:
When we ask at first
us during these first years. And if we look within, look into our own
activity, a certain inner mathematics, just in those first several years.
One encounters first of all what I would like to call the sense of life.
of itself, how it learns at first to crawl on all fours, how it gradually
loom that wove you during the first years of growth as a child here

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At first he could think of nothing. And then it occurred to him: I shall
lad when he danced for the first time. And he realized that of course
“viewing of thinking,” it is necessary first to have acquired
first to make thinking sense-free and then to present this thinking
spirit lives within him. We first conceive the spirit within the element
during the first seven years. At the change of teeth this etheric body

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reveal its first symptoms, knows that forces are rising out of the depths
“mathematicizes” within us during the first seven years up
appear grotesque and paradoxical to these who hear them for the first
time. Yet much has arisen in the course of cosmic evolution that first
Nietzsche's first publication. Nietzsche had just published his treatise,

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eye for the First time, might seem paradoxical, yet that is fully grounded
of inner schooling [Kraft des Übens], by first developing
other than what is active within the physical body during the first

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it will be useful if First we can gain clarity concerning the path of
perceptions, that our consciousness First fully awakens.
another's ego. At first glance these three things — perception of
understand by “authority” First appeared in
of Golgotha were drawn during the first Christian centuries entirely
But first it must be emphasized
this and has already taken the First steps in this direction. Read the

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work together with the will during man's first seven years. We are guided
arises within man a firm sense of self; in this way man First experiences
by approaching it from another side. First of all I must draw attention
at first only philosophically, that reality arises out

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be able to begin tomorrow on our actual subject matter. First
first express myself schematically, directing attention to
Only in his head is the human being first and foremost a
the human head, as it manifests itself at first in the human
organizes itself within the head in a definite way. At first
this whole interaction, we must first create it ourselves. If
saying, characterizing it abstractly, that we must first know

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first leave their imprints — that is, the etheric,
opposite of death. I must point out first that we can

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first medical course last year. He explained how recent
on the human being first need to be evaluated by us. If I say
way before introducing them into the human organism, first
back of a person in the first stages of tuberculosis; that
this point tomorrow and will first show the importance, the

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awakening. It is most important first to study the symptoms
which processes must first be called forth by cooking,
In this first
consider this here, in the first stage of our studies, this
substance possesses certain forces that must first be
into the human organism, it is at first inside the human
twenty-first year. Children who are sickly between the change
importance especially during the first or ascending half of
what is the first stage in dealing with outer substances?
What does the ego do when it first takes hold of outer
The first
first stage of laying hold of the outer forces. It then
first to experiment with the outer digestive tract. There one
first place, these things could be observed through the
another viewpoint.) First one must form a mental picture of
the body become cold. This occurs at first at the periphery.
holding himself erect is at first expressed only outwardly in

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fully prepared ourselves. This must be done first. Therefore
through the organism by first combining it chemically to
of the etheric body, astral body, and ego are first created.
first that he carries with him, the ego. It is in the blood
first place the astral body and the etheric body resist what
similarity between the process of the first stage of
through these forces that are expended in the first stage of

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cognition. But one's judgment activity must first wrestle
It must first
realize first of all that we have to do with a weakening of

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plants. By first comprehending the processes in the plant
regarding the necessity of first treating the plant
abstractions, we do not at first realize that what acts from
starch, the process has to begin earlier. The sugar has first
consequence of this? First, we have in clove root a strong
first in the urine activity, where a purgative, diuretic
completes certain processes that we must first carry to
want first of all to introduce the plant substance to the
being first in an intensified nerve-sense activity in some

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mineral in the earth. It is necessary first to become
could lead to such a list in the first place.
the actual nerve-sense activity, because I would first have
dealing with the first metamorphosis, the effect is
result, and this will no longer resemble the first.
now have a twofold effect: you have first the effect of
must first select single features; then, however, one must
explained in the first lecture on curative eurythmy, where I

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saying anything in general, but of first observing to come to

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stopping at first impressions. It runs somewhat as follows.
conclude at first sight as a matter of course that he
into the water. If the first conclusion had prevailed and no
ruling wisdom, even when it manifests, unnoticed at first, in
the first book of the Iliad we are told of the contrast
world clothes itself in pictures, and how we have first to
quite erratic and contradictory way, first in accordance with
often — to a far greater extent than one might at first
must first wrest the truth from it. The truth is accessible
the first appearances of things, which are only half real.
1. The First

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from the First Post-Atlantean epoch (ancient Indian culture),
in the First Post-Atlantean epoch of culture. [
shapes itself into forms enters into the first design, like a
absorb spiritual science in the right way, we must first take
The first stage
before her first marriage; the situation continues until she
characteristic English philosophers in the first edition of

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think first of the German element in a general sense.
principle in the human soul which has first and foremost to
determined from outside. I will speak of Austria first. When
philosopher Solovieff. His greatness was first revealed to me
at first: Is there anything new in Solovieff? If we compare
And further: Do not people feel that they must first have
The first part
experiences for the first time is one of the most shattering

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from the West we should have to look, first, at the capital
and we know for the first time what feeling really is. This
the Greeks, nor have we within us what is now for the first
first declared Object of our Movement (the universal
culture, those who were the first to ally themselves with
become of Christianity if in the souls of the first

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of colour must first be liberated from the conditions imposed
achieved for the first time — even if only in the most
where men were standing physically when the first ship sailed

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the building of the First Goetheanum, 1914. With a Foreword by Marie
by many hundreds, nay even thousands of years, from the first
in the first place from the way in which substances were
first and then carries them out, they will have no value. If
first place, of course, one feels in despair about an idea
[The first of Dr. Steiner's Mystery Plays.]
and we saw a statue there. At first sight it was exceedingly

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the building of the First Goetheanum, 1914. With a Foreword by Marie
ourselves of this responsibility, for the first of our
create the first beginnings of an artistic vesture for
which the Gods speak to us. We must, however, first learn how
the art of relief first assumes its real meaning, but I will

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the building of the First Goetheanum, 1914. With a Foreword by Marie
In the first
The first
first sight so intelligible. The smaller structure will seem
cannot at first stand upright; lie crawls, and at the very
process. Underneath we have the Earth. Man is at first a
the first germs of the skull formation. To-day we have
periods (from the first to the seventh year, from the seventh
new pairs of pillars to that first strong pair formed during
the first seven years of life. They appear in the etheric
— for so indeed they may be called. After the first
period of seven years the first pair of life pillars is
twenty-first year the third pair, and finally, with the
‘Up to the first pair of pillars we see how man
develops in the first seven years of his life; the second
year, then on to the twenty-first year and so on.’ And

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the building of the First Goetheanum, 1914. With a Foreword by Marie
the first two pillars we have the expression of the supports
which man has raised in his own being after the first period
the other. In the first place, therefore, clairvoyant
these activities. To this end I will first divide the Sun
remarkable thing is that in the first moments of vision we
same streams as in the first diagram only the Sun is turned a
of things; there must first be the design, the drawing. This,

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the building of the First Goetheanum, 1914. With a Foreword by Marie
spoke of the date at which humanity would first have
we realise its existence we shall naturally at first be

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first few lectures. Thus, I should like to shape this course
soul-forces we propose at first to turn our attention.
first sentences touch on something that, until now, had not
was supposed to give a lecture. At first he deals with his
first no interest for him. — He writes these thoughts
first to pick them up in order to be able to sit down on the
thoughts however, he surely has no sympathy at first. Also
Verbal formulation of the first and the last sentences. Our thought
start from an example, let us first take the teacher speaking
with some chapter in class, that he first of all call up
speaks from the first sentence on under direct inspiration,
personality, because the vibration of feeling must first be
first sentences in such a way that certainly the feeling of
verbally formulated the first, second, third, fourth, and at
have a frame: The formulation of the first and last
lecturer, even if at first one is no lecturer, even the
lecture will come out right the fifty-first time. Just
the following: first one has completed the thought content,
enthusiasm what we first represent to ourselves in thought.

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out of it, — then we must first of all hold before our
We shall first
the central issue of the threefold order that must at first
must slowly lead to the imparting first of a feeling for this
would first ripen in fifty or a hundred years. One glides
independent spiritual life was first pushed into the
slipped into the universities, which are localized at first,
is the economic organization first receive a certain
cities emerge more and more. Then the cities, in the first
One was supposed to speak beautifully! That was the first
speaking beautifully is no longer taken into first
it arises first of all quite corrupted. How does it arise?
Well, in the first place, language has become abstract. That
picture. — The first thing which I had to oppose in my
into the realm of the ethical. And then it must first of all
things abstractly, but livingly, then the first thing into

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speaker it will be a question at first of entering in the
speaking. The first is to convert to one's own use the
lecture, — this is the first consideration.
has experienced first-hand about the matter in question,
extraordinarily difficult in the first place to connect onto
the first lecture, then actually a maximum is attained as
terminology right-away in the ear — not first in the
today tried to show you how the material first has to be
step. Today I wanted more to show first of all in rough

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those countries one addresses people who, first of all, have
have gone until now, must first be called forth.
must be able to dispose oneself first, in order to have the

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the first two realms — namely that of the spiritual life
should be such that we try hard first to sense and then to
ourselves first in imagination, in inner experience —
market-relationship in the first place? Basically, from the
speech; instead, they indicate: first, second, third, fourth,
in the first four lines.

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First, I would
deal from the Jesuits. They are very well trained. First,
The first is the fruit from the field
first is a fruit from the field; the second is something
first syllable is a fruit of the field, the second syllable
— Here, then: The first syllable is a fruit of the
since the very first efforts toward the realization of the
whole of human life. First we must actually have an
thoughts to formulate a program: firstly, secondly, thirdly

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In the first
what gives us as little children our first opportunity to
sense our relationship with the outside world. The first

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friend Albert Steffen as the first speaker during our
as such great good fortune — to speak the first words
this first morning. We may be certain of ever feeling warmly

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course? The picture we see at first seems grim. It can surely
first, is the picture with which our souls are faced. But it
out in one of my very first essays in
were first published in the belief that they could be
Goetheanum. They enter in this way the First Class of the
Society has existed. Frau Dr Wegman was one of the very first
Play. The first will take place at 4.30. Those who cannot
meeting is at 8 o'clock this evening when my first lecture on

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Let the first words to resound through
stand, a summary. But first let our ears be touched by them,

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Anthroposophical Society. My first task is to announce the
to the first point on the agenda I wish to ask whether in
take the first point on the agenda. I call on Herr Steffen,
to speak to our friends. I first call on the General
few more moments, dear friends. First of all, even during

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membership direct to Dornach. Efforts must first be made to
one place or another. Members of the First, Second and Third
three. First you attended the faculty of philosophy. This is
go furthest when we act in this way. It is not in the first

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reports. But first I would like to speak a few words in the
At first
resounded, you first highlight that part which can give you
the rhythm. Dear friends, let me write down here first of all
In the first verse:
first of all to Rio. He will gradually take on work in a
consideration of the Statutes. First the Statutes must be
efficient as possible there will first be a kind of general
debate on the Statutes, a debate in which first of all the

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forward spiritually to their structure. From the first verse
The first thing
Society, First Class, Second Class, Third Class of the School
First of all a
set in dealing with this first point. All those requested to
Statutes have thus been accepted in their first reading.
to the content or style and phrasing of this first Paragraph
this. This is the first Paragraph. Even the first Paragraph
Similarly I think that the first point indicates that the
to be stated in the first point is the manner in which the
DR STEINER: The first purpose of this
not on ideas and principles. The first fact to be considered
you who first entertained this conviction; they are those who
is in the first place the Vorstand of the Society. What is
cycles: First Class, Second Class, Third Class. And apart
dilettantism. Someone who has only just achieved the first

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The first verse:
speak first.
Goetheanum. They enter in this way the First Class of the
division into the first Section, the second Section, the
over the place for people who have to fit into the first, the
full responsibility, then firstly each one doing the work
in Dornach at the moment. First of all it will fall to me to
there would arise: Firstly — I have mentioned it
should hold their General Meetings first, before the General
Societies to hold their meetings first, in which they would
Firstly: The

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we had started by negotiating the amount in the first place.
could have decided not to found it in the first place. There

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the opposite of the first hierarchy in whose case the voices
questions. Perhaps someone first has something to say with
your seats. First of all, please do all you can to avoid

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The first
first place.
or a writer has only one, or rather two: the first is what he
allow me to touch on a few things. The first is that once the
Waldorf School. The first donation has already been sent to
DR STEINER: Dear friends, first I would

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which were spoken on the first day:
first.

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single small white hall in which the fire first broke out a
handled. My dear friends, in the first place the Sections are
First Class of the School of Spiritual Science. Admission to

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is not discussed first. I am sure I am not giving away
be possible, for by embracing it in the first place it is
shown to be a first-rate child. This would indeed have to be
which the first took place this morning at 8.30, the second
delegates is as follows: Firstly the group of delegates is
subject of the first meeting of delegates, and it will be our
draft. On the basis of this draft the first meeting of
DR STEINER: First of all there will be an
official report in the first supplement to

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had first gained the capacity to understand the language of
joined him through the mineral world with the first
the realm of the soul was available right into the first
one I have described. Hence our basic mood when we first look

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known in the world. Perhaps people who are not in the first
smaller circle first; and that was the matter of the annual
would have been more dignified. We could first have said: We
afternoon, on the very day on which we saw for the first time

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first of all towards the super-sensible world, towards the
first show people eurythmy; if they hear nothing about
liking to Anthroposophy as well. No one will say: First we

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These lectures, given after the burning of the first Goetheanum and
communities we can experience our first awakening to the spirit in our
when we started the first High School course at the Goetheanum, I
In the first ideal,
as I have often explained, began in the first third of the fifteenth
development was what I had in mind when we were launching the first
are worthy of depicting the divine. First, we discover the thought,
together. We have first-rate Waldorf School teachers and other

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These lectures, given after the burning of the first Goetheanum and
communities we can experience our first awakening to the spirit in our
making their first appearance on the stage of human evolution. This
of people born in the 1890's and in the first few years of the
searching during the first two decades of the twentieth century. Then
Stuttgart last Sunday. The first order of business was to hear what
first-rate and as to some lesser contributions in between, it is
instant. That is a tremendous difference. The first group understands
the life in the Anthroposophical Society, for the first lecture was

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These lectures, given after the burning of the first Goetheanum and
communities we can experience our first awakening to the spirit in our
The first lecture on
was of first concern to bring the Christ impulse to life in a way
The first kind of
particular young people were all students. Well, first there was some

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These lectures, given after the burning of the first Goetheanum and
communities we can experience our first awakening to the spirit in our
together in it are interested first and foremost in making
to create some kind of order in the German Society first, but that
this should only be the first step in creating order in other groups

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European-German thought development, during the first half of
which appeared in the development of thought in the first half
fell into three parts: Firstly in logic, not subjective human
first half of the nineteenth century was, passed and people
may first only be looked at as that small reservoir, the little

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very first period after death, to live within this
consciousness. And what we have to do during the first days
bearings in the supersensible world, when the first sally
because it is essential, first, to understand the language
malicious; the first person then proceeds to paint a mental
“first person” story, as we say. This character
story (it is, as I say a ‘first person’ tale),
me. The first thing we heard was a scream from my wife's
first-aid and was accustomed to render simple medical
to the first good room, sent to fetch her maid and
opened the letter first; there were only a few lines.

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The first truth
friend, and when her consciousness first came to itself at
Her first glance at the window through which the faint
to grasp in its reality what is present as the first moment
and life of this soul is revealed in that the first time

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your attention today first to something of a more general
the very first conditions, therefore, of gaining a right
one who has gone through the gate of death, one must first
speak much of oneself, to judge everything so that first of
they are far more important than you at first believe. But
first time to one's consciousness. There it stands although
we must first succeed in circumscribing ourselves, in
after death too vividly, and we must first diminish this
also if we would rightly enter Initiation — first
Science in quite a small circle, we were at first joined by
surging spiritual life of wisdom. One enters first into
are received by the complete fullness of being. At first we
perceive them. That which surges around us at first is just
Now at first we are

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first days of childhood, as to the development of the
with its chart of animals. First we have simple animals then

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intermixed, what the soul carried within itself from the first
the first Christian decades, in the manner we imagine the
common history of the first Christian decades to have been.
pantheistic impulse. Already in the first weeks of their
like those living in Europe during the first century — and were
now. However, these souls who incarnated in the first Christian
depicted for you — in harmony with the first primitive
bodies now occupied by souls who had lived during the first
number of souls who already in the first centuries AD lived
way one may not identify the teachings of the first Christians
with the reality of Christianity. These teachings of the first
first centuries, we find — but not applied to Christianity,

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First Book of Samuel, when Saul, renounced by God before the
firstly he doesn't want it and secondly it appears stupid to
writer declared himself available to first read through this
article on Anthroposophy, firstly one which was actually
As second article appeared a refutation of the first from
up as the foundation of the mystery of faith is also not first

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in its very first elements, and due to a remarkable fact which has recently
the sounds. When we name the first letter in the Greek alphabet, alpha,
things to have developed so that first what we call the letters or sounds
too far back, but more forward). This is the first gesture. Now we carry
Take the first gesture:
and formation, you have to experience the chord. This is a first element.
simply changing [direction]. You first produce the experience of the
must take deeply into your soul this first principle, as I have described

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first.
you first take up the position, and then make the movement — continuing,
must be invoked. In the first place we have what I characterized as
been given must first be assimilated. So we shall continue tomorrow.

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Let us first see if you can manage the following exercise.
seventh and prime, and sixth and prime. The first movement just shown
The movement first shown
produced in the first place in order to be heard, whereas eurythmy brings
of art. Try first of all to become inwardly completely quiet, indifferent
First he lives in space
have to devise a means of producing them; they must first be made. The

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to B, returns to G, progresses to F#, and so on. Thus we have the first
In the first motif we hold ourselves back, in the second we boldly swing
onwards to the next motif: the curve is first up, then down, and between
I ask you to try first and foremost to seek the whole human being in
yesterday, we first have a B, and the u [‘oo’] represents
first jump into the air and then you stand on the ground. This is what

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number of people. Let us first take the musical case: We have a metamorphosis
us say. We will let the first person present the first motif in eurythmy
take over the second metamorphosis of the motif. The first person remains
the place of the first (see Fig. 5). A kind of round dance can be brought
yourselves in such a way that the first person stands here, the second
note is taken by the first person, the next highest note by the second
the first group, the dominant with the second group and the subdominant
Listen to this progression of notes, which will at first seem very strange
Play the first two notes together and the next two notes consecutively,
sustaining the last note for a long time. The first two notes, accordingly,

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feel that the second examples are musical, whereas the first exist as

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to do tone eurythmy, with the first step, [42] transfer your consciousness
this feeling, which you consciously stimulate in the collar-bone, first
in the first lecture. For this, you need the forearm, both hands [probably
the human being himself. For it is necessary, in the first place, to
Now when the first four
there the entire musical image of the first stages of the scale. When

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substance of tone eurythmy will have been given. The first step in this
very expressive from a musical point of view. Think, in the first place,
is brought into conjunction with the first, at the point where this
first to come to terms with the larger matters. As soon, then, as you
it will be necessary first Co experiment and find your way into the
I wanted to give you in this course of lectures. In the first place
the first hearing, and everything becomes hurried and mixed up.

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anything from a I to a 6 with the second. Getting a 2 with the first
sequence that strikes us at first glance as correct is actually a sound

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we return first to the state of consciousness we had on the sun; the
might say that he is quite familiar with the hierarchical order: first
as an auric cloud, an aura. We don't see him entirely clearly at first,
but rather in an auric cloud that we must first penetrate: we see an
among other works, and a first edition of it was published.
In the preface to the first edition he explained why he arranged it
it. I am going to read you two such, one the very first sentence; the
first, namely, to serve as a preliminary text requiring further
first edition in what was for him an esoteric manner, and that it was

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the fabric of ideas, first the fabric of ideas in pure logic, then that
words, the idea will not at first have wholly mastered matter, but expresses
the world spirit first gave to us in thought form.
too is “constructed.” He looks first for the progressive
such. As you've seen, Hegel followed the principle of first lifting
outer world of everything that had first been discovered in the inner
come and demonstrate that he first encountered my pen as an idea.”
here with recognition, and it must first travel the path of interiorization.
the remembering process?” Another question must be answered first,
in first approaching that object. And the more often the experience

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we experienced at first subjectively.

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First, let us review the insight we arrived at yesterday: that the past
the words, borrowed them from the first group and transformed them.

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of angels. But let us first acquire some preliminary concepts of these
process. As we ascend into the first spiritual world, the imaginative
insights by any other means than the most painstaking comparisons. First
in this first stage of true clairvoyance.
plant rightly only if we know it in its various states: first in its
of our own physical thoughts when we first enter the spiritual world,
Our age is really the first to confront such

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here before that we must of course realize first that human beings
We have therefore to distinguish the first
has not yet had time to develop organs for its use; we must first create
with the content of your consciousness. You would first have to have

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the first phenomenon, the first fact, to appear is the laying aside
mobility is only the first stage of ascent into the spiritual world.
too, cannot be said to exist within the soul; it had first withdrawn
first beginnings were created and thought by spirits on ancient Saturn,
just like what we have in our memories in the first stage of objectification.
with such an impression, first brings those who die young together with

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neither of which is comforting. First, if one's education was
because in the first few chapters the author, an outstanding
Well, this was the first shock when the nature of the human
but because they belong to the theme of our conference. First,
from a scientific perspective? Our attention is drawn first to
this sort, the first requirement is certainly not to omit any
working in the physical body up to the end of the first

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in entirely different ways during each of the first three
would surely not be proper for teachers to first acquire
practice. The first thing to be aimed for is a living
during the first three years than he does during his three
managing to stand up and take the first steps in order to
When raising themselves up, young children are first of all
children are encouraged to learn to walk first, that is, if one
first, the child only links feelings to the sounds coming
nature and its processes. Thus all of the child's first
key question needs to be answered first. In order to speak, the
human being during the first three years of life is given over
many things. But the most fundamental factor during the first
the first three years it adapts itself to earthly conditions of
first years (and more generally so between birth and the change
development later, it omits the first stages. In contrast, the
first years and not heredity as such. In their proper place,
notions about what is happening in the child during these first
soul and body, but a fact such as this, where during the first
what the child ought to learn first after entering earthly
establish in the first thirty pages of print, only to find that
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us first look at what is very simply called “learning to
must always bear in mind that, pre-eminently during the first
happening there, so human beings during the first period of
circles. Whether a child first puts down the heel or the toes
the first time.
the human being's highest member, the I, is the first to
child's whole life. We can first observe it in a particular
see, what has been working physically during the first period
— first before the change of teeth, but also continuing
first lecture, I am not at all against the more external forms
first period of life ending with the change of teeth, pictures
Just as during the first period of life children imitate all of
through first learning to speak, children dreamily follow
which were at first perceived in a dreamy way, are also
whereas during the first period of life these outer activities
ninth and tenth year. At first, until the ninth year, the
ready to appreciate simple geometric forms. In the first
with the knowledge that, during the first period of life until
already been put into words at the end of the first lecture.

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impulses already implanted during the first seven years. They
[The first kindergarten in the
as a preparatory step for our first grade. People who take a
these second teeth on the basis of the first baby teeth; what
the child to sound only the first letter, in this way obtaining
objects. According to this theory, when people first began to
according to certain accepted principles. First come the
at first in a physicalspiritual way, continues in a hidden
During the first life period, until the change of teeth, we
strength, what they first received through their soul life
morality later in life. Having first found pleasure or
During the first seven years the children have an inborn
religious element, and that during the first seven years the

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authority from the day the child enters the first grade until
of a sense organ, first of all, is to expose itself, or the
teacher tries to explain the subjects during the first school
what I emphasized in our first meeting.
young people engaged in their first years of academic study, it
later life. At first there is only the child's etheric body.
first not with colored pencils but with liquid colors. Through
perspective without their first having inwardly absorbed

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general. They are three fundamental virtues. The first concerns
first period of life, as long as the child is treated properly.
toward us, especially during the first period of life. This
whole human being during the first period of life, will
But that first tender love, so deeply embodied in the inner
gratitude during the first period of the child's life, is the
first period of life, we create an atmosphere of gratitude
children into the first grade, we must also consider the kinds
when one awakes in the morning. At first there is a dim
awareness of vague notions; perhaps first sensations begin to
years. At first love begins to stir when sympathy is aroused
approach of puberty, begins. This is when what first developed
child's birth and the loss of the first teeth. At school, we
surroundings during the first period of life — that is,
do perceive are meaningful gestures. During this first period
Whether the word leaf is written in the first or second
nose first. Had he ever started his lesson without doing so, we
teachers can do for the child during the first and second life

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gave three courses to the teachers of the first Waldorf school,
first three years the students in our school are to be
be respected to the extent that, after completion of the first
sixth grade, counting upward from the first grade — they
retrospect, one could say that during the first three grades
school when they are losing their first teeth. Today people
with this compromise during the first three years. Admittedly,
language should first be acquired. They were very satisfied
one living and spirit-permeated organism. The first grade
kind of soul for the entire school organism. And so the first
we are about to open our first twelfth grade).
that obviously there would be two kinds of difficulties. First,

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benefit of those who had been chosen to become its first
would not work. First of all, new arrivals do not come neatly
figure in life! First, because such a person would have nothing
temperaments. First, one would give a description of these four
the published version of the first training course, given to
the first course; and because the later one is supposed to
the type of subject) during the first half of the morning
the first grade in a Waldorf school. Using our own methods, we
Similarly, right from the beginning in the first grade, all
when first given eurythmy exercises and then directed in doing

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words first. I do not intend to explain the performance, which
first babbling sounds of a baby, which express only feelings
questioner had noticed that in the word greeting, the first and
places the main value on the first syllable or on both
School. But to move forward in this way, one would first have

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important in man. The first is the blood, for if man were not
here. So if first you stand there, you do not see the sun at
which first forms the egg in the mother. But natural science is
produce red at dawn, it must first shine on the clouds and we

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First of all, today we have to consider a
understand the spiritual element if one first studies
— first Europe;
ordinary objects. You first distinguish
which takes up all light. In the first place it gives
there is a tree. It stands at first on the earth's surface and
to do anything, it must first be proved. Today that is the
fact, all children are at first materialistic, and then grow to
the first chapter of my
have shown that in the first chapter of the
because that must first be understood if
to begin with it in the first

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the first seven years of the human organism. We gradually see
power gradually works into the bodily aspect during the first
during the first seven years of life.
processes. The first meaningful process appearing as a result
because the child, as it starts with its first period of life,
child first learns at this moment to really distinguish itself
when there is a reference to, first of all, present day science

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was first a little child and raised himself from below upwards, when

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has gone through in the first half. I said that natural intelligence
first years of life, is not yet grasped through our own human forces
in the first years of childhood are in fact only born as late as that
beings, beings who for the first half of life would lead more or less
would like to make man for the first half of his life, a dreamer, and
comes from Ahriman; the tendency to volatilize, become first jelly-like,
[ The first Goetheanum, destroyed by fire
spirits would like to take us at once and not let us first go through

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theme practically, we will first go into a concrete example. Who would
They must first learn them according to the laws of geometry, how they
instinctively at first, then consciously. Let me draw your attention
I sought to make it clear to the Jesuit that, first, he must himself

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mankind will first have to be considered — in the spiritual scientific
first, at the time of its birth, unknown to the world at large, to that
are the spiritual wisdom of Greece. The first apologia of the Church
new that purposes to enter into the course of world evolution must first
light, so that the Jesus Child, Who entered the world first to work

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influence plays a certain role in the first half of life, the ahrirnanic
he is now dependent only in the earliest years. Now in the first years
of much that existed in those first Christian centuries is either entirely
epilepsy — when people have to describe what lived in the first
in the first post-Atlantean epoch, less in the second. In the third
thee is the Father of all, the first Man, and the Son of Man.”
the first Christian centuries, in whom there lived not merely mental
so, in Augustine there appeared the first dawning light of what had
I explained this here some time ago and tried to point to the first dawning

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I shall speak first, then,
to call them degrees. Now, we may characterize the first stage, the
first degree, of the Egypto-Chaldean initiation in this way: the neophyte
must first pass through the “gate of man.” That means, the
human being himself was to be the gate of knowledge. First the human
of course, first of all the earthly substances and forces surrounding
second stage, everything that had been learnt in the first as experienced
first stage how he stands within the world, so he learned in the second
completion of the first two stages of the Mysteries. If a clear consciousness
had to be achieved in the first two stages: the ability to get out of
being of the world. He could not first have found it outside; now he
they could only become such by first seeking in themselves what was
experience of transformation, the setting into motion of what had first
in a certain sense, the ego was first born with Christianity. Therefore
nevertheless found his ego. As active consciousness it was indeed first
childhood; there is some evidence of its presence in the first years
In the first place, initiation
is just as much a first stage as the “gate of man” was in

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ancient Chaldea, it appears first of all not to have had a twofold structure
is the first stage of supersensible knowledge, then comes inspiration,
must first be verified by the approach of the Spirits of Personality
today (perhaps at first from something quite superficial) that a new
put it into concepts if one has first acquired the ability to form imaginations,
attention to the fact that those who first wrote about Christianity

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of this, Protestantism arose. At first this too held fast to the Gospels.
not yet so very different in the first third of this new epoch, preceding
B.C., and the Mystery of Golgotha occurred at about the end of the first
In the first stage, which Brunetto Latini is describing here, he enters
But one must carefully consider what is significant in the first stages.
For these first stages represent precisely what is taking place in the
should wish at the first stage of initiation to approach the created
only the first elements, but he did provide the method. As I have said,
If someone will complete this first step which is necessary for present
the emergence of the second column from the first—in pedestal,
and feel this to be the first region. Today, we have first to concern
experienced, as the first sign of his guidance by a spiritual being,
The human being must first go through the other stages; after he has
were of the very first importance. Only now will he understand what
Clifford was the first to express the opinion that the brain exudes
of the first water. But if he talks with Haeckel, he notices that all

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first year of life, and by the end of our second year were as advanced
year we have fallen out of the life of the world. We first come to realize
give us what it could give us in response to our will. We have first
or spiritual science, of how our earth has gradually developed by first
stage arises. The power to observe it, however, depends upon first changing

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must turn first to what may be said to lie more on the surface of
of human nature that at first people will be averse to recognizing any
it is first and foremost that the old revelation should be better understood
the disintegration of their personalities. This first way of thinking
inquiry just as well as the first. For here it is not a question of

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respond in one of the three following ways: First, because of the confidence
first and foremost as human beings, and our confidence in them depends
with a pupil, the pupil will be the first to experience the disastrous
First of all, there is one
of the Anthroposophical Society to always first come to me to discuss
with me first. If what I want to do is to be accomplished on behalf

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people first hear about reincarnation, they take an immediate personal
— first of all, there isn't enough time for that, and secondly
so to speak. I will speak first about the part that has to do with our
that aspect first. Among the many things, some of them highly slanderous,
inclined to conceal the matter behind any occult cloak. First of all,
it will do no damage. First of all, it will always be possible to counter

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the spiritual culture of the times, or on culture in general, was first
have heard about it even if you have no firsthand knowledge of it —
esoteric ideas are the first to get drawn into it.
movement like ours is to inhabit it. First and foremost, we must take

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our own. We must preclude the possibility of first hearing about some
But two things are necessary for that to happen. First, each one of
which is the first book I wrote in the theosophical movement on the
not even this very first book of mine has been understood, for if it

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He had made some first-class scientific discoveries before becoming
double opportunity to do so, first of all through the fact that this
is to it. First of all, of course, it is important to accompany the

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First of all, and from a
like this objectively, we must first of all remove it from its personal
only select a few essential points for your consideration. The first
So the first hypothesis
first point his letter addresses.
points, but let us deal with them first.
Goesch manage to construct such a systematic theory, based on his first
as it relates to Goesch's first two points, and his involvement with
believe in their own theory, should apply it to themselves first and
and his disciples should apply this theory to themselves first. They
is love for a blood-relative, and one of the first essays in this book
get on with your deliberations. I simply wanted to point out the first

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You will have noticed that I first characterized the psychoanalytic
It first appeared in the 1890s. It would be interesting to find
questions will become apparent if we first ask what was actually going

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very nice. Mauthner first mentions Spinoza's definition of love and
passionate and most spiritual, and that Spinoza made use of his first
Let us first see how far

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the first thing we have to do is to work out the right point of view from
aware of the principle of first discovering the right perspective became
Let us first consider our

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classes. When you voice this view to the working man, he will at first
Christianity first arose this highest wisdom existed within the Roman
social organism — indeed, the last catastrophe (the first world
and even weave the material for your clothes, etc. But first of all,

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were in the first place, the suppression of the system of paid labour,
aims. These two points were: In the first place, the transformation of
collective proprietorship. This was the first point. The second point was

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In the first place, the socialistic ideal aims at appropriating all
of the present. One of the first requirements is this: to understand

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Let us consider the first
In the first place, not a mere faith in a divine-spiritual element,
In the first place, spiritual

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thought first at least to speak to the understanding of part of mankind.
one one sets out on some road, a first step has to be taken; and we
should not think, when the first step seems incompatible with the desired
goal, that this step is useless. On a long road the first step can only
first simply a question of not going in the wrong direction, either
a real stream is flowing. The first step may often seem most unfortunate,
of mankind, it must first be asked where anything of the sort has been
arising out of the real conditions of modern human life. First, arising
me aright. This is first and foremost an appeal to the German people.
German Empire happened at a time when these necessities were first appearing
here that in the first part of this Appeal something is said of the

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is now a striving for disorder will first take an orderly direction
are not to be convinced; they must first break their heads against the
account if at first the affair does not go as one had imagined, it need
organism? The question that must first of all be answered is: What then
a first brief indication of how the threefold membering of the nature
form, it is in just such a movement as ours that there can be a first

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two phases. The first phase is when the proletariat take over the bourgeois
this first social stage lead? If we express it in a simple fashion,
In short, these socialists take the view that in the first phase the
you nothing more than a first phase, in which we shall carry to its
narrow outlook will be overcome only at the end of the first phase.
and naturally become intensified. Thus it will prevail during the first
That is just the first phase of socialism. The time will then come when
the civilising influence of the first phase men will have become accustomed
have a first phase — socialism with present-day man, and the logical
abstraction. First the bourgeois order will come to an end by developing
point of absurdity. These must first develop, however, into complete

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proletariat is today filled with three things. First, the materialistic
are, first, a penetration of the spiritual life, a penetration fitted
first made itself felt among the leading classes of men in the field
on the special kind of spirituality in the first post-Atlantian period
by Greek life was that, in human evolution, the Greeks were the first
shall first beg the social democrats to leave, and then ask the audience
itself particularly by everyone thinking first of himself and trying
For this, he must first

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three impulses behind the modern proletariat movement — first, the
through vigorous thinking. That must first be achieved. After vigorous

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with honesty say that the real reason for man's sickness today is first
has first to be sought a speech common to both, and that means efforts

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into carbonic acid. Then why should we first inhale it? For it only

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falls into three parts. The first part he called Logic. Logic for him,
idea as it is present first in the souls of single human individuals,
sum total of the ideas living in everything, first in the being in itself
were men first to see into something that, after all, is not hard to
as far as it was permissible to go in the first decade of the nineteenth
or in the first two decades of the twentieth, but by resolving to think

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He lets fall the very first rays through the lens on to the
one might be prone at first to think of Goethe as a man far,
is divided into certain periods. The first period runs its
we study the first part of Goethe's life up to the year 1775,
events and how we must nevertheless first understand the
if this play were to appear for the first time now and be put
world is contained in even the very first parts of Goethe's
that signify in his life? We must first understand what an
fully to feel what is contained even in the first parts of
right sense and in the true light the value of these first
wrote the first parts of
himself had first to be rejuvenated at Rome. The rejuvenation

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first there are the nerves whose chief centre is in the
first, 'If only they were used for dreaming in every human
very first beginning here. (See the drawing.) Then I must
put the first beginning of his cobblery here. This
their inner being, with the past. They must first grow together
to give you these conceptions to begin with. For we must first

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the cosmic whole, though at first sight if might appear so. We
Saturn evolution (when the first plan of the physical human
connected with our evolution, for we owe to them the first plan
something which is a first beginning for Vulcan, just as
the Saturn activity was a first beginning for the physical
can evolve. We must first acquaint ourselves with the objective
first place, as we shall presently see, those who are born into
have to create the first cosmic beginnings of a far-reaching

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people to ascend to the forces of the gods for the first
The first human period —

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we saw that in the first epoch transubstantiation was connected
our time man must first unite this ritual with his ego; for the
first commemorations of the Lord's Supper were still immersed
did one look upon apocalyptic things in the first mystery
subject of the Greek alpha and omega, the first and the last,
what the first and last letters of various alphabets really
study, the Apocalypse, was more or less the first to feel that
way yesterday and today, that is, by what lived in the first,

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if we go back before the late Hebraic period when they first
supersensible being. If we want to find out what this first
first cosmic human germ on Saturn, which became the present
earth. Man was present on Saturn in his first, germinal
although he doesn't bear the world in himself yet. The first
yet, and then of men who had taken the first part of the world
and form which imitated the world. This was the first thing
in amazement. And the first thing which man experiences as the
and the house or temple or skin was the first thing from the
being when he was first created, and that when one goes from
that he exists. For if one takes the first words of the
Thus the first thing which is pointed out is that the author of
the first two sentences and as we will continue to do it. Or
God's letter, which he first has to open, which is sealed with

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transitions like the one from the first vision in the
first love. For we're told that it left its first love. The
of thinking in the first Christian centuries, very foreign
Thus in these first Christian times an old heathen cult which

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of the first post Atlantean epoch was contained in these
Ephesus as a Christian continuation of the first world view and
we go back to the first, second and third post Atlantean epochs
on earth. In the first, second and third post Atlantean epochs,
This consciousness or attitude of soul first arose in the
in the description of the first four letters. The first letter

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the first things he experienced there was that his thoughts and
the first Christian centuries one finds that a few people have
of seven tones — for the eighth is the same as the first,
age, that is, since the first third of the 15th century, we are
Michael age; we have the first, second, third, fourth, fifth,
take this first time period, it is represented by the church in
community were the ones whose first love united them with

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must first look at the spiritual foundations from which this
Let's connect this time of the first Christian centuries with
must go back to the time of the first Christian developments in
869 which basically cancelled the doctrine of this first
his way into this is chaotic at first, without the activity and
just as long as the first period after the Mystery of Golgotha,

Title: The Apocalypse: Lecture VIII
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first half of the 20th century through the appearance of the
When the first 666 went by Soradt was still hidden in the
only the first seeds.
the first half of the 20th century, will be followed by the
the first half of the 20th century and at the threatening rise

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it continued in the first decades after the Mystery of Golgotha
— as I told you in the first lecture —, which is
the first ones — thought that they connected themselves
soul. Whereas man's body is the first house which man builds

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meaningless at first. Why does He come, the one who is to bring
see, something has occurred thereby. The first thing which has
However, a third thing appears. Christ in three forms: firstly,
in his work. He's really laying the first foundation stone of
are the first ones who will be able to feel the approach of the
Priests are priests today because they are the first ones who

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first stage is the fall of Babylon; we will call it this to
a certain form; they will occur after the first appearance of
First comes what is called the fall of Babylon. Here we can
to acquire this humanness first, and he can't just have it at
spiritual worlds to a terrible corruption; first with respect
the first one, the fall of Babylon, is all the errors men can
that they became corrupt. These are the first ones, who are
first we have the fall of corrupt human beings and then the
must foresee these things. For the first stage, the Babylonian
Satan will make some first successful attempts to bring

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situation that we are together again on the day when the first
was preceded by the fourth, third, second, first back to the
the first epochs in earth evolution. These first three epochs
Atlantean epoch is something new. The first three are
Thus we can deepen our remembrance of the first act of
idea today in memory of the first act of consecration of man

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whatever makes the seventh impression explains the first one,
first of all this is not quite correct, because the statistics
have the first, quiet, victorious advance, where the spreading

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Napoleonism, of the first Napoleon. The way that men are
harmony between the three parts at first, and so they look for
that the Slovaks are first thrown together with the Magyars and
sweet in the mouths of some people at first. People like to

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will say more about this shortly. However, I would first like
clearly — we have the present state of affairs: Firstly,

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were first introduced. When people suggested that the post
the etheric Christ in the right way, mankind must first meet

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spiritual world in each case, first he presents the letters,
experience. However, he doesn't notice this at first. During
— that was the first one —, and we arrive at the
first condition of the second world, where everything is still
powerful, important and sublime beings; we get to the first
whereas the very powerful beings in the first hierarchy
derived from the first hierarchy. We should realize that we can
organic way anymore. The error first arose during the Jews'
we get out to the spiritual world, and the first beings we meet
feel things in a really moral way and who must first harmonize
one looks at the Apocalypse in this way it firstly enables us

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these soul-capacities. Intellectuality is the first thing
is the first thing in which he must freely connect himself
You could see this when the first attempt was made to do
Berlin in the first half of the 19th century; he was a high

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You see first here the picture
before us, this I would like first of all to place somewhat into the
Let us first of all visualize
this picture came about. Two events came over humanity. First, the discovery
used to think of imagination as the first step of vision into the higher
And if we go back into the first centuries after the Mystery of Golgotha
he drew first, These are some examples out of which the picture grew
relates more to the lower part of the first sketch, still shows a very

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was formed first through that desire for pictures was the simple, primitive
— the artistic dares to come forward for the first time, where
sense, the follower of that Master of Cologne, Stephan Lochner. The first

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first Christian artistic creations, but also how at the same time these
from the old Christian art of the first Christian centuries. They will
let you observe what I mean with this, what I want you to see. First,
death, that was a deep desire for the first, devout Christians.
first of all the stone — physical; then the plant-motives left
evolution takes place from the first motif to the second. Visualize
in a similar way as the one in our building, (in the first Goetheanum
a critical part of the first world-war) if one does not wish to think in a
unfortunately want to hear so little. There came the first year of this

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we come again and again, upon the fact that the first attempt to do
the earliest times when men first began to portray the Christ, it is
specifically human first from the sub-human.
to the first centuries, and there you already see how the endeavour
consider what this Rome was. We must first free ourselves from all that is
first great period of its development, was drawn from Greece for two
he desired a beautiful type and this did not impress him first
different things can be distinguished. First those forms in which
soul qualities at the first appearance of Christian art. We see them
Remember the first groping attempts which we found in early Christian
was dammed back to the East, really came for the first time to expression
first time in art, the Redeemer becomes the model for the Western priest.
first were dominant, but which then took on the individual soul element,
what is expressed in these figures — in plastic form, as a first

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It is the first of five lectures, from the above series, entitled,
within us, we must say: — Let us first of all contemplate
extended their dominions over the three first Realms —
prey to death when we `die' as it is called neither do we first

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into the entire cosmos. Now as we speak of man we first of all
one has first, as it were, to part them asunder and consider
Let us turn our attention first rather to the periphery of man,
to his exterior, to that which limits him. Then, in the first
first place, we see just that part in which he is really awake
will first be elevated as real treasures of knowledge, when on

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The first four lectures deal with the development of theology from a
attention to the fact that the spiritual life of the first four
picture of what actually took place during these first four
of the way in which human beings related to the world in the first
come to the first hierarchy, the thrones, cherubim,
referred to when they used such terms as first, second, and third
theology of the first Christian centuries, which has been
consciousness that one must first have experienced something in the
clairvoyance, under the influence of which people first
were standing in a dark room with no light. However, if they first
for example, they had first beheld something of the creative powers
theologians. For this reason the entire Christology of the first
side. One first sought out Christ in spiritual worlds and then
theologians, say from the first or second century after the mystery
spiritual world, a human being must first obtain knowledge of the
the world inwardly, first to see the spiritual and then to
They looked first at this world of the dead, who were actually the
ages Charlemagne was seen undertaking the first crusade against the
first centuries of the Middle Ages, in the so-called Dark
Ages. The dead remained with the living. During the first period
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The first four lectures deal with the development of theology from a
in the first plant (drawing 1) began to develop right in the root is
first four Christian centuries, in any case, still at the time

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The first four lectures deal with the development of theology from a
your attention to the fact that in the first four Christian
first period after the fourth century: In a certain sense the
place. You see, in earlier times, say, in the very first Christian
someone living in the first centuries of Christendom have
through to an actual perception of the spirit. In his first book,

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The first four lectures deal with the development of theology from a
later civilization in the course of the first four centuries of

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FIRST LECTURE
waking hours. The first hour after waking should pass in such a
water. The human being is firstly mineral, plant-like,
next, you must first allow these things to permeate you.

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first initiators of this Religious Movement felt at the time,
first and foremost requirement in teaching and education lies
would first and foremost been available for the celebrating
not enlivened without the ritual. The ritual firstly calls upon

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firstly be very clear, my dear friends, how far we are removed
himself actually something whose understanding must first be
wrestled with, whose understanding must first be arrived at.
to first go through three steps of development, I must push
to rename things out of ourselves. Through this can we first
These things must firstly be experienced through the depths of
has depths which I must first need to fathom;
heights to which I need to rise first;
widths which I first have to look at and grasp.
first step, for the word “human-being” to be used
first step, then one takes on the second step which lets us
word ‘human-being’ must first be dipped into the depths of the
cosmic weaving Word of God. In the very first beginnings the
right, we do not have dignity to also express the first words
when he expressed the Word of God; he knew he had to first go

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firstly involve finding the preconditions which will enable a

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questions have faded, actually. The first question is that
life at first. However, in this life both questions
to win the son over to Christianity. At first, the son attains
That was the first to work powerfully on
First,
worldview of Manichaeism. That was the first to experience in
century, we may say at first, that what we experience as our
first. However, that which was something for him about which he
perception at first, we as human beings live in a spiritual
one world of ideas, not of the world of ideas in the first
can consider himself as a vessel at first. However, this is
who was Adam at first could not sin, he could not be unfree,
Augustine is one of the first to feel the individual existence

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at that at first, as one does mostly in the history of
development during the first Christian centuries in such a way
leaders during the first Christian centuries, then it lived on
first. He looks at them first from the viewpoint of the work of
first, if one looks at a child growing up, then one realises
One could say, at first, we have to deal
spiritual-mental metamorphosis. What has worked first
with which he remembers? They develop the organism at first.
does not find such an outer representative at first. There he
intelligences to which he refers back at first send down what
we can only gain knowledge at first, while we approach the
Aristotelian unmoved mover, the first cause. The logic thinking
is able to acknowledge God as an inevitably first being as the
the religious contents? First, how can one understand what the

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human individuality at first who was no longer able to carry up
in the first half of the seventeenth century. Everywhere in the
that doubt of which I have spoken in the first talk, while he
scholasticism. One realises two things with Descartes. First,
about the world and myself at first. However, this thinking is
Nominalism develops at first in such a way
with the volte-face and made the first ground with his
first in my writings Truth and
this strictly at first in my book
being to the spiritual world at first in a purely philosophical
is not at all there at first to create images of the outer
in my first writings.
happened different, and people will say, we are the first whom
repeated: the first one, that our reason ...” and so on.

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first they looked for. One characteristic, however, is common
in the first instance, — to turn aside from the ordinary
existence. The first kind, which still at the present day
the first twenty to thirty of the twentieth, will have
course was announced, so many people came to the very first
personages and dramatic compositions was at first certainly
Besant's. The first which I heard of her things was this
to be Anthroposophy first grew up in all essentials

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following manner: — First, why was it necessary to
talks of an anthroposophic society, the first point for
must begin first by giving you a few facts to-day, and leave it
facts. The first thing needed is to bring certain facts in the
upon this, we must first place the facts properly before our
group of people, we must first look a little into the minds of
these people. And here the first thing at once to strike one
have two conceptions of each person. First, there was the
those conceptions I spoke of at first: the conceptions, namely,
‘I’, it has not made even the first
everywhere points in the first place and by inner necessity to
These two things: first that there is a spiritual domain; and,
philosophy of the first half of the nineteenth century.
Philosophic Sciences, the first of the four parts, and you
least, with Robert Zimmermann. First idea, the Absoluteness
to begin by dealing with a variety of things; and in the first
of spiritual responsibility, one must first find a point of
That was the first thing. And this lecture I delivered in the
lectures, then, bore from the first as its proper title: ‘The
books, first, the Isis Unveiled, and second, the
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his first work, which was the basis for his later, so-called
first time his idea of the telephone, and sent in his
finds to-day as psycho-analysis. For, firstly, it is
... in the first place, all this gassing about monoism, and
a matter of fact, after the delivery of the very first lecture
was not bent in the first place upon theoretic formulas, but
looking back, then, to its first beginnings, which must be
world's revelations made their entrance at first — if I
that is what it did do at first. The attitude of the people who
Blavatsky had said in the first instance to B ... : You shove
understanding, when people first judge Adalbert Stifter not

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from the remarks of the last three days, the first
there are two things which might surprise one: first, the
from their first primary school, into this modern style of
the first place, there is a quite vague feeling which rises up
during the first years in Berlin, I had to lecture at erst in a
from the first to be a common human one; and so the
— This was brought by Blavatsky in the first place. And
this people required to have first, before, in the next place,
their spiritual needs.’ That was the first thing to be done.
the first, absent from the anthroposophic movement. For the
first lecture-cycle ever held by me was the lecture-cycle

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Two First Periods
FLOW OF THE MOVEMENT IN ITS TWO FIRST PERIODS.
movement itself, particularly amongst those first people who
first place, as a fact. And if you go back to my book,
possible for that which first, in the Mysteries, came before
possible for men to approach this Unique Event, which first
Gospels, — at first kept secret by the ecclesiastical
first, as a boy at a classical school. But since he was not
world, took the first thing that presented itself. They wanted
first thing necessary was to recognize: What are these souls
these people were, after all, the right people in the first
the first time, quite at the beginning of my activities,
so one conclusion, from these first seven years especially of
Anthroposophy first began its work, the Theosophical Society
fact one must keep quite distinct from the first. For this
in the first instance received an instigation from a quarter of
very first, there lay an orientalist policy of a one-sided
it was concealed the tendency to achieve, in the first place, a
this was to be done, in the first place, by indoctrinating the
significance. The first lecture I ever heard from Mrs. Besant
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The Two First Periods of the Anthroposophic Movement
TWO FIRST PERIODS OF THE ANTHROPOSOPHIC MOVEMENT:
— Exposition of the first principles of spiritual
the two first periods of the anthroposophic movement; and
into certain features of the first and second periods. For as a
Taking, to begin with, the first period, which lasted down to
altogether to this first period of anthroposophic effort.
this first period especially, however, there were all sorts of
during the first period especially, the fact that the
precisely during the first period of the anthroposophic
fetched me from the station, the first time in Hanover, when I
had to give a lecture there. — It was the first
on during the first period especially, when Anthroposophy was
Only just consider, though! that, at that time, the first
the first period, as I was saying, was to set forth the
First, there were great gaps, — the January number
this first period, then, the work was simply so carried on
then, in this period, came what I might call the first
went her own road from the very first; — those who chose
the first had never troubled herself in any way internally, as
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us just look back again for a minute and see how, in the first
I said: in the first period to begin with, — down to the
the same time, however, it meant taking the first essential
was the first step that went beyond this. For, obviously, a
first made it possible for opponents to come forward and find a
the progress of mankind, should, first and foremost, be
first took the eurhythmy in hand, and eurhythmy
founding this society, of having taken the first, leading step
in the first period, as I described yesterday. It came about,
in the first period, as I described yesterday. It came about,
upon scientific ground. At first these men of science did not
from this, one may say that at first, at the beginning of the
done before, in the first period. In the first period, as I
Science. That was the tendency in the first period. And since
the first period, of inventing atomic constructions, because
must first find their way into the anthroposophic lines of
convinced, because they lack the first foundations! —
This is the first thing that everyone must work at: to lay for
himself the first foundations in Already during the war, one
Anthroposophic Society helpers upon scientific ground. At first
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necessarily to be sought in the first place amongst those
If, however, we must go back to this in the first place as the
at first employed outward forms of expression — even for
forms of expression. If you go back to my own first writings,
in Goethe. And therefore, when I had first had to make public
became possible to take the first step into the spiritual
access to it. One finds the first of these doors at the point
the first door.
up, say in the good old times, in his first primitive
ethical impulses, — in that Divine First Principle to
Man in the first place in individual form ... it became now
first thing to be done, then, in the next place, was to come to
— The first of these was Nietzsche. Why this
the first in his Revaluation, of all Values, to write a
Immoral principle. — And accordingly the three first
Values; first book, The Anti-Christ; —
in the very first anthroposophical lectures that I ever gave.
back and ask: Where were the people in the first place, who had
fact, to an earlier time. It begins in the first period
look upon them. The first principle was the establishment of

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first and foremost thing to be observed in this School must of
First of all, I would like to present to your hearts and to
and sternness: We must first make ourselves truly human, warm
greatness and the sublimity of nature is, at first, spiritual
know that the first thing to come from the darkness that must
as spirituality. This is veiled at first in darkness for human
the Spirit-Messenger, who appears at first to be similar to the
seriousness, we should be aware of how at first softly, most
the first beast, the crooked back,
the first beast, the crooked back,
course say that. We must first comprehend the nature and the
Guardian of the Threshold characterizes the first beast, which
friends, by means of this first introductory lesson, with which
the first beast, the crooked back,
the next lesson of the First Class.

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being. And we want to first develop this sensation before
first sensation should make us aware of how the human being, in
constitutes the first stage of self-knowledge. Self-knowledge
Behold the first beast, the crooked back
knowledge is not present at first in the soul, but cowardice
from real knowledge, firstly in our thinking. Normal human
thinking is reflected in the thought-phantom of the first
after the first third of the fourth century had passed. And now
first beast is the reflection of our will. The will does not
of will - but also deep in the unconscious. The first beast
first beast's bony spirit:
first beast is surely capable of revealing in a mirror-image
first beast's bony spirit:
first stanza of this mantram is written on the blackboard:]
first we feel what each stanza contains.
we feel first: “denies”, and then “hollows
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those who, at first, only experience the transformation in
threshold of the spiritual world. That is the very first
we have already seen, only darkness streams at first from this
That is the first experience of the spiritual world, that
semblance and reality is problematic at first. That is
illusion. Therefore the first thing one must learn in order to
is quite different in the spiritual world. You must first grow
the first beast, the crooked back
The first beast's bony spirit:
point the first lessons of this class also become practical in
first verse, beginning with the last words, is written on the
we have the first mantric verse which can give us the strength
Guardian of the Threshold's first demand.
Just as through the first mantric verse we enter thinking, we
First of all, selfhood had to “revere” by sinking
Here [first verse] is only semblance;
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with the Guardian of the Threshold is the first thing one
For they do not separate on their own. At first when we think
That is why when I gave the first lesson I said that it is the
must first live and weave wordlessly in the soul before it can
first verse had a trochaic rhythm, the second an iambic rhythm
souls. So we learned the first verse, which is related to
First, we developed the appropriate feelings in respect to the
first beast's bony spirit:
corresponding verses [about the third, second and first beasts]
first glance there seems to be little difference between
depths ...], next to the third beast. At first we can not free
when we approach the first beast, which wants to hinder us from
first beast's bony spirit:
comforter and grace-giving as opposed to what the first beast
Take for example the first verse: “Feel how the earth's
the third verse, which begins: “The first beast's bony
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through our senses, but which at first indicate no relationship
powerless. Our thoughts are at first things we own which allow
sun's first light of dawn you yourself should shine down on the
temptingly. And we first realize that there is something

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become conscious of his true relation to the world, he first
may not simply continue to see things as first glances provide;
Here we have the first descent, climbing downward to the
the person striding by: first the inner feeling of fear of
first part of the mantra is written:]
Luciferic temptation in the form of helplessness. First
without having first developed a god-given, spirit-given will
speak. Therefore, in the first lessons I mentioned how the

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First if all, this School represents the impulse of the
objective truth. Among the first duties of an esoteric student
which is the first experience towards the attainment of real
the human being is at first unconsciously asleep. Under normal
That is the first powerful impression of true knowledge, my
can take the first step beyond the threshold.
thinking to be concentrated in the head, here [in the first
yourselves for the first time: I want to take the Guardian of
Oh, I didn't take the words seriously enough the first time; I
first admonition, which you give to yourself, is earnest. The
will return to the first admonition - as we will also do now -

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that many anthroposophical friends are here for the first time
stamp made, first of all because, although very abstract, a
used, the agreement of the Vorstand at the Goetheanum is first
step after the fourth, not the seventh step after the first; we
listening at first - by speaking the mantric formula which
points to what has resounded throughout the ages, first from
first the sun and moon, but also the planets which belong to
first.
order to see in the light the origin of our own being. At first
had pressed them into each other. [Around the first drawing an
the physical world. When one looks at man, one sees at first
first in darkness - the true thinking which glows through
[The first verse is written on the blackboard:]
here [in the first verse] must be: “behind thinking's
harmonically interwoven with the first.
Here [in the first verse] “willing” arises from the
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First - without taking notes - let us be reminded of the
Firstly, we humans should in later life be more like we were to
remember back to this first stage of infancy, and therefore
When you begin to notice it, then you will first feel
Thus, we let the first stage of this inner experience work in
for the first time you know what thought is. Before you didn't
first mantra sentence “support” is underlined.]
we will note that once the first part of the exercise is
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the decline of our civilisation, the first is the lack of a
will take the last question first; and if we contemplate the
foundations for religious altruism in the first place, and, in
question; but the Europeans would first need to become
formalistic as Anglo-American spiritual life is in the first
instance, that, materialistic as it is in the first instance,
is real. It was in Rome that the Citizen was first invented,
world in former days, — say, the first half of the 16th
von Hartmann was one of the first to receive a copy of
o'clock. First there will be the Eurhythmic performance, then a

Title: Cosmogony/Freedom/Altruism: Lecture II: A Different Way of Thinking is Needed to Rescue European Civilization
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way to look at it; in the first place, it would be an
us turn first to the civilisation of Europe. What is the
peculiar to intellectualism. In the first place, it never can
of culture, of civilisation, from the East. The first and the
elected either -in the first ballot, or in the second ballot.
Say that one did not succeed in getting elected in the first

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Christ that men first really ceased to believe that the power
look back at the first, second and third Christian centuries,
except, perhaps, on the first page, where one always sees
And the period when men first began to feel themselves to be
Original Sin first overtook man. As a matter of fact, however,
first at the beginning of the 3rd post-Atlantean age, when he
a spiritual one. And for this, modern mankind must first of all
spiritualisation, and, first of all, to a thorough
spiritual world, then that is a first beginning towards the
and during the first half of the 15th century, there was a man
decadence. I called attention to this phenomenon for the first
glimmering notion that Evolution is first an ascent and then a

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as I have attempted to do in the first volume of my
on this Jesus for the first time is suspended the idea of the
had for the time to remain more esoteric. And so, in the first

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which is the higher thing to the man of the first pole. At the
first pole, it is utility which is valuable — Utility,
pole of Sacramentalism, so often shines into the first pole,
Sacramental side. The first impulse however led to the

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Zusammenhang mit dem Kosmos. Band III. The first two lectures are also
see, that is an extraordinary transformation. At first it is
life of man. The uncertainty of man's instincts first appeared
Spirit can penetrate” — thus ran the first two

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Zusammenhang mit dem Kosmos. Band III. The first two lectures are also
now really entered for the first time on the age of human
to-day, for the first time, man is faced with such significant
were taken under the very first arrangements made for railways.
world-commerce which first led to world-economics. World-trade
after, there flowed that which led to my first Mystery Play,
the 19th and the first two decades of the 20th Century,

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Zusammenhang mit dem Kosmos. Band III. The first two lectures are also
Spiritual. It is only in the last century that man was first

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It is the first of five lectures, from the above series, entitled,
It is the first of five lectures, from the above series, entitled,
It is only in the last century that man was first reduced to

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interested in that cause. First and foremost, the French want
first person happened to die just when the second was born, and
from the birth of the first person to the death of the last?
considered something else first, which I shall gladly do
get. But first I would like to tell you a story to demonstrate
I have witnessed more than once. Usually, whereas at first the
once saw a mayor who got stuck after the first ten words pick
were no grounds for amputating his arm, but the first thing the
within the first few months after birth. Afterward, the
prone to illness. The first occurs from infancy to age seven,

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the human body. When we examine the human embryo in the first,
different form what the human being later becomes. In the first
provides all the nourishment and air. Hence, during the first
inherit must be inherited first of all from its head.
true only of the second teeth, however, for the first teeth,
the course of the first seven years does the child get its own
only around the age of seven. During these first seven years it
first man then says, “No, it would be stupid to shoe your
as an inheritance, but the forces that, during the first seven
the soul that builds up the body in the first place, then it
Whatever the degree, however, it is only the first stage. If
would first have to analyse the teeth chemically and learn from
old. During the first months of pregnancy the whole
in their first stage of growth utilize light and warmth from
unfolds vigorous forces, but they must first be acquired in the
during the first seven years. This tremendous strain causes all
the most during the first seven years, what conclusion may we
human being during the first seven years have been given to the
from the earth must first be made lifeless within the
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These question and answer periods with the workmen of the first
Steiner. Gentlemen, I think we should first bring to a
to look once more at the very first stage, the earliest period.
the mother's womb. At first, it is just one microscopic cell
first. Eventually, our whole body is made up of such cells.
said before that during the first few months only the head of
The farther back we go, examining the second or first months of
independent bone, the incus or anvil. The first two bones
have first a kind of intestine and then a real hand, arm or
speech we must first have learned to speak ourselves.
(sketching). The second is vertical to the first, and the
therein. First, we stretch out the “hand” and touch
to be one cell in the beginning. So, at first, just one cell

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it was thought at first that if pathological enlargement
first thought is to remove those organs that apparently have no
how to prevent such problems from arising in the first
Addison's disease, because a Dr. Addison was the first to
the rat's organism ages in the first place. It ages because
performed to reach this spot. First, an incision must be
age in the first place because of the negative aspects of our

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within, I must first feel the light to know that it is there. I
must first feel the light, and this is done with the soul. In
population is going to be the first to disappear from the

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are used to follow, say, first the track of thief X and then
fallen ill or has been dissected. Autopsies first led to the
unless they first evaporate. We smell only what has first
himself up. At first man too walks on all fours, but then he
that first and foremost a food must taste good, although its

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we find first a transparent and horny layer called the
that is, throughout its first year, and just as the sun shines
pushes into the dermis as a nerve corpuscle. First, a tiny
taste, however, must first be dissolved by the saliva in the
mouth; we can taste nothing that hasn't first been transformed

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now look at human breathing we have first to consider the
discharge such human eggs every four weeks. At first they are
disintegration. The child takes its first breath only at the
man for the first time receives from the outer world the
with heat first in one way and then in another? For nine or ten
he does after he has taken his first breath.
has taken its first breath. Earlier, it had absorbed oxygen in
first an entity that, like the bacilli, is not fit for the
first becomes nervous and then becomes ill in some way. He is
sum, man first learns to live with the world through the female
thoughts. What at first existed in mankind as confused ideas

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and how they arise in the first place.
The first thing that happens is that his larynx becomes
for onions and garlic. At first, then, the illness has nothing
this is all it would take to grow the onions. You would first
first have to be introduced into it. Just as the onion bulb
first becomes a little cloudy, and you have to watch that what
suffering from constipation, and the patient should first be
totality of life healthier, and for that one must first

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the first place it deals with a division into three worlds
civilisation in the present age. The first impulse for civilisation
Catholic priest, and so he lived in the first place with those
in the very first lines he finds these words: “Sing to me, O Muse,
this very first line seriously, he takes it as a phrase. He regards
primeval dream of Greece was at first the chief person there;
beyond the first and second world, in the supernatural, in the true
times. First there is the world of modern European civilisation

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the very first place and inner activity, a grasping of the

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This lecture is the first of eleven lectures in the lecture series
This lecture is the first of eleven lectures in the lecture series
Indeed, one might say that at first only the strongest souls
later years only if we know that he first acquired a traditional
thought-forces first permeate the etheric body, this now
man's inner being, he will first come as far as memory, then he
was the first thing that befell the disciples when they heard

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the first place an economic power.”

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construction of Rudolf Steiner's first Goetheanum building arranged for
the first volume. The workers continued to show a special interest in
Consider a woman who is pregnant. The child is in the first
life, was bored stiff during the first months of pregnancy,
particularly the first few weeks. Perhaps her husband
connected with the fact that during the first weeks of
a little crazy during the first stage of pregnancy. They become
did during the first months of pregnancy. The later months are
shaped, and definite forms have become fixed, but the first
can also happen that a mother-to-be, in the first or second

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construction of Rudolf Steiner's first Goetheanum building arranged for
the first volume. The workers continued to show a special interest in
This was the first lecture given to the workmen after the
foundation. The very first sentences taught little children in
mouse, and then start digging. First, they dig the ground under
do the work. The first beetle doesn't bring more helpers than
person who first described the activity of these beetles wasn't
first half of the nineteenth century, an age when science was
that electricity was first discovered through work on a frog's
First, a little worm appears, a caterpillar; it pupates, and
spot. The bees return to the first location; naturally, this is
been in a paper factory. At first, the paper is liquid; it is
It indicates that one is not honest and that from the first one
stop writing after the first sentence. Since all their

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construction of Rudolf Steiner's first Goetheanum building arranged for
the first volume. The workers continued to show a special interest in
first place, through alcohol, a person suffers a form of
easily. So you can see that the first effect of alcohol is
first thing that happens to a real alcoholic is that he suffers
marrow and migrate from it first into the arteries. The human
the egg first. The one that reaches the egg first penetrates
see, the phosphorus that first enters the stomach along with
however, are manufactured first by cutting long wooden strips
end sticks out. They are dipped first into a sulphur solution
internally and assimilated first through the body can have the
imagines snakes emerging everywhere from his body. First, such

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construction of Rudolf Steiner's first Goetheanum building arranged for
the first volume. The workers continued to show a special interest in
general — and man is first of all a living being —
know at first what they use these tails for, and they have
first proceed to construct a network of branches. These are
from it and putty up the dam on all sides. The beavers first
about first by winter and second by night. Here lie the real
When people study, however, the first principle should be to
knew in the first place.
example, that are built first by digging up the ground; then
are first split before being used. All this is woven into a
the question. So, the first thing the wasp does in spring is to
first they must be mature enough for the fertilization. Now, as
those beaver villages. The first step of choosing a suitable
cleverness that is in a creature must first be gathered, just

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construction of Rudolf Steiner's first Goetheanum building arranged for
the first volume. The workers continued to show a special interest in
we shall try to go into these questions. The first asked about
tobacco in general. First, we must be clear how the effect of
for two reasons — first, because of a strong liking for
I introduce tobacco into the human organism, it first
animal's body, and to do this, forces must first be present in
diabetes, the sugar sickness. First, sugar is discovered in the
segment of the moon. Now, in the first three weeks after

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construction of Rudolf Steiner's first Goetheanum building arranged for
the first volume. The workers continued to show a special interest in
the question about influenza later. This first case, however,
children after, or whether the mute children were born first
question here. First, punishments do not exist and second, if
fourth child. So, we would first have to be familiar with all
regarding diphtheria. First, if you look at a child suffering
first important factor. The second thing one notices in
inside out. Man lives first from within his skin. The skin is a

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construction of Rudolf Steiner's first Goetheanum building arranged for
the first volume. The workers continued to show a special interest in
circulation. First, we must be clear that man breathes chiefly
else is really the basis for death. You know that a man first
slapped, but one must first get to the spine. This can be
The first three pulse beats are inwardly a little like spring,

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construction of Rudolf Steiner's first Goetheanum building arranged for
the first volume. The workers continued to show a special interest in
first through all the organs in the way I described.
course, liquid at first and then it merges with the large
arises in people in the first place. If you study the history
they were the first to name the days of the week. Others than
first beginning to spread. Yes, gentlemen, if Christianity had

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construction of Rudolf Steiner's first Goetheanum building arranged for
the first volume. The workers continued to show a special interest in
become aware of two things from this. First, that a remarkable
illnesses, is that something first causes them, but then they
that the infectious substance of syphilis must first have
be said first in reference to this question.
Now, we know that plants grow out of the earth. First, there is

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from the atoms, some scientists are prone to represent the first
classes on modern Synthetic Geometry, and when for the first time it
tending towards the answer, if you first seize the matter at the

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first relieved of earthly weight.
we must first observe that which enters into our destiny or karma out
Yet in the first place they are there. One man has sympathy for this,
is another world — a third world. First is the world where we
must first have unfolded the sympathies or antipathies for this
first constituent of karma: well-being or inner comfort amid
probably occur to us that we first had to experience an event with
Beings of the First Hierarchy — Seraphim, Cherubim, Thrones —
First Hierarchy, to the most sublime of Beings: Seraphim, Cherubim
world-deeds, cosmic deeds. They are the Beings of the First
a concern of the First, the most sublime of the hierarchies above
simply does not belong to this kingdom. Man must first die; then only

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first place the question of karma before us, quite crudely, if I may
Egyptian time — the third to the first millennium before the

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first the ether-body. Man draws it together from the whole universal
ether from which it is first drawn together. As to the astral
rule, it is not at first experienced in consciousness. It is eclipsed
increasingly free and conscious. Since the first third of the 15th

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being is, how his true being unfolds. In the first place, they say,
change of teeth, man not only exchanges the teeth he first received,
being — as organisation — is for the first time renewed.
That which emerges first in the eighth or ninth year of his life is
completely immersed in modern culture — yet it is so. The first
in our time must first discover and collect the necessary concepts so
as to take these questions sincerely, in the first place; and in the
he needs the model which we see growing in the first seven years of
all things have their spiritual aspect. The body man has in the first
dependent on the model. Or else, in the first seven years, that which
away. It all falls away, just as the first teeth fall away.
... There is a real conflict in the first seven years of life. Seen
first seven years of life. And at a later age an inner impulse
builds it entirely from his world-environment. The first body is
the first period of life — that is until the seventh year —

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first place to perceive how karma enters into man's development. We
out of the embryo. The first thing we can see developing as human
organs are there as mere appendages. In the first period of embryo
then return again to the first, and so on. In other words, there
blue. This time, however, you do so as you look inward. The first
in this the Beings of the First Hierarchy are active: Seraphim,
connected with the highest. With the First Hierarchy —
our earthly life in this first sub-conscious, or unconscious, region.
below, the Beings of the First Hierarchy, Cherubim, Seraphim, and
Beings of the First Hierarchy are active far below us, and in a
First Hierarchy), he accomplishes certain deeds. The deeds are good
or evil, wise or foolish. The Beings of the First Hierarchy —
evil, the Beings of the First Hierarchy must shape the corresponding
counterparts. Among the First Hierarchy, all things are judged; yet
corresponding Gods, those of the First Hierarchy, had to experience
what was experienced by Gods — Gods of the First Hierarchy —
the First Hierarchy, Seraphim, Cherubim and Thrones — have, as

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want to speak, first, of a well-known aestheticist and philosopher,
his outward appearance first, he had beautiful blue eyes and a
this individual, too, and as before I will give you, first of all,
cast all restraint aside. The first edition had been quite tame in

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first place, examples which show clearly how in the karmic course of
the lecture yesterday I spoke, firstly, of the aestheticist Friedrich
lives. Investigation leads back, first of all, of course, to the
way would be just as if we were to go into a house for the first
Theodor Vischer was one of the first souls from this community to
scientists would approve. In his first work on aesthetics he looks
philistines of the first order, like du Bois-Reymond and the others,
marrying Gretchen — verily these are philistines of the first
philistines of the first order threw their snowballs, he threw back
here again it was not easy, and at first — I have no wish to
keep back these things — at first, the pictures were deceptive.
dawned upon me first of all was that very many of Dühring's
we are led back, first, to the age of iconoclasm in the east of

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of his death as “First Lieutenant.” Eduard von Hartmann
transcendental realism, or even than his famous saying: “First
the affliction of the knee in the next appears at first to be a
came to me for the first time when I perceived: the outstanding
The first period begins when he wrote The Birth of Tragedy out of
attack which in the first epoch he had abandoned. In all probability,

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see, in the first place, that monotheism in a very strict form was
find, first and foremost, the uncompromising monotheism, the one,
the end of the first thousand years, the only real menace in Europe
may at first seem like a paradox, but the paradox will disappear the
is a representative spirit in the first century after Mohammed, but
reincarnation of ideas. And then for the first time insight is

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me first draw your attention to the peculiar interest that one or
calling and took part in sea voyages, at first in a subordinate, and
in the first half of the 19th century, when Liberalism and Democracy
first half of the 19th century, it happened one day that for the
first time in his life, Garibaldi read his name in the newspaper. I
there for the first time when his sentence to death was reported.
centred in Italy — it was not granted him at first to take a
destiny to go first to South America and take part in all manner of
for the first time on the occasion of the announcement of his own
point of fact done absolutely nothing; yet they entered first, and
unfreedom that he first sees his name in print on the occasion of his
how the Gods gave into man's hand as a first primer, so to speak, the
Heinrich Schmidt first became known in Vienna during the eighties,

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death-sentence when reading his name for the first time in print.
Garibaldi, you see him first as he is according to conventional
in the 19th century had been shifted out of place. For we find, first
direction; first, attracted by something that is still deeply veiled

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another. First we see, far away in Asia, the very same individuality

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another, we must first learn to perceive how that which afterwards
intimate connection, we are led, first of all, to the time of the
Thirty Years' War. This was the first thing clear to me in his
— at the end of the first half of the first millennium
who afterwards became Conrad Ferdinand Meyer had first absorbed all
married a man who first took part in all the confused events of the
the hidden regions which they themselves first invent by their

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thereby. Firstly, it is only in this way that the world can be
first century before the founding of Christianity, when they had
immediately find our bearings. We are led, first, to the 6th
whether, for example, his first tendency is always to be negative and
begin to do anything without first folding their arms. If one
are first impelled, lived in this milieu of art in Italy at the end
treacherously murdered. At first, Thomas à Becket was a
In the first
really only now found himself, who for the first time found the style
first time we shall grasp wherein the essential greatness of
how is one led to perceive such things? One must first have an
first to envisage the picture of Herman Grimm opening
when they first met in Italy — it was these impressions that
first seem paradoxical, but if you look more closely, if you look

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one attempts to find the thread connecting what comes first with what
The first of the
life separated them. They were able, at first, to understand one
was no less ready than the first to look upwards to the Eternal Ideas
first, also grew out of the friendship — it was the same with
times; the first too early and the second rather too late. This is
through the gate of death, the one I described first, who had soared
First Hierarchy, the Seraphim, Cherubim and Thrones; to some extent
gods — this first personality was destined to make a deep

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observation seem at first obscure and incomprehensible. But if we are
fall into decline, it is incumbent upon us to develop, in the first
Baden, near Vienna. Details gradually came to light and at first
happened first of all was that after the issue of the official
— I happened to be on the way to him and he was the first
Nero! So it was a matter, first of all, of combating the subjective

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example. I will in the first place relate quite simply what happened.
I saw for the first time Boecklin's “Toteninsel”
man becomes transparent for you, then at first you really have the
no part. Then you have, so to speak, the first transparency to which
you can attain. And what will this first transparency show? Picture
to yourselves, you have here an object. At first you see nothing but
you arrive at the first transparency, when you look away from the man
(i.e. the lower part) first becomes transparent; we disregard the
First, you disregard everything that is in man by virtue of his
say: It is a matter first of all of disregarding — in ourselves
several previous incarnations. I must first bring it about that the

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what we must learn first of all is summed up in one word: to wait. We
first came before my mind's eye. And it
was then, for the first time, that the perception as it were of a
later again, when I conceived my first Mystery Play,
takes the picture with it when it goes out on the first night. It
That is the first
events of the first day and the first night. Now we come to the
in characteristic, strong lines on the first day after you had the
and you will even notice that when you try it for the first time, the
body. It is spiritualised in the physical body. First of all,
picture with the necessary strength on the first day, and if you have
picture on the first day. By means of this transformation through
begin with, we must say to ourselves: the first moment when we
approach the spiritual in thought in some way, was the first
first the thing appears as if some being were really bearing the
the very first day, when we make the first effort. And then nothing
the first attempt; the thread breaks. We must have patience to try

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into his organism. In the first seven years of life, everything
first period of his existence between death and a new birth, in
gone through the first part of the life between death and a new birth
remained dull. Such a man has no interest for the first part of his
and with his feeling — he takes great interest in the first
First of all there
first of all, the spiritual-etheric pictures of the spiritual beings
first place: that is to say, an acid is formed in the human organism.

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the gate of death he has, first of all, a clear retrospective vision
first place it is simply a picture and doesn't cause actual
his backward journey in the first period after death the human being

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Beings belonging to the first group of the higher Hierarchies are
past the planets, and come, first of all, into the domain of the Moon
earthly existence. There is, firstly the influence of the
firstly, the influence of the Moon-existence between death and a new
We have, firstly,

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first place, to the mineral condition. Passing on to the plant
second Hierarchy (Exusiai, Kyriotetes, Dynamis), and by the first
Hierarchy embraces, properly speaking, the first three periods of
the First Hierarchy, the Seraphim, Cherubim and Thrones, work
the First Hierarchies are working together. Thus in point of fact
and Archai is limited, in the main, to the first three periods of
first three periods of life. They work most strongly of all upon the
the first three epochs of life such strong forces that the soul is
first of all, into the Moon-sphere, where he comes into contact with
compensation. In these first three epochs of life when Angeloi,
inscribed into a man's being in the first three epochs of life
whose last incarnation of importance occurred in the first centuries
incarnation in the first seven or eight centuries after the founding
their incarnation during the first seven or eight centuries after the
grew stronger and stronger during the first Christian centuries. The
The first is that
incarnation during the first Christian centuries, were not strong
enough to enable the soul to reach the realm of the First Hierarchy
these men in the first epoch of life develop the capacity to reach up
higher Hierarchy, the First Hierarchy, he must find this relation
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puberty until the 21st year in the first period of their influence;
relationship begins with the First Hierarchy — Seraphim,
Cherubim, Thrones. These Beings of the First Hierarchy continue
working, in the first phase of their influence until the 35th year
First of all,
something is made manifest as a kind of revelation within this first
happens in such a case is that one looks, first of all, at the
of seven. That is why vision of what is disclosed by this first phase
back with the Inspired Consciousness of Initiation over these first
experience is possible. — The first impression is one of
how the pupil, having first learned to know the utmost depths of
doubt and uncertainty in life, was led before two statues. The first

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first place, have a clear and exact perception of what is happening
first, of man's ordinary, everyday condition. Take this (a) to
At first, a
acquired in any other way than by having first been outside the body
with the First Hierarchy.
countless Hierarchies. We return into the body and at first do not

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way, he must first get in touch with me and enquire whether this
— First day, then night; second day, then night; third day,
the tips of the fingers and toes first, and then gradually spreads
shape, although at first in the form of pictures only. Karma begins
awakening comes he has reached and passed his first, most distant
earth-existence, in the first place, the surrounding earth and sky.
able to consider the various forms of karma. In the first place it is

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fundamental and complicated law. To-day I should like, first of all,
have to think of the sun at a position where the earth must first let
seems. When we are gazing at the Midnight Sun it seems at first that
first appears as a blur in the distance, then the bluish-red light
Kyriotetes, uniting their activity with that of the First Hierarchy
the Beings of the First and Second Hierarchies, and I beheld the

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in the Moon; and there we encounter them during the first phase of
incarnation that has just ended. But only the first part of what was
the first time drawn really near to us. For something is then

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heart should first be torn out of one's body. At that time
spiritual inwardness, has passed away. It must first be

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must first answer this question: Where do we find the
conscious, during the first few days, of all the
experiences which we first underwent on earth. We have them
see it in the first days after death. But what he would
describe it, is the first Act that is unfolded in the life
activity of the first Hierarchy. They come into the domain
in and woven around by the Beings of the first Hierarchy.
thinking rightly if to the first and the second saying we
influence on the first third of the 20th.
some such words as these: — ‘Look at the first

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this point that certain secrets of cosmic existence first
In the first
spiritual world, especially in the first half of the 19th
century. In the first half of the 19th century there were
in the first half of the 19th century, there were souls in
number of souls in common, during the first half of the
point which I described, in the first half of the 19th
first half of the 19th century.
appalling hatred against all that he had at first espoused.
example first, so that you might see how we must seek

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down comparatively soon, in the first periods of Atlantean
may describe as the first Christian incarnation.
truths was always as negative as it is today. In the first
heaven, and very many believed, first of all at Antioch, as
morning, placing it at the time of the first half of the
first half of the 19th century, and if you translate all
first half of the 19th century. It was not on the earth,
seen indeed in that direction: towards the first half of
first Mystery Play, ‘The Portal of Initiation’
Paganism. Even in the first centuries of Christianity the
indicated — in the first half of the 19th century or
former group of souls, the life in the first half of the
that first half of the 19th century: a resolve
necessary, as a kind of first direction, to show how the

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incarnations during the first centuries of the founding of
first Christian centuries, we find ourselves in an age when
man first passes through the perception of the etheric
died, the experience he had in the first days after passing
Christianity in those first Christian centuries, whether it
was like the first group of whom I spoke or like the
Christianity in the first centuries of Christian evolution.
first Christian centuries, and afterwards. Now all this had
another. In the very first centuries of Christianity, such
Christian centuries of the first half of the Middle Ages
happened in the spiritual world in the first half of the
first few centuries, spoke to their Christians
first Christian centuries could preach, people today, where
entered the Schools where this was first made possible.
once more into the first centuries of Christendom. In those

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humanity. Today we have a third thing to add. We must first
in the first Christian centuries, partaking in that former
the first Christian centuries. Nay more, it was possible
as had existed in the first centuries of Christendom could
stood before the souls of men so often in the first
world that was formed in the first half of the 19th century
— having descended to the earth, first wore the
great preparation in the first half of the 19th
from the first Christian centuries towards the School of

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is as though the first decades of the 20th century had
fulfilled especially in the first Christian centuries. In
deed. It was in the first third of the 15th century, in the
power and strength that lies in the domain of the first
strong courage and courageous strength must first be found.

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first stature. Michael alone, Michael is the only one (I
another person logically, the first thing we must presume

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the earthly element of man. For the first time, the
Angeloi that we first perceive how this great separation is
this region, they are first able to make their attacks.

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that this personal immortality was first emphasised, while
beings we must first consider the kingdom that is nearest
partakes in the very first place in the unfolding of human
was, for the first time, that Ahriman appeared as an author
first time I read Nietzsche's writing on the ‘Will to
in the first days of September. For the intervening time I

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have come here to-day for the first time since the Christmas Foundation
this, I can remind you to-day of something else. — The first few
reality was then intention. As many friends are here for the first time
other states of consciousness, first of all simply by comparing those
playing a melody which at first entirely escapes his memory ... and he
the first time in his life, with his first partner, to the same tune; he
which, while concerning itself first with personalities in history but

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At first
first took out his pocket-handkerchief and blew his nose. Now this gave
a visit to him, and in his company I found the other man first
medical man and had a great regard for him, but this was the first time
For the man in whose company I first met Ludwig Schleich — the man

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describing them as the effects of events in the first decade and so
they paid as it were a fleeting visit to the earth in the first
the true Christians in the first Christian centuries, I mean that Christ
first been prepared before it took place in actuality; for that which

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Florence he entered a deep forest. There he first met three animals and
harmonious conception. First, until the time of Chartres, the Platonic
souls are working, and then the Aristotelian. We first behold the
Capesius and Strader in the first Mystery Play.
appearing again on earth have to make use, in the first place, of the

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first centuries. They witnessed all that came into the world as
In the first volume, only the
the greatest imaginable wonder when I first came to it as a result of
feeling for its inner meaning, a certain event in the first centuries of

Title: Karmic Relationships, Volume IV: Lecture VI
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Anthroposophy was kindled first by the Michael School of instruction in
Plays came into being, and for this reason the first Mystery Play,
of the 18th and first half of the 19th century was, to say the least of
life of the first half of the 19th century. They were lost sight of,
during the first half of the 19th century, in Schelling's case it is
first Christian centres, in order to facilitate matters may lay the writings

Title: Karmic Relationships, Volume IV: Lecture VII
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sphere of the Moon, for that is the first station of the life after
and first repeat and recapitulate many things that thou didst undergo

Title: Karmic Relationships, Volume IV: Lecture VIII
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who lived at the end of the first Christian century. Already at that
passed through the gate of death, man first enters a sphere which leads
it is their region which the human being passes, like the first station
transmitted in the first centuries
first Christian centuries and passing over into the clearly defined
personalities were imbued with all the high scholarship of the first

Title: Karmic Relationships, Volume IV: Lecture IX
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as they were with one another in their karma, were reborn in the first
personality in the spiritual life of that time. It was he who first
Martianus Capella's work appears at first
were still in the super-sensible worlds when they experienced the first
dawn of the age of the Spiritual Soul. Then the one whom I first
and a man during the early Christian centuries, who on the first
been a man in the first incarnation I described, and in the second a
— I mean the rationalism and intellectualism of the first period
wonderful in him in the first Christian centuries. True, these things

Title: Karmic Relationships, Volume IV: Lecture X
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realise that the spirit of Plato is devoted in the first place to the
history of literature was first published, how the literary pundits did

Title: Spiritual Development: Lecture I: The Inner Experience of the Activity of Thinking
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the degree ‘nought.’ First the

Title: Spiritual Development: Lecture II: The Physical World and the Moral-Spiritual Impulses
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first having been etherealised, then having lived in an astral
do not at first see into the depths of the will; we cannot

Title: Spiritual Development: Lecture III: Man's Faculty of Cognition in the Etheric World
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senses. In the first place the things and
first impression is that of an entirely different being. We say
this, I finally behold a being at first
life on earth. First, then, I see myself here in
being, strange as it appears to me at first, I recognise
‘I’ first taken to be some strange being, is indeed
‘I.’ As it is, only the first rudiments
itself. One meets the beings of the first Hierarchy:
it. He first read the chapter about the four
legs, seat, back, first, second and third part
to a different world again, the domain of the first
in fact submit his article to me first, in manuscript. But what
first pre-requisites. I did nothing about it, but
of self, man must first find and recognise
self what at first seems to be a strange being, and
the world and so for the first time rises to his true human

Title: Things Past and Present: Lecture I
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but first I would like to say a few words by way of
society of the present age. Let us take the first son,
woman who after she first elopes with the drunken sop,
Whereas the first wife soundly thrashed the old drunkard, now
Jesus Christ in prison. That is the first thing that he does.

Title: Things Past and Present: Lecture II: Deeper Secrets of Man's Soul-Spiritual Nature
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lectures and I would like to amplify, in the first place,
spiritual nature of man. You know that we speak in the first
the first place within the physical world, so, to be sure,
form of memory. Now, in the first place, man must believe the
first place, so that we feel it as thinking; we feel the
the first half of the life between death and a new birth.
soul mood in the first part of my second mystery play, in the
first to investigate the brains of criminals, naturally,
before that. In the first edition of my

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gave eight days ago. In the first place, we have seen that
presents the original first chapter of Genesis in which you
intellect through the intellect to human beings. First you
brotherhoods. People are taken up in the first grade or any
the first grade when symbolism is used in the correct way,
period. And in the first grade you must be able to acquire a
physical. In our fifth period, everyone in the first grade
forget all these vanities and continue. First you have the
which follow after the first three degrees. And, when you
of this child, and in the first place you will unite a kind
brotherhoods in which these people take up in the first grade

Title: Things Past and Present: Lecture V: Comenius and the Temple of PanSophia
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just described. The person who enters the first grade enters

Title: Things Past and Present: Lecture VI: Death and Resurrection
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out of both of these thoughts. First a man dies and is
Well, we celebrate it on the Sunday following the first full
March. The first full moon after the beginning of Spring
gives back to us the first strength of the resurrected sun
members of which, in the first place we know as a general rule
all those who in the first place in a true way and can call

Title: Things Past and Present: Lecture VII: Man's Four Members
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which one first sees in the external world. If you focus your
attention on the physical body, you first see that the
Initiation where I spoke of the First Stage, of the Washing
the beginning of the first Degree of Christian Initiation.
be the first to say that his poems have as their origin not

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his first wife, because the marriage had been performed
procedure in the Catholic Church. First you have the Advocate
first half of the 16th century. That is not so long ago. But
enters the astral world, the first thing one experiences

Title: Things Past and Present: Lecture IX: Celtic Symbols and Cult, Jesuit State in Paraguay
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way? How does that happen? To understand this I must first
the characteristic that man, in the first place, takes in
is in the first place to take up into our ideas that which is
this, the first third of the 2000 year period, depends upon
first prepared to become a tool for our present thinking, of
would work first upon the astral body, then the astral body
important than one can, in the first place, imagine.

Title: Things Past and Present: Lecture XI: Fragments from the Jewish Haggada
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significance. So we have the first question which one can
himself out. The first time he saw the Angel, he was weeping,
the first place we must contemplate the fact that Solomon was
Zarathustra know about Lucifer and Ahriman. At first we have
First we have

Title: Things Past and Present: Lecture XII: Luciferic Dangers from the East
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things in order to understand the Mystery of Golgotha. First
where words first appear; how one word changes from one

Title: Memory and Habit: Lecture I
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upbringing, actions steadily repeated become habitual. We are first
are acquired during earthly life. Let us first consider memory. Memory
first and the second parts of Faust, up to the point where he
Let us consider something which first appears in physical existence.
emerges for the first time in the physical world is the relation of

Title: Memory and Habit: Lecture II
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say not experienced for the first time by man, but beforehand. This
first evolved by the Beings of the higher Hierarchies and also to
the thought is engraved first on a man's own ether-body and remains
physical world we need, first and foremost, this sense for truth; we

Title: Memory and Habit: Lecture III
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The first event fell

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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for the first time. It is significant that this house also stands within our
was understood, is much more significant than one might at first
Today we will first consider one type of decadent as an example. Later
first was called Sex and Character (Geschlecht und Charakter).
from a university for the first part of it — not the whole book,
but the first two or three sections of it. Thus, the first part of it
leads it to wilt. First the leaves come, then the flower and fruit,

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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world. Thereafter, he designated the era of Romulus as the first, his
say, the first Sunday in April. Then one would no longer have to set

Title: Lecture: Riddle of Humanity: Lecture Three: The Duality of Human Nature -- The Heavenly and the Earthly Aspects of Man. Uranus and Gaia. Influences of One Incarnation on the Next: Metamorphoses of the Body.
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Man has a waking consciousness because, in the first place, he is able
first part of this period, we were all still living in the spiritual
Lets us consider the first significant phase of life, the phase up to
this marks the end of the first significant stage of human life. It is
briefly, people look upon a human being during the first seven years
the first seven years as if they were already manifestations of
during its first seven years, and not a sexual being at all. To use a
or female during the first seven years. This is because there is no
during the first seven years and what one calls masculine and feminine
During the first seven years, what appears to be masculine is not
first seven years, the human being is not a sexual being; that is
during the first seven years? You must take what I am going to
see, during the first seven years the head is constantly being worked
head grows and continues to develop during the first seven years, this
the head; during the first seven years, the body imprints itself into
to human development, the essential thing during the first seven years
developed sense for it can observe during the first seven years. Just
the first seven years concludes with the change of teeth. Then there
sexual being. Now, for the first time, the human being becomes a
to the earthly sphere in the other. They first acquire a sexual
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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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centre in the brain that this speech centre is, in the first instance,
matter comes into this form that it becomes visible for the first
First of all, this part works on the entire human being. But it works
something that is only now in its first earthly stages. What lives in
first stages during the Sun stage of human evolution. It achieved its
thing for man — had its first beginnings during Moon evolution.

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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particular virtues. The first virtue Plato mentions is wisdom —
Temperance first arises when the desires are made as conscious as it
First strive for countenance that fills with light,
First lower head down on the pillow cool,
— That corresponds to the words of the earlier verse: First
First strive for countenance that fills with light,
First lower head down on the pillow cool,
justice first makes its appearance on Earth. And justice works

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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first. We need to ask ourselves: How is this transformation possible?
wisdom in his first three or four years than ... well, at the very
least, than in his three academic years. In our first three years we

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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we find the first impulses for the development of the senses, the
first seeds of the senses. You will find these things described again
The first sense to take you outside yourself is the sense of smell.
is manifested in various ways. First of all there is breathing, a
fourfold. Following the process of nourishing, the first internal

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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Its first chapter
hare's prints would be the first thing to appear, but only a bit at a
time, not all at once. At first they would show up in the frozen snow
metaphysical teachings expressed in this book first began to reveal

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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taken as far as physical secretion. The first point is that the
complaint was the first to speak, the one representing the man from

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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being can talk about. At first we relate to the world naively but, if
But why should we ever think out the law of gravity in the first
rise for the first two thirds of the month, but not during the last
wrote the first book about Pragmatic
get away with it. So Vaihinger looked for a way out. At first he acted
first a single shot, then after a certain period, two shots, and then,
here, and over here someone who hears the shots — first one, then
faster than the speed of sound. The first shot is fired ... then two
to it. This creative element — the first creative element —
Whereas Biran, living in the first third of the nineteenth century, still
in this manner: At first thinking tries a little to take hold of

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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so all our experiences prior to that first remembered point in time
first these have to be learned, but once they have become habits our
and are more under the influence of imitation. At first we begin to do
than Lucifer in his own Faust. There is much in both the first
objects, only appear for the first time in the physical world. Objects

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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beforehand; they are not experienced for the first time when the being
science from the spiritual world in the first place is another matter
Earth, a conception is first embedded in the person's own etheric body
Ahriman — are worthless. But, if we understand, firstly, the
during the first part of the Earth period, we were unconsciously, or

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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joint, and many other things as well, first came into being. Now it
case. The first thing you will often observe when something like this

Title: Lecture: Riddle of Humanity: Lecture Fourteen: Metamorphoses of the Twelve Sense Zones through Luciferic and Ahrimanic Influences.
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comparable to reading without first having to resort to a special
I , that I which we first

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the first stages of growth. There it turns the process of growth into
Earth. But, taken in the first place as a physical body, it is the Sun
That had to come from two sides. In the first place, people had to be
Firstly, he said, there are certain words that have simply arisen out
introduced from out of the spiritual world. And the first stage of the
fulfilled. In Bacon we encounter for the first time the idea of

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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Now I will first of all show you how certain secrets which
first half of it — the event indicated in my first
the first Christian centuries. More than any other spot on
first time in 1492. In fact, it was only rediscovered.
would like first to impress on you the historical aspect of
of one who was so inwardly linked to our Building, [The first

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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results, but those who at first opposed it will be expecting
legend, therefore, Ireland was conceived as having been first
the first of my Mystery Plays you will find what has been often
in our epoch. He first asked the managers if they did not think

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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sound, it must be said — as a first step nothing else
esoterically in the direction I have indicated. It was first of
what in man could be immortal. In my first Basle lecture
first time we shall have got at the reality and the truth: it
openings for this titbit, having first flavoured it

Title: Historical Necessity: Lecture 1: On the Functions of the Nervous System
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First published in the Anthroposophical News Sheets of 1934.
first to cooperate in producing a certain darkening of the
these things difficult if you hear them for the first time,
first be placed on a sound basis, and then there will also be
“First of
disturbances), “first of all, I will define the
unfolding its very first germinating forces out of the earth.
the matter concretely to where it first took root. Just as
that illumines first an object a, then an object b, then an
fact that first a, then b, then c

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First published in the Anthroposophical News Sheets of 1934.
active in us, first, everything that can be experienced
world, in the first place, everything belonging to the
question also. In the first place, however, we must perceive
these creatures may be able not only first to perfect
destruction. What we thus create first arises out of
first to shrink back, as human beings, from placing what
realize, now, that first there are direct, then indirect
that during the first

Title: Historical Necessity: Lecture 3: Our Life with the Dead
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First published in the Anthroposophical News Sheets of 1934.
it seems at first as if you were dimly conscious that the
gradually become acquainted with things, first with our
first, to a great deal of that which creates a right
the growth of the wheat. He must first sow the seeds in order
trace. I have said that today I will first consider these

Title: Historical Necessity: Lecture 4: The Rhythmical Relationship of Man with the Universe
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First published in the Anthroposophical News Sheets of 1934.
Let us first
of sense perceptions as a first step toward the attainment of
what would we see, in this first stage of solving the riddle,
surprise us what we must describe as that which first appears
to us. What we first see is a number of forces; all aim at
we would see its entire organization. At first it
first stage of penetrating into the secret of the
placed into the breathing process in a threefold way. First,
a body belongs to this head, and this body is, at first, the
deeply significant to say that the world which we first learn
and its laws; you will find, at first, that such as it

Title: Historical Necessity: Lecture 5: The Members of Man's Being and the Periods of His Life
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First published in the Anthroposophical News Sheets of 1934.
at first like an abstract truth. But it is a fundamental
first stage of the spiritual world, we come to the
question is that man first develops a feeling, and then an
had done things which were exemplary deeds, and first deeds,
the real, spiritual impulses of the period. First they must
today must first cease to be called “history.” In
These things must first be understood; they will indeed

Title: Historical Necessity: Lecture 6: New Spiritual Impulses in History
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First published in the Anthroposophical News Sheets of 1934.
enter into us; at first we do not face it with desire; we are
other things. What it should produce first of all is that man
against which I may at first even feel an aversion, an
refraining, at first, from setting forth my own opinions;

Title: Historical Necessity: Lecture 7: The Inadequacy of Natural Science for the Knowledge of the Life of the Soul
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First published in the Anthroposophical News Sheets of 1934.
of which we speak are first determined by the connections we
reality, without first having perceived the true reality out
recall the first speeches of Homunculus, Mephistopheles and

Title: Symptom 2 Reality: Lecture I: The Birth of the Consciousness Soul
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will first take as my point of departure today — and
or less homogeneous configuration at first, which later gives
difficult at first to distinguish between them. In the period
first indications are seen in the appearance of Joan of Arc
bears within it the seeds of the future. But first of all it
soul. The first was the heritage of Byzantium, of Byzantine
human soul. The first thing that strikes us is the national

Title: Symptom 2 Reality: Lecture II: Symptomatology of Recent Centuries
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— at first not pursuing this in greater detail, for we
throne of England the Catholics were the first to realize
this national state the first shoots then develop into that
therefore at first to find social embodiment and this leads
itself almost violently at first, we are far removed from
decline, the first years of which he spent once again in
stood Rome, alone at first; then she allied herself with the
the vast majority of people during the first centuries of the
at first to be rather disturbing. The epoch of the
to the middle of the nineteenth century we see at first a
first wrestled, but it
basis of our study tomorrow, let us first attempt to
division — and the first signs were already apparent
is the first of those tenets which have found their way into
first of the socialist tenets; the second is the theory of
circles at first, then political groups and parties, and
ideals — first, that material impulses alone determine
element. Now the programme of the proletariat was first

Title: Symptom 2 Reality: Lecture III: Characteristics of Historical Symptoms in Recent Times
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These colonizing activities therefore first arose in the
of biology and anthropology. Now in experimentation the first
for ourselves. Therefore it was established as the first rule

Title: Symptom 2 Reality: Lecture IV: The Historical Significance of the Scientific Mode of Thinking
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of Czarism the centre of the state was at first occupied by
Now at first
first fifth of this era had already run its course. The
phase and apprehend the leading ideas of mankind first of all
beginning, only the first steps it is true, but nonetheless a
spirit, must lay hold of men. I propose first of all, purely
and it is most important. First of all he carries out an
After the first
Today he must first perceive the forces of birth and death

Title: Symptom 2 Reality: Lecture V: The Supersensible Element in the Study of History
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how, you will find in my book Occult Science. They first
Spirit and the Spirit Man. He must first pass through the
actions of society, but in evil tendencies. We must first of
these forces in the universe when they first infiltrate man's
best course is to consider first of all what is to become of
in four domains. First, as man prepares his future
on various occasions an example which may serve as a first

Title: Symptom 2 Reality: Lecture VI: Brief Reflections on the Publication of the New Edition of 'The Philosophy of Freedom'
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first edition.
who first made his name in Weimar and whose compositions
was necessary first of all to establish the impulse of
freedom on a firm scientific basis. Therefore the first
The first thing
prepared first of all to fight their way through to a
advocated first of all was an ethical individualism. I had to
his moral will, we must first study the relation of this
be written on the first page of this book,’ but my
first Nietzsche wave when people realized that Nietzsche's
I had first of all
the ideas contained in the book (for I knew that at first few
Goethean maxim remains true (the first half is not Goethean):
Martersteig and others that the first Serenissimus anecdote
attended a congress of the Theosophical Society for the first
It was my first
meeting. At first I intended to say only a few words, but

Title: Symptom 2 Reality: Lecture VII: Incidental Reflections on the Occasion of the New Edition of 'Goethes Weltanschauung'
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first literary activity is associated with the name of Goethe
lived in Austria and then moved to Germany, first to Weimar
I spent the first years of these decades in Austria. Now as an
lives and is it possible for an Austro-German without first
between the ages of eleven and eighteen. The first important
treasured in Goethe (I had already published my first
moment his unique characteristics. First, his whole
Goethe has sowed only the first seeds, but these seeds can be
first indications were visible in Weimar where the soil was
was first able to undertake personally in a realm that lay
individual do? What he must do first and foremost is to

Title: Symptom 2 Reality: Lecture VIII: Religious Impulses of the Fifth Post-Atlantean Epoch
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when the first fifth of this epoch passes over into the
matures progressively at an ever earlier age. In the first
involves the whole of mankind. In relation to this first
second evolution, in the first post-Atlantean epoch, that of
Such is the second current of evolution. The first current of
First Evolution
beginning of the fifteenth century the first stirrings of the
religious impulses are perceptible. Let us first look at
upon the rest of the world. The first religious stirrings had
first and foremost a soldier of the generalissimo Jesus Christ.
a preliminary prayer; then the first preamble.
preparatory exercises.) The first part again includes several
preliminary prayer then a first preamble.
first part of the actual exercise: the standard of Lucifer;
them to prepare snares and fetters to bind men. First, they
the first step will be riches, the second fame, the third
first urging upon them to accept the highest spiritual
there are three steps: first, poverty as opposed to riches,
special kind. He first performed heroic deeds as a soldier,

Title: Symptom 2 Reality: Lecture IX: The Relation Between the Deeper European Impulses and Those of the Present Day
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what was missing in the first gallery — the life of
that all the different religions represented in the first
may seem this appears at first sight to be a doctrinal
modern man. In the first centuries of Christianity it had
Goths and Langobards — all those peoples who first took
now arise: first, what distinguishes Arianism from
streams converged first of all in Europe (I cannot now enter
confluence Arianism at first gained ground; but since it was
Christ impulse was at first very much in question and so
existence of a Christ? One must first study man from a
endeavoured first of all to discover the common factor in the
The first
stages in man's relation to religion: first the religion of
the first current, the ethnic current when folk or tribal
the fifth post-Atlantean epoch. First, the People of the
must first be developed.
One must first understand what is meant by fraternity. On the
been impeded. There must be opposition to evolution at first,
third point. But the first steps of course can be undertaken

Title: Fundamental Social: Lecture 1: The Transforming of Instinctive into Conscious Impulses
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Communism to create a social order where for the first time
first beginnings. The ideas of the Mercantilists are
who first put forward conscious thoughts upon this question,
two things which I have described work conjointly. First
In the first
To overcome egoism, we must first have probed and realized
1848, when Karl Marx's Communist Manifesto — the first

Title: Fundamental Social: Lecture 2: The Logic of Thought and the Logic of Reality
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soul the first beginning of a manifestation of the
today. To this end we do not first need to summon National
Lucifer-Gnosis. I then drew attention to the first
remember vividly the first occasion — it was in the

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but only in its first beginning — the fundamental
the first place by learning to know them. So long as we only
in a third. The first or second or third will be applicable
that Protestantism gave the first impetus to man's supporting
must first be completely transformed. Take the Marxism of
Anthroposophy. First of all, my dear friends, we must evolve
the first edition of my
movement and it is threefold. First: such a movement must

Title: Fundamental Social: Lecture 4: The New Revelation of the Spirit
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it is that the Mystery of Golgotha first gave earthly
death-process is stronger within us than it was in the first
us first is the great battle which is taking place behind the
recognized first of all the life of Planets and Stars, and
future. We take our start from Man; we understand first Man,
inherent in human nature that men invariably rebel at first
evolve. In the first centuries
which were at first set forth. This is the very

Title: Fundamental Social: Lecture 5: Understand One-Another
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dear friends, in its first pages, does not tell us that is
must first give way.

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This fact had first to be brought to light. If man
yourself deeply in the first and its forms, when you cause the idea
the first, the third out of the second, the fourth out of the third,
evolution, they often say: development, development, evolution, first
ever greater and greater differentiation, but that evolution is first
study the development of the eye, we find that it is at first
be discovered today for the first time. Everything has its time, and

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thought out with the intellect, but that first of all the effort has
speak chiefly of three things. First, of that which the real seeker
avoid when he first crosses the threshold of that world, namely, the
begin with these things, referring first to the mysteries of illness,

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first of all — just from pure mental indolence — of the
he encounters as taking place in time. But the first experience
which outwardly starts, of course, with the first act and proceeds to
to the beginning of the first act; to imagine and feel a melody, not
occurring after the first, the third following the second, the fourth
body, and ego. At first only the physical and etheric bodies come
suffering; so that the first entrance into the spiritual world is not
first experience of life beyond the threshold, you become vividly
Testament. Christianity was an episode which was at first
In 1832 Goethe died. The period belonging to the first generation
the earth. Then after the first thirty-three years the forces began
If we follow it further, beyond this period, we can say: The first
In the first place, what differentiates us from

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First, our spiritual life, as it presents itself
which, as one stream let us say, flowed in first from the Greek
call the thinking faculty; and indeed they were the first
the first to have dawning intelligence.
by those people who combined atavistic clairvoyance with the first
are asking: Well, what are we to do? The first thing of importance is
the spiritual life, and we must first become productive in
side. At first it did not succeed in developing an independent rights
economic life becomes sterile at first, and only gradually works its
sharply differentiated from one another. First, you have everywhere
life. That is what we encounter first: everything is brought forth
There for the first time is radical protest made;
but naturally it remained only a beginning. That was the first
nature; and in Central Europe there already exists the first
Coulthard, London, 1845.] and you will see the first beginning
the first half of the 19th century, even at the end of the 18th
In his first book Nietzsche wrote that passage
translated).] in the very first pages, a premonition of
up in lies. If this first branch of civilization is pursued only
life, into the third of these three. The first abyss is lies, the

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Man, but only in a very small part of him. It reckons first with the
first the vertical dimension. As a child he crawls, and then he raises
it first in himself. The strange thing is that in this age of
stands at right angles to the first. As our right and left man are
the first is obtained has already been shown; it is to be felt as the
our feeling’ of them. It is then that they first become our own.
left and right, before and behind. We must learn this first in Man,

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horizontal in the first instance in a vertical position, and the other
being, consisting firstly of the characteristic head organisation,
will first think of him as Head man, Rhythmic man and Limb man. Of
downwards. When he arrives at conception or birth, he is in the first
But I will show you first how to gain a conception of the true

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“This first surface makes me penetrate, as it were, behind it,
in our first lecture.
Well, first of all we find that when Man descends from the spiritual
child during the first three months of his earthly existence, we find
that these first three months — which make the year complete
certain respect the first year of human development can after all be
child after the first year, we see that the second year is
this year corresponds on an average with the growth of the first
teeth. Now let us ask, does this continue? No, it does not. The first
it does, just as the first year is at the same time an inner year of
Here, then, we have a concrete instance. We have, first of all, in
into the other Cosmic system. Here we have the first herald of Man's
growth of the first teeth. When we receive our second teeth, a new
organisation within the first.
within which is interwoven the growth of the first teeth. Let us draw
process, goes forward the formation of Man's first teeth. Then we have
between the receiving of the first and second teeth; we must draw the
first teeth seven times deeper in. If we draw them side by side,
the first teeth to the second; we only get a picture of the force upon
which the growth of the first teeth depends by drawing it encircled by
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been spoken and written of from various standpoints) we find him first
We have to observe first of all that a complete difference exists in
as the materialism of Theosophy. It distinguishes first, dense matter;
original impetus, some kind of first push in the case of each planet,

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were to study the human organism by examining first an arm and then a
the Earth around the Sun; asserting that this motion was in the first
first to be calculated. (The truth of the above assumption depends
Universe in its relation to Man. We must, in the first place, take
must imagine, first of all, ordinary ponderable matter — matter
realm of ponderable matter, neither does warmth (heat). First then, we
the first place, is that the space that lies before us as our visible
that this could be done by first standing upon one leg and then upon
nature of Man. We find in the first place his complete form or
We have therefore first Man's complete form; and this, as you know
positions — setting it first to one star and then to the other, finding

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begin with, from four points of view. Firstly, from the standpoint of
light today gives pictures, yet what first built up the organs into
bring together the first and fourth of these forces.
first essentials of physical health. It is a rhythm that embraces day
conception and proceeding until he first ‘sees the light of the
during the first months after birth, the building-up process proceeds
appearance of the first teeth. Thus, in the building process of the

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Saturn period was characterised by the laying of the first foundations
and motions of the Universe. We cannot consider first the Universe
but really belongs to the head — you would, in the first place,
Take the drawing on the left as the first metamorphosis, and the
first as the first life, and the second as the second life, and
first an inner organ which is directed inward. Owing to the
recognise it by what the first impression left behind with you. It is
first place, have to do with music. But the outer physical liver is,
cycle alone; he has added to the day-cycle a week-cycle. He first
contrast. He wished first to show the connection of the daily
year's cycle of the first teeth.
If you consider the first and second dentition you will see that the
cycle of the first dentition. We may say that as the one year-cycle in
respect to the first dentition stands to the cycle of human evolution
understood another thing. They understood that the first dentition was
they saw a connection of the formation of the first teeth with
consider these phenomena objectively. The first teeth are connected
The difference is one which can, in the first place, be considered as
first intellectually to assimilate all we absorb. But to see it reborn

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We must be absolutely clear upon this point. The very first beginning
that which is formed first in the process of man's formation is indeed
from its first stage onwards, must consider it as an image of the
You can best do so by trying first to imagine ‘filled’

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for the first time to-night, I should like to put before them at any
This complicates the abstract idea we gain in the first place of the
International literature on the subject should first be carefully
result if these things were actually done, first as experiments and
materialistic theosophy that we have first coarse physical matter, and
side. She does not show us first one side, and then the other, while
middle finger over the first, like a caduceus, or not. The movements
the middle finger over the first with elasticity, making a serpent and
first to be created. Anyone who is able to observe the human head in
tell me nothing; show me first the original of them, then I will
and points us back to the former Earth-life. One must however first
this explanation. But we must first know this, saying to ourselves:
mere sense-phenomena. We must first know this. Then we can find the

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First of all I would remind you that the head-organisation, as it
ideation, and the forces of ideation are at first very powerful. They
which during the first seven years of life enable the forces which
first be stemmed; they must make a halt until sufficiently filtered,
through these two halts — at the first and second septennial periods
the first place, the power to acquire his teeth, the milk-teeth. These
are completed approximately in the circle of the first year. The
can arise in no other way than by developing it first within. In
first acquire the method for it by means of a training in Spiritual

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Now I will ask you carefully to consider the following. It is first of
like a person who weighs a man, having first charged him to think

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post-Atlantean time into epochs of civilisation, naming the first the
world, and the first mention of its effects is to be found in Tacitus,
of the evolution of mankind from the first three epochs of
outcome of the first, second and third post-Atlantean epochs. The
side by side today, but only met for the first time at the beginning

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form, would say: First there were simple organic forms, then more

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more closely into this, we must first consider the following. It is
In the first place, to give something quite external, I will choose
— knocking at the door and opening it, these were his first
force, first the horses themselves grew hotter, secondly the axles of
which was first brought to such exactness by Julius Robert Mayer,
Saros period, so-called because the Chaldeans first discovered it
beautiful saying, first ‘see the light’, we become involved
up here, first because it would take too long and secondly because you

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indicate exactly what I mean, let me first put the question: What
demand did Christianity bring when it first came into the world? In
characteristics of Christianity. Christianity first appeared in such a
that, after having first dogmatically rejected them, people have begun

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What is of real consequence is, first of all, that one should ask
Certainly it must be said in the first place that even the animal
The Will comes into being through the fact that in the first instance
The first part to be acted upon is the heat, then through heat the air
the first instance unites with the activity of the soul and spirit has
Taking first the whole of the rest of man, and then his head, we can
thoughts change into mere pictures. At first thoughts live, as it
first to meet with this intervention of the central force, which was
consider the Earth-evolution that we recognise in the first place a
understanding of Christianity. It might at first appear very strange

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first acquires its true meaning.
you read of what appears as the first rudiments of the human
existed as the first rudiments of humanity during the Saturn

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we will speak of these things more exactly; I want at first
here, men were more exposed to the Spirits of the first kind

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Let us first of all contemplate the sphere of Warmth, of the
their dominion essentially over the three first realms —
do we first originate with our birth or conception. We

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therefore, in the first place we must say to ourselves: if we
grasp everything that it is received from the first moment with
the Moon as a cosmic symbol. When we sec the Moon in its first

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that we are here concerned with a twofold task. First, we
materialistic world view. First of all, we must understand it
study is still more or less in its first beginnings, final
of thought first before they can develop any thoughts. If we
First, a man spoke — I would call him a stalwart champion
the soul-spiritual element. Thus, a person who, in the first
first of all man is, as we know, a threefold being: the limb

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first of all, pointed out the fundamental difference between
possible. I have often explained to you that the first result
time when we first lose sight of it until the moment we
up, we can say: As the basis of the human head we have, first
threefold human organism, we thus bear within us first the
with, three different activities. First of all, something
been built up, we create, first of all, the foundations for a

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their culture only in the first third of the fifteenth
certain sects of the first Christian centuries to the point
first Christian centuries, where much was still pervaded by

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something attempting during those first Christian centuries
first Christian centuries in both the stream of wisdom and
It is a worship we find even as late as the first Christian
saw that at first glance one does arrive at the conception of
everywhere when we look back at the first Christian
was intensely alive in the first Christian centuries up until
there. Above all else, throughout the first part of the

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remained so ever since. After the first half of the Middle
the first third of the fourteenth century. By that time,
which began in the first third of the fourteenth century, was

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polity. For the first time, Christianity and external
first lift itself up in order to recognize itself as
body. It was egotistically self-enclosed. The first ego
in the first third of the fifteenth century, but it was an
first third of the fifteenth century must be striven for in
assigned to it, first of all has penetrated the sentiments of

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culminating in the unfortunate first two decades of the
connected directly with the first Greek age of total
strove for a new Dionysian art. This pervades his first work,
The first of these contemplations was
intended as attacks against individual persons. In the first
that in the first half of the nineteenth century there still
the exception of the last sentence — but the first

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according to cosmic relationships; until the first, weight was sensed
longer merely be added to the first two. Instead, we must
the first two.
in the first and second period of the post-Atlantean epoch,
count in the first place? In reality, we don't accomplish it
the first place.
the fact that we are counted in the first place, for
connected with numbers during the first and even the second
this leads us back to an age of long ago, namely, the first
high as the first one; we measure it by the first one.
existed in the first post-Atlantean period as an experience
true that in the first post-Atlantean epoch, designated as
the first postAtlantean epoch.
the first three post-Atlantean periods according to the way
people's frame of mind was in the first post-Atlantean period
conclusion. However, if you take merely the first two, the

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been flowing since the first third of the fifteenth century.
the human being schematically before us. Take, first of all,
here we have man's ego. Let us first consider the human being
Christian century; beginning in the first third of the
Now, however, after this point in time in the first third of
Imagination that this spirituality receives its first
must first receive its content.
situation in the world today is such that there is, first of

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each other. First of all, if one nation attains its goal and

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first had to advance in their human condition to the point
certainly, but at first it has been a preparatory
this time period, the first half of the nineteenth century?
century. The first half of the nineteenth century was
during the first half of the nineteenth century is
materialistic, scientific, and technological life first in
the social structure in the first half of the nineteenth
Only the form that revealed its first rosy dawn in the

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should say, in the first third of the nineteenth century in
Maistre was a brilliant representative in the first third of
the scholastic age, what it was in the first centuries and
First of all, everything I have
concerned with gaining firsthand knowledge about them, but
distaste for the blood, and in the first place have to be
the art of social experimentation during the first half of
first, namely, that one is dealing with firm, rigid types

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anthroposophical literature, we shall be able, first of all,
consideration, first of all, that he is a physical body. This
the human being thus, we have, first of all, the upper part
and also develops first during embryonic life. Already in the
after the first three decades of our life. For our whole life
thinking that develops in us has to do with the first twelve
acquires the first sounds of speech within a time span that
covered by the earth. In the first case, Jupiter's effects on
back in the post-Atlantean age to the first epoch, when the
return of something that rose in the first place from earth

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of the knowledge of earlier cultural epochs in first three parts of
the first Christian centuries. John Scotus Erigena apparently
end of the first Christian century into the second one. This
over in Ireland, still dwelled in the first Christian
contrast to other texts of a similar nature from the first
and insights of the first Christian centuries, we must
knowledge that had existed in the first Christian centuries
to be cultivated from the first third of the fifteenth
concerning the world in four chapters. In the first, he
believed himself able to do it, the first chapter describes
When we consider what he describes in the first chapter, we
being and says: First, man bears existence within himself.
fourth chapter: This contains, first of all, Erigena's
first Christian centuries, was declared to be heretical. This
truly the case. For if you read the first chapter, you are
and ends in the first millennium
very last vestige filtered out of the first post-Atlantean,
that Scotus Erigena actually records the first three chapters
that the content of the first three chapters was an ancient
naturally, complete atheism would contradict the first
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and moon forces. First three parts of Erigena's book tie in with this.
first centuries of Christianity that throws its light into
way of thinking, differed in the first centuries
mode of thinking and conceiving prevalent in the first
the first centuries
the first Christian centuries, which, as I have said,
Communion was truly comprehended during the first Christian
this science of the Father God still influenced the first
world and the entering into the resting Godhead. The first
only the fourth chapter is really Christian. The first three
Fathers of the first Christian centuries. We can say that
In the first
knowledge, which has been almost completely lost. The first
the first Christian centuries, namely, that the Father God
world. Therefore, these first Christian Church Fathers said,
nature, but first of all they crept into the things of the
what the Church Fathers of the first Christian centuries
of the first Christian centuries. Human beings had been told
The first
we properly understood the first Christians' way of thinking,
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illness. We shall confine ourselves, first of all, to
period, we can for the first time speak of any similarity
first place, by removing the fluids that have accumulated in
human nature. As the first stage of instruction, they must

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Again, at first we may proceed from merely elementary
months from different viewpoints) we first have all that is
can say firstly that the plant world is included in this
At first we may not comprehend this or that about the world
processes. When we look at the human being we consider first
the spatial world is related only to the first two
At first our
nothing of water, air, and fire. It is necessary first to
cultural evolution since the first third of the fifteenth
lost since the first third of the fifteenth century. The

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mentioned four kinds of lawfulnesses: first, the lawfulness
the first two worlds, the earthly and the cosmic, we have
The first thing
logic,” this Greek would say, “was first
was first made by Aristotle, after he had thoroughly applied

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first in the mineral world — we find the most manifold
birth. This is seen at first very unclearly, but one knows

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independent members; I am referring at first to the formative
being, where we at first perceive our thinking, feeling, and
at first materialized. Working from this inner being, the
outside, we must say that the I is more cosmic in the first
brought about. The I between death and a new birth goes first
understood in the following way. Let us proceed first from
that may first be expressed in analogies. They are not merely
organization, which at first pass over into our next earthly

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first came to the consciousness of humanity in these mystery
characterizing it in this way at first — was thus
thought-forces first permeate the etheric body, and the
of these mystery colonies, of which I have spoken, first

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implied in this. First, the belief that the message of the
that were fought during the first Christian centuries in
compare it with what our senses at first convey to us of
consciousness of it. He must first grow into such a
appear to us in its double aspect. We see first the Father
(drawing, below): first a circle, then

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process may at first remain shrouded, as I have often
grasped objectively the first element of the life of the
first grasped as a reminiscence after the dream departs. It
Then, when one has grasped this, has beheld it first through
thoughts that is objective. One at first perceives this
process of becoming. It seems at first something foreign, but
distinguish this sleeping into the organism, which first

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into the environment of the human being and consider first
consciousness in a healthy way, we first become free of our
world that is first experienced above the human being, this
Intuitive cognition. I must first say, however, that if as
element. First, however, it must receive this soul element,
first, however, a kind of abstract life, a kind of picture
again, the reverse appears in the will. The will at first
at first lying between our last death and the Midnight Hour
— at first in a subjective way through inner experience
go upward we first find Imagination as reality fulfilled.
point, as it were, of ordinary human consciousness. It first

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coming in through birth he brings what at first is in his web
first finds this outer evolution, begun on Saturn, expressed
actually lives fully in his deeds, actually only first awakes
at some particular time, let us say in 1790. One will first
first come about — I beg you to realize this —
give him an explanation for the first time of what he
crystal cube: I will describe the exact process. First of all
to us first as thought. As thought it has a certain
regions where the will actually lives. We first have the
stream first toward our subjective thoughts and give them
life of feeling and will. This thought life at first is
warmth and life that which had first become cold on the way

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another viewpoint — that when we first ascend into the
he draws himself together again. First he is led over into
Midnight Hour of Existence, a man acquires first the
forces — naturally not the organs but first the forces
at first everything is present in him that ultimately
loosened on our entering the planetary realm, and this first
from this place where my consciousness first gradually

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know that essentially in the Saturn evolution the first
Moon, and Earth evolutions. We know that the first rudiments
first appears to us as world body, we understand it very
develops the mineral consciousness. At first, however, this
— we find that his I goes on further. At first,
kingdom in the sense that at first the human thoughts, the
the weaving thoughts of human beings in the first half of
his brain — of course at first as forces, not as a lump
group-beings. Thus, whereas in the first part of his
lives on in his etheric body. From the first moment of his

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descend to the human corporeality, it appears to us at first
to the earth. We gain no idea at first from the I what it is

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I-culture, which man received first during earthly existence,

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between the physical body and the etheric body. This at first
lived in all this time, that is to say up to the first third
must first treat what the human being experiences after

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forms first condensed themselves, and then all the beings,
case? In the first place, the human being now can live in a

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second and first millennia before Christ we could come down to the
for the first time when we study history with the eye of knowledge
first to argue away the existence of Homer and even Goethe could not
us take the first Book, the first Song, and try to discover by what

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him, about the plants, the animals, the minerals. The first facts of
mysteries, we find that as late as the first half of the nineteenth
the first elements of intellectual thinking unfolded by mankind in the
the first elements of spiritual truths, which have been learnt again by
numerous in the first half of the nineteenth century than later on

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first, to explain to his pupils that in the human head all the
breath-impulse passes first into the lungs, through the spinal canal
whom the first science of nature was imparted. What the pupil of Yoga
first, faint beginnings, this custom arose in the fourth and fifth

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pre-Socratic philosophers who, for the first time in the evolution of
not come into existence for the first time at birth. And so a
the mummy and began, for the first time, to develop abstract, dead
thinking. It was from the human corpse that dead thinking first came
are ceremonies of the First Degree, the Second Degree, the Third
thinking, and he achieved it in the following way. First of all he
matter is realised for the first time when the human head is conceived
For this reason the head develops first. Think of the embryo in the
body of the mother. The head develops first and the rest of the
consciously but he had an inkling of it and applied it, in the first
living concept which Goethe was the first to evolve in the form of the

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the Templar Knights, who first assumed their real significance in outer
Bouillon in the first real Crusade, succeeded in liberating Jerusalem,
real question is this: Whence came that first fiery enthusiasm which
Europe when that noble company of knights set out on the first Crusade,
call this the first stream. Springing from the Arabian regions of Asia,
imparted to this first stream by the Arabian influence and by its
first stream, barely felt and yet looked at askance in Rome at the time
This was the first and
Meanwhile the first
this first esoteric stream must be clothed in dogma. Words must be

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afterwards become. It is on the Earth that we first learn to
what is thus fashioned — first of all in the spiritual
is attracting me, or the First Hierarchy is attracting me. He
Logos in whom we first immersed ourselves — the
although we have first to pass through intermediate cosmic

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and death to the fact that, in the first place, he takes the
we must first be clear that it is in the waking state that his
through his metabolism. We will consider this at first in
first arose on the Earth — that man shall spurn the
in our civilization, we must know how to recognize the first
first.
first waves coming from the Ahrimanic host in the solid and

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condition, in which we have first suppressed and then
for the first time, to acquire a basis for understanding the

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to Goodness, at first as something entirely unreal, and then
character. One first really learns to know these beings when
of the spiritual world. For it is essential first of all to
being seen; they flee first and foremost into the inmost nature

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first third of the fifteenth century, human evolution has
into the first third of the fifteenth century was the age of
first time during this period; it is knowledge that is
as Giordano Bruno was the first to envisage — with the
only since the first third of the fifteenth century that man's
“First Epoch with Sub-Epochs,” and so on. Then
the things and processes of the material world since the first
as Gods are able to do. Since the first third of the fifteenth
be said with absolute truth that since the first third of the
enters into Space for the first time when he descends from the
Gods' field of vision. It is really only since the first third
Spirit who is the first to draw near to what men here on Earth
the first third of the fifteenth century. Gabriel stands in

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know that spiritual research advances first to what is called
we have taken the first step towards acquiring true knowledge
what at first can only be compared in its appearance to a

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meaning of these Mysteries we must think, first of all, of that
starting-point is man: contemplation, first of the inner
think, first, of the human being as a whole, with heart, lungs,
other way about: first of all, men learnt to know the nature of
old tradition of the first Christmas Mass being read at

Title: Spiritual Communion: Lecture II: The Mysteries of Man's Nature and the Course of the Year
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the following way. The attention of the pupils was drawn, first
and the Sun is gaining strength, when the first buds of the
letters change their forms, how the first buds, which had

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first complete whole of this kind is the cycle of day and
night. Paradoxical as this seems at first hearing, in this
first produce leaves and, later on, blossoms. An incalculable
disturbs us, it becomes possible for the first time to gaze at

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words. Let me say in the first place that already for a long
remarked first of all to those who came to me in this way for
said: It is quite obvious first of all that it is not only a
what is to be reached in Anthroposophy can be attained first of
are at first unable to set out directly along the path to the
world should first of all enter the hearts of men directly, so
who performed the very first ceremony in this Movement,
If he were to do so, he would be working for two ends: firstly,
Anthroposophical Society be if it first needed religious
Movement for Religious Renewal who is himself first a good

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fire which destroyed the First Goetheanum was discovered one
the first time, from an inspection of ourselves, how to regard
But he must first have them. Thoughts that we make in our
first beginning of what must come to pass if Anthroposophy is
future. And today it is man's first obligation to grasp this

Title: Esoteric Studies: Easter: Lecture I: The Mysteries of Adonis, -or- The Evolution of Our Festivals from the Ancient Mysteries
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coincident with the founding of Christianity, but during the first
its first half, with dying, with the death of Nature; and on the
In the first centuries of Christianity very few men knew that a
immersed in the sea. A somber mood prevailed, because first a feeling
Golgotha experienced in the soul — mankind at first

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as the First Person of all divinity, as the
Sun-birth (the first was called the Moon-birth) became less
this comprised three stages; but the first requirement for attaining
life he was not a human being. But that was the very first
he could not even be a human being. He must first learn to look
That was the first stage of initiation in the old Mysteries. And the
descending to Earth, the old initiate, in the so-called first
chambers. The first was the chamber of thought, where one learned
becomes manifest. That was the first chamber. In the second chamber
in pharmacology or chemistry with the requirement that he must first
Nothing remains of all this but our calculation, When is the first
Sunday after the first full Moon after the spring equinox? We place
Easter on the Sunday following this first full Moon, thus indicating
can only be done by contemplating the old Mysteries, which first of

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contact first with the lower limbs — the feet and legs
— streamed toward the full Moon, the first one after the
the Sun; that is, the first day dedicated to the Sun: the first

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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and little observed by mankind. For you must really first understand
conflagration at Ephesus blazed up, first in the outer ether and then

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so during the first few centuries. It is linked to
essential content of Easter. First, the figure central to
festivals coincided in their first half with the withering and
the first Christian centuries very few people knew that a
although a departed soul's first experiences beyond the gate of
should at first arise with great intensity. Ancient peoples
first to develop a feeling for the ephemeral. This mood,
embodied the same truth, humanity at first lacked the

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our Christian conception as the First Person of the Godhead, as
a way that the second or solar birth (the first was called the
Basic initiation consisted of three stages. The very first
human beings. But for initiation this was the very first
as human, he could not really claim to be one. He would first
That was the first stage of initiation in the old
animals, the old initiate, in the so-called first Mystery
first was the chamber of thought. There he became acquainted
came to know himself there as spirit. That was the first
things, and know that first these things are outside, then
inside him. He breathes the air; first it is outside, then
consciousness is an interest in finding the first Sunday
following the first full moon after the spring equinox.
if we examine the old Mysteries. These showed first of all what

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Easter. To do this, however, I will first have to touch upon
below upwards, affecting first the feet and legs and coursing
To express myself pictorially, these beings first direct their
streaming upward in the spring toward the first full moon. The
toward the first following Sunday. In other words, instead of a
the Adonis cult and of others like it, demanded that one first

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to progress through three classes, only the first of which had
What we have here is a collection of concepts, first introduced

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what a man experiences in the first three days after death.
demonstrated and made obvious through the fact that the first
down to earth. At first it was more what might be described as
the same thing; at first men had not the power to carry out

Title: Festival of Easter: Lecture 2: Moon-Birth and Sun-Birth
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in pre-Christian times, or even in the first Christian
The first requirement, before the neophyte could attain true
a man has, in the first place, to feel convinced that he cannot
first to become a man!
first demand made on them, that they should hold themselves not
could not be a man. He had first to learn to look inward
the first stage or degree of initiation in the ancient
about them in what was called the first stage of the Mysteries.
that this hidden place had three chambers. The first was the
the first chamber. The second chamber was that in which he
first it is outside, then within him, then outside again. He is
first three degrees of initiation — though on earth he
chemistry or in pharmacy, had first to submit to the necessity
When is the first Sunday following the first full moon after
year on the first Sunday after the full moon; indicating
content of the Ancient Mysteries, where man was first made

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through man, they encountered first his feet and legs, then
moon turn their attention first to what is of the greatest
moon when this was the first full moon after the beginning of
is, it gazes on it on the first day dedicated to the sun, on
the first Sunday following the coming of spring. As in former
described in the first lecture.
from what was spiritual. Therefore, when Nature first began to

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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physical body as it was first on earth in the consonants which
It first became man and woman at its descent to
which were first propounded to Alexander by Aristotle —

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Read the first chapter of my book
hitherto been pointed out; the first mention of it is in my
directly through their vision. Thinking first began to affect
Nevertheless it can be stated that at the first ballot the
first ballot — if I may again use this word — was

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I want, first
one of these visits. The first edition of my book
personality. This was first disclosed to her by the
means of persons who had first been put through an occult
Sinnett's books, the first one,
The first lectures were those which ultimately became the
The first part had appeared in February 1900,
the first lines of the preface to this book:
In the first edition of the book
I quote from the first edition, which was dedicated to
nature first completely returns into herself, and by which
the second by the first as analogous to the striking effect
part of the book, which deals, firstly, with Hegel, is dated

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the interests of materialism. First, it was a matter of
The first
mineral kingdom was added for the first time during the Earth
The first Goetheanum, later destroyed by fire. The statue now

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Sphere” which was referred to openly for the first time
birth to the seventh year in a first stage, from the seventh
being who has developed from the first to the seventh year
we proceed. First of all, you can understand that what is
the first
counterweight. This was stated in the very first article of
referring to the first edition, as was C. J.
now given out for the first time, of the sevenfold
The first person, however, to profane the mysteries
first to make public the information that there is an

Title: Occult Movement: Lecture Six: The Dangers of Aberation Along the Path into the Spiritual World
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however, first actually approached her out of curiosity. But
At first, as
impulse, is entirely original. — For the first time,

Title: Occult Movement: Lecture Seven: Investigation of the Life between Death and a New Birth
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compare what I said in the year 1904 in the first edition of
place in the literature. During the first years I was obliged
of reality. Hence one has first to battle with them, to test
speaking of the first years of the life between death and a
first years or decades can be gained only by using certain
accurate picture of the first years or decades of the life
The human being gets two sets of teeth: first he gets the
no difference between the first and second dentition. To an
occultist, however, the first dentition is an entirely
regards the first teeth there is a question. The first teeth
these first, inherited teeth does he develop the second
first teeth have been inherited. This is a matter which comes
the first teeth are related to heredity in quite a different
his whole constitution, whereas the first teeth, especially
in the case of a child who died early, who had lost the first
first scene of the second Mystery Play,

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declare that, although when I first came to you I appeared to
thing is that the beings first encountered in yonder world
with danger, because the beings first encountered are
shall first of all be trained to develop an invincible love
for plant, animal and man; we must therefore first subject

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present incarnation which last only through the first period

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Look at this first painting to which our primary observation
image: we are accustomed to say that Imagination is the first
sight of the world. When we go back to the first centuries
Ideas of this kind Julius II incited first in Bramante and then
which he had in his imagination. Gradually he was first
more to the lower part than the first sketch, with still

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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it was preparatory. In the first moments of this epoch one only
world. This did not happen, firstly because Europe had to
firstly appeared in primitive, simplistic images according to
it here where the artistic element first only dares to appear,
Master Wilhelm, Stephan Lochner. The first is the image
below. There is already an attempt, first of all, to express
that time; Europe first had to allow something else to take

Title: History of Art: Lecture XII: Greek and Early Christian Art, Symbolic Signs, the Mystery of Gold
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Today I would first like to show through some observations
Hellenism was already growing in the first artistic Christian
the first centuries, to illustrate what I'm trying to present.
Firstly, the “Good Shepherd”:
entire century ahead. During the very first centuries of
impressions, because the gaze, the soul gaze during the first
worship of the dead during the first centuries this was
of the first Christian centuries depicted in reliefs and most
profound need of the first sensitive Christians. The secrets of
sarcophagus art of the first Christian centuries in particular,
you remember the very first lecture which I held here in
it was created out of the ivory as relief art during the first
see how a real evolution has taken place from the first to the
wanted to hear very little. The first year of chaos arrived -
also into the second, the third year — and also now. Firstly,

Title: History of Art: Lecture XIII: The Changes in the Conception of Christ During a Certain Period of Time
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the first representations which were created still obeyed the
In this regard we find at the start of the first times the
first find, in the Greek depiction of a Mercury-type, the
in the first centuries were beardless. We see how there is a
Here you see — it belongs to the first centuries — how the
Romanism when we look at the first blossoming which drew its
because of this at first it didn't strike them as beautiful but
Three things can be distinguished. Firstly those forms which
then the battle of the human soul in the first depictions of
think of the first tentative efforts we found in the ancient
Here firstly we see — when we have an understanding for
the spiritual world, shaped initially by our first efforts
Painting (Plant colours) in the small cupola of the First
Painting (Plant colours) in the small cupola of the First
for the painting of the small cupola of the First Goetheanum,
Painting in the small cupola of the First Goetheanum, Dornach.

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This is the first of two lectures, hitherto untranslated,
higher consciousness that there are first revealed the things
the physical world, that our consciousness first awakes in the
greater independence. During the first years of infancy it
first appeared in Western civilisation.) The endeavour in the
During the first Christian centuries, however, the ways and
this wisdom that the fundamental event of Christendom was first
First and foremost, however, attention must be called to the
That Goethe had already taken the first steps in this

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how the attempt was first of all made not to hear and
indicated yesterday — along the first steps
maturity, erotic feelings make their first impact, they do not
ego-perception tend at first to lead us away from the spiritual
It is just in the first seven years of our life that these
the human being and are especially active in the first seven
being first comes to realise himself as a true self.
something that is first of all experienced through its
approaching it from the other side. First of all I must draw

Title: Star Wisdom: Lecture I: Star Wisdom, Moon Religion, Sun Religion
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[See the lectures in the first volume of this series:
Nazareth. Just as the first personality enters into the mother's
formerly in the Sun. In the first Christian centuries, Christ was
Jerusalem. The aim of the first real Crusade was that Jerusalem, not
else must also be remembered. — The monasteries were not, at first,

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first few paragraphs contain the answer given by Dr. Steiner to a
the first Sunday after the first full Moon after the beginning of
spring. The first full Moon can be on 22nd March, in which
case Easter is very early; or the first full Moon can be a whole
of this seed? First, the root. The life expands into the root. But
the case when the rays of the first full Moon after the beginning of
day dedicated to the Sun — after the first full Moon of spring.
Now in the first
century there were two Emperors, one a little later than the other. The first
Easter were always to fall on the first Sunday in April, book-keeping
that is usual at the present time. First and foremost we need

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as securely as a man, when he is on the first floor of a house,
conception of the ONE God, the Moon-God. The Jews came first to the
is a Jew, begin to speak. The first says: It is very difficult to

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sea and land, but first I will interpolate something else. I have

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I will first deal with the question about rock, as that can very well be
investigates the substances of which this blade consists, one first finds
body they are not there at first — so is everything, our bony
structure, etc., formed out of the living. The living exists first
away first and come back here. The young ones can hold out longer
again, I visited the first Class. We have twenty-eight children in
greyish-yellow. What is to be done? The organs must first be made fit

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man's life essentially depends. Firstly, there is protein.
foodstuffs. Protein, then, is the first of these four essential
constituents of the various kinds of foodstuffs. First of all we will
physical body originates in the first place from protein. Protein is

Title: Cosmic Workings: Lecture IV
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First
combines with our carbon. But first we must produce the carbon, we
must first have it. To this end we must take food. Oxygen is
food. When we take food into our mouths it must first be dissolved by
the organism. Thus a way must first be found of bringing the Mercury

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into it in succession the various dilutions. First, ordinary water,
The root grows out of the seed. Let us first take
why — before the cambium forms, there is first of all developed
created from the seed, but the seed must first be worked on by the
from above, you have first the pith inside: this gives the direction.
there is modelled from out of the World-Spirit. The earth first gives
the head, so that man cannot control his muscles, at first this

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— invisible bodies. The first invisible member, the ether body,
gradually lapse into a plant-like existence. He would begin, first of
digestion begins, the in-taken foodstuffs pass, first of all, into the

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First you will see
from the East, first had to spread. Nevertheless, Christianity as
first Christian centuries. Should the Redeemer be represented in
ourselves this question: Who was the first really genuine
materialist? Who was it gave the very first impetus to
the first man to introduce the material way of feeling into the
paradox to describe the holy man of Assisi as the first great
first a physical illness which turned him altogether away from
of Assisi became the first among those great figures who, from
to conquer Nature. First we see the Spirit endeavouring to master
Man must first seek the Spirit, then will he find the Spirit in
the outer world. Man must first feel and experience the Soul,
means of expression even in Nature herself. For to him who first
to be read in the book of Nature. But at first he often has to

Title: History of Art: Lecture II: Leonardo, Michelangelo and Raphael
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first who sought to perceive Nature through a deep life of feeling.
Now Leonardo was the first who endeavoured in a wider sense to add to
the new Age. It was now that he first went to Rome, and we may say:
to the impressions of Leonardo's works. We will first show some of his
and show him once more at his real starting-point. The first picture
moving to Rome for the first time, under all the influences which I
first stage, which we might describe as the creation of Light out of
which first carried him out into the world.
was contained between his twenty-first and his thirty-seventh year,
in which he died. In his twenty-first year he painted the first picture
if, starting from his twenty-first year, we go forward in successive
periods of four years. From his twenty-first year we have his Sposalizio;
who occupy the first position as regards their artistic aims and who
was born, first had to grow young. Only now there comes the time when

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way they were undoubtedly at work even at the time of the first
period the first Northern impulse came to an end. The classical and
human figure, as it were, after the pattern first created by God.
compare them with the mood that goes out from the first monologues

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heart must first be conquered for it, he must in some way be
contrary, because they must first call the people, bring them
must first be called to the group-life. And the same thing
First we will show some wood-sculptures from the very beginning of
wood, and dates from the first third of the 13th century. None the
the first third of the 13th century. They show an altogether
men had to be won over; the individual souls must first be called
Likewise, they must first be called if they are to express reverence
figures from the Cathedral at Cologne, first half of the 14th

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lights up in the realm of Art for the first time in Dürer and finds
pictures. Rembrandt is first of all an observer, trying faithfully to
— great as was his talent, his artistic genius from the very first
deeper meaning in the fact that the first great painter of the Fifth
not time to go through them beforehand, and saw them for the first time
It was only in Dürer that we saw the first lighting-up of what

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is now called perspective was first introduced into the technique of Art
perspective first arises. We see how it evolves quite naturally out
in the very first of our pictures today, how wonderfully the mass-effects
in the first third of the 15th century. Hubert Van Eyck died in 1426;
the Altar-piece was finished by his brother Jan. It is the first third
these regions that landscape-painting first developed and found its way

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thus be concerned today, not in the first place with the artistic elements,
First you will see the more typical representations of an early time.
We shall first show some
first undertaken by the Three Wise Men. This bears witness to the fact
pictures, first of the Nativity itself and of the Adoration by the
Northern Masters, whose names you know. First we have a work of Schongauer'
of pictures relating mainly to the Adoration by the Shepherds. First,
theme: the Flight into Egypt. First we have a painter of the late 15th

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sense Dürer is an historic figure of the very first rank. No historic
woodcuts. They are extraordinarily tender and intimate. The first is
districts in the first half of the 15th century the spatial conception
in the first half of the 15th century — how hard it is for that
first half of the 15th century: Lucas Moser.
This alter-piece was done in the first half of the 15th century. How
seems on the flat. But you will already observe the first attempt to bring
the artistic developments that are potentially there in these first
To some extent, as a first

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first came to expression only in the forming of the limbs, begins to
Our first picture is the
that you are doing, that is a peasant:” Donatello at first did not
his capacity as a sculptor. First the famous equestrian statue: —

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and nature. The first three lectures show us man's inner relationship
We will examine first the world, and then man, in order to find how
Let us first turn our attention to that realm which represents what is
the cow — first bringing her into the moisture of the air in the
arose as to how to divide the dismembered antelope between them. First
hyena, you as lion must get the first third; the second third would
You see, hyena-logic in the first case, hyena-logic also in the wolf;

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and nature. The first three lectures show us man's inner relationship
Let us first turn our gaze to the upper regions, about which we
first of all to observe how far the Sun-forces become modified,
When we turn to the inner planets nearer the earth, we have first the
hunting. They killed an antelope. First the hyena was asked to divide
said, “You get the first third because you have killed the hyena,

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and nature. The first three lectures show us man's inner relationship
in the way I have described — this at first remains for the
It is indeed the case that at first, just through spiritual vision,
conjunction with each other, become something from which one can first
day; for whereas the first booklet, which I then discussed, possessed
Schweitzer here takes credit to himself for being the first to
Now in the first place much has been said about the boundaries of
short-sighted to believe that one has been the first to speak about
upon being the first to discover the colossal error.
first little volume certainly shows — has reached the conclusion

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and nature. The first three lectures show us man's inner relationship
consider later. I should like, in the first place, to draw attention
first the Saturn-condition, which still contained dissolved within it
the first part of evolution.
Then we have that part of evolution in which the Moon first plays its
— his gaze falls first upon the manifold variety of the insect
light-irradiated air as the butterfly's wings was first formed in germ
enter into this more exactly, we find in the first place the
upon us to the first two metamorphoses experienced by earth-evolution.
there arose a differentiation. In the case of the first two
developed, the first thing to arise out of the germ. And instead of

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and nature. The first three lectures show us man's inner relationship
nature of several beings and in the first place of the butterfly. In
colour, and thus entering on the first stage of its spiritualisation
first creature — descending from above downwards — which
in lectures here as the Dragon. But this bat-residue must first be

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and nature. The first three lectures show us man's inner relationship
first cast a glance at the development of man himself, and call to
the human head. This human head received its first rudiments at a time
Saturn-period, the first rudiments of the being of the butterflies
in the first part of the Sun-period, and in the second part of the
Sun-period there arose the first rudiments of that kingdom of the
representative. So that the first rudiments of these animals go back
In the case of human evolution it was the head which first took form.
lion, for example, first came into existence during the old
Arms and legs can first be spoken of only during the Earth-period,
the Earth. It was, however, during the Moon-period that man first
Moon-period it was first and foremost the cow's digestive apparatus
the cow, we have first, as primary origin, the digestive organs, and
during the first phase of the Moon-metamorphosis. Then, however, other
first calls him into earthly existence. And the rays of the
the spiritual that one first comes upon the significance of the
which is the first part of the human embryo to develop in a form which
When the human being, during the embryonic period, has first acquired
— amphibians, reptiles, fishes. Let us first consider the fishes
merely chalky shells, deposit what they have first formed from their
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and nature. The first three lectures show us man's inner relationship
degree to which this is the case first appears in its full clarity
invisible at first to outer view, but in their effects so much the
— for they must first think things over.
Paul, that, when for the first time a human being arrives at the
first place it is from what the great chemists, the undines, bring
plant-growth. First, with the help of what comes from the
space. But just as with a flame it is the warmth in the first place
intelligence, the gnome-world which first pushes the plant upwards.
earth, this is first due to that power of sympathy, that sustaining

Title: Man/Symphony: Lecture VIII: Gnomes, Undines, Sylphs, and Salamanders and their Relations to Various Animals
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and nature. The first three lectures show us man's inner relationship
first form a conception as to which of them are well-disposed and
are everywhere, and he must first learn something from the goblins

Title: Man/Symphony: Lecture IX: Gnomes, Undines, Sylphs, and Salamanders and their Various Activities and Attitudes
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and nature. The first three lectures show us man's inner relationship
one gains a first stimulus, a first capacity, to picture how our earth
for it is through this that one first gains an impression of how every
assumes first greener, then redder tones, they absorb this astrality
All this, however, which at first appears like a wonderful
even if in his ordinary consciousness man is at first incapable of
he must first awaken in order to arrive at his true ego. They see this

Title: Man/Symphony: Lecture X: The Origin of the Different Systems of Man: Metabolism, Rhythmic, Nerve
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and nature. The first three lectures show us man's inner relationship
which at first are outside man, enter into him, and merge themselves
exist. The metabolic system, if at first we omit its involuntary
It might at first seem a folly in world-organization that something
our spiritual gaze is directed further to the worlds of the first and
Exusiai, Dynamis, and to the beings of the first hierarchy, Seraphim,
must say: In the first place man is born out of the cosmos as spirit,
What would this have to contain? In the first place, naturally, the
studied in the first place by a rational system of medicine, and this
structure of the body and what flows through it as fluid. And first
This is what I wished to give you in the first place as a kind of

Title: Man/Symphony: Lecture XI: Food, Digestion, Plants, and Carnivorous Animals
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and nature. The first three lectures show us man's inner relationship
spiritual that the earthly was first formed.
not produced by the spirit; he must first give to what he assimilates
milk, and must indeed create it anew; for the child must first bring
really no more beautiful experience than first to make every possible

Title: Man/Symphony: Lecture XII: Convention and Morals, Bones and Hatred
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and nature. The first three lectures show us man's inner relationship
At first we shall be unable to find any link to join the bony system
into the spiritual world, the first thing one becomes aware of is
something terrible, something which at first it is by no means easy to
first period after man has passed through the gate of death into the
between death and a new birth, to the abiding place of the first
development, must at first burden the beings of the higher hierarchies
When someone first passes through the gate of death, for the spiritual
But now he loses first the form of his head; then the rest of his form
Thus, when one follows man between death and a new birth, one at first
dissolves — the first to melt away being what is reminiscent of
previous earth-life, what, at first spiritually, will become the
This spirit-form first connects itself with physical life when it
wonderful. We see at first how an image of the whole cosmos is
gathered these impulses together when the man was on the first half of
First you have the diagnosis, which finds that our age is infested

Title: Lecture: How Can We Gain Knowledge of the Supersensible Worlds?
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The very first
Even as we first
only given us the first shadow of a first testimony.”
In the first

Title: Lecture: Man's Position in the Cosmic Whole, the Platonic World-Year
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as our feelings are concerned. In the introduction to the first
Mysteries, certain feelings were first cultivated, before taking into
Russians in a direct way, but the influence of the light first
important — is the first etheric ingredient of the Russian

Title: Lecture: The Overcoming of Evil
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in which it entered the world during the first third of the 4th

Title: Lecture: Entry of the Michael Forces
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of man. For the first time, the Spiritual is preparing to become a
destiny of the Angeloi that we first perceive how this great
Powers. Here in this region, they are first able to make their

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the (first) Goetheanum at Dornach, which is said to be quite
this, we shall at first be filled with a certain sadness; but the

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foreseen in this domain. Let us take first of all a single point.
as is indicated in my first and second Mystery Plays, and we shall
you have been created, when you entered upon your first

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first two lectures constitute a critical examination of the principles
greatest danger begins. The matter is dangerous first, because
The first is called the extroverted type, the other the
introverted. The first would be the feeling man, the
subconsciousnesses: first the individual
the personal or individual subconsciousness. This is the first

Title: Psychoanalysis: Lecture II: Anthroposophy and Psychoanalysis II
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first two lectures constitute a critical examination of the principles
another. First of all I wish to call to your attention
human being is in connection first with the world of the
that Dessoir thus strangely reveals himself. I said at first:
lecturers, and speaking in the first person. It would be
at the same time “Steiner's first book, the
to earth. Richard Wagner, born in 1813, took at first no part
first period.

Title: Reappearance/Christ: Lecture XI: Individual Spirit Beings and the Undivided Foundation of the World: Part 2
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In the first Mystery Drama that I have written, you find what is so
post-Atlantean period. This man first asked the factory owners if

Title: Reappearance/Christ: Lecture XII: Individual Spirit Beings and the Undivided Foundation of the World: Part 3
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that will work on outer electric and magnetic forces. The first
First of all, it was necessary that a certain knowledge should recede
was necessary that certain things appear first in abstract form and
spoke about this in my first Basel lecture, saying that the science

Title: Influences of Lucifer/Ahriman: Lecture One: The Incarnation of Lucifer in Asia in the Third Millenium B.C.
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after the end of the First World War and in the midst of trying to effect
enacted among human beings, was understood at first by the only means

Title: Lucifer and Ahriman: Lecture I: The Incarnation of Lucifer in Asia in the Third Millenium B.C.
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after the end of the First World War and in the midst of trying to effect
men, was understood at first by the only means then

Title: Influences of Lucifer/Ahriman: Lecture Two: The Advance Preparation of Ahriman for His Future Incarnation
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after the end of the First World War and in the midst of trying to effect
first verses of the Gospel of St. John, you will realize what little
first I thought that the attendance would be insignificant in

Title: Lucifer and Ahriman: Lecture II: The Advance Preparation of Ahriman for His Future Incarnation
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after the end of the First World War and in the midst of trying to effect
you of these first verses of the Gospel of St. John, you will
religious teaching apart from any denomination. At first I

Title: Influences of Lucifer/Ahriman: Lecture Five: The Human as a Being of Will
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after the end of the First World War and in the midst of trying to effect
the latter first.
knowledge, were to look at the figures and say: First figure, second
second the effect of the first. Effect of the first figure — a
who associates what comes first with what follows, as if the one were

Title: Lucifer and Ahriman: Lecture V: The Human as a Being of Will
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after the end of the First World War and in the midst of trying to effect
being of will. We shall deal with the latter first.
were to look at the figures and say: First figure, second
and the second the effect of the first. Effect of the first
creature who associates what comes first with what follows,

Title: Influences of Lucifer/Ahriman: Lecture Four: The Luciferic Origin of Ancient Wisdom, Ahrimanization...
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after the end of the First World War and in the midst of trying to effect
first impulse toward the rigidification of the earth would emanate
companion of human beings, leading them, first away from the battle

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after the end of the First World War and in the midst of trying to effect
this lack of enthusiasm were to persist, the first impulse
of men, leading them, first, away from the battle with

Title: Lecture: Mission of Michael: Lecture I: The Power and Mission of Michael
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that we stand within a cosmic evolution. First, you know that this
We must carefully discriminate between two things. The first is the
Yet let me first build a still firmer basis through certain other

Title: Lecture: Mission of Michael: Lecture II: The Michael revelation.
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today covers up reality, we must first establish this reality. This we
organic, the material, must first be broken down, must first be
at first come to man only in a kind of unconscious clairvoyance or,
evolution? Through this event, Earth evolution first received
occupies a unique position in the evolution of humanity. The first
first of all, the great error must be corrected which has preceded the
first millennium but which can be known in the Gospel of the second;
The Word becoming flesh is the first Michael revelation; the flesh

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Mankind's evolution was, in the first place, an ascending one; then it
with 104 photographs of the first Goetheanum.] When I developed the
forms for the capitals, I had to show the first, second, and third
delusion, maintained that there are, first, simple beings, as
We have thus indicated two things toward which we must strive. First,
of fermentation which first, have brought Europe to the brink of the

Title: Lecture: Mission of Michael: Lecture IV: The Culture of the Mysteries and the Michael Impulse.
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pupils has remained and has become historical, first, in Greek
remember in ordinary life? That which he first has thought.
earth life. For we must first have thought about that which we are to
real takes place there. This first inner experience, which is still
first is our conceptual consciousness in which we live every
first does not seem to be permeated by anything.
This is the first thing we have to hold fast: atheism is a disease.

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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man prevailed also in the times to which the first historical
three times. First, Creusa; through this marriage he acquired the
Dragon, we have to visualize, first, the Michael Being, and, secondly,
three-fold social order they are appealed to for the first time.

Title: Lecture: Mission of Michael: Lecture VI: The Ancient Yoga Culture and the New Yoga Will.
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The first indications of this we find toward the fifth and fourth
appears which is closer to our own world conception. There the first
Mystery of Golgotha occurred in the first third of this period, and it
mankind must first become mature in order to comprehend it. At the
asked, when the construction of the first railroad from Fuerth to

Title: Social Forms: Lecture I: The Waldorf School, Spiritual Science, Outer World, Inner World
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many friends who are here in Dornach for the first time. They
included the ending of the first academic year of the Waldorf
high standards for it, the completion of the first school
first year, I always had the opportunity to observe the
Now, when we ended the first year something happened that
psychology. At the end of the first school year, the teachers
Already in the course of the first school year, the teachers
first school year. We carefully studied what was causing
progress of a class, and already in the course of the first
course of the first school year, a spiritual system of
the first year, many children from the outside, who were
the first place, only an external phenomenon. Yet this idea
working in the way it did during the first seven years, then

Title: Social Forms: Lecture II: Materialism, Party Line
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with the nature of the programs, because he first has to
must do things by its knowledge. Hence, first of all, the

Title: Social Forms: Lecture III: Man's Twelve Senses in Relation to Imagination, Inspiration, Intuition
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sensory organization of man. First of all, we wish today to
sense of sight. First, we will consider its nature in an

Title: Social Forms: Lecture IV: World Events, Initiation Knowledge and the Impulse toward Freedom
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plan to discuss it in greater detail at the first
done for two reasons. First, because all that has come down
individual persons in the first place. The ancient initiate
through much else, but it cannot be proclaimed from the first
first place. I have described the latter to you in my last
first comprehends some preliminary concepts such as those of

Title: Social Forms: Lecture V: Forming Sound Judgment
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concerning the formation of a social opinion. First of all, I
something entirely different. First, however, we shall try to
truth, we must be capable, first of all, of having a feeling,
biggest of egotists. This is why the first requirement on the
Perhaps a first

Title: Social Forms: Lecture VI: New Social Forms, Soul, Material World
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inward, we have first of all the content of our world of
ego and astral body first penetrate his etheric being and

Title: Social Forms: Lecture VII: Trends of Souls in People of the East, West, and Middle of Europe
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various regions of the world. There is, first of all, the
thoughts first connect themselves by means of one thought
disemboweled. He first empties the human being of everything
element of the earth — if it first eliminates in
that they were those which, first of all, were capable of
everything else is deduced by first proving that external
first place, simply has adopted the economic life from the

Title: Social Forms: Lecture VIII: East, Middle, West
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consumed spirit becomes matter first within us. Yet,
himself. It appears at first in a caricatured form, which I

Title: Social Forms: Lecture IX: Hegel
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personality of Johann Gottlieb Fichte, he made his first
first sizable independent work, his
first announced itself in the lofty regions of philosophy.
course in the cold, icy realm of what at first seem to be
— which, however, had first to be rescued from
downhill. Here is a small indication of it. But first, I must
first mention of the martyrdom inflicted on Haeckel during
one of Plate's first official acts was to demand that

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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awake, we are, in the first place, surrounded by the outer
at this point. What establishes itself there is, first of
towards him, this organic structure is first discovered,
does signifies something that surpasses what he can first

Title: Social Forms: Lecture XI: Man as a Mediator of the Spiritual Beings of the Cosmos
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I first sought to show how man stands externally in the
first be warmed by man; it gives the impression of warmth. It
was the foundation of Nietzsche's first world conception. He
spiritual scientific directive forces first be required, if
Therefore, one should really say, “First of all, get a
by translator: Reference to the First Goetheanum.

Title: Social Forms: Lecture XII: The Members of the Human Being and their Relationship with the Social Organism
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Western economic thinking. Here, for the first time, mankind
the same time the basic forces of the social life. The first
the first to the seventh year; from the seventh to the
independent judgment from the fourteenth to the twenty-first
development. Huxley, however, stops short at the first; he is
and the state. This is why, at first, the life of the state

Title: Social Forms: Lecture XIII: The Interrelationship between the Human and the Social Organism
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etheric body, astral body and ego. Then, however, he first
incarnations that we trace in the first place. You also know
these tendencies, but it strives to do so. One of the first
realities and in turn react upon the human being. First, he
first of all, upon the cosmos. This is a most important
disappearing; instead, what is at first a thought content,

Title: Social Forms: Lecture XIV: The Connection of the Members of Man with the Kingdoms of Nature, the Necessity of the Threefold Order
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at first, by way of Greek thinking, and then quite strongly

Title: Social Forms: Lecture XV: The Great Cosmic Signs in the Universe
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organized, in the first place, in the direction of his
they will have experienced following their first impression

Title: Social Forms: Lecture XVI: Changes in the Meaning of Speech, -or- Dreams and Human Development
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must necessarily take place in our whole civilization. First
the first sentence indicates the matter from one side, the
something that is alien to the child; a letter should first
describe such things, for, in the first place, people do not
do this in the first place by permeating our culture once
Mystery of Golgotha is in fact the first test for us to see
the first to the next life. So he says: “Of course, the

Title: Poetry/Speech: Lecture I: The Art of Recitation and Declamation
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Scene from my first Mystery Play, The Portal of Initiation.
As a second example, we will present the first
his first period of residence in
of his initial enthusiasm and first understanding – a
reveal themselves, we will now present the first monologue from the
And we shall then present the first monologue from the Roman
concealed, yet ever I feel myself a stranger as at first. For still
flock to his father’s distant halls, where first he beheld
As when I trod it first, nor ever
conceal’d, still, as at first,
Where first to him

Title: Poetry/Speech: Lecture II: The Art of Recitation and Declamation
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many a marvel told.” What is referred to in the first
First heard before the shallow Cuckoo's
Let us look first
First, let us look at the rhythmic system. In
remarkable way. In the first place, we have the breathing-rhythm.

Title: Poetry/Speech: Lecture III: The Art of Recitation and Declamation
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passage is an extract from the “First Eclogues” in Book
characteristic effects of assonance in English poetry. The first is
First mid his
We see how in the first poem with
first adjust the physical with clumsy techniques that will rein our

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first will becomes thought later on. If we look at ourselves as human
Universe from the outside ... we now do the opposite. First we had

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This second world, if one recognizes the first as given only to
pointed out to you that we see around us, first of all, the world of
And in darkness we have to seek on the first plane of the psychic that
futures, and then what now is laid in us as the first seed, will shine
first has its practical side, though man today scarcely realizes it.
sensible of weight. Do not be surprised if this at first seems
live in the earth-weight. But first he passes through the sphere of

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curious tendency of our materialistic times first to move away from
Now, in the first
the first part of our programme – a performance of
or to a slower one. The first, the more rapid delivery, always
or lowering of the pitch. The first is connected with the
direct expression of the eternal. Novalis, after his first love had
veil of truth: but the soul must first become immediately aware of

Title: Curative Eurythmy: Lecture 1
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These lectures "present the first seeds of a curative eurythmy." Though
afternoon hours I wish to present the first seeds of a curative eurythmy.
we will develop into definite forms in the days following. First of
persists in mixing the two will first of all ruin his artistic ability
first of all gain a certain understanding of the human larynx. We will
of our exercises relating to it. But the first thing which we must obtain
If you take the larynx first of all as an upwards directed extension
and for that he must have your guidance — he moves first the left
becomes the more conscious. The child must be aware: that is the first
and was the first. Throughout the entire exercise the consciousness
must prevail: that was the first and remains the first; it began with
education. One forms the “A” so that the child knows: first
that first the right leg is placed in front and the left leg brought
aware: on one occasion the left arm was the first, on the other the
right arm was the first.

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These lectures "present the first seeds of a curative eurythmy." Though
horizontal. Now we go back and, if you had the right forward at first,
“I”-exercise as it was first demonstrated and described
rear; that you need to do only once, but return first (to the rest
first as children often react to taking medicine: with resistance. They
he crosses over first with one leg, then with the other, so that he
consonant, first with the right hand, now with the left, but taking
sounds first the strong Ahrimanic being in “S”, whose sting
“M”. Make the “H” first and let it carry

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These lectures "present the first seeds of a curative eurythmy." Though
and show us first of all the movement for “H”. Now please
is a false evolution as well, as you know. The A was the first sound
first in growth, in the forming of man, in his configuration, become

Title: Curative Eurythmy: Lecture 4
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These lectures "present the first seeds of a curative eurythmy." Though
the limb-metabolic system. Naturally the first thing we must do today
— thus from the other side of that comprised in the first digestive
knock-knees. That is what must be carried out. Our first concern is
civilization that first made a barbarism out of gymnastics. In the manner

Title: Curative Eurythmy: Lecture 5
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These lectures "present the first seeds of a curative eurythmy." Though
would be the first symptom reached and what is introduced into the whole
through the etheric body, one will find that one will first have to begin

Title: Curative Eurythmy: Lecture 6
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These lectures "present the first seeds of a curative eurythmy." Though
consideration physiologically. That is the first matter of importance.
first instance as curative eurythmy; nevertheless, in the moment a person

Title: Curative Eurythmy: Lecture 7
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These lectures "present the first seeds of a curative eurythmy." Though
First
the first illustration and to the chart which follows).
or another in general, but should first observe what is to be done.

Title: Colour: Part One: Colour-Experience (Erlebnis)
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the first place, Art is not allowed to decide anything at all about
first we will introduce red; into the second, peach-blossom colour;
the first place, and in it we paint red figures. Whether we give them
immaterial. In the first example we paint red figures; in the second,
the first we shall say: These red figures in the green meadow enliven
first place find a being to which blue is peculiar as green is to the
proceed first of all to the light colours; we shall, however, progress
certain relationship to light. At first this remains a feeling. It
that we are led by white first of all to light as such. In order fully
special relation. We will therefore first of all exclude true white.
lives in light and colour must first be grasped as feeling — if we

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But you will notice one must first understand colours in their fleeting

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Now let us recall how we first got the pictorial character of the
first four colours we dealt with. We saw that we there have a property
fluid. So that what we call plants first appeared during the formation
plants a conjunction of solar and lunar forces, we then have the first
first has image-character in its colour. So we have to ask generally:
plant-life, it must appear as luster-image. We first paint the image,
that colour first irradiates the earth as light from the Cosmo; and
at all without first lifting it into the region of the soul. For it is
includes in its diagrammatic lines, must come out. There should first

Title: Psychoanalysis: Lecture V: Connections Between Organic Processes and the Mental Life of Man
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first two lectures constitute a critical examination of the principles
a first result we realize the absolute folly of speaking of
spiritualized, our inner perception is, first of all, more and
say: The ego is more cosmic in the first half, up to the
brought about. The ego between death and rebirth goes first
That must be understood as follows: Let us proceed first from
be first expressed by analogies; yet they are not mere
earth-life first, but then continue into other metamorphoses.

Title: Old/New Methods: Lecture One: Ahrimanic and Luciferic, Human Body, Soul, Spirit
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In life here on earth the being of man expresses itself in the first

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first to what appears now in the civilizations of the West, we
of God is greeted by visitors as they arrive. Everywhere the first
in their solitary souls, are led to Christ Jesus: the first beginning
mingles with something that appears at first utterly devoid of

Title: Old/New Methods: Lecture Three: The Development of Religious Experience in Post-Atlantean Civilization
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evolution of civilization, then we shall find the first decisive period
man. But then progress in human evolution first caused the most
first Indian age paled. First of all what paled was the feeling of
extent, but it had paled. In the first post-Atlantean epoch this
spiritual realm in a more active manner than had at first been the
case. So we might say: The first post-Atlantean period was the most
speak in the first instance of the earthly realm. This earthly realm
this is only right and proper. In the preceding epochs, in the first,
necessary to say that today we are only in the very first, most
towards the first concrete statements that come from the spiritual
the first post-Atlantean period had existed unwritten, something

Title: Old/New Methods: Lecture Six: Methods of Initiation, Old and New - 1
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evolution. As I have often said, cultural life since the first third
has occurred since birth is first conjured up. This is then

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this is, in the first instance, what is important for the
must first transform themselves before they can undertake such tasks
first time. Nevertheless, it is felt to be something which has been
the first step on the path towards higher knowledge; it is the first
first person that second one develops, capable now of thinking
into him. In taking this first upward step towards higher knowledge
the embryo, at first that of the head, the element of spirit and soul
take a firmer hold of what we develop — at first in a weak way
evolution in recent times depends, firstly, on our developing our
first noticed him to the moment when he disappeared from view. You
matters are not attended to first then, naturally enough, there is no

Title: Old/New Methods: Lecture Eight: The Passage of the Human Soul and Spirit through the Physical Sense-Organization
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sense-perceptible physical organism. We shall look first at how this
First of
this. First of all it is definitely true to say that the being who is
into ourselves, the first thing we see is the feeling of self. This

Title: Old/New Methods: Lecture Nine: The Threefold Human, Reincarnation, Heathens, Jews, Christians, Calderon
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look first at the head organization which is chiefly, though not
images. This is very clever, especially as it is the first time in
in the first instance, a person who lives in natural things and
— we find first in Lessing
and in the drama of Helena we are shown first how Christianity is

Title: Old/New Methods: Lecture Ten: The Threefold Human, Four Elements, Imagination, Inspiration, Intuition
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in three stages. The first stage leads us back
for he could not find it in the cultural life that at first presented
transformed — first into Imaginations, and then the
in the seventh scene of my first Mystery Drama.
incarnation. This is the first thing. Then come the even more
of man. First he tried by way of anatomy and physiology. Then in the
spiritual realm here on earth. First you must die and go through the
organic existence, first drives out the soul with rigid persistence.’
with three things in his essay. Firstly he says that the countries

Title: Old/New Methods: Lecture Eleven: Faust and Hamlet in Relation to the Turning Point of the 15th Century
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first being much noticed externally is shown by another example
what took place in the civilized world around the first third of the
cultural context. But first let us look at Faust himself as an
First of
perfectly clear to Goethe. First he presents Faust as the scholar who
early scenes, how he first made an honest woman of Gretchen by
Schiller he first met what he had to revolt against. It came out of

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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was taken very much amiss. On the very first pages I
towards the faculty of Imagination. Schiller was at first nowhere
First
needs Schiller, in order to place Faust — whom he first

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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crucial it was for the whole of Parzival's development that he first
abstract concepts — which is what was naturally done at first.

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that at the first attempt it proved impossible to find full humanity
First it had to be made possible to secure freedom for human
inner effort and struggle was first attempted. But this can only be
is, in the first instance, not the point. The point is that today's
was revealed in the fact that the performers first gave a rendering

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we first focus on the mediating member of man, man's speaking,
one first acquires imagination, imaginative cognition. Meanwhile, one
and he lives in each tone. This is already the case the very first

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first tone of the following octave. It is difficult to put into words
however — we should say today, prime in the first octave,

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The first picture is that of the disciples of Christ Jesus on the day
course in seven successive epochs, of which the first three are
recapitulations: the first, a recapitulation of the “Saturn”
that was first laid down in a germinal condition in the warmth-body of

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during the first epoch, that of ancient India. If we go back to the
the first post-Atlantean epoch, the ancient Indian time, the divine ego
cultural epoch that man first became an earth citizen. The conception of
an earth citizen. Now for the first time there arose the necessity to

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objects. But in doing so they deny the first and foremost attribute
(The report reads better than the original lectures.) This is the first
these colored sheets I carry out certain movements. First I cover the
working up out of the depths. At first it was Dionysus alone, then Dionysus

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path leading through this door, he must first attain, in his thoughts,
if its source is to be recognized, we must first become aware of the
Who possesses the first two not,
it, as demonstrated by the title of the first version: Geschichte
as his first sketch which would have remained a fragment. Take the second
first part of the trilogy, the first drama:
and of the first part of
life was still active at the end of the eighteenth, and during the first
Tieck reveals how the Goetheanism of the first half of the nineteenth

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that he was the first who had dared to stop sinning against nature;
various sciences. You see the misrelation between science and art. First
and dessert, poems were read which satirized this very research. First

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Let us first put the question to ourselves: is it an essential part of
When an animal sees a plant, his first feeling is not: that is
In order to realize what happens here, let us first start from what
Lavoisier; something more than a hundred years. Weight was first use
Giotto was the first to begin painting objects so that they have

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denotes the first entry of intellectualism. Wotan civilization felt as
were one whole, and how we must speak first of a departure of the Sun
the East, proceeding in the first place from Mysteries in the
was the bringer of what man drew forth from himself in the first
universe. This is the very first entry of intellectualism, the Wotan

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of the first hierarchy: Seraphim, Cherubim, Thrones. One would have
Such a union of the begins of the First Hierarchy did exist once upon
element was lost — that the First Hierarchy was responsible for
the Second Hierarchy over the solar existence; the First Hierarchy
something they first possessed, and preserved, and did not themselves
behind warmth of fire is the First Hierarchy, behind light and air is
first Act. The second begins then with the school of Kant!~ Here
perspicacious! Naturally, if you have removed the man first, you can

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(A drawing is made on the blackboard). We have, first, the Earth;
we must first discover — what it is in the Cosmos that betrays the
At first contact, we see
in the first place his physical organisation: then in addition he has
sentences of the first paragraph should read as follows (changed words
Let us now imagine first
concept, in the fiery tongues of Pentecost. At first they felt the
at the first Whitsun Festival something shone forth from each one of the

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the first volume of the book is now available. One who lets
this first volume work upon him finds a strict
could have felt it for twenty years. For one of my first
discovered anything else. For in the first place, with the
post-Atlantean epoch, we must first create a seed.
to understand which one must first enhance his powers.
judgment must first be fetched out of the subconscious depths

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some time ago the first volume of Spengler's Decline
However, when the first volume appeared, it was possible to
to understand a sentence written down on paper without first
the time of Galileo and Copernicus. It shows first that man can
Therefore, the first task confronting one who wishes to speak
grasped at first in its abstractness, leads to utter
first, that he begins with the plant, and in his concepts
plant-world “sleeping”; that represents first of
let us read the first sentences on page 9: “A plant leads
“The thrusting of the first green spears out of the
if the writer first prepares himself to that end through
no awakening, no first day, spreads a sense-world around
like a tumbler, first stand on his head and then turn over, in
speaks scientifically, will ask first of all how the blood
first created inside the human being himself. The flow of the
and deposed only by blood. Life is the first and last, the

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first really to become aware of this utter lack of
the first half of the Middle Ages — when
about that these elementals — who in the first place

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is already a first indication of what perhaps will occur in the
today one visits those countries which have the first
read school programs whose first principle is the abolition of
After puberty, between the fourteenth and twenty-first years,
matters in the way I have characterized. There must first arise
first have to be broken, otherwise there will be no salvation

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twenty-first year, and that this knowledge must lie behind
earth, the life after death. In the first period of the
that Christianity first eradicated from human feeling the
love is developed in the right way up to the twenty-first year.
come, but at first of course only in limited numbers.

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of the first objections I met with in Germany was that people

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see everything first, and then form his own inner concepts
us is, first, a man of nerves and senses; popularly expressed
first cry, as his soul in such miraculous fashion permeates the
grown, disclose? He is stunted. He puts his feet, heels first,

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practices diminished. In the first post-Atlantean epoch a deep
that have to be carried out in the first childhood years. Man
must keep in mind, first, the metamorphosis of humanity since

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friends, first at what thus appears as the lifeless in the
itself as something contained within itself. We are, at first,
universe. The sun must first advance to a certain position in
complicated way, there are many who represent the first
out of this little chaos, which exists there at first as an
the first place, considered the human kingdom in so far as the

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this advance then brings us, first of all, to the point of
first disregarding the liquid-filled vessel — weighing
opposition to this force of gravity. The brain organ has first
again, is connected — although in the first place only
the foregoing it is evident that our glance must first fall
first world was the world upon which we really feel no
must first develop the sympathy or antipathy for this trait of
say: First constituent of karma — inner comfort, or
first to be experienced by us which was connected with many
duration of life, they meet each other for the first time in
this realm the beings of the first Hierarchy are active, the
a power is needed which is inherent in the first Hierarchy,
First Constituent of Karma — Comfort,
of the first Hierarchy, Seraphim, Cherubim, and Thrones. These
is the concern of the first, the most exalted Hierarchy of
receives him. He must first die in order that he be, as a

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the word freedom. Let us first, in a very crude
far as the Egyptian period, from the third on up into the first
karmic necessity, then it is a fact, in the first place, that

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there are human beings who, in the first place, do not attain
our soul is, in the first place, a kind of mental
the first third of the fifteenth century we have been in the
it so? I can assure you, this question which, in the first

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the first place, between those karmic events of life which come
qualities, people inquire first about
Naturally, they say in the first place that he is the child of
only exchanges his first teeth for others, but this is also the
organization — is renewed for the first time. There is a
nevertheless, make the following assertion: The first teeth
age, the concepts must be provided again in order, first, to
needs a model, that model which grows during the first seven
body in the first seven years of life is simply a model to
model during the first seven years of life that which will
off, so to speak, falls away, just as the first teeth fall out.
earth. That causes a battle during the first seven years of
not succeed very well in overcoming the model during the first
environment. The first body is, actually, only a model. That
becomes an ethical, a soul relationship. Only in the first
becoming, so that certain things may also appear for the first
first place, when we examine the case more exactly, it appears

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human embryo. The first thing we can see developing in the body
first period of the embryonic existence, activities proceeding
is, so to speak, appendage-organ. Since that which at first was
being. All that which actually constitutes his first form
return again to the first, and so on. In other words, there
which is a continuation of the first visualization — what
by looking inward, you visualize the blue. The first
sphere the beings of the first Hierarchy are active —
highest. With the first Hierarchy, with the Seraphim, Cherubim,
our earth life within this, our first unconscious region.
first Hierarchy, Cherubim, Seraphim, and Thrones. As
appear in our next earth life, the beings of the first
deeds on earth. The will belongs to the first Hierarchy. Be
first Hierarchy — Seraphim, Cherubim, Thrones —
for all that is evil, the beings of the first Hierarchy must
shape the corresponding counterparts. Among the first
those of the first Hierarchy, had to experience as the
first of all, the forming of divine deeds, the consequences of
Gods of the first Hierarchy — as a consequence of my
beings of the first Hierarchy, Seraphim, Cherubim, and Thrones

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conclusions about human life itself. I will first mention certain
self-knowledge during the first half of life) — in
balance, not in absolutely fixed conditions. This is what can first
for them, we have said: The Earth was first incorporated as Saturn,
concretely, when as individual human beings, who first crawl on
at the time — in the first half of life Luciferic forces work
our dozing through the first half of life and the terrible
Nevertheless man sways between these two illusions. First,
The first is the Luciferic illusion; the other, the Ahrimanic.

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Lemurian age a certain strength is there which first grows, then
Thales is to a certain extent the first to take his stand solely upon
waking they first caught sight of the sun. They did not talk merely
outlook of the first Roman Emperors, the Julians, of whom the very
first, Augustus, was the only one to be initiated, though in a rather
has come about. You know that during the first half of life a man is
during the first half of life; in the second half of life this
first to go through death, had to live in the spiritual world until
supersensible cognition. For the first actual teachers of

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we shall need them as a connecting link. First, I said that the
— at first only as a question which should receive an answer by
as a question. I have tried to describe him, first as a free,
certainly are not at first glance intelligible, for Tertullian is not
them first together with his complete awareness of the inter-working
phenomena in the life of mankind are, first, the phenomenon

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a way that its significance could not at first be grasped by the
possible in accordance with the facts; let us first pay attention to
epochs just described. In the second and in the first post-Atlantean
unintelligible to those who are not versed in it — they first

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known — to strive to reach for the first lime through
(whose works might otherwise have been completely lost) had first
over again, first: How can this evolution of the Consciousness Soul
first, the nature of birth and death. We have said a good deal about
[The first Goetheanum, subsequently destroyed by fire.]
be small at first but would act upon each other so that they
other directions at the same time. Men will have first to
first point, with knowledge of the mysteries of birth and death.
will first come to experience a certain maturity; they
of what is meant by this first point, realises the following, which I

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sides for later people to contemplate. At first he is quite independent
Augustus, the first Roman Emperor.
above all of a twofold nature. First, there was the wish to preserve
first to be developed was the Sentient Soul; its evolution came to an
and you will find it brought out in the first of my Mystery Plays,
Thus to-day, in the first third of the twentieth century, we are
reaching them before the first third of the twentieth century has run

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distributed among three spheres, the first of which I
gradually to achieve for the first sphere of the social order
the statement that the first necessity in developing the
acquaint yourselves with two things. First, with the peculiar
— and consciousness must, indeed, first awaken in the
something that is working in our own epoch for the first
a form suited for that time. The first part contained what I
indeed, but to carry out the first point you make would lead
my very first point. Naturally, the first point did not read,
came to realize for the first time on August 8th, 1918, that

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must conclude that its first endeavor aims at the destruction
this objective in various ways. First, it aims at the removal
It is really necessary that we fix our attention, first in
first investigate whether things really are so.” No;

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this appeared first in the fifteenth century of the Christian
Christian era, in which the demand was first made to see the
for the first time, he develops a threefold instinct to have
have mentioned to you, that is, firstly, a spiritual sphere,
epoch demands for the first time this economic sphere in
always make the mistake already pointed out in the first
to convince them first that there are such secret
in the second epoch, not to mention the first or others still
in their very first beginning, will be threefold in their
the following way. First, there are the capacities having to
first command is given for German mobilization, which cannot
Russian general mobilization constitutes the first impetus.
he learned first at the actual time of mobilization. Such
Kaltenbrunner to whom the application .had first to be

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things are easy for us. First of all, we are simply sleeping.
other person. The first inclination in the subconsciousness
must, first of all, continually oppose this untrue sentiment.

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expression goes, he first beheld the light of the world, when
Testament evolution: first, the harmonizing Jehovah wisdom in
nineteenth century was it really necessary for the first time
the first true activation of the Christ impulse: healing.
eliminated. All such things enter into manifestation at first
was the first elevation of the human being to the conceptual
confront for the first time what is working in the whole

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revolution was soon set aside in the very first stages of the
Russian conditions. The first great difficulty is that the
proletariat will at first take over the leadership as a
not necessary first to elect; those who are to lead are there
At first, this
groups as sabotage. Their first struggle was to overcome this
officials as sabotage. At first their most intensely applied
instance, sees in this the first great difficulty. This is
decisive. First, politics, which must provide security.
must first develop these potentialities within himself, but
existed first and that the imperfect comes into existence
through decadence. In other words, that man existed first and
first be expected of the Russians in the crassest form, in
First, it is necessary to achieve an insight into reality;
bridge.” He knows that he must first gain a knowledge

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Today I want first of all to point out one thing. You know that about
present time, after the great world catastrophe [the First World War],
who followed these first lectures of mine, but in many of them I drew
cognition which have first to be drawn from the depths of human
extricated himself as follows: “First, let me say that a
the first attack, in which he mentions, I think, twenty-three lies.

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last Sunday, and I should like first to go back to the few words I
be clear about this first, and then to see it in relation to the fact
first place striving for political power; second — pride,
Order. And among the first ‘foreign’ Jesuits to teach
his first sermon then said that the Rules of the Order forbade

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first given to man is the physical-sensible world, and he makes use
lives, of pre-existence, which Aristotle was clearly the first to
In the first decade of the Twentieth Century a Papal Encyclical was
first cycles given into the hands of the Catholic clergy was that

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I should like, first of all, to speak to
does the first. But this is not the case. Up to the point
where the thirst is quenched, the first glass of water passes
first. It does not go through the complicated ways of the
first, and in the case of the second glass of water, what
really for the first time, you can picture the human being,
impulses of the ego organization take hold, first of all, of
being cut away from the tree and the first generation of

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really seems, at first, as if the ego organization had no
first, of the process of nourishment. This process of

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have said many times that the first period of life, the

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were, a first course which would take at least a year and
It has come firstly, from earlier incarnations, secondly,
fertilization. It unites, first, with the etheric body which
the etheric body first unites with the physical organization
will understand that a first, exoteric course of medical
good thing to look, first of all, at the plant world —
first rudiments and then all that follows flow through his
the plant gives off its scent. That is the first thing.
During the first seven years of life particularly, the forces
that the powers of the soul must first be quickened in order

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yesterday. A first category of questions has arisen out of a
can, in the first place, be given by me, but having received
Let us first
soil if the soil of the earth had not first come under the
that he must remain outside of. Let us first take this
you, my dear friends, in the first place, in order that you
Madonna we must first be able to enter into the aims of
but this is the first: we must try to enter into the
as follows: First of all you can deepen yourselves in

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abstract description of the ethers we give the first place to

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We will spend the first part of the time
about the sun; think that the sun warms your head first, and
direct relationships. In the first place, even though they
times by the indirect way of passing first to the moon and
existence, he needs the heart forces; when he first begins to
of the world which he must first love. He must acquire a
should be as I have said: A first course for medical students

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First of all, there must be the unconquerable will that karma
first place, is what I have already said on this subject. The
that we must first acquire the ideas that are needed in the
lines merely express the opposite of the first two. That
the first and second years and help to master things if, as
happen first is that these things shall be continued with

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the esoteric things were given at the first gathering, one or
you have received the first circular letter and you will have
the outside world we must say to ourselves first of all: What
The physical body of the first seven years — if we
too, but this body has not been produced from the first by
substance which he takes into his body in the first seven
first seven years of life. His inherent tendency would be to
evolution is spoken of. At first there is a Saturn evolution,
In the first
appear you can see how they push up against the first, how
the whole second man has tussles with the first. But within
the second man there is the super-earthly being; in the first
taken in must, in the first place, be taken in by the child
is independent as is the case during the first seven years of
like the i, so I will put that first, I like the

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being given in the First Class — that with these
by means of equisetum arvense. Here for the first
will realize this for the first time when you begin to
to make a sculptor, let us say, learn first of all about the
himself says, and that is unreliable. The first cause is the

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I should like first to say a few words about the verse I
importance only in the very first years of childhood, up to
was first outside and is then within him. It is not so. These
food. In the first place, vegetable protein has heaviness; in
because, in the first place, the moon circles round the
The first two lines of the verse, therefore, should help you
of Light is shining into the world and its first rays must be

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European, Western civilization. We see for the first time how
mode of thinking. Those who have read the first course of
these lectures you will have learned that there is, firstly,
shall have a science of fever for the first time when we make
First of all,
the model as the second human body in contrast to the first
organization of limbs and metabolism is added for the first

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days. It is not well to give the general truths first but
during childhood. You must try to make both the first and
the first instance you let the picture of the embryonic
back into the age of maturity. Whereas the first picture of
forth from within. Thereby the first step is taken towards
can indicate the remedies — which in the first place,

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happens first if one is in the habit of thinking in a

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are true, that first everything was astir with life, then
pictured it first and foremost as a Spirit-Being. Those who

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a seed, a germinating entity which, first and foremost, is

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think. But when we formulate them in words they appear, at first,
man today. The first presents itself to man's soul when he contemplates
question and it arises from the first.
In the first place, he looks back upon this inner being of his, and
from the stars. They saw the human soul vanish at death — at first

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perceived — at first — in the same way as the external,
between the human physical body and Nature. In the first place, the
human organism that is, at first, similar to external nature and, on
that we must first discover.
At first
at first, you perceive an etheric image; likewise if you confront a
this to yourselves: The chalk is, at first, there. My hand now takes
I may say: I have first my physical body (oval),
at first. And we understand, too, why cosmic riddles present themselves
so to speak, to what is put forward — in the first place —

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a person must first be initiated himself in order to understand what the
however, really belongs in the first place to his physical, or at most
in the first place, the moon. The physicist knows nothing about the
these depths that — in the first place — destiny is woven.
direct, first-hand knowledge of these things. He can study his destiny
of people on first meeting them, there is certainly a karmic connection

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the first lecture of this series I drew your attention to the heart's real,
at first, to discover anything in the external world except laws of
them before us: first riddle, second riddle, etc. Indeed, such people
impulse is one of goodwill. At first this is really experienced entirely
has taken since the first third of the fifteenth century magnificent
is connected with our ‘first’ or physical man. In just the
of our first (physical) body in relation to its physical environment.
I have described we come, at first, to feel this inward touching of the
At first the spiritual approaches you from the outermost part of the
now a right to speak, from our own experience, of a first or physical
at first, to distinguish in man:

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objects around us as the first stage of cognition.
to make it a cognitive force. One must first have attained ‘empty
large wound and hurts all over. One must first undergo this experience;
first learn to love without any trace of egotism. It would be a terrible
Here the connection between the moral and the physical is first found.

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the facts before us. In the waking man there is, first, the inner
we prefer first to study how they actually appear to higher
we know that the first and most essential activity of the astral
in the exhaled air; it is a felt outer world, that we have at first.
Now man's first experience, immediately after death, is of everything
upon me during my life. At first I see it life-size, as when it made
stand in the universe and say to ourselves, as we consider, first of
world that, on external observation, repulsed us at first. Anthroposophical

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first. This attitude is certainly justified; the sober-minded man does
can distinguish two different kinds of dreams. The first conjures pictures
first kind of dreams, studying the special kind of pictures contained,
if we start from here and examine dreams of this (first) type, we find
activity of the ego within human life very strongly resembles the first
dreams of the first kind to the human ego. Now we learnt in the last
The first kind of dream is an activity of the ego outside the physical
imaginative experience when first acquired through soul exercises. We
Well, we can go still further. Take the dream pictures of the first
these imaginations one can only place dream experiences of the first kind,

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before death are the first to come before us, and so backwards through
life. We first become aware of what our last evil or good deeds signify

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were being received by the universe. What is at first comprised within
becoming so faint that we can scarcely decipher what we first saw plainly.
— in the first few days after death. It is the phase which we
first days after death do we have these pictures of our life before us.
when the physical body has been laid aside. Man must first accustom
with this. At first he experiences continually burning thirst for what
my dear friends, is the third phase of memory. At first what we have
we have first to lose ourselves, in order to be given back to ourselves
life; for then — and even throughout the first years of life —
there immediately come before us, first, the souls of those who have
we first attained thereby our full reality as psycho-spiritual beings.
If we look into ourselves during earthly life, we find, at first, memories.
imagination of the artist draws. That is the first form of memory. Behind
‘structure’. First, we have the tapestry of memory; behind

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conclusions about human life itself. I will first mention certain
self-knowledge during the first half of life) — in
balance, not in absolutely fixed conditions. This is what can first
for them, we have said: The Earth was first incorporated as Saturn,
concretely, when as individual human beings, who first crawl on
at the time — in the first half of life Luciferic forces work
our dozing through the first half of life and the terrible
Nevertheless man sways between these two illusions. First,
The first is the Luciferic illusion; the other, the Ahrimanic.

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Lemurian age a certain strength is there which first grows, then
Thales is to a certain extent the first to take his stand solely upon
waking they first caught sight of the sun. They did not talk merely
outlook of the first Roman Emperors, the Julians, of whom the very
first, Augustus, was the only one to be initiated, though in a rather
has come about. You know that during the first half of life a man is
during the first half of life; in the second half of life this
first to go through death, had to live in the spiritual world until
super-sensible cognition. For the first actual teachers of

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we shall need them as a connecting link. First, I said that the
— at first only as a question which should receive an answer by
as a question. I have tried to describe him, first as a free,
certainly are not at first glance intelligible, for Tertullian is not
them first together with his complete awareness of the inter-working
phenomena in the life of mankind are, first, the phenomenon

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a way that its significance could not at first be grasped by the
possible in accordance with the facts; let us first pay attention to
epochs just described. In the second and in the first post-Atlantean
unintelligible to those who are not versed in it — they first

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known — to strive to reach for the first lime through
(whose works might otherwise have been completely lost) had first
over again, first: How can this evolution of the Consciousness Soul
first, the nature of birth and death. We have said a good deal about
[The first Goetheanum, subsequently destroyed by fire.]
be small at first but would act upon each other so that they
other directions at the same time. Men will have first to
first point, with knowledge of the mysteries of birth and death.
will first come to experience a certain maturity; they
of what is meant by this first point, realises the following, which I

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sides for later people to contemplate. At first he is quite independent
Augustus, the first Roman Emperor.
above all of a twofold nature. First, there was the wish to preserve
first to be developed was the Sentient Soul; its evolution came to an
and you will find it brought out in the first of my Mystery Plays,
Thus to-day, in the first third of the twentieth century, we are
reaching them before the first third of the twentieth century has run

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first problem can be put thus: Augustine strives to find the
Augustine lived, after all, at first a life of inner commotion,
the utmost pains to win him for Christianity. At first the son
look first at Manichaeism, a remarkable formula for overcoming
That was the first powerful influence on Augustine, and the
Manichaeism. At first Augustine was attracted, in a sense
Manichaeism. This was the first thing that developed so
“idea-world” is, first of all, completely a world
this fact there appear, for the first time, individual souls.
which Plotinus sought at first in the nature of the idea-world
impossible for this man who was first Adam to sin or not to be
the first of those who really feel the individual entity of
the first, in spite of anything it might do. But what man could

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first of all, as happens mostly in the history of philosophy,
the first centuries
truth in the view that these writings were first made in the
pictures the course of human evolution even in the first
the leading spiritual personalities in the first Christian
points of view, first from that of the soul's work
Plotinus says first of all to himself; if one considers a child
body. We could, therefore, say: at first we are concerned with
of remembering? First it is at work in the organism, and
all this influenced the manner of thought which was now first
there first appears to us really the universal, the generality
first in the inner conceptual form. So that Albertus and Thomas
One, for instance, is when he says: We can at first gain
the First Cause. It is inherent in logical thinking to
recognize God as a necessary First Being, as a necessary first
that which the Church ordains for belief be, first, understood,
now appeared Albertus and Thomas, and to them it appeared first

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Scholiasts had to deal first of all with human
the first stages of knowledge we are bound to make use of
Descartes, who lived at the opening or in the first half of the
have spoken in the first lecture, when he says: I can doubt
things we observe about Descartes. First, there is necessarily
yes, I think and I think first of all concerning myself and the
first the change of front which the course of time and nothing
psychic. Goethe makes the first step in the change of attitude in his
This divorce from Kantianism I have attempted first in my small book
idea-world which we have in us, we have first torn from

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amongst men in the course of human evolution does it first become
words: “We must be born twice; the first time through the
which through Christ Jesus first gives us the full consciousness of
Jesus was announced at the Christmas festival. First he was announced
born. And from that primeval holy wisdom which first

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Many things in human evolution may at first appear
years. I have told you how we look back upon the first post-atlantean
man. Let him realise that first of all he must seek Isis, in order
first Christian centuries, and who knew that the Mystery of
in the right spirit towards the ‘manger’ when we first
peace, a light that brings peace outside, only because first of all

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perceived, were faculties which at first developed in germinal form
in the human being and which manifested for the first time after
during the first period of earthly life, in the child. The
in the first stage of its withdrawal becomes the world which

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before man in the middle of the 19th century, first by Dupuis and
Musik und Theater Zeitung. The first article is based on the

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ego, what we see first is the human form; we know that we ourselves
earlier occasions I have enumerated them as follows: First, the
group of senses conveys to us in very varying ways. First, we have

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is concerned; these two regions are, first, the senses of taste and
B.C. Aristotle's compilation of abstract logic was the first milestone
senses just enumerated. Even if you do not at first admit it,
to designate as oriental culture what was first revealed through the
found in its first beginnings, what has to be more and more developed
Christianity in the first Christian centuries through the fusing of
Christian; it is Aristotelian. It first became a dogmatic fetter

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our organism with the world, first of all through the way the brain is
the second teeth. The first teeth, the so-called milk teeth, are
In fact, in the first and second teeth we have a kind of image

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In the first
soul and Spirit. But during the first phase of life the human

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first seven years of his life and his etheric body, or body
whole of the first half of Goethe's life he was striving to
that the Archai were the first Beings, already during the
Again, the Archai were the first Beings to withdraw from
to spiritual knowledge and then gradually, at first simply

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details. Today we shall first turn our attention to an event
experienced goes beyond the octave to the first tone of the

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Beings during this epoch, that is to say, the first centuries
belonging to Arabian culture, were the first to be influenced
emotional relationship which as you may gather from the first

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the natural foundation had first to be laid down in man, so
child must first develop his physical nature, must first lay
thoughts had first penetrated from outside into the whole
desire for freedom — inner freedom in the first place;

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from the fourteenth to the twenty-first year he develops his
In the first
follow the path taken by the first.
become free men; but we must first regulate our inner life of

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to the first, the ancient Indian civilization-epoch which was
first be proved.
physical human being. — That was the very first
Graeco-Latin epoch. This was the first postAtlantean
‘Zeus lives in me.’ The Greek was the first man
first died away. In all the three earlier post-Atlantean
for the first time in the Greek period, after the connection
In the first post-Atlantean epoch man felt himself to be the
in any case the calculation had first to be made. It was the
consciousness, man was first a divine Imagination, then a
our twenty-first and twenty-eighth years in the same way as
evolution of the human soul. The first trait to be observed
connection with the world — the first trait to be
ruining, in the first place, all vegetation.
Earth would, in the first place, lose cohesion. And if man

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Organismus. The first lecture is entitled, Materialism and Religion,
considered in this way. Certainly, in the first place man's being
theoretically to spirit knowledge — but also, firstly for the
soul-spiritual in the physical human being, if he has not first
In one of the first
this word, this sentence in one of my very first writings. For in
substance, and at first you must connect to something which at
first appears to be abstract, if you want to get behind what the

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published in German as, Heilfaktoren Fuer den Sozialen Organismus. The first
see at first the mere imaged abstract concepts that are
through and feels this through will only first properly sense the

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in the last two lectures. Firstly, it is a question of
first of all, it has to become clear to us how Anthroposophy is
early years of the first three or four centuries of Christian
had been destroyed. All that had to disappear first, and it did
thinking, because it is thought which first of all seeks to
comfortably dissect first a liver and next a brain.) One would

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experience of his inner life does not at first induce him
inner being, regions of which he has at first no conscious
There is a tendency in man to seek, at first, the deeper
pictures are involved in this process, first the picture
concepts we have at first no consciousness at all. We are
us in the first instance to the sense world. However, we take
us say I chop wood. First, I see the block of wood before me.
sense perceptions. First, I have a piece of wood of a certain

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of memory pictures wandering up again after having first
living soul. And this living soul content gives us the first
must first find where it is hidden. The images produced in
first chapter dealing with mental pictures but described in the
ordinary consciousness. It must first be drawn up from
these first two lectures I have attempted to show how, through

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have the first glimmer of something which as it further
the brain, we first find within it a condition of warmth,

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environment, bearing in mind what was said in the first
lecture of this course. The first thing that one notices in
first have the thought, the mental picture that we want to lift
arm. But what goes on in the organism after we first had the
When man looks within himself he becomes aware first of all
and its Attainment. The first to be attained is imaginative
Through imaginative cognition of the external world we first
direction. What we first discover is that, from the viewpoint
However, when the ascent has been made first to
things become different. At first there is a great struggle to
first heard. It may, to begin with, be difficult to
till waking. At first, we do not see ourselves. When we have

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external world act upon us, we receive in the first place a
felt impelled to write, first the introductory essays, and then
within the confines of his body. I had to describe this first
going out, when man leaves behind his bodily nature. This first
intuition because he has reached the very first delicate degree
spiritual is, after all, within it — where it is first to
Philosophy of Freedom is the very first degree of the
world is grasped for the first time purely spiritually. Indeed,
its first beginning in the ancient mysteries when man had to
itself. With the approach of the Middle Ages and the first
Therefore, you will find that the very first chapters of my
first initiated pupils the secret of a God's learning about
first. However, the original wisdom had already been imparted

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the first periods of life. Many years ago I first drew
astral body in the first days of life, gradually slip into the
astral inheritance, just as the first etheric heart is an
differentiations enter in, slowly at first, but from puberty
inherit our first teeth and form the second ones out of the
organism. The first fall out, the second remain. The first have

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path of Yoga can best be understood if we first consider
the Higher Worlds you will find that one of the first
this be the Yogi (first drawing, white lines). He
nature. The first discovery, when such training of the will is
forthcoming. The first resistance to be overcome is one's
leading to higher worlds. They make a start and the first

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intellectual development — which began in the first third
the `I', the feeling of selfhood. This the Yogi had first to
one first had to struggle to attain consciousness of self,
already mentioned, this was from the first third of the 15th

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well informed is, in the first place, because each individual
though strongly influenced by the Orient, arose the first
is rightly admired within Western culture as one of the first
Vedanta philosophy, do not represent the very first
it later became. At first man retained, in addition, in his
Belief in ghosts arose first through the mingling of sense
described, in the first millennium before the Mystery of
activity; mankind must first reach the appropriate stage of

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the Goetheanum that I speak of these first words of greeting.
today will follow in the days to come. May I point out first
research requires first of all is to direct his soul's
proceed in this way. He must first direct his attention to the
is not accredited today. It first has to prove that its
a man, but would find it necessary to first prove the existence
to recover a feeling for philosophy as a reality one must first
experience of philosophy can come. The first step in
as one at first recognizes the etheric body as a super-sensible
first advances from these three activities to what lies

Title: Philosophy, Cosmology and Religion: Lecture II: Soul Exercises in Thinking, Feeling, and Willing
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It has been brought out of the super-sensible — first of
one upon the other: the earlier one first, subsequently
reverse order, putting the last one first, then the
first event. In this way, through an exertion of the will in
outer spiritual world with all the beings who first revealed
can experience two facts in this thinking. First, the illusion

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meditation enters his consciousness for the first time, nothing
position first to view the course of his own life from
the following days. The first step in supersensible perception
ourselves rightly for the first time. What is experienced in
in the humanity that lived as the first, primeval

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organization of man, he realizes first of all how much the
the cosmos that one had first gained through imaginative
before it received on earth, I may say, the first atom of
done that, he has, in fact, recognized for the first time the
organism. The living organism must have been there first. The
in this way one learns to see into the soul and for the first

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the state of sleep are of the first importance. Even though man
When man first enters into the state of sleep, the sense world
experiencing during this first stage of sleep subject and
object cannot at first be distinguished. No separate phenomena
soul has at first a general, universal sensation
can a clear view of this first stage of sleep be attained.
you look with such cognitional faculties into this first stage
real. So it can also be said that in the first stage of every
philosophical ideas and the experience of the first stage of
That describes the first, somewhat brief stages that a human
the cosmos that in daytime surrounds him. While in the first
first unconscious experience — which even so is wholly
at first experiencing their unity. That brings about a
human body — not of the soul as in the first stage of
the first stage of sleep, similar to that of earliest

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longing for what he is about to lose. In the first stage
himself prepared in the first place in its spiritual form.
works on the organism most intensively in a child's first
him; and he was a true perceiver of religion in the first

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mind first of all that man's soul constitution and his inner
basis of human knowledge, arose first about the fifteenth
to mankind on earth, as was still possible in the first
about in the first Christian centuries, nothing could now be
the first Christian centuries, out of the vestiges of the old
one began with Jesus, who was looked upon at first as a man,
the first Christian centuries when human beings were still more
first Christian centuries — were confronted with this
initiate to his followers in the first Christian centuries,
organism.” This is how those initiates of the first
Thus, through the initiates of the first Christian centuries, a

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Meditation must first deal with ordinary thinking in
described it, the first experience of a person is that he
first thing you actually lose are your memories. You have the
recollections, the memory thoughts, slip away first. This is
hard as it was the first time, for it is always the same
to etheric reality. But in doing so he now receives the first
This characterizes the first step toward solving the
you first have the idea: I will raise my hand. — Then

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he would experience first of all the course of his own life,
thoughts appear as reflections? — But first, let us keep
are not developed but rather made to die down. They must first
because these processes have to come first to the point of
dying down. They must first withdraw from the head organization

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in the very first period after death. Instead, passing in and

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First of all, the matter in question would have to lie in the
external world consciously; but they too must first be
But reflection must first take place if you are to have
these signs mean. First of all, I must learn to read them. In
we realise, in the first place, that we can live in our astral

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been opened for us but which we must first learn to read in the
to succeed at the first or second attempt in doing the right
of cases immediately upon the first — may come much
that in order to understand the book, we must first eat it,

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man must become one, firstly with the signs which reveal
first thing of which I will speak may be called the ‘vowels’ of
seer has to undergo, he sees, first of all, a series of
begin for the first time to understand why this is so when we
way that we know: We must first pass into a condition where a
for the first time we get to know how things appear on yonder
summer. The Earth first thrusts it out and then, from the other
The first experience brings about an attitude to the
time to-day; we will speak of the others to-morrow. I had first

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for the first time why they have this name when we find them in
gave the first indications of these things at the beginning of
brain had first to be made physically rigid and it had to be
were, added a second man to the first. Moreover — and

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man; when, that is, we first see the human body with its
quite different spheres. First, I showed how the physical body

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of Eurhythmy for the first time. And the possibility will yet arise perhaps for Eurhythmy to be
one may well speak of it here. In this region the first has perhaps less significance owing to
himself. So much for the first child. His gift of perception takes him as far as connecting the
The last child is the most talented! The first only

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If I want first of all to describe from the one
cosmic environment, I should have perhaps to do it in this way. I should, first of all, have to
There we should have first of all part of the
Thus, you see, with this I have given you first

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say that what is here outside us first became increasingly impenetrable — I mean
out of the spirit of America, most pregnantly and to the point, when he says that Americans first
man no longer reclining on human generation after the first half of the sixth post-Atlantean
who strive after supersensible knowledge. This is, first, something obvious and, secondly,
first is something that must be wrested from Ahriman. Men today are very clever, Ahriman sees to

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civilization and was first grasped by Aristotle. In Aristotle, however, this only sounds a first
a particular culture, or the first hints of it, was being prepared alongside that which lived on
Eastern culture — the time in which the 'I' is first experienced, but dimly — and the
how this 'I' is experienced in the most manifold metamorphoses. First of all in that dim, dawning
1920, during the first course of the School of Anthroposophy at the
succeeds in this at the first attempt; and it is not so rare that the idea degenerates
"Just as philosophy strives for the first foundation of things, and art
close of the first course of the Anthroposophical School, in
(First Edition) Dornach, 1928, page 118. Return
(First and Second Introduction into the Doctrine of Knowledge and an Attempt at a New
(GA 322) — eight lectures given during the first course
18. In the third week of the first course (of the School of Spiritual
19. The first Goetheanum building, begun in 1913, was already put into use
21. The first anthroposophical course of the Free School for Spiritual

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it touches the social question, in the first part of my
first, the French colonization in the eighteenth century, was a political act and bore no fruit.
The first kind of beings are beings that have a
So, while the first kind of beings had an affinity
the first type prevent die emergence of an economic life that stands as an independent entity
The first type of these beings prevents the human

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culture when one considers at first that all three branches of human experience — the
world evolution. This is why the concept of one's will and testament first arose in Rome —
towards the East (see diagram). But we will first look at something that goes out from ancient
find logical dialectics as the first part of his philosophy. His philosophy of nature is merely a
more of God than the fairy tale of a generalized, completely abstract, cosmic first cause.
if it enters at first through such coquettish spirits as Rabindranath Tagore or others. The point
10. In the first

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way. I have shown this in my first Mystery Drama
further, there is something quite definite that must first be realized. People have to see what
the first part of which was published in 1918. Return

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is the special way in which, in the first half of the twentieth century,
the first half of the nineteenth century, we are presented with ingenious elaborations of the
he is fit and capable one has to take account of the following. One must realize that the first
etheric body is developed, the human being must first of all be recognized. What has to be
The first thing is to steer towards a real
It was first of all necessary to show how, on a
first place, our lecture course this autumn has been striving towards. And even if this is only

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occurrence of the Mystery of Golgotha. The Mystery of Golgotha is to be understood in the first
that, in its reality, in its essence, the Mystery of Golgotha was grasped at first only by those
Thus the Mystery of Golgotha was understood first
Thus the first understanding of the Mystery of Golgotha
civilization, nourished at first by Rome, took shape primarily in the sign of the intellectual,
States. But the first great Empire
beings such as these who were the first ones able to speak about the Mystery of Golgotha. One can
the original understanding of Christ. The first understanding occurred in Gnosis with the remains
times of the Middle Ages. The authority-principle prevailed and now, for the first time, a
the modern age arose. And we see this mutual interlocking particularly in the first half of the

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the Christ-experience of the first half of the twentieth century will come in an unexpected way.
inherited from parents, grandparents and so on. The first thing people ask about a child nowadays
essentially an inheritance from the first, second, third and fourth conditions. What he bears as
will have first to transform itself into other conditions.'
be developed which will direct mankind towards the new manifestation of the Christ in the first

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Trinity Sunday, which is the first Sunday after Pentacost.
the evolution of the earth, we say: The first, second, third and fourth
the post-Atlantean period. The three first earth periods were, in a
the first half again represents a repetition, and the second a
active development. Hence, we find that the first three cultural

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problems, the existence of which we hardly guessed before, first
Golgotha lies approximately at the conclusion of the first third of
as their task the first incorporation of the secrets of the Mystery
regard to the Mystery of Golgotha. The first is what took place as
continued in a certain current throughout the whole of the first
Augustine first accepts all the elements of the old withered
— and already in the first chapters you will
and in the first place there flows into them what we have now
way. My dear friends, let us consider first the Italian peninsula,

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first instance through the physical body, through the senses, the
consequences for our human life of these facts. Let us first examine

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in the first place a great difficulty which has sprung from the
planet from the sun took place; that it proceeded for the first time
first a process of knowledge. It begins with an intellectual process,
only the first most imperfect steps have been taken, you will not
consul. That was the first thing.
Augustus was the first stage. (see the

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the human being drawn schematically, we should first be concerned
the entire reality of which man must first of all accept in himself,
of the earth. Only through first feeling ourselves to be identified
twofold nature lies concealed. In the first place, the connection of
For let us suppose that a second man meets the first man, a second
first man the world concept held by the second, and the first allows
two very important rules. The first is that we must possess the
leave out the first part, he would make a strong impression. It is

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unless you first come to understand where these proofs originate. For
first he would have to adapt himself to the new conditions. Thus it
Moon-existence) and Space (during the Earth-existence) first entered
in which the Old Moon separated from the Sun. Then for the first time
to Earth, we have for the first time, through this macrocosmic
Sun-existence. Although the first rudiments of our sense-organs had
sense-organs were first opened by the separation of the Sun and the
anything. With this development of the senses develops for the first
therefore spoke of the first world through which he lives as the
sun's must first come in from outside, must harness sense-perceptions
... how this is born out of the macrocosm, then for the first time
in the first line we are shown at once that we are concerned with
the possession-relation into what has first arisen in space and time.

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stressed that the first rudiments of the sense-organs were present in
The first thing, however, which is
with what we can call physical operations. On Old Saturn the first
world that we first build up our soul process, insofar as the process
It is interesting that in the first
in the first place thoroughly work ourselves out of our dependence on
body and calls forth movements, inner movements there, at first only

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which shines over from the first centuries of Christendom
thought and idea in those first centuries of Christendom was
mode of thinking of the first centuries of Christen' dom.
the first verses of the Gospel of St John in the form in which
they are commonly rendered. If we read the first verses of this
subsequent centuries. Think of the first verses of the Gospel
try to understand the attitude of men living in the first
first three sections of the great work of John Scotus Erigena,
and the return to the Godhead at rest. The first three
Christian only when we reach the fourth. The first three
Fathers of the first centuries of Christendom. Their
in the first centuries of Christendom there was added to this
namely the Nature Spirits. The minds of men during the first
was for the upholding of the teaching contained in the first
the ideas and mental outlook of those who lived in the first
difficult to realise that in the first centuries of Christendom
downfall of the world conceived by the first Christians has
that is described in the first three sections of the work has
life in the first centuries of Christendom — derived, of
during the first centuries of Christendom related to a world
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aftermath of the First World War and the 'flu pandemic'
On the earth we first of
Of the plants the dead do not see in the first place the forms we see
one thinker is accorded the same weight as the other. On first reading

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in a way to be as effective as possible. Today I would like, at first
to judge. We have experienced how at first in various parts of Europe
sufficient to study this first phase of imperialism only in the last,
That was the first form in which
The first imperialism is
they are symbols. The first phase was characterized by realities, the
During the first imperialism, when all was
to the times of the first imperialism, many elements of which are
manner in which Islam spread, however, corresponded to the first
And something also remained of the first
first phase of imperialism. It was not so much a question of what was
The first imperialism had
during the first imperialism the kings, in the second imperialism the
Whereas in the first phase the
which has nothing of the old in it, can find room. The old must first

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beings amongst the visible people on earth. First must come the age
and beneath its surface something else appears [blue]. When the first
the first stage of imperialism when the god walked around in human
firstly according to religion, whereas in the lodges the religions
Tories were in opposition. What kind of names were they? In the first
first in the English- speaking world, then in the rest of the world,

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imperialism of the first human societies, of which I spoke yesterday,
during the first phase of imperialism here in the physical world the
was when it first occurred to people that a possibility for
can hardly be considered as existing during the first stage. And the
platitudes in a manner that only had meaning for the first stage. In
the first stage it was really the case that the ruler's will was
respects the Catholic Church harks back to the first stage. It
contains something like a sham or a shadow of the first stage of
very first imperialism.
strong that the Catholic Church is a relic of the first stage of
framework of the first imperialism.
development. Whereas during the oldest, the first stage the Church
that was attributed to the Church in the first stage. Thus the
boundaries which exist as the result of the war [First World War
tell you today, first of all to all of you, but especially to those

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first and foremost thing to be observed in this School must of
First of all, I would like to present to your hearts and to
and sternness: We must first make ourselves truly human, warm
greatness and the sublimity of nature is, at first, spiritual
know that the first thing to come from the darkness that must
as spirituality. This is veiled at first in darkness for human
the Spirit-Messenger, who appears at first to be similar to the
seriousness, we should be aware of how at first softly, most
the first beast, the crooked back,
the first beast, the crooked back,
course say that. We must first comprehend the nature and the
Guardian of the Threshold characterizes the first beast, which
friends, by means of this first introductory lesson, with which
the first beast, the crooked back,
the next lesson of the First Class.

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being. And we want to first develop this sensation before
first sensation should make us aware of how the human being, in
constitutes the first stage of self-knowledge. Self-knowledge
Behold the first beast, the crooked back
knowledge is not present at first in the soul, but cowardice
from real knowledge, firstly in our thinking. Normal human
thinking is reflected in the thought-phantom of the first
after the first third of the fourth century had passed. And now
first beast is the reflection of our will. The will does not
of will - but also deep in the unconscious. The first beast
first beast's bony spirit:
first beast is surely capable of revealing in a mirror-image
first beast's bony spirit:
first stanza of this mantram is written on the blackboard:]
first we feel what each stanza contains.
we feel first: “denies”, and then “hollows
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those who, at first, only experience the transformation in
threshold of the spiritual world. That is the very first
we have already seen, only darkness streams at first from this
That is the first experience of the spiritual world, that
semblance and reality is problematic at first. That is
illusion. Therefore the first thing one must learn in order to
is quite different in the spiritual world. You must first grow
the first beast, the crooked back
The first beast's bony spirit:
point the first lessons of this class also become practical in
first verse, beginning with the last words, is written on the
we have the first mantric verse which can give us the strength
Guardian of the Threshold's first demand.
Just as through the first mantric verse we enter thinking, we
First of all, selfhood had to “revere” by sinking
Here [first verse] is only semblance;
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with the Guardian of the Threshold is the first thing one
For they do not separate on their own. At first when we think
That is why when I gave the first lesson I said that it is the
must first live and weave wordlessly in the soul before it can
first verse had a trochaic rhythm, the second an iambic rhythm
souls. So we learned the first verse, which is related to
First, we developed the appropriate feelings in respect to the
first beast's bony spirit:
corresponding verses [about the third, second and first beasts]
first glance there seems to be little difference between
depths ...], next to the third beast. At first we can not free
when we approach the first beast, which wants to hinder us from
first beast's bony spirit:
comforter and grace-giving as opposed to what the first beast
Take for example the first verse: “Feel how the earth's
the third verse, which begins: “The first beast's bony
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through our senses, but which at first indicate no relationship
powerless. Our thoughts are at first things we own which allow
sun's first light of dawn you yourself should shine down on the
temptingly. And we first realize that there is something

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become conscious of his true relation to the world, he first
may not simply continue to see things as first glances provide;
Here we have the first descent, climbing downward to the
the person striding by: first the inner feeling of fear of
first part of the mantra is written:]
Luciferic temptation in the form of helplessness. First
without having first developed a god-given, spirit-given will
speak. Therefore, in the first lessons I mentioned how the

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First if all, this School represents the impulse of the
objective truth. Among the first duties of an esoteric student
which is the first experience towards the attainment of real
the human being is at first unconsciously asleep. Under normal
That is the first powerful impression of true knowledge, my
can take the first step beyond the threshold.
thinking to be concentrated in the head, here [in the first
yourselves for the first time: I want to take the Guardian of
Oh, I didn't take the words seriously enough the first time; I
first admonition, which you give to yourself, is earnest. The
will return to the first admonition - as we will also do now -

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that many anthroposophical friends are here for the first time
stamp made, first of all because, although very abstract, a
used, the agreement of the Vorstand at the Goetheanum is first
step after the fourth, not the seventh step after the first; we
listening at first - by speaking the mantric formula which
points to what has resounded throughout the ages, first from
first the sun and moon, but also the planets which belong to
first.
order to see in the light the origin of our own being. At first
had pressed them into each other. [Around the first drawing an
the physical world. When one looks at man, one sees at first
first in darkness - the true thinking which glows through
[The first verse is written on the blackboard:]
here [in the first verse] must be: “behind thinking's
harmonically interwoven with the first.
Here [in the first verse] “willing” arises from the
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First - without taking notes - let us be reminded of the
Firstly, we humans should in later life be more like we were to
remember back to this first stage of infancy, and therefore
When you begin to notice it, then you will first feel
Thus, we let the first stage of this inner experience work in
for the first time you know what thought is. Before you didn't
first mantra sentence “support” is underlined.]
we will note that once the first part of the exercise is
[Alongside the first eight lines of the mantra is written:]

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picture of the first stage of esoteric
the imaginations from the other side [arrows]. At first we live
[The first
spiritual depths is how you hear the lines of the first verse.
experience in the meditation: first listen, then bring feeling;
meditation in dialog in which you always objectify the first
part of the verse is arranged in connection with the first
If, firstly,
speech of the heart, we must correctly feel how, firstly,
as I have described, then when the first line resounds, our
life when the etheric body was first formed.
given here without first asking permission. Only with

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is sufficient to say that the First Class has lost a truly
At first man speaks the I through his thoughts into his
the beings of the higher hierarchies themselves, at first
[The first verse is written on the blackboard.]
That is the first dialog with the cosmos and with the
must be conscious of this. Just as we hear in the first verse
appears. The temple, which I only sensed at first, becomes
dome is sensed after the first verse; see the temple around
within the temple, accomplished by the first, second and
Steiner on the construction of the first Goetheanum, where she along with

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First let us recite the verse which reminds us of what comes from the cosmos
at first by means of healthy human understanding – then
which are spoken quietly from the soul. The first mantras in
it hears three sounds. The first sound comes from the distant
First we had “Behold your senses' shining radiance.” This
That is third. First we should see the radiance of the senses, then
first lines: “Listen to the field of thinking”.
[The first mantra is written on the blackboard.
The word “thinking” in the first line is underlined
the first from the hierarchy of the
from higher hierarchies. Whereas there [indicates the first
[Mantra II is written on the blackboard. In the first line
The first resounds from the ranks of the
thinking, which we would think if we did not first evoke the

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First of all we shall speak the imperative words from
first cosmic space speaks, the universe itself resounds to
Let us take first where the will is most evident in
understood at first. Because the profound sense in which it
consciousness offers us at first is maya, the great illusion.
of the First Hierarchy. However, with normal consciousness,
That is the first. The second leads us more into the
Cherubim it weaves itself into humanity and at first resounds
First speaks what originates in the universal distance:
first hierarchy:
that in the first part of the mantra.
expresses the first Hierarchy's revelation in a beautiful
man and the first Hierarchy in the field of will:
first arrive at the threshold where the Guardian stands, and
Know first the earnest Guardian,
you must first forcefully conquer

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knowledge, he comes to an abyss, which at first seems bottomless.
impure willing, feeling and thinking — that they first
to us, how the hierarchies speak to us, how at first everything
dangers await him, dangers which appear at first to be slight
normal human understanding, first in knowledge and also through
The moment we leave the physical body — also with the first
great [first] World War.
beckons. You look at his face. At first he calls out to you,
again all three answers in order to freely choose the first
[The first part of the mantra is
elements. All that we consume for nourishment must first
Here [in the first verse] is:
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“I” the human being says at first.
The person first says “I”:
heard in our souls. Thus we meditate first hearing the
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first as the blackest darkness. It stands like a wall before
The first being we encounter stands at this abyss.
that we may not enter immaturely. He is the first spiritual
speaks the first words to us if we wish to take
of the Threshold who first admonishes us to look back at our
the abyss into the realm which at first is dark to us.
our whole bodies when we are on it – the first, the
world. We first learn to feel in the spiritual world before
the elements – at first earth, water and air; fire will
be the subject of the next lesson – So first the
speak one after the other. The third hierarchy with the first
mantra: first the Angeloi, then Archangeloi, and thirdly the
first we believe that we are experiencing our thoughts alone.
[The first part of the mantra is written on
darkness. First we learn feeling. The Guardian speaks in
Threshold raises his questions. The beings of the first
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esoteric situation in which we feel ourselves: first of all,
in imaginative thoughts. At first these imaginative
The Guardian of the Threshold is the first
first night-bedecked, gradually becomes lighter. At first we
beyond it, first we feel — not yet see — how the
in us and gives us our inner configuration. And the first
by the hierarchies — come from all sides: first
in our ear. And what were at first admonishing, earnest
[The first part of the new mantra is written on

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which one must first attain for true knowledge of the
threshold at first feels himself to be within light, and
experiences the world in a new way in that he first hears what
first drawing],
first drawing],
This is the imagination which the Guardian first
[This first stanza of the mantra is written on the
beyond the rainbow, at first breathing in the cosmic bowl's
which at first was a dark, night-bedecked sphere, spreads out
listen. It is the first time in the course of situational
it taken over by the beings of the first hierarchy and made by
What is remarkable is this: first we were witnesses to a
beings of the first hierarchy begin to speak the cosmic words. At
first it seems as though we were only to be listeners to a
First the Angeloi, Archangeloi, Archai made their voices heard;

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gaze to the highest spirits, the first hierarchy, who now turn
now. He spoke from out of the darkness. He spoke when we first
[The first part of the mantra is written on the
connection, first to their students, and through their students
first heard within the earthly sphere:
speech. On the first tablet, long before we arrived at the abyss
Recognize first the earnest Guardian,
You must first forcefully seize

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force, contain the path into spirit-land, first passing the
Guardian of the Threshold into what is at first a dark,
beings of the first hierarchy speak. And now we are able to
the choir of the first hierarchy resounds – the
From the realm of the first hierarchy comes the answer:
enter the esoteric realm, we should first feel that the
first enter the realm of the Seraphim, Cherubim and
the realm of the first hierarchy:
[The first part of the mantra is written on
the first hierarchy:
Again from the realm of the first hierarchy
First it was the flames that speak the words;
the beings of the first hierarchy were giving us
From the realm of the first hierarchy:
question comes from the first hierarchy:
From the realm of the first hierarchy:
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given the first nineteen First Class Lessons (Volumes One and
for all those who are here for the first time it means
for the first time, the meaning of the School must be explained
the first time — if you receive the words spoken here as
the extent it lies in your karma. But the first step will be to
first step. Therefore, what Michael has to say to present-day
work for each individual. And the first thing is to understand
first, we must observe the surroundings that have been given
and radiance, then can you first say with complete intensity:
aware that the first being who confronts us stands where the
That is the Guardian of the Threshold's first admonishment, the
first admonition: to feel light as darkness, darkness as light,
is different if we first hear these words from sensory beings,
life in order to cross over the abyss. By at first beckoning us
must first recognize this before we can become aware, in real
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members of the First Class, from stenographic notes not revised
First, however, let our souls again hear the words which
of being, which at first confronts the human soul as black,
being, comes from what appears at first as black, night-cloaked
But then he used words which at first are dismaying for the
by the Guardian by letting the first of the beasts, which
first beast — the true spiritual form of our willing,
Behold the first beast, the crooked back,
Behold the first beast, the crooked back,
own being which at first confronts us as the answer to the call
our feeling; about the first beast, which is interwoven with
must have first transfigured it. The corpse lies in the coffin.
The first beast's bony spirit:
— first is “image”, the second “force” —
The first beast's bony spirit:
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After he first showed us how we should stand in respect to our
lesson in this Michael-School — how we are first to delve
followed by an unstressed syllable. So, we have in the first
are placed above the first syllables of each line and then
to being. Here [the first syllable] we are below: here [the
are placed over the first two syllables of each line, and it
That we have entered in reality is expressed in that we first
alongside the process; in that we first arrive at the
first two syllables of each line on the blackboard and the
[“trochaic” is written alongside the first verse];
first not distinguishable according to its place, whereas in

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the elements. At first the earth-element supports us in an
[first seal gesture]
must first be granted by either Dr. Wegman or by me. The

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Then the Guardian of the Threshold raised us, first showing us,
first representative of Michael, for the real leader of this
realize that our thinking is at first animal-like. We must
our willing — first in the earth-element with thinking,
first, we only retain the wonderful, all-embracing forms of the
alive. At first the forming of the world is apprehended in the
soul” will be rescued. Here [in the first verse]:
the mantras which are the first that we speak when we arrive in
first words, “I revere the Father”, are spoken
first gesture means:

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being at first as a gloomy, night-cloaked darkness. The path
in the near future, we consider it first, so what we carry out
will, however, as it emerges from our being, remains at first
thought, all our thinking, is there as the first brightness
[Alongside the first sign on the blackboard is written:]
spirit, in that it contains thoughts. At first, though, this
I will read the lines as the appear to us at first when the
seal makes us feel the first line in this gesture:
we know, this first gesture means [beside the lower gesture is

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esoteric school could not have been created without first
fall into unauthorized hands is the first requisite; but also,
become lighter, at first most gently. You feel now the first
stands there in the region, in which we first were with all our
what seems at first, to the senses, to be black, night-cloaked
way that at first draws our attention to what this person is.
Therefore, the first words the Guardian of the Threshold speaks
human beings, the first words he speaks are:
first words we hear on the other side, as we look back at the
[The first mantra is written on the blackboard, together with a
his body lives at first in his half-existence. The human being
the first part “thinking” and “sensory
the third line of the first part “Willing” is
enhanced: Here [in the first part] it involved letting flow
— here [in the first part] it was the willing that is
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