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Title: Lecture: The Alphabet
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“Nothing has ever been said that is not in utmost degree the purest
printed material can take it in the fullest sense as containing what
be necessary, however, to put up with the fact that erroneous matter
is included in the lecture reports that I have not revised.
material can naturally be conceded only to one who knows what is taken
extent that their nature is set forth in Anthroposophy, and of what crisis
present period of his evolution — taking this period so widely that
it encompasses not only what is historical but also in part the
pre-historical — we must conclude that speech is a preeminent
is speech that elevates Man above the other kingdoms of nature.
In the lectures last week, I mentioned that in the course of mankind's
something that Man formed out of himself as his most primal ability;
the transition from the Greek culture to the Roman-Latin culture, that
to what is Roman-Latin — men of culture became estranged from the
brought prose and jurisprudence into the culture of later years. What
It might be said that all poetry has in it something which makes it
the breath of life’. What at that time was done with the breath, to
relates to the cosmos. In short, what would be expressed by speaking
talked about, there is no recognition that it is actually contained in the
sentence that comprises the names of the alphabet. Thus we can look
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Title: Lecture: Soul and Spirit in the Human Physical Constitution
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somewhat remote, but it will be of importance for the further
the being is taken into consideration. No account whatever is taken of
the fact that in addition to his physical body, man also has higher
that is more or less recognized in science and has also made its way
It is, of course, acknowledged that the fluid and the aeriform
The warmth within man which is greater than that of his environment is
member of his constitution. We shall presently see what I mean by
saying this. I have already drawn attention to the fact that when we
general idea is that man, as a physical structure, consists of the
that in addition to this solid structure they should also see the
(yellow). More exact study shows that just as the solid or solid-fluid
the air that is within us, in regard to its organization and its
fluid organism which fills the same space that is occupied by the
solid organism, we realize immediately that we cannot speak of this
differentiation. It is permeated by the forces of the Ego. — That
in the blood there is also present what is generally called the warmth
condition. But that ‘organism’ is by no means identical with the
of the human organism that the warmth cannot be identified with the
Directly we reflect about man in this way we find that it is
the skin from what is outside it. Even this, however, is only
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Title: Lecture: The Moral as the Source of World-Creative Power
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of man, and at the end it was possible to show that a really
man's external constitution and what it unfolds, through
current today. It became clear to us that in order to build this
that the solid or solid fluid organism — which is the sole object
the real sense — we saw that this must be regarded as only one of
the organisms in the human constitution; that the existence of a fluid
physical body. But it is paramountly the etheric body that takes hold
of the fluid body, of everything that is fluid in the human organism;
consciousness too, we know from ordinary life that in addition to the
yesterday that dreams are essentially pictures or symbols of inner
in our dreams it comes to expression in pictures. I said that we may
it were, an experience of nullity, of the void. But I explained that
this experience of the void is necessary in order that man shall feel
between falling asleep and waking that he is able to feel himself
really nothing to do with our own essential being beyond the fact that
that it leads us to the body. And our conception of the bodily
world that can really satisfy us.
that is astir with life, and finally man himself came out of the
bridge can possibly be built, and what is worse, modern science
The root of all this is that the only kind of anatomy in existence is
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Title: Lecture: The Path to Freedom and Love and their Significance in World Events
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responds, on the one side, to what is presented to his observation; on
accompanied by impulses of feeling, and we shall see that feeling
deed, of action. Only through the fact that we are thinking beings are
we Man in the truest sense. Consider too, how everything that
the fact that we can inwardly picture the world around us; we live in
this world and can contemplate it. To imagine that we cannot
us; in so far as we are doers, that is to say, social beings,
it ever so, that things can simply be thought of intellectually side
by side with one another; the truth is that whatever is an active
inconceivable that anything should proceed from us in the way of
what thus takes place. In everything that is of the nature of will,
the element of thought is contained; and in everything that is of the
about what is involved here if we seriously want to build the bridge
Imagine that you are living for a time purely in reflection as usually
understood, that you are engaging in no kind of outward activity at
that in this life of thought, will is also active; will is then
realize that the will is radiating all the time into his thoughts,
every case that they are linked with something in our environment,
something that we ourselves have experienced. Between birth and death
there is something that is inherently our own; what is inherently our
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Title: Lecture: Search for the New Isis, the Divine Sophia: The Quest for the Isis-Sophia
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IN THE FESTIVAL of Christmas something is given to Christendom that
Regard the evolution of history from whatever point of view you will, take
the Mystery of Golgotha, as the thought that is contained in the festival
follow it through the thousands of years that preceded the Mystery of
Golgotha, we find that, although the achievements of the peoples in all the
step toward what took place for the sake of humankind at the Mystery of
Golgotha. Furthermore, we find we can only understand what has happened
since the Mystery of Golgotha when we remember that the Christ who went
superstition, for example the kind of superstition that believes that
involvement, and that such aid should come just where human beings consider
it necessary — if we leave aside such views, we find that even the most
and meaning that the evolution of the earth has acquired through the fact
that Christ went through the Mystery of Golgotha. It is appropriate for us
of earthly humanity. We know how intimate the connection is between what takes
place in the moral-spiritual sphere of human evolution and what takes place
Christ Jesus to that being whose outer reflection appears in the sun. The
such references to the fact that the outwardly visible stars and their
context, if we wish to understand what should concern us most of all in
your attention to the fact that the Greco-Latin, the fourth epoch of
post-Atlantean humanity, stands, as it were, in the middle, and that there
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Title: Evil and the Future of Man
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that in the past certain hints or indications of the mystery of evil,
and of that other mystery which is connected with it — the mystery of
important events of the present time. What I said then had also a
deeper motive, for anyone who has knowledge will be well aware what
will to understand will come in time, and we must see that it does
come. In every possible way we must see that it does come.
Even what I lately said about the configuration of philosophical
all that I bring forward here is intended not as mere criticism, but
as a simple characterisation, so that human beings may see what kind
view, they were after all inevitable. One could even prove that it
As I said again only the other day, that which calls itself Science
ourselves: These forces which are active in the great Universe — what
is their function, apart from the fact that they bring death to man?
It would be altogether wrong to imagine that the forces which bring
death to man exist in the Universe for that express purpose. In
say that the purpose of the engine is to wear out the rails!
course be talking nonsense, though it cannot he disputed that the
It would be just as wrong for anyone to say that those forces in the
What then is the proper task of the forces that bring death to man? It
the fifth Post-Atlantean age, and how important it is that in this
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Title: Lecture: The Human Heart
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instinctively — and intensively — he experiences all that is going
on in his environment. Later on it is only in the sense organs that
we have a process imitating in a certain sense what is going on in the
outer world — reproducing it, just as the camera reproduces whatever
is there in front of the lens. The human being becomes aware of what
nature of ideas. The child begins to take as his guideline what we say
to him. Previously he has taken as his guideline all that we did in
his environment; now he begins to grasp what we say. Authority thus
The child will quite naturally follow and be guided by what is said to
him. Language itself he will of course learn by imitation, but that
that I want to speak today.
the birth of the astral body to the time of puberty. However, that
all of us, before we descended to unite with what was prepared for us,
spirit. What we were, and what we experienced there, is very different
from what we experience between birth and death here on earth. Hence
ideas on his earthly experiences, and it is to these ideas that we
characterized by all that we see with the senses and understand with
earthly intellect. But there is nothing in this world that is not
his own etheric body. But to say that man clothes himself with his
and in its lower portion something that appears more or less as an
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Title: Lecture: The Invisible Man Within Us
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being, two beings can be clearly distinguished. You will recall that
membranes that envelop the human embryo during its development
everything, in other words, that is cast away as physical
entire life. It is somewhat different in character, however, from the
earthly life. And this is what I would like to speak about today.
becomes a body of forces that is active in us but does not come to
we can say that this invisible man also contains the ego, the astral
embryo, what we call here the physical organization of the invisible
that we encounter after birth. I will sketch this visible human being
and also in the inner forces of movement that carry ingested food
however, there is a direct intervention of forces that enter the
us, a stream that flows directly from the ego into the nerve-sense
this stream in such a way that it spreads out over the skin-senses,
we have one organization that flows up from below, proceeding from
then to the ego. We have another stream that enters the physical
at the insight that this unmediated stream, which enters the physical
visible sign of these outspreading streams that enter the entire
directly a destructive process occurs, so that along the nerve
encounter him here on earth, we can say that the ego flows in the
blood. But the ego flows in such a way that it first ensouls its
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Title: Lecture: Outlooks for the Future
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a little more than what we are able to see through the generally accepted
and to show us what man was like upon Atlantis; then it also seeks to point
particular point: What can we discover if the things which we have learned
before our soul's eye — what can we discover if we then cast our gaze upon
We know that only at the
this connection, we know that the human bodies of the Atlantean epoch were
that during the Atlantean epoch the
human body was soft, pliable and plastic, so that the souls that came down
completely. At that time, it would therefore not have been incorrect to
say: That man resembles a cat. If he was a hypocrite, he really resembled
a cat, or a hyaena. In that remote past, man's countenance and his outward
was at that time able to transform his outward form and he possessed this
possessed it. Their physical body was far more hardened than that of man
and hard. The animal forms are however quite hardened, so that their
is still mobile to some extent, so that the etheric body still assumes
reality — that outwardly his face may only have a slight resemblance with
We shall then be meeting someone and we shall know what his moral
whatever during the sixth epoch, our bodily form will then obtain its
is a good person and that is an evil one. Just as to-day we know that
this is an Italian and that a Frenchman etc., so we shall know in future
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Title: Lecture: Self Knowledge and the Christ Experience
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Suppose that we observe an animal during the course of a year. We will find
that its life follows the cycle of the seasons. Take for example an insect:
— we find that they too experienced, more or less instinctively, the
died out. Among more advanced humanity, therefore, we will not find that
spontaneous harmony — a harmony between what arises from the human side
and the immediate setting or natural surroundings. That has to do with the
fact that humanity itself is undergoing a development, which constitutes its
are revealed most clearly, we find that its experience spans a comparatively
the developing Consciousness Soul. It is that time when man will step fully
What would happen nowadays if a man were to give himself up entirely to
or that he did not tell himself at a certain moment: ‘This is how you
should orientate yourself’ — suppose that he were not to arrive at
We may say, therefore, that the insect has a certain direction in its life
that of the animals, but still instinctive. His life has taken on a newer,
more conscious form. Yet we find that man, in spite of his higher soul-life
forward, towering above the animals, one must still concede that he has
human race, of this or that century. And just as, for a lower form of life,
this or that century take its place in the whole development of our planet.
able to say to himself: ‘I live in this or that epoch. I am not man
account of what the historical development of humanity asks from my
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Title: Lecture: Social Understanding Through Spiritual Scientific Knowledge
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anthroposophical truths in particular that I would like to develop for you.
We shall then see what a great impact on a person's everyday life these
particular truths have, and that is what we will talk about tomorrow.
this question merely by saying that there is a possibility of acquiring
super-sensible knowledge by means of certain forces in man. But what the
usually ask. That is why so little importance is attached to making
be said that super-sensible knowledge is becoming more and more
essential to man, just in our time. In that case it is vital to understand
what its connection is with ordinary everyday life.
As you know, the first of the capacities that leads man into super-sensible
capacities have any part to play in the rest of man's life? You will see that
regard man purely superficially, you will be struck by the fact that the
often mentioned, is connected with the development of forces that are not
It is obvious that the forces doing this work of developing the physical
Intuition. For the forces that are applied in the acquisition of intuitive
knowledge are the same forces that you grow with at the time of life
forces that are active within the human body until the seventh year are the
Now the forces that are active from the seventh year to the fourteenth
and form the power of Inspiration. And the forces that in bygone times
twenty-first year — it would be too much of an assertion to say that this
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Title: Lecture: Spiritual Emptiness and Social Life
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ROM the two preceding lectures you will have realised that in finding
what may be called the civic social order, but that this civic social
culminating in the terrible death-throes of social life that have come
soul-life of the widespread middle-class, and that of the descendants
that time. I spoke of this in the lecture yesterday.
We will now consider in rather greater detail why it was that the
Walter von der Vogelweide until that of Goetheanism, and then abruptly
any thoughts which could have been fruitful in that sphere. Even
— concerning which one may venture to say that even he was not quite
clear about them — as to what must come into being as a new social
strange phenomenon. I said that Hermann Grimm — for whom I have
in which I spoke from my own point of view about many things that need
always stressed the fact that Hermann Grimm's only response to such
hand, indicating that this was a realm he was not willing to enter. A
made at that moment. It was true inasmuch as Hermann Grimm, for all
human concern, had not the faintest inkling of what ‘spirit’ must
simply did not know what spirit really is from the standpoint of a man
of mankind, he would have believed that he too could speak about the
spirit; he would have believed that by reiterating Spirit, spirit,
spirit! something is expressed that has been nurtured in one's own
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Title: Lecture: The Sun-Mystery in the Course of Human History
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presented in recent lectures may be summarized in somewhat the
is obvious that aberrations, inclinations that often run counter to
The reason why the will is so mysterious and secret is that in many
being able to claim that any conscious impulses are racing effect. In
operations of the will, it has again and again been emphasized that
as the experiences of deep, dreamless sleep; so that in this respect
But when we think of man's spiritual nature we cannot conceive that
his conscious mental life; the fact is that this spirituality is at
work in him during sleep too, within that part of his being where his
to activity from the time of waking until that of falling asleep.
conscious of its effects. That is one aspect of the will.
The other aspect is that the will is also active in us while we sleep;
for then inner processes are taking place, processes that are also
upwards in waves. But just because we must admit that the will is at
spirit, it follows that the will as such has to do with this organic
activity. The will that is working while we are asleep has to do with
But during waking activity too, that is to say when our will is in
processes of internal metabolism. So that here again we can point to
to expression in the form of feeling, surge upwards. We know that
feeling is a dimly apprehended experience, that so far as actual
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Title: Lecture: Truth Beauty and Goodness
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Rudolf Steiner stated that the primary function of education is to
Rudolf Steiner stated that the primary function of education
that is elaborated, in a certain sense, by man himself in pre-earthly
does not know what this implies. We speak of Truth, little realizing
that a feeling for truth is connected with our consciousness of the
form an idea that harmonizes strictly with it and thus is true, or,
an idea that does not coincide with the fact. When he thinks the
forms an idea that is not in accordance with the fact, it is as if he
cut the thread that binds him to pre-earthly existence. Untruth severs
intellectual consciousness that is a characteristic quality in the
(see Note 1) does not realize that
such a severance takes place. And that is why man is subject to so
the threads that bind him with pre-earthly existence, this works right
into an inner uncertainty that makes itself felt even in the physical body.
For this purely spiritual sense of being that we find existing with
How often it is the case that a man would like to be a person of note
thus describes him. The essential thing, however, is that he shall be
What is it that can strengthen man in this sense of being? In earthly
existence we live in a world that is but a copy of true reality.
spiritual world. And this is only possible if the bond that links us
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Title: The Individuality of Elias, John, Raphael, Novalis
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least a few words. That I am able to do so is due entirely to the loving and
devoted care of our friend Dr. Ita Wegman. And so I hope that I will still be
able to say today what I desire particularly to say to you on the occasion
earth. And it will be one of the more beautiful results that can follow from
Festival. That however will only be possible when the might and power of the
What we can do at present is to awaken, in this Michael time, the
Michael mood in our souls by giving ourselves up to thoughts that will
especially stirred to activity within us when we turn our gaze upon all that
worlds — through long periods of time, in preparation for all that can now
That you yourselves, my dear friends, in so far as you truly and
considerations a little further, and that is what I want to do today.
traditions of Judaism the prophetic figure of Elijah. We know what
moment of human evolution, appeared again so that Christ Jesus Himself could
And further we saw that this being appears once more in that world
how the deeply Christian impulse that lives in Raphael, as it were impelling
stands revealed in wondrously beautiful words what Raphael had placed before
has gone through the gate of death, he enters the world of the stars. What
We know that man passes through the Moon sphere and through the spheres
Jupiter and Saturn. And we know that when, together with the beings of these
spiritually with the spiritual origin of the Earth, with that World of Being
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Title: Lecture: Exoteric and Esoteric Christianity
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“Nothing has ever been said that is not in utmost degree the purest
printed material can take it in the fullest sense as containing what
be necessary, however, to put up with the fact that erroneous matter
is included in the lecture reports that I have not revised.
material can naturally be conceded only to one who knows what is taken
extent that their nature is set forth in Anthroposophy, and of what crisis
mankind is recorded in documents that have been preserved as
that, in addition to these records that have influenced mankind
that gives a more exterior knowledge of things, and an esoteric
All that could be
esoteric Christianity. You know already that the Gospels contain very
But what the Gospels tell us concerning this intercourse of the risen
foreboding of something very special, that entered the evolution of
us that he was able to believe in Christ only from the moment in
gave him the sure knowledge that Christ had passed through death and
that, after his death, he was connected with the evolution of the
knowledge of the living Christ and we should bear in mind what this
at Damascus? We must bear in mind what it implied for Paul, initiated
to some extent in the Hebrew teachings — that the Being who
could not grasp that the old prophecies referred to a Being who had
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Title: Lecture: The Origin of Speech and Language
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style would rob them of their special atmosphere that grew out of the
encounter between what lived in the souls of the questioners and what
gentlemen. Today we will add to what we have heard on previous
occasions so that we will be better able to understand the full
that it is essentially a process of taking in substances that are
process occurs in the chest, and it is this process that gives us our
in the blood. In turn, in the blood processes, that is, between the
discovery. It is only in the last fifty or sixty years that this
know how to look at what happens to the physical body when a person
becomes ill in any way, we discover that nature herself arranged such
an experiment for us and that we can gain insights from it.
impairments, he discovered that they had had an injury in the third
you, that when we remove the top of the skull, we can see the brain?
when someone has a so-called brain stroke. What happens in that case?
healthy left convolution of the brain. We must now understand what it
we find that this portion constitutes a fairly uniform, mushlike
means that something happened to the brain while the child learned to
just as wrong for me to say that the brain has formed these
convolutions by itself. Instead, I must think about what has actually
taken place and what caused it. In other words, I must ask why the
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Title: Lecture: The Sense-Organs and Aesthetic Experience
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they think they should despise everything that is called material or
sense-perceptible. For we have seen that here in the physical world
emphasised that through the sense of Movement we move in the
are so great. Many things that are in a higher spiritual sense
that has a certain justification he describes what sort of hair, what
sort of complexion, what kind of wrinkles brave or cowardly men have,
what sort of bodily proportions the sleepyheads have, and so on. Even
if we ask the right questions about what has been recently described
said that during the Old Moon period our present sense-organs were
still organs of life, still worked as life-organs, and that our
what has often been emphasised: that there is an atavism in human
life, a kind of return to the habits and peculiarities of what was
imaginative way of looking at things that was characteristic of Old
for if this were so, and if all that man experienced during the Old
pathological — then one would have to say that humanity was ill
during the Old Moon period; that during the Old Moon period man was
in fact out of his mind. That, of course, would be complete nonsense.
What is pathological is not the visions themselves, but that they
a way that they cannot be endured; that they are used by this earthly
organisation in a way that is inappropriate for them as Moon visions.
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Title: Lecture: A Turning-Point in Modern History
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IT seems that it would be useful to consider matters concerned with
is tending towards the destruction of all that springs from middle
feeling for the culture of middle Europe. Herman Grimm once said that
Luther, Frederick the Great, Goethe and Bismarck. Grimm says that if a
In the nineties many people had no doubt at all that this remark was
realise fully in their soul what this signifies: less than three
Revolution and tries in his own way to say what may be thought about
eighteenth century. He had no particular expectation as to what would
never have expected that men would be led to freedom simply by giving
rather that by work upon himself, by self-education, man should reach
that man has first to become inwardly free before he can achieve
this rational necessity, it is still something that compels him. And
external State, or something of that kind, in obeying such laws he is
one-sided way either the influence of the senses or that of reason,
with his humanity; when, that is, he does not simply submit like a
regarded absolute obedience to what he calls duty — that is,
when he becomes poetical, “having nothing that flatters or
me to find that I am not virtuous.” That is his satirical comment
means that while an unfree man may serve his friends as a duty, in
carries his humanity so far that he does it because he likes to do it,
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Title: Lecture: Elemental Beings and Human Destinies
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limbs. These are of course crude expressions that are only roughly
part of what is contained in the trunk. Moreover, as you will have
only in his head system — in all that has to do with the life of
— that is, from a bodily aspect, with the rhythmic system —
waking life with a life of dreams. What goes on in the sphere of
Now it is very important to realise that each one of the three systems
subjectively present in consciousness. What do I mean by that? I mean
take place within us. On the other hand, what we experience through
our rhythmic system, the processes that go on in the sphere of our
world-processes. This means that when you feel, you have of course an
something that happens in the world and has significance there. And it
is of extraordinary interest to follow up the world-processes that lie
Suppose you experience something that affects you very deeply, Some
event that moves you to joy or sorrow. Now you know that the whole of
life runs its course in such a way that we can separate it into
one division that shows itself in the course of human life.
what to look for. That which takes place in the soul and spirit of the
Now let us go back to the event that makes a strong impression on our
objective world quite apart from what is in your consciousness, quite
that goes on in the objective world may be compared with the setting
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Title: Lecture: Man, Offspring of the World of Stars
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we know that the Ego lights up within the Intellectual or Mind Soul
it was quite natural that the Mysteries of that age should have been
it is said that the Greek's life of thought consisted in an actual
stated that Goethe's conceptions were not perceptions, but
ideas, and to this Goethe retorted that he actually saw
his ideas before him, that he perceived them objectively.
the red glow of evening. The Greeks felt that the world of ideas came
to them at sunrise and passed away from them at sunset. They felt that
“darkness”, they felt that their world of ideas came to an
Mysteries, began to feel that their power to perceive the spiritual
Now the intellect alone can give us no real knowledge of what has
shadow-intellect that is characteristic of all modern culture has
modern science. In our age it never occurs to man that his being
that is what we need above all to make our own.
whole nature and being. The Greek was right when he felt that the Sun
’ to himself, he experiences a force that is working within him,
the Cosmic Ego. What lives within me is the human Ego.
was in the days of Greece, but for all that it is still possible to
springtime. There are people here and there who feel that the Ego is
an outward shell of an experience that is dying out altogether in the
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Title: Lecture: The Three Stages of Sleep
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pointed out that there exists no short summary of a world view
That is not possible with spiritual-scientific truths, the
reason being that the truths of natural science are lifeless
LIFE is the state of consciousness that is most familiar to
come to the point of questioning. The fact that someone asks
that ordinary consciousness cannot yield, proves that from the
soon realise that, in the sleeping condition, as opposed to the
that an understanding of life may result from an understanding
this life of dreams, it is easy to observe that its pictures
often be said that things are dreamed of in a way in which the
following example. A man may dream, for instance, that he is
may dream that we are standing somewhere and a man is
when he is quite close it appears that he is preparing to make
although the picture sequence has been quite different. What
what is consciously experienced on waking. The pictures in
impulse — or something that approached the soul in the
consciousness. Forces that increase in intensity are there
pictures. Thus we must say that here is something that takes
when, through what I have often described as Imaginative
rapidly; but when, in somewhat abnormal circumstances, someone
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Title: Lecture: Spiritual Wisdom in the Early Christian Centuries
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I HAVE said on many occasions that at the time when medieval culture
stream of Scholasticism acknowledged that this knowledge acquired by
Thus when medieval culture was at its prime, it was realised that
knowledge no longer accessible to mankind in that age must be
shall find that the characteristics of this knowledge through
School, for instance, that a distinction could be made between
have been at a loss to know what was meant. It would have been
unthinkable to him that if knowledge concerning super-sensible worlds
communicated afresh. True, the Greeks realised that higher spiritual
knew too that by dint of spiritual training and through Initiation, a
man could unfold higher faculties of knowledge and that by these means
Now a change took place in Western culture between all that lived in
Aristotle, and the kind of knowledge that made its appearance about
of this change by saying that the Mystery of Golgotha occurred in an
But then we find that from the fifth century A.D. onwards, this old
certain individuals, saying that their teachings were to be avoided at
obliterate all that had previously been known of these individuals.
It is strange that a man like Franz Brentano should have inherited
from medieval tradition a hatred of all that lived in personalities
Brentano had allowed himself to be influenced by this hatred and
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Title: Lecture: The Recovery of the Living Source of Speech
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unfolds a certain idealism, so that every time he utters a word, the
feeling is present in him that he belongs to a spiritual world and
that the words that ring in his speaking, coming as they do from the
else in evolution that has to do with man, as we have had full
history. What I want to bring forward does not refer to any one
that even primitive languages show the same character as civilised
therefore we shall not concern ourselves with the differences that
that the words he speaks are nearly all of them signs for things that
to look on the word merely as a combination of sounds that is
the Greek civilisation, we find that man's relation to language
a word, it was not so much his thinking that partook in the
that is, an atmosphere is prepared around the Earth within which can
live man's utterances articulated into speech, then that
to say that in the evolution of speech and language we are beholding
studying something that has to do with the Earth, it is by no means
impossible in the course of that very study to come to a knowledge of
that are to be observed in man's faculty of speech.
in man's speech — that is, in the later part of the
him from this or that fact in Nature, summoning him to defend
activity, what he was induced to do under the influence of
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Title: Lecture: Gnostic Doctrines and Supersensible Influences in Europe
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that in their study of contemporary events and happenings, men's
physical life of humanity. It is by no means enough to admit that the
evolutionary process. It was said that another, more purely spiritual
In other words, it was held that the intervention of Jehovah had been
preceded by that of other Beings, that the creation of man had
world devoid of every element of that material existence with which
centuries of Christendom. It was said that Jehovah united with matter
and that from this union man came into existence.
to this Gnostic conception, therefore, Jehovah was a somewhat lower
conception was then added to this world of ideas, namely, that in
united with the man Jesus in order that the strivings of Achamoth
might be fulfilled. The Gnostic teaching was that in the man Jesus
concerned with all that surrounds and is connected with his life
realisation that spiritual foundations underlie this physical world
By that time the minds of men were no longer capable of rising to the
understand that civilised humanity is faced with different tasks
of everything that is associated with the activity of thinking.
lived and worked with a tremendous power. And that is why even to-day
the learning will not be of the kind that finds favour to-day. It
must be an active learning, not a learning that consists
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Title: Lecture I: Ancient Myths
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But it is only in our thinking that the Gods have deserted us. They are
have frequently remarked that knowledge, that way of thinking
give what lives in the soul a direct link with reality.
I said that what
less dreamt, slept through by mankind, that in any case abstract
active in the social life. I stated that in earlier times men were
aided through older, what we call atavistic, knowledge, through
myths. They brought to expression in the form of a myth what they
thought concerning the world, what entered their vision of the world
acquainted with the nature of that thinking which underlies the mode
are to be found in the myths, and the origin of what they express
and the Israelites. Moreover, one can say that a great part of the
thinking that still rules in the soul today is connected with the
attention to the fact that the Osiris-Isis-Myth is also conceived by
Dupuis as a mere priest lie, that the priests as far as they
Titans, and all that is related to them, and the third generation of
basis today. Of the Egyptians one must say that in the age when the
turn their gaze to that element in the human soul which lives not
turned the eye of the soul to that element in the soul which passes
when man treads ways that lie on the other side.
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Title: Lecture II: Ancient Myths
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But it is only in our thinking that the Gods have deserted us. They are
in mankind, we know that we have to look back to earlier times of
scientific thinking. The realization of what each one can do, no
orientate oneself for what is to come by considering what has been.
certain mythical pictures and imaginations what they thought and felt
that we in our Fifth Post-Atlantean epoch have to recapitulate in a
sort of inverted way what had happened in the Third, the
Egypto-Chaldean epoch, so that it emerges again differently. The
that in the time of the Greco-Latin evolution, in the time that
attentively what is said in my book
that in Grecian times, and even much later, people saw
Ideas — as it were — as Goethe still did, and that they
come about in modern times. But at that time there was indeed a
people remembered that it had been so earlier. They said — and
said to themselves: that age in which men still lived directly with
of course not one Osiris, but it was believed that there had
Typhon — that is, by that force of the human soul, which to be
been elaborated there actually lies all that I have been stating. The
to approach (we have pointed out in the Christmas lectures that by a
East knew that they were to bring their offerings to the new
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Title: Lecture III: Ancient Myths
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But it is only in our thinking that the Gods have deserted us. They are
from that of the mythology of the Egyptians and the Greeks. We have
seen that the Egyptian and Grecian mythologies in the manner of their
They are based on a certain consciousness that humanity once
to the things of the senses. We have seen that for this old atavistic
All that had arisen as
told you that the divine spiritual Beings who stand at the
them as producing through their deeds what we call earthly humanity.
that that is not the case in Egyptian or Greek mythology. There men
themselves a greater antiquity than that of the Gods then in power.
and significant a difference that one must bear it well in mind. In
the course of these studies we shall see to what an infinitely
within us in which we believe, which we profess as modern men, that
the immediate present bears much in it, that points back to the Old
impulse that proceeds from the Mystery of Golgotha. This all
important that we can lay one thing as a foundation; I have
already referred to it yesterday. We have often related that we are
the original Indian epoch will light up again. That is a law in the
catastrophe that is to come — like a catastrophe of nature.
part what immense depth of human consciousness in ancient times
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Title: Lecture IV: Ancient Myths
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But it is only in our thinking that the Gods have deserted us. They are
with the question which has just been raised. The question was: What
of man today so that a counterweight may be created to the principle
of heredity that prevails almost exclusively — whether in
is, in fact, most deeply connected with the contrast that I wished to
realize that in the age when that saying arose in the Egyptian
culture, it was still plain and clear that when one spoke of
acquainted with his civilization knew that what lives as ‘immortal’
that the saying on the Statue at Sais actually meant: He who will
There was no intention of saying that the human being as such cannot
lift the veil of Isis, but only that one who binds himself
instill into the laity — not the priesthood — that they,
priests were the ‘mortals’. That is to say, all those
might say that in the decadent age of Egyptian culture this was the
moreover called themselves the ‘immortals’ in that
that must be said in the course of these observations and it might
easily be thought that their purpose is merely to blame our times. I
have often emphasized that that is not the case. What is said here is
truth is to be spoken it cannot be expected that no mention will be
made of things that have simply got to be seen through, whether for
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Title: Lecture V: Ancient Myths
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But it is only in our thinking that the Gods have deserted us. They are
mankind's evolution, and you have already seen that all sorts of
purpose. In order that we may have a foundation as broad as possible,
I shall remind you today of various things that have been said from
you that in that evolutionary course of mankind which can be regarded
years go on becomes older. In a certain respect one can say that for
transformations. Now we have already described in what sense I a
that followed the great Atlantean catastrophe mankind can be said to
have been capable of development in a way quite different from what
was possible later. This is that ancient time which followed
We know that at our
through our nature, our physical forces. We have stated that in the
the fifth decade of his life, and he always knew that the process of
time something that determines our progress of soul and spirit.
connected. So that one can say: Mankind as a whole drew in, became
becoming-younger! And we have seen what consequence must be drawn
year, are entering the twenty-sixth and so on. So that men are
receding further, so that I, if no spiritual impulse grips mankind,
it is shown by the fact that in Greece, let us say, a man had still
reduce this age as much as possible, since people think that they
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Title: Lecture VI: Ancient Myths
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But it is only in our thinking that the Gods have deserted us. They are
that sounds strange at first hearing but which corresponds to a deep
has in reality no true understanding of himself. One could say that
this statement applies particularly to our own time. We know that
the Delphic temple ‘Know thyself’ merely a phrase at that
for a knowledge of what man on the earth actually is.
things that must be said in connection with this question are
fact that they sound as if they were difficult. They are only so for
that what we call understanding at the present day is actually the
reveal something to us. One must revive the consciousness that the
human being is a riddle that wants to be solved. We shall not,
physical form that wanders about before our eyes as man — far,
far more is man. But this physical structure that wanders round
before our eyes as man, and all that belongs to it, is none the less
man that goes about among us, what man is between birth and death
recognize in the human being what he is as immortal, as eternal being
of soul. One must only develop a feeling that this human form is a
reach everyone, is not fitted to call forth a feeling of what a
seen a human skeleton — remember then that the human skeleton
as absolute, develop them metaphysically — that we will not do.
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Title: Lecture VII: Ancient Myths
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But it is only in our thinking that the Gods have deserted us. They are
We have seen that we approach certain riddles of the universe I and
its completeness, what we experience between birth and death and
again between death and a new birth — that is actually the
We have seen that when
comparison but as an actuality. We can truly say that the whole
speaking lightly — that everyone has his own head. Man
certainly has that. For as you know, the configuration of the starry
special time at which one observes the stars. So that by taking the
the stars in the heavens. Let us keep in mind that it is not the
star-heaven in general that builds up our head, but its special
can realize that a considerable part of man's task between death and
that the head is not merely given us quite passively but that we make
laws that prevail in wide cosmic spaces. In fact, when we think of it
work chiefly upon the head. So that when the human head appears here
heredity from one's ancestors. I have said repeatedly that everyone
acknowledges that the magnetic needle does not turn by itself to the
North and the other pole to the South, but that cosmic forces are at
work, namely, that the earth is working there. In the case of the
magnet, people own that the universe plays a part, it is only when
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Title: Lecture: The Dual Form of Cognition During the Middle Ages and the Development of Knowledge in Modern Times
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possibilities of development for the future. I have said that we
human evolution, events that have led up to a soul-constitution which
struggled through to the conclusion that the fundamental note of this
contradict the fact that in our times the essential character of a
particular, will be unfolded in the next few days. We may say that
centuries subsequent to the Mystery of Golgotha. We may say that in
world-conception, which began to ebb at that time, in the course of
human world-conceptions, these gnostic documents represent that
from older traditions, from what existed in Asia, Africa and southern
Europe in the form of an ancient wisdom, from what could still be
vision supplied what may be designated as an inner logical system. If
that in the course of human evolution intellectualism has, in a
preeminently leading spirit, who at that time already made use of the
evinced that the older form of spirituality had ceased to exist and
that the human being now sought to gain a world-conception through
come across statements showing that the recollection of an old
high degree that things which were vividly experienced in the past,
gnosis of that time, with its still ample store of wisdom, which
longer be experienced. What the Gnostics set forth, contains, as it
that humanity gradually loses altogether the possibility of
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Title: Lecture: The Remedy for Our Diseased Civilisation
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I have tried to explain to you that, from the middle of the
point, and that this culminating point had been reached towards the
necessary that humanity should attain these scientific results. They
in the external symptoms, in what may be designated as Haeckel's
What occurred there, and what had such an extraordinarily deep
so-called refutations. Let us simply observe the fact that, on the
one hand, we have before us what people thought to win through a
world-conception; people believed that only this enabled them to
comparison with what was contained, for instance, in the medieval
written, with the aim of stating that it was still possible to make
point, and that perhaps it could be stated that a super-sensible
world existed, but that it could not be recognised; the
namely, the fact that Haeckel came to the fore, with his conception
of a purely naturalistic structure of the world, and the fact that
be present. At that time, it was not necessary to expect anything new
from Haeckel. Essentially, he had already declared what he could
were present, who thought that Haeckel was a significant personality,
a conspicuous man. That physiologist, however, was a thoroughly
is what I wish you to grasp, as a characteristic pertaining more to
that every single word revealed how matters stood. Whereas a few
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Title: Lecture: Goethe and the Evolution of Consciousness
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understood if we study the changes that have taken place in the
that in order really to know something about the nature of man, quite
a different outlook is necessary from that to which they are
They feel that one thing at least remains constant, namely, man's
time. They declare that, so far as his mental attitude is concerned,
man has not fundamentally changed throughout history and that if this
that in order to write history it is essential to take the present
would not understand how they spoke or what they did. Historical
modern historian infers that human beings must always have possessed
former epochs of history from that to which we are accustomed to-day.
at the poems he composed in his youth and we shall find that there
was always a kind of inner opposition to what his contemporaries were
of appeal to what lives in Nature, saying something more enduring and
We see him growing beyond what those around him have to say, coming
find that they reveal just this attitude of mind. Then a great
overwhelming change that came upon him in Italy. In letters to
suspect that the Greeks proceeded according to those laws by which
in such a way that the thought of metamorphosis in the whole of
It is only now that Goethe finds a world in which his soul really
feels at home. And, if we study all that he produced after that time,
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Title: Lecture: Salt, Mercury, Sulphur
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said that out of the strange and incoherent utterances of Jacob
expressed this more or less as follows. I said that Jacob Boehme
all remains indefinite, even nebulous. Everything that Giordano Bruno
sufficiently clear to indicate real insight into that relation of man
turn to Lord Bacon of Verulam, we find that he, in reality, no longer
perception and from the Mysteries, there is no trace in him whatever.
however, looks out into the world that is perceptible to the senses
human soul into that world in which the soul is immersed during
been possible to create from the inner being, had by that time been
himself, together with his inner life of knowledge, and what remained
to him was the vista of the outer world, of outer nature, of that
What did
man from what he had been able to observe in nature. That is to say,
understanding of the being of man was based on what was perceived to
Now what
nature but at the same time he tastes them, so that a
perception of taste. We find that while the sense of taste is
lifeless nature are all, to begin with, given form. That which exists
the like, are really crystallisations which have been shattered. Out
builds them up into that form which is peculiar to its own nature.
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Title: Lecture: Some Conditions for Understanding Supersensible Experiences
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human nature actually takes shape are nowhere contained in what man
of what I want to convey by saying this, you must think about many
things that are familiar to you from anthroposophical studies.
You must remind yourselves that as well as living through his life
by no means without significance for what we do during our earthly
significance for what happens on earth as a whole. For only part —
and indeed the rather lesser part — of what happens on the
forces proceeding from the dead also penetrate into what surrounds
and overtakes us here. So that a full and complete survey of man's
life is possible only if we look beyond what can be told us by
that can explain man in his whole being and the whole course of human
incarnating in bodies derived from physical parents. In that epoch,
that they will, it is true, still have a relationship with the earth,
some conception of what happens between death and a new birth.
relationship with earthly affairs that we now have only between death
leagues away. Most people to-day still persist in believing that the
amass all kinds of spiritual experiences, but not by the path that is
that is discovered by an Initiate, and can be communicated, is
also, to translate what he is able to proclaim out of the spiritual
healthy reason to them, these experiences would be of no use whatever
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Title: Lecture: The Relation of the Movement for Religious Renewal to the Anthroposophical Movement
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I HAVE often said in this place that in more ancient times in the
the nature of the ancient Mysteries knows that within these
picture form, in the way that was possible in those times. That way
followed by the third stage, that of the revelation of the nature of
through art, but in such a way that thoughts, feelings and also the
knowledge that can bring to realization what Goethe already divined:
a knowledge that raises itself to art, not symbolical
Perhaps, my dear friends, at the close of what I have to say, you
will understand what is really the deeper cause of my words. Let me
say in the first place that already for a long time now the
Society, but that the Anthroposophical Society, if it would fulfill
about that in more recent years the way of working had necessarily to
be different for the Anthroposophical Movement from what it was when
Now in order not to speak merely theoretically but to make what I
something that has recently taken place in connection with a Movement
that is distinct from the Anthroposophical Movement, because, if I
upon the practical duties of ministers of religion. What they said to
ground under his feet for the practical work of a minister that is
assumed forms that do not really enable it to instil into its
impulse that must proceed as a living power from the Mystery of
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Title: Lecture: Concerning the Origin and Nature of the Finnish Nation
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soul that really constitutes a kind of triad, which, in the case of
should also be able to find in evolution a stage that reveals this
outwardly; that is to say, a stage in which the soul really feels its
separately. In other words: A nation must once have existed that felt
these soul-parts separately, in such a way that the “one-ness”
“threefold-ness”, and so that this threefold nature of
“Kalevala”. What is set forth in “Kalevala”,
express the fact that this form of consciousness once existed in a
nation that was widely spread in the north-eastern territory of
Europe, a nation that experienced the three parts of the soul
separately and felt that the sentient soul was inspired by
these ancient seers, felt that the understanding soul was, as it
were, a special member of the soul, that receives its forging
impulses — or that which forges within the soul and builds it
In the same way, that nation, or
those ancient seers (but we must bear in mind the fact that the
consciousness-soul was, at that time, experienced as something that
experienced that Lemminkainen was a Being connected with the powers
epic poems, we may say that these three heroic characters come from
between Ilmarinen and what is being forged there. I have already
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Title: Lecture: Perceiving and Remembering
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must be understood that in reality it interpenetrates the whole human etheric
the whole system of man, his astral body and ego. Let us now recall that the
turn our attention to the light-ether. It is true that the whole etheric body
kinds of ether, but we shall only consider today that part of the ether body
which is light-ether; and in order to fix our attention on that part of the
often said that man really only gains consciousness of things from being
we are awake, that the astral body and ego are within the physical and
etheric bodies; one may add, as regards that part of them which is not within
things. Keeping this in view we say that we have sense perceptions. The cause
of this is that the human ego and astral body first receive a revelation of
shall inquire today: How does memory come about? How is it that we have
remembrance of many things, of objects and experiences that we have passed
through? How does it come to pass that we have memory?
case. We meet a man today, whom we first saw five days ago. We remember that
we saw him five days ago, that we spoke with him, that he told us his name.
We say: we recognize this man. What is it that really takes place in us when
what occurs; the first thing we have to take into consideration is this, that
movements. It is the light part of the etheric body that we are now
part that we are considering today; I will speak of it therefore as the
light-body as movements — as inner light-movements; so that apart from
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Title: Perception of the Nature of Thought
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in mind what we sought to study yesterday, let us consider how
matters actually stand in regard to what we call man's Saturn
we know that there is concealed within us, within our human being,
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
evolution. Three evolutionary periods have gone by. And all that
uncover the forces which at that time worked upon our physical body.
you recollect what was shown in my book
you are aware that there was an active co-operation at that time
externally. We find it if we look into what we call our personal
karma. Please note, my dear friends, that our personal karma is
woven in such a way that what befalls us in successive earth lives is
forth the connection of cause and effect that comes to expression in
continuous stream and no one considers to what extent historical
evolution depends on the fact that human souls, for instance, who
The fact that they participate in current events and that the way in
we learn to read what is in the surrounding cosmos and not
cosmic script, and consider what radiating forces pour into human
of that world-conception which must be employed for the laws of the
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Title: Lecture: The Spiritual Individualities of the Planets
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I want to add to what has previously been said some explanation of
think only of the modern conception of the planetary system: that it
from this picture have led merely to the idea that there are no
separated, what essential difference is there between, for example,
the Moon and Saturn? It is of course true that very important
fact that he is a being of soul and spirit. With the help of
Initiation-science we must again learn to realise that our planetary
London.] that there was once a cosmic age — relatively
fact that it reflects the light of the Sun is evident to the most
superficial observation. So we can say: What comes from the Moon is
Now, as you all know, we see what is outside or in front of a mirror
but we do not see what is behind it.
everything that radiates upon it — the radiations of the solar
It can be said, therefore, that the universe is before us in a
reflection. Only that which is within the Moon — that
and that alone remains, if I may so express it, the Moon's secret; it
remains hidden, just as what is behind a mirror remains hidden. What
a way that he does not see the reflection from the Moon — only
makes the significant discovery that through the utterances, through
this Moon fortress, certain secrets can be revealed that were once in
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Title: Lecture: The Elemental World and the Future of Mankind
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insight into the fact that within the physical-soul-spiritual
see also that with this entity, consisting of forces from the
I have often mentioned that a new stream of spirituality is now ready
in recent centuries. However, it must be said that the intellect has
It is obvious, even to an external unbiased observation, that the
achieved something; one was eager to hear what they had to say, and
fresh from university speaks one is no longer curious about what he
vitality. One gets the feeling that the activity of the intellect has
slid down from the head to some deeper region. That human
upon man opening his heart and soul to what thus seeks entry, through
to his own self. Through inner exercises he sought to attain what
ordinary consciousness of self that we have today with that of the
certain level of human evolution is not the same as attaining that
You will realize from what was said yesterday that mankind must
explained yesterday, this has the effect that thinking, by no longer
and breath. In so doing he identified himself with what his
gain insight into that spiritual foundation of nature which external
What they actually do is explain how sense observation, interpreted
must rediscover what lies behind the knowledge provided by external
separated. However, it must be stressed that everything of a solid,
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Title: Lecture: A Picture of Earth-Evolution in the Future
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distorted in expression — that the apparent isolation of man on earth is not
final; that man is not alone in the universe. We are therefore reprinting here
may have helped to show you that we can begin to
universe. If we ask: What is man in his true nature? — then
we must learn to look upwards from the Earth to what is beyond the Earth. This
This unmistakably indicates that it is high time for man to discover how he can
and will have realised that one of the great events in earthly
know what incisive changes in the whole sweep of evolution are connected with
Today we will confine our attention to what came to pass on earth in
lectures on colours we have learnt that minerals — that is to say, the coloured
the Spiritual Beings who guide earthly evolution as to what must happen to man.
beyond the earth? It can be said with truth that the separation of the moon,
out of the earth that man's organism developed in such a way as to make it
of the forces that were to build his body. And this concentration of forces was
may say that if nothing else had happened except this departure of the moon
first time that the human intellect began to grow shadowy. This process has
Thus the second great process or event was that man became more spiritual. But
You know that the moon will one day
must begin to be alive to the great happenings that are connected with his
evolution. He must know what it means to say that the moon once left the earth
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Title: Lecture: The Spiritual Communion of Mankind
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Mysteries that were the outcome of different conditions in the
arose from conceptions of the spiritual world that had primarily to
Mysteries that were celebrated in certain parts of Asia long before
festival with Mysteries that were celebrated also in pre-Christian
fact that they were preeminently Summer Mysteries, connected with the
union between man and all that takes place in earthly life during the
Mysteries we must think, first of all, of that part of the evolution
we find that the Mysteries were institutions of men still possessed
dreams were expressions of reality, the men belonging to that ancient
has learnt at school. I have, as you know, often said that what the
dreams but somewhat resembling them. Whereas we know quite well that
the pictures in our dreams are woven from our reminiscences, that
old clairvoyance men knew that they were the expressions — not,
But it must not be imagined that
well be amazed at the power and brilliance of the thoughts of that
what men fashioned out of various materials into works of art, and
what they acquired as wisdom. Today the distinction is made by
saying: What man acquires in the form of wisdom must be true; but
what he embodies in his materials as a painter, sculptor, or musician
— that is fantasy!
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Title: Lecture: Technology and Art: Their Bearing on Modern Culture
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common knowledge that ever since the onset of this modern life, men
The important thing now is that the impulses we feel
modern life. We must come to feel that Spiritual Science is a
necessary counter-balance for elements in modern life that have an
him more deeply about what this modern life signifies for the human
leading to initiation and one who has no connection whatever with it
is that in the former case the experiences become conscious; the
person realises what actually happens to him when he spends a night
Naturally, the influences that play on the human
If we are to understand what is really meant by these
our physical and etheric bodies, so that while we are asleep in a
and anyone who has ever woken up with the aftermath of what the
with what the Ego and astral body experience as the inner law and
warning, because what I am proposing to say might easily arouse a
What I mean by this arrogance is that someone may say to himself: “I
painted in colours suitable for spiritual sensitivity, so that none
The last thing I want is that what I say should have
is Anthroposophy alone that can make the human heart and will
procedure. Although it is understandable that weaker natures would
untouched by it, it must nevertheless be emphasised that such an
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Title: Lecture: The Inexpressible Name, Spirits of Space and Time.
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Let me indicate some of these facts today. You should realize that
practically when the human being stands before you, he is that being
described in Anthroposophy. That is to say, we first have before us
and the physical body. The fact that whenever we face a human being
we always have before us these four members, implies that the
really do not know it. We think that the person we see before us
fills out space with his physical body and that we see his physical
if I tell you that our physical body is a corpse, even during the
conception of yourself if you think that you are carrying through
space what you imagine to be your physical body. You would have a far
have been for some time past. What I am telling you now cannot, of
that of today. The human bodies of olden times, the mummies which you
illness simply consists in the fact that the human body in part goes
are simply due to the fact that in the one or in the other person a
What I told you now, essentially depends on the development of
Now consider carefully the following question: What does the human
being recognize with the aid of that knowledge which he designates as
things! Science constantly emphasizes that the ordinary intelligence
cannot grasp life. To be sure, some investigators believe that if
understand the mineral, lifeless substance; that is to say, they will
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Title: Lecture: The Coming Experience of Christ
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conditions are bound to develop in the near future, and we saw that
disappearance of much that is still greatly to men's taste and
to speak yesterday it will be clear to you that a very disagreeable
comfortably through the coming times. I do not say that the
fulfilled to the letter. But what must be regarded as imminent is a
natural science, that will arouse the deepest need for what I have
time. The course of human evolution has brought it about that ever
all that can properly be called experience of the Christ has fallen
into complete decadence. We saw, too, that the impossibility of
clear that just as other incisive events in human evolution come
souls has become quite different from what it was before that time.
mind. That also has been too little noticed, because people usually
stick to the ideas that have once been instilled into them. But there
what has been inculcated, and this comes out very clearly if one
habitual ideas, so that nothing is able to penetrate their minds
what an immense gulf really exists between those who are old today
that there are many who still cling to a certain piety, a piety which
prefers to remain in ignorance of what is penetrating mankind through
dishonesty lurks in this piety, a reluctance to face what it is that
science are fulfilled — so that children are given a stimulus
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Title: Lecture: Modern and Ancient Spiritual Exercises
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attention to the fact that in ancient times man possessed a faculty of
phases to become what may be described as modern man's consciousness of the
returning to what was practised then because they cannot rouse themselves
to the realization that, in order to penetrate in to super-sensible worlds,
On previous occasions I have mentioned that, from the masses of human beings
suited to that age, inner forces which led them upwards into super-sensible
— that is to say, the one who sets out to attain higher knowledge by
in general was very different from what it is today. In the present age
physical world and we are conscious that if we attempt to experience a
that these men of old, through their fantasy, dreamed all kinds of
that of man in ancient times, if we believe that the spiritual beings
way of experiencing the world, namely, that man in those days had no clear
felt as my hand would feel were it conscious: that it is not independent,
being as separate from the surrounding world. Suppose a man of that time
downstream he, as modern, clever man, feels his legs stepping out in that
direction and this has nothing whatever to do with the river. In general,
the man of old did not feel like that. When he walked along a river
spiritual beings connected with the water of the river flowing in that
water — that is, by something material — so the man of old felt
himself guided downstream by something spiritual. That is only an example
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Title: Lecture: The Meaning of Easter: St. Paul and the Christ Impulse
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that the Christmas festival has been made immovable, having been fixed at
celebrate a Sunday — a day, that is, which should remind them of
their connection with the sun-forces — when the Sunday comes that
current among mankind, traditions that originated from ancient atavistic
knowledge that present-day science can offer. And such traditions were a
time fixed for the Christmas festival indicates how closely that festival
earthly conditions; it is a time that can be ascertained only when man
forces of earth-evolution pure and simple. For through knowledge of that
beyond the earth; it contains a promise to man that in the course of
that is implied in this manner of dating the Easter festival, it will be
remind ourselves again and again what a great event in the evolution of
that were associated with the personality
of Jesus. All that came to his notice in this way in the physical world
experience that came to him cut deeply into his life — so deeply indeed,
that from that moment he became another man. Nay, more: he became an
the nature of the event that befell him at
weak reflection of all that he experienced inwardly. But even so, when he
we can discern that he speaks as one who through this event attained
sense. From the very manner in which he speaks it is plain that he is
back into the ancient past we find that man remained capable of organic
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Title: Lecture: The Universe
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deepen what we have recently considered. If we envisage, to
begin with, the fact that the human form, of course,
mind that in regard to the formation of the head, the human
universe, you will find, as it were, that as regards the
Perhaps we obtain the best picture of what I mean by this,
out of our own being. But on the other hand, we know that
the world with his thinking that is connected with his
head, he takes back, as it were, into himself, what is
what he takes in from outside. Consider that when the child
He sees the world that surrounds him. We may therefore say:
of the right eye crosses that of the left eye, in the same
touch themselves much less. We may therefore say that the
that the fourth thing is to encompass ourselves. (See
weaving through us. We may therefore say: Five: That which
the fact that we do not only have a skin, but that it is
filled out, and through the fact that we were thus able to
like a fruit that has ripened. Let us follow the
our being, with that body which fills us out. Then, when we
have once described to you that
mineral. This led us to the point of being able to say that
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Title: Lecture: The Templars
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into all that these souls bring to expression in earthly life. I have pointed
into the forces that are at work in modern souls, we are compelled to
the Knights Templar in order to show how what proceeded from this Order
that the Order of the Templars was founded in connection with the Crusades.
It was, so to speak, an important accompanying phenomenon to that great event
Crusades. Leaving on one side all that is known externally about the founding
read it in history books — we find that this Order of the Knights
gathered together at a place that lay near to the ancient Temple of Solomon
what gradually began to live in the souls of the Templars.
their blood, as the representative of that which distinguishes earthly Man,
sensible physical existence; they were to live solely in what streams from
impulses that are connected with the Mystery of Golgotha.
practice what they had spiritually resolved. Words are impotent to describe
what lived in the souls of these men, who might never waver in their duty,
plane, might never flee, but must calmly await death, the death that they
now, when such an intense life is lived in the right rhythms, so that it can
inwardly, mystically, and with a certain rhythm into all that goes on in the
else, something that has still greater effect is developed when this inner
into the service of the course of events. And it was intended that what lived
what had to be done in the attempt to regain power over the sacred grave. A
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Title: The Year as a Symbol of the Great Cosmic Year
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MUCH that I should
reach the depths of that of which I shall speak to-day, if he holds
certain forest trees remain what is called evergreen through winter.
We know that in all events and occurrences that take
that when we walk through the forest, we have not only the trees
about us with their green foliage, but that in the background of
It is absolutely clear to us that behind all the
Now let us, to begin with, consider what people call
but with soul and spirit, so that we speak also of a
substance that which may be compared to a man's muscles and blood,
but we see only what may be compared to his bony system, namely, the
solid earth ; so that when we speak of the consciousness of the
evoke in our souls the conception that the whole Earth has
direct our attention to all that springs forth and sprouts on Earth,
entity in reference to the Earth. That the whole plant world is an
As men we are not aware that there really is a certain
have, however, often remarked that this in fact refers to our blood
good in respect to the plant world. We know that the plant world
the Earth, we can really say that during the height of summer in our
Now I beg you to note that these two states of
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Title: On the Duty of Clear, Sound Thinking
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These duties are connected above all with that which
It is true, that in view of this material age and all
that it brings in its train, we recognise that Spiritual Science must
progress of mankind. It is true, that all that seems to us necessary
much to do at the present time, that we cannot believe that with our
feeble powers we should ever be in a position to do much of what has
to be done. One thing at least is important, that we should connect
our interest with what has to be done, that we should acquire ever
be interested in that of which humanity has need, and gain a clear
downward tendency, those that are harmful forces. At the opening of a
somewhat from our own personal concerns and to direct them to the
into that which is moving along the downward path in the human
Gnostics perished; and how it is now necessary to work, so that an
nineteenth century, and I have again and again emphasised that the
been recognised by us. But what we must keep specially before us is
this, that the great progress made in the materialistic realms of
been so strong as in our day, so that want of confidence as
authority. People live to-day entirely under the impression that they
must believe in, they must recognise authority, that they must have
that. For the most part men do not consider to-day that it is an
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Title: Lecture: Evil and the Power of Thought
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whole mood of soul is governed by fear. All that you do, as well as
all that you feel, is saturated with fear and its reverberations in
related to hatred, so hatred plays a great part in your whole
own ancient time. And he would make it plain that in his time and his
of oneself in love to the world.” That is how he would put it,
what were from his point of view supremely important constituent
listen to him in the right way, we should gain much that we need to
culture,” then it must certainly be admitted that but little of
times there was in the Orient little of what was afterwards required of man
when that word resounded which found its most radical expression in
man's inner glance was captured by all that he experienced in the
entire being to it. It was cosmic knowledge that wove in the ancient
oriental wisdom, and in the world-conception that owed its origin to
all that lived in the Mysteries of the East there was no fulfilment
that approach you which is hidden in the depths of cosmic
phenomena!” — that is how the precept of the ancient
fact, they were now able to penetrate deeply into all that exists in
But by means of all that the men of the East brought to the Western
souls who could endure what they perceived.
who had already cultivated that vision of man's inner being, a
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Title: Lecture: The Seeds of Future Worlds
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memories of the impressions made upon us by the world, but that this
soul; and later we are able to call up again pictures of what we have
as though we had within us a mirror; but one that works differently from
the ordinary spatial mirror. For the ordinary mirror reflects what is in
— at some later moment — causes this or that impression
a mirror that is in space, then we can see behind it; we can look into a
As we do this, as we look within behind the memory-mirror, then what I
there is really nothing in the world that would not bring blessing to man,
of matter. But in this centre of destruction it really happens that
Jupiter existence will contain nothing but the new creation that is
anti-moral impulses, out of what works as evil from his egoism. Hence
and the reason is that beyond the tapestry of the senses lies that
existence, has no place at all. Hence it is that the ancient Oriental,
the man of the West has developed his Ego, has allowed that hardening
we are already on the way to seeing what it is that must enter into man's
intellectualism that has been developing ever since the middle of the
it is essential that man should acquire once more a consciousness of
The truth is that we are living in a stage of evolution when man
intellect to build up natural laws. Following a line of thought that
have to admit that within the world I survey with my ordinary
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Title: Lecture: Exoteric and Esoteric Christianity
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emphasised that as well as these records which have had a deep
what we may call esoteric knowledge.
Christianity the teaching of greatest moment is that concerning
references to this. What the Gospels say of this communion
indeed enable them to surmise that something of the deepest
testifies that he was only able to believe in Christ after He had
Why was it that
what it meant to Paul — who to a certain extent had been
learn that Christ Jesus had been condemned to a death of shame by
that the old prophecies could have been fulfilled by one who had
revelation came to him at Damascus, the fact that Jesus of
conclusive proof that He could not have been the Messiah. It was
only after the revelation at Damascus that conviction came
fact that Jesus of Nazareth, or rather, the Being indwelling the
immeasurable significance that Paul should have proclaimed his
that were still extant during the first centuries of Christendom
secret societies, where they are not understood. Anything that
Christ spoke after the Resurrection. What was the nature of the
must ask: What was the teaching given by Christ after the
mind to understand, is that the first human beings who lived on
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Title: Lecture: Realism and Nominalism
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— as far as Europe is concerned — in what we call
Scholasticism, that Scholasticism of which I have repeatedly spoken.
what was meant by medieval scholastic Realism. It was not called
held that people who consider only the outer sense-reality, or that
able to understand what takes place, for instance, in the case of a
does not happen, for the wolf remains a wolf — that is, the
material aspect does not matter; what matters is the form,
when someone says that ideas and conceptions are nothing at all, and
that the material aspect of things is the only one that matters, then
conception: — What matters, is the form in which the
that ideas and concepts were something real, and that is why
the Nominalists. They argued that there is nothing outside sense-reality,
and that ideas and concepts are mere names through which we grasp the
warmed by what is expressed in these spiritual currents. But these
argued that ideas and conceptions — that is, forms taken up by
Nevertheless, the realistic scholastic philosophers still felt that,
longer based upon clairvoyance, but what it had preserved
intellectualism approached, the Nominalists discovered that they were
an answer by placing the question somewhat differently. For instance,
real to such an extent, that they could not conceive that, as a mere
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Title: Lecture: Fundamentals of the Science of Initiation
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that which we shall consider to-morrow and the day after to-morrow.
sense and meaning which I have often explained to you: namely, that
but that it is only valid for a certain definite time, indeed, only
Everybody knows that we
that, on the one hand, we have the knowledge gained through our
his senses, and is even able to sum up what he sees and hears, and,
in general, what he perceives through his senses. After all, that
in the Occident, is merely a summary of that which the senses convey
But everyone can feel that
there is also another kind of knowledge, and that it is not possible
that thing in Nature, we also speak of ethical ideas, ethical ideals.
We feel that they are the motives of our actions, and that we allow
world. And every man will undoubtedly feel that this knowledge of the
you will know that the highest ethical
moral intuitions, and that when we begin to gain possession of these
other hand, you may perhaps also know that for certain thinkers there
has always been a kind of abyss between that which is given, on the
that he has to say about natural science, or the knowledge of Nature.
here, that in past times man's soul-constitution was essentially
different from that of a later time. The origin of Christianity
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Title: Lecture: Cosmogony, Freedom, Altruism
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difficult — in view of the many facts that meet one
within our civilisation, and that it contains within itself
forces that make for its downfall. Recognising these forces
we survey our present civilisation, we shall see that there
symptoms of a vast process that is going on in our age, and
that, taken as a whole, presents a phenomenon of decline and
beyond our own immediate civilisation—beyond what has
whole course of man's evolution, we may observe that earlier
realise, that what lived within their own souls was part of
the life of the whole universe. Just think what a vivid
living a part was played in everyday life by whatever could
people had a Cosmogony — that is, they
They knew that they were not merely beings who had gone
like lost sheep, but that they were part and parcel of the
compared with what man of old felt pulsing through him from
That is one thing that is bringing about the downfall of our
element leading to the downfall of our civilisation is that
conception of what freedom really is — and fewer still
have any real impulse for it. And so it comes that our
nature, that is, to all intents and purposes,
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Title: Lecture: Brunetto Latini
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recently pursued have shown that all true Art eventually
spiritual worlds. That which can then be experienced, more or
cannot be fully penetrated unless we also bear in mind that
— things that were not by any means a secret to the
to perceive the spiritual note that pervades what Dante has
artistic imagination. They are content to leave it at that.
Needless to say, I shall not deny that artistic imagination
it would be wrong to suppose that he created the whole of his
you will recognise from what we shall presently say, may be
any rate was known to that time. They knew that man, to reach
the secrets of existence, must take the path that leads
absolutely living in that time: the recognition that the path
for what can truly be called self-knowledge!
observed that it was my own face which I had seen by the
two mirrors were so inclined that he could see himself. He
that it was his own. We see that even with respect to this
entered from the opposite side. What a wretched-looking
pedant, I said to myself, and presently discovered that I had
in his mind of the typical pedant. He knew that the man,
schoolmaster. Not until afterwards did he discover that it
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Title: Lecture: The Shaping of the Human Form out of Cosmic and Earthly Forces
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recognise that the special moulding, the special formation of
certainly say that the particular formation of his head is a
that belongs to the present rhythmical system, who is the
real man of the Earth. Thus we can say: What we have before
for its subsequent embodiments is all that underlies man's
from its earthly form to what it was as Saturn organism, Sun
Cosmos. Now what came about during the Saturn-evolution and
vivid idea of what took place during the old Moon-evolution,
study the human head in relation to that. We then come to
and more than from that of the new Moon. Moreover in its
development: imagine, that is, that through some course of
that it is always the full Moon which sheds its rays on eyes
or nose, and that the back of the head, which should depend
exposed to the influence of the new Moon? It is true that
sheds its rays more or less obliquely on that part of the
to be borne in mind today is that during the embryonic
proceeding from the Moon are those that give form to the
This is brought about by the Moon —that is, by the
being is caught up in that cosmic condition to which the tone
Now what really
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Title: Lecture: Hygiene - a Social Problem
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never doubted that the Social Question is one of the problems that is
any understanding at all of the events that occur in the course of
be said that the point of view from which these social problems are
revealed in the fact that people start from certain theories: this or
that ought to be done, this or that ought to be stamped out.
domain like that of hygiene — a domain which possibly is more
cannot help asking: What is the real attitude of social life to all
that when the conclusions reached by medical or physiological science
on authority all that finds its way on the subject of hygiene, from
convinced that in the course of modern history during the last four
that is demanded in the sphere of hygiene. In short, this
I know that what I have
health side by side with the democratic demand that affairs of public
sphere like that of public health which so intimately concerns both
in the form of disease, nor to support the modern superstitions that
materialism. I want rather to consider something that permeates the
to-day that the materialism of the middle and last third of the
of its opposite. The most one can say is that materialism has been
overcome by a few people here and there. These people realise that
that everything in existence is merely a mechanical, physical or
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Title: Lecture: Speech and Song
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Now we know that the
that which man forms and creates in this activity — we may call
member — human speech. We may indeed say that in speech there
earth, and one man finds the way to another. Bridging the gulf that
lies between, soul meets with soul through speech. We feel that we
the connection of what man attains by great efforts here on earth, as
music. And it is a happy coincidence at the present moment that in
life in that element which corresponds to the Sound in speech and
organism as it stands before us here on earth, we know that it is
— not only what man bears in himself, but also what surrounds
outwardly but inwardly. In all that he brings forth by way of sound
more in detail what the human being is in that he speaks or
differentiated into song and speech, but these two were one. What is
so often referred to as the primeval language of man was such that we
that we bring forth in speech is composed of a consonantal and of a
fact that something or other in our body has a certain plastic form.
alone. These organs only represent the highest culmination of what is
part in the process. The process that goes on in the organ of speech
or song is but the final culmination of something that is taking
What then is this human
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Title: Lecture: Concerning Electricity
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cultural ingredient that now permeates our whole external
and that time when a certain physicist prepared a frog's leg which
quivered, and so he discovered electricity! How long ago was that?
then they calculated the results of these collisions. At that time,
that the atoms are full of electricity.
now observe the connections that existed before the present age of
electricity, we may say that they allowed the natural scientist of
that time to imagine, at least abstractly, the spiritual in Nature.
began to affect man's nerves, expelling from them everything that
light that surges through the world's spaces, was gradually defamed
believe that this is utter nonsense. But this is only due to the fact
that the people whose heads consider such things as nonsense drag
their backs, so that they cannot speak in an unprejudiced way, from
see, when we speak of electricity, we enter a sphere that presents a
different aspect to the imaginative vision than that of the other
the world of sound, that is to say, in the spheres of optics and
acoustics, it was not necessary to judge morally that which appeared
on the other hand, even less able to discover a moral essence in that
impulses, if we were to say that they contain a force enabling them
power of vision, you will realize that electricity in Nature is not
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Title: Lecture: The Problem of Jesus and Christ in Earlier Times
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Christ problem as a whole — a fact that is no doubt surprising. A
possible that a store of wisdom that once existed can disappear
that it is possible to imagine that everything we publish today and
that all our existing writings have been burned, so that only the
only from those records and not from what we have said. This is quite
possibly what did occur. Nevertheless, this hypothesis cannot be
help of the works of our adversaries, so that the store of wisdom
from generation to generation. This must be what occurred at that
time. It must have happened that people lost the capacity to
Jeû, and so on. In fact, this is what happened.
imagine to ourselves that, based on the broad foundation, so to
speak, of that ancient inheritance — which had already fulfilled
its purpose in the form of a primitive clairvoyance that then
must imagine further that it was because of the gradual paralysis of
the capacity to understand such things that this knowledge was not
say that, when we look back at the time just before the period
entirely new and fresh forces. We may say without hesitation that, as
lost the kind of knowledge that might have enabled people to
indicated, several times, something very significant. I stated that
one.” There were special teachings in the Mysteries that
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Title: Lecture: On the Dimensions of Space
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enough, man is distinctly aware of the fact that such a thing exists.
consciousness, that something does exist to draw man's attention to the
imaginable difficulties. They know that the physical and bodily is
his ideas of it comparatively easily. He can use all that space with
quite apart from all that, the fact is that man is conscious of his
that when he resolves to move about in space his thought is
assert that it is in space. In this way the greatest
thought flows into the will, or how it can be that the will, which is
parallelism.’ It really amounts to a confession that we can say
of thought, feeling and will. All that we know is
that when the physical and bodily process takes place in space and
expressed — that the two processes run parallel to one
spiritualism by proving that when so and so many men are dying and so
these things indicate what difficulties arise when we seek the relation
physical in such a way that the soul has no conceivable place
that the absolutely unspatial soul-and-spirit, as he conceives it,
start from what anthroposophical spiritual science has to say.
observation shews undoubtedly that the
can be no question but that the will — albeit a thing of soul and
consciousness he can, therefore, be of opinion that his Feeling
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Title: Lecture: Thinking and Willing as Two Poles of the Human Soul-Life
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soul we may say that at the one pole of this soul-life lies the
between these two the element of feeling, that which in
Naturally, however, what actually takes place in the life of the soul
that we maintain a completely passive attitude towards life, so
that we can say that our will does not function outwardly at all. We
must nevertheless be aware that if, during such a period of outer
the thoughts that we unfold. Will holds sway in the sphere of our
thinking in that we correct one thought with another. Hence even if
our will-activity, so that in this connection we may say: in the life
never exist for themselves alone. But the qualities that are never
completely sundered from one another, that have no separate
find that thinking always bears reference to something that is already
will cannot be influenced by what is already there. This would obviously
that which is to come, by what lies in the future. Feeling stands mid-way
in ordinary life there is some indication that this is the case, and so
that which determines our thinking, that which enables us to think and
creates in us the possibility of thought, all that we owe to our life
That
chaotic movements through the fact that his soul and spirit are
really in this, that gradually the will is taken hold of by the
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Title: Vortrage: Denken, Fühlen, Wollen - Das Muspilhgedicht
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bezieht, was da ist, was Voraussetzungen hat. Das Denken ist zumeist
hat eigentlich im Grunde genommen die wirklichen Gedankenkräfte,
also über fünfzig Jahre alt geworden ist, dann hat man sein
Gegenwart hat gar keine logische Struktur. Der Sonnenstrahl
ein Körper hier aufleuchtet, so entsteht ja ein Schatten. Sie
müssen gewissermaßen den Schatten sich richtig begrenzen
lassen und so weiter. Sie können den Schatten konstruieren.
Daß der Schatten wirklich entsteht, das kann nur durch die
die Gegenwart hat der Mensch immer Imaginationen.
Gesetze und so weiter wissen, wie der andere, der es gelernt hat!
Ebensowenig weiß der Mensch, wenn er es nicht gelernt hat,
die hat noch etwas von dem, was auf diesem Felde zur Erkenntnis
(siehe Zeichnung Seite 201). Da war Materie, jetzt hat der
und in Gesetze gebracht hat. Diese Tatsachen müssen erst
Denkweise ein Gedicht, das man «Muspilli» genannt hat, das
sich zuerst in einem Buche gefunden hat, das Ludwig dem Deutschen im
diese Denkweisen, die man in der späteren Zeit ausgebildet hat,
hineingeschrieben hat, noch eine richtigere als die spätere.
Denn die spätere Zeit hat das Sonderbare begangen, die
hat die spätere Zeit gemacht; die frühere Zeit hat noch
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Title: Fall/Darkness: Lecture 1: The Driving Force Behind Europe's War
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world that I need not discuss in detail, at least to begin
world. We may say to ourselves that it appears as if time
day, people who are not fully awake to what is going on
today. But when those who are awake look back on what went
that was created hundreds of years ago. Events which meant
of course, able to appreciate what was coming even before
reconcile this with the spiritual scientific finding that
justice to the question. And I would always go on to say that
discover to their horror that the population can also
that is gnawing away at the evolution of humanity.
order to indicate what was going to happen in human evolution
knowing what is going on in the physical world, and knowing
the laws that human minds are able to perceive as operative
are wholly given up to the internal processes that go on in
idea of the world of the spirit that is all around us.
the cause of this terrible world war. Nor can it be said that
terrible events around us. Sadly, it has to be said that the
What is the
when we take note of what people think, or rather pretend to
think and pretend to want? It is that, fundamentally
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Title: Fall/Darkness: Lecture 2: Humanity's Struggle for Morality
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idea of this — of which we can say that much will have
regard to our innermost being that old, inherited and
feeling develop. This is what our time demands. I think it
simply, that there can only be one of two things: destructive
development of humanity. Just think what it means —
that, knowing this truth, we shall be compelled to feel
hand, we should not forget that the number of people who have
understood, of course, that this was different in the past,
when the fact that an age of materialism must inevitably
labouring under numerous illusions that have their origin in
humanity. I think it is fair to say that, generally speaking,
that this imbalance between intellectual and moral life in
themselves, quite rightly, that the life of the intellect,
the rational mind, has made tremendous advances. This is what
never realizing that chemical foods are not the same as those
would be right to say that because moral development has not
destructive. Many people are beginning to notice that the
asks at the present time that issues like these should be
gone into sufficiently deeply so that they may serve a truly
human evolution. No one asks that they should be tackled at
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Title: Fall/Darkness: Lecture 3: The Search for a Perfect World
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ahead. It is important to realize that it will be necessary
to present truths based on the science of the Spirit that in
accepted beliefs. The world holds opinions that not only
differ but often are the direct opposite of the truths that
expected, therefore, that people will consider these truths
before that the new and different views presented to them are
fanciful and absurd. Nevertheless, truths that until now were
the prejudices and counter-currents matter that are provoked
extent that these illusions become powers that rule the
growing tendency to form utterly wrong opinions about what in
the New Testament words that are fundamental in this respect:
illusion that their kingdom should be very much of this
What do I mean
through it, knows that this world on the physical plane can
materialistically have the illusion that perfection can be
physical world and believe that if they realize this we shall
have paradise on earth. All that the socialists are able to
that everybody can live what they consider to be the good
agitator and writer is absolutely convinced that it is up to
it is not evil-mindedness that stops us from thinking their
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Title: Fall/Darkness: Lecture 4: The Elemental Spirits of Birth and Death
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terrible events that will happen as time goes on.
Mysteries, as you know, so that people in the surrounding
truths. Now, we have often said that it is fear of the great
truths that prevents people from accepting them. Those who
with human birth and death. You should never believe that
death' for the moment. It is true that the individuals who
live, one would be speaking of something that would seem like
learn the truth that in order to bring about birth and death
work — if all spirits were of a kind to see to it that
used to the idea that the world is not made as people would
really like it to be and that there exists the element which
looking at a world that is immediately next to our own, a
world that day by day, hour by hour, has to do with our own
drives, with their passions, had known that destructive
that humans could create apparatus which would enable them to
how swiftly this has gone, that new and different fabulous
endeavour. I think you can easily see that the ideal for the
do, of course, believe that all this — the telegraph,
people do not know about it. Modern materialists imagine that
constructed merely on the basis of what people produce by the
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Title: Fall/Darkness: Lecture 5: Changes in Humanity's Spiritual Make-up
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that we are getting to know grave and significant truths and
insights, as you have seen. I have had to emphasize that the
humanity. What I want to say today is perhaps best understood
often stressed that human evolution has to be taken
part of the sheer modern laziness of mind to think that the
difference. It is actually true to say that today, at the
two which are to follow. We may say that during the Atlantean
something that is growing, as it was in early times. Before
then that the rocks of today, with their cracks and fissures,
shattering, of our present-day earth in Eduard Suess's
conclusion that the earth is decaying and crumbling away.
say that the fourth post-Atlantean period, the Greek and
Roman civilization, was a kind of recapitulation of what
Greece, therefore, it was not so clearly evident that
feature of ancient Greece that the inner life was still in
spoken of this before. That harmony was, of course, greatest
able to say that until the time of ancient Greece, the living
the Jupiter epoch that humanity achieves a higher level of
and experience all manner of things by the very fact that we
however, that anything we inwardly develop and inwardly are,
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Title: Fall/Darkness: Lecture 6: The New Spirituality
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First of all we consider the fact that human beings have the
power, or the gift, of the intellect. What does this mean? It
means that we are able to form ideas. For the moment we need
And we also feel, for instance, that when we walk, stand or
want to establish what fills the conscious mind in everyday
imagine. No, this thought-substance is actually what we call
head — what is the relationship between the two? To get
consciousness are thought-corpses — thoughts that have
living thoughts when we develop ideas on the basis of what
that in our state of consciousness we walk around bearing
— that the basic shape
with only the form of the head emerging somewhat more
and only way of seeing the human being is to realize that
evolution. The outcome was that this whole, more elemental,
due to the temptations of Lucifer that this outward
I have referred a number of times. What has happened is that
become their lower nature. Please, do not forget that this is
to the luciferic element, made the part of him that should be
consider that this was known to the leaders of the ancient
the lower nature and used in the past, symbols that today are
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Title: Fall/Darkness: Lecture 7: Working from Spiritual Reality
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kilogram or whatever. Having made enormous efforts and slowly
lifted the weights, so that the audience can admire his
cardboard. It is merely that the shape and the figures have
been imitated to give the impression that those are real
little bit of spiritual science and who learns what people,
heading. And I am forced to say that historians dealing with
What is the
reason for this? It is that people who are merely equipped
dawn of the fifth post-Atlantean age, but that all the
post-Atlantean age, the horizon of that age, sees an
what was to come in the fifth post-Atlantean age lived in
That age was
feelings, and this meant that he did not really understand
age and the outside world, of how they would act in that
his insistence that no good would come of being connected
earthly world not on the basis of what you are able to know,
but what you are able to believe; it must grow from your
outside world, Luther emphasized that the relationship with
excuses for his visions of the devil by saying that he did
twelfth century, you will always find that people understood
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Title: Fall/Darkness: Lecture 8: Abstraction and Reality
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gathered, from what I said yesterday, that at the present
defect and deficiency in our time is that people are
or four centuries, and the fact that as such it has become
that will not yield; in this case we create the reality. And
what you may expect it to be; it will be full of
which comes a little later. It is always the situation that
where this shows itself in its true form — that is, in
aspects of the physical world, the mere surface of that
what reality really has to offer. Merely observe the present
you about something that is really worrying. A present-day
found, as many people find, that it does not matter if the
compared this with the idea that the best way of making sure
ideas. And what did he say? Believe it or not, he said:
satisfactory conditions for humanity, what does it matter if
battle! What are a few tons of organic matter compared to
that of the soul and spirit, it is only to be expected that
principle: ‘What are so and so many hundredweight of
material compared to what will be the end result?’ It
apply to human life what applies only in the lifeless,
time applying them elsewhere, and the problem is that no one
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Title: Fall/Darkness: Lecture 9: The Battle between Michael and 'The Dragon'
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especially in the 1840s. I have pointed out that this was the
with a peak was reached in what we may call a way of grasping
processes in that world which have come to outer expression
a struggle, a real war in that world, which began then and
your mind's eye that the human souls who were born exactly in
What does this
of evolution. We may characterize it by saying that every
harmful and damaging things. We may say that a particular
But what does
it signify that the powers of the dragon, this crowd of
realms, which means that the late 1870s were a particular
property. We are thus able to say that due to the presence of
personal inclinations since then, to understand that they
resulted when the Archangel Michael drove the dragon, that is
said that it takes a fair amount of materialism, even if
what does it matter if so and so many more tons of organic
before that, it lived as ahrimanic power in the world of the
world, using them essentially as symbolic images. What
Thus we are able to say that tubercular and bacillary
that everything connected with certain effects relating to
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Title: Fall/Darkness: Lecture 10: The Influence of the Backward Angels
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It cannot be said that our present age has
— please forgive the somewhat bizarre image, but it
does meet the case — a hen is about to hatch a chick
and we take the egg away and hatch it out in a warm place,
present age demands this. And so it happens that the oddest
the twentieth century, but it cannot be said that the last
account that anything which happens in the physical world has
that this battle continued until November 1879, and after
this Michael gained the victory — and the dragon, that
realize that infinitely many of the thoughts in human minds
be reckoned with. What good is it to get bogged down in
some people have not the least idea of the fact that they are
just this — that as a member of the Anthroposophical
be aware of the full seriousness of the matter and that you
of them. You can be sure that if this hypothetical group of
have spoken; they knew that the events I have described as
are completely unaware of what is going on in groups, some of
— I am merely giving an illustration — that the
would not think, would you, that profound, significant,
stages of becoming what it is today. A new literary work
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Title: Fall/Darkness: Lecture 11: Recognizing the Inner Human Being
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the life of the spirit, I have sought to show what is
these considerations that human soul nature will essentially
said that human soul nature will become more inward we must
not fail to realize that this growing inwardness will, in
considered. It really has to be taken into account that, in
will be more spiritual. It may well be that people do not
important for the future. Remember we said yesterday that in
immediate future. It is therefore particularly important that
people we see do not show their true nature in what we see on
way that the child can immediately understand; children
to be realized that this is the worst possible way of
taken, so to speak, to ensure that for the whole of their
what you would expect! Much of the thinking in our
that the thinking in their world is largely childish, but it
fact that only the child's understanding is addressed. This
consciousness, that a mysterious inwardness reigns in a child
and we must present to the child's heart and mind much that
on that occasion; now at last you are able to understand
because education has failed to give them anything that can
this, of course, but this is in fact what they have in mind.
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Title: Fall/Darkness: Lecture 12: The Spirits of Light and the Spirits of Darkness
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importance. We have to reflect again and again what it really
means to say that a battle raged for decades in the spiritual
effect of this is that they send their impulses into our view
one ought to base oneself on defined concepts — what is
Ahriman, what is Lucifer, what are the particular spirits in
we believe that having got the definitions we have also
spiritual world, that is from heaven to earth, in earlier
Graeco-Latin times. It has to be kept in mind that the great
enable them to do what is necessary. As you will remember,
have meant that people would have become spiritual very
in the third, Egypto-Chaldean epoch. We can see that
based on this. We shall not be able to understand what issued
made for different regions of the earth. What really counted
take effect. This means that from the last third of the
what needed to be established through blood bonds in
then began to instil ideas in human minds that affairs should
that definition is impossible. If you define the spirits of
times, that is from the last third of the nineteenth century.
ahrimanic powers. The true ideal must arise from what we find
age in the present stage of world evolution. To think that
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Title: Fall/Darkness: Lecture 13: The Fallen Spirits' Influence in the World
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have sought to show that momentous occurrences in the
dragon on behalf of the spiritual worlds in 1879. At that
human realms. As I said, from that time onwards they have
what was behind this significant battle, or we might say
that the purely physical intellect and a culture based on
that anyone who studies the evolution of humanity and has an
eye for more subtle elements in human life will note that
have characterized, thinking that leads to technical
— you will find that at no other time were ideas so
that world, one finds that the souls which were about to
due to the fact that for millennia they had been bound to
what it actually has become in people born after 1879.
darkness. But it is not. Thanks to the victory that Michael
Speculation could never show that the very qualities of the
be observed. Anyone who thinks that the right connections
mediums, that is essentially by physical means. If this had
important to be very clear that this is not a matter of
them.’ It certainly is not like this. The things that
lost momentum and became so strangely corrupted after that
there you have what the spirits of darkness intended:
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Title: Fall/Darkness: Lecture 14: Into the Future
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nature of it all is such that if one does not want to be
period of civilization came in about 1413, that is in the
but let me add today that spiritual guidance of earthly
this in such a way, however, that the relationship between
guidance from the Angels during the fifth age — that is
millennium. We can therefore no longer say that the
heart. You see, therefore, that a major change has occurred
— not always correctly — that Angels and
whole of the blood life as another place, and add what
growing less and less; beyond that time it would grow less
nevertheless true that earthly events are connected with such
own again — exactly at that time? Because at the time
system in such a way that human beings began to go out from
because, within certain limits, that was the time when the
are therefore able to say that in the 1840s a significant
in the human blood that all the things I have described as
earth. It is because they are at work in the human blood that
say that whilst the profound break came in 1841, the whole of
is that not later than the seventh millennium in earth evolution
that those cast-down Angels will be in charge and will give
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Title: Lecture: Fall and Redemption
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This is an authorised English translation that is presented
have seen from these lectures that I feel duty bound to speak at this
time about a consciousness that must be attained if we are to
And to begin with today, let me point to the fact that this
from this point of view, to characterize what is meant by the fall of
more detail today — is an expression of something that once
of the divine spiritual powers that guided him.
We know in fact that the
preparation for the fact that earthly humanity is meant to acquire a
decision-making ability that is independent of the divine spiritual
powers. And so the religions point to a cosmic-earthly event that
determinative in what humanity did in very early times — with
in his evolution, man no longer felt that divine spiritual powers
were active in him and that now he himself was active.
to his overall moral view of himself, man felt that he was sinful and
that he would have been incapable of falling into sin if he had
my way back again to the divine spiritual powers. What I myself
faculty, began to develop. And so, in a certain way, what man
consciousness of sin. It is only that one did not say to
oneself that the intellect, arising in human evolution since the
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Title: Lecture: Man's Fall and Redemption
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This is an authorised English translation that is presented
spoke of this ascent as something that must arise in the present age from
man influences intellectual life. What people say concerning the
that man has no inner strength enabling him to reach the spiritual,
and that he must therefore renounce all efforts that might lift him
above earthly contemplation. I said that when people speak to-day of
like to speak more from a material aspect, in order to show that
indeed, the decay is so strong that, unless the intellectual
necessary to know that in the depths of the human soul forces are
living that are, as it were, better than the present state of the
believe that this conception of the thinking human being, of man who
things are mentioned that science is unprejudiced, and so on. But
I have shown repeatedly that these arguments are not of much value.
For, everything that a thinker applies when he is bent on his
out already that even the arguments of the opponents of mediaeval
thinking are thought out with the methods of thinking that have
mediaeval thinking which entered modern thinking is that the activity
this lies in the considerations that I have already set forth. Once I said
that a modern man's thoughts on Nature are really corpses, all our thoughts
thoughts that we form to-day on the kingdoms of Nature and on the
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Title: On the Mysteries of Ancient and Modern Times: Lecture 1
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that the materialistic mode of thought assumed precisely the
the ingredients that have entered into the spiritual life of
modern time. We must not be influenced, in so doing, by what
that can explain and illumine what is actually
important transformations that have taken place in the new
epoch of humanity, we must also include one that was, in a
referred to the fact that in the 18th century there still
existed such a mode of thought as that of Louis Claude de
impulse of the time during that century.
radically it differs from all that our own time, for example,
event that took place, however, before Man became physically
that those who shared Saint Martin's way of thinking still
from anything that could be contained in the mere physical
frame it thus: “In what personality does the sum-total
what was really happening, we must realise that by this last
impressed on nearly all human activities. I mean, what we
interesting. We must not forget that he was a man of genius.
imagine what was living in Dupuis, as an impulse that passed
for us to realise that the Time itself was possessed with
What Dupuis
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Title: On the Mysteries of Ancient and Modern Times: Lecture 2
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Mysteries. We saw that there existed until the end of the
that there is a super-sensible essence behind the world of
fact that it is necessary, somehow to bring the human soul
influence at that time, we found the declining aspect of the
latter way of thinking is convinced that all
deceit; and that no man is truly enlightened unless he does
away with all that pertains to the truths of the Mysteries,
depends upon the senses. Then we pointed out that in contrast
and he must learn the lesson, namely, that the path must now be found once more from a purely
fact that the union of certain feelings with the material knowledge
thoughts that are applied to all these things, and that must be applied in like manner
it that which must compensate and balance the harmful forces
which are arising from these quarters: All that the Mystery
of Golgotha can bring about, is such as to counteract that
devotion to the Mystery of Golgotha. The mere narration that
prejudice that Revelation was only possible at the beginning
as ever-present, is precisely that Christian spirit which can
with the real impulses that are connected with the Mystery of
Golgotha. We must learn increasingly to recognise that which
I have recently pointed out. Whatever a man undertakes
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Title: On the Mysteries of Ancient and Modern Times: Lecture 3
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them outwardly — it will strike you at once that the
say: over against what stands before man as the visible part
birth or with the secret of death, Not that it lies so
Mysteries which place into the very centre of their life what
Fire’ is very different from what the profane world can
sense-world. What is it that the profane world knows as the
Warmth)? What is it in reality, when they revere this Fire?
It is a symbol of the super-sensible Man. It is that which
may truly say, is the other kind of Mystery, — that
Light.’ ‘The Light’ refers to that which
Only, here again we must remember that the ancient Astrology
the constellations of the Zodiac. They knew that when the
different consciousness from what has remained to us in this
materialistic epoch. They knew, moreover, that the Mystery of
human death is connected with what is thus spoken to man by
They were clearly conscious of the fact that when a man gives
lives in that element which receives the human being when he
kind of Mysticism — that is, the experience in
was intended as an answer to this question. What the stars
ones which really underlie all that humanity possessed by way
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Title: Lecture: East and West in the Light of the Christmas Idea
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modern thinking it may perhaps sound strange that we are
of January), because people generally think that during the great
festivals of the year work should stop and that Christmas in
conceal the fact that this Christmas above all calls for other
distressing times in which we live, and untouched by what is
that to keep up such old traditions and customs in almost …
feeling of sorrow upon that part of mankind which is still led by
the reproach that many people more and more believe that
to utter the name of Christ, but entails that we should deeply
that almost in the whole world great problems of life are being
advanced today. And we can already perceive that the region, the
human civilization cannot remain so in future. We perceive that
that the great conflict between the West and the East announced
viewed in the right way by those who hold that it is in the
exists an ancient life of the spirit, a spiritual life that can
for what lives in the East; although it is already decadent; the
illusion that confronts man, as Maya.
must experience that this conception of Maya was not originally
concept rises up in the East; the conviction rises up that the
What is the cause
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Title: Lecture: Man and Cosmos
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is placed in the universe. We speak of man in such a way that we
human being, as he stands before us, we find that these four
boundary, what is outside him. From other anthroposophical
studies we know that we discover certain senses only when we
the ear — these show that the human being must obtain
earth easily enables us to see that the chief direction which
us that this statement is absolutely correct; for when
say that the perceptions come from outside; they reach, as it
were, man's inner life from outside. What meets them from inside?
What we thus
literature, you will find that there are other possibilities of
you to form, even approximately and vaguely, a picture of what
perceive, so that you perceive their shape, and so forth.
consciousness which exhaust themselves in what I have described
what exists around the earth, may be perceived by the ordinary
that the inside of the earth is not accessible to ordinary
things which exist in such a way that when the human being stands
ordinary human consciousness. Also what is inside the earth
what rises up from the earth in the same way in which we perceive
what exists in the earth's environment, we would need a kind of
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Title: Lecture: Human Freedom and Its Connection with the Mystery of Golgotha
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to a new birth. We have already explained that in the present
existence, when we rise up to free motives guiding our will; that
believe, as external science does, that it is possible to obtain
of what kind is this conception? It is one which we have
re-appearing in another form; that is to say, we then no longer
and have pointed out that in
images that look out at us from a mirror. These pictures cannot
that look out at us from a mirror. These pictures cannot force
that surges up from the human depths without his being able to
semblance, so that freedom may unfold. But this life of
way say that man was surrounded only by a world of semblance. Of
The essential thing in the development of mankind is that in
the semblance, so that man was confronted only by illusion, in
order that he might discover freedom in this world of semblance.
find necessity. We may therefore say that the world which man
last lectures we explained that after death the human being does
is then the human being. What is concealed here on earth, becomes
But we find that
as it were. Here on earth, he feels that he is free in regard to
spiritual worlds imprison him so that he cannot maintain his
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Title: Lecture: Knowledge Pervaded with the Experience of Love
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we have emphasized that the present historical moment of human
man which developed during these epochs, that we reckon the
A.D. Since that time we must take into account the
intellect was quite different from what it was later on. Since
From all that
without a spiritual-scientific deepening, that when the ancient
Greek gained what we now call an intellectual world conception,
learning of that time, he believed that he had risen to a higher
intellectually, he believed that he was a human being in a higher
Century formed and described his ideas, shows us that he believed
though later on a somewhat cooler form of discussion set in, we
centuries which induced men to believe that by rising up to
morphology developed by Goethe, we may observe that these men
connected with the fact that man himself adopted an entirely
intellect; it was an entirely different attitude from that of
older forms of thinking can show us that in the past everything
dead, everything that was not alive, was really looked upon as
are accustomed to form their ideas by assuming that their
being disturbed by the fact that in approaching Nature with his
the feeling that when single phenomena had to be drawn out of the
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Title: Lecture: The Golden Legend and a German Christmas Play
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That, united with your power,
That, united with your power,
that Spirit Whom we seek in our spiritual strivings, the Spirit who
ourselves: ‘What are the feelings that unite us with this
saying and its deep cosmic meaning?’ That deep cosmic meaning
and feeling around us is interwoven with infinite sorrow. Hate and
that love which He wishes to announce Whose birth is celebrated on
enmity, aversion and hatred, one and the same feeling may everywhere
penetrate the human soul at this time: out of the blood and hatred
that is going on in the world. If we grasp the thought in this way,
We shall feel how much there is that can become strong and powerful
thought which must develop in order that many things may be acquired
That He may
That He may invigorate us,
That
transcends all that separates men from one another. This it is which
thereby began their earth-existence in a manner different from what
Testament history. Then as time went on there was added that which
thing remains, that in our calendar, before the actual Christmas Day
about that (as was shown at certain times) when Adam, the man of sin,
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Title: Lecture: The Christmas Thought and the Secret of the Ego
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mind the words that resound out of the depths of earthly evolution's
that unite us with these words and their deep and universal meaning
— that deep meaning for the world experienced by countless
people in such a way that the word peace resounds through it, the
is a thought that, perhaps in connection with these words resounding
feeling. Hate and antipathy race through spiritual space and can
easily show how far human beings in our time still are from that love
through all animosity, through all antipathy, through all hate, a
times, can impress itself in the midst of blood and hate: the thought
hearts through something higher than what is able to separate human
the Christ Jesus who harmonizes human beings no matter what their
discord might be, no matter what goes on in the world.
how strongly this thought is connected with what must become
were to happen, much that must still be fought for in such a bloody
That He
makes us strong, that He strengthens us, that He
the word the Christmas verse, transcending everything that separates
tradition within the history of Christianity that arose repeatedly in
way from what would have been the case had Lucifer not approached,
in a way different from what was originally destined. The entire story
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Title: Lecture: On the Nature of Butterflies
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points to the presence of the spiritual that our curiosity cannot fail
that were we to attempt new experiments in the field of aeronautics,
complicated process. We will start from the fact that when autumn
butterfly that comes out of this egg. What emerges from this egg is not
a grub; in other words, a caterpillar is hatched. Now this caterpillar
is hatched from the egg. Here is its head, here at the other end the
Chrysalis — for that is its name. This chrysalis remains suspended
story is repeated in the course of the year. This is what happens.
to reach the stage of hatching out a caterpillar, it above all requires
nothing happens. What I am telling you in regard to butterflies applies
to be hatched. So the egg just requires this moisture containing salt;
total darkness. The moment the caterpillar is hatched it meets the light
has been lit that all sorts of insects flutter around in the room, feel
the case of the caterpillar, but it has the same urge. I may say that
the caterpillar is drawn to the sunlight by the same urge as that felt
fly up and away to the sun. For that is their urge, gravity only binds
them to the earth. So when we see a caterpillar we know that it really
has the urge to follow the light. This is impossible, so what does it
that here is the beam of light and here the caterpillar (drawing). As
different occurs from what does in the case of the insect which burns by
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Title: Lecture: Factors of Karma, Deficiencies in Psychoanalysis
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that is connected with it, you will have seen how difficult it
are here involved. We must bear in mind that all that is
We ought not to confuse what we may describe as man's calling
or vocation with what is commonly spoken of as his office or
saying, much confusion would arise, if, having in mind what one
point in human life, mingling other Karmic threads with that
exclusively predominant in placing a man into this or that
that of a ‘pen-pusher’ — perhaps
not even that. Nor must you imagine that the position then
remains unoccupied. That is just the peculiarity of our time.
need not be that of the pessimist who adversely judges his own
very opposite tendency — that of selecting the worst, the
it, this truth would be admitted, were it not for the fact that
were it not for the prevalence of what is called ‘public
what it is, albeit these ‘un-fittest’ are overwhelmed
that it is really Mephistopheles who conducts them. Only at the
That is the one thing which must be borne in mind, but there is
discover in human nature what it is that really works in Karmic
of thought admits that the life of the soul does not merely
It admits that much is there beneath the threshold of
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Title: Lecture: Matter Incidental to the Question of Destiny
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appear to lead in quite a different direction from what is
instance, Into what river does the Neckar flow? They had never
therefore, how he became what he was. How did he become the
Theodor Vischer? The fact that he had not seen a map until he
— for a long time before him, and yet not know into what
the schools which made him what he was.
that schools which fail to show their children any maps are
after all excellent schools. No, that is not the point. Such a
What does it mean when a biographer — in this case it is
as to write down what I have just cited. It can
in question. Forming ideas like that, one simply cuts as with a
loving interest what the school was like, — in all its
largely to ‘cut.’ What is the origin of this?
time, and that is cruelty. Only it is rooted in the
subconscious life and people are unaware that they possess it.
much that is done and said in our time we can perceive it. It
soul are thereby developed. Not everyone can do that in the
if we fail to bear in mind, for instance, how all that appears
human understanding — however limited — of what
— the steam plough — that is the true poetry of our
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Title: Lecture: Hereditary Impulses and Impulses from Previous Earth Lives
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that of immediate relation to real life. We shall presently
we have already seen, what man achieves for the world —
no matter in what profession — is connected,
inherently prosaic or poetic. For we now know that what
euphonious theories, but to bring to our souls that which
to our souls what is of real significance for life. I have
it may well be that this fact will play an important part in
emphasis on Heredity and all that is connected with it in man's
that so frequently arise as to the future calling of a young
of physical heredity — that which is entirely contained
with what you may already know, even if you only
natural science, man is undoubtedly so organised that at the
inheritance. We cannot therefore say that the main qualities
this point of time. This is what we must really comprehend.
what really underlies this matter from the point of view of
way. Naturally, all that takes place in that time between death
and a new birth influences the human being. But above all, that
birth contains much that is related to the development of the
sixteen. What man works out, on Earth, very largely in his
his attention is directed above all to that which is
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Title: Lecture: The Relation of Man to the Hierarchies
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believe — though they do not comprehend it — that they
so on, in the earthly world. We know that the life of man falls
they really do not comprehend it — that they
conception are very prone to say that this science of spiritual
world, open his eyes to all that appears to his senses,
through Angels, Archangels or the like. Many people hold that
quarters. It only bears witness to the fact that in the circles
whether a man imagines that he of himself can find the way to
do so. The question is, not whether he imagines that he is
our point of view must ask, what are they really
conceiving, who imagine that they are thinking of their
straight to our God.’ What are they conceiving in reality? Is
God? Are they conceiving what the word God must mean when the
human being rightly speaks of his God? No, they are not. What
what do these ideas describe? None other than the being
of an Angel — an Angelos. All those who declare that they
Angel. Really, what these people say amounts to the
demand that we shall conceive as God nothing higher than
an Angel. For instance, what is called God in modern
more than that. For the point is not whether one imagines that
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Title: Four Seasons/Archangels: Lecture I: The Michael Imagination
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the abyss, and there will be an insistent demand that man must find
his way to something new. In speaking of the course that the external
which comes to pass all that manifests as wind and weather in the
and much else, can one discover what the inscription on a spiritual
solved, so that men may bring their soul-forces into activity.
plant-roots that are preparing for new growth, and among the other
to the laws of earth, so that in winter they may be breathed in again
the year feels that his whole human life is wonderfully enriched.
Everything that takes its course outside, in wind and weather, during
the year; all that lives in the sprouting of the seed-forces, the
like a sensational novel but so that what it imparts becomes the
soul to experience all that goes on outside in the course of the
prepare our souls to become receptive to the activities that go on
enrich it so that we do not live sourly — one might say —
we can enrich our experience so that we feel ourselves living in the
blossoming of every flower, in the breaking open of the buds, in that
rays of the sun. In these ways we can get beyond that dull,
wanes and autumn draws on; the season of sinking down and dying that
snow-mantle of winter, so that we enter into the secrets of the womb
actively in nature's germinating and fruiting, it follows that
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Title: Four Seasons/Archangels: Lecture II: The Christmas Imagination
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nothing else than a reflection of what human beings feel in relation
art only when it expresses human feeling in such a way that through
in the same spirit that led us to
know from yesterday's lecture that when
we must realise that in winter the Earth
character of the Earth, we must of course not forget that when winter
Earth. It is then that the Earth unfolds its own nature in the
deepest sense; the nature that makes it truly Earth.
to show schematically what the Earth is like in this respect we shall
picture (blue) and ask ourselves what it really represents? It is not
this means that strong forces play in on the Earth as a whole.
effect is that if we were to look at the
us now consider this from a cosmic standpoint. What is this great
know what this water-drop really is. It is nothing other than a
which have been drawn leave no doubt to-day that the effects of the
be verified. Here I wish to point out only that even in the earthly
Yes, it is water, but there is no water that consists solely of
hydrogen and oxygen. It would be absurd for anyone to suppose that
waters and such-like, it is of course obvious that something else is
oxygen: that is only a first approximation. All water, wherever
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Title: Four Seasons/Archangels: Lecture III: The Easter Imagination
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must realise clearly how it is that in
the Earth's whole life. Naturally, what I shall be saying applies
only to that part of the Earth's surface where a corresponding
before you all that I am going to begin by describing to-day.
Ordinary observation is so superficial that for most people limestone
considerations we have gone into here, and since we know that soul
say that winter-limestone is a being content within itself.
but the remarkable thing is that it becomes full of eager desire. It
spring-limestone makes on them gives them the idea that after all
imagine it to be. The fact is that every spring the Ahrimanic beings
illusions are shattered.
suppose that the bread he eats is merely corn, ground and baked. In
outer nature these hopes are shattered, but the Ahrimanic beings long
up into the region of vapour, air and warmth. And all that goes on up
through the life and desire that fill the limestone in spring.
and permeate all the activities that have risen up from the Earth.
They are of a purely astral nature. Through everything that
that part of man, his etheric nature, which is not dependent on
Earth, up above there would be a sheath of etheric angel-beings. That
is what the Luciferic spirits strive and hope for, when the end of
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Title: Four Seasons/Archangels: Lecture IV: The St. John Imagination
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indeed say that in high summer man experiences a kind of
feeling for it, he becomes one with all that is growing and
fruits with the plant, enters into everything that lives and has its
within itself, man too, if he participates in what autumn — the
cosmos that — if only man is willing — the cosmos should
it is that if we follow Nature in high
that the minerals down there send their inner crystal-forming process
John's-tide, we really have the impression that down there are the
through with lines which sparkle like silver, so that everywhere
formative power in a wonderful plastic design, but a design that
such a way that one really feels oneself dissolved into the plastic
oneself, part of oneself. One feels that as a human form one has
comes to oneself and asks — How is it that these
What is it that lives and works there, silver-gleaming in the blue of
the Earth? — then one knows: That is cosmic Will. And one has
one the feeling that cosmic Intelligence is alive everywhere —
Will. And while down below we feel — in that blue
feel — everything is such that in perceiving it we are
reverence and worship, to what the Easter Imagination, the
We have the impression that this figure forms its
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Title: Four Seasons/Archangels: Lecture V: The Working Together of the Four Archangels
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same time there will come to us much that has been experienced
on wings that winnow sweet blessing
knows Goethe one must say that it is real to him only through his
feelings. For what Goethe has evidently drawn from his reading
is not known — the fact that all external substances and
pair of stones suspended inside him.” That is more or less how
that takes place externally in
nature. A flame that burns externally is dead fire; that which
external flame stand towards the living activity that goes on in the
food, or eat some albumen or anything else, people assume that it
remains just the same substance within you as it was outside. That is
not true. Whatever enters the human being becomes different
that goes on below the surface of the earth. That is the reason
what they ought to do. It calls upon them, if they understand it rightly,
they are pictures of all that by dint of virtue humanity has achieved.
All that I am depicting goes on in high summer. The Uriel-Being,
this clearly, so that if we have the Earth here (see sketch), Uriel
illuminating us so that we become possessors of human wisdom.
winter season he works in the human head, so that in this connection
you how the Easter Imagination is completed through the teaching that
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Title: Lecture: Pythic, Prophetic and Spiritual-Scientific Clairvoyance
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transcription of a lecture that is included in Bn/GA 275.
transcription of a lecture that is included in Bn/GA 275.
For what first makes our world into a whole, raising us above Maya and
this observation. It must be emphasised ever again and again, that what
that many people aspire to such a warming-up of an earlier clairvoyance,
of old clairvoyance. We will endeavour to consider once again that which
something we all know, from the fact that during daytime
few days that this waking state of man, from waking until falling asleep,
man. What we experience as our Will, is really only partially awake. Our
because people have not noticed that what they know of the Will in waking
we fulfilled as will-impulse, we would follow what was inward —
would follow what takes place in your hand, right into all the
gravity of the particles of chalk, and things of that nature, and would
we would go through life in such a way that in everything we did, we
of the Tree of Life meant this inner gratification. That might
the senses — that is, we follow the eyes, nose, ears
perceive what might be perceived along the path of the nerves and of the
blood. Only what we might perceive in the blood, is reflected through the
arise; and that which is conducted along the path of the nerves is also
that a man appeared, who was in the position not merely to follow along
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Title: Lecture: Pythic, Prophetic and Spiritual-Scientific Clairvoyance
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transcription of a lecture that is included in Bn/GA 275.
transcription of a lecture that is included in Bn/GA 275.
observation. For what first makes our world into a whole, raising
and again that what we are striving towards as a new spiritual
earlier clairvoyance. It is true that many people aspire to such a
certain individuals. However, the stages of human existence that we
clairvoyance, and thus we will endeavor to consider once again that
we all know, from the fact that, during daytime waking
emphasized that this waking state of man, from waking until falling
something asleep in man. What we experience as our will is
because people have not noticed that what they know of the will in
blood, and into all the blood vessels. This means that if you could
impulse, you would be able to follow what takes place in your hand,
the gravity of the particles of chalk, and things of that nature,
and would thereby become aware that you were following your
otherwise we would go through life in such a way that in everything
the senses, that
But we cannot perceive what else might have been perceived along
the path of the blood and the nerves. What we might have perceived
thrown back, and from this, sense impressions arise. And that which
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Title: St. Augustine
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Ideal,” — and the Materialistical, that concerned
good, all that is filled with Wisdom, and then on the other
hand, all that is ugly, bad and untrue. Now we know that
dualism, between Darkness and Light, Evil and Good; that which
is full of Wisdom, and that which is filled with
one knows that in ancient times the Spiritual world was
in ouch a way that men's visions of the Spiritual world were in
the spirit in a material form. That, of course, is a mistake
materialisation of the spirit. That was one of the
attention to the fact that through the mere observation of what
And, if one is of opinion that one cannot stand for the
if one wishes to see what led St. Augustine to place himself in
he finally developed. That is the point, my dear friends; and
Augustine came to acquire that Certainty, the true Certainty
by man with reference to what he experiences in his inner soul.
that one cannot know. We cannot even know how this world itself
appears, when one shuts one's Sense organs to it. That is the
truth; that man can gain nothing out of it on which he can
present in what he experiences in his inner soul; quite
substantiated by his own inner experiences: — that, with
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Title: Architectural Forms
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MACKAYS LIMITED, CHATHAM
which is to stand as a promise that into the recent development
necessity because only from those impulses can we hope for that
that loving human understanding which is necessary for human
life. Three years ago we held this celebration, feeling that we
were experiencing a critical moment in that spiritual
power of our lives. At that time there passed through our minds
all that the human heart can feel as the progress of mankind.
We did not think of what, although it was to be foreseen, still
was not — by the mysterious power that is hidden in
then of that time of suffering and pain which has since
suffering that has befallen people on this earth in our time.
Whatever pain they have had to suffer formerly, the experience
despair, who lacks that power of inner recovery which springs
that we have worked three years at our building it seems indeed
re-echoing what we have already said on just this very spot
movement and the spirit that pervades it. And from this arose
form of this building; that is, of so building this place, that
A deep question then arose: What building does modern culture
answer depended on the knowledge that all truly fruitful
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Title: World History: Lecture I: Evolution of the Soul and of Memory
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you a kind of survey of human evolution on the earth, that may
For it cannot be denied that the present only becomes
present age is however one that is peculiarly prejudiced in its
commonly believed that, as regards his life of soul and spirit,
throughout the whole of the time that we call history. True, in
respect of knowledge, it is imagined that in ancient times
human beings were childlike, that they believed in all kinds of
fancies, and that man has only really become clever in the
actual sphere of knowledge, it is generally held that the
be admitted that modifications may have occurred in detail, yet
on the whole it is supposed that throughout the historical
say that nothing is really known of this. Going still further
picture disappears in a kind of cloud, and before that again we
important differences that exist in the soul-constitution of a
man of the present-time, as compared even with that of a
different from that of the man of to-day. I should like to show
from what we ourselves are.
memory-experience that leads you back to experiences in
exactly what that really means. Ten years ago you experienced
of their appearance and so on. You experienced what they said
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Title: World History: Lecture II: Mysteries of 'Asia'
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lecture it will be clear to you that it is only possible
conditions of mind and soul that prevailed during the
East, and we saw that we have to look back to the time when the
west to east and gradually peopling Europe and Asia. All that
have still a distant echo of what was present in all its
rhythmic memory, and I showed how with the Greek evolution that
the temporal memory. This means that the Asiatic period of
evolution (we are now speaking of what may rightly be called
the Asiatic period, for what history refers to is in reality a
of man's inner life. What lived in man's mind and soul lived
feeling, such as we have to-day was unknown. A thinking that
that knows no connection with the circulation of the blood. Man
had in those times a thinking that was inwardly experienced as
a “happening” in the head, a feeling that was
what is cosmic and super-sensible as having place. It is nowhere
cannot grasp it. But this was not so in that ancient oriental
of a Cosmos conceived as a unity. Man had around him what is
There below was this realm that for us has become the earthly
realm. Man lived in it. But he pictured to himself that where
this realm ends another realm begins, then again above that
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Title: World History: Lecture III: Asiatic Mysteries of Ephesus, Gilgamesh and Eabani
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that I gave in Stuttgart between Christmas and New Year, I spoke
of the same events that we shall treat of in the present course
of lectures. Only we shall have to alter the standpoint somewhat.
of thought and feeling that has come about in the course of
know that from the standpoint of Spiritual Science we have to
remaining in the East, even all that is contained in the
is but an echo of what we should have to describe, if we wanted
We have already had to draw attention to the fact that during
then, as we have described in an earlier lecture, a memory that
rhythmic memory proceeded from a still earlier memory that was
this connection we have not only to think of memorials that
it is to such a humanity that we must return, when we go back
Egypto-Chaldean. At that time man experienced himself as spirit
spirit, that which was spiritual and was in a manner connected
with them that he could observe and feel. And in this spirit
following nature. He knows that with the process of
him, penetrate him and become part of him. In that earlier age,
knew that Angels, Archangels and other Beings up to the highest
Hierarchies are themselves spiritual substance that penetrates
— part of him. So that at every moment of life he was
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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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hear, it was necessary for man that it should be darkened and
clouded in order that he might develop to the full the
Egypto-Chaldean epoch in accordance with what was possible to
men of that time, and how they afterwards experienced a
the end of my lecture yesterday that these same human beings
more closely into what such souls were able to receive into
us first form an idea of the nature of such an initiation, that
we may the better understand what came later. We shall naturally
friends who are here in Dornach. I must now repeat some of what
foundation of Christianity. And they are the Mysteries that in
the preparation that had to be undergone before entering
Mysteries was that the pupil should learn to become aware in
powerful inward experience ofthat which is illusory in
his environment, — in all the things, that is to say, to
the senses is an illusion, that what the senses give is
illusion, and that the truth conceals itself behind the
illusion, so that in fact true being is not accessible to man
Now, very likely you will say that this conviction you
as nothing compared with the inner shattering, the inner
tragedy that men of that time suffered in their preparation for
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Title: World History: Lecture V: Mysteries of the East, West, and of Ephesus
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remember that in considering the part played by Alexander
great change that took place in the character of the Mysteries
that I pictured for you yesterday, in connection with the
Mysteries of Hibernia and also with the teachings that
was that moral impulses were not sharply distinguished from
dominion, it was not only a physical impulse that came from
that quarter — as we to-day feel how the wind blows from
was possible, because through the knowledge that was given in
man to Nature, that was still living and present in the time
that intervened between the life of Gilgamesh and the life of
Ephesus. There was still alive in men of that time a vision and
Through all that the human being learned concerning the working
on the country-side, that grow up in Spring-time and fade away
again in Autumn. I see, too, the trees that go on growing for
their roots. But all that I see out there — the annual
herbs and flowers, the trees that take firm hold into the Earth
know how to-day, when there is carbonic acid in the air, that
feel that we ourselves have breathed out the carbonic acid, we
of our nature, through the air that gives rise to the breathing
and other air-processes that go on in the human organism, we
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Title: World History: Lecture VI: Mysteries of the Ancient Near East Enter Europe
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West in its relation to the East is the period that lies
that culminated in the rise of Aristotelianism and in the
expeditions of Alexander to Asia, is contained in the fact that
they form, as it were, the last Act in that civilisation of the
the East by the criminal burning of Ephesus. After that we find
shadow-pictures, — the remains, so to speak, that were
serves to show what was still left of the ruins — for so
that he entered into an experience of the old Divine secrets of
of vision and perception, a change that is very similar to one
I had to describe the different worlds that come under consideration
more general qualities and characteristics, we find that we
the remarkable thing is that we have to change and re-orientate
we want to comprehend what lies beyond the period I have
defined. We shall do wrong to imagine that we can understand
what came before the burning of Ephesus with the conceptions
and ideas that suffice for the world of to-day. We need to form
across the years to human beings who still knew that as surely
Starting then from this world, the world that is a kind of
. 363 And now what
Setting aside for the moment what went on in the inner places
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Title: World History: Lecture VII: The Fifteenth Century and the Transition from Mind-Soul to Spiritual-Soul
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one that took place — we have often spoken of it —
in the first third of the 15th century, and that marks the
Intellectual or Mind-Soul to that of the Consciousness or
Spiritual Soul is taking place, and it is an age that is
rather of the Spirit that is in Nature. To-day, when we speak
under the heading of what the chemist calls the elements.
But it is of about as much value for a man to know that
watch-mechanic to know that the watch he has in his hand
substances. All this kind of knowledge that traces back the
we must recognise how the various impulses that are to be found
What does the newer Natural Science, that has gradually grown
that we should learn to know again what is the real relation of
the human being to the Nature that he finds around him.
consciousness that took place in the 15th century, there
was still a clear perception of the great difference that
exists in the metals, as between those that are found in the
human being and those that are found in Nature. When we set out
these we have mentioned, that are found when we examine
microcosm; whatever is present in the world outside him, in the
inevitably from what they knew of the nature of man and of the
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Title: World History: Lecture VIII: The Burning of the Ephesian Temple and the Goetheanum
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what we have to take for the theme of our lecture to-day into
the sign of that painful memory. The lecture I was able to give
descriptions of Nature, of relationships that can be observed
their whole nature and being into close connection with what is
found when one follows the path that leads away from the
writes its Cosmic Script. And the words that I then wrote upon
the blackboard, writing for the last time in the room that was
on that evening we were brought into direct and close touch
with that to which our Goetheanum in its whole intention and
lecture that was given here a year ago.
understanding and feeling for them, they spoke of them somewhat
it was somewhat in the following way: ‘In the Mysteries men
knew, were conscious that in the places of the Mysteries Gods
meet with men; they knew how all that carries and sustains the
world depends on what takes place between Gods and men in the
there is a word, — a word that has come down to us
in history and that can speak powerfully to the human heart
even in external historical tradition, but that speaks with
that, wherever the eye of the spirit is turned to the deed of
Among the many and diverse words that have come down to us from
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Title: World History: Lecture IX: World History in the Light of Anthroposophy
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scale are everywhere in evidence. Forces that are actively at
various domains of life, we shall perceive that these men are
that until the nineteenth century mankind was childish and
that must through all eternity be cultivated as the truth.
there sometimes arises, even in men to-day, a premonition that
attracted extraordinarily large audiences so that the
this kind, one becomes attentive to the fact that something is
from what existed previously. Now, the forces of the Cosmos
that must be working in what is now to go out from Dornach must
world. That is why, in the evening lectures during this
course of historical evolution in order that hearts could be
from that world itself. Everything for which the earthly world
This prompts the assertion that the impulses we ought rightly
that Meeting. Anyone with a sense of the reality of the
way that is possible spiritually and observe these human beings
in the form of historical tradition that things of the greatest
earlier times, this or that personality met the Guardian of the
Fundamentally speaking, it was this that was demanded by the
as Egos and astral bodies, and the pictures that are revealed
with what I have called the seed of great and essential
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Title: Goethe, Comte and Bentham
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and waking up; that is, the sleeping condition. Of course,
diagrammatically, the sleeping condition is well-known to you. That
nature of sleep; we must remember that it is just in the sleeping
condition that a man experiences the reality of what we discussed
in our last lecture, when we said that St Augustine sought in his
world, I told you in yesterday's lecture that in his waking
inner being. We must be quite clear that what is described as the
If man were conscious in the sleeping condition, that is from going
of his Ego and Astral body. But we must quite clearly realise that
the soul of man when he develops Imaginative Consciousness, that in
his Ego end Astral body what we cull the third Hierarchy, the
life he stands in intimate connection with what we must designate
this consciously during the waking condition; and that constitutes
is the essential — that throughout the waking condition man
and Astral body; and that he cannot become conscious that all the
wake up in his sleep, if I may use that expression, he would not
We might also say, that because these Arch-Angelic Beings shine
— that means members not only of the present humanity, but of
evolution to the very end of Earth-life. In that way we can feel
We cannot say that we behold ourselves as
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Title: Whitsuntide in the Course of the Year
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in himself and in nature both what we call growth and what we
instinctively forms his ideas in such a way that he is
growth: He forms ideas about what in a sense goes outside
destruction, to dissolution; so that it seems quite natural
to him to describe what thus goes outside reality, when he
said that if we want really to arrive at ideas concerning the
especially important that we should form a concept which is
physical world what is represented in growth, in budding and
We know that
the extent to which we are capable of pulling down in us what
arises in man, he finds that every conscious thought that is
grasped, and every conscious feeling that asserts itself, are
bound up with the fact that processes of destruction are
conscious life of the spirit by observing what part this
observing, that is, the processes of death and destruction.
It is for this reason that we have to alternate the conscious
processes with the unconscious processes of sleep, so that
what we have destroyed during our waking life of thought may
organism. That is the swing of life's pendulum — that
destroys what mere nature creates in the human organism; and
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Title: Meditation and Concentration
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time: that all spiritual-scientific observation is won by
the physical instrument, so that, as soul and spirit they
body, so that desire for the body spreads like a cloud in our
essential that anyone occupying himself with spiritual
this above all for it is a deep and significant truth: that
pointed out that this unity is founded within the whole
people strive again and again after this, asking: What is the
of the opinion, in his pleasure, that this unitary principle
over the matter, that he said: Now I can explain the whole
mention that a really earnest spiritual movement can have no
this, we must put first, and take in the deepest sense, what
that as soon as we cross the threshold of the
experience. I have especially emphasised in this book, that
crossed, that we really enter with the whole of our being
that after crossing this threshold, we have distinctly the
body. I might say that the co-operation of three worlds,
the formation of our head, the formation of everything that
of the physical head, be clear that the formative forces of
formative forces, belong to suite another world from that of
ask: What significance has all this? It has a great
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Title: Karma of Vocation: Lecture I
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can be determined by rhythms and cycles that are a result of earlier lives.
this activity releases forces that will bring about future worlds. Through
these remarkable lectures, we can see that no human work is insignificant
influence that spiritual science must exert on individual,
what I may call, in the sense of the fifth post-Atlantean
Today I shall take as my point of departure something that
seemingly has little to do with that theme, but it will afford
endeavor to point out the element in Goethe's life that
this personality that will enable anyone to distinguish
to an extent that can hardly be ascribed to any other
individual. Still, it may also be said that, in spite of much
that has occurred, his life and personality have had the least
it can possibly be said that the life of Goethe has remained
of the scientific world conception in such a way that he
but of all ages in human history. He concludes that although it
is hard to prove that we live in the best of all worlds, it is
certain to the scientist, at least, that today we humans live
And what a glorious height we have achieved at last.’
presents this as his own innermost sentiment and believes that
should remember that Goethe was born in a city and under
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Title: Karma of Vocation: Lecture II
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can be determined by rhythms and cycles that are a result of earlier lives.
this activity releases forces that will bring about future worlds. Through
these remarkable lectures, we can see that no human work is insignificant
real purpose in this lecture, as you already know from what has
and we must follow many threads that link a man to the past and
am taking, although I really wish to discuss something that is
history, and I will associate reflections with it that are
gradually approach, are here somewhat expanded.
Scientists are constantly reminded nowadays that many blunders
therefore because of that thing” (post hoc, ergo propter
hoc); that is, because one thing follows another, it must,
the Kamchadales believe that the water wagtails or similar
that follows another in time must derive from it as the effect
description of this life shining above ordinary humanity, that
he had this father and that mother and that he experienced
certain things in his youth. We then derive what he did later
youthful impressions according to the principle that, because
it. That is no more intelligent than when the coming of spring
need to do so. It is explained quite nicely, for instance, that
see that a clearly prescribed karma leads the boy of six or
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Title: Karma of Vocation: Lecture III
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can be determined by rhythms and cycles that are a result of earlier lives.
this activity releases forces that will bring about future worlds. Through
these remarkable lectures, we can see that no human work is insignificant
science we must proceed so that we encircle the problem, in a
that may become a profound riddle in the evolution of humanity.
a human life. The problem is this: What is the reason that
an influence on the rest of humanity? How does it happen that
that of each individual and ask ourselves: What conclusion can
question can be answered only when we observe life somewhat
To begin with, all that a person can know, especially in our
adapt what we say to what can be understood by others.
the description we generally give in spiritual science is that
we say that in the waking state the ego and astral body are
scientific facts. But the truth is that we give only a part of
reality already described. Here it must be stated that,
from without upon the human being, that everything in him that
that the action that the ego and astral body bring to bear upon
is day for our head; that is, the rest of our organism is more
something that must also be added to illumine the full
properly what I have just told you. I have often stressed the
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Title: Karma of Vocation: Lecture IV
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can be determined by rhythms and cycles that are a result of earlier lives.
this activity releases forces that will bring about future worlds. Through
these remarkable lectures, we can see that no human work is insignificant
Someone might say that the spiritual scientific reflections
comparison with those that prevailed in earlier periods of the
earth. They will be so modified that man must, out of his own
instinctively; that is, when he received by inspiration the
other cultures of earlier times, we shall find that the measure
fact that each person belonged to a certain class into which he
of man's freedom much that at present belongs there. To be
quite shortsighted in their thinking, usually assume that
conditions in ancient times were such that those who were then
leading personalities today. But you must bear in mind that
with what was willed by beings who guide life from regions
outside the earth. I have told you that at certain times — we
who guided the earth from extraterrestrial regions, and what
course in earlier times. Suppose that today the Christmas
people, but that in its form and time of occurrence men knew
that our earth is especially fitted to receive ideas into its
aura that cannot enter, for example, in summer. I have
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Title: Karma of Vocation: Lecture V
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can be determined by rhythms and cycles that are a result of earlier lives.
this activity releases forces that will bring about future worlds. Through
these remarkable lectures, we can see that no human work is insignificant
these reflections on the segment of human life that is formed
by, or associated with, a vocation, you will have seen that it
into consideration. We must bear in mind that everything that
other words, what is called the vocation of an individual must
not be confused with what we designate, in the broadest sense,
as his official position. It is obvious that all sorts of
confusion would result if we directed our attention to what
The very fact that people frequently have to follow their
sure, we are living today in a period that is being slowly
placing a person in this or that position in life. We know that
him, have a bearing on the many factors that influence the way
through all sorts of means that are well-known and need not be
his or her mission may be that of a clerk, but we need not
suppose that for this reason the position cannot be occupied.
It is the peculiarity of our time that the materialistic
as that of the “selection of the fittest.” Even Oskar Hertwig,
interpretation by pointing out that this age of ours which has
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Title: Karma of Vocation: Lecture VI
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can be determined by rhythms and cycles that are a result of earlier lives.
this activity releases forces that will bring about future worlds. Through
these remarkable lectures, we can see that no human work is insignificant
correctly put himself into the nature of those phenomena that
order to see clearly the difficulties that hinder our
reality. It is easy to suppose that a concept that has been
things that we desire to consider in connection with the
that has just been published shows how he grew up in poverty,
Tubingen seminary, and so on. Now, the point that interested me
is that at the very beginning attention is called to the fact
that even his secondary schooling was rather narrow. To be
age into what main river the Neckar empties, nor had they even
that he had never seen a map before a particular age has
Much else that is severely criticized had to be so. In short,
shall say that the soul of Vischer descended from the spiritual
just the education that would keep it for a time from seeing a
we study Vischer, we shall see that precisely all his whims and
his biography and criticize the school that actually made him
be clearly understood that I did not want to emphasize that
education, demanding that much more natural science be
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Title: Karma of Vocation: Lecture VII
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can be determined by rhythms and cycles that are a result of earlier lives.
this activity releases forces that will bring about future worlds. Through
these remarkable lectures, we can see that no human work is insignificant
now my task to explain, episodically in a sense, something that
life that is essential to spiritual science in our time. I hope
we shall still come to the parts of our lectures that have more
sense much that is related to the questions we are
have made it clear that what the human being achieves for the
as being prosaic, but that, as we have seen, it is most
poetic than the other, and we know that what a person
Jupiter, Venus, and Vulcan. What may be called an understanding
must let our souls be touched by what is suitable to place us
correctly in life so that each person is in his or her own
of our time. Thus, our truths bear a character that is always strong
not revel in comforting conceptions, but will take in those that will
that even our scientific endeavors have the tendency to touch
our souls with what is really meaningful for life. I have often
called your attention to a significant fact that may, in a
entering life. Of course, they are just parroting what
discussing the problem of heredity today mean that children
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Title: Karma of Vocation: Lecture VIII
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can be determined by rhythms and cycles that are a result of earlier lives.
this activity releases forces that will bring about future worlds. Through
these remarkable lectures, we can see that no human work is insignificant
our feelings and sentiments that may enable us to look upon
life. This means that we must learn to compare the nature of
the truth that so easily befalls people. It is all too easy to
get into the habit of forming opinions about this or that, not
opinion, paying no attention to the fact that the world may be
the course of a certain life in order that I may give you an
example, a kind of illustration of what I mean. We are now
dealing with what we call karma, the passage of the human being
influences that people today like to emphasize, let us first
and his profession was that of a merchant. His harshness may be
certain music teacher who, at that time in the sixteenth
that is why I dedicate this book to you.”
had made all sorts of models of machines that were useful at
that time. Today, you know, boys make only airplanes, but then
after we have heard that passage from Faust.
But he had a somewhat different
in that scene of “Mephisto and the Student.” He did not pass
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Title: Karma of Vocation: Lecture IX
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can be determined by rhythms and cycles that are a result of earlier lives.
this activity releases forces that will bring about future worlds. Through
these remarkable lectures, we can see that no human work is insignificant
the criticisms that is made against our spiritual science by
is that spiritual science affirms truths regarding a large
number of hierarchies that embrace beings standing above man in
quite clear to us, moreover, that human life falls into two
to the higher kingdoms that tower upward from below just as the
without understanding, that his own foundation is that of
declare that this knowledge of the spiritual hierarchies and
whatever between himself and the Godhead, but to live in the
world directing his view to what is offered to the senses, and
many directions. It indicates that in those very circles there
is absolutely no understanding of what the spiritual needs of
whether he actually can. What is really important is not
conception. From our point of view, we must ask what the
conception is that those individuals really hold when they say,
directly from our souls to our god.” What is the concept held
manner, does he conceive of what must be meant by the term
form of their god, what is really represented in such concepts?
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Title: Karma of Vocation: Lecture X
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can be determined by rhythms and cycles that are a result of earlier lives.
this activity releases forces that will bring about future worlds. Through
these remarkable lectures, we can see that no human work is insignificant
many that a number of human beings already have a relationship
know that it is invalid. On more careful consideration, it
turns out to be a thoroughly egoistic objection that can be
faith that makes me happy; anything else is no concern of
is not satisfactory; that is easily recognizable from the
that a basic element in the confession of Christ must be the
truth that He died and rose for all men — for all men alike —
and that, when man turns against man for the sake of external
Certainly, but then no attenion is paid to the fact that the
occurrence of the Mystery of Golgotha is something that
something that may draw our attention to what is essential in
the path that leads to Christ, since it is obvious that each
soul must find the way to Him for himself with those means that
we seek to understand in a more profound sense what the Christ
Golgotha; that is, it actually occurred only once at a definite
shall discover a contradiction of a view that is generally
evolution of the earth. But, as we know, everything that occurs
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Title: Mysteries of the Sun: Lecture I
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forces, working into the present time. And to understand what
seen how deeply and with what significance it has taken hold
make a retrospective survey, we discover what has been stated
from so many points of view. Today, so that a certain basis
Mystery of Golgotha, we can say in general that in the
Before the Mystery of Golgotha it went without saying that
also having their planets. And if men notice what kind of
own that they are thinking of a great world machinery.
Present day man has very little idea that anything beyond the
space. Before the Mystery of Golgotha men knew that the Sun
Sun, at the basis of which lies what is of the soul and what
seething through the universe. That was to him the spirit of
thinks — that there outside in universal space a mere
of the world. With this central good that is of a spiritual
nature there was united what was of a soul nature called by
where the Sun is, the man of that day saw what was threefold.
existing at that time. But this constitution of soul
as Rome enters history, what we may call the ‘prosaic
perception of Rome, has it happened that knowledge of the
wish to define the task of the Church, the Church that owed
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Title: Mysteries of the Sun: Lecture II
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that in our present life of spirit very little feeling exists
threefold man that we are able to master also the most
significant conceptions that must be gained concerning the
lifted off like a ball. It is true that in reality the
so simple that we can describe what can thus easily be lifted
away from the purely diagrammatic away too, from what nature
second circle that overlapped the head, and a third circle
that overlapped both the others. So that if we would draw
be drawn out longwise. With the head part, with what is here
formation, a physical form-being. For the head, what is
right. What with regard to the head, I have shown here as
That is
breast man, shall we call him? What is enclosed by the
waking conditions. One definitely cannot say that the
remains more or less united. So that one can well draw this
man with another membering of man that is linked with what I
can say that in the truest sense man is only breast-man. He
head-man, as physical form, is something that is not man
through and through. It cannot be said that it is man all
through. It even has in it much that is ahrimanic. In effect,
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Title: Mysteries of the Sun: Lecture III
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of them, to pick a few that arise from man, in spite of
others again in middle life. Concerning the fact that on the
questions; and surely anyone can feel that infinitely much in
normal period of life? Why do other die old? What
that point of time described in these lectures, the time at
the beginning of the fourth post-Atlantean period, that is,
century. Men had concepts that came down out of ancient
here mentioned. What today we call science cannot connect the
right meaning with these questions and has no idea that there
conceptions remain that are connected with man's transitory
of the Sun as being threefold; the same sun that is perceived
sense in speaking of Helios, the soul-Sun, or for that matter
referred to as the Good. A concept of this kind is just what
that our outlook on life is actually permeated by it, that in
all our physical representations of the world, in what is
fundamentally this kind of representation of the Sun that
astrophysics, whatever you like to call it. If he were able
conditions of human life and assume that absolute conditions
he had arrived inside the space that the physicist considers
gas or something of the kind. This is what the physicist
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Title: Eurhythmy (Introduction to a performance)
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for the very reason that all that is of the nature of Art
words, because what we here call the Art of Eurhythmy is
the air carry the sound so that it can be heard. In
forms the basis of this Art. Everything that we do here is
in principle a complete plant in each single leaf, so that a
plant as a unit originates from the right development of what
primitive plant. What Goethe worked out with regard to
Art. So that if we turn what exists in principle and as Idea
visible speech. And what lies at the basis of our Eurhythmy
obvious, of course, that there will be opposition to an Art
like this, employing, as it does, methods that are
That which comes into expression in speech, in song, in
will see, Eurhythmy can be accompanied by music, for that
how Eurhythmy in this somewhat inartistic age may be able to
care must be taken that they shall bring out the artistic
language used. In that way we shall get back to the
connection to remember that when Goethe studied his Iambic
conducting music, showing that he attached more importance to
recitation because the art of recitation must accompany that
so that the visible but unaccompanied language of Eurhythmy
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Title: Differentation of Primeval Wisdom into East, Middle, West
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what are usually understood as the connections of nature are
these, if one so desires, that short episode which one calls
only mention that human beings, with reference to their
That is the
one possibility. The other is this: That humanity will cease
to believe that, simply from being Born as human beings on
indicated by Spiritual Science. That is the other path;
What I have
You know that man was, in
earthly existence. Now it is a fact that, because of this
was of such a nature that it was one and the same, uniform,
that which is usually called knowledge in Science to-day, but
primeval knowledge specialised itself in such a way that it
But even externally, if you just look at what we call the
That what the human beings of the different races upon earth
that this primeval or inherited wisdom became specialised,
these races were to blame for this. Indeed we find that there
try to find out the connection between, let us say, what
Now we must say, in reference to these relationships, that
course, it is true that human beings have emancipated
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Title: Man and Nature: Intellect in Man and Nature Bereft of the Gods
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difference between merely abstract concepts and that which
all that with his materialistic frame of mind, and his
deeply into the material world that he is no longer speaking
falsely when he declares that it is the material substance of
his body which thinks, that his brain actually does the
Spirit he is losing the soul and Spirit. I said before that
it because they cherish the belief that the soul-and-spirit
give himself up to material life to such an extent that he
progressive evolution; that is to say, when he unites with
that in the pr sent age he must find a link with all that
convention to imagine that man's life of soul is
that externally man perceives the material world and inwardly
of the fifteenth century and we shall presently see what
have experiences that have become a mere series of pictures.
We may ask: Why is it that since the middle of the fifteenth
having no more reality than a picture? The reason is that
minerals, plants and animals, we ask: What is there, in
that surrounds us in the mineral and plant kingdoms, and to a
divested of the human being. In this Nature that is
divested of the human being, there are no Gods. That is
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Title: Der Grundstein
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Hatte ausgewaltet;

Title: The Foundation Stone Meditation
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That carry you through the world of space
What in the depths its echo finds;
That guides you through the rhythm of times
What through the west takes form;
What will be heard in the heights;
That warms
That enlightens
So that good results
From what
What we
circles too, for he said that there was a law attached to esoteric
equal to that with which they are sent out, and it is therefore
form, it seems to me that this new translation should not be

Title: Lecture: Human Knowledge and Its Significance for Man and the Cosmos
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Many of the things that
may ask themselves: Whatever more is there to be said about the being
of man? But the fact remains that the birth of the human being from
for souls incarnated upon the earth to know in what sense the being
nature of anthroposophical wisdom. They can still keep reiterating that
truth is always simple and that what is not simple is not the real ‘truth.’
and have no inkling of the fact that when they speak of this ‘simplicity
civilisation for that age in the future when the human being will have
namely, that man's being is essentially twofold. Man is a twofold being
of the present incarnation, that is to say, the body with the exclusion
may say that the head disappears, and the rest of the body is then transformed
but when I say this, you must remember that it is the forces
connected with the head that disappear. The substance of the head and
in our head, the forces that were connected with our body in the previous
ask ourselves: By what means are the forces contained in our present
body transformed in such a way that they can become a head in the next
transformed into a head. What is it, exactly, that makes this transformation
possible? That is the question we must ask ourselves.
question we must think about what has been said in many lectures on
In the ordinary way we imagine that the only purpose of the knowledge
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Title: Contrasting World-conceptions of East and West
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which we can study our waking life and all that it
that I am telling you now, applies to the present-day human
being; that is, to man and the way in which he has developed
of humanity, and the fact that its soul-life has passed through
we reflect upon the soul-life of modern man, we find that the
development without any clear thoughts. At that time
that ancient culture which developed and flourished in the
through childhood upwards, that he has to-day.
Vedas and all that is contained in the wisdom of the East.
To-day all that arises through the spirit is judged in
developed through our education, and what we have learned
obvious to our ordinary way of thinking that we must be
world. I might say, that at the present time, we have not yet
aims of education should be that of more and more perfecting in
jump to the conclusion that there was no thought-life in the
Oriental life had already reached a decadent stage. What
that his thoughts were gifts bestowed upon him. His whole
consciousness. Just because man could feel that thoughts
thoughts. Man felt that he must meet the divine powers who gave
what was the objective external cause of this? It was caused by
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Title: Year's Course as a Symbol for the Great Cosmic Year
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know that spiritual processes are interwoven with all the
processes which we perceive through our senses. We know that
by the trees with their green needles or leaves, but that a
depths of life. We have already seen that things which in the
are therefore convinced that spiritual forces and influences
element, so that we can also speak of a soul and spirit
even the trace of anything that can be compared with
skeleton, or the earth's solid substance, so that when we
instead enter more deeply into the idea that the whole earth is
being in respect to the earth. The fact that the vegetable
human beings we do not notice that there is a certain
us say that during our waning daytime consciousness our Ego and
explained to you that in reality this only applies to our blood
Parallel to this we have the fact that when, for instance,
at that time of the year when it does not pass through any
plant-consciousness; we can really say that in our part of the
two beings, for they permeate each other, so that one is filled
by the other during that time of the year in which we are now
vegetable kingdom have ONE consciousness; that is to say, the
what kind is the MINERAL consciousness of the earth? To-day,
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organism and the ego. From the way that man goes into the sleeping state
and from there over again into the waking state, we see that on one
four members are united, yet in sleep they are separated, so that on
other side physical and etheric organism. So that the astral and etheric
effectiveness. Now, I would like to start with something concrete. What
merely on the factual act, it means that something makes an impression
what, in him, has the surrounding an effect?
it might look as if the effect on the physical organism is that which
that goes on in the physical eye is only something mediating. In reality,
what happens first is a play of processes in the ego and the astral
absolutely clear about this: what first comes into consideration in
ego, from this red. You cannot do that. You are this red. You
cannot distinguish yourself from the red. This red is something that
that this red is the only thing you see. You see a large surface. You
red surface, that you are an ego. You have to separate first the ego.
that man has a kidney system, — I design it here schematically
physical organism of man and has in itself parts that are solid. You
But this liquid that, as
but a living water. You would get a totally wrong idea of what the water
(the watery) is in man, if you had the picture that within the living
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Title: Spiritual Relations in the Configuration of the Human Organism: Lecture II
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So that tomorrow we can go onto understand something in this direction
up into his own organism what we call substances from nature, from the
animal, plant, and also partly from the mineral kingdom. But what man
change inside his organism. The first one is that when we take up food
that we receive the air through breathing again 'in that state as it
and the air must undergo powerful changes inside our organism, so that
with this now next — perhaps somewhat prepared already, as said
ourselves and assimilating them, they will already be somewhat changed
in regard to what they are in our surrounding outside. The foodstuffs
never could become through outer proceedings what they become inside
our organism. We can work at the substances, that present our food in
can occur there, what happens to the food when we bring it into our
change over into something entirely different from what they were outside.
I would like to say — and through further digestion all that what
these substances present in the body of the animal. Also, all what the
Far, that it has become dead, we have taken up something already dead.
exterior way inside a laboratory. But everything that gets into our
if I want to express myself that way.
on. This is done more thoroughly through our digestion, so that —
organs — essentially all has been driven out what they are externally
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Title: Spiritual Relations in the Configuration of the Human Organism: Lecture III
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several earlier contemplations, that I do not like the phrase: “We
— and just what is changing?
that they meant that the transition from the Dark to the Light Age would
to a renewal of the old dreamlike wisdom. I often have said that this
is not the case, that with Anthroposophy it is the question of what
say that we as mankind, especially as civilized European mankind, enter
from worse conditions into better ones, what the old wisdom had in mind
regarding the passing over into the light age, and what we also must
what the difference is between a Light Age — meant in this way
earlier Light Age, and they expressed the opinion that, after the Dark
I would like to make that
one can see much by it. Namely, during that Light, or illuminated age,
we did not look to the physical human body. One did not think of that
at all. Altogether, one did not speak during that old Light Age of illness
in the manner that one still speaks today of illness, but will speak
the phenomenon that a person experienced the decay of his organs in
this or that direction, that he simple was not healthy. However, one
Why did one speak that way?
One spoke that way because healing was then done entirely from the etheric
assume now, that a human being had become ill of something we would
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Title: Social Question as a Problem: Lecture I: The Inner Experience of Language
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not much to do with what we are at present discussing, with
our discussions, that is, of the social question. Tomorrow,
however, it will appear that this connection does none the
their spiritual life before birth with what one might call a
you that among the actual experiences possible in the
appear again on the earthly stage. Whatever links with the
impulses that they can carry on only if they have consciously
that in the course of recent times, until well into the
learning customary on the earth. This stream of impulses that
that the desire for a spiritual civilization in the hearts
dear friends, that is—if I may put it thus—the
It is a bright side in that it shows that the dreadful things
different from that in children born in the nineteenth or
early twentieth century. It is now essential that mankind
noticed. Should it be noticed, that in itself would awaken an
impulse that must cause a powerful social movement to take
these things can be cultivated (however strange that may
with the dead will readily notice that many thoughts (for it
is by means of thoughts that one does communicate with the
the dead are not understood by them. Many thoughts that men
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Title: Social Question as a Problem: Lecture II: The Inner Experience of Language
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speak a great deal about the social problem that is
us — in addition to what is naturally of particular
— is that really the ultimate practical solution of
you see it is urgently necessary that understanding should be
aroused in the widest circles for what are the impulses
There can be no doubt that the unconscious and subconscious
play an enormous part in human social life. What is at work
in the social life comes ultimately from what people think
what they will. But in the age of the development of the
What emerges today are primarily chaotic demands. In place of
conceptions and good impulses of will did not exist that
say that real goodwill exists extensively in regard to this
question. What exists is something like a yielding to what
morsel now and again, for fear that otherwise their mouths
might water. But what must appear in a really deep social
understanding? That must live in the hearts of men and must
saw how matters stand with what plays its part in the whole
man's life as language. Now just think what part, on the
again how infinitely much that is not clear in such things
to abstract, unimaginative thinking. What must be evolved
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emphasised here that when the truths of Spiritual Science are put into
It must frequently be repeated that naturally it is very easy to find
spiritual depth, that statements concerning Spiritual Science are made
does so and so know that; where does he get his knowledge?” —
difficult to say: “How can he know that? I don't know it”
and then to declare in a high and mighty way: “What I do not know
arising in this way we may include the belief that Spiritual Science
the question: “What is going on in the souls of my seriously minded
of much that both deserves and needs to be improved?” What, however,
is that just in the case of those who make the most earnest endeavours,
best they allow that a spiritual world can be disclosed by means of
thoughts of Walther Rathenau, (see Z-269) I have recently shown that
modern thought is taking, within the limits, that is to say, of what
that should arise in our time is nevertheless extraordinary. This rejection
can be fully experienced when one pays heed to what is being thought.
To many people this has appeared as the most shattering feature of the
to suppose that Anthroposophy as such is claiming to judge the seriousness
For one could wish that many more inside the Anthroposophical
Movement would feel moved by what is so critical in the present state
considerations today, I will take an example that may be said to have come
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Title: Goetheanism as an Impulse for Man's Transformation - Lecture II: St. John of the Cross
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with some particular spiritual stream. For you have seen that it is
a question of spiritual events that lie at the basis of the physical
clear, my dear friends, that when impulses founded in this way are taken
of hate, the opposition of envy, of fear, which proceed from the pettiness
the soul, so that this soul is a match for much that always makes itself
activity. And so we wish today to enlarge in many ways upon what was
I said that on certain points, compared with many of the statements
be underrated. It is true that if men have sufficient power of discriminations
is rare. What as Spiritual Science, according to how we understand it,
the chaos that is about to break upon us, unfortunately far too little
things of a disconcerting nature will proceed from what is contained
spiritual scientist that an orthodox Catholic may pronounce if he has
or listener. One of the most common objections against what we here
in the publication “Voices of the Time” is this—that
spoken about this point. You know how I have said that the only wad
forward what has a definite suggestive or hypnotic effect. Pantheism
is indeed the view that in everything spread out in Nature, spread out
anywhere in the phenomenal world, there lives the divine, that, in a
Pantheism that is forever talking of how behind the outspread world
to make it appear that it is believed where the actual ranks of the
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of such a nature that they can throw light, it may be said, from another
side on what becomes so enigmatical if looked at from the points of
view holding good at present. Now I have told you that man can come
to his fellow men, the old relation no longer being suitable, so that
he sees what impulses are necessary for the modern social structure
before our souls the following—that as man is placed in the world
For you certainly know that taking earthly evolution as a whole it divides
there was a kind of crisis. For up to that time the whole of the earth's
of things that were actually to be developed in the following evolution
of the earth. So that up to Atlantean times man was really only what
Atlantean times, however, he had only intimations of what he was supposed
form merely a kind of repetition of what existed on another level of
in the time since the fifteenth century, that man stands within his
whole evolution in such a way that new impulses arise—impulses
foresee—will be shattering to mankind, are the expression of how
the world is such that—to describe it broadly—he perceives
kingdom and in his own human kingdom. This is what is visible around
man. And in the visible human kingdom there is played out what comes
from the will and what should find a certain ordering for the social
however, from these theories of knowledge. And what in schoolmaster
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what hinders modern man from coming to recognition of the spiritual
borne in mind that man's ordinary sound intelligence, as I have often
concerning Spiritual Science. If I may say so, through the fact that
everyone may have all that the investigating Anthroposophist receives
of rising slowly and gradually, in accordance with what his own karma
quite another question, a question that can be settled only by each
Now the next question that
their sound human intelligence active so that it may understand, or
be prepared to accept, what is derived from Spiritual Science? And something
can be learnt about this question by hearing what the things and beings
to speak of a great deal about the spiritual world that was different
from what has to be given out today. But naturally in those olden days
much also could be said of a similar nature to what can still be said
now. Thus, for example, it was always given out in a way that today
is still right, what actually happens when a man seeks to enter the
so happen that the man says to himself: What! Sound human Intelligence?—that
by penetrating directly to the spiritual world in a way that they imagine
all manner of brooding and things of that kind, which they call meditation.
into such things however were already saying what is right concerning
all too easily that after some time he ruins his whole endeavour, brings
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accordance with Spiritual Science, we should not fail to notice that
repeatedly to ask himself what attitude to the Mystery of Golgotha is
we will try to look at it in such a way that we shall be striving to
in rightly understanding in a similar way what has happened both in
by what is spiritual.
we try to grasp a spiritual event spiritually that we arrive at area
understanding of the eatery of Golgotha. It is true that you may say
the Mystery of Golgotha is for all that like other historical events
out to you that knowledge at the present time, when sincere, cannot
Augustus and people of this kind. And I have often emphasised that just
what creates the special relation of Spiritual Science to the Mystery
of Golgotha is that Spiritual Science will establish the Mystery of
that the external reality of this Mystery of Golgotha can be grasped.
Now what is of most significance
that Christ Jesus went through death and overcame this death after a
It goes without saying that in relation to its inner law this belongs
out to you something that, when looked at purely from the point of view
themselves the burden of that guilt, that greatest of all guilt, the
provides, which the logic of the world would do away with. For what
they are found. Logic today however does not yet know what it is doing
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life on earth, in spite of severe illness that made it hard for her
to come up and down here—I believe that from the keenness with
to feel what a delightful and precious personality has left us if one
this personality. I need not dwell at length on what we all feel in
struggles, which came to such a grand conclusion that even on her last
follow only with sorrow, what our Anthroposophical development wills.
it clear that, looked at from one side, the actual content, the deeper
content, of the Christ impulse that has come into the world through
all at once nor during the relatively long time that there has been
did not mean that He would be inactive among men but that He would be
encouragement, giving them strength; so that when these souls know what
it is already necessary today to make clear to ourselves what actually
that the human race has really developed, really changed, in the course
of the earth period. One can best describe the change by saying that
the Mystery of Golgotha, we find on close scrutiny that the bodily nature
of man that allowed the visions to arise which in a certain way revealed
a crisis. This crisis showed that the force in connection with the revelation
Now from that point of
time, from that critical point, there had to arise a strengthening of
help from a region that was not of the earth, a region outside the earth,
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Title: The Building at Dornach (Bn/GA 289): Lecture I: The Goetheanum
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forwards a few things about our building, so that our friends may find
in what will be said, a sort of foundation for their own work. We shall
for the benefit of the cause, so that the Dornach Building, the “Goetheanum”,
the outer world, so that those who have not at present an opportunity
for that which others will carry forth into the world, I will once more
give you a little of what I have already expounded here in other connections,
so that from what is contained in these episodic lectures, a complete
stated that the Dornach Building has grown out of the Anthroposophical
for the very reason that when this conception is rightly understood,
artistic forms and figures. Once again, I should like to repeat what
I have said before in other connections, that if any of the spiritual
would have been an external relation between what went on within it
to be given forth at Dornach and that which encloses its activities.
you bear this in mind, you will see, that this is connected with the
any other education than that of thought. When forms have to be created,
world, but to something which has been substituted in its place. What
be traced back to what we may call the Old Testament outlook on the
world. We must never lose sight of the fact that one of the essential
representation of that which is of a spiritual nature, was lacking in
succeeded in creating artistic forms. All that has been achieved is
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Title: The Building at Dornach (Bn/GA 289): Lecture II: Bau Lecture II
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the impression that one gets, is, that here is an enclosure that in
something that has a new element to be brought into the evolution of
humanity. The outward forms point to this something that is new in the
possible to receive this particular impression that I have to emphasise.
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.
If you will notice that which is essential you will mark the progressive
Yesterday I told you that
the chief thing about this Building is that everything is felt to be
of the organism. You can see that everything that is included within
Building, so that it does not appear as a habitation constructed with
idea, You can be sure when you look at the next picture (1A) that it
is in vital in connection with the one that has gone before. This is
that also here the organ is built in full harmony with the rest of the
architecture, so that you have not the feeling that it has been added
but that it is a part of the whole form, as if the organ had actually
grown out of the architecture. That is the fundamental principle upon
that has gone before in a living metamorphosis. In order to do this
pillar develops itself out of the first — that is to say when
an understanding of what is meant, then you will of course be wrong
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an idea from these copies of what is meant by the paintings of the dome,
been made in accordance with that artistic point of view referred to,
in the painting entirely out of colour, so that, as regards the painting
is that which is aimed at here. If we follow the history of painting
we see that this fundamental principle to draw forth all that is pictorial
of Raphael, Leonardo, Michael Angelo and others? — that the greatest
in this way, and it must be admitted that the whole modern cosmic conception
that in this world each element represents a creative whole. If we have
to soar up to the feeling, that from this mysterious world of colour
a world of beings spring up, that the colour itself through its own
that we should have merely a feeling for the single colour; the single
colours. Colours have also a certain relation with that which can be
red will always help if we wish to express physiognomy. But what I mean
has to do much less with single colours at with what the colours have
nature of colour. For a greater part of that which is living, which
our vegetation has sprung forth from the ocean, so that which is living
feel that the old forms of art are bankrupt, that they can go no further,
be able to live in colours, in forms. If our Building is to be what
apprehended by the play of the psychic, and the physical, that shows
itself in its own configuration if one has the right-vision for what
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Title: Problem of Faust: Lecture I: The Problem of Faust
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should like to link on what I am about to say to the
and to connect it in such a way that it may form a unity, as
that the transition from the fourteenth and fifteenth
Now, from all that you know of Goethe's Faust, and of
will see that not only this sixteenth century Faust but also
what Goethe has made of him is most closely connected with
question: What are the most important tasks and the most
actually look back into the previous age, the age that came
what history tells of man's mood of soul, of his capacities
that has come to an end. He can look back only on ruins. To
old sciences that he had made his own, lived in magic, in
decline. What was accepted as alchemy, as magic, as
wisdom, mysticism, that did not deal with chemistry in the
that was right for an earlier age. The art of healing, as it
heart, with those soul forces that have specially to do with
still unsatisfied for the simple reason that the real wisdom
wisdom that the old art of healing sprang; all dispensing,
going to show that no one can heal diseases without also
the principle prevailed that he who healed diseases was
how little what is called the new freedom in human evolution
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Title: Problem of Faust: Lecture II: The Romantic Walpurgis-Night
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remarkable that, having brought such calamity upon Gretchen
completely in the lurch, and knowing nothing himself of what
will read you what was said on the subject by Schröer
have known what befell Gretchen after Valentine's death,
yet he had parted from her in circumstances that make it
ease on the Brocken. It is obvious, however that the
own satisfaction how it comes about that, two days after the
external — that the Walpurgis-night belongs to the most
Faust, so for that we may go back to the beginning of
he was all that older and had passed the great experiences,
that he now adds to his Faust. The Walpurgis-night
Walpurgis-night itself. We may therefore slows that Goethe
bear in mind that Goethe's meaning was really of a spiritual
those that were later; but up to 1900 I know them almost all,
though since that time, I have not gone so deeply into what
that no one has taken it from a spiritual point of view. It
may be objected, no doubt, that is asking too much of us to
suppose that, two days after such a great misfortune, Faust
connections, can see that there is nothing dilettante about
knowledge. To speak rather trivially, you can see that there
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Title: Problem of Faust: Lecture III: Goethe's Feeling for the Concrete.
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hoped that the scenes just witnessed may have effect and meet
can say that, in writing the scenes out of his long and
varied experience, Goethe foreshadowed much that like a seed
that Goethe's inner imagination develop out of the
of cultural history. Goethe had been deterred by all that he
what he received from Grecian art. and, at the very time when
Something that should not, cannot, surprise people in our
circle is the fact that a really intensive striving towards
Goethe's immediate circle a really important endeavor, that
unfolding in Goethe's mind. It was then that Johann Gottlieb
From the brief account given in my book, and from what is
you can see by all that is said the
soul, in such a way that, by developing this in his soul, man
that he tried by abstract, all-round concepts, to give life
to the feeling that can then be weakened to full life by the
often much about it that is abstract; this is penetrated,
however, by living feeling and experience. And for what
impression was needed that personalities such as his could
Science, for, for those unaccustomed to it, what is true
Fichte, who had at that time to express the truth in abstract
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Title: Problem of Faust: Lecture IV: Faust and the "Mothers"
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What I am
the scenes we have just witnessed. And what can be said in
that one can repeatedly return to it because through its
contains a kind of culminating point of all that is spiritual
is allowed to work upon us, we shall well be able to soy that
it contains a very great deal of all that Goethe is wishing
significant, deep knowledge that we are obliged to recognise
in him if we are to have any notion at all of what is meant
Astrologer refers to him as ‘priest’, and that
we have to realise that there is something of deep import in
this conversion of what Faust has been before into the
some kind of transformation. Leaving aside what one otherwise
knows of the matter and what has been said by us in the
their being, what they essentially are — all this was
scene, and also upon what takes place in the next, we shall
no longer be in any doubt that in reality Faust has been led
into regions, into kingdoms, that Goethe thought to be like
that kingdom of the Mothers into which the initiate into the
the word ‘Mothers’ Faust shudders, saying what is
so full of meaning: “Mothers, Mothers! How strange that
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Title: Problem of Faust: Lecture V: Faust and the Problem of Evil
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about the fourth — that is, the Graeco-Latin time; and
1413. We shall add certain particulars to what we already
emotions, their loves and hates, and the will-impulse which
the Graeco-Latin epoch, we find that the task it had to solve
is chiefly related to what we may comprise with the words
sense, in a living and energetic way, what we may call the
of Evil. In his loving and in his hating, he will have to
grapple in the right way with all that springs from Evil; he
and Death stood before the human beings of that evolutionary
way, than now. That which is hidden behind Birth and Death,
of that which the Atlanteans had had to experience with
— with all that springs from Evil. For the human being
What I have said in this moment need only be envisaged in a
fundamental premiss: that it is the task of the fifth
ask, how did Goethe perceive that this is so, when in his
representative of Evil? From this very fact you can see that
peculiar to man that he can only come to terms with the
recent studies.) That is the peculiarity: Whatever evil
to know what belongs to the one epoch. These things can only
be aware that now, in the fifth post-Atlantean epoch, man has
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Title: Problem of Faust: Lecture VI: The Helena Saga and the Riddle of Freedom
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necessary, so that there takes place in the soul of Faust a
conscious interpenetration of that which prevails
I said that
beings will have to learn to know all that the soul must
that summons into the evolution of mankind problems of Birth
were in the Atlanteansforces that could be developed and that
things one did as human being and what took place in the
that, and cannot become abstractly pious all at once. On the
rather not hear of what is really contained in the impusles
that are going through the world, for it is often to their
interest to represent as constructive the very impulses that
thereby in an Ahrimanic way — all that which is
the abstract emphasis that is laid on the principle of
approach the groups. The individual will believe that he is
more make clear to ourselves, what was the nature of the
able to understand what is the nature of their efforts in our
bonds of blood — blood-relationship. During that time
— that is, during the Graeco-Latin
were the inspirers of that rebellion which «anted to
that time, after all, there was still the wise guidance of
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Title: Problem of Faust: Lecture VII: Some Spiritual-Scientific Observations
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wish to stress the fact that I shall not be speaking from the
is more that to the presentation of the scene as Goethean
observations that will also in some respect link up with what
look deeply into Goethe's soul, in that this scene — as
time. I shall only say enough to make it clear to you that
that what I was explaining to you a few days ago about the
that there is anything in the course of Goethe's development
pointing to definite knowledge that not until the middle of
weeks we know that it is only at about the end of his
twenties that man, through the forces he develops out of his
we have to bear in mind that man is really a complicated
being. We only understand man by first becoming clear to what
much assailed by modern science — and that this
what he is solely by virtue of his dependence on his own
that this circle represents man at a given point in his
go on to ask what man would be like in the course of his
that in the course of his earthly development he should
attain what is to be attained on the basis of his bodily
organisation, that organisation that is itself derived from
interplay of earthly forces, I mean that these divine beings
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Title: Problem of Faust: Lecture VIII: Spiritual Science Considered with the Classical Walpurgis-Night
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What yesterday
Goethe's is “Faust” was that more goes to the
Goethe himself felt deeply that the spiritual forces,that can
as man by nature reaches. Those who believe that what is
simply say: It is true that, with what science offers today,
may advance on its own lines, what Goethe felt to be
my dear friends, all officially accepted science that deals
— what has being on the earth-planet. What is called
earthly; for the laws of science apply only to what is
beyond what is earthly.
consciousness there also lies a very great deal of what a men
asleep. For even en little reflection will show you that men
would find that, during this waking time, they do a great
say that not only do men dream during their waking hours,
distinction between those ideas that surge to and fro,
evoking all kinds of images as they come and go, ideas that
of the whole world of human ideas does a man find that he
experiences. That is a process often not very distinct from
theories about dreams that maintain something like the
disciples of the psycho-analysts, say of dreams that they are
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Title: Problem of Faust: Lecture IX: Goethe's Life of the Soul from the Standpoint of Spiritual Science
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a certain outlook suggestive of that of spiritual
foreshadowed. And it is indeed very important that we should
soul the light of a deepened observation upon all that such a
life of spirit contains that this life appears in the right
add something here to all that has been said. I should like,
that is, to point out how really it is only possible rightly
of spiritual science. It is not merely that from an
Goethe's work all that yesterday and the previous day we were
manifestations of Goethe's soul-life, manifestations that,
seem — to be more remote than what is represented in the
all-embracing Faust poem,that should indeed be of the
It is particularly important and significant that he should
have done so. It may be said that Goethe's individual way of
thinking where natural science is concerned is precisely what
spiritual life — and not least for the religious life — that
What was
phenomenon. But it cannot be claimed that so far there has
we can get the best view of what Goethe understood by be
He tells of this himself. I know that what I now have to say
conception of physics. That, however, is of no consequence.
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Title: Problem of Faust: Lecture X: Faust's Knowledge and Understanding of Himself
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is connected with what is spiritual in the universe. It
should first be emphasised, on the one hand, that what Goethe
life. If we start with what the pictures give us, this scene
great deal that is veiled, and is meant actually to introduce
the demonic powers dwelling in the sea, — that is, the
may be stated that Goethe was perfectly clear that it is
perception. So that all the knowledge and perception of man
future. Goethe advances the hypothesis that it might be
possible to produce a Homunculus in a retort, that is, to
nature that a human being could be intellectually put
arises thus, even when all that can be attained in the
simply the image of himself that a man can form with the help
this man-made image that is a homunculus provide a true
conception of man? How can it be brought about that in this
but pushes on to the homo? It is clear to Goethe that this
knowledge of man, that is, the knowledge acquired when free
of the body. Goethe really wishes to show that it is possible
For it was clear to him that when a man grows old, he does
not live in vain, but that the forces of knowledge are always
increasing, so that in old age it is possible for us to know
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Title: Problem of Faust: Lecture XI: The Vision of Reality in the Greek Myths
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Faust that had just been performed, and I should like
Faust we must never forget, however, that everything
have drawn your attention before to what Goethe stressed to
Eckermann, namely, that there is much concealed in his
Initiates, but that he had taken trouble to put it all into a
form that, regarded merely from the theatrical standpoint,
the main points of what was said yesterday about all that is
thus concealed, and afterwards go on to what we could not
yesterday that this scene shows clearly how Goethe was
will increasingly be for future human evolution — what
he sought in his soul as knowledge was something that has to
experience all that life can bring to man in the way of
whole, as regards what he does and creates. Faust is not
with all that life demands and brings. To this end, Goethe
seeks knowledge for his Faust, that is, knowledge of man,
present latent in mankind. But Goethe sees clearly that
Homunculus, the product that was supposed to be, for
mediaeval research, the copy of a human being that, within
deeply into what Goethe meant to convey in his Homunculus,
he wished to represent what a man, here in the physical
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Title: Problem of Faust: Lecture XII: Goetheanism In Place of Homunculism and Mephistophelianism
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to evoke the feeling that, in the whole of his inner life,
I wanted you to feel that he succeeded, as perhaps no other
artistic creation out of this spiritual life, so that in this
like you to think that in what has been said I have been
wishing to give an interpretation of this poem; that was not
to be utterly useless. All that was attempted in these
that too often results in misconstruction and
think you will agree that we should not be complete human
trivially-minded, average man looks upon what can be attained
least, and if he wills in accordance with his needs. What
honest, is that he finally admits, when he tries to advance
on the path of thinking, that with his thinking in the
what direction it lies. He wants to hasten towards it, but
reaches it. And while he is feeling that he is still nowhere
may be said that whoever has never experienced the suffering
establish ourselves in life with our will that passes over
by means of his will, so that he should be able to experience
all that makes life happy, all that shatters life, all that
gives freedom and all that is sinful. And if we try to take
our stand in life with the will that passes over into action,
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Title: Karmic Relationships, Volume III: Lecture I
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At the end of his life Rudolf Steiner took up the task that was his
At the end of his life Rudolf Steiner took up the task that was his
time. What I shall say today will serve to illustrate and
explain many questions that may emerge out of the subjects we
time in that evolution of civilisation which is concentrated
of what shall be thought and done among them.
certainly gain a good idea of what intellectualism is. We need
but experience the present time to gain a notion of what came
history nowadays generally project what they are accustomed to
the civilisation of Asia — influenced by what lived and
difference that they were ignorant of so and so many things
altogether different from that of today.
sensation ‘It thinks in me’ than that they thought
said to themselves — and what I shall now describe was an
people say (it is only forgotten now that it ever was so):
into ourselves.’ They were conscious of the fact that they
has the rather strange idea that the thoughts spring forth
that the oxygen he receives in breathing were not received by
know that the oxygen of the air circulates through our organism
fact, as follows: They imagined that they held the thoughts
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Title: Pastoral Medicine: Lecture 1
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In the first place I would like to point out that perhaps this course
a particular form of spiritual activity in our time. For what has so
its original content. We will see that this is so in the course of
arises a most significant task that as it takes shape may be allowed
requirement that this course be mainly for real theologians and real
in the sense in which that title can be given them from the standpoint
the theologians and on the part of the physicians what is now going to be
been pointed out that the anthroposophical movement should try to
bring it about. But things have come to light that must be corrected
work of the other side. It certainly does not mean that the
theologians are to become physicians, or that the physicians are to
medical measures that cannot possibly lie in their sphere of work. On
theologians. It is tremendously important that this should be
has even been entertained that theologians should actually acquire
clearly that physicians, in addition to the cultivation of their
People should not play with the idea that they can push their way
profession; they must learn through pastoral medicine that something
But one must realize that both are divine service. The more fully
thrown together in chaotic fashion: the seriousness that we should be
one should certainly not think that therefore one can perform the
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Title: Pastoral Medicine: Lecture 2
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first at certain phenomena in human life that easily slide over into
esoteric realm of religious life. We have to realize that all
attitude that has come into them in this materialistic epoch. We need
only recall how certain phenomena that had been grouped together for
itself — that has its uses — but rather to their way of
looking at things, to what they brought out as “criminal
what the normal type of human being is. And it was as near as could
possibly be to a philistine! And whatever deviated from this type was
insight that every pathological characteristic also expresses itself
bodily, it is also obvious that symptoms can be found in bodily
with the karma that works over from earlier incarnations.
The forces that build
review the picture of a human being that Anthroposophy gives us. The
stage, and even to a certain degree of the ego organization that
nature can be understood with the methods of knowledge that are
brought to it today. What the etheric body impresses upon it is not
eye of a sculptor so that one obtains pictorial images of cosmic
forces, images that can then be recognized again in the form of the
the entire dynamic activity that works and weaves through the blood
the formative forces that were poured into the skeletal system and
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illness. I therefore would like to speak further about something that
lies between certain pathological trends that are developing in human
evolution and a kind of natural initiation that constitutes another
What appears at the threshold of perception is the first stage for
have a clear feeling that the being was there with them. That is the
such a moving experience for them that they have the feeling: human
spiritual beings that were present. First they tell of the feeling of
any visual experience. Then the condition is raised to vision that is
like optical perception. It can be so enhanced that they see Jesus,
for instance, standing before them as a real person. That is the
usual second stage. It is a peculiar fact that those advancing from
the first to the second stage have only the vaguest feeling that
etheric bodies. But the strange thing is that they
they regard it as natural that they should have it; they feel that
have the feeling that spiritual beings come to them, but that they
that he plunged into the their intestines, which caused excruciating
drawing the astral body to itself, so that they are united without
that can never happen in ordinary consciousness: in half-waking or
entirely united with what they are experiencing. They know this first
something that is there. They experience this as one experiences
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a chapter of anthroposophy that we need for our
important that we look into the question: What is really inherited by
a human being? What is not inherited and must come to the human being
super-sensible worlds into the sense world: that means, they combine
what is given them by heredity with what they bring from earlier
week. But if one does not perceive that they are four-membered
development, for one does not see what part each member is playing in
physical organism is that in the first period of life they have what
thing that is changed at this time. For the fact is that human beings
change of teeth. They are constantly stripping that physical material
course, more complicated than is implied in the brief statement that
physical substance and replaces it. The truth is near to that, but
one need only look at the change of teeth itself to realize that this
picture must be modified somewhat. For if this abstract assertion
sense. As a matter of fact, the course of human life is such that the
what remains behind. At the seventh year it is only the adult teeth
that remain. After each subsequent period there remain also certain
parts of the substance that are not replaced, although the greater
keeping none of it, keeping only the forces that have lived and
the fresh new substance that was constantly being aquired that at
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who show certain aspects of behavior that to a physician may seem to
individuals, we find that as a first stage the ego organization
physical-etheric organism. This is in the waking state. What is the
consequence of this? You can easily see that this puts the individual
intuition. For it is a matter of understanding what they do
not tell one: what they do
tell one is of little value. It is a matter of grasping what they say
or do in such a way that one can think of it in relation to the human
begin to talk about something quite foreign to what one is asking.
But if one catches hold of what they say about themselves — and
that they possess an inner source of speech that gives them a special
questions, you must just snap up what they tell as it were by chance
only had a memory as good as his!” — forgetting that if
variations that you meet in life, which the physician especially
meets. I'm picturing an extreme case so that you can see the chief
soup.” It can happen that he comes entirely away from the first
part of his narrative, but it can also happen that he returns to it
again. One sees that this is not a logical memory but a
its deeper foundation. One notices that the person enjoys the sound
sounding these words again. He is in fact going back to speech that
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in one or the other direction from what can be called
obvious example — how the karma that a human being carries through
need to appreciate the spiritual significance of what confronts a
should consider something for a moment that some with a modern, more
once what I mean.
find a universal conviction that illness comes from sinfulness, that
causing the illness, that the individual harbored some elemental
spiritual force that did not belong there, that somehow the person
that a person was “possessed” by some spiritual entity as
ill person the alien elemental spirituality that had entered through
a spiritual offense. Basically this was the belief that one does not
belief that came later, pronouncing exactly the opposite view —
fashion. The new belief said that every sin can be traced to illness.
to it that in some way or other they got hold of the brain after
well-trained scientists have adopted the view that a person who has a
bodily defect. Sin comes from disease. That's how evolution goes
believed that illness comes from sin. For they know they themselves
are right, that sin comes from illness. And they know with absolute
certainty that in the sick person there is some material process or
other that they have to combat, have to neutralize, have to get out
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than that provided by modern science, one
explores whatever can have the slightest relevance to it. But one
physical-chemical processes of outer nature, that is, of nature
for the world outside us. People have simply accepted the idea that
laboratory, or in some piece of the world that we are able to observe
as happening the same way within us. But one should know that this is
not possible. For the process in a human being that is analogous to
combustion that has become living. This fact is important for all of
is not needed for that to happen; other laws prevail. This is
hypotheses that appear to be perfectly plausible. Earlier conditions
are assumed from the conditions that now exist on the earth. Preyer,
has done just that. He found
have originated. He also took it for granted that these must have
happened at temperatures that today are necessary for similar fire
processes to happen. That was not necessarily so. One can of course
You can see that the ideas
that become fashionable are particularly important when one wants to
means that modern science provides it is not possible to gain an
easy to do — what natural science was bringing forward, whether
bring what was opening up for me spiritually — for instance,
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universe that would then finally explain the totality: humanity and
the world, microcosm and macrocosm. For we would find that everything
of the year, even beyond the year. And we would find that everything
itself into the earth — that is the picture of the root that
feeling that the stem strives to stream out as a line. The root wants
in a linear direction. That is the archetypal form of the plant. And
find within its upward striving that something else is active, at
the plant as it pushes toward the Sun, we must see that the sun
must realize that these forces alone would not be able to form the
earth. And perhaps it is not so ridiculous that a scholar — a
manifold variety that one does have in one's immediate environment
the human being. We showed yesterday that one can go from the area of
And we discovered that this finer inhalation carries karmic streams
the human being what I would like for the moment to call a refined
what lies in the astral body and ego, one would never reach the sun,
what the situation is when the astral body and ego approach the
first, thinking remains the same, except that one can think more than
only has that faculty when down in the physical body in normal life
in the organs, the perceptions that had become dim or had vanished
spiritual colonies — they can be called that, or something
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or her spiritual life and experience. The understanding that should
time from a standpoint that I think will throw greatest light upon
alternate between waking and sleeping. You all know in general what
in our minds what really happens in the human being during sleep. The
bodies, we know that by virtue of what these bodies are, certain
processes go on that during the person's sleep are independent of the
processes going on that are not at all suited to it in the way they
physical processes in the same way that the mineral kingdom is. We
physically active forces and substances, but this is something that
really cannot be. That is why processes that go on in the physical
that sleep is healthful is correct in a certain sense, but only under
there so that the soul-life and spiritual life as a whole can really
investigation to the etheric body, we find that during sleep only the
processes can take place in the etheric body that can otherwise take
same way that they do in the plant kingdom. Thus they too are not
illness. So we can say that sleep can show us how causes of illness
human soul-spiritual life. And that points to a secret of this world
— that whenever one penetrates to reality, one finds it has two
human spiritual development. Thus if we study what is active during
what we have found to be the case in the mentally retarded or the
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Title: Pastoral Medicine: Lecture 10
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There is something that is always overlooked
in this present age, something that has to
It is this: that total spiritual activity must include the creative
activity to be found in human thought and feeling. What really lies
unaware of it. That is why in this very field a kind of evil mischief
that from every possible center, whatever it may be called, all kinds
seeds are strewn in every direction of something that in earlier
And what is at the
satisfaction over the fact that materialism in science is on the
decline, that the tendency everywhere is to try to reach out beyond
For what do Driesch
something that is beyond physical-material events? They use exactly
the same thoughts that have been used for hundreds of years to think
about the material world alone, thoughts that indeed have no other
thoughts they use to think about something that is supposed to be
spiritual. But such thoughts do not have that capacity. For that, one
has to go to true spiritual science. That is why such strange things
appear and today it is not even noticed that they are strange. A
world but in reality a dilettante, holds forth to the effect that one
ascribe to something a similarity to something else, that something
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spiritual research that has meaning when humankind once more
positive, active forces. For naturally in an age that has developed
materialism, it is inconceivable to the ordinary human being that
into spiritual realms and found knowledge there that led to valuable
cures. And what we still have to say today to round off our studies
may perhaps provide a connection to that old mystery wisdom for the
medical stream that should now emanate from the Goetheanum.
understood most correctly in its historical connection if what is
have to regard what has been offered in this short course as just a
of a pastoral medicine that will develop further through the work
that is still to be done here by Dr. Wegman and me.
path of initiation, particularly that path that was pursued at the
had been given through heredity, the body that in the course of the
universal recognition that a person does not in the first place unite
with the physical body in the way that was originally intended by the
spiritual powers who direct humanity. It was always believed that
through some anomaly of the general evolution the forces that a human
being inherits overpower in a certain sense the forces that are
that show that human beings indeed have more to do with the
degree, one sees at once that death is quite different in character.
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In the first place I would like to point out that perhaps this course
a particular form of spiritual activity in our time. For what has so
age there arises a most significant task that as it takes shape may
We have required that
theologians and the physicians must understand what is now going to
been pointed out that the anthroposophical movement should try to
bring it about. But things have come to light that must be corrected
work of the other side. It certainly does not mean that the
theologians are to become physicians, or that the physicians are to
medical measures that cannot possibly lie in their sphere of work. On
theologians. It is tremendously important that this should be
has even been entertained that theologians should actually acquire
clearly that physicians, in addition to the cultivation of their
People should not play with the idea that they can push their way
profession; they must learn through pastoral medicine that something
But one must realize that both are divine service. The more fully
thrown together in chaotic fashion: the seriousness that we should be
one should certainly not think that therefore one can perform the
the Goetheanum will handle with extreme seriousness whatever is going
established procedure: that physicians who want to work with the same
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first at certain phenomena in human life that easily slide over into
esoteric realm of religious life. We have to realize that all
attitude that has come into them in this materialistic epoch. We need
only recall how certain phenomena that had been grouped together for
itself — that has its uses — but rather to their way of
looking at things, to what they brought out as “criminal
what the normal type of human being is. And it was as near as could
possibly be to a philistine! And whatever deviated from this type was
insight that every pathological characteristic also expresses itself
bodily, it is also obvious that symptoms can be found in bodily
with the karma that works over from earlier incarnations.
The forces that build
review the picture of a human being that Anthroposophy gives us. The
stage, and even to a certain degree of the ego organization that
nature can be understood with the methods of knowledge that are
brought to it today. What the etheric body impresses upon it is not
eye of a sculptor so that one obtains pictorial images of cosmic
forces, images that can then be recognized again in the form of the
the entire dynamic activity that works and weaves through the blood
the formative forces that were poured into the skeletal system and
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illness. I therefore would like to speak further about something that
lies between certain pathological trends that are developing in human
evolution and a kind of natural initiation that constitutes another
What appears at the threshold of perception is the first stage for
have a clear feeling that the being was there with them. That is the
such a moving experience for them that they have the feeling: human
spiritual beings that were present. First they tell of the feeling of
any visual experience. Then the condition is raised to vision that is
like optical perception. It can be so enhanced that they see Jesus,
for instance, standing before them as a real person. That is the
usual second stage. It is a peculiar fact that those advancing from
the first to the second stage have only the vaguest feeling that
etheric bodies. But the strange thing is that they
they regard it as natural that they should have it; they feel that
have the feeling that spiritual beings come to them, but that they
that he plunged into the their intestines, which caused excruciating
drawing the astral body to itself, so that they are united without
that can never happen in ordinary consciousness: in half-waking or
entirely united with what they are experiencing. They know this first
something that is there. They experience this as one experiences
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INTO OUR STUDIES a chapter of Anthroposophy that we need for our
important that we look into the question: what is really inherited by
a human being? What is not inherited and must come to the human being
supersensible worlds into the sense world: that means, they combine
what is given them by heredity with what they bring from earlier
week. But if one does not perceive that they are four-membered
development, for one does not see what part each member is playing in
physical organism is that in the first period of life they have what
thing that is changed at this time. For the fact is that human beings
change of teeth. They are constantly stripping that physical material
course, more complicated than is implied in the brief statement that
physical substance and replaces it. The truth is near to that, but
one need only look at the change of teeth itself to realize that this
picture must be modified somewhat. For if this abstract assertion
sense. As a matter of fact, the course of human life is such that the
what remains behind. At the seventh year it is only the adult teeth
that remain. After each subsequent period there remain also certain
parts of the substance that are not replaced, although the greater
keeping none of it, keeping only the forces that have lived and
the fresh new substance that was constantly being acquired that at
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who show certain aspects of behavior that to a physician may seem to
individuals, we find that as a first stage the ego organization
physical-etheric organism. This is in the waking state. What is the
consequence of this? You can easily see that this puts the individual
intuition. For it is a matter of understanding what they do
not tell one: what they do
tell one is of little value. It is a matter of grasping what they say
or do in such a way that one can think of it in relation to the human
begin to talk about something quite foreign to what one is asking.
But if one catches hold of what they say about themselves — and
that they possess an inner source of speech that gives them a special
questions, you must just snap up what they tell as it were by chance
only had a memory as good as his!” — forgetting that if
variations that you meet in life, which the physician especially
meets. I'm picturing an extreme case so that you can see the chief
soup.” It can happen that he comes entirely away from the first
part of his narrative, but it can also happen that he returns to it
again. One sees that this is not a logical memory but a
its deeper foundation. One notices that the person enjoys the sound
sounding these words again. He is in fact going back to speech that
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in one or the other direction from what can be called
earth-life to show how the karma that a human being carries through
need to appreciate the spiritual significance of what confronts a
should consider something for a moment that some with a modern, more
once what I mean.
find a universal conviction that illness comes from sinfulness, that
causing the illness, that the individual harbored some elemental
spiritual force that did not belong there, that somehow the person
that a person was “possessed” by some spiritual entity as
ill person the alien elemental spirituality that had entered through
a spiritual offense. Basically this was the belief that one does not
belief that came later, pronouncing exactly the opposite view —
fashion. The new belief said that every sin can be traced to illness.
to it that in some way or other they got hold of the brain after
well-trained scientists have adopted the view that a person who has a
bodily defect. Sin comes from disease. That's how evolution goes
believed that illness comes from sin. For they know they themselves
are right, that sin comes from illness. And they know with absolute
certainty that in the sick person there is some material process or
other that they have to combat, have to neutralize, have to get out
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MEANS OF INVESTIGATION than that provided by modern science, one
explores whatever can have the slightest relevance to it. But one
physical-chemical processes of outer nature, that is, of nature
for the world outside us. People have simply accepted the idea that
laboratory, or in some piece of the world that we are able to observe
as happening the same way within us. But one should know that this is
not possible. For the process in a human being that is analogous to
combustion that has become living. This fact is important for all of
is not needed for that to happen; other laws prevail. This is
hypotheses that appear to be perfectly plausible. Earlier conditions
are assumed from the conditions that now exist on the earth. Preyer,
has done just that. He found
have originated. He also took it for granted that these must have
happened at temperatures that today are necessary for similar fire
processes to happen. That was not necessarily so. One can of course
means that modern science provides it is not possible to gain an
easy to do — what natural science was bringing forward, whether
bring what was opening up for me spiritually — for instance,
back, or further forward — to bring that into harmony with what
what natural science says about the immediate present. But when it
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universe that would then finally explain the totality: humanity and
the world, microcosm and macrocosm. For we would find that everything
of the year, even beyond the year. And we would find that everything
itself into the earth — that is the picture of the root that
feeling that the stem strives to stream out as a line. The root wants
in a linear direction. That is the archetypal form of the plant. And
find within its upward striving that something else is active, at
the plant as it pushes toward the Sun, we must see that the sun
must realize that these forces alone would not be able to form the
earth. And perhaps it is not so ridiculous that a scholar — a
manifold variety that one does have in one's immediate environment
the human being. We showed yesterday that one can go from the area of
And we discovered that this finer inhalation carries karmic streams
the human being what I would like for the moment to call a refined
what lies in the astral body and ego, one would never reach the sun,
what the situation is when the astral body and ego approach the
first, thinking remains the same, except that one can think more than
only has that faculty when down in the physical body in normal life
in the organs, the perceptions that had become dim or had vanished
spiritual colonies — they can be called that, or something
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or her spiritual life and experience. The understanding that should
time from a standpoint that I think will throw greatest light upon
alternate between waking and sleeping. You all know in general what
our minds what really happens in the human being during sleep. The
bodies, we know that by virtue of what these bodies are, certain
processes go on that during the person's sleep are independent of the
processes going on that are not at all suited to it in the way they
physical processes in the same way that the mineral kingdom is. We
physically active forces and substances, but this is something that
really cannot be. That is why processes that go on in the physical
that sleep is healthful is correct in a certain sense, but only under
there so that the soul-life and spiritual life as a whole can really
investigation to the etheric body, we find that during sleep only the
processes can take place in the etheric body that can otherwise take
same way that they do in the plant kingdom. Thus they too are not
illness. So we can say that sleep can show us how causes of illness
human soul-spiritual life. And that points to a secret of this world
— that whenever one penetrates to reality, one finds it has two
human spiritual development. Thus if we study what is active during
what we have found to be the case in the mentally retarded or the
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THAT IS ALWAYS OVERLOOKED in this present age, something that has to
It is this: that total spiritual activity must include the creative
activity to be found in human thought and feeling. What really lies
unaware of it. That is why in this very field a kind of evil mischief
that from every possible center, whatever it may be called, all kinds
seeds are strewn in every direction of something that in earlier
And what is at the
satisfaction over the fact that materialism in science is on the
decline, that the tendency everywhere is to try to reach out beyond
For what do Driesch
something that is beyond physical-material events? They use exactly
the same thoughts that have been used for hundreds of years to think
about the material world alone, thoughts that indeed have no other
thoughts they use to think about something that is supposed to be
spiritual. But such thoughts do not have that capacity. For that, one
has to go to true spiritual science. That is why such strange things
appear and today it is not even noticed that they are strange. A
world but in reality a dilettante, holds forth to the effect that one
ascribe to something a similarity to something else, that something
science that is really striving to reach a higher level. These things
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spiritual research that has meaning when humankind once more
positive, active forces. For naturally in an age that has developed
materialism, it is inconceivable to the ordinary human being that
into spiritual realms and found knowledge there that led to valuable
cures. And what we still have to say today to round off our studies
may perhaps provide a connection to that old mystery wisdom for the
medical stream that should now emanate from the Goetheanum.
understood most correctly in its historical connection if what is
have to regard what has been offered in this short course as just a
of a pastoral medicine that will develop further through the work
that is still to be done here by Dr. Wegman and me.
path of initiation, particularly that path that was pursued at the
had been given through heredity, the body that in the course of the
universal recognition that a person does not in the first place unite
with the physical body in the way that was originally intended by the
spiritual powers who direct humanity. It was always believed that
through some anomaly of the general evolution the forces that a human
being inherits overpower in a certain sense the forces that are
that show that human beings indeed have more to do with the
degree, one sees at once that death is quite different in character.
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Title: Festivals/Easter: Lecture I: Easter: The Festival of Warning
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that the Christmas festival has been made immovable, having been fixed
celebrate a Sunday — a day, that is, which should remind them of
their connection with the sun-forces — when the Sunday comes that
of wisdom were still current among mankind, traditions that originated
far surpassing the knowledge that present-day science can offer. And
how closely that festival is bound up with the earthly, for its
a time that can be ascertained only when man turns his thoughts to the
earth-evolution pure and simple. For through knowledge of that which
beyond the earth; it contains a promise to man that in the course of
To understand all that is implied in this manner of dating the
We should indeed remind ourselves again and again what a great
that were associated with the personality of Jesus.
All that came to his notice in this way in the physical
that came to him cut deeply into his life — so deeply indeed,
that from that moment he became another man. Nay, more: he became an
was thus well equipped to judge of the nature of the event that befell
all that he experienced inwardly. But even so, when he speaks of the
event of Damascus we can discern that he speaks as one who through
is plain that he is fully able to understand the difference between
time. When we look back into the ancient past we find that man
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festival, it is obvious that the subject is also very relevant to the
emphasises that the universal tendency of the day is to prepare for
that on all sides — right and left — people are succumbing
What will come now is the spread of Bolshevism over Europe; that is to
people have experienced what Bolshevism really is, something good can
illusions to which people readily succumb to-day that must be heeded,
but something else ... We must not listen to what individual dreamers
with. They realise that civilisation is going downhill and are always
by a measure of peace. They are blind to the fact that there is
nothing really important about this interval of peace and that the
of human beings realise that unless a wave of spiritual revival passes
always dangerous because the new that is trying to come to expression
earth-evolution, something that has glimmered on but at the present
perception of the divine and spiritual passed over into the views that
were held concerning the social order, the configuration of life that
as a God, that is to say, as one in whom the Godhead was manifest. If
being? He knew that his being was rooted in the world of the divine
and spiritual; he knew that the divine and spiritual is present
physical earth. He knew that he was born out of the divine and
world reveals to me that objects and beings come from the gods, that
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begin with — when it is realised that the immortal, eternal being
of man, the spiritual and super-sensible essence of being that cannot
is therefore implicit in that of birth.
On other occasions I have said that the head-organisation of man
can be understood only in the light of the knowledge that in the head
death that are all the time present in the head and enable man to
that moment actual death occurs.
of that of birth and cannot be an essential part of the Easter
the Death but to the Resurrection of Christ Jesus that men's minds
of early Christianity that was still an echo of Eastern wisdom. On the
of Golgotha and all that pertained to it, was gradually submerged by
prepared. It was not until much later that these first, still feeble
the concept of the State that was developing in the West. In
something that is not religion at all.
Julian the Apostate, who was no Christian, but for all that a
deeply religious man, could not accept what Christianity had become
death by the indescribable suffering that was His lot.
bodily nature only. And the greater the emphasis that was laid on the
it is a fact that with the concentration on this picture of the
Then there crept into this conception of the Man of Sorrows, that
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Title: Lecture I: Human Questions and Cosmic Answers
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for the failure to understand Anthroposophy when it says that the soul
and spirit of man — that is to say, the astral body and ego
consciousness of the present day. They naturally cannot conceive that
most they can recognise that somewhere or other air exists and that
space is pervaded with light — but the idea that soul and spirit
This impossibility is but a short way from that other impossibility of
somewhat strange and unfamiliar to modern man, and he can approach
We know that the old traditional conceptions, which were incorporated
traced back to primeval wisdom. We know that in ancient times there
events, what they wished to know with regard to the world.
understanding that have been preserved for us in external history. You
know that in Greek temples, where the oracles were given, certain
to the oracles as a last resource. And all that was revealed from this
Mysteries. That was why they relied upon other and more external means
during which they so worked upon their whole being that they were able
to all that took place at daybreak. When the sun was slowly rising
it differs from anything that might emanate from some of the
had once upon a time been quickened by all that man could experience
wonderful do we find the moods that were awakened in the human soul at
rays of light down upon the earth, that is the best time for man to
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to that of the light streaming from the sun to the earth. So it can be
said that forces of will stream out from earthly humanity to meet the
It was further explained that what is spreads out from man at the
streams out into the cosmos towards its inflowing light; and that man
everything that proceeds from the moon.
to what I shall say in the present lecture, it must be remembered that
meant. For it must not be thought that in these happenings the actual
what is taking place spiritually. The true state of affairs can
You know that according to a more materialistic mode of thinking, our
solar system originated from a kind of primal nebula. Thinking that is
bound up with purely material existence conceives that our visible
then consolidated and contracted into what now exists as the solar
the outset that this cannot be an exhaustive presentation of the
may be modified by saying that the nebula is permeated with forces,
and so on, what is actually present cannot be fully explained in this
way, for the reason that nothing contained in a Kant-Laplace or other
primal nebula, or what develops from it according to the laws
the animal and human souls that are living on earth, or even the
must surely be obvious that in the primal nebula conceived by
materialistic thinking, a spiritual reality is contained and that this
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of what I am going to speak about today.
how what is present in the individual human being is connected in
manifold ways with processes and with beings of the cosmos. If what I
also be viewed in his inner aspect, so that his qualities of soul, his
The “whole” that is composed of man together with the cosmos
tell us that the words must be used in the reverse way. We are
view it from outside. The concepts that must be applied here will be
of the spiritual. Words that are suitable have first to be coined. Any
In order to picture what I have just tried to characterise, the
external aspect as that which presents itself to the senses. If we
new birth, and it is the external aspect of the universe that reveals
death and a new birth you will find it amply indicated there that
what was described yesterday in its material-physical aspect —
what reveals itself when the cosmos is viewed from outside, when it is
different studies pursued here you know that this kind of
contemplation is necessary, and you know too that no ordinary, logical
therefore only be a matter of describing the vista that reveals itself
equally possible to prove that the universe is finite or that it is
actually lies midway between what is seen from the earthly viewpoint
and what is seen during the life between death and a new birth.
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reality. Let me remind you of what on various occasions I have already
rock-crystal. For in terms of reality we must speak in that way only
regarded as something that has an independent existence either, but
find it so difficult to bring clear concepts to bear upon what
something that can be explained only in terms of mineral-physical
laws. No account is taken of the fact that the earth is one whole. Let
be correct, say: that is not a self-contained entity. Nowhere in the
without reflecting that the earth is a totality; that the plant,
We must therefore be clear in our mind what it means to study the
something that can be found within a planetary being only when this
If, first of all, we observe what, as part of the earth-skeleton,
pervades the earth as slate-formation, we see that its external
appearance differs very considerably from that of the concentrated
existence, to plant-existence. We must see how what belongs to the
the tasks which these formations have to perform for what is also
intimate connection between all that is slate-formation and
plant-life; between all that is lime-formation and animal-life.
formations. But that is of less importance just now; the important
thing is that to spiritual observation and to spiritual experience the
If I am to sketch it diagrammatically, it will be somewhat like this
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thinking that goes with it. As we look at what technology has brought
come from afar — our heartiest Christmas greetings. What I
Goetheanum. It is also my hope that those friends who are associated
working, thinking and feeling together, there will develop what must
there will emerge what is intended to emerge at the Goetheanum. In
The indication that I shall try to give in this lecture course will
Christmas, yet inwardly, I believe, they are so related. In all that
of that spiritual Being who produced a renewal of all human evolution
This does not conflict with what I have just said. If you remember
what I described many years ago in my book
you will perceive my conviction that beneath the
study, is that the scientific path taken by modern humanity was, if
point of view that I would like to give these lectures. They will not
details of the path that I want to characterize in broader outline
research in recent times and the mode of thinking that can and does
through several centuries. We must go back to a point in time that I
the fourteenth and fifteenth centuries. At that time, an altogether
Cusanus received his early education in the community that has been
is clear that Nicholas already possessed a certain amount of ambition
the monastic and religious orders that, though within the church,
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thinking that goes with it. As we look at what technology has brought
symptomatological What takes place in the depths of human evolution
sends out waves, and these waves are the symptoms that we will try to
depths of evolution are so manifold and so significant that we can
never do more than hint at what is going on the depths. This we do by
describing the waves that are flung up. They are symptoms of what is
Eckhart and Nicholas Cusanus, in my last lecture. What can be
consider to be symptoms of what goes on in the depths of general
any given case only a couple of images cast up to the surface that we
all that happened in the early fifteenth century in mankind's
Neither the knowledge that the mind can gather through the study of
knowledge, its concepts and ideas, come to a halt before that realm.
The fact that one can do no more than write a “docta
with the form of knowledge that, up to his time, was prevalent in
soul mood that I illustrated with one his sentences. He said —
Eckhart points to an older knowledge that has come down to him
through the course of evolution. It is knowledge that still gave man
ancient times is necessary so that we can better understand the quest
for knowledge that surfaced in the Fifteenth Century from the depths
everything that the teachers of the mysteries could communicate to
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thinking that goes with it. As we look at what technology has brought
arose in the course of time. It was pointed out yesterday that the
mathematics to reality. We assume that this is the way it has to be
and that this is the correct relationship. There are debates about it
true relationship. We forget that in a none too distant past mankind
felt differently concerning mathematics. We need only recall what
happened soon after the point in time that I characterized as the
calculations play no special part — yet in such a manner that
appeared self-evident to the men of that time that in mathematics
Hence they felt that if they could express the world in thoughts
something that would have to correspond to reality. If the character
mathematics relates to reality. Mathematics had gradually become what
I would term a self-sufficient inward capacity for thinking. What do
I mean by that?
three mutually perpendicular directions that are otherwise identical.
Space, I would say, is a self-sufficient form that is simply placed
it was only natural that man could no longer penetrate to those inner
mathematics that has been thought-out but not experienced. As an
example of what is thought-out but not experienced, let us consider
orientation within himself. One orientation that man experiences in
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thinking that goes with it. As we look at what technology has brought
their awareness that everything quantitative — including
where the quantitative was severed from what man experiences. We can
concepts of space that included man himself were replaced by the
schematic view of space that is customary today, according to which,
mathematics as something that he experienced within himself together
procedure that cannot be firmly related to human experiences. Hence,
The most that can be said of such an imposition of mathematics on
natural phenomena is that what has first been mathematically thought
Think back to the other worldview that I have previously described to
back on oneself, on what — in union with one's own divine
corporeal nature the mathematical images of what one had experienced
were images of the divine spiritual. The instant that mathematics is
that are no longer seen as a reflection of spirit, in that instant
Take a concrete example, the first phenomenon that confronts us after
am only speaking of the historical fact that the Copernican system
has replaced the Ptolemaic. What I say today does not imply that I
standing firmly on it. He thought of himself not just as a being that
It is only natural that statements like this are considered absurd by
the course of these lectures, we shall see that by doing this we are
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thinking that goes with it. As we look at what technology has brought
We were able to look back into ages past, when what man had to
in such a manner that he attributed it solely to himself. Instead, he
were to him synonymous with the three dimensions of space. What he
A few examples can illustrate what we are dealing with . Take a
eighteenth century. His writings show what an up-to-date thinker of
divided everything that man perceives in his physical
were those that he could only attribute to the objects themselves,
were those that did not actually belong to the external corporeal
things but were an effect that these objects had upon man. Examples
can picture these vibrations in the air that emanate from a
sound-aroused body and continue on into my ear. The shape that the
of the air strikes my ear, and with it arises that peculiar inner
experience that I carry within me as sound. It is the same with
something out there in the world that is somehow of a corporeal nature
same with the other things that present themselves to my senses. The
Simply put, one could say with Locke that the external world outside
of man is form, position, and movement, whereas all that makes up the
In former ages, when what had become the content of knowledge was
experience was then connected with whatever is warmth, color, sound,
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thinking that goes with it. As we look at what technology has brought
last lecture, I said that one root of the scientific world conception
lay in the fact that John Locke and other thinkers of like mind
in the surrounding world. Locke called primary everything that
motion and to size. From these he distinguished what he called the
the primary qualities to the things themselves, assuming that spatial
form, motion and geometrical qualities; and he further assumed that
but is dark, silent and cold. This produces some sort of effect that
that the three dimensions — up-down, right-left, front-back
age experienced the three spatial dimensions in such a way that man
character. Man had forgotten that he experiences the dimensions of
He no longer knew that in order to experience them in their full
experiences. But I have pointed out that inside the physical man as
longer be found, so that they became free-floating in a certain
relocated into man's inner being. It was felt that so long as
qualities, vibrations that were formed in a certain way, but no
had some sort of processes in ponderable matter (matter that has
experienced qualities, the scientific age was really saying that it
did not know what to do with them. It did not want to look for them
in the world, admitting that it was powerless to do so. They were
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thinking that goes with it. As we look at what technology has brought
that in all domains of science something is missing that is also
something that is spoken of in Anthroposophy today and that in former
Let us recall the anthroposophical idea that man is composed of four
by asking: What do we experience in regard to it? We experience what
scientific age, no one gives them any thought. Facts that are of
ignored. Take the following fact. Assume that you have to carry a
person who weighs as much as you do. Imagine that you carry this
old age, we are apt to say that we feel the weight of our limbs. To
this at any given moment of our life, so this statement that we feel
exact science might show that it is not purely figurative, but be
that as it may, the experience of our weight does not impinge
This shows that we have an inherent need to obliterate certain
effects that are unquestionably working within us. We obliterate them
with processes that can be experienced relatively clearly, such as
those connected with weight, they are all processes that can be
What was thus experienced in former times has since been completely
body is that the corresponding processes in the body, such as weight
Instead, he had the feeling that along with this weight, there was a
is constantly active in light. It can really be said that man felt
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thinking that goes with it. As we look at what technology has brought
on what was actually happening in the development of these scientific
concepts. Then we shall better understand what these concepts signify
understand that the phenomena of external culture are inwardly
permeated by a kind of pulse beat that originates from deeper
insights. Such insights need not always be ones that are commonly
would only like to say that we can better understand what we are
what in certain epochs was practiced as initiation science, a science
We know that the farther we go back in history,
clairvoyant perception of what goes on behind the scenes. Moreover, we know
that it is possible in our time to attain to a deeper knowledge, because
can behold the foundations of what takes place in the external
So we can say that an ancient instinctive initiation science made way
insight into what man regarded as knowledge during the age of the old
instinctive science of initiation, we can discover that until the
civilized world that cannot be directly compared with any of our
kind. Still less can they be compared with what today's science
calls psychology. There too, we would have to say that it is of quite
realm of nature were grasped in concepts and ideas that today are
If we examine the ancient initiation science, we find that, in spite
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thinking that goes with it. As we look at what technology has brought
the nature of the case that the subject of a lecture course like this
discussed to that in a certain sense the picture will be rounded
science, we must say that we member man into physical body, etheric
the soul life) and ego. Let us be clear that properly speaking the
organization that we can describe as solid and sharply defined. On
the other hand, all that pertains to liquid or fluid forms is taken
hold of by the etheric body in such a way that it is in a constant
at work. Finally, the ego organization is active in everything that
What I have just outlined cannot, however, be reduced to a diagram.
We must clearly understand, for instance, that because the formative
must always be aware of that. But now let us also remember that this
What is described today as the subject matter of external physics or
the physical body. Our present-day physics contains statements that
function merely as a science that observes outer nature. During the
decline of the medieval alchemy the same thing happened with what
perceptible in the fantastic, alchemistic formulas that we find in
processes in the world that we seek to understand, but only in a
the soul life. Thus what was corporeal was once experienced inwardly,
of that aspect of the world that affects man in such a way that he
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Science. What is here called ‘Spiritual Science’ must not be
which we have to-day without realizing that methods of research which
supernatural worlds. And what makes its appearance as Mysticism is
scientific research, and recognizes what is justified in it. On the
mathematical problem. The point is that at first this organization is
on that preparation which is in his ‘spiritual organs’. If
that of the senses ends. Above all, the research student of
Thus it comes about that the Sciences studied to-day merge into that
what has remained of Philosophy itself? A number of more or less
the senses and in experiment. To what do the ideas of Philosophy
refer? That has to-day become an important question. We find in these
And more: Philosophy, and in its very name, love of wisdom shows that
soul. What one can ‘love’ is such a thing, and there was a
In mankind itself that has been lost which once made Philosophy a
conducted by means of the senses, and what Reason thinks
as he can that of the physical. This etheric body draws ideas from the
universe. To this end it was necessary that not only his body but also
etheric body remains unintelligible, and in a still higher sense that
Cosmos. This is just what the old Cosmology did, and it was
because of this view of it that the soul-essence of man which
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that a man, conscious of self, feels himself in these ideas as in a
prove that the philosophic content does refer to a reality. But this
cultivation of a method which on the one hand is similar to that by
rather that of picture-making.
its experience becomes free from the body. We see clearly that
time we are conscious only of what the physical organism allows us to
what takes place spiritually between man and the Cosmos in the process
the physical reproduction of what exists in the spiritual sphere in
earthly phenomenon, and that which man brings with him from the
that are a part of it; in the condition of sleep, the rhythm and the
consciousness from knowledge, and he can do this because what he
Besides that already described, the following soul-exercise helps
that one consciously contracts habits which one did not have
effort that such a change necessitates, the better it is for gaining
What we may call ‘abstract thought’ has been perfected only
that they exercise no compulsion on man. The moral impulses are
attain it, Theosophy, Occult Science, etc. What is necessary in
order to return to a Philosophy, a Cosmology and a Religion that
consciously — that is in contradistinction to the old

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THE inner life of man assumes another form from that of ordinary
thinks out a mathematical problem can be fairly certain that he is
importance that the subject should even correspond with some known
way here indicated is that the man who practises it has through his
organization what in meditation appears as a process.
but in such a way that one feels the power in them. Thoughts of former
form of thought it radiates back what we experience in the ether. This
into the ordinary consciousness. That which the consciousness and
meditation. It must be clearly emphasized that here the
are aware that we are experiencing the cosmic life, that the spiritual
what we experience in Inspiration to something we experience in
ordinary consciousness. We see in the Cosmos that is perceived by the
senses a reproduction of what we have spiritually experienced. The
process may be compared with that by which one compares a new
this etheric occurrence. What we know in the physical world as Sun and
intelligible for the first time, for not only all that his senses take
not imitate that. In the course of human evolution he has entered upon
evolution which has gone by. But what was attained by them had to be
knowledge; the method, that is, of experiencing in a state of full
consciousness what in past times man had to experience in waking
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WE said that for the development of ‘inspired cognition’ one
our life since birth. What we have there before us is indeed something
In continuing these exercises of inspiration it becomes clear that the
later becomes so great that the whole picture of one's life's
consciousness that is freed also from the content of our own physical
human thought to be the dead remains of that living thought
certain sense as a more recent part of the soul. That which is
from what has been explained, certain results for a Philosophy which
thought-world and to draw conclusions from what is dead on the basis
show that something dead points to something living, as the corpse
what is the true soul. The corpse of thought is again animated in a
is true, transferred back completely into the condition that existed
of this condition, from the nature of which we can realize that it is
about that the pre-terrestrial existence which had in thought died out
physical and etheric organism. He experiences what existence is after
the dissolution from the body; he is given a pre-vision of what really
it recognizes in thought something that can be compared with a dead
seed. Something that has life in itself, which points beyond the
self-experience of what is evident in the earth-life, but which
Cosmology if it is to be of a kind that the total human being is
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‘Subconscious’, when we wish to signify that the
which is not included in this consciousness. That knowledge which
that is all it can do. It can bring no contribution to a definition of
I shall now have to describe what is revealed in this review. Because
that such a description is possible, and how it is to be taken.
his own being and that of the universe; nor any between separate
differentiation, there arises in the soul a longing for rest in what
world that will support it.
life both awake and in dream by means of that conception of the soul
of that which should be experienced by the soul in sleep, as the body
that of the waking condition. The physical and etheric organisms
how that which the soul receives through its contact with the planets
what point to good and evil tendencies, and good and evil events in
the predestined course of earthly life. In fact, what older
that they help to cause the feelings, the general mood of the soul, of
indeed that the religious longing, stirring in the depth of the soul,
But it is significant above all that in this state the soul is faced
into a purely spiritual world. That the soul in its waking state
cannot believe in the reality of what outwardly represents itself to
experience of star-life, that a human being has a life as spirit among
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and intuitive approach. Attention was drawn to the fact that the inner
being part of this earth. The contemplation of that state in which man
his turning towards earthly life makes it clear that then he is not
which in one sense is opposed to what we usually term cell. By
remember all the time that the happenings of the spiritual world are
spiritual and that for them space, in which physical happenings move,
the senses. Indeed intuitive knowledge may well say that man,
a universe of such magnificence that the physical world cannot be
further away, as if he was growing out of it. What is at first a
only a revelation of these beings. One might say that while at one
spirit-beings with whom it lived before. One might say that at
first its experience was permeated by spirit, and by God, and that
is the reality of that which later on appears as religious learning to
one's perception. The second is the reality of what, if described,
soul gets ready to receive from outside that which before she
experienced within herself. The spiritual activity that has furthered
In this phase she becomes ripe to satisfy with the etheric cosmos that
‘longed-for’ object. That which happens in the experience of
memory. What philosophy is searching for, and what she can only

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evolution, the psycho-spiritual existence is transferred to that of
But it must be once more emphasized that it is not a case of
understanding with one's whole nature and being what observation has
does now. But that is not so. There have been times in which the soul
pre-earthly soul-nature as an echo of what he had gone through. On the
other hand he had not that sense of self which present-day man has. He
that in which occurred also the event of Golgotha.
of himself became more and more limited to what his physical
in such case that he was convinced this echo could not be affected by
Christ, man can find, since Golgotha, what he formerly found through a
followers in such a way that they saw in their considerations of
pre-earthly life a gift of grace from that spiritual Sun-Being which
worlds of pre-earthly existence that he could carry into the earthly
mankind of that time stressed particularly this aspect of the Christ
This view was conditioned by the fact that one still knew enough, from
which was to come into being in the development of humanity, that
initiate knowledge should disappear for a few centuries, and that man
mystery of Golgotha and to clothe what was once known by spiritual
way what had thus been given him in primæval time by nature, through
I, but the Christ in me’, that He might be his guide through the
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and willing. Thus man loses what he terms as ‘himself’.
The rising-up of this experience happens in such a way that one has
consciousness; and that is the case if the ordinary consciousness
but that part which before was conscious in the physical organism
experience of imagination and that of ordinary consciousness is just
contrary, to drive out all inclination to what is visionary. But he
realize that visions are not independent of the body but dependent on
the character of visions with that of imagination which is really
something having no substantial content. Only what is introduced into
Possessing this power the soul can attain pictures of that which in
ordinary consciousness it happens that the soul can only give its
into it and there finds the pictured reflections of that which it
so that the former dwells in the latter. But it is a transformation of
This is the case with that part of it which in earthly existence is
the accompanying sensations is the result of my act of will. What is
between remains unconscious. What happens in the depths of the
knowledge of that part of the soul from the past, which is transformed
Christ-problem. Therefore that study will again lead us back to a

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Ordinary consciousness cannot perceive what is happening behind the
thoughts man perceives what he himself is enacting in his physical
astral organism continues to be active whatever man has experienced in
during its earthly existence from what it was in its pre-earthly
tearing down, that is, one which destroys the physical organism. This
head-organization is found that which is capable of reflecting the
urging towards life cannot produce a tissue of thought. For that a
What finally happens to the whole human organism in physical death
What is present in the etheric body has been woven into man from the
This actually means that the etheric body dissolves after a very short
while in the world ether. Man keeps that part which was bound to the
this astral organism and the Ego. But in everything that can be called
assume that man has created something within the world of the senses.
in upon this astral organism. Whatever judgment this world pronounces
Man's soul cannot gain sufficient impulses out of that cosmic
knowledge gained by initiation: That Spiritual Being, who, in the
so that you will be able to prepare a physical organism for the next
by its own nature on earth be so light that its antithesis which will
begin after death will be so dark that you will not be able to see the

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constituted that the presentation of the ego-development in it would
described. If this desire becomes so strong that the physical organism
from that of the grown-up man. The task of the true pedagogue is a
within the limits of what is attainable to natural science cannot be
destruction in shifting forms of single organs or processes. What
knowledge of the human body. We can genuinely say that Anthroposophy
The will part of the soul experiences also what passes in the feeling
human being. This spiritual-psychic being represents whatever earthly
spiritual-psychic content. Everything of world-spiritual value that
behind that moral quality-being with which he is related. For the
by that quality-being.
this withdrawal. Here it is that the being, whose physical reflection

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— and the Materialistic, that concerned with matter. And
everything Ideal, Beautiful and Good, all that is filled with
Wisdom, and then on the other hand, ell that is ugly, bad and
untrue. Now we know that Manichaeism only “gets on”
Evil and Good; that which is full of Wisdom, and that which is
one knows that in ancient times the Spiritual world was
in such a way that men's visions of the Spiritual world were in
the spirit in a material form. That, of course, is a mistake
materialisation of the spirit. That was one of the
attention to the feet that through the mere observation of what
And, if one is of [the] opinion that one cannot stand for the
if one wishes to see what led St. Augustine to place himself in
he finally developed. That is the point, my dear friends; and
Augustine came to acquire that Certainty, the true Certainty
by man with reference to what he experiences in his inner soul.
that one cannot know. We cannot even know how this itself
appears, when one shuts one's Sense organs to it, That is the
that man can gain nothing out of it on which he can stand on a
what he experiences in his inner soul; quite regardless as to
inner experiences; — that, with reference to what man
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waking up that is, the sleeping condition. Of course,
That which we call the astral body and ego separate from the
into the nature of sleep, we must remember that it is just in
the sleeping condition that a man experiences the reality of
what we discussed in our last lecture, when we said that St.
lecture that in his waking condition, man does not grasp the
full reality of his inner being. We must be quite clear that
what is described as the astral body and the ego, do not really
conscious in the sleeping condition, that is from going to
clearly realise that the true form of the Astral body and Ego
Imaginative Consciousness, that in the inner experiences during
what we call the third Hierarchy, the Hierarchy of the Angels,
in intimate connection with what we must designate as the
consciously during the making condition; and that constitutes
willings. This is the essential — that throughout the
shadowy side of his Ego and Astral body; and that he cannot
become conscious that all the time there in working into his
may use that expression, he would not have external nature
also say, that because these Arch-Angelic Beings shine into our
feel ourselves as earthly human beings — that means
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such we must be mindful of all that has been associated with this
festival in the feelings and hearts of men. It must be remembered that
century, for the first time actually in the year 354, in Rome, that
was out of the very deepest instincts of Christian evolution that such
sectarian teaching, destined for this or that circle of human beings.
the thought that the time when the earth has her darkest days, at the
The feeling that at this season the earth is resting in her own being,
by the feeling of hope that once again the rays of light and love from
and light from the heavenly sphere of the sun, man felt that his own
being too was given over to that world whence the radiant,
And so into the thought of the Christmas Festival man laid all that
therefore quite natural that those who came into contact with
In line with the change that had taken place between the age described
again with the Fathers. And what does this imply? It implies that in
centre around which Christendom coheres. The feeling that lived in the
evidence everywhere that at the time of the approach of Christmas, the
We must really have an inner understanding of what it signified when
the Christmas Festival was instituted on the 25th of December, that is
festival of remembrance included the thought that through the Baptism
It was the celebration of a birth that was not an ordinary birth. The
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and that we need to concern ourselves with four problems: natural
that are operative in human evolution, especially those that are
begin with a historical introduction that will, of course, accord with
scientific observation that clarification, can also be thrown upon the
You well know that when we study evolution in its main features, we
certain elements that have remained from the past. As you will have
comprehension when we take into account what is progressing in a
normal and regular manner, and also what has remained from the past.
certain things that can open the way to an understanding of how this
forces of that age are still active today. This will help us to
find his way through the various influences that are at work. Only
Accordingly, you will not be surprised to see that I am quite aware
that there may be some difficulties in understanding me. Regardless of
how it may be received, I continue to speak what I know to be the
shines in all that has found its way into the present from Greece and
Rome. Let us try to picture to ourselves what the Greek world means to
of history that speaks to us of Greece that I have so often spoken of.
Greece, and what is left of the Greek philosophy. That is the other
are the Greek myths, those divine sagas that express so wonderfully in
pictures what the Greeks were able to perceive of the secrets of the
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Title: Inner Impulses: Lecture II
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and that we need to concern ourselves with four problems: natural
Yesterday, we tried to characterize the forces that permeated Greece
and Rome in order to obtain an idea of the influences that have been
true of what is to be presented to you today. The development of Greek
because they expected something quite different from it. Think what
post-Atlantean epoch. What was it they were really looking for?
We come to know this luciferic life that continually strives, hoping
that certain results may ensue, but that continually meets with fresh
luciferic powers stop trying? Why do they not see that they must be
What was it, then, that the luciferic powers expected from this fourth
forces of the Greek people, those soul forces that were, as we have
work so strongly on the human beings of the Greek civilization that
soul world, in an everyday thinking, feeling and willing that would
have consisted entirely of those subtle imaginations that had become
been their hope to achieve in the fourth post-Atlantean age what they
bodies that still came to birth would have been degenerate. Egoless
They kept the Greeks on earth, providing the strongest forces that
history, we must always take into account the forces that lie behind
physical reality and are the true causes of all that happens. It was,
then, in this way that Greece was preserved for earthly evolution.
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Title: Inner Impulses: Lecture III
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and that we need to concern ourselves with four problems: natural
It is extraordinarily difficult to speak of the conditions that were
science. The information that can be given is, therefore, more in the
further reason that causes certain difficulties in treating conditions
that are hidden behind the threshold of knowledge from modern man is
that, on the whole, he has become somewhat lacking in courage. If one
prefers his knowledge to give him nice pleasant feelings, but that is
I have said, however, modern man is much too weak in courage for that;
secrets of modern existence that will become clearer in the course of
by modern man when a veil is drawn over certain processes that are
that man does not understand certain things that thrust themselves
Most important events that are enacted around us before our very eyes
be laid. They have now progressed so far that evolution cannot
Modern man, with his experience of what happens around him and of what
he himself does and sets going, has but feeble reflections of what is
too, are only feeble. What is happening in the subsensible is unknown
the super-sensible. Beneath what we modern people experience in the
soul lies something that one can only describe as eruptive forces. It
smoke burst out everywhere. If through the smoke you could see what is
swirling and bubbling down below, you would then indeed realize what
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Title: Inner Impulses: Lecture IV
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and that we need to concern ourselves with four problems: natural
continue today with the subject that has now occupied us for some
that can contribute to a wider understanding of what has already been
presented but that can also be understood to some extent by itself. I
want to touch quite briefly upon a leading thought that has been brought
forward. It is, indeed, somewhat comprehensible from the whole
one's understanding the facts that have been presented in our recent
individual forms of the actuating spiritual powers that stand behind
form what works and lives behind sense perceptions.
We have frequently emphasized that the science of the spirit is
related to what is commonly called science today much in the following
description of single letters that are printed or written on a sheet
sentences. What we call the laws of nature can be compared with
or written page and say that we can see first a stroke upwards to the
page would resemble what is correctly called science today. But if we
description of what is on the page to the meaning of the words. We can
only learn to know this meaning when we advance from describing what
meets the eye to what our faculties — our mind and its power
spirit that is ruling and working within these little beings that we
read the facts of the world, not merely to describe what is
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Title: Inner Impulses: Lecture V
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and that we need to concern ourselves with four problems: natural
that are connected with subjects spoken of here a week ago. As a
given. This may be useful, because from remarks that have been made to
me, it is obvious that important points have been misunderstood.
At the very outset let us be quite clear that the course of evolution
as a kind of recurrence or revival of what spread over the earth as
that the thoughts, the perceptions, and also the social life of the
culture of Greece and Rome. What had been direct experience in
inspired, by fantasy and imagination. We must realize that this
the hierarchy standing nearest to the human hierarchy, desired that
the intention of the luciferic and ahrimanic powers that everything
that had constituted the essential nature of Atlantean culture should
stage consistent with the post-Atlantean era. What was essentially new
to develop their powers of fantasy that the souls of men would
senses that he had no desire to live merely in the world of
of the luciferic powers, namely, to lead away the souls of men so that
Luciferic by shaping the Roman Empire and what followed it in such a
way that it would have become a great earthly mechanism for ego-less
politics and system of rights that thwarted Ahriman's plan.
destiny of Ahriman and Lucifer is that they work with their forces in
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Title: Inner Impulses: Lecture VI
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and that we need to concern ourselves with four problems: natural
We have been occupied in showing how those spiritual forces that we
historical growth of mankind. We have seen how what is to be carried
impulses, too, of man's social life, something is present that can
forces that underlie world historical evolution. We have seen how what
preparation since the fifteenth century. We have seen what new
since that time.
concentrated and clearest manner what the impulses of our time ought
to be, then we can look to Goethe. We have already observed that
Goethe has expressed something that can form the beginning of the
pointed out that Goethe has expressed in intimate fashion in his
what he regarded as the right impulses of culture, knowledge, feeling and
will; that is, what he was obliged to look upon as necessary for the
activity of man in the future. He has concealed in his fairy tale what
since the fifteenth century, and that will be at work for about two
sought to bring to life in all possible detail what Goethe saw when he
later, what inspired Goethe and is to inspire the entire fifth
We must go back to that age in which the impulses for the fifth
fifteenth century because things that are to develop spiritually must
In order to describe the configuration of the cultural impulses that
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Title: Inner Impulses: Lecture VII
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and that we need to concern ourselves with four problems: natural
In our previous studies I have tried to show that a meaning, a
that can only be discovered when ones digs deeper into spiritual
their meditating upon what happens does not signify much because the
into the causes that hold sway spiritually behind the phenomena.
of the time should continually bear in mind that with so-called
understand why the things that go on around him are as they are. For
growth of things, but instead registers what happens externally and,
in what might be called the simplest and most convenient manner,
always considers what has happened earlier to be the cause of what
simple, easygoing way that modern history largely employs, one comes
opinion that the greatest part — yes, perhaps even the most
widespread part of what happens — owes its existence not to
sense, but to absurdity. If the full consequences of the views that
one would have to admit that there is not sense, but nonsense in
history. Let us take an example that everyone who studies ordinary
seek its external historical origin. Well, we shall find that Henry
VIII reigned from 1509 to 1547, and that he had six wives. The first,
be found that that was really only through a sort of mistake! A
different fate was planned for her, too. I refer to his somewhat
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Title: Mystery Centres: Lecture I
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introduction, a preparation for that which we are now to consider.
we do this from childhood — and then we form thoughts upon that
in that we allow the impressions of the outer world to live on
so doing we only attain what I might call a shadowy picture of the
thought what has come to us as impressions of the outer world. One
man, while reflecting upon the things that have made an impression on
will recognize the fact that it is a matter of especial significance
time. It does not often happen, however, that people come together in
what might have happened if this or that had been different. They
leads finally to what you encounter if you read
truly say that in all those who at that time were in a position to
book thinking is so experienced that within the experience of
thinking we come to this realisation, viz. that if a man really
experiences thinking, he is living, even if at first somewhat
but it is meant to imply that when a man really experiences thinking,
Thus he reaches what may be called etheric experience.
feeling, that with his thinking, which is not confined to any one
place, he can grasp everything inwardly. He feels that he is
when he realises: formerly you always comprehend the world; now that
The result of this process of strong self-comprehension is that he
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Title: Mystery Centres: Lecture II
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explained yesterday, into etheric existence. That which can lay hold
of man, even more strongly than memory, so strongly that the inner
to begin with, we limit our considerations to memory, we find that
this consists in what we experienced at an early age being carried
life that points us still further back? Can we look back to that
Here we come to two things, namely, that which man has
which are connected with that which was peculiar to his physical
occurs a peculiar sentence, running somewhat as follows: “In
this royal house there are members who show clearly that they incline
for one might really suppose that a writer who makes a remark of this
kind would have to admit that one cannot draw conclusions from such
present time lead to what are called well-founded views you will find
somewhat superficial one must admit that man does carry inherited
characteristics within him. That is the one side; man has often to
them away in order to attain that for which he was prepared by the
The other side to which our attention is drawn is that
them without prejudice, that unless a man finds his way into the
exit of the moon from the earthly planet, and have shown that the
have also pointed out that a spiritual cause underlies this exit of
humanity, and from whom proceeded what on the basis of our human
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during his life to that which, from the natural scientific point of
connected with the Ahrimanic sphere, while that which, in the widest
cosmos care has been taken that the Luciferic and Ahrimanic
shall add certain things today to what has been said, keeping in
mind, at the same time what was explained in the first of these
as to enter into the life of memory will see what a great part the
thought that is not caused by external impressions is connected with
perceive that whirling in and out, inwardly perceive that which,
But something else presents itself; that which from
falling asleep until waking up figures in this way as memories, that
nature. We can therefore say: All that lives as astral body in these
memories forms a union with the forces that lie behind the minerals,
terrible, I must say, when people say that behind the phenomena of
memories unite during sleep, but with that which really lies behind
with these that our memories unite during sleep. Our memories rest in
being. You take up what I have transformed during life from
that space plays no part in these things; no matter how far the rose
the rose-bush has this peculiarity, that it receives the earliest
memories of our childhood.” That is the reason why people love
that is, with the spirit which rules in the external world. These
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Title: Mystery Centres: Lecture IV: The Ephesian Mysteries of Artemis
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connections that man is subject to a kind of deception if he ascribes
lectures. Let us suppose that someone possessing Imaginative
as it were in thought with the rock. One might say that his
that within this rock there lives an inner reflection of all that is
impression that in everyone of these quartz rocks something is
many-faceted eyes which divide all that approaches them from outside
one cannot help doing so, that there are countless quartz and similar
formations on the surface of the earth that are just so many eyes of
the earth, in order that the cosmic environment may be reflected and
knowledge that each crystal form existing within the earth is a
covering of snow, and even more about the falling snow-flakes, that
great part of the cosmos, that with this crystallized water
I need not mention that the stars are also there during
the day only that the sunlight is of course too strong for us to
mention this by the way to make clear to you that this reflection of
feeling that just as we live imaginatively into the crystal covering
becomes a truth, a deep truth to the imaginative observer, that what
the case that the earth once upon a time had the same inner
was shared by man in such a way that he has learnt to say: The finger
body. The delusion of man that as a physical being he is independent
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that which I gave you in my last lecture it is now possible to speak
form. You will remember I said that one who has attained to knowledge
metals of the earth, with all that has its being in the earth,
through the fact that the earth is permeated with veins of metal,
that the earth in general carries within itself various kinds of
enables him to look back on that which has happened to the earth.
It is particularly interesting to look back to what
that period which I have described in a somewhat external way, as the
continents as human beings, and are surrounded by what the earth
on. We know that we ourselves live, in a certain sense, in a sort of
air-ocean, the atmosphere which surrounds the earth, that out of this
atmosphere we take oxygen into ourselves, that our relation to the
general that this atmosphere, consisting in oxygen and nitrogen,
quite a different condition of the earth from what we have today.
simply because what the chemist calls by these names today did not
spiritual being of that time and speak of carbon, oxygen, nitrogen,
etc., that being would reply “such things do not exist.”
on, all the lighter so-called metals simply did not exist in that
ancient epoch. On the other hand there was at that time around the
but in its fluidity it was similar to albumen; so that in reality the
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Title: Mystery Centres: Lecture VI
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universe is of little significance. But we know that the John Gospel
the John Gospel must ask himself: What is really indicated when the
Word is placed at the very beginning of all things? What is really
degree in the cosmic mysteries that which sounds forth as a riddle in
Temple of Artemis or Diana at Ephesus; so that it must seem to him,
Let us therefore today, equipped with what has been
Christian era, in order to see what was done in this sanctuary so
sacred to the ancients. We find that the instruction given in the
Mysteries at Ephesus centred in the first place in that which sounds
forth in human speech. We learn what took place in those Ephesian
but we learn it from the Akashic Record, that Chronicle of etheric
follows: “Learn to feel in your own instrument of speech what
for it was with this external side of speech that the instruction
over again: “Notice what you feel when the word sounds forth
same word descends into man so that he might experience inwardly the
feeling of that which rises is predominant while in the words “I
am not” the feeling of that which descends prevails.
Ephesus that man makes use of the air in order to let the word sound
this sending up of fire, and the sending down of that which is
The pupil at Ephesus was made to notice that when he
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Title: Mystery Centres: Lecture VII: The Mysteries of Hibernia
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order to draw your attention to certain connections between that
which in the course of human evolution has become known, and that
certain sense at the starting-point of modern spiritual life, in that
Hibernia, that much-tried island to the West of England, to call up
one receives the impression that the pictures of these Centres
kind of bewilderment. So that it is only against obstruction that one
can arrive at that which I shall now describe. You will see during
was given in that place, who were led on to the Cosmic Word. Now, if
received in Hibernia, we find that this preparation consisted in two
things. The first was, that those who were to be prepared were led to
face in their souls all the difficulties of knowledge. All that
not that path of knowledge which leads into the depths of existence,
but that path which simply requires that we shall intensify our
all that we experience as difficulties if we have really gained
You can realize that it is one thing to have attained a
feeling that that which we can clamp into words is something no
All that can be thus experienced, which he only knows
The second thing that they had to experience in their
souls was how little of that which by the usual way of consciousness
other hand it was shown to these pupils that man, if he would keep
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have seen that the Initiation of the Hibernian Mysteries described
the spirit-world, so that by means of specially impressive inner
firstly, the nature of these statues and secondly, through what
impression that one receives from such majestic statues in
compared with that which one receives through description only, but
possible that after the pupil had gone through all that I have
while in his mind. The pupil was simply kept to this, that that which
coined for initiation experiences such as these. Hence much that is
significance. That which the pupil at first experienced when he gave
certainly care for what is necessary for life, but his soul was again
cannot say that the consciousness was dulled, but the pupil became
felt that this state of consciousness was filled with a sensation of
numbness. But presently he felt that that which was benumbed in him,
sufficiently long time — the Initiators had to take care that
Cosmos, so that he said to himself somewhat as follows: “The
from this or that, the most manifold impressions of
been said, recalled that which he had seen here or there in life, and
which always gave him the impression of reality. So that he felt
as if this whole landscape that he gazed upon were active in each
inner mirror for all that which appeared outside.
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Hibernian Mysteries, and you saw in the last lecture that the
led them to gain an insight, first of all, into what is possible to
the human mind, into what the human mind can experience through its
through, it was possible that as by magic, landscapes as they are
given, for that which man was accustomed to look upon appeared before
Imaginations which were connected with that which he otherwise saw
Imaginations that he was about to penetrate further by means of these
been led further to sink himself deeply into that which he had gone
himself into what had happened through the numbness, through his
Ether-distances, and again through what had taken place when he felt
allow that to come over him which worked a still further result. When
all this was indicated to him, after he had gone through all that
before himself the condition of inner numbness, so that he felt, as
it were, his own organism as a kind of mineral thing, that is to say,
vision of the Moon-existence, which preceded that of the Earth.
and in many different lectures. That which has there been described arose in
between experience at that time and experience today. Today we feel
ourselves to some extent bounded by our skin, and we say indeed that
as men we are that which is inside the skin. It is of course a mighty
mistake, for as soon as we consider that which is in the form of air
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Title: Mystery Centres: Lecture X: The Chthonic and the Eleusinian Mysteries
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to mind the real significance. of the fact that the knowledge and
of speaking, dimmed; that means that they could not develop any
Let us again call to mind that Image which appeared at
in the Mysteries of Hibernia. We indicated also that epoch in which
them, we find that at the same time in Ireland the Initiates
their insight that the Mystery of Golgotha was taking place
It must be clearly understood, however, that in Hibernia
spiritual life that which had originated in Hibernia was brought over
through what is now Holland and Belgium, and even through the Alsace
understand what had come over from the Mysteries of Hibernia, but, as
the world and its civilization, that which had been initiated in
In general, there spread over Europe that for which
spiritual perception is not required, that which could be linked on
era. From this stream there proceeded that element which gradually
developed more and more, which reckoned only with that which
divine what a colossal contradiction lies in the fact that the
and that which rules in nature, especially the forces and beings
that they had knowledge and had been initiated into the Mysteries of
the Father, the Mysteries of Zeus, and also that they had been
perception, though still somewhat abstract, into the highest regions,
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Title: Mystery Centres: Lecture XI: The Secret of Plants, of Metals, and of Men
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what I gave out in my lecture yesterday it may perhaps be
comprehensible to you that I should say of Aristotle, who really
of the ancients in the fourth pre-Christian century, that in spite of
the fact that he only sent out a kind of system of logic into central
indeed on all the Mysteries of that time. Indeed we must even say
that anyone who can follow such things as world-views and
in the logical presentations of Aristotle, that a certain inner
of illustrating the peculiar fact underlying these remarks, that it
whereas, as we know, Aristotle was able to fulfil that task and to
just through the ideas that filled him he became that personality
can form an idea of the content of that seven years' instruction
“nature” that which our modern natural scientists
excluded; but at that time they incorporated the human being himself
could be done, because, at that time men sought the spirit in nature;
the outer powers of observation of man. What we today regard as
this in time what they have to say is not really adequate; and if
they then approach Greek knowledge, what they have to give is purest
phantasy. What they do is simply, in a sense, to prolong the present
back into the earliest times; but it is no reality that they
such teachings as were taken earnestly were so given that they were
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Title: Mystery Centres: Lecture XII: The Mysteries of the Samothracian Kabiri
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say that as in the world of external nature the different regions of
the earth bring forth this or that kind of vegetation, so in the
visitors are not yet present with us, I will link on rather to what
say that there appears before our Imaginative consciousness, with all
case for humanity that, as regards the consciousness of that time —
Asiatic races — what we today call matter simply did not exist.
our consciousness today there is nothing in any way similar to what
us say, of his hand, that which we touch as a human hand we do not
a stone or picked up a stone, that was not to them an indifferent
what the earth appeared to them to be. These ancient peoples related
being whom we know, but who is not there, and when it transpires that
this human being is the brother or the sister of that other, then we
realize that there exists between these two human beings a common
You must realize clearly and deeply what an utterly
If we trace the development of Greek life to that time
Macedonian nation arose, we find how at that time there flowed over
into human knowledge what we learned to know in the last lecture here
in the form of Aristotelianism, that which Alexander the Great, in a
nation, we see how, besides what outer history relates, which is
fact that the whole cosmos is a Theogony, an evolution of the Gods,
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that region of the earth, had its own special form of the Mysteries.
nature of the Mysteries. That is the time which in the evolution of
that what happened
other Mysteries I have described in that it stands before the whole
Mysteries had to undergo pain and sorrow. I have often described that
to you; but speaking quite generally, one can say, that right up to
initiation, and was told that he would have to undergo much
of the world, for that will lead me finally into the Light-region of
the spirit, in which one beholds what otherwise with the ordinary
And so this transition time came, and after it came that which
obtain out of the Akashic Record, of what transpired in the Mysteries
Following that there came a transitional epoch; and then
came that period which possessed no real Temples, but still had, as
then we come to that which is described as the Rosicrucian Mysteries
character. That is such a real truth that one may say that those who
that in which they stood to them in the ancient Mysteries. I am
speaking now of that epoch which culminated in Rosicrucianism about
In the last lecture attention was drawn to the fact that
as little did it occur to a human being in that ancient time to
old unless one knows that he spoke always of the earth as a divine
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extent be useful in showing what form the human soul-strivings took
in the most civilized parts of the earth at that time. The spiritual
striving of that period is often described as the Mysteries of the
aware of this fact — one does not always realize what an
must look behind, and direct our attention to that deeply earnest
Europe. We must realize clearly that the figure of Faust as described
the last lecture that in the investigators of this epoch a tragic
those investigators that they must strive after the highest, the
I have said that we do not find theoretical, easily
Now what was the origin of this? This can be best
not of such a nature that man looked up to the planets and saw the
calculated and observed today; at that time each planet, as all else
for he knew that just as there exists a blood relationship between
parallelism between the human element and what revealed itself
I should like to depict one aspect of what was perceived
the sun. At that time there still existed Mystery-sanctuaries which
were so arranged that there was a specially prepared kind of
skylight, so that at certain definite times of the day the sun could
be seen through a diminished light. Thus you must imagine that the
most important chamber in many an ancient Sun Temple was that in the
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remarks. It is obvious that this series of lectures is particularly important
in presenting spiritual science to the world, that these various subjects be
You know that in our higher education the actual study of medicine is
therapy. Many of my listeners, however, are well aware of what short
It seems to me that a belief has arisen with a certain urgency in recent
diseased organism, what can we look for except natural processes also
that what confronts us in illness in these totally evident, causally
to nature that underlies our modern view of natural events.
skepticism that I have described here previously, a kind of nihilism in
their view was particularly applicable, they said that one can only allow
illness subsides. They said that it is not actually possible to speak in the
true sense of what for centuries, for millennia, had been called healing.
At this point I would like to warn against a misunderstanding, that of
believing that from here, and from the side of an anthroposophically
that while materialism has certainly made its appearance, materialism
Literatur I wrote an article at Buechner's death that did not damn him but
this is just what is essential in experiencing and pursuing spiritual
science, that one be able to transmute oneself into everything;
achievements that have proceeded from something like materialism,
heard here in the course of our lectures that we are striving for a
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Today I wish to make a link with what I said yesterday at the
I said that out of these instincts Schelling not
became an inner principle so that the physician would coordinate his
create nature.” Generally what is first noticed when a genius comes
that Schelling meant; rather, by putting things together, by a
fundamentally to do with an absurdity that a man of genius laid at the
Yesterday I indicated another sentence that could be contrasted with,
science, developing his own spiritual investigation, sees that both
that was not being done in Schelling's time, this sentence immediately
intellectual knowledge that we apply in our sciences. Considered
nature, we can say nothing more than that “To know nature means at
most to recreate nature in thoughts.” Therefore what we call our
the inner formative force; this is what we develop in our thinking, in
pointed out previously, however, that this soul life permeated by
mental images is basically nothing but what emancipates itself from
the physical-etheric organism at the time of the change of teeth, what
What is active in the human physical-etheric during the childhood
years, what truly engages in a creative activity, thus remains in a
simply sits in our organism; what we know from age seven on simply
nature but rather about what goes on within him, if the child were
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will indeed be necessary that the widest circles are familiar with the
guiding principles of healing in order that a trusting relationship,
It must be firmly stressed that I have absolutely no intention of
those who, out of an unlimited ignorance concerning what they are
those that will be raised today. Though in a certain sense this has
general it is quite clear that this cannot support the development of
understanding of medicine that is required in the wider circles of
humanity. I needed to make these introductory remarks today so that
what I have to say will not be placed on false ground.
that the soul-spiritual cannot work separately from the physical
are faced with all those illnesses that tend toward new formations in
soul-spiritual develops in such a way that it does not take sufficient
illness arise that we designate inaccurately as mental illnesses
of the nature of the human being that has been presented here
metabolic-limb system. I must stress particularly that this
external picture, if he understood the head system as something that
What is important here is that while the nerve-sense system is located
remaining organism as such. We may thus say that when we speak here
here not with spatial limitations but functional limitations) that is
extends over the entire human being so that in a certain sense the
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something that may still be able to clarify a principle for the
speak too much detail here; that is due not so much to the shortness
of time — that too, naturally — but more to the fact that detailed
direction, something that can lead to a general understanding of the
nature of medicine so that a kind of social influence can emanate from
This morning I directed your attention to the fact that the life of
be verified in detail) that because the two systems of the human
another. Thus what goes on in the details of the metabolic-limb
If we adequately penetrate what we are concerned with here, we will
by metabolic processes that make the head system resemble the
take place, because the same functional system that is normally active
that is also present in the metabolic-limb system strongly impregnates
becomes an activity whose intensity is too great. Then what should
attempting not only to penetrate what goes on in human nature but at
the same time to penetrate what goes on in outer nature. Processes
opposite sense to what strives downward in the human being, substances
from plants can restrain certain processes that are unfolding
It is interesting to explore how what I presented to you this morning
such a way that it can be penetrated by full ego-consciousness. If
Everything that is soul-spiritual in the human being, however, as well
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Title: World Economy: Lecture I
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during the first half of the century, what was practically the modern
only we must not forget that the whole of this English economic life
for evolving large sums of capital, is founded on the fact that there
If you consider the economic life of Germany you will see that in the
from what it was in England during the first third, or even the first
the century, there was already what we may call a reckoning with
conditions were taking their accustomed course in a way that might
change. It came into the consciousness of men that something
altogether different must now arise, that the existing conditions were
today all the writings and discussions in Germany during that period
in Political Economy. What they built up was altogether in this sense,
true, is it not, that as the last third of the nineteenth century drew
power. That which was consolidated was not what the idealists of '48
that was consolidated, and moreover by means of sheer force. And this
altogether subject to the idea of the State. This was what gave the
economic life in Germany, as a whole, its stamp. It is true that there
not on what one sees in one's immediate surroundings, but on the great
Now it was with this contrast that the world as a whole entered into
continued to depend on that instinctive element which had evolved from
be resolved? The further course of history was destined to prove that
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Title: World Economy: Lecture II
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It is precisely in this sphere of Political Economy that the first
all that takes place in buying and selling. That, at least, is true of
the economic life of today. Whatever else there may be — and we
the economic life — whatever else there may be, the subject of
and seller. Fundamentally, this is what it all comes to.
Consider now: What is it that counts when buying and selling are
considered in the economic process? The thing that a man cares about
impulses and forces that are at work in economics culminate at length
endeavour will then be to add to the price whatever transport charges
Assume, for instance, that at a given date a house in a large town
times as much: nor need we imagine that the main cause of the rise in
that this is not the case. The rise in price may simply lie in this:
that in the meantime many other houses have been built around it: the
that we must observe how the price fluctuates with place and time.
that is an impossibility. Again and again one is astonished to find
reason that the famous man has been persuaded to build himself a house
issue. The price will still be what it would have been without them.
thinking to say that the land has not increased in price during the
mankind will still come to the conclusion that such and such things
course. They are: Nature, human Labour and Capital. It is true that we
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Title: World Economy: Lecture III
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hold of something that is for ever fluctuating — namely: the
Our first need is to discover what is really the proper form of
the science of Economics. For a thing that fluctuates cannot be taken
direct observation of something that is for ever fluctuating. The only
sensible procedure is to consider it in connection with what really
refer the varying levels of the mercury to that which underlies them.
Science deals with that which is; Ethics with that which
the Sciences of that which is, the Sciences of that which
Economics a science of what is, as Lujo Brentano, for instance,
would assert? Or is it a practical science — a science of what
ought to be? That is the question.
Take a special case. Let us assume that by certain observations
theoretical nature) we ascertain that in a given place, in a given
What are we to do if the price of a commodity or product falls
closely later on: for the moment I will but indicate what should be
do something of a kind that can increase the turnover [Umsatz].
It is in fact similar to what happens when we observe the thermometer.
the century, which at that time was entitled: “Theosophy and the
not complete it or publish any more of it. We can only hope that these
dividing line between what is ordained for the religious life and what
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Title: World Economy: Lecture IV
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Yesterday I chose from the economic life a somewhat crude example as
an illustration. It appears that this drastic illustration has caused
sell it. Hence it goes without saying that if the tailor buys his suit
addition.” This objection is so obvious that it is bound to
that arises from the division of labour.
It is true enough that if he proceeds to sell the suit to a tradesman,
loss. But that is not the point; the point is, how will he stand when
though the tailor may save something on that particular suit, he will
multiplied; clothes will become cheaper and the result will be that
domestic economy. I did not mean that the tailor has not a perfect
right to make his own clothes for himself, or that he might not quite
properly have a taste for doing so. Only he must not imagine that it
time, he will find that it is more expensive. I admit that in this
lead to disaster if you let your thoughts be guided only by what lies
habits and lead it into a mode that comprehends wide issues and,
what is for ever fluctuating. What lies close to us we can grasp in
insight that gives us always mobile ideas, which never correspond to
who uses it to stoke his fires. What is it that turns the substance
into a value? It is the Labour that has been impressed upon it, that
is to say, all that had to be done to bring it to the light of day, to
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Title: World Economy: Lecture V
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working upon Nature, so that from the mere raw Nature-product —
— symbolically, as it were — what I explained yesterday. We
we should be dealing not with an organic process but with one that
If you now review all that I have described to you, you will see that
production. I have indeed included, now and then, ideas that had to do
question of price. But apart from that you will have found practically
A simple reflection will show you that consumption is exactly the
values that arise in the economic process within the sphere of
used up. That is to say, it consists in a constant devaluation of the
values. It is this that plays the other important part in the economic
through this that we have a certain right to call the economic an
intervenes. For it is of the essence of a living organism that
producing and a using-up of what is produced.
There will be that development of values which arises as between
the value enters into a very' different sphere from that which we have
decidedly a value-creating factor — albeit one that is comparable
to a force that is arrested, held in equilibrium, rather than to a
force that is working itself out. There is here a true analogy with
consumption, but through other relationships as well — what I
Thus you see that devaluation can also take place in the
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Title: World Economy: Lecture VI
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You know, perhaps, that in my Threefold Commonwealth I
exhaustive. In setting up a formula it is always necessary that it
is this. The formula does not point to what is past but to what is
real economic facts — it might well happen that he would receive
that he can draw up any kind of table from the past, will invariably
in setting future processes in motion with the help of what went
motion, it inevitably happens in some cases that the values are
will take to make the next pair of boots.” That is the
Nature, Labour, Capital — that is, Capital endued with value by
found that at this point congestion must not be allowed to occur. On
is to his interest that the rate of interest should be low. Having
that falls under the heading of “land.” This follows
directly from what we said before. We want a rate of interest as high
as possible for all that comes under the heading of
“land.” But that is a thing which cannot easily be carried
that the life of Associations is the only thing that can make it
cited that luckless fellow, the Indian book-keeper, who has to keep
anything. They declare that he is simply and solely maintained out of
to the past and to all that is only the unbroken continuation
of the past, you will be able to prove that spiritual work is
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Title: World Economy: Lecture VII
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that there can be no economic system without this interplay of loan,
It is very necessary that we should have a distinct view of the real
grasp at rest what is in constant movement.
Granting then that gift, purchase and loan are inherent in economic
movement, let us consider what in our present-day economy are —
us turn for a moment to what is perhaps one of the commonest topics
nowadays and a principal source of the errors that find their way into
and purchase is fictitious. It does not in reality take place. That is
way not in accordance with what in a deeper sense they really are. I
any other way. But what follows? If value can only arise in this way,
lines laid down yesterday (that is, by seeing that the producer of a
given product receives, as its counter-value, what he will require to
is not difficult to see that this is what actually happens in the
economic process. Only it is masked by the fact that money steps in
were not for the fact that when a man brings a product to the market
be bothered to fetch what he needs from wherever it may happen to be;
instead, he takes money for it, so that he may supply his needs later
Let us consider from this point of view the so-called wage-nexus, that
reciprocal determination of value. We may fancy that we are paying for
through the Labour-nexus as such. All we can say is that in such and
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Title: World Economy: Lecture VIII
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We have already seen that the most important question in Economics is
that of Price. The point will now be to observe prices in the sense
— the fact that the prices of certain products are too high or
prices, what is to be done in the economic life as a whole.
its course. It is true that under the pressure, not so much of
many others besides Adam Smith) that prices regulate themselves of
its reduction — the supply will not be maintained at that level.
inevitably follow that the producers will regulate matters so as not
demand it is thus imagined that prices on the market will,
“demand” you will see that it is quite impossible,
out in every case what lies behind the processes which you are
“supply” and what is called “demand.” But that
does not include what lies behind the phenomenon of
“supply”; nor will it comprise all that precedes
the appearance of “demand.” Yet it is there that you will
smoke. But that is just what happens with the concepts of
commodities on to the market and offers them for a price. That is
the case of both buyer and seller. For what the buyer has for
Our concepts are quite unreal if we imagine that price arises from the
inter-action of what is ordinarily called “supply and
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Title: World Economy: Lecture IX
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conceived in such a way that they actually live within the economic
Today I must say a few things that may gradually lead us to understand
In the first place, everything that circulates within the total
also realise that many things can occur in the economic organism, the
Let me give you an example that will serve as an introduction to some
lose on it.” What does this really mean? To begin with, it means
that these people cannot sell their rye as other things are sold
we should find that they do not correspond to the costs of production
reality. Yet apparently it does go on. What happens is this:
balance in that way. What they lose on the rye is made up for by the
literature of Economics. The concept I would here establish is that of
products within itself. That is to say, it does not sell such products
implies that the forming of price within any economic domain is an
regarded also from a different aspect. I mentioned a few days ago that
Imagine, for instance, that a cobbler falls ill and has an unskilful
doctor who makes him well within a week, so that he gets an extra
What did the boots the doctor manufactured amount to? And now if you
full one) you can set this off against what had to be spent on his
training. And you will find, in all probability, that what was spent
regarded as universally characteristic of doctors that they withdraw
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Title: World Economy: Lecture X
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that which happens when Nature is transformed and elaborated into an
From all this you will observe that while there is no such thing as a
sphere of Capital, we have to reckon with the movement that takes
must today concern ourselves with a somewhat ticklish question of
and again to discover from direct economic experience what can be said
I refer in the first place to that which we may call economic
imagine, for instance, that a purchase is taking place: A buys from B.
is, of course, really an exchange between what the buyer gives and
what the seller gives; but if you think the matter through exactly,
you can by no means admit that the seller alone makes a profit in the
that this cannot be so; otherwise every transaction of purchase would
be an exploitation of the buyer and that is obviously not the case. We
are well aware that the man who buys wants to buy advantageously,
not at a disadvantage; there can be no doubt about that. Thus,
Let us therefore suppose that I sell something and receive money for
This, then, is what takes place in the reciprocity of exchange. Both
situations. The increase of value can only come about through that
I sell something, I must be so placed, economically speaking, that the
What are the respective economic relationships in which the buyer and
often, from what takes place immediately before our eyes at any given
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Title: World Economy: Lecture XI
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these economists declared that the economic life, as existing at the
able to conclude that they were mere fools. Quite the contrary. You
would see that their arguments were not at all bad and carried some
turned out quite differently from what Economic Science had supposed.
Similarly we may say that the lowest organic forms now living are
somewhat like the earliest living creatures of Earth-evolution. Thus
magnitude is relative, of course; but we must understand that if the
certainly no State. It was in fact no more that an immense farming
free one for that time. For, ladies and gentlemen, it is only in more
“Liberalism” that we have seen the rise of the maximum of
reaches the zenith of unfreedom in that embodiment of all political
increasingly powerful. We, as you know, are aware that it will have to
that the Science of “political economy” owes its
emphasised by the German word in a way that is not possible in
phase of evolution was still there as an insertion in the new. What is
it that arises at this stage in the true sense of national economy? It
between so many private economies, is the essential thing that arises
with this welding of private economies into a national economy. What
is the outcome? We saw yesterday that in the process of economic
advantage. The result is, therefore, that the single economies which
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Title: World Economy: Lecture XII
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different significance in the economic life from what it had before.
importance than that which lies behind the forming of prices
important to the extent that it is properly grounded in the objective
— i.e., to the extent that it rests on a true judgment of
can one reach a valid judgment. Thus we must recognise that the social
above all with that which precedes the forming of prices and of which
already, even in the payment of wages — i.e., in that
instance of purchase and sale. Thus everything that leads to wage
upshot is that kind of price-formation which constitutes the payment
must distinguish between that which eventually emerges as price in
terms of money, and that which constitutes the essential value of the
is: Who is to be the recogniser? When you have said that money must
simply asserted that it ought to have a certain property, but you have
more remarkable. It is said, for instance, that money must be small in
You see, we must not only be clear on this, that Nature as such only
that Labour only receives an economic value through the way it is
organised or divided, and finally, that Capital only receives a value
through the fact that it is taken over by the Spirit of Man and so
worked into the economic process. We must also be clear that money as
circulation. The premises are given to us by what we have said already
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is to value in the economic sense that which comes into the process
exactly fictitious, but put in such a way that its value as an example
at any rate I can afford to take the risk — that in the near
savings.” Another says: “That is not good enough for me. I
fellows what it is” (for it is part of the venture that he does
that he was the biggest speculator of the three!
significant reshuffling of economic values. Now what were the factors
that contributed to this reshuffling of values? In the first place,
simply the prudent exploitation of the fact that the poet's reputation
single man — the fact that he kept his own counsel about it, did
quite impossible to grasp them in one way or another? You may say that
see at once that it cannot be a question of simply superimposing
more complicated than this. But we can hold to what we have already
this stage; it is quite evident from the preceding lectures that even
one side (or, as I said, whatever the right function is); then we must
considerations — if only for the reason that a highly subjective
our present lines of thought, turn our attention in that direction.
Whatever is relevant to the proletariat will appear in due course. But
village economy — will have to live on what the others give them.
Whatever develops there, of the free spiritual life, will in the main
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Title: World Economy: Lecture XIV
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You will have seen that the main object of our present studies was to
which I have myself been taking part — is it my opinion that all
contrary, I am convinced that there is a wide range of very useful
therefore go away from these lectures with the feeling that various
objections can be made to what has been said. In a sense I shall be
dogmatic theories; and it is in this sense that you must conceive the
being. You have a general feeling that he will prove a very able man
what he will accomplish. But these ideas will very likely turn out to
have been mistaken. He may accomplish what he has to do in quite other
will it be settled that a given enterpriser puts young money and no
be going on. In answer to this, you must bear in mind that he does not
Moreover, since you can see from my Threefold Commonwealth that
I do not think that interest on money should be abolished, provided
the money has real value (on the contrary I believe that up to a point
time? They will only wish to give me money on the assumption that they
Thus, you may find that it is not enough simply to let money grow old
such a way that the value increased up to that year, and after that
on this foundation will you be able to make proper use of what is
Take for example what is said of Price. You will be told that the
always find that, though you can think about them rightly enough, you
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Title: Rosicrucianism/Initiation: Lecture I: Research into the Life of the Spirit During the Middle Ages
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In close connection with what I had to bring before you in the lectures
lectures that are now to be given, to speak further of the movement
that is leading us in modern times to research into the life of the
and ideas that you are to think of as inwardly experienced by certain
generally realised that we have only to go back a comparatively short
time in history, to find that the men who were accounted to be
for instance, is something that is present only under certain
person to unite a conception of reality with something that,
conditions that obtain for man's physical life on Earth. It was
the realisation of facts like this that underlay research during the
eyes. You will find that before the tenth century, scholars always
that time were of course well aware that the day was long past when
such vision had been common human experience, but they knew that in
not, for instance, overlook the fact that on into the ninth and tenth
happened that in this or that enactment they met spiritual Beings,
airy, the warm or fiery. And so it came about that just as hitherto
men had spoken of Cosmic Intelligences that rule the movements of the
planets, that lead the planets across the constellations of the fixed
they did not as yet take account. That came much later. It would,
however, be a great mistake to imagine that the scholars of the
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Title: Rosicrucianism/Initiation: Lecture II: Hidden Centres of the Mysteries in the Middle Ages
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to touch more on their historical aspect. We have to remember that
that in the places of the Mysteries an actual meeting with the Gods
say that from the time of the fourth century it is no longer to be
the candidates found their way that changed. I have already indicated
some people or nation. I have described one such instance in what I
There is no need for me to speak about that here. I
should like however to tell you of another typical example, one that
into the fifteenth century. The spiritual streams that were working
There were at that time a great number of people, especially younger
times was such that very often it looked as though a man who was
will be able to lead me farther in that search which is the deepest
conversation between them. I do not of course mean that only one
as it is in that time — it is about the twelfth century —
Nevertheless, he feels that in Nature one has something that is the
work, the creation of divine-spiritual Beings. When one looks at what
recognise that behind these creations stands the working of
and 28 or so, felt strongly and definitely that the humanity of the
your ears what goes on in Nature; the Spiritual reveals itself
entered into the evolution of time and became Man. What Nature cannot
really comprehend it, I cannot connect what is out there in Nature
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was shut for the evolution of the spirit of man, a door that had been
be placed out-side the kingdom of the divine-spiritual Will that
ruled over him. From that time forward he had to find in his own
the experience that had been attained by the pupil when the teacher
What we may truly call the knowledge of the Spiritual, that too
change that took place in the whole spiritual world in respect of
that it might after all yet find the way. And he who is able to see
piety. What appears later as Rosicrucianism, sound and genuine
so to temper their souls that genuine spiritual knowledge might yet
be able to arise for them. In such a gathering, that took place in
soul that was cultivated in later times by the so-called “Brothers
intense mystical atmosphere of soul, it happened that a being came to
world; they had drawn him thither by the mood of soul that prevailed
that no misunderstanding may arise, let me expressly emphasise that
telling you, mediumship and all that is related to it was regarded
reason. These persons knew that mediumship goes together with a
peculiar constitution of the physical body; they knew that it is the
physical body that gives the medium his spiritual powers. But the
information that came by the help of mediumship they could not but
of mysticism and meditation, and that alone. And it was the enhancing
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Title: Rosicrucianism/Initiation: Lecture IV: The Relationship of Earthly Man to the Sun
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What I have been telling you in recent lectures requires to be carried
the nineteenth century, the spiritual knowledge that was present
before that period as clear and concrete albeit instinctive
heart and soul to the Spiritual, to all that is of the Spirit in the
example, that in the several planets of our system are spiritual
Nettesheim assigns to each single planet what he calls the
that became customary in later Astronomy and is still customary
that the Beings who are united with the single stars are the Beings
the Earth, that saw in the Earth too a heavenly body having its
lost, with all that was involved in it. What was essentially involved
of the Intelligence of the Earth star. But what was the Intelligence
the ideas of men have travelled very far away from what was accepted
bring law and order into all that has to do with the place of the
Through what he is, through the forces and powers he bears within his
still a feeling for this. It was known that the task had once been
allotted to Man, that Man had really been made the Lord of the Earth
When men are speaking of knowledge nowadays it is very seldom that
one hears even a last echo of this view. What we find in religious
for there the point is that originally Man had quite another position
have knowledge that they have attained by definite and correct
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Title: Rosicrucianism/Initiation: Lecture V: Occult Schools in the 18th and First Half of the 19th Century
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We have seen how the old knowledge that was once acquired by means
twilight. It is difficult to find any trace of that old wisdom in
modern times, particularly after the eighteenth century, for what I
have told you is really true, namely that in recent times what has
persisted — or rather, to put it more correctly, what has only
as the middle of the nineteenth century. And in order that we may
of the ideas that were still to be found in the first half of the
you in order that you may see how in a time that does not lie so very
different from what it is today. As I said before, it is exceedingly
as they were in still earlier times, for it is quite certain that the
and learned a great deal from them; learned from them what they
faculty of their own, a faculty that was in their cases, too, of a
What I am now going to
became aware that at a certain place in Central Europe there existed
learned to know of it on a spiritual path; I was not able at that
that a little company of this kind existed.
speak of what was taught within this little company, had not the
essence of what was hidden in it subsequently again disclosed itself
anew. For it is just in the refinding that one obtains the right
orientation to the wisdom that has survived from olden times, and
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Title: Rosicrucianism/Initiation: Lecture VI: The Tasks of the Michael Age
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This is due to the fact that man stands in quite another relation to
Most of that which has been transmitted to mankind under the name is
so: the Initiates drew forth, what they had to say to mankind, from
their world of ideas. They had the consciousness that they were
board. The triangle I draw on the board portrays to me what I bear in
board, thereby bringing home to myself what is really there within
be seen in the Spirit, must be inscribed in that which has been
side the first Post-Atlantean epoch, the ancient Indian. At that time
it was somewhat different. Let me begin with the ancient Persian
There was in that time
world. This knowledge could be written in the astral light so that
resistance. The things that are thus seen in the Spirit are not
Egypto-Chaldean epoch, all the knowledge that the Initiates drew
that endure. Those secrets, on the other hand, which relate to the
feeling that the astral light only reflected the Gods to him under
that out of Man, the Logos, the Divine Word revealed Himself through
wrapped up in their abstract thoughts. They do not know that these
the case. Remember once more that in the ancient Persian epoch men
the astral light. What is thus contained in the astral light —
all that, for which the solid earth is the resistance — rays on
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Title: Lecture: Michaelmas IV: A Michael Lecture
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preceding period of Michael. This is due to the fact that man stands
so-called “Rosicrucianism” that has been transmitted to
olden times it really was so: the Initiates drew forth what they had
consciousness that they were drawing forth their knowledge from the
board portrays to me what I bear in a purely spiritual way within me.
myself what is really there within me. So it is when we make external
inscribed in that which has been called from time immemorial
side the first Post-Atlantean epoch, the ancient Indian. At that time
it was somewhat different. Let me begin with the ancient Persian
world. This knowledge could be written in the astral light so that
resistance. The things that are thus seen in the spirit are not
Egypto-Chaldean epoch, all the knowledge that the Initiates drew
he had the feeling that the astral light only reflected the gods to
that out of Man the Logos, the Divine Word, revealed Himself through
abstract thoughts that these abstract thoughts are also written in
the case. Remember once more that in the ancient Persian epoch men
the astral light. What is thus contained in the astral light —
all that, for which the solid earth is the resistance — rays on
the Egypto-Chaldean epoch. The water on the Earth reflects. What is
is the most fleeting of all; yet still it is such that man remains
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Title: Lecture: Festivals and The Mysteries. The Adonis Mystery. The Easter Thought
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we bear in mind the fact that Easter is a movable festival, the date
of which has to be reckoned year by year from that constellation of
thought and impulse of Christianity, I mean, with that impulse which
reawakening of Nature — with the springing of life that grows
— the coming forth again of what was asleep in Nature throughout
that the Christian Easter is by no means coincident as to its inner
remind us of the deep and radical misunderstandings that have arisen,
happened than that the Easter Festival has been confused with an
evolution. Consider the content of this Easter Festival. What is it in
It is a time that takes its course in three days, representing the
representative of all that is the springing and thriving force of
youth in man, of all that appears as beauty in the human being.
True it is that in many respects the ancient peoples confused the
substance of the image with what the image represented. The ancient
and inner greatness that man contains, or can contain, within him.
near the sacred place of the Mysteries, so that the image of the God
ritual, what took place in the Holy of Holies of the Mysteries with
given to understand that when he was now laid in the coffin, he would
have to undergo what the human being undergoes in the first three days
What was thus enacted in the hidden depths of the Mysteries with the
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Title: Lecture: Moon-birth and Sun-birth. Necessity and Freedom. Stages of the Ancient
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look upward from his dependence on earthly things to those things that
Indeed it is true to say that by the methods of knowledge recognised
approach it with the mood of soul belonging to that ancient time
religious systems of antiquity. Take for example the one that is least
forces — with all the forces that now flow down from Moon to Earth.
Scarcely anything is left today of that ancient consciousness of man's
inspiration which the poetic mind still feels that it receives from
consciousness of the fact that when man descends to this physical life
To understand what shapes him in the fulness of his life — what
through these what could the earthly forces do to hold our body
While on the one hand, therefore, we may state this somewhat theoretic
human body, we must realise on the other hand that the ancient
clearly aware that the forces which guide man into this
only has the outer documents to go upon and is unaware of what can be
name and the civilisation of that first epoch existed on the soil that
civilisations man's evolution was very different from what it was in
unfold in such a way that a certain break in our earthly life and
today. The inner change that takes place in the human being about the
so that one might call this development continuous. But in the
which make it seem still more radical — it might well happen that
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Title: Lecture: The Moon-secret Spring and Autumn mysteries
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has come about that of these far spaces of the Cosmos whose spiritual
of the fact that a soul-and-spirit permeates this physical body. It is
just as though one were to forget that in the proportions and
that comes to expression, but a multiplicity. It is an immeasurable,
of man to the great universe has to do with what we may call the
assume that it is partially illumined, half illumined, quarter
illumined, and so on. Moreover there is that appearance of the Moon
forms. But this by no means exhausts what the Moon is for the Earth
that represents itself to us so evidently in physical surfaces as the
different in its appearance from what it is when it reveals itself as
imagine that in its influence the Moon is absent when it does not
To understand what this really means we must look back to the event
its body. The Earth was impoverished by all that the Moon contains
longer by the Earth-and-Moon forces together. On the other hand that
absolved, so far as his soul-and-spirit is concerned, all that must be
to Earth to unite with the physical bodily nature that is given to him
earthly life man must have recourse to what lies inherent in the Moon
forces, that is to say, to a cosmic principle, in order to
Now this etheric body must be built in such a way that it has, so to
light that rays forth from the Moon into the Cosmos contains the force
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We have heard how there grew out of the Mysteries that which unites
the consciousness of men with the world in such manner that this union
spiritual life that passed through the world and evolved through
we cannot say that the time has already come today when men have won
true inner freedom and are ripe to pass on to what should follow the
once again, human beings will indeed evolve in time what in their dim
will be necessary, that the knowledge, the vision, the conscious
experience of the Spiritual that can arise from present-day Initiation
life that has evolved in the course of human history. We shall learn
We know in the first place that human individuals themselves return to
progressive evolution of all that has taken place in human history.
mankind to carry from one age into another what human beings
experienced in the Mysteries and what they then experience again, be
It is indeed the case that when that spiritual impulse which has gone
account that which on one plane is a dreadful wrong, for it is just
through these terrible events that a real progress of mankind can be
According to what is there experienced in beholding the other planets,
In the Mysteries of Ephesus the whole service that was devoted to her
indeed that when the adherents of the Mystery of Ephesus approached
to the springing and sprouting of life, a feeling that was wafted
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felt that a flood of materialism of this kind had never previously
been known, and that furthermore there was a certain significance in
the way it had arisen I also tried to bring home the fact that men
I described the efforts that were made from different quarters
in order to demonstrate to men that something entirely new must be
have to be given of what was presented in the first place more in the
form of narrative. Today, however, I want to show that towards the
spiritual life, too, of a feeling that a crucial point had been
reached. In the external spiritual life — that is to say, in
on — there are evidences that a convulsive element interpolated
from European literature. These examples will show that in the hearts
and minds of some men there was a feeling that significant things
It is remarkable that in the thirties of the 19th
that was astir at that time, linking it on to a personage who
who makes models of gods. What is such a man in Tibet? He is one who
terrible thing that befell this maker of gods. In the figure of one
an audience of orthodox believers that the existence of the two Jesus
boys was necessary in order that Christ might descend into Jesus —
ordinary faculty, so that he must be accused of inducing his
Such teachings are sheer fantasy — that is what is said today.
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significance. One can truly say that it was consciously brought into
Let us for a moment hold in our minds the thoughts that
came to us from the realisation that what was astir in the inmost
I chose only two particularly striking examples from many that might
be quoted — we see that as it were behind the scenes of
life of mankind. From many sources we have gained knowledge that
of the new element that must be received into the evolution of
still is that the vast majority of souls have yet to learn that there
theory, that there are many earthly lives; they will live on into an
nothing from spiritual science, they will not know what to make of
the impression that will rise up from within them of the truth of
this inner impression that will arise quite naturally in the soul
must be grasped through thoughts, and the thoughts that are necessary
the impression that will come of itself, as a kind of remembrance.
times. It must be realised that only through knowledge and
understanding of what will inevitably come in the future can human
The Mystery of Golgotha was fulfilled in order that the
events to be grasped as matters of history, but that cannot lead to
inaudible to men. He must be made audible through that which, under
runs the risk of falling away from Him. And what comes to expression
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the fact that the attitude of which I spoke last time, the attitude
them something that will enrich and invigorate life, is to be found
in only a tiny handful of men. We can see that this is so.
in understanding these matters unless we realise that not many people
today have experienced something that will become more and more
knowledge. The feeling that knowledge of the spiritual worlds is
the case at the present time. For when anything that bears the mantle
And so they like to pacify themselves with what is universally
what is universally accepted so that they need not themselves make
fundamentally, to the fact that the soul is required to activate its
people's liking; they prefer to accept knowledge that is ready-made
very nature share in the wrestling for knowledge that characterises
four centuries — such men dimly divine and feel that they must
evoke all that lies in the depths of the soul in order to approach
inclined and they accept what spiritism or idealism have brought into
the world, stupefying their minds with what they accept, without
yet for all that a significant soul — who participated to
Schelling and Hegel, that it was possible by dint of intense efforts
The man in question lived through that wave of philosophy which
sought to show that a certain rigid, one-sided kind of thinking can
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Title: Spiritual Science and Medicine -- Lecture I
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take it as obvious that only a very small proportion of what my
agree that any confidence in the future among medical workers depends
lectures. The most that may possibly result is that certain
absolutely essential that such bias should be rectified.
should seek that knowledge of human nature which can afford a real
from Spiritual Science all that can be of value to physicians. It is
my wish that this attempt should not be confused with an actual
give special attention to everything that may be of value to the
been baffled by the question: “What does sickness mean and what is a
sickness in general and of sick people, is that the morbid process is
a deviation from the normal life process; that certain facts which
process and in the organisation; and that sickness consists in the
must admit that this is a merely negative definition. It offers no
practical help that I shall aim at here, help in dealing with actual
produced that the system of Hippocrates — which developed into the
even survived until the time of Rokitansky, that is until the last
view, we may say that the followers of Hippocrates attributed all
fluids which co-operate in the human organism. They pointed out that
and that this ratio was disturbed in the sick human body. They termed
The latter had to be influenced so that the proper blend might be
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in our consideration of the heart. What in Osteology and Myology is
what is the common belief about the nature of the human heart? It is
fact about the heart is that its activity is not a cause but an
between the blood that has absorbed the food, and the breathing that
and the air absorbed from the outside. All that can be observed in the
it proves that his medical practice had enlightened the author on the
fact that the heart in no way resembled the ordinary pump but rather
to that of the hydraulic ram, set in motion by the currents. This is
symbolic inter-penetrating currents, the watery and the airy. For what
subconsciously through your heart, what goes on in the lower abdomen.
The polarity in man is only comprehensible if we know that his
structure is a dual one and that the upper portion perceives the
that appertains to external perception and its continuation and its
our organisation. The heart is primarily that organ whose perceptible
sub-conscious) it is the perceptive organ that mediates between these
in the upper. The important point, however, is that there is no material
spheres. In a healthy organism this contact is so close, that any
these two sets of activities, so that they complete one another,
disease one may start from the indications in what Paracelsus called
And if we speak of what is first indicated in the etheric body or in
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possible. For it makes a difference whether we discuss what has been
basis for every future consideration, taking into account what I have
You will remember that we first considered the form and inner forces
of the osseous and muscular systems, that yesterday we reviewed
curative treatment; and that we took as our starting point on that
that may be derived from a deeper study of human nature regarding the
speaking, that therapeutics are dealt with concurrently with pathology,
therapeutics. We are also aware that in the course of the nineteenth
century, these deficiencies in the medical conception led to what was
degree that some idea can be formed from it as to the appropriate
maintained that the more recent literature dealing with Paracelsus has
in Nature itself, so that we can pass Nature's examination and thus
We shall try today to advance somewhat nearer to the answering of this
lectures. But one can say at once in this connection that the path
misconception of the functions of that system of the human organism
all the soul functions and to resolve all that man accomplishes of a
this truth, as we shall see) to prove, that only the processes proper
Scientist of today assumes — as a rule — that the feeling processes
are not directly connected with the rhythmic system, but that these
Further I have tried to show that the whole life of our will depends
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must enter a caveat in connection with a question that has just been
that we shall only reach an adequate method of ascertaining the
discover about the connection between man and that external nature
the simple reason that the connection is a complicated one, and we can
Regarding what was said in yesterday's lecture,
you to face the reverse side of the matter. In that lecture, many very
infrequent, and of course, I only make this suggestion so that you do
of this treatment, you forget that you work as individual physicians.
that the moment you make Ritter's treatment into an accepted
and that treatment would then be practised by many others — I will
different from what we have imagined.
the claim that there are no diseases; there are only sick, diseased
that certain dispositions of disease spread over a wide region, as was
precisely what we here attempt to provide, bringing a certain
rationale into what is otherwise merely an empirical thinking on a
We will start our inquiry today from a fact that is common knowledge,
This is that man as a threefold being, in his nerves and senses
carbon concentration. Do not forget that the same substance is also
present in the human organism, but that it is essential to the
We have the initial stages of this process in what I have recently
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Title: Spiritual Science and Medicine -- Lecture V
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go further into that special realm where pathology is to meet
the two, we shall need to mention many things that can only remain a
Nevertheless, if we had a comprehensive picture of all that matters in
remedies, that while in some cases they were of extraordinary efficacy
judge, from differences in build, the forces inherent in what we term
not wish to do so. Of course we could replace them by other terms that
We can judge what I might term the intensity of the etheric body's
facts are symptomatic of what we might term the action of the etheric
bodies to the higher members of the human organisation, to what we
so that the formative forces of the soul do not flow down into the
Another question that should be put — although it may be
lazy. For what I here define as the opposite of inertia is the organic
knowledge of the dental system and all that is connected with it, that
bodies. These are a few indications of what must be ascertained in the
I should like to remind you of the general fact mentioned before that
You know that there is much controversy on this theme. As we shall
the public; that waged by the advocates of homeopathy and of allopathy
Science should take here. But its intervention is somewhat peculiar. I
reality no allopaths because even what is described as an allopathic
heals only through and by virtue of this process, so that, in actual
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I AM SOMEWHAT
anxious about what I have to say today, for if I could
presentation of the subject, that these matters are indeed
relationship to the cosmos. We have already pointed out that in man
the opposite process to that of plant formation is active in a
and I have already suggested that in trees the main stem forms a sort
of excrescence of the earth, so that the flowers and leaves are rooted
outside the earth must first be considered and we shall find that the
Please notice here that what I maintain has not been derived from the
that any item of my course here is simply derived from archaic
the leaves and of the flower. You might say that the formative forces
its origin is to be sought in the influence that works from the
For what the stars do is faithfully copied by the plant.
upward impulse in plants, that depends upon the sun. The stars
some degree by that of the outer planets, in their spiral courses. For
are spiral. It is time today that the whole Copernican system was
by origin; they are foreign bodies that have become attracted and
of of the Sun's influence and that of Mars, Jupiter and Saturn.
Thus all that seems essentially earthy is really a joint product of
the action of the Moon, and that of the inferior planets. So I would
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child, adult and old man, and is so organised that these three
It is most important to grasp that in childhood the functional content
this functional content becomes fitted into the organism, so that
substance. Therefore it can occasion no surprise that the disturbances
physical body, so that sexual maturity may come about. And there is a
you will find that in childhood there are forms of illness which break
that is, accompanied by psychic disturbance, in addition to the
must see that the functions of the astral body are so directed as to
that of the etheric. (The necessary measures will be discussed in the
age into consideration — you will find that diseases tending to
a somewhat superficial manner — not to assume that nature has made
the human organism with a special eye to our convenience, so that we
inclination to assume that such is actually the case. Of course there
happen that the main group of symptoms — which is taken to be the
mind that man lives in two life-epochs, which are in some respects
the earliest and most conspicuous influence of all is that of the
The influences that mould man begin their work before birth, and
as “of unknown origin” in current medical literature; that is, as
this uncertainty is the neglect of that whole complex of forces which
thus on man, they also provoke opposite reactions later on, so that
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somewhat our ideas, when we say etheric body, astral body, etc., can
the interaction between what we term the etheric body and what we term
the physical. You have learned that this interaction is at work in man
Think this out thoroughly to its conclusion, and then consider that
possibility of an interplay between the flora and all that our earthly
atmosphere contains, in the first place, and all that lies outside
— then we can say that the plants refer us
what manifests in blossom-bearing and fruit, and what flows into them
get very far in medicine without intuition.) Let us Suppose that
to that which surrounds us. Just as the etheric and the physical are
that the etheric is nearer to the astral than to the physical; for the
what happens as you pass between the trees, enveloped in the scent of
the lime blossoms. Realise that something is taking place between this
scent of the lime blossom. And you conclude that a process takes place
outside, and that the two combine in some way to produce something by
virtue of their inner kinship. So you must say that what is diffused
something that passes from the etheric body to the astral, for
participation of the astral body. And that which reveals the kinship
with the external world, simultaneously shows that the production of the
sweet fragrance of the lime blossoms is the polar process to that
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yesterday what may be termed the approximation of the
the correct perception of the particular factors contained in what we
must “think together” both processes, that external to, and that
and smell. In all that concerns the remaining senses, they lie further
more limited sense of what goes on between the chewing of the food
lock up in themselves what comes to the surface in smell and taste. It
is that element in the process of smell which leaves the extra-human
reveals itself in substance only. I would even suggest that you follow
but into the mineral kingdom as well. You will find that the same
of taste; and hides, secretes within our bodies, what is thus revealed
in taste. It is significant that we have hitherto had to describe
current modes of thought, I would suggest that the astronomical
But we have also organs that open in a way our human organism from
within; and thus bring man into relationship with what happens at a
certain nearness to our earth's surface; that is to say, into
We are already able to distinguish what is associated mainly with the
astronomical world from what is associated mainly with the
in time that the classification above mentioned is the best of
foundations for curative treatment. As a general rule we find that the
that has been said in our previous lectures, you will easily
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natural and obvious that in these lectures we should seek the
and that we do not lose ourselves here in atomised details which can
produced? We shall find with this particular plant, that this effect
salts, which aniseed contains. So we can observe, for ourselves, that
the curative efficacy of aniseed depends on the fact that it takes
take the trouble to do so. We find that Cichorium intybus is not only
ask, for instance: what is the origin of the counteraction to weak
digestion? We shall find that this effect is due to the bitter
We must remember that the substances we take in, are at first
here that we must see the source of its effects on the blood. Thus we
I let myself be divided into three, so that I have effect on all three
frame. If we ask to what are these peripheral effects due, we again
everywhere, that all substances which keep close to the plant nature,
as extracts, are related to the digestive tract; and that the
being to its periphery, and have their curative effect on that
conducted to the periphery that there is not a simultaneous current of
nutritive substances in the same direction, and that the bloodstream
remarkable form, just what should be done, in order to balance and
constituents of lavender are powerful remedies for what I may term
substances — which have proved of benefit in cases of what we may
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and build upon and around it. You will agree that we must approach our
the method that begins with the axioms and ascends to more and more
lecture that the chemistry of the future must become quite different
from what it is now and to note how often he used the term
I was often reminded of many matters that cannot as yet be dealt with
nature — or in what I might term the nature that appears extra-human
to man. For what in the whole of nature's immensity is really
extra-human? Nothing indeed. For all that is external to our being in
himself for his own use. So that there is always a complementary
that even homeopathic practitioners are somewhat afraid of becoming
My reason for studying that subject was due to very definite opinions,
somewhat drastic terms in order to state the case clearly) is not
I have made many investigations into what actually happens in the
Fräulein Ritter herself will not admit this). What does in fact occur,
raise its potency to a very high degree. What is it that you do? You
the substance in ponderable amounts are no longer perceptible. What if
opposite effect to what is normal to the substances in question,
whatever medium was used to receive the minutely subdivided doses of
changes from the status of owner to that of debtor, becomes a
happen that this opposite reaction may take the form of causing the
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that these substances have an extremely unfavourable effect on certain
us forget that objective observers on all sides are recognising that
oxygen and nitrogen, and one can therefore assume from the outset that
disturbances in the process of human sleep. That leads us to inquire
into this hidden relationship more definitely. You know that in
Spiritual Science we have found it necessary to state that man
body, the astral body and the ego. You know that we have been led by
the facts themselves, further, to maintain that when sleep begins ego
find that (with two exceptions) all these are found in combination
bound up with something else. For the peculiar thing is that within
must point out. You are aware that vegetable, animal and human
You know that, in the terms of contemporary chemistry, the main
forces. It follows that one identifies things which are actually not
at all the same, or that are not similar as much as is assumed.
degree at least chemically identical. But that is absolutely not the
the fact that vegetable albumen neutralises animal and more especially
human albumen; that the two are in fact polar opposites, and that each
indeed that we must admit: animal albumen is of such a nature in its
functions that these functions are impaired, abolished partially or
us to the question: Well, what is the exact difference between what
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possible that the more materialistic tendency in medicine may
nature — that it is probable that these two special fields will
will need to mark all that spiritual science can tell them, and even
now you have only to refer to my publications, to realise that
For indeed no one should merely assert that clairvoyance is needed in
possible to see that the etheric body is not active in a certain way
developing out of inflammation, and also all that is associated with
for what it certainly achieves in some respects, and again fails to
advocate operative surgery, for the simple reason that they know of no
organs. All that I can take as already familiar to you. But the
science finds that the etheric body of the patient remains as a whole
become slack; so that, provided the etheric body as a whole retains a
rebel as it were, so that the etheric body ceases to act in certain
the methods of spiritual science reveal that if it is possible to
be overcome. We may lay down the rule that in cases of tumour, it will
that the etheric body may once more extend its working to the region
plainly, in spite of its great diversity of form, that it is
conclusion that inflammations, abscesses, and ulcers on the one hand
remind you that it is quite possible to take a carcinoma situated on
Certain not precisely old but somewhat medieval technical terms are
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to prove that Anthroposophy and its doctrines are muddled nonsense.
Recently, however, it appears to have dawned on some other people that
this opinion can no longer be held, but that Anthroposophy appears to
other. If they can no longer state that these things are false they
can at least maintain that it is extremely wrong to say them.
I must first of all repeat that the exclusively physical study of man
This is for the simple reason that man contains the etheric body, the
what follows. At the same time it is not impossible for the human
indeed it is the forces of the etheric body that insert it into the
human eyes. For all that takes place as between the eye itself and the
external world, that is to say, between the soul and the external
of that phantom — normal to most people — which becomes incorporated
Suppose that an attempt be made to represent all this in graphic form.
almost physical phantom that the ego inserts and erects; a real
scaffold, but what the eye transmits is still etheric. And here we
etheric body which is so like what I have just termed a framework. You
of the organ of vision. Having once grasped this, you will find that
This will convince you that the process linked with the eye
inflammation, indeed in all inflammatory conditions. So that you are
justified in stating that a too vigorous development of this framework
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competent quarter, to the effect that the present course of lectures
that this can hardly be otherwise. The undeniable accuracy of this
to complain that our considerations here set out are difficult to
the same manner under similar circumstances. What really happens if a
processes, so that — if I may so express the facts — the spider has
from the henbane. And why? Because in the very moment that the poison
very plastically evolved development of what we ourselves do, if a fly
error; namely the conviction that everything deserving the name of
more detail. But it is beyond question that we no longer think so
centrally — that is with heart, lungs and so forth, in unison with
the cosmos, as birds still think. These are aptitudes that we must
of them and all that is connected with them are eminently suited to
man in such a way that we get some hint of the curative process. In
therefore only very rarely reaches by intuition what ancient mankind
reached instinctively. But that is the course of evolution, from
example, that of a sufferer from diabetes. What does he represent in
know that they arise from a weak ego, an ego-organisation
would be wholly wrong to suppose that the passage of sugar out of the
that the ego does not take adequate part in penetrating the organism
diabetic disturbance. And therewith is associated all that can promote
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the very reason that it is a highly spiritualised organ; and also
aroused much interest of recent years. It is significant that we
yourselves by experiment that mild massage in the region of the spleen
that this method of local massage has strict and close limitations. In
the moment that the massage becomes too vigorous it becomes apt to
undermine completely the life of instinct. So that we must be most
organism. What precisely are these conscious functions of the human
that their physical occurrences are accompanied by the higher
will understand what I mean. Let us take an individual case, in which
meals; spread out your consumption of food, so that you eat little at
considerably alters the activity of that organ. Of course, there is a
“but”; all that concerns the organic processes under discussion has
rest after food, so that their digestive processes are not disturbed
becomes thoroughly abnormal; so that especial significance attaches to
fact we may say that in the case of the arms, the astral body acts
that of massage applied to the hands and arms. If the arms are treated
metabolism, especially on that part of the metabolic process taking
regulative action follows on the metabolism that is concerned with
metabolism. If you investigate rationally, you will indeed find that
regions and parts; and that the efficacy of massage depends on an
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summarise some things calculated to throw light on the whole of what
only be a preliminary outline, it is well that we are able to give two
things proves that what has the most mineralising effect in the
substance is left. I indicated yesterday that the progressive
throughout life. For on the one hand, it must be admitted that at this
process. But we must not forget that this internal organisation is
What I have just maintained sets the stage for the whole prophylaxis
considerable part of what is included in the educational methods of
is indeed remarkable that just in relation to the peripheral
childhood. It is regrettable that we are only able to work upon the
child at a time — even at the Waldorf School — when it is somewhat
raise the objection that the dental formation is already prepared and
that the crown of the tooth is perfected and only thrusts itself into
the light. Yes, that is true, but it is possible to judge dental
that he is inclined to an abnormal process of dental formation. The
girls, and that they share these lessons together. Even the older boys
the soul into the fingers means to promote all the forces that go to
processes is so difficult that we should carefully consider such
somewhat beside the mark to speculate about the precise manner of its
important to know that fluorine is much more widely distributed than
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that it may after all be necessary to introduce into our medical
and biological study what we might term an inquiry into tho real
description of a disease by stating what bacillus caused the disease
the simple reason that we no longer need to point out that these
comprehensible that stress is laid on these differences, and specific
Now an obvious error enters this whole point of view, namely, that
attention is diverted from the primary element. Suppose that in the
bodily area. It is only natural that they should cause symptoms such
as are the result of any foreign body in the organism, and that from
human frame for development, that soil has been made suitable by the
Consider the stratum of plant life that covers the earth's soil, i.e.
the entire content of vegetation. We must understand that this flora
sent out from the earth, but is also drawn outwards by forces that are
and those acting on the plant from the cosmos outside the earth. What
is the essential factor in this interaction that permeates our whole
ensure that these forces can withdraw again, then the plant in its
animalisation. This is what is perpetually at work in external nature.
organisation. All that comes to meet the inner metabolism of the
Now there is a special requirement of the human organism: all that is
apart from the forces that organise and concentrate themselves in the
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accurately, in the way that can be given by Spiritual Science, the
prescriptions which say that is for this and the other for that. On
law) that all that mankind needs to know about the world and its
There is always something that reveals externally those secret but —
heredity we must keep that very specially in mind for on the other
and concealed by illusions, so that sound judgment becomes most
implies that its regularity does not always become obvious. The
side or the other, so that the law is difficult to regulate — so is
to that of the horizontal tendency of the scales; but it is sealed
that always in heredity different elements, male and female, play
their parts. The male always transmits what man owes to earthly
existence, what he owes to earth-forces; whereas the female organism
thing is that this only holds good with regard to her own individual
processes apart from the formation of the ovule, that is to say from
continually kept back. And we might say that there is a tendency to
transmit through the male what is contained in the reproductive forces
forces of heredity? For we know, do we not, that heredity finds no
preserve and improve the health of women, for in that case, the
to you all, and illustrating what I have just pointed out. In the
of what happens in heredity. And they are also important for the
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study of medicine is to be continued in a way that gives
benefit to mankind, a place must be found for what I have tried to
lower senses such as smell and taste, we at once perceive how what is
action of lymph and blood formation — all that occurs is
that up to the point I have denoted, we must recognise that the
organism. The adherent of current natural science will say that salts
what such current theory obliges him to call — the muscular motoric
that body, which is manifested in perspiration. If you can accept the
activity of this area, we find that essentially it has to do with an
organism. That is the essence of what happens. All the processes in
re-transformation of what has been done in the first part of the
digestive process. One may obtain a picture of what happens if one
gist of what must happen within the organism. But man must always be
Now follow further these ammoniacal salts; and note that if they pass
in that upper sphere. The significant fact here is, however, the
complete reversal of processes that takes place. What happens may be
through sense perception in the lower digestive tracts, that is, to
perception, and the upper inclines towards that which works upon
perception. The result is that whereas formerly there was a reflex
there is now a reflex action from below, that is to say, of an action
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necessary for that of the body in spiritual world. Why children may
these lectures try to deal with our subject in such a way that
is obvious, in the first place, that a thorough knowledge of
life of soul of every human being lurks a quality, or tendency, that
at the right intervals in speaking, so that either the words fall
confuses the complex of symptoms with what is really the essential
an incompletely developed child, we must regard what can be observed
thinking, feeling and willing, this means no more than that it has
most important that we should be able to do this, to perceive what
soul of any human being, is that we have in mind something that is
than the one that is customary among people who abide by ordinary
conventions; such people have their ideas of what is to be considered
reasonable or clever, and then everything that is not an expression
That is why the conclusions people come to are so very confused. When
they begin to do — heaven knows what! — believing they
stage of making pronouncements as to what is clever or reasonable, in
accordance with the habits of thought that prevail today.
conclusions, and simply look at things as they are. What have we
For the first-mentioned life of soul is not that in man which
of soul that comes down from the spiritual worlds takes possession of
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varying intensity. Law that every principle is influenced by one
that the ordinary, superficial life of soul has to be regarded as a
complex of symptoms, and no more. It follows from this that, if we
want to get at the real state of affairs that lies behind a so-called
what lies deeper — that is to say, to the region where, as we
kinds connected with that), but we do want, in this course, to make a
thorough study of what it is possible to do with children.
from this newspaper that gives a crude example of how misleading an
derogatory sense.) It is an example that will have special
significance for you, in view of the tasks that you are undertaking.
more mature age, he set out to acquire a somewhat miscellaneous
of the soul. It is important that we should pay attention to what is
modern scientific book, or into any book that is based on the
soul-life. Before I read the press notice let me tell you that
more than ridicule the whole thing. He has, however, no idea that his
what he had written during his lifetime.
which are evidence enough of a cruelty that is continually
It is true that in spite of this overwhelming load of proof Wulffen
Tell” we have the glorification of a revolution that is founded
in his poetry — this it was, so we are assured, that led him
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the course of these lectures that while the mood of soul with which
is important to realise that the whole of modern psychiatry can have
learn to recognise these illnesses for what they really are, then we
particular measures to be adopted. What is of far greater importance
is that you should come to see how in this domain too, sound
nature that, for reasons which you will understand as you follow
especially of those cases that have important bearing on our work
with children. On the other hand, you will come to see that help can
a right educational treatment; and we shall find that in an illness
what underlies the illness to what ought to be done, we shall find
essential first of all to know what underlies the illness, to know
psychiatry cannot help us here, for the reason that the men of our
time have no notion that there is such a thing as a real ego
Neovitalist.] they show that they have no knowledge of the
ether body because they are afraid of it. But the very thing that is
Anthroposophists — not that Anthroposophy, which is very
thought — it is, I say, commonly believed that when the human
like that. Seen clairvoyantly, it is like this [A
human life that is of great importance.
world, of the forces of the external world. What does this mean?
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studies, so that we may be able, from tomorrow onwards, to pass on to
that a faithful study of the nature of so-called illnesses of the
will already be clear to you, dear friends, that in illnesses of the
a feeling for what lies behind it — the question, namely: how
improvement that we are able to bring about is so much gain for the
patient. We must never take refuge in the thought that, owing to the
such a way. We can say this about the external events; that a person
turned aside, so that the fulfilment comes in some quite other way.
Not that it ever fails to come, but karma can be fulfilled in many
time — that so long as the child does not yet breathe, it is
the education and whole manner of life of the mother that is
were considering the epileptic disorder — the study, that is,
organisation. What conclusion did we come to as regards all those
forms of illness in children, that are of an epileptic nature? We
found that in these illnesses we have to do with a congestion of
arises there. This causes fits. For what is really taking place, when
organ there is a definite relationship that should obtain between
on the other hand. Now I assume of course that all of you are
familiar with the fact that in inorganic external Nature, substances
descriptions of this that you find in the chemistry books are not
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definite manner. I was able to show you, for instance, how what later
on becomes hysteria manifests in early childhood in a manner that is
peculiar to that period, the abnormality remaining as yet quite
in regard to abnormalities that belong to childhood, we must also
bear in mind the whole connection that exists between the pre-natal
we shall be able afterwards to add what further needs to be said,
demonstrate a condition that is strikingly typical.
make clear to you something that you will need to know before seeing
That there be no confusion, I will always
nature that we can say: There is the ego organisation, there
such a way that there is first of all, on the outside, the ego
We have now before us two beings that are the direct polar opposite
(yellow), somewhat stronger here below than the physical, yet still
organisation (red) descending like a kind of thread. What we sketched
bend, so that we have this kind of form
As a matter of fact, this is what is continually happening with the
in the whole universe. Owing to the plasticity that is everywhere
two, is in perpetual flow and interchange, so that one simply cannot
the fact that the head system is to the limb system as outbreathing
the rhythmic organism. What follows from this? A result, that is of
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very long time in the sun, with the result that he was overcome
noticed that the boy's eyes were changing and becoming less clear. In
time that should never be disregarded in children — the habit,
developed when he came to us. The mother informs us that the father
take this opportunity to emphasize that mere intellectual attention
way. What he does, he does unwillingly. By January, however, he did
What is important is that one introduces the child to an occupation
nothing but his little cart. That will remind you of the symptom of
both are to be traced to a common cause, namely, that in this child
man. If you can see that, then much will become clear to you. Imagine
that here you have the upper man, the nerves-and-senses man.
know, this is the part of man that is the most developed in the first
time, and during that time had in it the most highly developed
forces. The rest of the body is more or less dependent on what forms
only indirectly dependent on what forms itself here. The formation
concluding that you will find in such a person a nervous system that
of the body, then the forces that come from without will work too
clear evidence of this in the fact that the arms, and also the legs,
that we have been describing is, you see, due in the first place to a
that the intellectual system is but little permeated with will. This
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— he would speak of a little sprite that he had on the
animal, anyway, has been a lion. We have here a sign that the boy's
boy's own astral body. Then of course it can happen that this piece
What
is of main importance for us as educators is the fact that, owing to
your physical body, so that you no longer had it pulsating there in
its entirety within your physical body, then that astral body of
of the case. The mother says that the child was born four weeks late.
backwards. This was done by my advice. At the same time that he was
inactive. Let me remind you of what I said about the physical
organisation in the first period of life — that it is the
that the child has had in the epoch through which he has already
physical organism. For it is the ether body that is active now, and
with the change of teeth; that has not yet begun. So that there too
going any further let us see that we are quite clear about the
headway against the inherited organism. And we have also to note that
are not at all obliged to assume that it was correct! — the
information namely, that the child was born four weeks late. If this
now we have to ask ourselves the question: how has it come about that
fact that the mother was acting on the stage during the first four
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you on the blackboard. There, that is what I wanted you for!
brought in.) Bring the little one over here; that will be best —
will discuss presently how that happens. The head actually measures
you will very likely think that he is perceiving things with his
note of the tragic fact that just before I came here to give these
lectures I received a telegram to say that the father of the child
embryo, you will find that you have in this child nothing else than a
giant embryo! You can see quite plainly that he has remained at the
accord with the laws of growth of the embryo stage. That we have not
internal tendencies that make for enlargement are working. I am
however quite hopeful that after a certain point has been reached, we
A striking fact that
comes home to us when studying the riddles of human nature is that
special attention to what I said last — that the mother felt
the child at birth. Mark that well: at birth — that is to say,
for it provides the first clear evidence that the ego organisation
that the astral body had at birth a strong and pronounced
show that the causes of the trouble are not to be sought in any
only when the discovery was made that in one week the child had put
What we have to do,
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attention. It is in this way for the most part that the study of the
on, gradually acquire the skill that will be needed for dealing with
kleptomaniac, that on account of hindrances in the astral body, he
has no means of access to the capacity for judgement that ordinarily
realise that everything which has to do with morality, everything of
which it can be said that our conception of it must needs include
superficial thinking of the present day — that where the Earth
to exist; for the reason that out there, in the realm of the
bad beings. As little as you can say of a lion that he ought, or
come away from the Earth, that good and evil ought or ought not to be
that it may “belong” to someone, the idea of “mine
attach any meaning at all to what he hears people say about
“possessing” things. What is particularly strong in him
is the idea of discovery — the idea that he has lighted
to a full stop. The truth is that up to now his astral body has not
in the intellectual sphere. We have evidence of this in the fact that
whatever he finds good intellectually he at once turns into will. Let
early age, the child is naturally imitative, doing what he sees done
What I like is good, what I don't like is bad. His judgements, that
meaning of “good” — by bringing it about that the
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would like to speak first of that eldest boy of yours, who is sixteen
sixteenth year? So you have here a case with antecedents that have
time and see what things really interested him, and then, starting
test that we put to him, where the lad's trouble lies.
a problem in subtraction, put in the form that accords with the
What have I to take from a given number in order to leave another
that he needs longer time. And the reason for this is, that from the
they fail to unfold the activity that is proper to them, in spite of
the fact that the possibilities for the activity are there all the
that took place during my visit. You saw how the boy came up to us
interest. Afterwards I tried to suggest to him that he should make
new film; his interest would have had to reach beyond what lay
there”: but if the situation requires that he should bring the
ether and physical bodies set up a powerful resistance. What should
point things that the boy follows with a certain interest, we should
to an entirely healthy instinct that the boy undoubtedly possesses —
despite his difficulties. For you must realise that even in persons
this boy, you will find that as soon as you draw his attention to
objects and processes that call for skilful handling, he will
boy has, you see, difficulty in following the road that leads from
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immediately patent. The girl is ten years old — that is to say,
particularly important that the teacher shall have made the right
antecedent facts and processes that have led up to the present
moment. The inflamed condition that shows itself in the neighbourhood
organism is clear evidence of the fact that the ether body is not
properly at home in the organism — the reason being that its
should. You must never lose sight of the fact that where a process of
body, the ether body does not function properly, with the result that
what the child receives by way of impressions fails to penetrate into
the organisation. What we have to do, therefore, if we are to help
must see to it that strong impressions are brought to bear on
impressions are left lying in the part of the human being that
part is not properly organised, then what is left there of the
order to bring it about that the higher organisation — I and
finds that easier.”) So the capacity for receiving impressions
her with impressions that are without rhythm. Do not imagine that any
that is, not before puberty. Working on these lines, we must first
that an inner perception underlies the giving of these particular
you, is the sound that places the whole organism into the
and living activity — but it must be an activity that is
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that every animal represents an illness. Meditation for the teacher.
What
to find in that pedagogy the kind of education with which we can
from our discussions that, if you want to educate an abnormal child
malformations that can occur in plants; and the passages where
far as to produce from itself organs that would normally be situated
in quite another part of the plant. In the very fact that the plant
of the archetypal plant. For he knows that the idea which lies hidden
so that if we were to carry out a whole series of observations —
that where we have abnormalities in man, it is the spirituality in
life in olden times; and we shall understand how it was that
healing. For in healing men saw a process whereby that in man which
come nearer to that in him which, in the sense of good spiritual
life that man comes into this condition of balance, of how he needs
older time saw that there is something definitely abnormal about a
child as such, something in every child that is in a certain respect
it has become clear to us that the foregoing is a true and
further along the same road. All the illnesses that originate within
and ultimately even the illnesses that arise in him in response to an
injury from without; for when you break your leg, the condition that
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make clear that we cannot conceive the Earth as a mere conglomeration
of its own inner forces. Then what I shall now set forth will be in
You know that the Earth, with all the beings belonging to it —
air that is breathed in and out, but rather those forces which are at
himself, that is, when he is holding his breath within him. In the
forces. And what is happening then with the Earth I can sketch for you
breathing. We shall consider that part in which we ourselves dwell;
in such a way that in one region there is out-breathing, and in the
what I am drawing here in yellow to be the held breath in our region.
and Egyptian cultures, when a wish arose to know what that Being who
was read what the heavens had to say to the Earth. All this was put
into words. And according to the meaning of what was thus put into
words, the ancient initiates sought what that Being Who was later
what was conveyed by the stars in their relation to the Moon and apply
Mysteries passed through what I might call a great soul-spiritual
initiates of the old order. And it was from this point of view that
orientation.” — It was in this way that the cosmic
“The event that brings this about,” so they said to
occurrence that took place in the last third of December, the
Earth, with the soul-element of the Earth, we find that now this
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spirit, it must come about that an autumn festival is added to the
so that tomorrow I can lay before you the whole significance of such a
ourselves, we shall have to admit that the Easter thought is actually
very little true for the greater part of humanity! On what does the
so united Himself with mankind that He could still give revelations to
Christianity was in its inception it had been so living that Paul's
that is with the thought of the Resurrection. People who have received
as miracle it is excluded from the realm of what is or can be reality.
So that for all those who can no longer penetrate to the Resurrection
belong to the realm of sense reality; and what is connected with the
it cannot be for a humanity that relegates the Resurrection to the
spiritual world. We know that at the beginning of human
preparation began for what has come to full expression since the first
That which is living is characterized by the fact that it puts forth
pictured the grave of Christ and, rising out of the grave, that Being
great inner force what appeared before their souls in this powerful
Only that is a reality in the human soul life which this soul really
sense world. The people of the early centuries felt that they were
Christ. They felt that by this sight their souls were transformed,
just as a man feels that he is changed by physical events in the
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within the course of time in such a way that they said to themselves:
was united with the natural phenomena — that they oriented this
expression in the way they related themselves to what the festivals
meant for the most part permeating with spirit not only what they saw
and heard around them but what they experienced with their whole human
himself as earthly man in the universe. Thus we can say that in
that period at the beginning of our reckoning of time, when the
later became the Easter festival — in that period in which the
then it was in essence so, that people felt their own lives
feeling told them that in order to make their lives complete, they had
need of the vision of the Entombment and the Resurrection, of that
But it is from filling the consciousness in such a way that
these inspirations, but it is a secret of human evolution that from
First of all, we must understand clearly that during a certain epoch,
the festivals. The priesthood was that group of men who presented the
this content very deeply; and the entire soul-condition that resulted
The Middle Ages would not have produced what is called Scholasticism
and then goes through the Resurrection, that soul impulse was given
Scholastics. That out of man himself, only knowledge of the sensible
Notice the way natural science applies in its ideas what is so popular
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This can perhaps deepen in one way or another what we have spoken of
To the people of very ancient periods on Earth, the festivals that
lives. We know that in those ancient times the human consciousness
worked in an entirely different way from that of later times. We might
ascribe a somewhat dreamy nature to this old form of consciousness.
And indeed it was out of this dream condition that those insights
regard, and that is, how the festival of Midsummer, which has become
teachings. To begin with, we must be quite clear that the humanity of
do not perceive precisely that which present-day humanity is so proud
of. Thus the people of that period did not perceive what existed in
consciousness that flowed along in abstract thoughts, but it lived in
The other side is this: that no interest existed among this ancient
today to imagine what the human perception was in this regard, that
space-form. They had, however, an intense interest in what pertains to
skin, in the racial temperament. This is what people noticed. On the
what pertains to race, rather than in the universally human, including
human consciousness. And on the other side, men feel within them what
still binds them with the animal world, that is, what pertains to
race, what is typical of the animal. [See drawing]. On the
other hand, what makes man really man, his upright form, the space
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of the Mysteries, and to go into what was believed in those times with
regard to all that one as man received from the cosmos through this
well perhaps as from the recollection of much that I could still say
which has now been taken from us — you may have gathered that the
These people believed that by means of the ceremonies I have
the bosom of the divine-spiritual; but they thought that during the
other three-quarters of the year nothing was revealed to them of what
“I” as a kind of point; what he does rays out from it
and what he perceives rays in. But the feeling a person has
nature. We cannot really say that modern man even feels the
that it is his ego; for anyone who wants to be honest cannot really
claim that he is fond of his “I.” He is fond of his body; he
is fond of his instincts; he may be fond of this or that experience.
which all that has been indicated is more or less condensed. But in
that period in which, after long preparations had been made, the
with his physical-etheric-astral being. In that period man felt the
But what was felt above all else with regard to the relationship of
perceived through his feeling that above all he was to absorb into
himself as moral impulse what is revealed at this time of midsummer
enlightenment. And what he wanted above all to obtain from the heavens
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very familiar to us, and as an introduction to what I propose to put
As you know, the world bordering upon that known to our ordinary
spiritual world, the feeling arises that we are outside the physical
very soon realize that, properly speaking, it is not the physical but
the ether-body that is the real organ of perception, The physical body
similar in some respects to that of sleep. As beings of
know nothing of what is really happening to us and around us.
You will see from this that there can be a relationship to the
physical body quite different from that to which we are accustomed in
I have said repeatedly that the cultivation of Spiritual Science today
physical body is an experience that will arise in human beings more
is it that I feel as if my being were divided, as if a second being
through Spiritual Science, people begin to understand what this
in children as time goes on. It is true that in later life, when the
that to me, who told me what to do.” — The materialist, of course,
will tell such a child that this is all nonsense, that no such being
realize that a phenomenon which will appear in greater and greater
child. What does this really signify?
that experiences of the spiritual world intermingle with the dream and
or strangled, this is connected with the possibility that Lucifer may
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of a “being” that stretches across Europe from west to east; and I
spoke of it as having three limbs that reach out in an easterly
direction. I said that for the ancient Finnish folk these three limbs
were known as Wainamoinen, Ilmarinen, and Lemminkainen, and that they
were what we today, in our more materialistic language, call the gulfs
could say that these gulfs had anything to do with a being, when they
I can well imagine that this difficulty might arise in your minds, and
it is typical. For again and again you will find that truths which
being contradictory. The very fact that they do so is significant and
preface what I have to say with a few introductory words.
the nature of man that are prevalent in the materialistic thought of
system; and it is common knowledge that when these processes take
that the processes in the soul are no more than the expression of the
physical processes. The materialist studies what goes on in the body
phenomena of what is going on all the time as physical processes. This
influences, with the result that it has in some places become packed
downwards and we see on the surface what looks like the impress of a
that a wagon has passed and made the two ruts with the wheels, and a
The case is no different with the processes that go on in our nervous
that are of the nature of soul-and-spirit. And so long as we live in
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the previous lecture you will have been able to see that the very
such recognition can he gradually learn to understand the forces that
very well that we have no occasion either to hate Ahriman or to
does the physical body give us any indication of what is in man's
various philosophies you will find that one gives pre-eminence to the
feeling and willing unite in man to form a whole — to that problem
if someone were to say: “I have no idea what a ‘man’ really
being, who is what is called ‘middle-aged.’ Finally a third person
countenance and grey hair. And now I am really at a loss to know what
different beings with this name.” Of course the true answer is that
somewhat older and the third quite old; they are very different in appearance.
matter is made difficult by the fact that the different ages live
that when we leave the
change; what is old can suddenly grow young again and vice versa.
Hence in that world the three activities can and actually do appear at
quite old willing (i.e., thinking). The different ages are in that
body that we have to make our observations — then we are obliged to
say that this stream of soul-activity does not come to consciousness at
the etheric body that flows in the current of time, Luciferic — and
Now we must not imagine that we are present in this interplay with our
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and carrots, for instance: what effect they have on the body. You have
other foodstuffs. Some vegetarians won't eat things that have hung in
nutrition itself. One's immediate thought of nutrition is that when we
that. It is much more complicated. And if one wants to understand how
without fail, is protein. Let us write all this on the board, so that
that will be less familiar to you, but one needs to know it:
important fact about carbohydrates is that when we eat them, they are
but we don't eat starch; we eat foods that contain carbohydrates, and
in animals and human beings from what it is in plants. Plants contain
animal nor man can do that. A human being cannot use the protein that
reach the interesting fact — and we must grasp it quite clearly: that
breathe: that is also a way of taking in nourishment. You take oxygen
thing in the world? a diamond — and that's made of carbon; it just
could say you're made of glittering diamonds. The black carbon, that
substance. If someday the coal that is dug out of the earth can by
they take in the carbon dioxide that human beings and animals exhale.
dioxide and sets the oxygen free. Think what an excellent arrangement
nature has made, that plants and animals and human beings should
But we must go on. The human being not only needs the oxygen that the
breathing but also for food. And that brings us to another remarkable
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Herr Burle's question last Thursday. You remember that I spoke of the
head, in such a way that the salt remains salt. It is really not
changed except that it is dissolved. It keeps its forces as salt all
Now think how it is, gentlemen, with this protein. Imagine that you
have become an exceptionally clever person, so clever that you are
lay out the single pieces in such a way that you observe just how the
them all together again. That's what the human body does with protein.
completely separated into its parts, so that when it all reaches the
laid out on the table. So now you will say, Sure! when I took that
Likewise I only need to eat protein once; after that, I can make it
myself. But it doesn't happen that way, gentlemen. A human being has
have the kind of memory that can take note of something, it uses its
it into his body everywhere. Now you already know that we inhale
oxygen from the air and that this oxygen combines with the carbon we
in carbon dioxide, keeping a part of it back. So now we have that
oxygen that was in the protein; we use the oxygen we have inhaled to
materialists describe it: namely, that we eat a great many eggs which
then are deposited throughout our body so that eggs we have eaten are
spread over our whole body. That is not true.
Actually, we are saved by the organization of our body so that when we
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that is that they are initially driven by their inner destiny, their
unthought, that their children will, of course, grow up like
instance, that my son will, of course, enter the secure employment of
the civil service, or that he will inherit the parental business, or
that my daughter will marry the man next door. It simply lies in the
nature of social circumstances that they are governed by impulses
that is the effect of the beliefs which govern life. It may not
strong enough to assert itself against what one has grown into in
expectations. These are reactions against what people are forced to
party because his professional position demands that he belong to
enveloped by the state and our religion; now that must be
supplemented by surrounding what one has unconsciously grown into
detail. That is roughly the way in which the people who move in the
we investigate further why that should be, we find that this is
lively interest in what is happening to their ancestors. Such souls
unpleasant — but that is only appearance, maya.
reflect, a little something of what I would like to describe as the
Wagner began to take a hold. It is certainly true that much of this
people a feeling that here there was a gateway to a more spiritual
world, a world differing from their normal environment. What went on
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the way they were connected? And second, why is it that malicious
clear from a historical perspective. Yesterday I said that when we
is that of the people who feel the need to pursue their path through
yes. There was what I might call a special sort of endeavour present.
We know from the way in which the Theosophical Society developed that
it was not unreasonable to assume that the something which people
theosophy. But we will only be able to throw some light on that if
I would like to draw a pen picture of what the Theosophical
then joined by what emerged immediately as anthroposophy.
intervals. It was really what might be described as a reflection of
consciousness of those people it was particularly noticeable that
evident that they sought to have two conceptions of every person. The
thought that something of all this had to be present in people
idea of him by visualizing what someone else thought of Mr Smith.
merely absorbed the image of the spectre, so that in reality members
what existed there as a kind of spectral society. Its leaders were
general ethos then ensured that as far as possible only the spectral
impression that these spectral human constructs were assembled
cosmic concepts and ideas which made it easy to feel that souls were
almost say that, even if it did not enter their souls, an
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aspects which relate to the Society. And that requires the kind of
— to dismiss everything that can be said about Blavatsky by
spiritual life, the view gained ground that certain insights about
were called the Mahatma Letters.
examine her writings. Then you will come to the conclusion that
stuff, but that despite this they contain material which, if it is
world — however they were acquired. That simply cannot be
significance in the spiritual history of civilization. Why is it that
currents of thought? That does seem a significant question.
must not be forgotten, namely that people's ability to
that we get some idea of the capacity which our age possesses to deal
significance of Ohm's Law. The answer will be, of course, that Ohm's
his work was rejected as unusable. That is the power of judgement in
spellbound by what is deemed acceptable by these standards today. No
published. That caused a great stir. The authorities suddenly took
the view that there was no one better equipped to become the schools
It was, after all, a very characteristic event that many of the
shocked when they realized that this book contained a great deal of
was concern that it should be read by people who have the necessary
made people swear oaths that they would not reveal any of it, made a
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course, that this impact was in part quite negative. Those who had a
in one way or another. They could achieve this simply by saying that
she had engaged in dishonest practices and that there was no need to
spend time on something where there was evidence of that sort of
must never forget that numerous events in the world are linked to
themselves. That is why it is members of such societies who are
behind the accusations that Blavatsky engaged in dishonest
More important for our present purpose, however, is that
That led to the establishment of movements which describe themselves
I would like you to remember that in these discussions I always
try to present my material in such a way that it should correspond to
because of the terminology one has to use. What happens today is that
use that as the basis for their judgement. You have to be aware how
a society requires a name. It is pure coincidence that the societies
which are based on that called themselves the Theosophical Society.
No one could think of a better name — it's as simple as that.
across has nothing to do with what called itself the Theosophical
accuracy, so that a proper feeling can develop for the unobjective
Why is it that a large number of our contemporaries have felt the
urge to follow up these revelations? Because that will provide us
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specifically among those who were initially what might be described
It has to be understood that the Mystery of Golgotha occurred in
you will see that I attempted to come to an
individual mystery centres were harmonized and unified. Thus what was
experienced began to fade in the fourth century AD, so that the
opportunity to maintain the memory came to an end in that moment in
the fifth post-Atlantean epoch when intellectualism, with what I
expanded in the way that anthroposophy has sought to expand it. If
knowledge of God. It is a common feature of all pagan religions that
that understanding of nature then ascends to an understanding of the
unchallenged in their absoluteness, did not exist. What did exist
Now anthroposophy will never make the claim that it somehow wants
abyss. That is impossible, given the structure of modern learning. It
If you bear this in mind, you will be able to understand what
without jumping over an abyss. His uncompromising conclusion is that
modern learning, and thus arrived at a radical indictment of what he
standpoint — that what a modern theologian believes to be true
is certainly false. And he finds that the whole of modern philosophy
found in this field today. It needs to be emphasized that a person
Mystery of Golgotha, and what is precisely not the old Mysteries, but
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create a basis on which to deal with what happened in the third
to 1905 or 1906, that the content of anthroposophy might become the
that leading personalities in the Theosophical Society, and Annie
we ignore the fact that such ideas were sometimes stretched so far
that they lost all similarity to their original and true meaning,
On the other hand one must always be aware that in the modern
world beyond these circles there was no interest whatsoever in real
spiritual research. The reality was simply that the possibility of
“Mahatma Letters” in America.
America, so that he could say he had been given a mission by
Mahatma Letters for Judge, and the latter had replied that this would
then landed on your head, and that is what he had to be able to say.
a clear conscience that he was distributing letters which had landed
That is an extreme example of things which are not at all rare in
societies. I only want to point out that the close proximity of the
fact that a critical assessment of modern scientific thinking took
sense that they belonged to various societies. Of course centres for
say that science has recognized this or that structure for atoms and
that. The whole thing dissolved more or less amicably. In the end we
for a long time. He, too, was obsessed with proving what he felt was
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adhering essentially to the principle that progress should be made in
line with actual circumstances, that the movement should move forward
I said that in the first phase — approximately up to 1907,
science of the spirit with the consequences which that entailed in
take care of everyday business. But that was not the priority. The
main thing was that positive spiritual work was undertaken at each
stage and that these spiritual achievements could then be deepened
that anthroposophy spread more widely into general culture and
construction of such a building assumed that a considerable number of
anthroposophy. But it also meant that the first significant step was
obvious that a building like the Goetheanum, in contrast to
everything that had gone before, would focus the attention of the
world at large in quite a different way on what the Society had
went so far as to publish what they said about us. But they failed to
The opportunity to construct the building assumed that something
existed which made it worthwhile to do that. It did exist. A larger
represents the shattering event which demonstrated that this period
has run out. Remember that these lectures are also intended to allow
for self-reflection among anthroposophists. That self-reflection
should lead us to remember today how at that time we also had to
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deliberations. Clearly that will have to include drawing the
what this action might be, let us take another look at the way
presented to the present age in the form of what might be called a
impulse, it should, on the other hand, also have become clear that
you will see that they are not based in any way on material which came
from Blavatsky or from that direction in general, save for the forms
of expression which were chosen to ensure that they were
If you examine that
material, you will see that its essential point is that human beings
Indeed, it should be recognized that it is almost inevitable that
that it is necessary to modify our
to observation of the divine-spiritual. I indicated that the Godhead
philosophical tradition in that period on which I could build. That
That was precisely the case with Goethe. When it came to putting
knowledge on what existed in contemporary culture, but had to link it
and on that basis the
world, it was nevertheless possible to draw the conclusion that
of history, historical existence. That was the one point of entry.
working with these ideas it becomes evident that they take hold of
view. But that made something else all the more necessary. For the
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Title: Art/Mystery Wisdom: Lecture One
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What we call
know that since the advent of modern life people have always
it is time that the impulses we are acquiring from spiritual
have won through to the feeling that with respect to many a
thing that meets us in life today we need spiritual science
that weaken, we might actually say destroy, something of the
all its aspects, will have experiences that give them deeper
whole existence, than that obtained from an external view of
steamer, especially if they sleep on the journey. What is
is that the experiences become conscious for the former, and
he finds out what is actually happening to him when he spends
that an experience of that sort has on the whole human
understand what these indications actually mean we must
doubt know, namely, that whilst we are asleep our ego and
case like this, so that if we are asleep on a train journey
notice on waking up that when the ego returns with the astral
them what they experienced while they were being squeezed
all the after-effects of what the engines of a steamer or a
train have done to your ego and astral body, and bring that
synchronises with what is going on within you in the way of a
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with what may occur to you as a result of your own
or rather with that of which this building is merely a
that I would begin today with a seemingly more theoretical
consider the different forms of art, it appears that
architecture is the one that has become most separated from
architecture. Architecture is in some way detached from what
to look at the human being, the part that first strikes us,
what matters with regard to the human etheric body in reality
number of phenomena that occur during the course of a man's
being. We have to acquire the ability. It is true that this
in it as an impulse, to the etheric body. And what happens
then? Let us assume that someone is holding his hand in a
hand moves, following what occurs first as a development of
want to point out that the making of any movement involves a
knowledge of what is really going on within him; but what
takes place is so infinitely wise that human ego cleverness
than that required by a watch-maker in making a watch.
to show here what is involved even in a movement as simple as
being, that which happens to our physical body through the
in our way of looking at things, that the etheric body is
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maybe the best survey of what ought to enter into our souls
what I have dealt with in my book
with those chapters that introduce us to the being of man,
what must be undergone by the individual who wishes to set in
become apparent that for us spiritual science falls into two
describe how what we have before us today as the earth and
review the many observations that we have made, you will see
that a large part of them are in a way under the influence of
what we take into ourselves concerning the development and
part of spiritual science is concerned for us with what the
with the first sphere of observations, we see that by
absurd. It is quite natural that to our modern minds a
absolute nonsense, as something that cannot exist, as the
mind a remark that I have made here several times: The human
concepts that is asleep; but during the day, in a part of our
assurance that in his ordinary daily consciousness, either at
within him unconsciously; and even a great part of what seems
the human being exactly in what he does half or more than
that during sleep he is not nearly so unbelieving as when
unconsciously that there was once upon a time a Saturn
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that at the approach to Christmas he fell into a kind of
that we have explored in various ways. In the course of this
sleep he had significant experiences, that he was able to
past days we have examined various things that make us aware
that the spiritual-scientific outlook gives us a new approach
continually be reminded that what was known in former ages,
was due to the fact that the human being was so organised at
that time that he had the kind of relationship with the whole
of the cosmos and its happenings that we would now call being
activities of the macrocosm, and that in this process of
that deeply concern the life of his soul, but which are
We know that
only a materialistic outlook can believe that man is the only
that just as there are beings below the human level, there
For then the secrets will be discovered that man has to
and rituals remind us that festivals like these take place at
the height of summer; that in the midst of summer, the soul,
hand, the legendary or other kind of presentations of that
which could be experienced in olden times remind us that when
earth's life of soul, and that if man enters into this
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was my task to point out to you that through a feeling
with regard to our inner forces, so that — whatever
meets us in life and whatever takes place around us, whether
the strength to develop an understanding for what can
make such an impact on the development of our souls, that we
remembering devotion, and I would like to follow that with a
like this that shines on us out of the macrocosm. And in our
such a way that it can have a special significance, to think
the transformation that the power of inner preservation, the
realise again that reading the star script really has a
with it, in the course of this year that has begun amidst
and notice what has been the prevailing mood of our talks in
the last few days you will discover that, regarding the facts
that spiritual science has made significant for us, we live
change that has to come about from a purely materialistic
world conception to a spiritual one. What is meant here,
already had various indications showing that an understanding
small part of what can take an artistic form, from out of
feelings that can arise from the spiritual-scientific world
observation, an appeal to something that affects the artist
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more or less theoretically what we understand by the
anthroposophy theoretically, so that you know that the human
body and so on, in the same way as you know that one or
another tone has so-and-so many vibrations, or that oxygen
laid on the fact that everyone feels that science is dry and
that dry science has something cold and unfeeling about it
that to a certain extent this has to be so with ordinary
the natural world around us that its effect on us is to warm
bring certain impulses to life in us that a person of today
be in the nature of what he calls science that it has a cold
Goethe's Faust. He expects that if he assimilates science the
what he knows.
reason. They maintain that what made life so rich and fresh
in the past, was the fact that man had not solved every
unscientific kind. What terrible desolation would befall
what is being said, so that we can make use of them like they
so that we can take it all in at a glance like physics
— if we do not do it so much that way, but let what
it, we shall notice that it comes to life in us and grows, it
new living being within us, that is forever showing new
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Saturn, Sun and Moon periods, you will know that at each of
among what we would now call the higher hierarchies, attained
their human level, as it were. We know that during the
have seen from our talks on evolution, that each level of
beings that reaches a certain stage of development, received
preparation in advance. We know that the human being was
and that what we nowadays call man's completed physical body
and that the ego was only added to these during the Earth
period; that is, all the beings that are at a certain level
level in the Jupiter period. Another thing you know is that
been describing. For it could be the case that human
‘What could be worse than behaving in such a way during
that there is a certain goodwill, for these are truly
secrets that modern science detests as a matter of course.
those who like them. But if someone wanted to go and say that
then lets them hatch them after that, he would be doing
this is the same attitude as wanting to hatch hard-boiled
eggs that have nothing left in them to be hatched out.
is that is bound up with the whole way of modern thinking,
science right about this or that?’ And if he can prove
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study what motivated the architectural forms of this house,
you must bear in mind that it is part of the whole Goetheanum
We get closest to this if we do what human beings
that I have been trying for decades to arouse some
origin to what one might, in the external materialistic
that one day when he was going for a walk in the Jewish
cemetery in Venice he found a sheep's skull that had fallen
these head bones, what actually are they? They are
course, that the spinal cord that encloses the spine marrow
these rings expanding so that the hole the marrow passes
direction but also in other directions, then the form that
Goethe's even further and can say today that every bone man
primitive views of what can arise through transformation. If
course what it looks like — a tubular bone like that
in our head. But that is only due to our not having developed
idea you will have is that the tubular bone has to be puffed
form of the head bone. But that is not the principle
realise that the wise powers of the Godhead in the cosmos
able to set the forces of transformation in motion that are
the very fact that, fundamentally, even the most dissimilar
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Title: Evolution, Earth, Man: Lecture I
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conditions on the earth, which have led on the one hand to all that
individual items. We must be able to realize that what we examine
does not show at first sight what it actually is.
paler — we can see that death has seized him, but he still has
the same form that he had when alive. But now think: how does this
is destroyed; there is no longer anything at work in it that could
indeed justifiably, when it is understood to say that once upon a
time some god formed a man out of a clod of earth. People regard that
That corpse that we were looking at is, in fact, after a
somewhat decomposed, dissolved. So to believe that a human being can
be made out of what we then have before us is really just as great a
You see, on the one hand it is asserted today that it is
incorrect to suppose that man could be formed from a lump of earth;
on the other hand one is allowed to suppose that he consists of earth
other. One must be clear that while the man lived there was something
in him that gave him his shape and form, and when it is no longer in
imagine that it has always been the same as it is today, that is just
as if we would say of the corpse that it had always been like that
even while the man was living. The stones that we see today in the
today. Just as a human corpse was not always what it is now that the
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origin of man. It has surely become clear from what I have already
said that the earth was originally not what it is today, but was a
I described the condition that existed before our actual
Earth condition by saying that warmth, air, and water were there but
that the water existing at that time looked like the present water.
Our present water has become what it is by the separation of certain
in earlier ages of our earth was therefore not that of today's water.
That did not exist, for substances were dissolved in the water
everywhere. All the substances that you have today-the Jura limestone
mountains, for instance-were dissolved; harder rocks that you can't
has to do with a thickish fluid that contained in solution all the
sodium, that is everywhere in the air. Just think what that means —
that sodium is everywhere, that a substance which is in the salt on
You can ask how one knows that sodium is everywhere. It
is possible today to tell from a flame what sort of substance is
an instrument called a spectroscope that there is a yellow line in
that in the flame, you get a red line; the yellow is now not there,
but there is a red line. One can prove with the spectroscope what
was a dense air, so dense that one could not have breathed in it with
the creatures that existed at that time was utterly different.
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have realized from all we've said that our earth in its present form
is only the last remains of what was once essentially different. If
compare it really — as you have seen — with what one has
them: oxygen and nitrogen. We can say therefore that in the earth we
carbon and sulphur! The difference is merely that in the egg white
looser way. So the same substances are in the air that are in the
in the yolk, and we can therefore say that when it hardens,
densifies, it becomes what the earth is. One must observe such things
if one wants to know what the earth once looked like.
way, and in order that your judgment of what I am telling you here
may not be confused by what is commonly accepted, I would like to
with what I say if only one considers it in the right way.
investigate, so let us examine first what lies on top, what we walk
are not always lying so nicely above one another that we can say: the
on this side of a hill we find an upper layer that could become good
by making these cuttings we come into the depths of the earth. That
has led to the discovery that strata are superimposed on one another,
you see, that is not always the case. In some places it is so, but
to bury our domestic animals when they die, so that they may not be
what would happen with the animals then? Wherever the animal died,
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today we can finish what we began last time.
I explained to you that we must form a mental picture of
spiritually. Physically — that is, in a body — man first
a short while ago that people thought of the earth in such a way that
formed only comparatively recently, and we have seen to what an
Now you must realize that when people dig and burrow
plants and animals that fill the earth today, have appeared only
That the earth has not evolved simply and gradually,
finally formed, can be seen not only from the fact that the Alps are
explanation can be that when they were alive, suddenly a mighty water
We see from this that in earlier times there were quite
that these happenings cannot have gone on through millions of years
but must have taken place in a comparatively short time-that
in one's stomach after one has eaten and begins to digest. But that
living. And the forces that were in the earth have been left behind.
destroyed by a single wave that turned to ice.
You can understand how well this agrees with what I have
I would now like to speak of something that will show
other side, the eastern coast of America, we discover that these
So we must assume that the land there has sunk. For
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to look further into the history that is connected with our present
conditions on the earth were such that men were able to live upon it
that human and animal life could develop in the way I have pictured.
Now we have also seen that in the beginning, human life
was actually quite different from what it is today, and had its field
of action where the Atlantic Ocean is now. We have to imagine that
Europe at that time there was actually a really huge sea. These
firm for men to dwell upon it. Before that, only marine animals were
there which developed out of the sea, and so on. If at that time you
population on earth that was entirely wiped out. That was the
the Atlantic Ocean to find them. We would have to get down to that
gestures was something that one cannot dig out of the ground-because
there was nothing that endured! Thus, what was there long before the
However, what has remained of the Chinese and Japanese
absorbed everything from the Europeans, and what remains of their
It is true that the European dominion is not actively established
there, but in those regions what the Europeans think is becoming
all-prevailing, and what once existed there has disappeared. This is
not include anything that can be called religion. The Chinese culture
You must picture to yourselves, gentlemen, what is meant
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foods — beans and carrots, for instance: what effect they have
things that have hung in the air, like beans or peas. And when one
of nutrition is that when we eat something, it goes through the mouth
process is not as simple as that. It is much more complicated. And if
board, so that we have it complete. So, protein, as it is in a hen's
thing has a name that will be less familiar to you, but one needs to
plants. The important fact about carbohydrates is that when we eat
without fail, but we don't eat starch; we eat foods that contain
greatly it differs in animals and human beings from what it is in
lifeless, mineral sources. Neither animal nor man can do that. A
human being cannot use the protein that is to be got from lifeless
quite clearly: that of all things the two most essential for human
Think how you breathe: that is also a way of taking in
diamond — and that's made of carbon; it just has a different
you're made of glittering diamonds. The black carbon, that graphite
someday the coal that is dug out of the earth can by some process be
Plants do not take in oxygen: they take in the carbon dioxide that
again from the carbon dioxide and sets the oxygen free. Think what an
excellent arrangement nature has made, that plants and animals and
oxygen that the plant gives him, but he needs the entire plant. With
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remember that I spoke of the four substances necessary to human
his body and it travels all the way to his head, in such a way that
the salt remains salt. It is really not changed except that it is
Imagine that you have become an exceptionally clever person, so
clever that you are confident you can make a watch. But you've never
take it all apart and lay out the single pieces in such a way that
how you are going to put them all together again. That's what the
protein is completely separated into its parts, so that when it all
took that watch apart, I observed it very carefully, and now I can
make watches. Likewise I only need to eat protein once; after that, I
can make it myself. But it doesn't happen that way, gentlemen. A
itself does not have the kind of memory that can take note of
carbon from it into his body everywhere. Now you already know that we
inhale oxygen from the air and that this oxygen combines with the
have that carbon and oxygen together in our body. We do not retain
and use the oxygen that was in the protein; we use the oxygen we have
protein as the materialists describe it: namely, that we eat a great
many eggs which then are deposited throughout our body so that eggs
we have eaten are spread over our whole body. That is not true.
so that when we eat eggs, we don't all turn into crazy hens! It's a
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Title: Evolution, Earth, Man: Lecture VIII
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interesting way to what we want to discuss today. Someone has asked:
view there are two opposing opinions about this. One is that man was
things. But until a short time ago the belief existed that man was
know as supposedly the only true one, namely, that man was originally
imperfect, like some kind of higher animal, and that he gradually
what man could have been like when he still resembled an animal.
original. From these one can study what humanity was like originally.
of human evolution. First of all, it is not true that all civilized
conception is that the physical man who went about on the earth in
speak of the ape-like Hanuman. So you see, it is not true that even
We must rather have a clear knowledge that man is a
of spirit. But once we acknowledge that a human being consists of
been perfected from lower stages. We must also say that the evidence
recognize that in the period of time of only three or four thousand
knowledge in seriously studying and understanding the writings that
appeared in India, Asia, Egypt, and even Greece, we find that the
people of those times were far ahead of us. What they knew, however,
For instance, from what I have told you in connection with nutrition
is unable to do so. But we have only to read what physicians of old
had to say, and rightly understand it, to become aware that actually
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Title: Evolution, Earth, Man: Lecture IX
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question. I don't quite know how to put it. One knows that plants
humanity. A factor in this evolution must have been that each kind of
being acquired what would benefit it. Different smells can be
way that will lead to what you have in mind. You have been thinking,
Well, let us first consider what causes smell. What is
smell? You must realize first of all that people have varying
But what has been said applies not only to smell; it
applies equally to other sense-perceptions. Imagine for a moment that
related to the things. This has led to the opinion that man does not
There is no question that a violet is easily
scent that is always pleasant; the asafetida has a smell that is
offensive, that we want to avoid. It is also correct that different
Now we must be clear as to what it is that causes smell.
The fact of the matter is that any object with a smell or scent emits
something that comes toward our own body in a gaseous or airy form.
only taste it. We can smell a liquid only when it emits air, that is
his work requires that he should be able to distinguish things by
And now let us ask: how is it that bodies or objects
watery bodies in earlier times. People used to call water what we no
Any object that has a smell contains gas imprisoned, as
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Title: Evolution, Earth, Man: Lecture X
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Written question: Mars is near the earth. What
effect does that have upon the earth? What is known about Mars?
understanding of what this means. We must not attach prime importance
interesting that there has been all this talk about the proximity of
nearer to the earth, and the planets are undergoing a process that
today, that the planets are solid bodies just like the earth, the
expectation could well be that if they were to unite with the earth,
are not the same as that of the earth. If Mars, for instance, were
something of that kind. There are also dense components, but they are
be more comparable to that of the antlers or horns of our animals,
So we must realize that the constitution of Mars is entirely
different from that of our earth.
In one sense that is correct, but in another, incorrect. As Mars is not
solid to the degree that the earth is solid, one cannot, of course, speak
of canals as we know them on the earth. But it can be said that on Mars
there is something rather similar to our trade winds. You know that
streams back toward the central region of the earth. So that if
I want to mention something that can help you to
understand the character of Mars' relation to the earth. We know that
important heavenly body for us. Just think what a different story it
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Title: Evolution, Earth, Man: Lecture XI
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and the number varies from year to year. This is due to the fact that
sun is turning — in the course of years they appear in that
we have to reckon with the fact that in the course of time, a
comparatively long time, the source of the light and life that now
shows clearly that one can speak of the earth coming to an end.
Everything of the earth that is spiritual will then take on a
different form, just as I have told you that in olden times it had a
phenomena that belong to the realm of life, such as the appearance
with what astronomy calculates as being the period of revolution of Mars,
the earth and the sun every four years, so that the grubs which take
European lands because at that time these regions were covered with
the fact that the greatest part of the population then living in
Ice Age conditions will be repeated, in a somewhat different form, in
It must never be imagined that evolution proceeds in an
be realized that interruptions such as the Ice Age do indeed take
place in the straightforward process of evolution. What is the
reason? The reason is that the earth's surface is constantly rising
mountain that we can really speak of snow and ice on a very large
year 1250. That was the lowest point. The temperature here then was
is now slowly rising, so that after five or six thousand years there
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Title: Evolution, Earth, Man: Lecture XII
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that when lightning is released from the air, as I described last
and can that be explained? Yes, one can indeed explain it.
lightning actually comes about. I told you that lightning comes out
gas. I said that there is no question of lightning arising from some
supposed, therefore, that lightning is a true electrical phenomenon
that comes about from the friction of dry elements. It is known that
people think that if clouds rub together — well, then there'll
be electricity there too. But that is not so. What happens is this:
described. Through the fact that the air exerts less pressure toward
toward that side and lightning flashes.
Now let us imagine that we have this happening
to think that it should stream out in a straight line.
single place. You can imagine, of course, that these accumulations of
then it carries the others along on its way. That's similar to when
that's the story of the lightning.
Dr. Steiner: That's a question that can't be
this. Otherwise one cannot grasp how it happens that at certain spots
an idea of it only if one first of all rejects the dictum that the
earth was once a balloon of gas, that it became more and more solid,
and that there is fire in the interior which for some reason or other
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Title: Evolution, Earth, Man: Lecture XIII
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what is it actually? What is its aim and its task in the world?
Dr. Steiner: The questioner wants to know what
anthroposophy is and what its significance is for humanity in
become more and more convinced that anthroposophy is something that
First and foremost, we must realize that people are
steam and the invention of the steam engine. Think what the world
been the peasants who behaved in that way. When an account of
that, people had to travel by stagecoach. When it was proposed to
said that two went empty from Berlin to Potsdam
every week, so he couldn't imagine what use railroads would be. It
didn't occur to him that once the railroads were there, more people
gentlemen declared that the work should be stopped, because the speed
the people refused to accept this ban, they were told that high plank
ever be understood until it is realized that the spiritual world is
is maintained that Sir Francis Drake
that is not correct; they were introduced from a different source.
But now what about potatoes? Suppose a scientist or a
doctor were asked to say what effect potatoes have when they are
exclusively on them. What does the modern scientist do when he tests
investigation to find what substances are contained in the potato. He
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Title: Evolution, Earth, Man: Lecture XIV
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like to add a few words to what we were considering last time, and
The question that was asked concerning man's origin can
evolution of humanity. The assertion that men were originally
animal-like, that they had an animal-like intelligence, and so forth,
is nothing but a science fairy tale. It is contradicted by what has
been found from the earliest historical times, and what — even
conditions. At that time men did not feel inequality among themselves
had lost real science, and no longer knew what slavery signified. And
it that, for instance, a labor movement had to arise with such
it necessary, because people had come to feel that things could not
conditions should be bettered. What makes the labor problem such a
burning question is the fact that industry and all the various
then, that the advent of industry has brought this burden in its
prefer the needs of all human beings to be satisfied. Obviously, that
is it that the few who reach leading positions lack the capacity to
change conditions so that the needs of the masses will be satisfied?
natural that it is always the few who lead, but they lack clear
insight. And the masses of workers feel that these few do not
themselves know what should be done. It has become obvious,
especially just recently, that these few do not know what they should
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Title: On the Development of Human Culture: Lecture I
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12th July and 6th August, 1924, that are a part of GA# 354. Duplicated
world that we have undertaken. You have seen how the human race has
when conditions on the earth were such that men were able to live
upon it, that is, when the earth had perished, no longer had its own
We have also seen that to
begin with, human life was actually quite different from what it is
We have to imagine that where today the Atlantic Ocean is, there was
over here in Europe at that time there was actually a really huge
that is Indo-China — the land was appearing a little above the
animals were there which developed out of the sea. If at that time
people had soft bodies. The culture resulting from what they did is
what was there long before the Japanese and Chinese is not accessible
What has remained of the
everything from the Europeans, and what remains to them of
It is true that the European domination is not actively established
there, but in these regions what the Europeans think is becoming
all-prevailing, and what once existed there has disappeared. This is
the Chinese in their old culture do not include anything that can be
yourselves what is meant by a “culture without religion.”
When you consider the cultures that have religion you find everywhere
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Title: On the Development of Human Culture: Lecture II
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12th July and 6th August, 1924, that are a part of GA# 354. Duplicated
what we are going to discuss today. Someone has asked:
“What has man's cultural development arisen from?” I am going
are two opinions. One opinion is that originally man was at a high
that man was originally perfect, degenerating to his present state of
think of as the only true one, namely that man was originally
so-called savage peoples' — in order to get some idea of what
original. From these it is possible to make a study of what people
begin with, it is not at all true that, for example, all civilized
peoples imagined that man as a physical being was originally perfect.
materialists, but, even so, their conception is that the
you see it is not at all true that people with a spiritual
world-conception always imagine that originally men were in some way
as people today imagine them to have been, that is, of a paradisian
nature, for indeed it is not so. We have, rather, to be clear that
spirit. But once we admit that man consists of body, soul, and
spirit, we can go on to ask in what way the body develops, in what
way the soul and in what way the spirit evolve. If we are to speak of
perfected from lower stages. We must also say that the evidence we
must come once more to recognize that in those times — which
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Title: Nine Lectures on Bees: Lecture I
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of the bees and that of the wasps. There is much that is similar
cannot be fully explained without the faculty of spiritual perception. That
ever observed it can deny. Naturally, no one can say that the bees
have the same kind of intelligence that men have, for we certainly
understanding of what the life of the bees truly is, when one takes
into account that the whole environment of the earth has a very great
rests upon the fact that the bees, to a much greater extent than the
activity that everything is in harmony.
everything that in other creatures expresses itself as sexual life is, in
love that is present in the life of sex, and love belongs to the
realm of the soul; and further, through the fact that certain organs of
reason that in olden times, wise men who had a knowledge of all this quite
different from the knowledge of men today, that these wise men
love, to that part of life which they connected with the planet
bees in their external activity. What we only experience when love
the life of the bees when one knows that the bee lives in an
hand the bee is quite especially favoured by the fact that, in its turn,
honey — exclusively from those parts of the plants that are
say that the life of the bees must be studied by making use of the soul.
less necessary when we study the ants and the wasps for we shall see that
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to him attentively it must have occurred the to you that this whole question
the bee-keeper is first of all interested in what he has to do.
given you here, the bees are able to gather what is already present
we men take away as honey a portion of what was collected for the
say that what man takes away is somewhere about 20% — roughly
something that exists there in very minute quantities and is
therefore have a creature before us that collects a substance extremely
next to another; they fit extremely well together, so that this
formed a cell, people generally answer: “It is done that the
space may be thoroughly well used.” That is true. If you try to
everything is joined together so that every part of the surface of
isolated, and one must not by any means believe that anything exists
in Nature that is without forces. This six-angled, six-surfaced
signifies something quite definite that it lies within this
the form later it feels in its body that it
afterwards works, for what the bee makes externally lies in its
fact that has been described to you. In the hive there is a variety
that Nature bestows much more care on the development of the
worker-bee than on that of the Queen.
shall soon see that quite another reason comes in question. The
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occurred to you that you would like to ask me? (An article was read from
Think for a moment that I might do as follows: I might take a
lights up. Thus, according to this article, I must state that barium
experiments with ants. Suppose that instead of barium
up. I then say (according to this article) that the ants see
can really say is, that given a certain substance it produces an
effect on the ants. More than that one cannot assert. The scientists
statements that are pure phantasy.
one can say is this, — that through the sense-organs (once more,
according to this article this is proved by the fact that no effect is
produced if the eyes of the ants are varnished) that through the sense-organs
an impression was made on these insects. It is characteristic that
the scientist applies to ants and wasps what he has observed with
peculiarity (so he himself expresses it in the article) that they
produce strong chemical reactions. Whatever is introduced here
chemically, with the result that if I now put an ant here it will at
once experience a strong chemical reaction. It feels this; that is
ultra-violet rays there, then the ant would notice at once that
What this
gentlemen aware of the real question that they do not know, for
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Title: Nine Lectures on Bees: Lecture IV
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result that the percentage of red corpuscles in the blood of these
then gives the increase in weight also, which shows that the children
show that children of these ages, let us say roughly, the school-age, derive
interesting, something which in a most remarkable way condemns what
For what does
it. This is what science does.
sugar and salts. This is exactly what is contained in milk. And
be in question here. But what did they say? They said: “substance
but the substances that are there in casein, fat, sugar and salts —
there must be a new substance here, in such minute quantities that it
cannot be found by chemical analysis. This substance is what people
the question where what is “comic” came from. Some of
“comic” — of what one laughs at. Then however,
someone got up and went to the platform in a way that one knew at
originates solely from the fact that man possesses a
force.’ This is where what is ‘comic’
way. Well — in economics one would at once remark that anyone
saying that money comes from the money-making-force was a queer
then answers: — from the vitamin! That is the same as saying
that poverty comes from being poor! But it is not noticed. People
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Title: Nine Lectures on Bees: Lecture V
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ERBSMEHL remarked that in modern bee-keeping the
material side that has to be considered. In the
workmen must see that he gets as much as possible out of them, and
the matter when people thought that moonlight had an influence on the
1. That Herr
Erbsmehl can gather from the Journal that the bee-keeper in question was
evidently not aware what bee-keeping is in our days, and all the
things connected with it so that one is obliged to keep accounts. If
May. One must help the stock that has sufficient vitality by
cannot understand that within the next eighty to a hundred years the
whole stock of bees will die out. I really cannot understand what Dr.
Steiner means by saying that within eighty to a hundred years
second point — i.e., what announcing the death of the bee-master
to the bees has to do with the bee-master, I have already stated that
to impure honey in hotels I would like to say that first-class hotels
will tell us to what extent a bee-sting may be really dangerous.
it is said that three hornet stings will kill a horse. A little while ago
few remarks that we may discuss these matters in a reasonable way.
an opinion that is naturally completely justified if you consider the thing
to Arlesheim, meet your friend and recognise him. But what has
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Title: Nine Lectures on Bees: Lecture VI
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MÜLLER said that eating comb-honey was an
combs and not artificial ones. He does not think that bee diseases
are the result of exploitation, but that formerly they were less
to these two points, one might say it is quite true that the eating of
consideration that people digest in very different ways, not everyone
excretion. With regard to these people one could certainly say that
intestines and has passed into the lymphatic vessels. It is a
lymphatic vessels; one cannot say that one way is better than the
bee-diseases the question is, as is usual in disease, namely, that we must
take into account what Herr Müller has just said. It is so even with
human beings that certain things were not much noticed formerly,
that there is already a considerable difference between giving
MÜLLER stated that he pays great attention
juice is what one calls acid in chemistry, and the blood sap is
chemically called alkaline, which means that it is not acid though it
what will be able to work most favourably on the blood sap of the
bee. It will be necessary in the future that bee-keepers take special
care that the blood sap of the bee is rightly provided for. The
following is important: you all know that there are years when the
necessary in the future that the bee-keeper even contrives a small
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so closely; also, what honey should be, and is, in relation to mail.
so far as they mature during differing periods of time. What lies at
fed so that growth is accelerated. Now the bees are creatures of the
a creature capable of laying eggs; all that is connected with a
of the whole cosmos also. The moment the feeding is such that
development proceeds at the rate of the worker-bee, which is that of
somewhat of an earthly creature. But the drone which develops during
All else that happens occurs no longer under the influence of the
eggs that are fertilised, but only a portion of them, and these can
become Queens or worker-bees; the remaining portion that are
I was told that if anyone has rheumatism and gets stung by a bee or a wasp,
heart is a sign that the ego-organisation is not functioning rightly. You
remember that we distinguished four different parts of a man; first
the heart were a kind of pump, and that this pumping of the heart
that it is the heart that drives the blood, then he must equally
assert that if he has a turbine, it is the turbine that sets the
water in motion, though everyone knows that it is the water that
motion; thus it is that the ego-organisation works directly in the
actually the case that this ego-organisation is in a mysterious way present
in the poison of the bee; it is a similar force to the force that circulates
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Title: Nine Lectures on Bees: Lecture VIII
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entrances, searching their surroundings, and collecting what they
need. Sometimes however, it happens that these creatures do nct first
to say of all this that it is due to the instinct of the creatures may
it finds a suitable tree stump, then it so arranges the matter that it
saves the labour that would be needed to heap up a hillock. The small
very difficult to state that this is due to instinct. This would only
it actually adjusts itself to the external circumstances. That is the
earth, minute fragments of wood, and in some corner that has been
sight, that something in the store cupboard has been nibbled, and the
would then have to say that Nature has given these creatures an
instinct to take up their abode precisely in this very house; what
they build there must be so constructed that it is adapted to this
what they do. If you test some individual ant, you would certainly not
arrive at the conclusion that it was especially wise, for what it
does when separated from the colony, or what it may be forced to do,
does not reveal any special wisdom. One then begins to realise that
it is not the individual ant that can reason, but the entire colony
as it were, and regularly cultivate the kind of grass that best suits
so. One finds in the soil very hard seeds somewhat like small grains
Whatever they have no use for, like the little stalks that were still
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Title: Nine Lectures on Bees: Lecture IX
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what the spiritual relationship is between the hosts of insects
which, fluttering about, approaches the plants and what is to be
this question last time, that all around us there is not
only oxygen and nitrogen, but that throughout Nature there
that we breathe in the air, for air is everywhere, and science
today is so widely included in all the school books that everyone
knows that air is everywhere, and that we breathe it in. All the same
there are people today who do not know that intelligence is
everywhere. They consider it fantastic if one says that just as
have already given instances in which you could see that there is
that we should be discussing the insects just at the time of the centenary
enormous number of facts. It is therefore quite natural that
the bee is really not that it produces honey but, that it produces
hive, but the bee actually works in such a way that it does not use
transforms what it brings into the hive. The bee works from out of
work, what immense intelligence there is in the whole of Nature. Let us
little hollow for the second bee that is to creep out, and having
some food next to the larva which first eats what has been prepared for
that the larva now developed can fly out at the right moment. When the
time comes that the larva has developed, has turned into a cocoon,
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Title: Art of Lecturing: Lecture I
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opinion, that, in this course we are now starting, it is [a
question of] a discussion of what is necessary in order really
who receive what can come from Anthroposophy simply as a kind
difficult to spread the insight that this activity is really
civilization that there is general talk around things —
that people do not pick up concrete tasks — that they
discuss as regards content), in such a way that they might
for a definite task — so that they can then link up
word so as to take into consideration, that he who sets
reporting what is incorrect if — as is so popular
nowadays — one set down what I shall say both today and
soul-forces play, so that when we think, there are also
What we think
interests nobody else, and whoever believes that his thoughts
gathering, or even one other person, this willing that we
that act of will, we would find that we had called up, not
people, they would walk out. That must be the fundamental
that this is so when we consider a general conversation among
speaking of what should fill our souls, of what should live
lectures, the fact is that he lectures for the most part not
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souls that it is difficult to make oneself understood. And,
without this feeling — that it is difficult to make
that is connected with it, in a way satisfying to ourselves.
from what one is accustomed to in accordance with the
of all have to make quite clear to ourselves what the content
of the matter is that comes towards us in Anthroposophy and
anthroposophical and related matters, so that what I have to
make clear to ourselves that primarily it is the feeling for
the central issue of the threefold order that must at first
assumed that an audience of today does not begin to know what
would say, too fixed for one to believe that, in the end, it
people how this or that substance reacts in a retort, then
one then lectures this way or that way — a bit better,
tended to come to the point that such lectures and such talks
are attended in order to see the experimenting, and what is
things somewhat radically, just in order to show the exact
matter of what to stimulate in people for doing, for willing,
one is of the opinion that one must just “set up
happened in many an instance that many people who lecture
opinion, through the manner in which they speak, that it is
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material for a lecture so that it can be divided up —
so that one is as it were placed in the position of giving
really be understood. This or that may appeal to the listener
that is, calling to mind as much as possible everything one
That will in
that, as will indeed naturally be the case, one can
a, — so that one is to a certain extent independent of
to the paper, will determine only that he who is dependent
upon the paper will speak somewhat better. But one can of
which ensue to the point that these things can stand before
an example, that we want to hold a lecture on the threefold
subject itself. I say that for this example. If one lives
outset, is given that which yields us three members in the
that it makes sense to speak about these things at all, about
what is to be understood by a free spiritual life, by a
connecting to that which is to hand in the greatest measure
present — what can therefore be observed the most
will one connect with what is known.
classes. I stress this for the reason that as a lecturer one
Now, what will
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certain audience; I called attention to the fact that it is above all
spiritual life that stands independently on its own. In the second
present-day humanity that there can be something like a
democratic-political connection that has to strive for equality. For
consideration when preparing for such a lecture — that modern
man has no feeling at all for a state structure that is built upon
within Swiss conditions. It will have to be specially emphasized that
that in the middle part concerning the political, public life, they
disappeared. What expresses and lives in the configuration of the
existence and the economic elements. One could say that in the modern
economic life and the fact that the public believes that this
that spring, in April 1919, directly after the German revolution,
in a more resigned manner — were convinced of the fact that
feeling, this mood, that something new had to come. One spoke at that
there today. A whole world lies between today and that spring of 1919
is in fact something that is under rules of duress, under pressure
and such as that. It is something that cannot move freely, that
completely differently in England or in America. What can be
people who basically have the opposite attitude of what
the opinion prevailed that something new would have to come and to
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sections. What one can generally say concerning the whole
social organism, as well as references to what can occur in
the first two realms — namely that of the spiritual life
and that of the judicial, the body politic-was contained in
what I said.
You will have understood from that, how:preparing oneself for the
understand each other best if I say that the preparation
should be such that we try hard first to sense and then to
utter what is related to the spiritual life in a more lyrical
of speech, with quiet enthusiasm, so that one demonstrates
through the way of delivering the matters that everything one
that one is enthusiastic about what one envisions for the
something like that could be said. I say specifically,
“how, approximately, something like that could be
said,” for the reason that we should never commit
ourselves word for word; rather what we prepare is, in a
and we are certainly ready to re-formulate what we finally
to speak dramatically. That implies: when we lecture about
evident that on one hand we are speaking from the other
lecturing, that calls forth the impression in listeners that
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out and expanding upon what has been said; so you must
sale, where what has been left is finally brought out.
like most of all to say one must keep in mind that the
be very aware that he does not have a reader before him, but
repetition what is considered important, even indispensable,
for a grasp of the whole. Naturally, care must be taken that
such repetitions are varied, that the most important things
it that the different ways he phrases one and the same thing
aspect of speaking is, in general, something that must be
must remember that the artistic has its own means of
which can work in such a way that it forms a sort of
holding himself to one or another phrase and to hear what
giving him the feeling of release, and that aids
for something, brings in a question in such a way that he
statements. What does it mean to address one's listeners with
breathing-in, breathing-out. That is not only important for
indirectly, so that a sentence which falls during an
the fact that inhalation is engaged by a question being
What is said goes somewhat more deeply into the soul than if
that it removes the understanding from the organ of hearing.
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Goetheanum have laid repeated emphasis on the fact that the Spiritual
that is shed by Spiritual Science upon the problems of history. And so
is being said that the science of history is facing a crisis. Not so
it was held that history must be made into an ‘exact’ science
of external science, that all historical writings are inevitably coloured
abundantly evident that the presentation of objective facts and events
study of history. It is, of course, not to be denied that the measure of
part. Nevertheless, in spite of what our opponents choose to say to the
contrary, it is precisely in the study of history that a quality
the voice of objective truth, not that of subjective feeling, is speaking.
in spite of the fact that they are discovered by subjective effort.
usually is that thought in the nineteenth century developed along an
discover that this was by no means the case. About the middle of the
and idealistic aspirations, in spite of the fact that they were the
offspring of the kind of thought that had become habitual in the domain
examples will show that this changes entirely in the second half of the
scientific thought at that time who set themselves the task of clarifying
in upon eminent thinkers that the only way of approach to the problems
the gradual emergence of what, later on, became the burning social
mind, it is clear that he was a firm believer in the fact that knowledge
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nineteenth century thought and the spiritual life in general that
periods that are so very widely separated in point of time. But this
We drew attention to a distinguishing feature of that time. We placed
with another personality, that of the Gothic translator of the Bible,
that Augustine was altogether the child of the conditions which had
of the day. At that time men who sought a higher culture only found it
and feeling prevailing in the masses. But one must not think that there
the native stock left behind at an earlier stage of evolution than that
knows very little about it, but it was very like what was carried into
they were thus settled that they first experienced the southern oriental
had experienced at a much earlier time; they experienced what we can call
the people. It is only through spiritual science that this can be
peoples. What they worshipped were the ancestors of certain families.
but upon what was instinctively experienced as dreamlike clairvoyant
These people had a certain intensive inward sense that in what took place
only in the chemical retorts that cosmic processes work according to law,
to understand the laws of the universe, so these men too tried through what
was entirely an inner experience that was still closely bound up with
by what we might describe as the inward seething of the organism, there
we find that they were advanced spirits whose foremost task was to
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Title: Boundaries of Natural Science: Lecture I
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If nothing is within the reach of scientific research except what is in
calls on us to develop the organs of perception that go beyond these
result of what I believe to be an open-minded consideration of the needs
to human beings of all stations and classes an existence that seems
circles that social renewal must begin with a renewal of our thinking.
humane existence? That portion of humanity which has received an education
century, has been raised with certain ideas that are outgrowths of the
working in fields other than the sciences believe that natural science
that even in the newer, more progressive theology, in history and in
as those that arose from the scientific experiments of the last centuries,
so that traditional concepts have in a certain way been altered to conform
every turn it had in mind certain scientific conceptions that it wanted
about what one might call a transformation of the old social instincts
But what was this new
element that had entered into social science, into this favorite son of
modern thought? It was the conceptions, the new mode of thinking that had
world's rumbling, if we consider all the hopeless prospects that result
from the attempts that are made on the basis of these conceptions,
that we have acquired from natural science and now wish to apply to
our lives, concepts that — this has become clearly evident in
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If nothing is within the reach of scientific research except what is in
calls on us to develop the organs of perception that go beyond these
need to become fully human. And in just what way one can strive for
an answer, in what way the ignorabimus can be overcome to fulfil the
a cycle of lectures with a title such as ours that nothing be introduced
that might interfere with the objective presentation of ideas, I would
it becomes inevitable that one indicate the personalities with whom
since the question we want above all to answer is: what can be gleaned
from modern scientific theories that can become a vital social thinking
realize that the series of considerations one undertakes is no longer
world view and the dissolution of that world view, behind that which
something even more important. It is something that begins to impress
and in the philosophical literature with somewhat more respect than
that Eduard von Hartmann had been quite right in claiming that during
in the many volumes that sit in the libraries. Those who know Hegel
last few decades and had heard what was discussed there; anyone with
any sense for the source of the mode of thinking that had entered into
could see that this mode of thinking had originated with Hegel and flowed
find that the Hegelian mode of thinking had permeated to the farthest
reaches of Russian cultural life. One thus could say that, anonymously,
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If nothing is within the reach of scientific research except what is in
calls on us to develop the organs of perception that go beyond these
We have seen that one
the essential nature of consciousness. Yesterday we showed already what
happens at the one limit to knowledge. We have seen that man awakes
And what has happened in the spiritual evolution of humanity, in man's
nothing other than what happens every morning when we awake out of sleep
Now, we have seen that
comes into play, so that when we come up against the extended world
of the mind, a world into which there enters a creeping doubt, so that
seen that it is possible to guard against such a violation of this frontier
the phenomena themselves. We have also had to show that at this point
in our striving for knowledge something emerges that commends itself
to our use as an immediate necessity: mathematics and that part of mechanics
that can be comprehended without any empirical observation, i.e., the
us the system of concepts that allows us to enter into phenomena with
our souls, is entirely different from that employed when we experiment
What is the difference
those modes of apprehension that are not inward in this way by formulating
of forces. One theorem of analytical mechanics states that two angular
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If nothing is within the reach of scientific research except what is in
calls on us to develop the organs of perception that go beyond these
led us to conclude that at one boundary of cognition we must come to
a halt within phenomena and then permeate them with what the phenomena
It became apparent that the realm in which these ideas are most pure and
pellucid is that of mathematics and analytical mechanics.
then climaxed in showing how reflection reveals that everything present
the phenomena themselves and that his search for die archetypal phenomenon
that underlies complex phenomena is, inwardly, the same as the mathematician's
therefore, who himself admitted that he had no conventional mathematical
that he demanded a method for the determination of archetypal phenomena
rigorous enough to satisfy a mathematician. It is just this that the
Western wind finds so attractive in the Vedanta: that in its inner
That such connections are not uncovered by academic studier of the Vedanta
education. Those who engage in pursuits that then lead them into Oriental
grips with something that rests upon a firm foundation, that bears its
into our souls in the nebulous manner of certain mystics, what we attain
are actually nothing but certain reminiscences that have been stored
that the so-called “inner life” partakes of the nature of
front of a bookstore. In the store he saw a book that captured his attention
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Title: Boundaries of Natural Science: Lecture V
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If nothing is within the reach of scientific research except what is in
calls on us to develop the organs of perception that go beyond these
to come to terms with a number of things that actually can be understood
only if one is able to overcome certain prejudices that have long been
of what shall be said here today, and further substantiated tomorrow,
[Anschauung] of the spirit. You must consider that when the
know what mode of demonstration is demanded in these circles, and he
reason it is usually the case that when the demands of normal consciousness
the objections that can be raised. One could even go so far as to say
that he is only a spiritual scientist in the true sense of the word
— to the extent that he has subjected himself to the rigorous
demonstration that experimentation has made scientific habit, one shall
never attain knowledge that can benefit society. For in a scientific
experiment one proceeds — even if one cherishes the illusion that
it is otherwise — in such a way that one moves in a certain
direction and allows phenomena to confirm what lives within the ideas
the ideas that one has formulated as the natural laws of contemporary
translate them into a social science that can become truly practical,
and wait to see what one's ideas call forth when they are applied to
take regarding the two boundaries that arise within cognition —
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If nothing is within the reach of scientific research except what is in
calls on us to develop the organs of perception that go beyond these
consideration of what reveals itself at one boundary of scientific thinking
enters through Inspiration a spiritual world: he knows that he is in
this world and feels also that he is outside the body. I have shown
pathological skepticism and hypercriticism that pathological conditions
We can either turn to what opens a free, spiritual vision of the highest
error to believe that one could guard against this illness by electing
against the pathological states that I described yesterday — even
What is it, however, that
You need only follow somewhat man's development from birth to the change
of teeth and beyond in Order to realize that, besides the development
memory is interrupted, so that we cannot recall certain experiences
we have had, then a serious illness befalls us, for we feel that the
the path I have characterized we must take care not to lose what manifests
the power of soul that provides us with memory.
it metamorphoses itself. Then one comes to realize that in the moment
extraordinary — something that, since I present it to your mind's
eye for the First time, might seem paradoxical, yet that is fully grounded
what reveals itself to him in the spiritual world — he must perform
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If nothing is within the reach of scientific research except what is in
calls on us to develop the organs of perception that go beyond these
It is to be hoped that
furnish at least some indications of the difference between what spiritual
acquired through the conventional education that carries us up to a
certain stage in life and whatever this education has enabled us to
that anthroposophically oriented spiritual science terms knowledge of
self-development; one must become aware that in the later stages of
Eastern sages spoke of such an enhanced consciousness that renders accessible
to man a level of reality higher than that of everyday life; they strove
by means of an inner self-cultivation that corresponded to their racial
characteristics and evolutionary stage. The meaning of what radiates
only when one realizes what such a higher level of development reveals
in that epoch humanity had a kind of natural propensity to Inspiration,
it clear from the start, however, that this path can no longer be that
actually desires to turn back the tide of human evolution or shows that
of will, and we initially substantiate what surges within the soul as
perceptions, that our consciousness First fully awakens.
that the Eastern sages, the so-called initiates of the East, cultivated
the following. In certain ages of life we develop what we call the soul-spirit
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If nothing is within the reach of scientific research except what is in
calls on us to develop the organs of perception that go beyond these
linking him with his fellow men. He chose a path different from that
attempted not to understand through the word what one's fellow
man wished to say, what one wants to understand from him, but to live
repeated them, so that the forces accrued in the soul by this process
was achieved in the condition of the soul that might be called a state
of Inspiration, in the sense in which I have used the word, except that
I have described to you. I said that those Westerners who desire to
have evolved, so that one cannot simply renew the ancient Eastern path
into the spiritual worlds is that of Imagination. This faculty of
would like to describe the path into the spiritual world that conforms
way that it applies for everybody, above all for those who have not
super-sensible that is much more for the scientist. All my experience
has taught me that for such a scientist a kind of precondition for this
cognitional striving is to take up what is presented in my book,
I will explain what I mean by this. This
that the reader learns the book's contents in accordance with his education,
only a kind of musical score that one must read with inner thought activity
of the reader. Moreover, the book presupposes that which the soul becomes
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Title: Anthro Medical Therapy: Lecture I
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year's course, so that it will really complement it and
the human being. I will try to show what these substances
really are that can be used as remedies, and to show how a
substances — and in general what is physical — as
fundamental fact: we must be quite clear that we cannot
proceed from what is material in the way customary in current
environment and what happens to him in health and illness. We
substance, we must picture that the substance appearing in
we have not grasped what is essential if we merely form a
We grasp what is essential only if we take into account the
very comprehensive process that exists as an individual
a kind of equilibrium, manifesting then as what we behold as
human being and processes that unfold outside in the
to present to you in an introductory way something that can
system, we know that it is chiefly concentrated in the head
but that it nevertheless extends throughout the human being.
the head itself. Thus we can think of what we call the
“limb man” with that of the “metabolic
organism that corresponds primarily to the nerve-sense man.
The organization of the head differs essentially from that of
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I said yesterday that we would study the
Yesterday we described the physical body in such a way that
we concluded that a truly physical activity in the human
For if one looks deeply into the human being, one finds that
first leave their imprints — that is, the etheric,
that can be compared with a fixed image; rather we have to do
of forces is a different one. I pointed out yesterday that
There is a great deal that, from the viewpoint of spiritual
science's evasions regarding these matters that show us very
to offer an example, I will present an issue that will be
almost everywhere it is stated that the amount of nitrogen
data demonstrate that actually more nitrogen is exhaled than
that this etheric body is not studied in its differentiations
conviction that this etheric body exists, you will have to
ask, “What would it be like if one studied the physical
body in such a way that the stomach, heart, liver, etc., were
really be studied, and we will see today that a conception to
find that it is not undifferentiated but that it arises out
ether, and life ether. Light ether is a term that is formed,
see, the aspect of this ether that is connected with light is
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diseases in those illnesses that reveal most clearly the
deficiencies in the art of medicine that were especially
for a careful study of what we must stress today.
with both. The fact is that the head organization has to be
yesterday that the astral is the original bearer of all that
tendencies that produce illness to have an influence, because
human being is like that of a pendulum swinging back and
the forces of illness that are continually present, and the
reverse is also true, that overflowing health, which would
effects — the sources that must then be eliminated when
that one had to remain with pathology and not even approach
accomplished through mere knowledge of what is going on in
do not mean that absolutely nothing can be accomplished, but
literal sense — with what the diagnosis reveals. The
things, of course, I have to present them somewhat radically,
actual situation to a mystical concept — a concept that
a sack to be filled with what one does not want to understand
and what — in a certain respect — eludes medical
physician. He felt that this experience forced him to such a
unable to prescribe what he should prescribe for them,
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Yesterday I said that certain complexes of
that are condensed in the process of falling asleep. To fall
asleep inadequately always indicates that the astral body is
phenomena in the waking state that accompany this inadequate
falling asleep. We then may notice that everything revealing
fingers and the like — any movement that is not an
must be acquired so that one understands how to relate ertain
unfolding of astrality always arises when a movement that
— that is, a movement dependent on the ego — is
This is what we are dealing with in fidgety movements. Thus
add that in patients who fall asleep inadequately there is
always an underlying irregularity that cannot be countered by
connected with what I had to say yesterday about magnetic and
encounter a complex of symptoms that can be grouped together
valuable here. Everything that remains as force in root
hand, everything that I described yesterday will play a
inadequately always shows that the astral body enters too
different from what it means in generalized diseases of the
entire astral body. This has to do with what I said about the
find something accompanying the waking process, what might be
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will not be possible to speak properly about what one must
today we will study a few of those things that can guide us
physical body. I have already mentioned that, by means of a
mineralizing process in the organs. And if we notice that the
vitally, developing life forces that are too strong, then the
even designate something that occurs inside the human being
by means of an outer process that has a certain affinity with
clearly that the human organism has within itself, as a
system of forces, that which lies in the metals. This
environment is certainly present; certain processes that
itself active within in the way that arsenic is active
organism, you will notice that when it is too active it finds
processes that occur with too great a facility. All this is
This is certainly something that ought to be observed.
question is: What can we do if this “arsenizing”
(or “astralizing”) process is too strong, that is
I may express myself radically, I would say that then one
something that can give us many clues into the mysterious
described. This is something that leads us deeply into the
left to themselves. The expression of this condition is that
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Title: Anthro Medical Therapy: Lecture VI
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I said yesterday that these studies are
mentioning something that can suggest a great deal regarding
and we find we are wrong, that it cannot be so. This is an
one actually was. What is discovered by imaginative
provided, of course, that it is based on sound powers of
through — if I may put it so — to what one comes
be realized that this human organism is complicated to the
highest degree, so that in fact an intellectual grasp of it
Earlier in these lectures, I reported that nitrogen is found
difference as unimportant. The reason for this is that the
You know that
the most varied theories exist about nutrition and that,
views regarding the question: ”What is the function in
organism need protein?” Some say that the structure of
constant, and that the protein absorbed undergoes rapid
hold the view — regarded somewhat out of date today
— that the proteinaceous body of the human being is
pay enough attention to it. Without taking into account what
in the build-up of man that are so important in therapeutic
that also has forces of head formation within it, though to a
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describing how the idea forms in me that this or that can be
this or that substance can be used as a remedy. I would like
to direct the discussion today in such a way that we
the view that something can be used as a remedy.
must be stated at the outset that an acquaintance with the
sense. Thus you will also see that what I have said in the
proceed from the fact that the interaction between the human
must realize that something shaped out of the whole cosmos is
days. This process that tends particularly to shaping the
process that is bound to the more-or-less inner forces of the
harbors many of the forces that interact with the forces of
the earth itself. There is a deep kinship between that which
process that takes place in root formation in plants, it must
always be realized that this process has a reciprocal
expression. Therefore in the root we will find forces that
words, the root's forces are somewhat weak, a great deal is
Nevertheless, the whole form of the blossom shows that the
should expect gentian to act on what supports breathing from
polaric, we must imagine that especially the digestive organs
we must keep in mind what we have learned in these lectures
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various topics I would like to add to what I have already
like to begin by saying that processes related to the mineral
element that affect the human being can be interpreted
which one object passes directly into the other, so that it
being. We have spoken of the fact that in the head formation
imprint, and an ego imprint. We said that the ego essentially
of lead we have a force of nature that is extraordinarily
it has effects that are the polar opposite as well.
soul-spiritual in the human being, that is everything that
Everything that arises in lead poisoning tends to destroy the
What in greater quantities acts destructively in the upper
cannot easily understand that what can make a person ill in
when we say: what makes a person ill when working in large
regarding everything that should work from below upward, that
that one may, on the one hand, restore the individual to his
could say that one brings about a cure for what the
what he ought to do organically for himself during life. The
opposes this weakening, that is, it strengthens the forces
what is really taking place in the human being.
is that the earth actually produces them. In salt processes
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What I have to say to you today about
with, we will look at that extra-human cosmic process usually
explored with respect to what is inwardly active. Just
consider that “earth formation” means that a
planetary sphere and that in addition a formative impulse
into the earth emanates from what lies even beyond the
from outside what is on the earth and in the earth. It is,
for example, a fact that the metals of the earth, in their
and gather them around a center so that the earth can come
comprehension of this process if you imagine that with the
assimilation of what is secreted by other processes; in
inside. Thus what is active in between can best be called
you think that, on the one hand, something is present here
and that there is something
develops further, then perception goes back towards what is
consolidating; if what is consolidating becomes conscious it
goes towards what has become, and ascends into becoming again
towards becoming. So, what one develops as perception and
will see that something is active in the human organism in a
reverse direction in creating and becoming from what one gets
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Title: The Building at Dornach: Lecture I
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stopping at first impressions. It runs somewhat as follows.
conclude at first sight as a matter of course that he
the mark. Closer inspection might reveal that the man had
one had made it his business to find out what actually
history — the apparently logical conclusion that the
that not only men but also the world of facts may quite
compared with the beginning of that era which sprang from a
Building attempts something similar to what was attempted
during the happenings of that transitional period from a
wish to learn from life, and, what is more, to learn the
symptoms, particularly with one that has so deeply moved us?
nothing more than that a cart had fallen over. For hours,
that was the sole impression — but what was the truth
of the matter? The truth was that an eloquent karma in the
life of a human being was enacted; that this life so full of
promise was in that moment karmically rounded off, having
science, it is a plainly evident fact that this particular
themselves; that the cart was guided to the spot in order
that this karma might be worked out, and overturned in order
we raise our thoughts more fittingly to that human life with
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Title: The Building at Dornach: Lecture II
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Dornach Building. This means that endeavours must be made to
spiritual-scientific investigations that have come before our
spoke here I drew your attention to clues that help us to
I said that in
speaking, what has come about since the dawn of the Fourth
Post-Atlantean epoch (the Greco-Latin age), and also what has
that is new has been achieved in the Fourth Poet-Atlantean
epoch of culture and in the part of the Fifth that has
to feel it — there still live elements that have come
say, in their nerves and blood, elements that have come over
epoch in which we are living is so constituted that his
nerves, blood and astral body contain what he has received as
authoritative; what comes from above into the impulses of men
that works from below upwards, and illustrates as can be
above we can indicate the force that works downwards from the
less power than what man bears within him from ancient
— have absorbed into their culture everything that is
manifest what lives in the impulses of the blood and the
referred to everything that came over from ancient times
impulses in such a way that the forces striving upwards from
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outset that at the present time it is to all appearances
please, that in these lectures I am not speaking specifically
of States but of cultures, and am saying here that the
Austria we see immediately that it would be absurd to speak
responsible for the fact that the culture of the German
population of Germany, and that of the German population of
Austria, which has indeed many connections with that of
If we ask: What
sense as the question: What is French? What is English? What
— never knows in any particular period under what
definition he stands. What he would necessarily express if he
significant that when during Germany's period of distress
the striving of an inhabitant of Middle Europe a trait that
“be” something — so that in Middle Europe a
become what he is. What he is to become hovers before him as
becoming, being that is never stationary,
distance what it desires to become.
be said that the work that is so essentially characteristic
Serpent-entwined! This means, striving with the wisdom that
is undetermined, the wisdom that is forming? in process of
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occurred to some of you that mention has not been made of all
pillar of that of France; the fourth of that of the British
said that the cultures already referred to are the simpler
cultures, however strange that may seem; they are simpler at
of the third column, and then also at that of the fifth,
column from the West and look at it through that of the
that the principle has been explained, it might be very
leave that to your own occult studies.
artistic content have arisen in such a way that one can
What I now have
of its very essence is that forces are present entirely apart
the whole. What belongs to the motif in addition is a set of
accept forms of experience in the same way that he accepts
forms of the intellect. I will tell you what I mean by a form
for such a motif and what it expresses? This can be done in
That is an
the lying position into that of standing and walking. When
presses upon what is underneath. So pressure is always being
but for all that, it is there; it is connected with your
the earth. It is here that he is very well able to be aware
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Title: The Building at Dornach: Lecture V
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apparent to you from many things that have been said here
recently that the art in our Building must contain a new
element that has not hitherto existed in the evolution of art
according to the standard of what he has hitherto regarded as
express what is entailed by this renewal of the principle of
original Egyptian, Greek or Gothic architecture, or what
represents the renewal in a later age of what was there in an
arts with what is aimed at in our Building, we can say;
Everything that has been brought into being hitherto is like
This is what we
with what we have aimed at in our Building. In time, of
inward and simpler again towards the small cupola. What was
brought into movement. What formerly was at rest is now in
to achieve what must be the goal.
there are two poles. The one pole is that of drawing, the
other that of colour, Fundamentally speaking, there are these
draftsman — that is to say, he may have the gift of
his subject, so that a picture of this form-quality is evoked
clear that anyone who concentrates on the actual drawing in a
means for giving expression to what is inherent in a living
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Title: Ways/Architecture: Lecture I: The Acanthus Leaf
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A thought that
may often arise in connection with this building is that of
been, will realise that the only fit response is a strong
of the whole structure, for no conception of that is possible
yet — will realise that this building represents many
deviations from other architectural styles that have hitherto
attained. In comparison to what might be, we shall only be
about in the wider future of humanity. We must realise that
be made, especially by so-called ‘experts,’ that
disconcert us, for it lies in the nature of things that
shall not, however, be depressed by derogatory criticism that
that in our age, the origin of the Arts and of their
that all we are striving to attain in this building stands
understanding of what was once implied by the phrase
to-day by considering a well-known motif in art — that
very different form from anything that existed in the days
permitted a brief personal reference here, let me say that my
the buildings which have given that city its present stamp,
Votivkirche. It is perhaps not known to you that the
so that I was able to live, as it were, in the whole
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can be reminded of this responsibility by studies that arise
moved by the thought that our human faculties are not really
think it is healthy and good that all our work should be
permeated by the feeling that we have not as yet grown equal
highest that lies within our power. We shall be able to
feeling that we are, in truth, little qualified for the full
do nearly enough in comparison with what ought to be
indefinable feeling — a presentiment that a mighty task
building to our friend Rychter and his workers, in order that
they may create something that in the fairest sense may be a
room through this door, our feeling will be that we are
that apart from all the cares and troubles which the building
We feel that a mystery is there around us, calling out to the
that transcends personality. This building can teach us how
us a feeling that can ring in such sacred tones in the soul:
tasks before us in the objective world.' All that can ever be
thinking of what our feeling should be as we enter. How often
the mission that such buildings will have to humanity, if
our building will do, that we are enclosed as if by organs of
sense. The reason for this is that these other buildings are
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means of further study, really to become one with what is to
place I should like to remind you of what I said when we
will just briefly recapitulate what I was then only able to
the Greek Temple, I said that in a certain sense it formed a
Temple was the fact that every man engaged in his daily
pursuits on the land knew that within the region where he was
fact that man, as he lived on the earth, was also united with
evidence of progress in architectural thought, in that the
expresses the fact that when man is to rise to the Spirit he
Church of Christendom, therefore, could no longer be what the
that a real advance in architectural conception must come to
pass again in our times and that this is only possible if the
conception of architecture onwards to that of Gothic building
complete union with the Spirit. This means that buildings
‘All that is embodied in our life of soul through
that is created. The Spirit is revealed in freedom, having
land as the result of what the Spirit expresses in its
this requires that we endeavour to understand the Spirit in
the Spirit symbolically, but by beginning to feel that the
forms are living, that they are organs of speech flowing from
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in our building. From all that has been said you will have
gathered that these forms are no more the result of imitation
feeling will have been that the forms have been derived from
made, namely, that human life runs its course in periods of
seven years, we may say that after each period a certain
be remembered that in man these supports are intermingled,
that when we pass through the building from the West towards
the East, all that works upon us from left and right is a
that there are firmly established cosmic laws of which man is
furthermore that the forms in our building have been evolved
question merely proves that life has afforded him no
We can allow subjects that may prove fruitful to enter
to speak of one matter that will help to stimulate our
perception of what underlies the laws of true aesthetic form,
evoke a concrete perception of what I have here mentioned in
going to place before you something that corresponds to a
course only be diagrammatical. Let us suppose that this
the heavenly bodies. That, however is not the point at issue.
that is to say, with what they represent
remarkable thing is that in the first moments of vision we
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Title: Ways/Architecture: Lecture V: The Creative World of Colour
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bring before the soul many things that impress us when we
fact that he was a poet, that he had created this or that
particular work of art, but that he always created from a
Our age is very far from understanding this full manhood that
that has entered into the study of science, which is indeed
specialisation in science is that which has crept into modern
that there shall again come into existence a comprehensive
us in the eyes of the world, saying, for instance, that we
our buildings a form that we consider suitable to our work.
— that is how people express it. In certain circles
some extent in the fact that the soul can unfold a higher ego
justified in chattering about these psychic matters no matter
answers to questions that arise in our own souls.
attention to the fact that he certainly possessed great
see what was lacking in him. He wanted to draw ideas, to
Dante lived within a culture that teemed with import —
a culture that penetrated into and at the same time
only to draw his material, his substance, from something that
culture of that time — however much it may have fallen
element that was living in all human souls, even down to the
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Title: Art of Lecturing: Lecture I
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opinion, that, in this course we are now starting, it is [a
question of] a discussion of what is necessary in order really
who receive what can come from Anthroposophy simply as a kind
difficult to spread the insight that this activity is really
civilization that there is general talk around things —
that people do not pick up concrete tasks — that they
discuss as regards content), in such a way that they might
for a definite task — so that they can then link up
word so as to take into consideration, that he who sets
reporting what is incorrect if — as is so popular
nowadays — one set down what I shall say both today and
soul-forces play, so that when we think, there are also
What we think
interests nobody else, and whoever believes that his thoughts
gathering, or even one other person, this willing that we
that act of will, we would find that we had called up, not
people, they would walk out. That must be the fundamental
that this is so when we consider a general conversation among
speaking of what should fill our souls, of what should live
lectures, the fact is that he lectures for the most part not
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souls that it is difficult to make oneself understood. And,
without this feeling — that it is difficult to make
that is connected with it, in a way satisfying to ourselves.
from what one is accustomed to in accordance with the
of all have to make quite clear to ourselves what the content
of the matter is that comes towards us in Anthroposophy and
anthroposophical and related matters, so that what I have to
make clear to ourselves that primarily it is the feeling for
the central issue of the threefold order that must at first
assumed that an audience of today does not begin to know what
would say, too fixed for one to believe that, in the end, it
people how this or that substance reacts in a retort, then
one then lectures this way or that way — a bit better,
tended to come to the point that such lectures and such talks
are attended in order to see the experimenting, and what is
things somewhat radically, just in order to show the exact
matter of what to stimulate in people for doing, for willing,
one is of the opinion that one must just “set up
happened in many an instance that many people who lecture
opinion, through the manner in which they speak, that it is
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Title: Art of Lecturing: Lecture III
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material for a lecture so that it can be divided up —
so that one is as it were placed in the position of giving
really be understood. This or that may appeal to the listener
that is, calling to mind as much as possible everything one
That will in
that, as will indeed naturally be the case, one can
a, — so that one is to a certain extent independent of
to the paper, will determine only that he who is dependent
upon the paper will speak somewhat better. But one can of
which ensue to the point that these things can stand before
an example, that we want to hold a lecture on the threefold
subject itself. I say that for this example. If one lives
outset, is given that which yields us three members in the
that it makes sense to speak about these things at all, about
what is to be understood by a free spiritual life, by a
connecting to that which is to hand in the greatest measure
present — what can therefore be observed the most
will one connect with what is known.
classes. I stress this for the reason that as a lecturer one
Now, what will
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Title: Art of Lecturing: Lecture IV
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or that time.
in America. What can be done from here, in Europe, in regard
the opposite attitude of what existed, for instance, in
that something new would have to come, and to begin with it
would suffice if one knew what this were. There wasn't the
strength to comprehend it, but there was the feeling that
what this rational innovation might be, ought to be known.
the traditional foundations. I am aware, of course, that when
There, the feeling that things cannot continue the way they
future. This means that he has to make use of the time when
the theater. Thus, the lecturer must be absolutely clear that
he is speaking to an audience that, according to the mood of
must he aware of what one is really doing, down to the last
For, what does
such a mood that one can present a serious talk, at least
one neutralizes what one inflicts on the stomach in the time
specialists. It is just that there are no statistics
concepts” requires much that has to be characterized in
afterwards, “Oh, that Dessoir didn't respond after all!
no opinion on what another lecturer says!’ ”
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Title: Art of Lecturing: Lecture V
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sections. What one can generally say concerning the whole
social organism, as well as references to what can occur in
the first two realms — namely that of the spiritual life
and that of the judicial, the body politic was contained in
what I said.
You will have understood from that, how preparing oneself for
understand each other best if I say that the preparation
should be such that we try hard first to sense and then to
utter what is related to the spiritual life in a more lyrical
of speech, with quiet enthusiasm, so that one demonstrates
through the way of delivering the matters that everything one
that one is enthusiastic about what one envisions for the
something like that could be said. I say specifically,
“how, approximately, something like that could be
said,” for the reason that we should never commit
ourselves word for word; rather what we prepare is, in a
and we are certainly ready to re-formulate what we finally
to speak dramatically. That implies: when we lecture about
evident that on one hand we are speaking from the other
lecturing, that calls forth the impression in listeners that
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Title: Art of Lecturing: Lecture VI
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out and expanding upon what has been said; so you must
sale, where what has been left is finally brought out.
like most of all to say one must keep in mind that the
be very aware that he does not have a reader before him, but
repetition what is considered important, even indispensable,
for a grasp of the whole. Naturally, care must be taken that
such repetitions are varied, that the most important things
it that the different ways he phrases one and the same thing
aspect of speaking is, in general, something that must be
must remember that the artistic has its own means of
which can work in such a way that it forms a sort of
holding himself to one or another phrase and to hear what
giving him the feeling of release, and that aids
for something, brings in a question in such a way that he
statements. What does it mean to address one's listeners with
breathing-in, breathing-out. That is not only important for
indirectly, so that a sentence which falls during an
the fact that inhalation is engaged by a question being
What is said goes somewhat more deeply into the soul than if
that it removes the understanding from the organ of hearing.
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Title: Christmas Conference: Lecture 1: Introduction to the Eurythmy Performance
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instance eurythmy is that art which has originated entirely
the case that every artistic activity which was to bring
find that the impulses visible in the external course of
is as a matter of course that a special art has arisen out of
necessary to understand that art must be born out of the
able to link what he receives through Inspiration so
intensely with his own being that he becomes capable of
extraordinarily similar to Inspiration. We might say that
what we bear in our soul when we speak resembles Intuition;
and what lies on our tongue, in our palate, comes out between
the origin of what we push outwards from our inner soul life
what gives us as little children our first opportunity to
soul is what we have in the physical movement of arms, hands
space around us are what gives us a sense of the world. And
then whatever we experience in doing this streams back to us.
that what in speech resembles Inspiration can descend into
Imagination. We can call back something that is a gift to our
can recall it and let it stream back, asking: What kind of
feelings, what kind of sensations stream outwards in our
We shall always discover that an Ah arises
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Title: Christmas Conference: Lecture 2: The Opening of the Christmas Foundation Conference, by Rudolf Steiner
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rightness of this — that it will be significant for the
we shall always remain aware that we have been accepted here
importance of the fact that we have taken our place here on
Swiss soil with our Goetheanum and with everything that seeks
the fact that the Goetheanum, as the central point of the
words that are so warm and so filled with beautiful love you
such warmth. I am quite sure that your kind words will shine
that we shall owe you most cordial gratitude for the feeling
an atmosphere as beautiful as that now moving among us. Your
know that I speak from the bottom of every heart, now that
in which you have provided the prelude for what is to take

Title: Christmas Conference: Lecture 3: Rudolf Steiner's Opening Lecture and Reading of the Statutes
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Dornach your eyes fell on our place of work, but what you saw
In the truest sense of the word this sight is a symbol that
years. We could say that a large proportion of the impulses,
years of work are indeed tied up in all that can be gathered
that all those who toiled
What can we
be said that the flames which our physical eyes saw a year
our soul. And in spirit we see that in fact these flames glow
over much of what we have been building up during the last
has to be said that nothing else at present can so clearly
show us the truth of the ancient oriental view that the
the sense that the heap of ruins with which we are faced is
maya and illusion, and that much of what immediately
door. I have no hesitation in saying that the outer shelter
yesterday that our friends felt the cold dreadfully in this
may be regarded as maya and illusion in what has come to meet
and illusion, the more shall we develop that mood of active
here in the very soil of Dornach and all that belongs to it.
that one day they may stand before the world as fully matured
fruits as a result of what we want to do for them.
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Title: Christmas Conference: Lecture 4: The Laying of the Foundation Stone
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this room today be those which sum up the essence of what may
so that out of the signs of the present time we may renew, in
friends! Today when I look back specifically to what it was
sure that if man learns to know in his feeling and in his
will what he is actually doing when, as the spirits of the
world of space, that then — not in a suffering, passive
on the earth — that then in this active grasping of the
sure that if man understands the miraculous mystery holding
rhythms of pulse and blood — we may hope that, grasping
this in wisdom with a heart that has become a sense organ,
rhythm that takes place mysteriously in soul and spirit
feeling, the human being rightly perceives what is revealed
that it has become concentrated in the abstract ego-point or
the ancient Greeks were permitted to believe that they spoke
say this, we have understood what lies at the foundation of
the depths, in a substance that gives form, then in the
of the Father, the creative activity of the Father that
into the soil of our souls so that it may remain there a
and so that in the future working of the Anthroposophical
Anthroposophical Society, formed today. In all that we shall
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Title: Christmas Conference: Lecture 5: The Foundation Meeting, 25 December, 11.15 a.m.
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gratitude and enthusiasm for the fact that the Goetheanum,
to verify that it will do everything in its power to ensure
that the inexhaustible abundance of spiritual impulses given
national Societies it wants to hope that the pure and
as that we have just heard to a time which will arise
It seems that
agreement with all the statements that have been made and
that the Anthroposophical Society in Germany will incorporate
every point of these Statutes into its own Statutes and that
as that in Germany can participate in and wants to
participate in what is wanted by Dornach. Ever since Dr.
saying that what took place in Dornach was seen as the
central point of all our work. Whatever else needs to be said
Let me just say, however, that in recent months we have begun
are many, agree without reservation that even in the smallest
places there is a genuine interest in Anthroposophy, that
everywhere hearts are waiting for Anthroposophy, and that
wherever it is clearly and openly stated that the speaker
world by Dr. Steiner it is really so that people feel: I am
reminded that I have a soul and that this soul is beginning
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Title: Christmas Conference: Lecture 6: Meeting of the Vorstand and the General Secretaries
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Hohlenburg asks what is meant by: ‘Only for those for whom it
adding that this refers not only to the group not agreeing to
person who is convinced that he cannot thrive in a particular
only for the reason that we are having proper membership
membership card which is somewhat larger and which commands a
a circular to the individual groups letting them know that
denied this right. All that can be done is to make efforts to
Should we make efforts to bring it about that individuals who
something that can give us a certain degree of support.
that a South American Society should be planned. For the
Society being what it is, it is of course the case that from
way that is necessitated by human factors. Take Paragraph 14
Would you not agree that this implies that if the South
not by us here but that it would be sent to them from Germany?
the opinion that things should not remain confined to paper.
The things that are written in the Members' Supplement are
Dornach so that anthroposophical life can flourish as much as
informs the meeting that the South American Society had
Dr. Steiner: What is contained in point 5
overall leadership is concerned. Everything that belongs to
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Title: Christmas Conference: Lecture 7: Continuation of the Foundation Meeting, 26 December, 10 a.m.
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midst of these reports, words to which I am moved by what has
what we have been told we may gather how very devoted is the
work being carried on out there. We may add what we were told
may see what can encourage us during this Conference not to
suggest that we give it a certain definite direction. During
not mean that we shall have to discuss it a great deal during
the Conference, for it is in our hearts that this fundamental
about the fact that our Society, before all others, will be
Society, to prepare for the achievement of the things that
feel in all our deeds that we are connected with the
be that out of the strength of Anthroposophy itself it is
What I am
discover that there would soon be an increasingly inimical
be the inimical concern for us on the part of everything that
with courage we find the straight path to what we should do
which surge and break around it. What we should do is the
and over again what we must do to make ourselves better liked
by this circle or by that circle in the world, by any circle
we should behave in this field or in that field so as to be
seriously if at every moment in whatever we do we feel
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Title: Christmas Conference: Lecture 8: Continuation of the Foundation Meeting, 27 December, 10 a.m.
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before our souls a rhythm so that we may gradually press
inner soul connection with these that I have already written
my dear friends, that if you pay attention to the inner
rhythms that lie in these verses, if you then present these
Statutes. To start with let me draw your attention to what
to be considered would be the fact that in future the
another. It will be less a matter of knowing that there is a
not only centrifugal forces but also centripetal forces that
that a number of members unite themselves closely in their
soul with the Vorstand in everything that might concern not
the Vorstand in order to communicate back all that goes on
things are recognized. So it will have to be arranged that
important that we make our arrangements on the basis of
effort to make arrangements in the future that arise out of
the real forces of the Society, out of the forces that exist
can be seen from their context that they can work. So it
seems to me that it would be a good thing to be clear at
writing to us every week about what they consider noteworthy
in cultural life outside in the world and about what might be
externally supporting Vorstand that is exactly equivalent to
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Title: Christmas Conference: Lecture 9: Continuation of the Foundation Meeting, 28 December, 10 a.m.
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now on we shall make sure that our friends will find the
that it will no longer be quite so cold in the outer room. It
believe me when I say that the conditions are the least
that we can avoid too much trouble in the coming days.
rhythm into our souls, the rhythm that can show us closely
This is the activity that can be accomplished within one's
own soul. It corresponds to what out there in the great
That is the process within, which is answered out there in
have now come to point 4. I believe that it cannot be our
seems to me that any debate on the various points should
suggestion is made that the Statutes should be adopted by
Paragraph is in the main concerned with the fact that quite
the world as an entirely public society. And everything that
to become members, conscious of the fact that in the
impulses that ought to be given to the Anthroposophical
had the opportunity of realizing quite well that in the
role will have to be played by the capacities that lie in the
fundamental feature of what will be at work with regard to
before the world in a way that shows how it can inspire the
think along any given lines. What is meant by thinking along
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Title: Christmas Conference: Lecture 10: Rudolf Steiner's Contribution During The Meeting of the Swiss School Association
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to what I took the liberty of saying at the close of the last
to me that things do in part indeed depend on how the
seen, therefore, whether what is to be started in England as
classes that already exists in Holland, will also to begin
everything else it has to be said that the reason why these
be expected that they will remain so for a long time, is
simply that the present social circumstances really do make
it impossible for an attitude to come about that could lead
represented by the state. And now that the Swiss school
believe that the chief difficulties will arise from this
belief that a truly independent school could be an example
for a model method of education, or that schools such as this
to a system of education that is independent of the state is
what Herr Gnädiger has just said is right, namely that
interest in the school other than that pertaining to its
such that he would like to influence Swiss state schools to
school. But this seems to me to be the only aspect that can
be counted on to attract interest here in Switzerland. That
mentioned are founded; and also that many such associations
aspect is that the crux of anthroposophical education is its
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Title: Christmas Conference: Lecture 11: Meeting of the Vorstand of the General Anthroposophical Society
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into account in the hope that a satisfactory arrangement can
we must take into account that basically they can all be
tact. The Swiss members felt that the others talked much too
much, that they themselves had not been able to get a word in
and that people from elsewhere had given them all kinds of
Switzerland. The whole matter obviously stems from that
As I was in the chair at that meeting of delegates I know how
what I hope from today's meeting. Who would like to
DR STEINER: That is quite right. The
should also like to add that the whole matter has been put on
whole it becomes obvious that part of the trouble at the
stemmed from the fact that at that time the German council saw
and behaved accordingly. This was what hurt the feelings of
do hope that these matters of tact will be settled in the
the Swiss Anthroposophical Society. This is what we ought to
Anthroposophical Society in Switzerland is something that can
I believed that a solution could be found. You will agree
that for external and internal reasons the branch at the
separate from the Swiss Society. But I thought that the
way that the branch would have neither a seat nor a vote, or
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Title: Christmas Conference: Lecture 12: Continuation of the Foundation Meeting, 29 December, 10 a.m.
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when we depart and carry out with us what is intended
What in the depths is echoed
What through the West is formed
What in the heights will be granted
What takes place in the soul of man is
points to what is heard in the call to the Seraphim, Cherubim
What in the depths is echoed.
depths of the grounds of world existence, and how what is
inspired from above and what resounds from below, the
What through the West is formed.
What in the heights will be granted.
What in the depths is echoed.
What through the West is formed.
What in the heights will be granted.
Anthroposophical Society urgently requests that he may
(unclear) that the significance of this laying of the
friends, I now consider that for the moment the Vorstand has
put before you the main concerns that had to be brought to
discussions, is that our dear friends should have a chance to
express what they wanted to say. Here is a list of those who
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Title: Christmas Conference: Lecture 13: Continuation of the Foundation Meeting, 30 December, 10 a.m.
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dear friends, let us bring together what can speak in man in
the heart of man only by that which actually made its
Light that gives warmth
Light that enlightens
That good may become
What we from our hearts would found
What we from our heads would direct
That good may become
What we from our hearts would found,
What we from our heads would direct
That good may become
What we from our hearts would
What we from our heads would
completes what Herr Pusch had wanted to say the day before on
to add to what I have said so often. I truly believe that an
fruits of the seeds of Penmaenmawr. We may believe that the
anywhere else, conditions that were necessary for the success
picture of Mr Dunlop is that of the man about whom it is
always said that he is coming and then he doesn't come. But
well, so well that I only wish he were here today so that we
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Title: Christmas Conference: Lecture 14: Meeting of practising doctors, 31 December 1923 at 8.30 in the morning
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Light that gives warmth
Light that enlightens
That good may become
What we from our hearts would found
What we from our heads would direct
We imprint it in such a way that we especially relate to
Sun of Christ shine forth so that like shining suns they can
importance that a truly anthroposophical method should be
the source of the great resistance of our time that has been
spiritual-scientific view, you will find that this resistance
research existing in the world will have been removed. That
seen that quiet work is going on amongst us on scientific
questions and that it is indeed possible to provide out of
Anthroposophy a stimulus for science in a way that is truly
think about it, you will come to realize what a tremendous
years we shall come to the result that we need, which is that
practical daily life in such realms as the production of what
say that the progress of mankind has always gone forward at a
slow pace and that there is not likely to be any difference
happen that in fifty or seventy-five years' time the chance
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Title: Christmas Conference: Lecture 15: The Idea of the Future Building in Dornach
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Everything that
me to the opinion that there is no other way but to proceed
me that this Goetheanum must be erected in such a way as to
For is it not so that, in considering all the possibilities,
we must look, might I say, through the walls, that is through
well that what I am about to put to you will be met, out of
believe that the situation will prove me right when I say
that the best way to proceed will be to plan for a Goetheanum
This would not be a good thing to do. So I do believe that
be as resistant as possible to damage such as that which
ourselves somewhat. But I believe that just because of this
we can be all the more certain of achieving what was pointed
that above all a spiritual Goetheanum must exist here as soon
not forget that this new Goetheanum is to be built in a
But though I still believe that this style might
shall come back not to a circular building but to one that is
the intention in the small building lower down the hill that
It is built in a different material, but it shows that an
such a way that it would have a lower level — a ground
Anthroposophical Society, so that this can be carried out
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Title: Christmas Conference: Lecture 16: Open Discussion of Swiss Delegates
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DR STEINER: I am somewhat surprised by
from that, if we are to enter into a provisional arrangement
as General Secretary for Switzerland? It seems to me that if
preventing Herr Steffen is the fact that he is a member of
that we in principle maintain the incompatibility while you
Society. It would then be that the Swiss Society comes to the
that it is an obvious thing for the central Vorstand to be
members have no fear for their independence in that they
suggests that the choice of General Secretary be left to the
esoteric secrets by saying that it is extremely difficult to
with Herr Steffen and myself. And then what Frau Professor
chosen. What she said was that the Swiss Society was in an
so on, and that therefore it would be important for the
rather think that now the person's popularity will be all
that matters. But would anyone else like to say
believes that it is perhaps not necessary to have a General
DR STEINER: Would not people prefer that a person be
nominated by the meeting so that the various administrative
this? I would like to hear what people think.
DR STEINER: Now that we are making a new
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Title: Christmas Conference: Lecture 17: The Envy of the Gods - The Envy of Human Beings
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means place what is to be the content of today's lecture
the soul of man, the human spirit, and all that belongs to
it, with all that can be discovered on the path outwards into
not only the wide realm of the stars but also into what
to write down on the blackboard in that hall which was taken
from us so soon afterwards, that last thing was intended to
raise the human soul up into spiritual heights. On that very
evening the link was made with that to which our Goetheanum
though in a continuation of that lecture given here a year
ago, let me begin by speaking about that to which the link
that is if there was talk in super-sensible realms about the
what was said went, in essence, like this: In the Mysteries,
things in the ancient world were generally aware that in the
and that all that carries and maintains the world depends on
what takes place in the Mysteries between gods and human
manifold words that have come down to us from olden times,
have described, I do believe that this is one of the most
used to describe anything that lived as a super-sensible being
mankind that the human being in his inmost nature has come
time of Ephesus we find that indeed the more advanced human
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Title: Christmas Conference: Lecture 18: Continuation of the Foundation Meeting, 1 January, 10 a.m.
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what is to inspire us and bring us strength during this
What in the depths is echoed
What through the West is formed
What in the heights will be granted
rhythms that go through the world. An image of primeval
will find this advice here. That is what I would like to say

Title: Christmas Conference: Lecture 19: The Rebuilding of the Goetheanum
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remarks to what I said yesterday, after which I shall invite
remember that I endeavoured to solve the problem of the
constructed. Nevertheless I believe that the shaping of the
to be of a building that is partly circular and partly
rectangular, having no longer a ground-plan that is circular.
that is appropriate for concrete as a building material.
portals and of the windows, so that you can see how I want to
let the inner formative force that was latent in the old
want to bring it about that this downward pressure is caught
window surrounds. I also want to bring it about that inwardly
the spiritual impression is of a portal that draws you in, or
a window that takes in the light in order to usher it into
about that in a certain way this form reveals how the
the portal. So let me describe what is to be revealed.
you to see by using different colours to draw what will, of
Below that will be a portion, something that could be seen as
this is carried by a form which recedes (blue). So what you
will here appear as something angular. You must imagine that
right in such a way that this pillar or column receives this
order to support that which comes out from the inside,
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Title: Christmas Conference: Lecture 20: On the Right Entry into the Spiritual World: The Responsibility Incumbent on Us
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which much that is strong and important is to go forth for
lecture in a way that connects it inwardly, in its impulse,
but also in a way that will
out into the world today we see something that has already
destructiveness. There are forces at work that give us an
think, and until recently most people thought, that until the
insights and views, and that now that modern science has
arrived, truth that must be upheld forever.
amongst mankind today there are some inklings that things are
exceptionally large, so that people here and there began to
notice that Anthroposophy was something for which people were
approximately — that something is happening not only on
the earth but also in the whole of the cosmos that is calling
mankind to a form of spirituality that is different from what
true: The proper impulse for what must now go forth from
development so that your hearts might be opened to take in
itself. Everything that has hitherto borne the earthly world
friends, this encourages me to point out that the impulses we
a few minutes on the great responsibility that is now
that of historical records — many a legend and many a
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Title: Awakening to Community: Lecture V
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the Movement 'free from illusions.' He explains that in anthroposophical
it again is to make sure that correct thinking prevails on the score
Society. Whatever anthroposophy brings forth must be built on a solid
by keeping oriented to that ideal that every anthroposophical heart
should be cherishing and that is great enough to unite all the
that enthusiasm for this ideal of anthroposophical cooperation has
dwindled somewhat during the three successive phases of
stand grieving beside the ruins of the building that brought that
the more important that we join forces in the right common feeling
strength much needed in view of the constantly increasing enmity that
that have been the focus of my lectures of the past several weeks,
you will perhaps allow me to recall an outstanding memory that has a
kind of relationships between members that we need in the
love that every single anthroposophist should be feeling for his
fellow members and that can be relied on to dissipate any hard
feelings that members of the Society could be harboring against any
You may remember that
gave a short introductory talk stressing the fact that what people
What was being
striven for at the Goetheanum, what its forms and colors were meant
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Title: Awakening to Community: Lecture VIII
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the Movement 'free from illusions.' He explains that in anthroposophical
that I ought to give you a report on some of the things that happened
inevitable under the conditions that prevailed.
to an understanding of what came about that I give you a sketch of
past several weeks that lengthy preparations preceded the Stuttgart
In everything that
follows it should be kept in mind that what went on in Stuttgart did
Committee and various others to take on the problem. So what occurred
exactly as they did. For what was it we faced? We were facing the
fact that the Anthroposophical Society had taken on a form in the
past two decades that had undergone considerable modification since
that my remark was made for quite a different purpose than to express
branches out in so many directions. But I believe that everyone of
important developments that have taken place in the Society's life
anthroposophical tasks for the Society that have grown out of the
to the current crisis in the Society. That is one aspect of the facts
that have developed in the Society's life.
that youth has approached the movement — youth full of deep
expectations, with a quite definite picture of what is to be found in
the Society, with quite definite feelings. One might say that these
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Title: Awakening to Community: Lecture IX
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the Movement 'free from illusions.' He explains that in anthroposophical
to give you a sort of report on the events that took place in
Stuttgart. I went on to say that I would like to convey something of
the substance of the lectures I delivered there. So I will do that
Tuesday was conceived as a response to a quite definite need that had
from the standpoint of the mood that prevailed there. The need I
have a type of experience that life does not afford the single
individual that he could not have carried for himself.
bonds felt by men of modern times has been that of class. The old
human beings feel that they can no longer find in class communities
any elements that could carry them into something beyond merely
personality. That goes back to certain primal causes. If I may again
resort to the terminology I used yesterday, I would say that since
matter how unconsciously, that could be expressed in the words,
however, that no one can get along on earth without other human
beings. Historic ties and bonds like those that unite the proletariat
that on the one hand can satisfy the urge to be a distinct individual
wants them to have an individual character like that experienced in
what goes on between human beings in contemporary life can be traced
a renewal of Christianity. It was their belief that such a renewal
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Title: Awakening to Community: Lecture X
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the Movement 'free from illusions.' He explains that in anthroposophical
be so much a verbatim account of what was said there as a fresh
discussion of the matters dealt with in that lecture, and I shall
second lecture was to show the reasons why certain things that ought
those familiar with the history of these societies, that
brotherliness all too easily came to grief, that it has been
especially in societies built on spiritual foundations that the
with, review the matters brought up yesterday. I pointed out that we
distinguish between three levels of consciousness: that of ordinary
waking life, that of dreams, and finally that of dreamless sleep.
for reality, for events just as real as those that take place in the
And I pointed out that someone else can be asleep beside him and have
perhaps, through many incarnations — that plays into dreams.
Man's individual core is what is involved here. He is outside his
body with his ego and astrality. That is to say, he is outside his
body with the ego that he takes from one incarnation to another, and
he is in his astral body, which means that he is living in the world
that embraces experience of all the surrounding processes and beings
that is, on awakening and on falling asleep. But the dreams are
he is sleeping. This means that he is occupied solely with his own
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Title: Hegel, Schopenhauer, Thought, Will
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to what we have already allowed to pass over our souls many
the next hour. I would like to remind you that in central
other. You only have to consider what I put forward in my
between Schopenhauer and Hegel. It appears relevant that
Schopenhauer really spared no swearwords in what he held as the
consisting of real thought elements. Hegel firmly believed that
logic but the system of thought that must form the foundation
So, what do we actually have here as thoughts on the one hand
intellectual element as actually being that which permeated our
yet it is striking, I say, that which in people as the thought
striking that the backward aim in the thought element is a type
one idea beneath another, because you must be clear that in
within, and that above all, what may be in the background can
When philosophers come to consider this or that from their
Now that which I've characterized for you as thought elements
live in the cosmos. What do thoughts mean for the cosmos as
observed by Hegel in particular, and what does will mean for
in the thought-form being observed. One can't say in fact that
it is extraordinarily interesting that when it comes to western
the deepest esoteric teachings - that the world is actually
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Title: Problem of Death: Lecture I
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that life; for the actual concepts which must be acquired
of that life, the concepts of the truths of existence
You will find there what new concepts must be
ideas that are applicable to this other kind of life, and
in reading such a lecture-course you will realise that it
is different from the part that is played by the moment of
moment of birth is that point which, in ordinary
birth; it is the point that is remembered most of all; in a
form from that in which it is seen from this side of life.
light-filled beginning of experience of the Spirit, as that
subsequent life between death and a new birth; as that
something that is looked back upon with a deep sense of
materialism, we have pictured that the human being loses
difficult to picture that consciousness exists beyond
death, if we believe that consciousness is darkened (as
realise: it simply is not true. The truth is that the
excessively clear consciousness, that there sets in, to
consciousness. And what we have to do during the first days
we succeed in so finding our bearings that, as it were, out
wast that ... the moment when, out of the fullness of
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Title: Problem of Death: Lecture II
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one would then be quoting something that is incorrect. But
I chose an example where, in a way that accurately
encountered by spiritual-scientific knowledge is that when
We know that then,
We must realise that
forces that are still present in the etheric body would, if
in the spiritual world. So that we may say: forces of the
it is not enough to picture merely in the abstract that the
that the spiritual world is behind the physical world.
which lies behind the physical world. Art that is born of
knowledge and for the knowledge that is inspired by
those who have died prematurely for the fact that their
and that many spiritual influences can therefore proceed
from these etheric bodies. I think I need hardly say that
decisions emanating from that maya of consciousness of
realise, a very very great deal to what it is able to
etheric body. He has, as it were, made human what,
cosmic but just because of that, more human — which
mentioned one detail that is connected with the
but much else as well. In order to study what else is
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Title: Problem of Death: Lecture III
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many painful events that have recently happened we have
Science. One must picture to oneself that when the human
world which is quite different for him from what is often
kingdom on the other side of death somewhat as a kind of
often mentioned that our speech is calculated for the
of expressing that which lies on the other side of
the being in question. So that the being gives them, pours
them in, and we now have the feeling that — we are
expressing something or other that we see through these
something is expressing itself, something that uses us to a
such a self-surrender that the being finds the possibility
a placing of the word at this being's disposal, so that the
— if I may put it thus — that which is in the
and foremost be healed of what can be called the earthly
speak much of oneself, to judge everything so that first of
world, and what one signifies to the world, if one has this
for what in the earthly sense is the most interesting of
So we shall always find that the way into the true
nature, to speak of ourselves, to speak of what we could be
with people who for instance greatly lamented that they
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Title: The Bridge between Morality and Nature
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clear understanding of the actual basis of what we are talking
as if it is somehow present there. People imagine that somehow
in which they are composed today. It is extraordinary that in
of view arose, and quite a firm idea was established that a
bodily nature, and that the soul-spiritual could be regarded as
Materialistic science stresses repeatedly that the same measure
abnormality indicating that the human being is dependent on the
to his body, and so on. It was also shown, that whatever is
available as physical research, proves that in all acts of
Gley who said that the highest talents in human beings,
somewhat captivating in the manner in which the scientific art
can't say anything other than that the more people refer to
nature are ever more pushed to the background; that the
towards that which had earlier been regarded as still contained
by retarded, uninformed people, and that it must disappear.
today's natural observation below that which has come out of
and the fifties and sixties who decidedly pointed out that the
body as precursor appeared the soul spiritual and that any
places, that there are people who with great intensity have
repulsed the idea that one must be entitled to decline from a
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Title: Spiritual Science, History, Reincarnation, Culture, Examples
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between what can be called the order of nature and the moral
embracing examination including human evolution. That which
various forms, reaching a total conception of what is working
such a manner that it isn't an abstract theory, only a sum of
what is given in the area of spiritual science in its specific
observations. Something like this must be somewhat retained
influenced what we call the natural scientific way of thinking
by scientific studies and it is believed that the historical
necessity. Even though for many it is somewhat depressing
considering how a person has more of this, or less of that,
branches off from the foregoing, this again from what was
and try where possible to get a feel for what we usually do
be practical and clear that in every one of these people there
developed in such a way that he didn't stand directly in
is argued that one would understand these things, but in fact
about this and that, what mankind is doing at present, how they
live there, the affect of this or that inherited quality. Yet
situations, yes, everywhere, say: what a person takes on from
consider how someone living in the present had taken what had
things. I have made indications what, particularly in our time,
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Title: Opponents to Anthroposophy
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lengthy voyage regarding what relates to important tasks of the
that important tasks need to be spoken about. Through some
bearers and that they this up and understand it in the right
to whom the content of what is meant in this anthroposophic
spiritual science was such that from the beginning, it was
possible by many of those in the member's circles that such a
sides amongst the membership. It is characteristic that people
not in agreement with what your religious tradition has brought
you, it is in agreement with what the popular spreading of a
when something is offered which surpasses that, which is
you still prefer to a certain extent what is a given, because
through submitting on the one side to what life has presented
what moves within mankind and worldly life, can it be united
with what is loved in the trade of some circles, which intend,
spiritual science. It is already necessary that these things
a situation in the world that it can be attacked from all
Later on I want to speak in greater depth about what makes this
author, in what I might call a brutal clarity.
regarding what the orientation is of spiritual science. The man
lore' and duly reject their borders in order that
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Title: Eurythmy as Visible Singing: Lecture 1: The Experience of Major and Minor
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developed up to a certain stage, and it may be said that we have achieved
From various quarters it is strongly apparent that people have frequently
to them. This sad fact, that more significance is attached to something
a proof that at the present time the understanding for eurythmy has
not made much headway. It is of the utmost importance that this understanding
way. It cannot be denied that on the part of eurythmists themselves,
eurythmy, for above all what is perceived by the onlooker must be borne
in mind. The onlooker not only perceives the movement or gesture that
is presented by the eurythmist, he also perceives what the eurythmist
is feeling and inwardly experiencing. This makes it essential that the
and especially that which is to be presented. In speech eurythmy this
the kind of judgements about tone eurythmy that reach us, which I have
mentioned. And this is also why I believe it to be necessary that now
all, that in eurythmy we should get beyond the mere making of gestures
and producing of movements, and that in the realm of tone eurythmy,
and especially in our writing, we no longer have any conception of what
really encompasses the sound), we find that even in the German language
many words still exist closely related to what lies in the sound alpha
that those forces proceed which embrace an alpha-being.
to understand that the spine is the point from which rays forth that
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Title: Eurythmy as Visible Singing: Lecture 2: Experience and Gesture; the Intervals
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in the human being. [7] Music and language, that is to say, the sounds
Now everything that lives
warmth. Let us suppose that someone is singing or speaking. Imagine
But you know that when
of expansion. In the oscillating air, that is to say, in the alternation
their inner quality of soul from the warmth that, as it were, is carried
behind. From this you will see that when someone speaks or sings, something
aware of how the human being perceives what is taking place here. We
know that the sounds of speech and of singing are activated by the larynx
and all that is connected with it. The human being perceives by means
or takes in what is sung, or speaks or takes in what is spoken. Hence
Everything that can be
laid hold of by the senses, and everything that can be expressed through
instrument. And so what otherwise remains an experience of the ear or
you recall that the animal (which is of a lower order than man) breaks
What does a feeling of
pleasure imply? To be overcome with pleasure really means that we lose
that the human being is losing himself. And everything painful means
it means that he is resisting this tendency to lose himself in pleasure.
We need only to understand what occurs here, and we speak in gesture.
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Title: Eurythmy as Visible Singing: Lecture 3: Melodic Movement; the Ensouling of the Three Dimensions through Pitch, Rhythm and Beat
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stepping forwards, so that the arm remains stationary, the body following
The arm, the hand that is, must remain in the same place while you step
forwards. This exercise must be carried out in such a way that the arm,
While stepping forwards try to draw the hand back somewhat — not too
and the seventh as actually lying outside the physical body, so that
possible for you to imagine that by your going out, the seventh brings
inner reality of what has just been said about the relationship of the
seventh to the keynote, from the fact that this can be therapeutically
other organ in the chest is diagnosed, it will be found that this very
me also say the following. If, in a similar way to that which I have
relationship, and it is strikingly characteristic that the hand, which
but the sixth in relation to the keynote is so expressed that you feel
these gestures (which will have shown you that in its essential being,
you that speech eurythmy has a corrective artistic influence upon recitation
the matter is that in our inartistic age, recitation and declamation
of the sort, indeed by anything that makes an appeal to sensation or
influence upon everything that is musical.
represent something or other; the listener cannot always be sure what
who are only out to denegrate all that is being produced today in the
upon the foundations of what is really artistic, and to be able to speak
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Title: Eurythmy as Visible Singing: Lecture 4: The Progression of Musical Phrases; Swinging Over; the Bar Line
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sense in the progression of the motifs — that is, the musical element
progressing within the motif itself You all know that a motif frequently
case. The bar, the change of bar that is, interrupts the motif And when
feel that something like a ‘dead interval’ lies between them (musicians
frequently even use this expression). It is further said that such a
that people have no feeling for the fact that the true musical element
actually is that which is inaudible. When the dead interval is spoken
about, and is compared with what lies between two spoken words, the
Just think that in speech,
but this is quite different from a clear feeling that one word ends
for meaning between what is apparent to the senses (that is to say,
the inaudible realm. It is sad that people today have so little feeling
even listen into the words, discovering in the words what lies behind
them. In this case words at all times are an aid to express what cannot
so that whoever carries the movement does it, so to speak, within himself,
that he is pushed together, and especially in moving a form by contracting
It would be quite good to make sure that the matter is clear. Let us
is somewhat home-baked.)
of what I have been speaking about. The phrase starts with a G and progresses
what it means for the various forms of phrasing. I wanted to show you
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Title: Eurthmy as Visible Singing: Lecture 5: Choral Eurythmy
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You will have seen that it is quite possible for a single individual
is necessarily rather primitive, and is somewhat meagre when presented
be given by a solo eurythmist. It is to be hoped that these solo performances
eurythmy may be revealed. In spite of this, it cannot be denied that
point, however, is that we must not merely take these things schematically,
but also enter somewhat into the quality of working together in artistic
I have emphasized what
then we can perceive that which forms the fundamental basis of musical
eurythmy. What you experience as astral human being usually remains
present to the world that which otherwise remains in repose in the astral
phenomenon. My reason for doing so is, that if as eurythmists you can
and he progressed far, coming to the view that it does not take much
to acquire all that we presently call music. We can feel in Hauer's
whole manner of expression that in a certain respect he is inwardly
extraordinarily honest. On the one hand, he came to the conclusion that
what goes by the name of music today is exceptionally easily come by,
but, on the other hand, that precisely the musical element is missing,
that we are led away from the musical realm. Indeed, very much of what
I have said that the actual
in the intervals, constituting that which we do not hear. In speaking
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Title: Eurythmy as Visible Singing: Lecture 6: The Sustained Note; the Rest; Discords
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gestures of eurythmy, what then is the musical element as such, the
extremes. On the one hand it may be said that the melodic element is
tending more and more towards what is thematic, towards the expression
that, especially in recent times through a Wagnerian influence, as well
of something that is not music. On the other hand, especially in the
of which it was said (not without a certain justification) that it made
extreme cases. To put forward the idea that music embodies nothing and
in the movements, in the actual gestures themselves, that which lies
the provision should consist that you, as eurythmists, regard the actual
note, and in a certain sense the chord too, as that which pushes you
the note, but will express in the fullest possible way everything that
lies between the notes and what comes to the fore, for instance, in
what is purely musical, but why is the urge to deviate from it so strong?
can never produce a musical mood. In order that modern civilization
modern civilization wanted to provide the clearest proof that it is
unmusical. And the proof is given in that it has produced the film.
The film is the clearest proof that those who like it are unmusical.
For the whole basis of films is that they only permit those things to
It must be admitted that
that which is stimulated from outside. Attempts are made to imitate
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Title: Eurythmy as Visible Singing: Lecture 7: Musical Physiology; the Point of Departure; Intervals; Cadences
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I have often stressed that eurythmy is drawn from
be obvious to you that the musical element is situated, so to speak,
recognize that that which is latent in the human singing apparatus through
this with what happens when the lower and upper jaws are interlocked,
Now we see how that which
serves the musical element in singing is continued below. That which
is in the collar-bone that we may feel the starting point from which
that a force goes out from your collar-bone with its muscles into the
feeling your limbs so that they can be used for such movements as we
to the left and right of the collar-bone. Feel that all the subtle possibilities
Then feel that you pour
hand in a certain way so that the force enabling you to retain this
We can also unfold the feeling that comes towards us, and here we have
to the hand itself that you go out of yourself. The fourth is still
to feel the movement that gives you the fourth. The fifth is here on
mere figure of speech to say that eurythmy has been drawn out of the
organization of the human being. So strongly is this the case that you
at the ends of the fingers. It is here that the seventh arises. The
draw out the possibilities of movement that are inherent in the human
we find in what is practised the movements drawn out in this way from
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Title: Eurythmy as Visible Singing: Lecture 8: Pitch (ethos and pathos), Note Values, Dynamics, Changes of Tempo
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a provisional conclusion, so that a stimulation for the advance of the
that a living stream of development has to be maintained. I have frequently
said that eurythmy is only just beginning (perhaps only an attempted
more and more that many things can be expressed either in one way or
another, and that in art it is a question of taste. And with several
things you will have to consult your own feelings: ‘What special means
must I employ to bring this or that to expression?’
means of expressing that most essential element of music, the phrase
our attention to that which gives the phrase its actual content, and
that nothing is musical which is not in some way rooted in human feeling.
we saw that in its more physical, bodily aspect, movement springs from
characteristic we touched upon yesterday simply points to the fact that
Now I must beg you not to misunderstand this, and think that it is my
It is a fact, however, that precisely in the element of pitch, something
of music. It may be left to the physicist. [51] That element of music
music inclines away from the intellect that the head has so little to
we could well answer that this would be equivalent in real speech eurythmy
of the musical element, that is pitch, the activity of the head should
you begin to think, artistic activity ceases. I am not saying that art
— but that is a very different matter.
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Title: Chance/Necessity/Providence: Lecture 1: Probability and Chance
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factors involved so before us that the course of our thoughts doesn't
go astray from reality, that we follow the thread of reality.
value to be derived from the realization that truth is hard to get at
and that it is very easy to go astray as we forge ahead in a train of
You will find that what I am going to tell
you today will make it easier to understand certain matters that will
an introduction that, though it has its difficulties, will nevertheless
that there is a contemporary philosopher by the name of Fritz Mauthner
For Mauthner no longer believes — if that expresses it —
that people seek knowledge in the form of concepts. It is rather his
conviction that it is fundamentally just language to which people attach
their insights. He believes that they don't really have true concepts
when they are thinking, but merely have what words convey, and that words
simply suggest this or that to them. He pictures people as having certain
but one that was bound to emerge eventually in an age working its way
will see that the materialistic age has gradually learned to talk about
aspects involved in what I'll be reading you as I am in getting you
to examine your feelings as you are exposed to what a materialistic
in it.” He believes that looking at all the things that happen
be to regress to the state of a child gradually discovering what some
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Title: Chance/Necessity/Providence: Lecture 2: Consciousness in Sleeping and Waking States
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that there will still be a great deal to say about a certain problem or
from a great variety of viewpoints. That is the question of the alternating
attempts that have been made to solve it. There is the so-called exhaustion
theory, which is only one of the many that have been advanced in recent
decades. This theory holds that we secrete substances resulting from
life, and that the sleeping state somehow eliminates these exhaustion
Now we must always take the position that
such a theory — I mean, what it describes — does not have
a problem, to study life's riddles, in a way that really relates the
standpoint from which they are studied to the insights that can be gained
in a particular age. That will provide the right basis for bringing
— the point is to know what questions to ask, to avoid pursuing
mind. In the very early days I called attention to the fact that if
from a great variety of studies that we are here dealing with different
states of consciousness, so that the question of consciousness is the
all-important one here. We must realize that our most important concern
We will have to ask ourselves what the real difference is between the
And this is what we find: When we are awake
— we need only to register what each one of us is conscious of
be able to say that when we are in the day- waking state, we cannot
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Title: Chance/Necessity/Providence: Lecture 3: Necessity and Chance in Historical Events
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and providence. But today that will require me to introduce certain
to be added on Monday. That will give us today, tomorrow (after the
What I am saying is that many a person whose consciousness and mentality
of necessity, in a somewhat narrow sense at least. Even individuals
limited by materialism still agree that the sun will rise tomorrow out
of a certain necessity. In their view, the probability that the sun
narrow when they are confronted with what may be called historical events.
extremely interesting to see how he tries there to figure out what history
to witness the fact that the sun has risen. That is a fact. And now
he concludes that we can ascribe this rising of the sun to a law, to
similar facts in outer nature that brought about this recognition of
So he says of historical “necessity,” for example, “That
Napoleon outdid himself and marched to Russia or that I smoked one cigar
more than usual in the past hour are two facts that really happened,
something that may be termed historical fact, like Napoleon's campaign
and the reported fact that he smoked an extra cigar, are both necessary
here an honest man straightforwardly admitting something that his less
He is admitting that the fact that Caesar lived cannot be distinguished
for example, that Wundt set up a systematic arrangement of the sciences.
really be discovered than that it had become customary, or, in other
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Title: Chance/Necessity/Providence: Lecture 4: Necessity as Past Subjectivity
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If you look at works such as that of Fritz Mauthner, to whom I have
repeatedly referred, you will see what consequences necessarily result
concept “supply” with that of a “supply of words,”
that most philosophical concepts belong in the useless category. Those
that you have been trying all the way through it to get hold of your
one on “Christianity.” But that is true of almost all the
What is an illusory concept?
it is not an easy matter to describe in general terms what distinguishes
or deadness. It may be that the falsity was inherent, or else became
exact scrutiny could all along have discovered that they contradicted
Now wouldn't you agree that this is quite
possible to comment that “the concept was false from the start
because exact scrutiny could have discovered all along that it contradicted
had been born early enough, he would have seen to it that people didn't
out only when human learning became convinced that neither the devil
We could be tempted to repeat that
of the individual in that necessity, could have for a person like Faust.
But Mauthner says, “Necessity — What is it? Just a way of
of cosmic events bypasses human beings. People say that “the sun
so we assume that it will rise tomorrow and the day after tomorrow,
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Title: Chance/Necessity/Providence: Lecture 5: Necessity and Past, Chance and Present
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We have seen that necessity must be thought of in connection with the
past, that the world contains as much necessity as it does past. For,
that we will be fit to take up the study of the truths of spiritual
what we might term deep spiritual-scientific truths if we shy away from
concepts of a demanding nature. They are what disciplines our souls and
individuals who declared that they could not attend my lectures because
The reproach was once made to Goethe that he
of what people were calling “pallid concepts.”
concept, the idea — “and to the eye dead. How is it that you
words about mysterious matters of the kind that give them something
they ask them, “How is it that you call forth holy life from founts
perfections that delight the eye or the senses in general proves elevating.
work through what people often refer to as “pallid concepts.”
The question is now whether all the concepts that we tend, in ordinary
to be so linked. People say that what is necessary happens. But is this
actually always the case? I would like to answer with a comparison that
will clarify the matter. Let us suppose that we have a river with a
brook starting to run down from the heights. Let's imagine that something
state that according to what we are able to see from our vantage point
it is a matter of necessity that this brook flows into this river. The
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Title: Chance/Necessity/Providence: Lecture 6: Imaginative Cognition Leaves Insights of Natural Science Behind
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deal more than I was able to point out on that occasion, more indeed
that it is possible to delve more deeply, in a truly spiritual-scientific
to the facts we encounter in the world. And I showed that this approach
works according to whether it is that of human beings or of other beings.
expressly that these souls are “for the angels sweetest gain.”
We'll see that the saying that souls of this
unvarnished truth” depend on the fact that our cognitive processes
and our soul experiences add nothing to things. Just consider what a
point science makes of restricting itself to merely reflecting what
its pronunciamentos. Let us recall what trouble is taken by those who
that their fabrications are dictated by some reality or other outside
up to what is claimed to be valuable “occult knowledge”
this type are when they can report that such and such beings appeared
to them, this or that was “dictated” to them, or something
them, for then they can have the feeling that the conceptions they have
might say that in their concern for attaining the reliable knowledge
of it. Knowledge should not add anything to what already exists, for
We are familiar with the fact that the next level of knowledge is that
Now we find that when a person on the path
cognitive tool, what is called knowledge in the physical world, the
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Title: Chance/Necessity/Providence: Lecture 7: The Physical Body Binds Us to the Physical World
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I have often mentioned the fact that we can derive the right impulses
here before that we must of course realize first that human beings
bring this about through the fact that they bear within themselves certain
of how human beings who gradually advance to what is known as clairvoyant
The next step is then that the etheric rather
It is true, of course, that we are always
use them in the sense that they carry on their activity within our physical
bodies, so that both the physical and etheric bodies are made use of
during our life on the physical plane. But we come to know what the
perceptive instrument. We know that this condition comes about naturally
Then, for a short time, we make use of the etheric body, until that
body, from the second condition that soon follows it, and brings about
I have been saying that the physical body
binds us to everything that comes to us on the physical plane. What,
then, does the etheric body bind us to? It binds us to everything that
relates us to the cosmos, to the extraterrestrial, to everything that
lives in us that cannot be ascribed directly to any connection with
are due to physical heredity. This is a radical case that illustrates
alert observers of life are perfectly aware that nobody resembles any
by saying that everyone has lived through repeated earth lives and demonstrates
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Title: Chance/Necessity/Providence: Lecture 8: Death, Physical Body and Etheric Body
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If you think over the change that had to be described in advancing
world next above it, you will see that the worlds from which our physical
the worlds of the spirit. And it is just when someone says that they
don't exist and that he won't trouble himself about them that he is
enable a person to deal with them. For that, it is necessary to know
least, to find that we can characterize it adequately with the concepts
your attention to the fact that the conceptions we form based on the
to something that demonstrates how vitally necessary it is to arrive
of the physical body. We know that this physical body then undergoes
observable fact is that the physical body disintegrates into its smallest
particles, which are then incorporated into earthly matter. That is
matter and substance. We know too that this dissolution process is a
spiritual one as well, but we don't need to go into that any further
at the present moment. What is important for us now is the situation
clearly that this dissolution of the physical body is by no means merely
the physical body. It has always been more or less the case that the
ways of drawing this too, but that isn't important.
is this pressing into the physical body between birth and death that
gives our souls a sense of ego-hood, that allows us, as I might also
back into it again. The result is that from now on we cannot develop
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Title: Child's Changing Consciousness: Lecture I
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been a constant reminder of what was intended to go out into
the world from this Goetheanum. However, the misfortune that
— that would have reigned within this material, artistic
presence confirms to me that education involves one of the most
crucial questions of our time, and that it will receive the
countries, and who show, through your presence, that what is
what will concern us during the next few days. Education is
that is, where does this praiseworthy enthusiasm for better
effects, how can one know what constitutes proper educational
The second question arises from listening to what certain
few days ago a book appeared on the market that, in itself, did
interest in this person that many Europeans do, in regard to
am sure that you would agree that the most beautiful memories
what happened in certain lessons. Indeed, it would be sad if
this were so, because what affects children during lessons
life we should not be plagued by the details of what we once
stream of life. Couldn't we say that our most beautiful
value for the whole of one's life. It is important that
perspective, we find that he does not talk of his teachers with
East — that the wrongs of education would hardly be so
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Title: Child's Changing Consciousness: Lecture II
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on what remains when the human spirit and part of the human
soul are ignored. Such knowledge rests on what can be found,
being. What is gained through this approach then forms the
dead way, but through a living mode of observation that can
perceive accurately the various metamorphoses that take place
going through. But the differences are so deeply hidden that
theoretical knowledge and then to think: What I have learned in
can respond properly to whatever comes from each individual
child. This is another way that anthroposophical knowledge of
child, so that in response to all that comes from the child one
knows instantly and exactly what must be done in every single
theories about what we should eat or drink, but in ordinary
that.
well as soul and spirit, so that you intuitively know what
knowledge of human beings has such inner fullness that it can
concentration, and so on. In that case, intellectual ideas are
situation that externalizes all educational methods and
we shall find that there are three things with which they have
to come to terms, three activities that become a decisive
factor for the entire life to come. These are what are simply
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Title: Child's Changing Consciousness: Lecture III
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Yesterday I pointed out that there is much more involved
apparent outwardly. I also indicated that it is impossible to
between what is internal and what is external. When considering
us first look at what is very simply called “learning to
walk.” I have already mentioned that a part of this
However, in this dynamic system of forces that the child takes
that is of a fundamentally different character. I noted this
must always bear in mind that, pre-eminently during the first
child is one big sense organ. This is what makes children
receptive to everything that comes from their surroundings. But
it also causes them to recreate inwardly everything that is
just one particular sense organ — that a young child is
world and, in keeping with its organization, reproduces what is
life inwardly reproduce everything that happens around
the child takes in what is thus coming from the environment
process is happening here that cannot be recognized by the
what is actually happening to slip through. In this way only
for what is specifically human.
it would be natural to assume that it must surely be deep love
that motivates a child to imitate one particular person. But if
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Title: Child's Changing Consciousness: Lecture IV
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what we understand as knowledge of the human being. Some of
what is still missing will surely find its way into our further
that this knowledge of the human being is not the kind that
will lead to theories, but one that can become human instinct,
ensouled and spiritual instinct that, when translated into
practice. Of course, you must realize that in giving lectures
of indications, to what such knowledge of the human being can
only broad outlines, something that is very unpopular these
days. Few people are sufficiently aware that anything expressed
what is far more complex and multifarious in actual life.
we remember that young children are essentially ensouled sense
organs, entirely given over in a bodily-religious way to what
it that, until the change of teeth, everything within their
aware that whenever the child perceives with the senses, at the
what is perceived through the soul and spirit. This means that
scene for the most important impulses of later life, and that
now that we are moving more toward the practical aspects of
education, we have to consider that between the change of teeth
have to direct these impulses toward what is likely to be
of such importance for teachers to be able to perceive what is
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Title: Child's Changing Consciousness: Lecture V
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that educators acquire the ability to create the kind of mental
imagery that can guide pupils through the tender transitional
with listening for what comes from the natural authority of the
judgment, but comes in the guise of what the naturally revered
authority of the teacher says. Similarly, what is considered
false simply agrees with what this freely accepted authority
considers false. This also applies to what is seen as beautiful
teacher's authority or that of another adult in charge.
somewhat.
During the initial period of life — that is, from birth
the complete inadequacy of what we are told by contemporary
within every sense organ an inner activity also occurs that has
after this event, with the result that, between entering school
human being that is entirely human and pictorial. This is why
What children really want during this stage is for everything
inner horror (I think one can put it that strongly) of facing a
can use what I described yesterday as the content for the
you to be told that teachers should relate parts of the human
can show their students how what is concentrated within one
the child's soul, that the human being as seen physically is
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Title: Child's Changing Consciousness: Lecture VI
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At the same time, you must remember that, as a teacher and
educator, you are part of the social setting, and that you
and methods must be formed so that they offer every opportunity
know the child's true nature according to what has been shown
on the other hand, what is seen in relation to society in
everything that can live in will to gratitude; the
second, everything that can live in the will to love;
and third, everything that can live in the will to duty.
Generally speaking, people are far too unaware of what, in this
yet gratitude is a virtue that, in order to play a proper role
something that must already flow into the human being when the
that has to be developed out of the bodily-religious
All that flows, with devotion and love, from a child's inner
being toward whatever comes from the periphery through the
that are worthy of the child's gratitude and it will flow
growth that make the limbs grow, and that alter even the
thankful for whatever comes from their surroundings. On the
children through merely witnessing the gratitude that their
elders feel as they receive what is freely given by their
feeling grateful by allowing the child to imitate what is done
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Title: Child's Changing Consciousness: Lecture VII
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that we have spoken of in the past few days. Many of you will
have noticed already that what is considered here to be both
right and good in education differs in many ways from what is
the one hand, we stand on the firm ground of a pedagogy that
derives from objective knowledge, and that prescribes specific
have discovered already from what you have heard so far). To
ascertain what must be done in this education, we take our cue
opened on September 7, 1919.] They have come to realize that
not a single detail of this pedagogy is arbitrary, that
everything in it is a direct response to what can be read in
the child's own nature. This represents one side of what has
own ideals (or whatever else you choose to call these things),
at the end of the road that our students do not fit into life
educational ideals. Life is governed by what arises from the
thinking. And so there is always a danger that we will educate
children in a way that, though correct in itself, could
that one must not steer fanatically toward one's chosen
that are alien to its nature. They may appear within some
negative had to be agreed upon — that is, a kind of
what is considered relevant to their inner needs. At the same
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Title: Child's Changing Consciousness: Lecture VIII:
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In order to round off, so to speak, what we could only
What has to emerge clearly from the spirit of this education is
that equal consideration be given to everything pertaining to
being in the right way. And here it must be understood that
metabolic-motor system — we do not imply that they
into three separate spatial regions. It can only be said that
these three systems interpenetrate one another, that they work
blood circulation. Here one must not ignore the fact that
everything that furthers the rhythms of digestion — and
connected with all that forms the human motor system. As for
of this means that, although the three systems work naturally
that illness is due primarily to the influences of the
nerve-sense system. That is why young children before their
that originate from within — those called childhood
influences that emanate from the environment, those that reach
a less violent form of temper that can very often be seen among
people. The shock that follows, together with its moral and
influences that work on the child will remain as after-effects
you do that again, I'll pour the entire inkwell over your
children that the adults would not dream of applying to
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Title: Child's Changing Consciousness: Introduction to a Eurythmy Performance
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impression of eurythmy. It is an artistic movement that draws
Therefore, what you are about to see on stage is not based on
study (according to Goethe's method of what he called
know that, in speaking, air is moved. If we made a detailed
beings communicate with each another, we would find that a
Air-forms that flow out more radially from a speaking person
Sounds that shape these air-gestures into waves of a more
Through this arrangement, what happens in ordinary speech or
song has now been made visible, and the only difference is that
have to extract from the thought sphere what language offers
that stream radially outward in sound, word, or sentence
that accompany the spoken word, a unique opportunity is
presented for outwardly expressing, clearly and visibly, what
belief that human souls and spirits are linked to any
but, strictly speaking, they have to restrain what wants to
say that of everything being produced in the art of poetry,
being. What a poet tries to accomplish through imagination,
to recede, while giving voice to what is truly poetic and
meaning — something that has become much too popular in
is believed that the personality of the speaker will then be in
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Title: Colour and the Human Races: Lecture I: The Nature of Color
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In order, gentlemen that the last question may be
blind person. A blind person feels differently in a room that
is lighted and in a room that is dark. Though it is so weak a
matter that he does not perceive it, yet it has a great
room which has blue windows. That acts quite differently on his
Now from what I have hitherto put before
you, you will perhaps have realized that two things are most
complete human being and has nerves and blood. Imagine that
nerves too spread out. You see, what you have
in the hand, that is,
For what is actually there in the glow of
apparent path, but that does not matter (in reality the earth
are the clouds and the light falls actually on them. What is
that actually? This is very
understand that?
illumined clouds through the darkness that is around you. You
see light through darkness. So that we can say it is the same
that dawn has gone by and it is daytime. You see freely up into
the air, as it is today. What do you see? You see the so-called
same. That certainly does not continue into all infinity, but
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Title: Colour and the Human Races: Lecture II: Color and the Human Races
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know, of course, that over the face of the earth are people
Well, we know indeed that a man in Europe is not quite
So if we ask: What races belong to these
to Europe and it is naturally only mischievous that it now
three races. I have already told you that color has to do with
What is the position then with a black body? A black body
assimilates in itself all the light that falls upon it and
light that falls on it, absorbs everything into itself, and
not need the light, I will only use what is in myself, I send
You can study that more closely if you
of both light and warmth. That goes on until the time when it
— but that
beneath the earth, what does it become? Black coal. It becomes
tree. It does not give that out unless we destroy it. If we
up so much light and warmth that
That is the condition of coal.
Let us suppose that the object does not
of such a nature will be white. That is the snow in winter. It
the relation that exists between objects on earth and universal
Let us apply that to man in universal
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Title: Development of the child up to puberty
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indicates that certain forces present and active in the
state of metamorphosis. What appears with the pushing out of
We discover by researching this appearance, that up to the
the body and were active there. That which later would become
at a true observation of what works in an important way during
as something soul-spiritual. Then we also realise what the
one another in a meaningful way. We can also observe that a
What I have just said can be proved through supersensible sight
how to some extent insight is eased regarding what in our
experiencing our imagination we can see what is forming in the
acquires simply through the imaginative experience that which
that it's during this period of the child's life when there is
be studied time and again. A part of what becomes freed up for
growing forces working on in the child resists against what
appears essentially in the respiratory process. What now
striking, as meaningful as what later takes place between
we said, before the start of dentition, what breathing actually
actually breathe in what brings on puberty, which also gives us
point. What wanted to stream in through the breathing process
of what comes out of the growing processes and what is still a
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Title: Cosmic Prehistory: Lecture I: The Threefoldness of Space and the Unity of Time
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how short-sighted it is to believe that the constitution of the modern
must try to give as clear an answer as possible to the question: What
about the sacred mysteries of existence. We know that from this ancient
differently. Today I will speak of what are apparently the most ordinary
the most abstract thing conceivable. What do men mostly picture as space?
— or there are still other definitions of space. But all that
— think how prosaic, cold, abstract, that all is! Three dimensions
standing at right angles to one another, or even all that geometry has
poverty-stricken, so poverty-stricken that the whole of space —
modern man knows little more than that it has length, breadth and height,
one may definitely say that space, as it was then experienced, was very
different for the human soul from the prosaic abstraction that it is
and left, in front and behind. The living feeling that one expressed
angles to each other. What a very monotonous occupation it would be
that was a deep experience when one felt above and below. Above, and
what is left and right of it gives together the form and you cannot
shape, of wisdom and form, was experienced by the man of old as what
only through thickness. In ancient times man felt vividly that in growing
of the above and below. He felt that in walking, he could move freely
that he was in the element of his will: before and behind. In between
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Title: Cosmic Prehistory: Lecture II: Lucifer and Ahriman
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must strive to press forward from the apparent reality, that is actually
around us continually, to the true reality. And I pointed out that the
precisely to delusion. I said that much rather must one strive to
well, and then in a living manner unite with each other what can be
what we have realised with regard to these two currents in human knowledge
of reality on this foundation. You will remember that I said: The course
second half of life what he has thought, what his soul on the whole
has gone through in the first half. I said that natural intelligence
prevails. What prevails as intelligence and also what we learn in these
would be able to understand what he thought, felt and willed as a child
up to the change of teeth. Thus it is only in later years that one becomes
The forces in man that can grasp what one went through intelligently
in the first years of childhood are in fact only born as late as that
life-period that dates from the change of teeth to puberty. Only think
what the child goes through in thought, feeling, willing, up to puberty,
Through his own human earthly forces man would be able to grasp what
And again what we live through
What we devise and develop as ideals we should only grasp in its importance,
forces. Only what we experience between the ages of 28 and 35 stands
development in a lifetime if you reflect upon what has been brought
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Title: Cosmic Prehistory: Lecture III: Romanism and Freemasonry
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If we bring to mind what
that must replace ours towards the future in an energetic way, that
it should look deeper into true reality, that above all such high-sounding
Idealism, Realism, and so on, come to an end, and that men realise that
from merely following up theoretically all that exists in the world
not suppose that the materialistic concept of the world which has spread
that there arises a sort of external manifestation of the ideas which
men have had in their heads; but that is not the case. As soon as one
turns one's mind to the conditions that in reality follow one another
then that does not accord at all, it is not true that the world is somehow
only understands that this cannot be the reality if one realises that
the human being is of a double nature, as we have explained, that in
other continually. Only because that is so is the following concrete
phenomenon possible. Let us assume that an age would give itself up
part of human nature that is the bearer of the conscious life. To begin
with, the bearer of the conscious life has not that thoroughgoing influence
on human life that a superficial observation is inclined to attribute
influence of materialism more and more spiritual. So that the actual
that the lower nature of man becomes increasingly spiritual. You must
that a materialistic age actually prepares a spiritual culture, but
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Title: How Can Mankind Find Christ Again?: Lecture 2: The Entrance of Christianity into the Course of Earth Evolution
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time is not likely, perhaps, to create in many people that depth of
Christmas Holy Nights, when the soul that is prepared for it is able to
legend from the performances given here, that of Olaf Åsteson.
in the external world the general spirit of our time, that a Christmas
mood, a Christmas impulse, must now be sought anew by mankind. What
While it is true that for many believers the Christ still stands at
the center of their religious creed and that beside Him all else of
time now the rise of a theology that has really lost the Christ, that
that is essential when the human heart looks up to Christ needs to be
sense — if a true impulse is to be reawakened that will lead human
let us today direct our spiritual vision primarily to what might be
of the Old Testament. We can observe the phenomena that occurred among
divided into two separate currents, that of the Pharisees and that of
But that is merely the designation we use; there has always existed
that place for which the most important designation up to the time of
the Mystery of Golgotha was that Solomon's Temple had been built
longer at the place from which that spirituality streamed forth. The
sometimes gigantic symbols all that was contained in the world conception
beings. It was nonetheless an image of the universe that in a certain
sense and in one direction was extraordinarily one-sided. That is to
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Title: How Can Mankind Find Christ Again?: Lecture 3: Brotherliness and Freedom ...
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with the body that is given to him from the stream of heredity. I described
that someone who observes a child with understanding will notice how
he does not yet know of the distinctions that exist in the human social
leads them. I said that if we observe clearly and without prejudice
which affect mankind through the hereditary stream; that when such impulses
appear clearly in the natural course of that stream, we must call them
sense, to offer upon the altar of Christ what nature has bestowed upon
through heredity and conditions of birth; the other with the fact that
of his earthly life the essential impulse for equality. This shows that
taken into account. We have pointed out in another connection that the
and the Luciferic in Human Life,” where it is shown that the luciferic
in the second half; that both these impulses are active throughout life,
fashion, in a certain sense precipitating what should have been a tranquil
some of you know that it has frequently been necessary, from questions
There is a certain fact that I have always found necessary to emphasize
in this connection, namely, that the various modern philosophical conceptions
we ascribe free will to man? or may we only say that he stands within a
shows you that man
is becoming ever freer, that he is extricating himself from necessity,
that more and more impulses are growing in him that make it possible
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Title: How Can Mankind Find Christ Again?: Lecture 4: Contrasting Principles of Ancient and Modern Initiation
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itself, as it were (one cannot say that, of course, except by way of
development of Christianity, we must show to what extent it has evolved
be able to see in what way the Mysteries are to be established anew.
and pre-Christian Egypto-Chaldean epochs. What impelled people to seek
forced them to believe that the world they saw spread out around them
was not in itself the true world, but that they must find the means
fact when they faced any riddles of knowledge: they knew that however
this knowledge that people possessed in ancient times, one must remember
that we are speaking of an era in which most human beings still had
activities that were by no means limited to what we today call processes
of elemental spirits in nature, they had a deep knowledge that these
to the true being of the world, that this true being of the world must
like the following: their power comes from the insight that to whatever
that a conception of nature could give no explanation of the being of
man. On the contrary, they were convinced that the being of man is connected
the world!”: that was the impulse, one might say; and that impulse
must first pass through the “gate of man.” That means, the
I would like to point out what is essential for the understanding of
Christianity. Therefore, do not regard what I shall say as an exhaustive
What the neophyte at the
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Title: How Can Mankind Find Christ Again?: Lecture 5: The Change in the Human Soul Constitution
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lectures I have wanted particularly to indicate that the entire
times, which is what we have been chiefly considering. People's way of
a way that the slightest idea of it is beyond the understanding of
means. Yesterday we tried to show that especially what may be called the
from the ego-consciousness of later epochs, and that again from our
present. I tried to characterize these differences by saying that in
only a reflection of the true ego in what we consciously call our ego.
I have referred to this fact in public lectures by saying that a man of
the truth because he is confused by a philosophic maxim that plays a
great role in today's world view, a role that is becoming disastrous,
in our time should be fully conscious of the fact that in all he includes
connected with his ego, concepts that must be worked through by his ego.
— I explained yesterday how it shines in — and what we bear
is accomplished in our day. We will then be able to see that as we move
especially what I wanted to make clear yesterday.
that if we ask what impulses, what forces are active in the evolution
of the earth and the evolution of humanity, we learn that certain divine-
of view that these Spirits of Form have to a certain extent —
on behalf of the most important concerns of mankind, and that other
for this fact that presents itself to supersensible research, namely,
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Title: How Can Mankind Find Christ Again?: Lecture 6: Transformation of the Human Being in the Course of Evolution
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Someone may think that
our time. What can be described as the process of initiation, especially
in connection with initiation is this: that some individual notices
in himself an increasing consciousness of something that takes place
in most other people unconsciously. That is, the difference between
that most people of the present time experience as a matter of course
speaking of something that concerns everyone more or less, especially
Now I have said that from
the very description of these events — that is, of what may be
from the description itself can be learnt what transformations man has
that is really hardly comprehended even by one who wants to understand
trying sincerely to understand, you will surely find much that is incomprehensible
external history — that when the Christ Impulse entered the world,
alien to present-day concepts that come from the external world. They
in this evolution, of what led to His descent to humanity and His union
In short, what the Gnosis had to say about the Mystery of Golgotha was
in the early centuries that the concepts of the ancient Gnosis should
disappear, leaving only meager remnants that tell very little. And I
have indicated to you that people are endeavoring today, wherever possible,
inconvenient, by saying that its intention is to warm up the ancient
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Title: How Can Mankind Find Christ Again?: Lecture 7: Experiences of the Old Year and Outlook over the New Year (part 1)
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need of every human soul that on the last day of the year our thoughts
well look back in self-examination to find what has entered our external
of light may fall upon feelings that made our life seem more or less
when all that mankind has suffered in these last four-and-a-half years
science we cannot forget that when we look upon time flowing by and
they look out the window they receive the impression that the whole
to those good people in the train. They are deceived about what is at
rest in the landscape and what is moving. We sit within our physical
and etheric bodily nature that was given to us as a kind of vehicle
that really we may venture on the following comparison: we see the world
that such a thought may enter your souls. You know what I have told
the life from childhood to a ripe age that now we live unconsciously.
so that at definite stages he is able to know certain things out of
to which we are most subject in life, illusions that impress themselves
go on at a definite speed. There is always a certain speed in what is
coming about. But then turn your gaze from these events to what goes
life that is bound up with sense observation of the outer world and
directed, we find that our passage through the stream of time is far
slower than that of natural events. This is important for us to bear
slowly. Perhaps you will remember that I referred to this difference
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Title: How Can Mankind Find Christ Again?: Lecture 8: Experiences of the Old Year and Outlook over the New Year (part 2)
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What are the deeper impulses that brought mankind to today's catastrophic
events? Particularly, and more important, what are the deeper impulses
that brought mankind to the catastrophic mood that is clearly to be
directly into the deeper causes that underlie events in time. Our gaze
must turn first to what may be said to lie more on the surface of
happenings. It is then possible to describe this or that, and such
that everything is wrong. But one would like to point out that when
present moment in time — to stop short at what is on the surface;
our souls all that contributes to our view of the New Year that confronts
that it belongs to the most essential, the most supremely important
present-day knowledge that mankind is standing before a new revelation.
This is the revelation that is to take place, from a certain aspect
creative will occur in what we can observe as we follow the events of
of human nature that at first people will be averse to recognizing any
Cardinal Newman made a remarkable statement. He said that he saw no
And when one examines what has been said on the side of the
opinion that the talk should not be of a new revelation, but far rather
of holding fast to the old revelation, that if anything is necessary
it is first and foremost that the old revelation should be better understood
In the objections that were
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Title: Community Life: Address 1: The Goesch-Sprengel Situation - Part 1
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certain behaviors that serve evil purposes. On the good side, I am grateful
with profound gratitude to you and to anything you do that is devoted
a way that belongs only to the gods and not to any modern human being.
Christianity that has turned into its exact opposite are still able
of your work, objecting that your critics would be placing themselves
above you. They feel that putting oneself above you is such an act of
wanton temerity as to be out of the question, and that with their objection
among your pupils that as Christians, individuals must put themselves
however, you apply a number of means that work counter to this Christian
these means in detail so that the thrust of my contentions becomes clearer.
It is a fact that you have
will maintain that you do not have a sufficiently clear view of the
future, or that you are too weak to carry out your original intentions,
in order do something that is by rights reserved for destiny. A disappointment
that comes to us through karma has a direct and beneficial effect on
people in question have realized that the promise is not going to be
they have in you, they may assume that there must be a deep occult meaning
behind the way you act. They will conclude that there can be profound
occult reasons that permit or even obligate someone to make promises
emotions are so confused that they admire that kind of behavior and
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Title: Community Life: Address 2: The Goesch-Sprengel Situation - Part 2
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theme going beyond the events of the moment, and I hope that will be
For today, however, I still feel the need to say a few things that relate
gracious letter from the members that Mr. Bauer has just delivered to me
now that the things discussed in these letters have come to pass. What
I have to say will relate to the matter at hand only to the extent that
about the relationship of the details of what is going on among and
— speaking more or less aphoristically — that I read you
a letter yesterday that was signed by two members of the Society and
committing an indiscretion in telling you about a letter that Mr. Bauer
only after but during the reading of Mr. Goesch's letter, that we are
not dealing with anything logical but with something that has to be
we do not also ask whether we are allowed to tolerate the fact that
that we can have compassion for them. However, if we tolerate them without
constantly endanger everything that is most precious and most important
to us. Of course, we need to be clear that we are dealing with psychopaths,
but we must also be clear about what we have to do so that our cause
recurrent experience that is unavoidable in a spiritual movement such
are willing to admit that they are subject to vanity in certain areas
and that for the time being (perhaps for reasons having to do with their
of that vanity, that is a much lesser evil than wanting to be absolutely
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Title: Community Life: Lecture 1: Requirements of Our Life together in the Anthroposophical Society
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fostered in such a way that something that was to be impressed upon
of almost all such organizations that it is difficult, at least in actual
with evidence that there are very many people who actually do not like
having to join a society. They admit that they feel uncomfortable about
I received a letter to that effect.
emphasize again that a spiritual movement like this one is of necessity
societies, associations, or organizations that people have called into
one thing in mind. Just suppose that recent events confronting us had
as such. Let's assume hypothetically that we wanted to dissolve the
of points and statutes. That kind of society can be dissolved at any
we are different from other societies in that our Society is founded,
Just look at the fact that
That's a very real basis, because dissolving the Anthroposophical
that a certain number of people are in possession of these cycles. And
it is an equally real fact that a certain number of people are carrying
— but that's not the important thing as far as the Society is
concerned. It remains a reality that a certain wealth of wisdom, a sum
total of things that really exist, are present in the hearts and minds
That cannot be taken away from them even by dissolving the Society.
Society is different from other societies in that it will not tolerate
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Title: Community Life: Lecture 2: The Anthroposophical Society as a Living Being
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will be added to or subtracted from what our Society is essentially
That kind of association can be dissolved at any moment. But if it became
necessary to dissolve our Society and we actually disbanded, that would
that the lecture cycles are in the hands of all our members, a fact
that would not change in the slightest if the Society were dissolved.
You all know that in many
many definitions or explanations of what constitutes a living being.
You have probably learned enough on that subject from spiritual science
to realize that all these explanations and definitions are of necessity
was searching for a definition of the human being. What they finally
came up with was that a human being was a living being with two legs
a plucked chicken and said, “Here is a living thing that has two
life are no better than that. That's just the way it is with definitions,
and we have to be aware of that fact. There is also a comparable materialistic
definition of life given by a famous zoologist, a definition that is
“A living thing is something that can leave a corpse behind
under certain circumstances; what it leaves behind when it is destroyed
What is the nature of a
the same laws as it did when it was united with that soul. Instead,
leave behind at its dissolution. As a consequence, once we know what
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Title: Community Life: Lecture 3: Swedenborg: An Example of Difficulties in Entering the Spiritual World
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I have often talked about him and have always emphasized that
other hand, for those who really want to know what it takes to gain
is open to them, but that does not mean they are able to break free
I said that Swedenborg is
formed to prepare for publication, not what Swedenborg left behind as
had already accomplished so much that a whole committee of scholars
only a portion of what he knew.) This task is beyond the scope of any
single expert of today. And we are talking only about his writings that
to stop short at a stage that does not yet lead on to the ultimate in
worlds and about what can be brought back from them. I cannot emphasize
strongly enough that before his clairvoyance developed, Swedenborg was
It is interesting to note that when his soul ascended to the
experienced that he was not alone — he felt his soul expand to
then, he was advised by these spiritual beings that are present in each
that proceeded from within himself. He recognized some of these beings
It so happened that once,
the Sun, and so on. He was accustomed to thinking that spirits have
whole complex of forces that exists in order for speech to be able to
speech. This means that the inner structure of speech becomes unconscious,
out that Swedenborg had always been able to understand the language
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Title: Community Life: Lecture 4: Methods and Rational of Freudian Psychoanalysis
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I must assume that your minds would be less than ready to take in a
it, that lecture will be given tomorrow, but today I would like to speak
about something that will relate in some way to things you all must
very specific point of view, I would like to address the question of what
I have often said that it is important to arrive at the appropriate
context turns out to be what is most important for our anthroposophical
is Goesch's claim that promises have not been kept. If you listened
to the letter carefully, you will have noticed that the emphasis in
His primary accusation is that I looked for and systematically applied
a means of making promises to members and not keeping them, and that
once the members noticed that these promises were not being kept, they
were put into a state of mind that forced them into a particular relationship
accumulated in their souls that eventually made them lose their sound
Goesch presents is that systematic attempts were made to stifle the
members' good sense, that deliberately making and breaking promises
in a kind of stupefaction that turned them into zombies. That is the
have initiated a kind of contact with members that was suited, because
If you study this theory, you will begin to see that it is intimately
theory in brief — my intent is only to present a few points that
later on in Freud's life. In any case, please do not take what I am
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Title: Community Life: Lecture 5: Sexuality and Modern Clairvoyance, Freudian Psychoanalysis and Swedenborg as a Seer
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a talk on psychoanalysis into this lecture series, since that subject
You will have noticed that I first characterized the psychoanalytic
you could see that with this second aspect, an extremely unfortunate
There can be no doubt that
in distinguishing an unconscious that exists alongside the conscious
thinking that the human soul goes beyond what our ordinary consciousness
to extremes. It has done more than engulf their thinking, which is what
happened in the case of what is now erroneously known as monism. The
closely at such modern cultural phenomena, because they show us that
the scope of ordinary consciousness. That is the objective side of the
aspect is that these people are so tangled up in materialism that their
of formulating their outlook on life. That is part and parcel of materialism
thing about philosophies like psychoanalysis is that people are on the
right track, but drag their impure instincts into what is true. It is
of the fact that so much of what is at work in human life is unconscious,
truly unconscious. That is where psychoanalysts are on the right track
and have come upon many things that are true and correct.
certain infantile characteristics of civilized human beings that manifest
From what we discussed yesterday,
you will recall that psychoanalysts explain many things as the result
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Title: Community Life: Lecture 6: The Concept of Love as it Relates to Mysticism
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in my mind that the great majority of people with their rather superficial
way of looking at things would immediately respond that love is as old
old. Our modern notion of love — what love means to us today and
how that is instilled in people — has played a part in the human
heart and mind only for the past six or seven centuries. Before that,
The objection that human beings have always made a practice of loving
does not hold good; that would be like saying that if the Earth revolves
as long as it has been in existence. Of course that's true, but the
valid to object that what is expressed in the idea of love must have
way in the past six or seven hundred years in that respect; in fact,
we have come so far that love occupies a central position in many people's
view of life. And not only that, we now have a scientific theory, the
that anthroposophists in particular are called upon to resist and to
that I described these same things quite precisely from a historical
were all taken aback by my statement that our idea of love is only six
other words, someone who cannot overcome his supposed insight that outer
This puts him in a very strange position in that it makes him aware
of the fact that the word “mysticism” has existed down through
what stands behind both the word itself and actual mystical aspirations.
that particular relationship of the human soul to super-earthly worlds
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Title: Community Life: Lecture 7: The Philosophy of Psychoanalysis as Illuminated by an Anthroposophical Understanding of the Human Being
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going to add to what we talked about yesterday, and if possible, I would
this series, I stressed that finding the right perspective is essential
facts. The belief that the truth can be arrived at by proceeding to
which to approach it. We must realize that finding the right perspective
that makes psychoanalysis revolting — in fact, its starting point
intrude their personal feelings and emotions. The fact that it has incorporated
the conscious and the unconscious mind. They would realize that dragging
of any true study is that it tends to lead us far beyond our original
realize that we have to take anthroposophy seriously and give it the
respect it deserves. That is, we must not incorporate previous subjective
but must rather let ourselves be guided by what that philosophy requires.
life, that habit may be merely unpleasant or less than advantageous
for that person's advancement, but in our anthroposophical movement,
that kind of behavior an inner impossibility except in cases of dire
started at twenty past six. If we carry on like that, my friends, we
In the somewhat attenuated circumstances that come about when we cannot
be sure that members will not continue to arrive once we have begun,
function when the Society needs to make sure that everyone present is
actually a member; that is, when some of us have to go to the extra
to be able to shut the doors and know that everyone is here.
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Title: Migrations ...: Lecture 1: The Social Homunculus
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I have often seized the occasion to point out to you that particularly
by few people to-day. As a rule, they think that they can learn something
for what we so sorely need at present, and that is an understanding
life. Here I think that particularly a significant event of modern times
the social question, we would always find that in regard to social work
across the following attitude: Suppose you were to tell him that according
therein that all the people who have certain leading positions,
should begin to develop a feeling of social responsibility and feel that
smile, and then he will tell you that it is very naive of you to believe
that the social question can now be solved through feeling, or an activity
population will tell you: Everything that flows out of the feeling of the
may think what it likes in regard to ethical or moral feelings…
listen to proposals that the feeling of social responsibility should be
conditions, so that the working class itself may bring about a change
the general misery. The essential point is not that of increasing the
sense of moral responsibility, but that the oppressed, miserable working
that no trust should be put in the power of thought; we should not believe
that a right comprehension, a right understanding of life can bring about
that he was the only man in Germany who did not “govern”,
the man with the short legs had always remained behind, so that he was
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Title: Migrations ...: Lecture 2: What Form Can the Requirements of Social Life Take
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What Form Can the Requirements of Social Life Take on at the Present Time?
What Form Can the Requirements of Social Life Take
We can really say that
riddle we may say that a certain deep tragedy now lies over humanity. For
we can see that the social problem, which many people — particularly
matter is that wherever the social problem now rises to the surface
in practical life, we find that men of every profession and of every
or that question connected with the social development, (it is easy
to see that this is entailed by the conditions of the present do not
so urgently requires. Do we not see that the leading men of the bourgeoisie
fact that they should really admit to themselves: We are confronting
since that time, the leaders of humanity have not really done anything
to develop true judgments in regard to that which is really needed.
been dispersed; now they exist no longer. We might say that up to the
time which preceded the 17th and 17th century, we find that people were
in such a way as to offer a certain satisfaction to the people of that
sphere of work. One might say, that every man had a full share in the
was now striving. We therefore see that from the 16th and 17th century
of economic life and that the old associations, the old communities,
of men who are now bungling with the social problem in this or in that
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Title: Migrations ...: Lecture 3: Emancipation of the Economic Process
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that what they designate as the socialistic economic order is an immediate
and causal continuation of what has gradually arisen within the economic
that the capitalistic economic order must gradually, and of its own
reason that the socialistic economic order is already contained within
that which has developed through capitalism during the past centuries.
above all love statistics),. there is a great deal in what I have explained
of workmen. Through the fact that these industrial concerns have taken
the circumstance that these large concerns cannot isolate themselves,
because they must reckon with competition, so that, in a certain way,
socialists believe that the modern socialistic idea has led to the socialisation
of industry, and that the accompanying phenomena of this socialisation
process would be that a community of workmen is no longer brought together
by individual employers, but that they are instead employed by a common
the soul constitution of the modern proletariat. There we find that
proletarians, which consists therein that workmen believe that they
are completely at the mercy of their employers. They think that they
of modern men (and this is due to many reasons) that they have a predilection
present merely from the aspect that it must finally culminate in the
contested. But you know what methods are required, particularly from
a spiritual-scientific aspect, so that it will not be difficult for
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Title: Migrations ...: Lecture 4: Three Conditions Which Determine Man's Position
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been drawn to a few things showing that the currents of feeling and
socialistic thinking and of modern socialistic aims. We might say: What
believe that the ruling classes can in any way contribute moral impulses,
that the capitalistic foundation, of which I have spoken to you yesterday,
themselves, shows that their words often contain a more or less conscious
science in such a way that there is no connection between the ideas
of whose priests are really very learned men, emphasizes that the scientists
facts, and that they should in no way attempt to mingle spiritual or
an opinion by consulting one of these books and asking ourselves: What
truly nothing, can be gained from such books! That which constitutes
the one hand, a rhetoric dallying with,ethical subjeats, so that no
humanity in such a way that ethical requirements become at the same
which should be borne in mind to-day, is that a straight path must lead
ignored, if greater misfortune than that of the past years is not to
is that it has completely severed man's personal aspirations from the
that it is a superior attitude to separate soul-life from the concerns
of daily life, and so they completely lose that survey of life which
contributes to the fact that people drink beer! — Now I am not
which these members set out, was that they were against beer drinking.
not to see, that person who has a comparatively unimportant situation
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Title: The Social Question as a Question of Consciousness: Lecture 1
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the events that weave themselves into his life, can be aware that this
to put into practice, as far and as suitably as possible, what we have
application, the question can only be what at a definite point of time
is suitable, what answers the purpose, what in a certain relation is
something in accordance with what has gone before, something the hard-pressed
above all appears one thing that is most significant — the existence
stand the circles that have hitherto more or less led men's destiny;
leading circles of mankind prevails, where man's destiny and that of
in which lives everything that is divided from the other by the deep
gulf. Whoever has carefully followed what has issued from Paris and
what on the other hand has been attempted in Berne, at the socialist
Congress, could not but confess that the essential thing, the significant
and lasting thing, that will make itself felt in human evolution, is
not the result of what is thought and hoped for in Paris or Berne, but
the fact that in these two places two such very different social languages
have been spoken. To be really honest one has to confess that here we
significant phenomenon may strike everyone as justifying what I have
so often said here, namely, that if we are to understand these things
must be looked for that are deeper than those sought today by either
side. Time and again we have the opportunity of seeing what I referred
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Title: The Social Question as a Question of Consciousness: Lecture 2
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In connection with what
that in man's present conditions of life everything depends upon arousing,
forget that the way the relations in life have recently developed has
as is only occasioned by what arises out of human souls. As the situation
that for a time things may go on, but it would be a mistake to think
What I have put in rather
a complicated form can also be said more simply. We may say that what
today — of whatever party — stands very far removed. It
of the utmost importance that what is agitating the souls of many millions
of the proletariat is something very different from what lives in the
error than formerly, nevertheless the assumption that something can
be attained by muddling through would be false. What modern man lacks
Do not think that this social
for its development. That is not of any consequence; the point is that
is quite right today that attention should be given above all to finding
so many. It is widely believed that it is possible today to deal with
today on acquiring this understanding. I have said that men today in
that a simple reassortment of social levels can bring about real change;
a mistake to fancy that things could be changed thus. Many have this
being so developed that they comply with the necessity inherent in the
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Title: The Social Question as a Question of Consciousness: Lecture 3
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that what I have put forward here and elsewhere about the present social
further, that there has been an endeavour to let flow into the Appeal
thing, and that is how ways and means may be found to call up the clearest
possible understanding for what must enter into mankind, to promote
post-Atlantean epoch have had the result that in people endowed with a
that the thinking underlying these people's will, takes on a definite
form. And from this thinking that has a definite form, in essentials the
foundation in those thoughts that people are able to formulate in
When on the one hand you understand what the threefold social organism
still be groping in uncertainty as to what is to happen. It cannot be
content. On the most various occasions we have had to emphasise that
what people really think matters very much less than how they think,
importance for what is penetrating and decisive in the present world
democratic, socialist or bolshevik. What people say is not very important,
but what is important is how they think, in what way their thoughts
into what lies behind all this. For, as I recently said in Basle, as
time goes on very little will depend upon the programmes that go around
there is only anthroposophical thinking that can guide men's thinking
the same they are theorists who cannot face reality. But what is developing
will come from the way in which men think. It is just this that I want
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Title: The Social Question as a Question of Consciousness: Lecture 4
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In what we have here been
from what appears more on the surface. A man may think he is striving
for this or that, whereas in reality in his innermost soul there hold
is coming to expression on the surface of the soul from what is living
interpretation of history; secondly, the view that up to now, in reality,
class struggles have been at the basis of what has gone on in the world,
what is now happening being thought to be a reflection of these class
struggles. The third thing is the theory of surplus value, that is,
the theory that surplus value arises through the unpaid labour of the
worker, which makes a profit that is than taken by the employer from
What makes the impulses
combination of these three factors. This, however, refers only to what
and therefore knows nothing of what, in the depths of the soul, is actually
for the present age, what may be called Spiritual Science. The second
these three things. Their instincts follow the other three things that
we see particularly clearly what a complete contrast they make. Take
life, from all that is working in the sphere of man's economic life.
In the historical course of man's life there is actually only what is
belief, what kind of art they have cultivated, what attitude they have
that is, it has no independent reality, being a reflection of the eternal
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Title: The Social Question as a Question of Consciousness: Lecture 5
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The fact brought to light by the subject of our observations was that,
distinction must be made between what goes on superficially in ordinary
consciousness in the soul, and what on the other hand is working in the
so-called materialistic interpretation of history; then what the
proletariat have learnt from their leaders, what they understand as the
class struggle that is at the basis of all that happens historically; and
himself to illusion when he says that all that develops historically
of this subconscious yearning of his soul for spiritual knowledge. What
proletarian utters the word class-struggle, he does not realise that
this is only an attempt to disguise what is filling the soul of modern
what is happening, from the attitude of those who observe merely what
for its content all that has been absorbed into the will of the most
For in an extreme form it is often easier to recognise what, though no
leading thoughts. It cannot be denied that Fichte was one of the most
If what he there presents as a kind of ideal picture of social conditions
is studied in its reality, it can only be said that, if realised, this
of his own innermost soul arose a picture of a communal order that aimed
I can imagine that many people today, concerned about the injustices
upon this; it is enough to think that you have here, described in the
cultured language of a philosopher, what Bolshevism is doing. You will
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Title: The Social Question as a Question of Consciousness: Lecture 6
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namely, whether what can be expressed as the present situation of mankind
is a reality or a mere dream; whether what mankind is now experiencing
is not actually a sort of dreamed reality? What he said about it ran
something like this: “Do we not hear, do we not see clearly that
pressing for realisation there lives a longing in our life to know that
times, who dreamed what the world would look like in 2000 years. With
like the one in which we are destined to live. Nevertheless what persists
is the one Utopia in the world, and what we want, what lives in us as
the war — can it reasonably be thought possible that such a thing
could be thought-out? If the war were not what is called reality it was
This is what Kurt Eisner
felt, and what he said about it shortly before his death in Basle. The
is of importance that we should be in a position to discern the actual
truth about what surrounds us in the external world. It is particularly
important that what the world needs and above all what is needed for
that has led to the present catastrophe, which becomes plain when one
social conditions in the common life of men that reality has gradually
These are things that cannot
and show us that the cure for existing conditions can come only from
impulses out of the spiritual world. For what has become estranged from
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Title: The Social Question as a Question of Consciousness: Lecture 7
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little adapted to direct thinking towards what the purely perceptible
aversion to thoughts that do not run in the old grooves. But never before,
perhaps, would it have been so apt to ask how it comes about that people
same in all their utterances — in what, for example, the Secretary
effect that by the efforts of the European Cabinets it had been possible
to create a satisfactory relation between the great powers, and that
these self-styled ‘practical’ men. Thus it was at that time.
What else do we experience
repeatedly appears, quite typically, what is produced out of powerful
or what He Himself said — the Son of the living God. Since one
only the other possibility, namely, that it is true that He was, as
He said, the Son of the living God! What was there in print in my religious
He can only have been what He said, the Son of the living God!”
great world catastrophe of crying aloud to the multitude things that
to end gave no hint of what should happen, what must happen. It was
solely a kind of condemnation of many immoral practices that, in the
too, one realised that nothing had been learnt from the sad experiences
emphasise that men's thoughts today have become dull and summary. They
are entirely superficial. Men cannot see into what it is that these
again and again, my dear friends, that during the last four centuries
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Title: The Social Question as a Question of Consciousness: Lecture 8
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on international questions it is already forgotten that the founding
either side. That you may see how exactly Wilson, on 22nd January, 1917,
thing in what has been said is that there must be peace without victory.
state my own views about it and to emphasise that no other conception
that peace would be forced upon the vanquished, that the vanquished
only lasting peace is a peace established between equals, a peace that
At that time this was held
we think clearly, it must be said that the moment this peace without
example of the thinking that has brought the world so much misery. And
unless we see that in place of this thinking estranged from reality
there must be one that can penetrate reality, the situation will certainly
not change in a way that is healing for mankind. This must be understood
mention, therefore, must continually come before our souls: What then,
We know that what we call
convinced that there is a supersensible world. That is the what.
But the important thing is that whoever in the true sense takes into his
thinking what today can be told in the right way about the supersensible
be transformed, in such a way that he really gets a sense for, an interest
in, what truly and actually takes place in the world. It does not merely
depend on what we acknowledge through Spiritual Science, but
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Title: The Karma of the Individual and the Collective Life of Our Time, Goethe
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have perceived that it is our intention in this lecture to lead
world, and with the more or less distant past. That will
perhaps show you why, now that I wish to explain
something that really concerns every one very closely, I
scientists of to-day will point out again and again that man
— the principle that because
tribes belonging to the valleys of Kamchatka,
believe that the water-wagtails or similar birds bring
too frequently, we draw the same conclusion: What follows
of his life — descriptions of a human life that
shines far and wide over humanity — we read that he had
such and such a father, such and such a mother, and that in
narrates. Thereupon the biographers trace back what he
accordance with the principle that because something follows on
something else it must therefore proceed from it. That is
no wiser than to believe that the Spring is brought by the
boy directed to what lives and moves as Spirit in the phenomena
in his environment. In Goethe especially, what he brought with
we study the time into which Goethe was born in that
say: What Goethe has created —
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that isolated individuals like Goethe are able to produce such
especially of Goethe's Faust. How is it that a single human
mankind through his creations? How does it come about that
ourselves: What can we tell by this difference between the life
All that a man can perceive to begin with, especially with the
initial understanding of the matter that is enough, and it is
But the point is that in thus describing it we are giving only
reality in one description. Whatever we describe, it is always
applies to the head when we say that the Ego and astral body of
are working- upon man as it were from without—all that is
understand what I have just said, we must however also realise
in the following respect. I have often emphasised that the
this respect: the sensory nerves are so arranged that they
nerve is not there to enable me to move my hand. That is
movement of my hand, that is, inwardly to perceive, whereas the
That is the only difference.
goes without saying—those that come from the ordinary
the other aspect which I once explained, namely that the whole
body. That is an altogether different matter and should be kept
Bearing this in mind, we shall readily conceive that there is a
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people may think that the study of this question from the
be changed, as against the conditions that obtained in former
species. Thus many things that come within the scope of human
short-sighted way. People often imagine that it was in olden
times as it is to-day; that the leaders of human affairs were
remember that in the Mysteries of olden time there were quite
work. What the priests thus received of the will of the guiding
things are not done in this way. Let us suppose that our
things that surround us. In summer the Earth is asleep.
we may read what the Cosmos requires of our earthly
as to become sensitive and receptive to what was living in the
cosmic Will. According to what they thus discovered as the
certain sense, is handed over to chaos in this respect. Of that
what should take place here on the Earth, took place throughout
the fourth post-Atlantean period. For in that period the human
present, somewhat chaotic conditions. Everything is tending to
period of civilization (the 3rd post-Atlantean), that which
people of to-day do not observe what really happens. It is a
astonished to discover all that is observable even in
work upon him what is quite recognisable even in this
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that great thing which must consist of an entirely new attitude
of the human soul to what works its way through priests'
have always been attracted to what is present in the activities
layman who participates in it, we must take a look at what the
development on earth, what it is and what it must become.
Looked at from another angle what the act of consecration of
service with the real content of what John, who had been
striven towards an apocalypse have always been aware that one
will be able to explain many things if we tell ourselves that
beautiful things to human beings, we can say that their
importance derived from the fact that dignified priests in the
that is connected with human instruction was occurring between
divine teachers and human beings, and when what took place in
the cults occurred in such a way that supersensible and
But what was transubstantiation in the ancient mysteries?
that there are chronologies where they assume the existence of
course of cosmic events. What human beings can calculate never
remainder is always left over, that is, human calculations
the cosmic course of events. One could say that this
These holy weeks made it very clear that the ways gods and men
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of consecration of man and apocalyptic things, so that we will
pointed out that there was a very ancient mystery period during
the gods sent down their forces, so that the men who lived in
could say that the path was completely reversed during the
third epoch when the mysteries were partly renovated. At that
time man shaped and developed forces so that they could lead
him up to the gods. We saw that man looked for a way up to the
directly upon the auditor's whole soul mood, so that he became
and everything else that is connected with their activities in
an understanding of what transubstantiations and apocalypses
thing we have already seen is that the act of consecration of
that men and the gods can work together.
and acts of consecration of man we find that the gods found the
way to men at certain times that are really differences between
what one can calculate in the course of time and what the
to carry our transubstantiations, and they saved what had
out transubstantiations with the preserved things that had been
transubstantiations at that time was a cave or a grotto. And in
ancient mysteries, we see that they tried to carry out the
fact that they tried to do this is connected with the
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astral body. This is that member of the human being which
can round out this idea if we realize that the ego-organization
that we can say: here are the physical and etheric bodies of
not receptive for impressions from the environment during that
what I described to you, during the third mystery epoch when
that it experiences transubstantiations and in such a way that
People can really become receptive for these things today, that
between the esotericism which rightfully exists today and what
must live in a priest's soul. We have described what can make
have often used an analogy. I said that people are inclined to
supported so that it won't fall down and therefore the planets
in the universe must also be supported so that they won't fall
authoritative way, people believe that the planets in the
many people doubt that Anthroposophical truths support and
carry each other, and that they don't have to be supported by
soon as one sees that Anthroposophical truths are valid because
they all support each other, so that the truths mutually
support each other, in that moment one will stop saying: I
begin to understand Anthroposophy through the fact that its
inner path today is the task of penetrating what is given about
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before our souls yesterday, and I pointed out that it is a
that the letter which was sent to John must be looked upon as
that the writer of such a document did not consider himself to
be the author in the way that we look upon the author of a work
today, but he felt that he was the instrument of the spiritual
writer. He felt that the act of writing the content down was no
latter. This proceeds from everything that follows in a way
that is really oriented in accordance with the Mystery.
can say that our contemporary world needs an understanding of
further. Just consider that what is written down in an inspired
this particular case, but it is something that you will often
kinds of examples to show why he didn't think that the Bible
should be taken literally. I said to him, “It's true that
this. It only tries to understand what the original text is
never found that one couldn't take the original text of the
One can really say that anyone who cannot take a particular
here which is' probably a little bit more esoteric than what
that confession which have remained behind from the old
used was indirect, it nevertheless stated quite bluntly that
extent that this is based on mystery knowledge. The idea that
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in the way it should be read today. Already for the reason that
we must become fully conscious of what is guiding spiritual
matter of orienting ourselves to what the Apocalypticer tells
many different viewpoints; so that we can describe the
community in Ephesus in the way that we did yesterday. We then
find that the Christianity there developed out of certain
However, we can also point out that much of the basic structure
contained in the later phases of Indian civilization. So that
I showed you that this church in Sardis was somewhat
astrologically oriented, and that it was oriented towards
now take what we're trying to bring into our spiritual view of
If one looks at Sardis' past one sees that there was still
future to which he pointed at that time, which is as it were
have another indication, as it were, of what the secret of the
finds out what human nature is if one contemplates something
we find that the way man felt about himself, and his whole
later. Man had a distinct inner feeling that he was growing
that they had lived up in the spiritual world before their life
everyone knew that they had been a spiritual being before they
documents very much, but the fact is that people, took the
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the first things he experienced there was that his thoughts and
what arises from this initiation principle in the Apocalypse.
of course what is connected with this number seven was not
connected with it in the external way that one usually imagines
possible, and that mankind has lost its ability to experience
that the most manifold and wonderful content and even a whole
sound elements before your souls. Now try to imagine what
time that lived with these 32 elements in a very active way and
of this experience of 32 speech sounds. One really felt that
pictorial shaping of words when one spoke; one experienced that
that about 24 of them are consonants and that about 7 of them
“In the beginning was the word” fall on that
felt that the secret of the universe weaved and lived in what
one intoned in holy cultic language in the way that I already
the first Christian centuries one finds that a few people have
because they still felt what the secret of numbers is and
one experienced what is present in three and in four, namely,
numbers. Just think what this means. In music we have an octave
other things in nature. Just suppose that it would occur to
was told that he shouldn't toss his thoughts back and forth
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more from outside. Then the main thing is to apply what we read
Apocalypse arose. But I don't mean that one should do this by
the way that it could be created in its time in accordance with
we must realize that this shooting in of the ego into the
important. One has to tell oneself that one understands things
that the whole relation off divine beings to men started
beings, etc., at the time when a somewhat unconscious question
opposed to each other, and we see that Äthanasius' view
because it is important that we do so if we really want to
like the Apocalypse. On the one hand Arius sees that man is
climbing higher and higher, and that he's supposed to get ever
question with a no. He basically took the position that became
that is, he didn't really want to admit that God dwells in man,
things that happened later when Christianity became decadent
that it became necessary for the further evolution of mankind
to decide the whole question in the way that Athanasius does,
council in Nicaea, because it declared that trichotomy is
was definitely that shock which occurred within when the ego
Europe. We see that the old Roman culture could basically not
absorb Christianity, because öf what it had become. It is
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Yesterday I pointed out that the Apocalypticer sees something
which is breaking in upon what he feels is the real
Christianity and lead them back to the Father principle that
or it would be better to say that he feels them like a musician
at certain places. What we'll have to do is to look into the
cosmos so that we can get more secrets about 666 from it.
should consider that the entire Christian revelation is really
a sun revelation, and that Christ is a being who comes from the
consider that we are living in a Michael age, it will be
combatting Christianity will always be to oppose the idea that
that the secret of the sun as the secret of Christ himself
would be forgotten and that the whole evolution of humanity
What happens outwardly in the world order occurs on the
And so we will try to get an idea of what these supersensible
that it doesn't take the present stage of humanity upon earth,
but what is already contained in this present state in a
have to say that the earth is meant to be the place where human
beings evolve, and that's why it's located at the center. We
have other planets like present-day Jupiter which shows us that
work in connection with the individual planets we get what is
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that we have gathered together a number of elements in order to
such a way that we begin with several questions which are
connected with the goal or end of what the Apocalypticer sees
and what he wants to communicate to mankind; later on we will
we look at what he gives, one could say that it is a
but a revelation which differs considerably from what arises
are brought to men. The Apocalypticer points out that it was a
can say that of course the Mystery of Golgotha is the great
occur in order that Christian evolution continues from the
event. The author of the Apocalypse is fully aware that he's
thereby not only putting what he experienced and is
communicating to people into present-day evolution, but that
what lies in the reception and further elaboration of the
religious confessions is that one has teachings in the ancient
through the influence of intellectualism. One could, say that
this is why that famous statement could be made: Jesus
important. This means that, only the. Father belongs in the
Golgotha was that Christ. Jesus has appeared and has given a
teaching from the Father. That is not the important thing. The
important thing is that a deed was done on Golgotha —
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our souls. If we understand it correctly we see that this last
viewpoint of the most exact spiritual science. We saw that the
from a below upwards mode to an above downwards mode, and that
lecture I pointed out that if one honestly tries to understand
However, we see that a meaning is incorporated in certain
the spiritual world. Of course one has to be able to see that
his work in an intellectualistic way, that is, whether he
understood them to that extent. For that is not important at
not through him. So that even outer, rationalistic experts
had this or that amount of education, and one cannot really
out that this is not important. We must place the
magnificent picture appears before our soul, namely, that
magnificent picture where the Apocalypticer sees what he calls
of whom he speaks in such a way that we become aware: he
human being. He speaks in such a way that he is really still
aware with I his whole soul that one has the three forms of the
one God before one, and that if one places oneself outside of
picture of three persons, so that one has to distinguish
three beings, so that thinking, feeling and willing become
somewhat independent. However, if we go to higher worlds from
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Title: The Apocalypse: Lecture XI
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Let's imagine that we are in the world into which the
this rejoicing. But before we do that let's take a look at the
First comes what is called the fall of Babylon. Here we can
at which they really belong is included in what the
spiritual principles in him, that is, if the material doesn't
way he does if he assumed that passions, desires and everything
from the beginning. To say that this is unjustified —
side in such a way, that he places them in the service of good
used at that time (they weren't coarse then) into our language.
Babylonian teaching developed in this somewhat mediumistic way.
there is a certain discrepancy between what they reveal and
what they are, they can eventually no longer distinguish
also what happened at the time of the Babylonian priests.
but the problem was with what occurred when the medium returned
error to think that one can use the concepts of lies and truth
understand, just as it is difficult to understand what happens
here in the physical world we say that a straight line is the
other one is shorter. So that we cannot apply anything which we
for the fact that the moment he returns to the physical world
to other forms of corruption. Hence the fact is that Babylon
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course today we can remember that it is a favorable karmic
situation that we are together again on the day when the first
very closely connected with what is contained in the act of
consecration of man; and therefore every day that we spend on
the Apocalypse is really a memorial festival for what we
what wanted to reveal itself from the spiritual world into this
appropriate today that we will have a point in the Apocalypse
forehead to such an extent that there is no doubt that we
cannot get anything out of what is connected with this
viewpoint. And you may be assured that what I will have to say
know that this fourth post Atlantean age began about the year
747 before the Mystery of Golgotha, that the Mystery of
Golgotha fell in this fourth post Atlantean age and that it can
into account. Thus we can make a schematic sketch of what is
So that we can say, the 5th post Atlantean age is here, and it
let's take a look at what this fourth Atlantean epoch is. It
was preceded by what I have often called the Lemurian epoch in
earth evolution, and then by what we can call the second and
definitely repetitions; it's true that they are repetitions on
fourth or Atlantean epoch is something new. What happened
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have already shown that the Apocalypse is built up on the
universe, to the extent that they can disclose rhythmical
revelations which are written in the way that the Apocalypse of
visions that the Apocalypticer speaks about arise if one has
shouldn't think that this number 7 has much content or that its
someone feels that there are important spiritual backgrounds
year 1905, that is the observation year, and so on. However, if
I am the observer at any time and I know what I'm observing,
whatever makes the seventh impression explains the first one,
really a methodic principle to find one's way into what
can do this precisely in connection with the fact that we
regulating things in the world. We pointed out that John's
grasps what one is standing in in this way.
in the world which it was important to mention at that time
with the Apocalypse and realize that the Apocalypse describes a
what goes on down below in a supersensible way to day. The
significant thing today is that people accept things
indifferently and that they do not interpret them in a
connection, namely to the beginning of the 1840s. I said that
that is connected with materialism was already decided in
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this lecture. Except that I would like to answer some of them
Apocalypse. One cannot always say that these pictorial
renderings of what is in the Apocalypse are very felicitous.
of the seal that is involved here and which will be realized in
division of the human being that is expressed in
division is related to the others that are given in
thoughts that are freely created in man's consciousness, and
not the kind that are permeated by sense perceptions. Here,
viewpoint; they are a full reality to such a small extent that
images, and yet in a certain sense we can. The image that
thoughts have some force when they are developed, so that we
thoughts that man has during his lifetime are really like
its full content. So that although we hear spirit in our human
What we bear within us there comes from a world which I called
the earth as an illusory reflection. When we think we carry what
and feelings is that one is the content of the soul during the
waking state and the other is its content during sleep. What we
death comes from another world that I described from a certain
What constitutes men's bodies on earth today does not develop
something in your feelings that points to what exists in man's
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will now try to imagine how what is said about the woes, etc.,
upheavals in advance. We should realize that what I interpreted
should consider that although the things that take place in the
than people think; people generally think that the effects of
instance, when I said yesterday that certain leading
really represent a force that should only be active in cloud
formations, it indicates that what is going on in the heads of
Russian leaders will someday be something that will appear as
germinal condition. So that one can say that the current
that will occur above the heads of men.
We're now coming to another secret of Apocalyptic vision that
Apocalypse. We're coming to what we with our present way of
at life over the short span of time that people usually
that occur over the years and we see greater events in nature
However, what we call historical events such as the 30 years'
connection between the two series, because one thinks that they
time and one will see that this parallel idea leads one astray.
and one notices how different these things are from what they
in a free way. One feels that this is very astonishing and
bewildering. One gets the inner feeling that what one sees in
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would now like to go back to something so that we can proceed
from there in our deliberations. I pointed out that one sees
spirituality in the subconscious wishes of the human soul. What
external way is basically quite different from what is really
Something rather surprising happened today that confirms this.
questions that are being asked. As I mentioned, one can see
from the desires which are developing there that one can speak
the rather surprising thing that happened is that I arrived at
something that I had to tell you today, because it arises out
was asked that made it necessary to present scientific things
that I had intended to present to you today. Here one can see
the presence of subterranean influences and one can see that
what is happening here in a real, spiritual way through the
fact that these lectures are being given, arouses longings over
there that would otherwise not exist. That lecture over there
given in response to a question that I didn't know outwardly,
This shows that our time is being taken hold of by a spiritual
life that is still present in most people's sub-consciousness,
topics here in the spirit of the Apocalypse. That is what we
Apocalypticer is, for if you take everything that has been said
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through the way that the successive stages of evolution are
—, the stages that can be experienced by those who have
should realize that when we enter the world with our cognition
that increasingly becomes a perception, that content of Jour
clearly shows that he has a very intense, correct idea of this
is simply a fact that one can arrive at a view of the world in
what one could call nature in the widest sense of the word.
correct one — that one can get the same world content in
that someone with sufficient inner force will be able to see
that some natural phenomenon is involved at a particular point
reports about it. One can definitely say that it's possible to
arrive inwardly at the knowledge that earthquakes or something
mankind. Many people have the more or less clear feeling that
it is a perfectly correct one. Now one can ask what is actually
can definitely discuss what is involved here in connection with
where the Apocalypticer sees something that leads into the
then the seals, then he passes on to what can only be expressed
trumpets, and then he goes on to what I described yesterday as
we understand the Apocalypticer rightly, he's saying that
them seriously, what he has to say with these seals refers to
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that this conference in Dornach will get its best content if
what was said in connection with the Apocalypse will show up in
that we're living in the consciousness soul age or at that
over his intellectuality, as it were, so that it's integrated
soul will also be taken hold of by that which now occurs more
intellectuality that is breaking into his individuality.
what was still sought in the stars during the Middle Ages, when
activities in such a way that the world goals can really be
of the world powers that he is taking possession of it —
to take hold of this intellectuality that men have. Satan must
in the described manner, and one could say that he possesses
human intellectuality to his own to such an extent that men can
cosmic beings. So one shouldn't think that the intelligence of
cases. These exceptional cases that could occur in the future,
higher secrets of occultism that cannot be spoken about at
present, and that can only be disclosed under certain
conditions. So we can only indicate that a temptation and a
with the fact that the power who is called Satan in Christian
life that is as independent as his intellectuality. And then
man's intelligence sits in him in such a way that it is the
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are images of the artworks that were presented with the lectures. The
through a beginning thought, concerning mainly two pictures, that is,
what this picture contains. We see below, in the middle of the picture,
And we see that the groups left and right become more active, especially
observe that all of them are taking part in what descents from above.
back a little, so that the Holy Spirit with the four angels-figures
who are carrying the gospels would appear to be somewhat further forward
before us, this I would like first of all to place somewhat into the
what difference would result for us people of the present, if we should
might be the basis of an artist of today, what would we say? We would
have to say: At that time, in the 16th century, when Pope Julius II
twenties — called by Julius II, at that time, and at that place
of that legend — a bad legend — called “History of
truly artistically, have a specific meaning. Consider that Raphael,
times, came to Rome at that time, the beginning of the 16th century.
He himself is, in the body in which he was at that time, in the middle
of his twenties, and we can presume that then he was in the middle of
painting the new ideas that worked powerfully in their minds —
needs to look somewhat closer at those impulses which are to come from
is: Oh, the human being has been forever this or that way all along,
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are images of the artworks that were presented with the lectures. The
I think that it is an
in their realm what in the spiritual life one might call “the
weight of things, the weight of beings”. Very often, that which
effective within it. You do know that we figure the beginning of the
1413. This means that the beginning of the 15th century is a significant
period by observing the beginning of that new epoch. Old motives from
the earlier epoch pass into the new one. What really did experience
in you all that has occurred in the wide surroundings until Charlemagne.
It is true that for many who consider history at present such difficulties
that after Charlemagne, in the 10th, 11th, and 12th century — it
in all parts of life, which bring forth forces that come to expression
Now it might be said that
or even of the present time. One can rather say that the Papacy at that
time knew instinctively what West-, Middle-, and South-Europe needed for
the most important elements of life, what West-, Middle-, and South-Europe
that the Oriental culture was held back in a sense. It was to wait,
What can be said here in
a concept of what was being pushed back in those times, was pushed back
comes from the East presents totally still a last sounding of that which
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are images of the artworks that were presented with the lectures. The
I will use today, what I feel I need to present today is a section of
post-Atlantian time. We are in that age of this fifth post-Atlantian
which should warn humanity to be more and more awake to what is going
Now, within all that foams and plays in the events of the present, we can
What became especially
— is the picturing, the describing, of what the human being can
within space and time what the human being experiences in himself as
We might say that the highest
sense of the word, this is what the Greek sought to present. (See lecture
culture of the fourth post-Atlantean age, so that we may say: whatever
form to that which the physical world brings forth, the beautiful human,
third post-Atlantean age. Hence we see that, as the Christ-Impulse
That one might place anything on anything to decorate it, is a concept
Greek mind, is whatever is related to the word “elegant”.
with decoration in order to let it glisten outwardly, that the Greek
out of that which was living.
Greek placed preferably whatever is flourishing, growing, furthering
a great artistic work of humanity, to place what the world beyond can
give, i.e. death, opposite to what is flourishing, growing, furthering
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are images of the artworks that were presented with the lectures. The
to-day of the changes that have taken place over a certain period of time
of human culture, and our conception of what happened for the evolution of
for each separate domain of culture. It can truthfully be said that in
fully unless we concentrate our attention on certain, what might be
when it was that men began in Europe to depict the figure of Christ,
we come again and again, upon the fact that the first attempt to do
certain accounts were rejected by ecclesiastical ruling and were from that
Christians, the representation of Christ had been confined to what could
refer to-day in another connection. I pointed out that the early work in
said that up to the beginning of the third century nothing had been
Gospels. We find that men portrayed the figures with which Christian ideas
to-day to the consideration of the figure of Christ. We find that in
of form in ancient pre-Christian art; that is most frequently shown.
the Christ figure, we may note that it has in this picture a quite antique
was what men tried to express in all their pictures: we can see how
in regard to such representations: “What is the specifically pagan
standpoint.) With all that has been written and spoken about art, the real
fundamental “nerve” (if I may use the expression) of what is
art, as far as it is possible from what is extant, you will find repeated
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it is to understand that in the various spheres of existence
direction. It is necessary that humanity in our present age
should be permeated with the knowledge that different spheres
for life. It is, of course, quite true that, in the last
unity; but if one perceives that unity too soon, one simply
view that I should like to point to-day, to certain really
pointed out in the last lecture that certain Beings find
Just that, in our newest civilisation, which is now involved in
forces, just that which is so characteristic in our modern
that intellectual thought, which to-day is so prevalent
point now is, that one must seek to grasp what is externally
comprehensible, and try to unite that with a more psychic
That which underlies our organism of thought consists in purely
indirectly but not directly, with the fact that we have become
of the development of man. The fact that we have in us a firmly
blood consists essentially in the fact that our blood, as the
on anything of what transpires in the sphere of warmth, it does
not depend upon what transpires in us when we inspire and
but that which meets us in the Cosmos as warmth-processes,
processes, that which meets us in ourselves as
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Title: Man and Cosmos
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that which is revealed to spiritual investigation as his
cannot do that today in a comprehensive manner, but only from a
certain point of view, and this is what we shall try to do in
to his exterior, to that which limits him. Then, in the first
other Anthroposophical lectures, that we only discover senses
must say that that which is sense in man is to be sought for
find that man must receive certain impressions from outside.
things present themselves in everyday life, we can say that
external impressions. It can easily be seen that as man is
which the results of things strikes him so that he can thereby
absolutely that the assertion I have just made is perfectly
another direction, that appearance rests really on a deception.
fall in the horizontal direction, and by horizontal I mean that
perception is that line which runs parallel with the earth. In
that direction run all our perceptions and if we consider we
outside and proceed inwardly. What do we bring to meet those
impression comes from outside, but meeting that come the forces
whatever I see.
The fact that I can keep that in memory comes from inside." And
we have the direction of idea going from inside outward." What
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Title: Mystery Trinity: Part 1, Lecture 1
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view of the spiritual world that, coupled with the rise of abstract
attention to the fact that the spiritual life of the first four
Christian centuries has been completely buried, that
This means that the “backward seeing” of the
picture of what actually took place during these first four
Now, we cannot say that the following
very clear to people today. What we could call the soul life of the
historical portrayals. What do we find, then, basically represented
in these usual historical portrayals? And what do we find
with something which will, no doubt, be somewhat remote from many
be understood, while all that preceded him, for example, what
Middle Ages, darkest, that is, for our external knowledge. Above
all, it becomes clear to us that this theology is something
entirely different from the theology that came before it — if
indeed what came before can be called theology. What theology
And you can get an impression of what earlier theology was like if
[Steiner is here referring to an essay by Günther Wachsmuth on Dionysius the Areopagite and the doctrine of the hierarchies thatNote 4]
Christian centuries, a way altogether different from that
Areopagite was a late product — saw everything that related
to the spiritual world from within and had a direct view of what
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Title: Mystery Trinity: Part 1, Lecture 2
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view of the spiritual world that, coupled with the rise of abstract
ways, we have already seen that the human being can only be
surrounding us is, to begin with, what appears to us as the
view and sensed immediately that the plant world must be
into genera, so that the various genera and species stand next to
forth (drawing 1). But it does not always have to be that way. For
is the root — but the force that
does not develop a slender stem that immediately unfolds its leaves
to start new leaves or, with time, blossoms. Or again, it may be that
plant growth as a unity — so that he slipped out of one plant
Thus we may say that when Goethe approached the system of
Linnaeus, he felt that the usual object-oriented way of
I look at a plant it is not the physical that I see or, at any rate,
that I should see; in a manner of speaking, the physical has become
invisible, and I must grasp what I see with ideas very different from
right way we can say that in the mineral kingdom nature is outwardly
— a higher nature that is inwardly mobile all the time,
inwardly alive. What is really visible in the plant is the etheric
nature. And we are wrong if we say that the physical body of the
invisible. What we see is the etheric form.
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Title: Mystery Trinity: Part 1, Lecture 3
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view of the spiritual world that, coupled with the rise of abstract
picture as that of Christ as the Lamb of God, inspired Imaginations
are truly and correctly expressed. I wanted to show that in the times
experiences that connect him to the spiritual world. I have drawn
your attention to the fact that in the first four Christian
centuries what we could call the Christian teaching still
carried the impression that it was everywhere based on a real
perception of the spiritual, that even the secrets of Christianity
increased. We must be fully aware that in the times immediately
the pictures that had come down to posterity through tradition. But
impossibility, or rather, out of the faith that was born with the
arose the Scholastic doctrine that the human spirit can achieve
that the human being must simply accept as uncomprehended revelation
what can be revealed to him of the super-sensible world.
although more or less dimly, that the human being's relationship to
revelations so much that they did not wish to measure them against a
standard of human knowledge that no longer reached up to them. At
least, people did not believe that human knowledge was capable of
twelfth, and thirteenth centuries of the Middle Ages that this
Scholastic tenet was fully admitted. Until that time there was still
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Title: Mystery Trinity: Part 1, Lecture 4
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view of the spiritual world that, coupled with the rise of abstract
what subsequently became the contents of dogma and, as such, could no
We need only to remember that before the
power of the I. Thus we can say that although the human being, even
That which can be maintained in its full
that can only be maintained as long as something from the divine,
time achieving mastery of the I within their consciousness. But that
over from the being of soul and spirit that we were in the spiritual
that something of the dying and paralyzing principle of death
such that his nature has changed in the course of his development on
those of the newer bodies. The bodies of old were such that within
and astral activity. Thus one can say that in the civilized world we
attained all that which a person, as an intellectually imbued
Considering this, we must say that before
concerning what happened to those who underwent initiation in the
initiation in the ancient mysteries he had an experience that
This initiate would characterize what had
nature of human beings in general is such that the Father indeed
is the living soul. But the initiate felt that the living soul
that had been breathed into a person was a special spiritual reality,
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Title: Course for Priests: Lecture I
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said that during the course of these years there has been
earnestness and that one can already say, in a certain sense,
that the original intention has been proven time and again.
this movement it also appears clearly that the outer
occasion, of the ritual act completely shows that the real
even have the feeling that the objective and progressing
is completely understandable that these inner difficulties are
yourself that realities in the spiritual world work in a
related to good or evil. You must always be aware that if you
want to work in the present in a religious area that religious
exceptional activity just at that moment.
are such that errors are able to enter on this side. Consider,
conditions. Why is this so? Out of what basis, when the work of
present moment. It is of greater meaning that today some of you
days. You must not forget that in such a Movement, such as
spirits of the present time. What do people know about real
are a multitude of differences but one could say that one of
the greatest differences is that today our atmosphere is
regarding how that might affect people. Eventually one will
sense that people are not immune to the activity buzzing
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Title: Course for Priests: Lecture II
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Anthroposophy. These difficulties are such that you actually
deal with it, but that it should actually be dealt with through
may not give in to the illusion that in reality it would be
of cultural life, namely to be apart from what is called
scientific culture. You must be aware that an atheistic science
but alongside that some or other contemporary science and those
but an inner piousness; so that there are possibly people who
unconscious falsehood of civilisation has become. What the
in reality precisely towards dealing with that inner,
gradually been developed that one must leave science to
religiosity while not bothering with what drove science. It is
that was to use it as a means to activate people into mutual
of thinking which only takes the half, that is, the scientific
clear that all one can speak about are the taming rules. One
but rather, for example, that a doctor decides. These things
spirit prevalent within the wisdom of nature so that right into
by the fact that the religious movement is based on
necessary that the relationship between the Religious Renewal
Isn't it true that Anthroposophy wants and can't be anything
relationship involves its followers, be fully aware that you
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Title: Course for Priests: Lecture III
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world as such, it appears that the following will be helpful to
in such a manner that by the very act of applying it to
awaken the awareness that our speaking sinfully enables us to
that in expressing the word the speaker's mood is permeated by
“Word” is spoken that it is linked to life from
with reference to what I really want to entrust you with
like that, he is applying a word which he designates to
called a “human-being,” he thinks that under all
Feeling should actually always be a starting point so that when
we permeate ourselves with the feeling that we believe we can
the spirit that we can legitimately name ourselves with the
experience it had been, as indicated in scripture, that in the
experiences, to the necessary depths of the scripture, so that
what comes out of the deepest depths within. When we designate
through the fact that our earth existence is a cooperative task
earth. If we succeed in gradually grasping what the earth's
that the bedding within this Brahma-Vishnu-Shiva process
sleep, so that we could say: the human-being is so profound, so
deeply fashioned in earthly existence that the depths of
we gradually approach the feeling of what it means: what it is
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Yes, my dear friends, I would like to supplement what I said
that religious documents originating up to about the time
come out of humanity. I would like to mention that you only
it has come about that right at the time when intellectualism
and basically it is quite natural that even with much goodwill,
misunderstandings come to the fore. Thus it has happened that
apparent that this original language can no longer be
Testament. It is hopeless to think that translations done up to
would like to give a small example and that from one of the
stress from the start that representations in the New Testament
Testament can only be understood when it is very clear that the
understanding is regarded necessary and that it should simply
Just consider, my dear friends, that the Mystery of Golgotha,
humanity in such a way, that the ego consciousness is awakened.
that with the embodiment of the ego consciousness in evolution
monotheism existed — to that God who has remained as an image
the Father God, the imagination is fulfilled so that we can
feels that within his ego is the inner working of the Father
‘I am!’ That is: ‘The Father God is in me.’
What can be said about the relationship between people blessed
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Title: Redemption of Thinking: Lecture I:
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speak about a topic that one normally considers from a more
that the position of the philosophical worldview to
from this formal aspect at the matter that is connected as
arose which our time appreciates too little. One can say that
century, in a way that is hard to comprehend with our thinking
today because conditions are part of reflection that the human
philosophers. It is necessary that you can completely project
predecessors and successors that you know how you have to
consideration, at Thomas Aquinas, he is a personality that
is, actually, only the exponent of that which lives in a broad
him. So that Thomism is something exceptionally impersonal,
something that only manifests by the personality of Thomas
Aquinas. Against it, you recognise immediately that you look at
Aquinas with the medieval church that determines its position
However, this historical background changes because that
decreased, so that something remained in the western current
that was quite different from that in which Augustine had still
I ask you to take into consideration that I
would like to give an introduction only today that I treat the
real being of Thomism tomorrow, and that the purpose of my
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What I especially tried to stress yesterday
was that in that spiritual development of the West which found
its expression in scholasticism not only that happens which one
of abstractions, but that behind it a real development of the
impulses of western humanity exists. I think that one can look
at that at first, as one does mostly in the history of
consideration that one thinker took over certain ideas from the
other and that a certain evolution of ideas is
consideration of the spiritual life gradually. Since that which
impossible to get information about that development, we say
unless one considers the important impact in this age that is
associated with sexual maturity and all forces that work their
European humanity that one can just characterise saying: those
fact of their consciousness that not a single individual ego
that intervenes in the usual state of human
beings -, but he said: sing, immortal soul -, that means: sing,
individual being that lives in the single person as an
foundation of Christianity until High Scholasticism. In that
which goes up to the extreme surface of that which takes place
of Christianity in these centuries is the fact that the
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Title: Redemption of Thinking: Lecture III:
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about High Scholasticism, I attempted to point out that the
most essential of a current of thought are problems that made
human being attain that knowledge which is necessary for life,
and how does this knowledge fit into that which controlled the
still shone from that which had remained from Neo-Platonism,
pointed to the fact that the impulses of High Scholasticism
lived on in a way. However, they lived on in such a way that
different form. All that is still in the intellectual
that which significant personalities have contributed to the
the fourteenth century in Paris, later in Cologne, that as it
Thomas Aquinas still imagined that the soul worked on the
totality of the bodily. So that the human being is only
perceptivity that, however, without pre-existence the real
in its sense in order to live on then immortal with that which
Duns Scotus cannot imagine that the active
only imagine that the human corporeality is something finished
that in a certain independent way the vegetative and animal
at death and that only the actually spiritual principle,
Scotus cannot imagine like Thomas Aquinas that the whole body
mind had become something abstract, something that did no
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Title: Anthroposophic Movement (1938): Lecture I: Homeless Souls
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and sums up what the characteristic feature is amongst all
us but clearly consider for a moment, what the way actually is,
the circumstance, that such a sentiment exists, naturally
matter of fact so mapped out to-day, that, even down into our
there is nothing for it, but that the man should, somehow or
impel him that way. And though it may not come directly from
individual, in the midst of all this, that one has simply
oneself quite unexpectedly realizing in life that one is, say,
then very often too, you know, it happens, that there are the
upon what lies within himself, — where he is bent on
wants to live out his part consciently in something that lies
of this kind. And if one examines further what the origin of it
long while in that condition preceding their birth, which I
beings of the higher hierarchies, and where everything that he
the parent pair that give him birth. — So that a man
himself with the line of direction, with the current, that runs
that during the time when they are making ready to come down to
earth again, they have a burning interest already in what is
that goes on with their forefathers on the earth.
Souls of this kind become, in fact, what I have described as
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Title: Anthroposophic Movement (1938): Lecture II: The Theosophical Society: A Common Body with a Conscious Self. Blavatsky Phenomenon
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that determined it, there will be two questions from which one
movement in the way that was done? And secondly, — why
— that Anthroposophy down to this day is confounded by
consideration is, what kind of people they are, who feel an
What was it, then, that such souls were seeking, who at that
seemed probable, that what had to be sought as Anthroposophy at
that time to pursue Theosophy. Rut to have the requisite light
way, and to give you some picture of what, was then, in those
days, to be understood by Theosophical Society, — that
was then joined what afterwards came forth as Anthroposophy,
what kind of consciousness these particular people had. —
In a way, these people certainly lived out what was in their
things of that kind. There was always, at any rate, some sort
of gleam from the outer world of what I might call social
behaviour. All that, of course, is not so much what interests
us. What is of interest for us is the mental consciousness of
strongly was that, between the different personalities, there
two conceptions. That was the curious thing, that when one came
blood. So that what was really living amongst them, were not
that one forms quite naively of the other person, —
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Title: Anthroposophic Movement (1938): Lecture III: Critical Judgment and Colour of the Times
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of course, as regards everything that may be said about
the kind of spiritual aspirations that manifested themselves,
dubious character of what one finds in this individual's
the notions, which arose amongst the society that had gathered
round Blavatsky and her spiritual life, that certain
communications, — by means, that is, of writings on
point to such things, and to find in them plain evidence that
aspect of the phenomena that. played around Blavatsky, we shall
another standpoint still that we may take, namely, of not
troubling ourselves for the moment with all that went on on the
But let us just neglect these objections for a while; say that
conclusion, namely, that in Blavatsky's works one is largely
been scribbled down amongst the rest; but that, along with all
despite any objections that may be raised.
How and from what cause could it happen that, at the end of the
spiritual world? that there could come revelations of a
evolution is: that the capacity for judgment, the power of
great steps that have been made in progress. But if one
considers these very steps of progress, and what the connection
has been between these great steps forwards, that have been
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Title: Anthroposophic Movement (1938): Lecture IV: Blavatsky's Orientation: Spiritual, but Anti-Christian
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when considering it from the aspect that will be clear to you
scientific, or what one might call in general ‘educated’, as
attain this aim of theirs all the better, that there were
could say: It was a proven fact that there had been bogus
And one must never forget, that any number of things in the
world are an effect of influences that go out from such secret
what must seem to us of more importance still for our present
purpose, is that, in spite of all this, Blavatsky's writings,
people of the day; and that thereby those various movements
all that is here said, I beg you to note that I always try, as
impossible for one, — impossible that is in many
hears a word, at once to establish what I might call a kind of
there what it is. Or they may go further, they are much more
with writings that deal with such things, in how far what they
particular society — or societies, indeed — that
I have enumerated much that one may have, — against the
century, that they took the dictionary meaning of the word
sense. That was most decidedly not the case. The case was, that
spiritual world, that had come through Blavatsky, — lying
who were debating then, what name they should give it, asked
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Title: Anthroposophic Movement (1938): Lecture V: Anti-Christianity. - The Healing of the Gulf.
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clear that the Mystery of Golgotha intervened as a fact
possible for that which first, in the Mysteries, came before
before all men as an historic fact. So that in the Mystery of
total essence of the ancient Mysteries. And then, that the
through the influences that came into it from the Mystery of
Golgotha. — This is what I tried to show in this
be noted at the same time, that the whole life of the Mysteries
the Mystery of Golgotha. And I pointed out too, that really, in
of knowledge, and that of this ancient way of knowledge there
only remains more or less a tradition; so that here or there it
intellectualism came on the scene, with all that I spoke
only just consider what this means. In none of the ancient
World and what we may call the Know-ledge of God. Worldly
manifold. divinity that works through the medium of the natural
nature’ were not what people had in those days. They had live
build a bridge across from that which is in the human soul
itself. So that in the old religions, there was nowhere that
split, which exists between what is the modern science of the
natural world, and what is supposed to be a comprehension of
Anthroposophy will never make any pretension that it is going,
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Title: Anthroposophic Movement (1938): Lecture VI: The Two First Periods of the Anthroposophic Movement
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have briefly indicated what were the directing forces during
before going on to describe the third period and what took
matter of fact, in spite of all that has been said by way of
explanation, it is still possible to raise the question: What
distinctive feature, that it was engaged in gradually laying
the actual documents, will see, that during that time, bit by
bit, in lectures, or lecture-cycles, — and also in what
approximate; but that is the case with the historic evolution
namely, that the anthroposophic substance might gradually come
that, gradually, in the course of a quite natural evolution,
one. — It was possible to hope so, for the reason, that
to work alongside one another. That was unmistakably the case,
in no illusions — could not fail to see, that such a very
marks of amateurishness that were thus introduced into her
books, yet, all the same, from the fact that in course of time
its centre in London, and that this Theosophical Society had in
But, — putting aside the fact that these notions often
state of things at that time.
that, outside these particular circles, there was no interest
what ever to be found in the world of the day for real
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Title: Anthroposophic Movement (1938): Lecture VII: The Third Stage: The Present Day. - Life-Conditions of the Anthroposophical Society
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that made their appearance in the third period of the
what are, truly speaking, the life-conditions of the
— about, that is, the year 1918 or '14, — and as to
what these two stages signify for us, — I mean the
like to put before you what is, for Anthroposophists, so to
say, too, that the paper continued to appear,
myself and others, that, step by step, built up a certain solid
Here, again, they were real steps that took place. One
that, from stage to stage, one piece of spiritual acquisition
programmes and things of the kind. But that was not the
essential feature. The essential feature was, that positive
the second period, that Anthroposophy, and all that
by the end of the second period we had got so far that it was
here with this disaster. One must reflect that this marked an
people, who were sufficiently interested in what Anthroposophy
step beyond the step-by-step work that had simply kept pace
was the first step that went beyond this. For, obviously, a
attention of the outside world to what was now the
anything that had been there before.
assuming even that before the year 1914 an opponent of so
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Title: Anthroposophic Movement (1938): Lecture VIII: Conclusions: The Anthroposophical Society and its Future Conduct.
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what this conduct should be, let us just look back once more
past week, that in a way the public for Anthroposophy had
to this modern age. — Well, we have discussed all that.
must also have been plain, that for Anthroposophy itself such
sources. And although — for the very reason that its
its own wealth of wisdom — that were terms already
New Age of Thought, you will see, that in
whatever coming from Blavatsky, or indeed from that quarter at
all, with this one exception of the fact, that the outward
must distinguish, therefore, between what was actual spiritual
what were outward forms of expression, incidentally required by
the conditions of the time. That mistakes can arise on this
point is simply due to the fact, that people at the present day
expression to what is the real heart of the matter. —
you take what is in these writings on Goethe and in the
is this: That Man, in the innermost part of his being is in
connection with a spiritual world; that therefore, if only he
that day, and also of this, is unable to penetrate, and which
in face of the terrible, what I might call spiritual chaos of
was sometimes obliged to have recourse to what sounded
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Title: First Class, Vol. I: Lesson 1
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explaining that situation, but I wanted to stress the
friends. And I would like to emphasize that in this School
spiritual life is to be revealed in its true meaning, so that
card, to begin in a way that will make you conscious of the
fact that every word spoken within this School is based on the
— that same spirit which has been revealed to humanity
humanity what it is able to receive.
must be clear from the very beginning that it is not animosity
towards what the sense-world has accomplished for humanity when
of the spirit. We must also clearly recognize that the
it is nevertheless important that the spiritual revelations are
own obstinacy, which hinders understanding what the School
course be what it is possible for the spirit to give us. It
will however be demanded of the members of the School that they
have gone into these things in our weekly periodical, What
that this difference be felt in all its explicitness by the
members of the School, so that eventually only those persons
your souls what should stand over our School as a kind of
engraving. That we really identify with what emerges from the
Toward the light that from darkness streams.
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Title: First Class, Vol. I: Lesson 2
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will relate what is said today to the previous lesson, partly
the world that surrounds him - can feel himself related to the
the influence of “Know thyself”, he only sees what
What you are, what you were, or will become.
Unto that light that shines out of the darkness.
that we can never find our own being in this world. For the
sensation that by looking out into the external world we gain
that can carry us into the spiritual world. Yet just as by
world, we must also bear in mind that the person of normal
consciousness in normal life is unprepared to encounter that
spiritual world that guardian stands who earnestly warns people
it is the case, my dear friends, that we must always keep in
mind the fact that the Guardian stands before the [entrance to]
that this looking back, the perception in looking back,
What we should feel at the abyss of being between the maya, the
must be quite clear, my dear friends, that bravery in acquiring
for acquiring knowledge is what dominates. Especially in our
time that cowardice is what holds back most people from even
Your hate of spiritual revelation
That is the second thing that we have within us - which plants
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Title: First Class, Vol. I: Lesson 3
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spiritual world, which characterize what the human being can
spiritual world. And we should not say that when someone
his thoughts - what the person in process of initiation
realizes in reality by entering the spiritual world, that the
former does not actually participate in what is revealed to the
in thought one approaches the description of the path that
superficial, he will experience and feel fully what it means to
That is what I will speak to you about today, my dear friends,
their thoughts. And that includes all of you, else you wouldn't
observations - when man uses the things that he encounters in
looks everywhere for the facts behind it. He asks: What
experience proves this or that? He doesn't like to accept
something in ordinary life which is not proven by this or that
himself: What is true is what is seen, what is real is what is
Just imagine, my dear friends, that you were to go through life
between birth and death in a way that you could never really
know whether something that confronts you is truth or illusion.
being real or merely a dream. Just imagine what insecurity,
what terrible insecurity that would cause in your life.
threshold of the spiritual world. That is the very first
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Title: First Class, Vol. I: Lesson 4
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well, to the extent that its earnestness can really occupy our
from other areas of spiritual life, what is called
spiritual life by today's civilization, that is. The encounter
an example of what we will receive today, my dear friends, I
certain stage of maturity - not that he became what most people
words; what I have to say is merely clothed in human words.
What I have to say to you are the gods' thoughts, and these
be clear to you that I am thus appealing to everything in your
memory what I am now saying to you. I will be satisfied if
tomorrow you forget what I have said today. Because what you
usually call your memory, and what others call your memory, is
renewed for what is to be received. Everything should be new
said that I do not appeal to your memory, to your capacity for
remembering. That does not mean that tomorrow you should
remember nothing of what is said to you today. But you should
what your memory makes of it. What should lead you to me
the innermost feelings of your soul; they should preserve what
is said to you today. For you see, memory, that capacity for
remembrance, is for learning. What the esoteric has to say,
is in fact true that whenever we are dealing with esoteric
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essence of this Guardian. In particular, we have seen how what
to the heavenly. So that in the moment that man stands before
that, my dear friends, is exactly what must be made clear -
that upon entering the spiritual world a growing together with
our thinking, feeling and willing, aware that our thinking,
feeling and willing are somewhat separated, apart from external
also when looking into the inner human we see what for normal
magical being. What does it mean, that nature must be able to
However, we also know that in dreams our consciousness is
submerged, and dreams are not what can directly describe the
physical body with what is solid, with what is characteristic
etheric body with what is characteristic of water. However,
element lie deep beneath what people experience.
What is closer to man is his breathing process, which is
That man lives and moves in the element of air is obvious from
That the element of warmth is extremely essential to man is
with an object that is colder than our body, a cold knitting
needle for example, we feel the cold places that have been
with an object that is warmer than our body, we don't feel the
be sufficient that I have indicated what air and warmth means
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Title: First Class, Vol. I: Lesson 6
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Guardian's continuous admonition is that man be aware that he
deep relationship to that world exists within him.
rather must one return to what is revealed between them.
what is revealed between the things. We see the three kingdoms
friends, behind the kingdoms of nature we have what is called
what the solid earth consists of is also present in the
feet to what is to a certain extent at our own height, what is
the watery element. Although it is true that man's life on
earth has developed in such a way that he only senses this
condensed, it is nevertheless true that he also lives in this
solid as such, in the earthly, we can only say that we live in
differentiate it. We do not specifically differentiate what is
which exist outside of ourselves. We do not consider what is
around us and at the same time within us, so that we must
have what we designate as Earth, what we designate as Water,
what we designate as Air and what we designate as Warmth.
up to what we have always described with a dry, abstract
shall call that great chemicality of the cosmos
then we will call what is highest in the etheric: Life-Ether,
lesson that the human being, according to the manner in which
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Title: First Class, Vol. I: Lesson 7
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have repeatedly spoken - also outside [Dornach] - about what
not only cultivated, it is also carried out; meaning that
the members than that they honestly recognize what
anthroposophy is and that they are in a certain sense listeners
to what anthroposophy says; and that they receive from it what
become members of this School declare that they want to be true
that only those who are recognized by the School as true
members can be recipients of what the School teaches.
Therefore, whatever a member of the School does should have the
member if it considers that he cannot be a representative of
if we do not feel that the School is like building a rock to
members of this School must know that they must adapt to those
that an Executive Committee has been esoterically formed.
alone. Therefore, anything which indicates that a member is not
that person's membership.
is a fact that negligence has entered into the Anthroposophical
Society to a marked degree in recent years. That it ceases is
should feel responsible that every word we speak is tested to
the extent that we know it is true. For untruthfulness, even
when derived from what is called good intentions, is
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Title: First Class, Vol. I: Lesson 8
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It is to be remembered in all earnestness that with the
that many anthroposophical friends are here for the first time
is true that before the Christmas Conference it was always
emphasized that the anthroposophical movement and the
consider it right that spiritual light, which can come through
and life. And it had to be continually emphasized that
That has changed since the Christmas Conference at the
which was founded at Christmas. I can explain what this means
the Anthroposophical Society; now whatever happens through the
must be an administration. But that is not what it considers to
Society is therewith given. And it must be clear that from now
Conference statutes that contain paragraphs which detail what
rather do the statutes describe what the Vorstand intends. And
that is how the Anthroposophical Society is constituted. It is
issued a membership card, which is signed by me, so that even
least present. It has been suggested that I have a rubber stamp
made with my signature. I'm not going to do that - despite it
must also stress that it must be clear to the members - I
stress it because it has already been sinned against - that
Goetheanum. This means that nothing by way of formulations and
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Title: First Class, Vol. I: Lesson 9
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vision rest upon what radiates down to us from the universe in
in the sublimity of what the vast universe offers, we will gain
minds so that we no longer need to even look up at the heavenly
we can also observe all that radiates down and streams through
then when we are conscious of all that binds us to the earth,
that we are heavy bodies among other heavy bodies. In other
words what lives in us as a feeling of being bound to the earth
from these three inner experiences: what we have gained in
merge with what the planets say to us meaningfully from space
by their movements - so that having felt ourselves to be at
This leads to the question: Why is it then that so few do so?
perceived with what is spiritual in man. But spiritual is what
we can read in the stars, what we can feel in the movements of
the planets, what we can experience in the forces which hold us
to understand inwardly means to transfer more and more what is
sensations - or experiences, it doesn't matter what we call
now, my dear sisters and brothers, what is flowing to you from
everything that happens in its environment as though its whole
body were a sense organ. That's why he imitates everything,
from doing with its senses what we as adults do with them. The
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Title: Cosmogony/Freedom/Altruism: Lecture I: Social Impulses for the Healing of Modern Civilization
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many facts that meet one almost at every turn — to
perceive signs of decline within our civilisation, and that it
contains forces that make for its downfall. Recognising these
we shall see that there are present in it three main downward
evolution, and all those that we have still to go through,
we look beyond our own immediate civilisation, beyond what has
whole course of man's evolution we may observe that earlier
sort which made men realise that what lived within their own
what a vivid conception the Greeks still possessed of worlds
recall how great a part was played in everyday life by whatever
that was not exhausted within the limits of the everyday world,
those days people — we can put it in that way —
people had a COSMOGONY; that is, they recognised themselves to
be members of the whole universe. They knew that they were not
merely beings that had gone astray and were wandering about
over the face of the green earth like lost sheep, but that they
compared with what a man of old felt pulsing through him from
life, man cannot be strong. — That is one thing, —
what I might call the scientific element, — that is
Another, the second element that is bringing about its
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Title: Cosmogony/Freedom/Altruism: Lecture II: A Different Way of Thinking is Needed to Rescue European Civilization
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hour is so late, that I shall make this lecture a short one,
and leave over till to-morrow the main substance of what I have
put earlier, so that it will be possible to have a longer
pointed out yesterday that in order to master the conditions of
peoples massed together over the face of the earth, that one's
attention is actually directed to what is living and working in
Anglo-American peoples, among the peoples of what is properly
that the aptitude for founding a cosmogony suited to the new
freedom, amongst the peoples of Europe, whilst that for
all that it connotes by way of human brotherhood, is to be
that this may be possible, in order that any such real
cannot say: “It is altogether bad;” that is not the
nothing positive. The impulses that reside in our civilisation
that in the historic course of mankind's evolution leads to
ruin, leads to ruin for the very reason that something which
various Ahrimanic and Luciferic motives, cling to whatever they
that actual forward movement which the whole cosmic order
is from this, its scientific character, that the great social
errors and perversions of the age proceed. That is why it is so
imperative that the light should shine in upon our whole life
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Title: Cosmogony/Freedom/Altruism: Lecture III: Fundamental Impulses in History
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What I have said during these evenings has been directed to
showing, from the most various points of view, that that aspect
peculiarly necessary that we should not be led into any
account assume that what holds good, and what I am about to
covered by the Fifth post-Atlantean age, — that that
no such ideas. For this final phase, however, what I am about
From the socialist side, it is always being pointed out that
industrial life, in the class-warfare that has resulted from
it, are supposed to have grown up all those developments that
etc. As applied to the whole course of human history that is,
of course, nonsense. One cannot but ask oneself: What has led
to this nonsensical idea? V/hat has led to such a
nonsensical idea is that, as a matter of fact, and in
those changes in our earthly evolution that I mentioned
be marked by us as that of the great spiritual upheaval which
must be recognised for what it really was. And when one goes
further into all that we were leading up to yesterday, and
one, then, indeed, one finds that what is in appearance a
something that Is, after all, at bottom, economic in character.
that the socialist view arose, that all historic
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Title: Impulses of Utility: Lecture I: Western and Eastern Culture, H. P. Blavatsky
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two poles of the IVth Post Atlantean Period. That is, the pole
considered that impulse which came into the spiritual
stream of Europe through the fact that the Templars had to
undergo a certain fate, and that this fate of the Templars
gives a peculiar colouring to those ideas which at that time
characterised, but that must be left over to a later time.
because it is essential that through a Spiritual Scientific
time is determined by that special spiritual structure of the
fact that, as regards the evolution of modern civilisation, the
it was that time in which in the 5th Post Atlantean
intellect in so far as that is bound to the physical plane. We
different from what occurred in the Graeco-Latin age in the 4th
(verstand) but that was of quite a different nature from our
century, really entered upon a quite definite crisis. That
instance, radiated in all that the Greeks created artistically,
which radiated in all that the Greeks created in their State
— that intellect which worked through the
Philosophy of Plato and Aristotle, that intellect which
ideas were really so existing that they perceived them just as
and please bear in mind, that by reason of the whole meaning of
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Title: Impulses of Utility: Lecture II: Utilitarianism and Sacramentalism
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exist in the Graeco-Latin age, because at that time they were
show that these facts are correct. A Greek statue or drama, or
further, because at that time the relationship between the
Etheric body and Earthly elements was quite different from that
that a person living in that age was quite different from a man
of to-day. Whoever experiences, for instance, what Goethe
experienced in Italy, — knows that the Greeks created
that fine inner union between the etheric body and the earthly
elements; and then one finds that one's etheric body streams
different way from what one feels to-day. Then at last one
one's hand when one grasped it. You can understand that the
one can understand how it is that the Greeks spoke differently
live in the polarities. That is of great significance for the
then answered; but he found after certain lectures that one
than ordinary lay people. One scientist relates what he has
question with them of a sub-conscious cleverness. You see that
Birth, to Heredity and so on. That same principle of natural
are stimulated. Thus, we see that Psycho-Analysis comes under
— that which has remained behind through decadent races
Brotherhoods this coupling together of what is taken over
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Title: Social Life: Lecture I
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lectures, in that period of time before I had to go away some
weeks ago, all tended to show how that which we call Spiritual
that which we call the Cosmos stands in a certain inner
connection with what we ourselves inwardly experience in
this question: — What would it signify for the sum total
that man, while he attains his consciousness in a physical
that the soul that has lived for a long time in the Spiritual
conscious of his community with the Spiritual world. That
perception of what man was before he descended into the
Again, if that which looks beyond the time which we pass here
then works in such a way that what lies in his labour extends
must say that man has progressed enormously; but the last few
years have shown that this progress has not improved humanity
whom I have often pointed when I wanted to emphasise that years
make use of coal. We know that this coal is a relic of old
find that it is a large quantity.
their body out of that which they absorb from man's
see, that is an extraordinary transformation. At first it is
because naturally that coal was not formed by our breath but by
That which in a sense we excrete from ourselves, furnishes the
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Title: Social Life: Lecture II
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know that I only make personal observations on the rarest
definite from human beings. It demands from everyone what must
nature. It must be considered, and clearly seen that we have
to look at them in a quite unprejudiced way, to see what
occurs; and then we can say to ourselves that there are to-day
more and more what we have just characterised by saying that,
fact that man is thus placed before such significant decisions,
very close to us. You know that amongst the many enemies of our
clearly that behind them stands the power of the Jesuits, and
that power appears to have a certain validity just in
Switzerland. One has merely to keep in mind what reveals itself
amalgamated, for many people, with what they call the external
entirely conquered, which made it possible to dissolve that
see under whose protection at that time the expulsion of the
protection” was similarly evoked for the future, that it
Switzerland from the Jesuits. That occurred in 1847.
character. Their characteristic is that anyone who gives
that chaos, which is the basis of all the confusion into which
course be denied, that our newer age has accomplished many
science or in technique or in any other sphere, or even in that
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Title: Social Life: Lecture III
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noticeable — that an inner connection exists between the
time, and that cosmic body itself. From the most diverse points
can be studied, with all that belongs to it. We will keep this
in mind to-day from one particular point of view, and from that
know that man has passed his life on earth in a succession of
with other beings, because, my dear friends, that which we call
as it presents itself to the Geologists, in such a way that
atmosphere, that fundamentally is simply an external illusion.
What appears thus as this stony mass is simply the body for
certain Spiritual beings. And again, that which appears to us
as being outside the Earth, that which shines down on to our
Earth as the world of the Stars, even that, as it appears to
the Hierarchies. What appears to us as the Earth filled with
gravity, — that which approaches us very closely because
birth and death, — through what is presented to us as the
connection, with that which shines down to us from the world of
Stars, with that we are more closely related between death and
reality of the deepest significance when one says: — that
must not imagine that the reflection of the Universe which we
perception between death and re-birth. That which appears
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Title: The Real Being of Man
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noticeable — that as inner connection exists between the
time, and that cosmic body itself. From the most diverse
earth life can be studied, with all that belongs to it. We
view, and from that, form certain ideas concerning the real
We know that
that which we call the external, sensible, perceptible sphere
Geologists, in such a way that they regard it simply as a
stony mass surrounded by an atmosphere, that fundamentally is
simply an external illusion. What appears thus as this stony
again, that which appears to us as being outside the Earth,
that which shines down on to our Earth as the world of the
Stars, even that as it appears to our external sense
What appears to us as the Earth filled with
gravity — that which approaches us very closely because
birth and death — through what is presented to us as the
less connection, with that which shines down to us from the
world of Stars, with that we are more closely related between
says: that man descends out of the starry worlds to physical
death. Only we must not imagine that the reflection of the
super-sensible perception between death and re-birth. That
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Title: Health and Illness I: Lecture I: Concerning the World Situation
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Russia. We know that Germany has made a trade agreement
with her, but now we learn that France, too, has made one. Was
do so for the simple reason that all these affairs you have
things are much more important than all these matters that are
opinion prevails that promises must be kept. It is the general
attitude over there that a person is obliged to keep his
promises. But to what extent this notion is sincere —
well, that's something that has nothing to do with the actual
beings. In regard to public life the most we can say is that a
that she cannot desert the old Entente, but this stand
contradicts the whole purpose of the war. That whole
in the West; they simply didn't want things that way.
understand now that the English sit between two chairs and, as
thinks that Germany at some point has been hurt too much, then
interested in that cause. First and foremost, the French want
things said over there carry no weight whatsoever. What Lloyd
backing is minimal. Yet, what would happen if Lloyd George were
he has no qualified successors. The crux of the matter is that
today it doesn't matter what party a person joins to receive
this or that position; what matters is that we bring about an
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Title: Health and Illness I: Lecture II: Illnesses Occurring in the Different Periods of Life
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human life that the mortality rate is highest in man's infancy,
that human beings die most frequently in their early years. In
during their school years. The illnesses that do befall them
mentioned that infants are highly susceptible to suppuration of
the blood. It can become so purulent that symptoms of jaundice
convulsions. A childhood disease that is particularly
increasing rapidly. Perhaps you have read that schools have had
we can see that childhood illnesses have a distinctive
second or third months of pregnancy, we see that it is utterly
different form what the human being later becomes. In the first
only appendages to the head. What later turn into limbs, hands
hands and feet. So we can say that the embryo is all head. Its
are surprised that mental illnesses are hereditary. In fact,
need it puzzle us, gentlemen? Whatever the child can
surprised that her condition is not passed on to the lungs of
surprised that the disease inherited is quite different from
that of the parent. Venereal disease, for example, can appear
child's head is developing, its eyes are exposed to what
afflicts the parents; its eyes are in an environment that's
the child is born, everyone knows that the most completely
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Title: Health and Illness I: Lecture III: The Formation of the Human Ear
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question was asked about the design that appeared on the cover
next time consider the aspects of man that these four symbols
look then at the processes that immediately follow. What does
before, which is the fact that the whole universe acts upon
understanding, but it is nonetheless true that the whole cosmos
said before that during the first few months only the head of
fact that in the earlier embryonic stages the influence
head. It is gravity that, in time, draws out the other parts.
is convincing evidence that the human body is magnificently
properly, you will find that it is quite a remarkable
structure. I shall explain the ear so that you can get some
formed in such a marvellous way so that man can actually
which might be likened to that of a drumhead. The ear, then, is
continue by drawing the cavity that one observes in a skeleton
to the jaw. Inside is a cavity into which this canal leads that
about. Not only does this canal, this outer passage that you
exterior that extends inward to the eardrum, and one from the
mouth that enters behind the eardrum, which is called the
skin that looks like a snail shell. Inside this snail shell,
called the cochlea, are myriad little fibres that make up the
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Title: Health and Illness I: Lecture IV: The Thyroid Gland and Hormones
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process of recovery. What is to be expected with the continued
what we have already discussed here, you will be able to
thought to be like the appendix or some other organ that had
it was noted that its degeneration, with the formation of a
that is, retarded and mentally deficient people. One can
observe that in certain geographic regions persons are both
Europe that in Halberstadt the retarded population has goitres
so large that in some cases they extend over the shoulders.
it was thought at first that if pathological enlargement
aspect of medicine, that most deserving of recognition. So the
first thought is to remove those organs that apparently have no
emphasized here. You will recall that when you observe man in
his totality, you often note that something is present in
certain processes of the child that has effects much later on,
concerned only with what is demanded at the moment.
Therefore, steps are taken that seem most beneficial at
it is correct that the thyroid gland has great
since the last half of the nineteenth century. They know that a
learned from this that even a diseased thyroid gland has
favourably to what was being administered. So far, the best
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Title: Health and Illness I: Lecture V: The Eye; Colour of the Hair
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noticed that blond hair is closely linked with blue eyes; as a
might be assumed that people born blind do not benefit at
optic nerve. In addition, the muscles that control eye
cavity formed by the skull bones. You might tell yourself that
Attached to it are six ocular muscles that extend back into the
tissue through which light passes. That the tissue looks black
that colour. It is like looking through the window of a dark
skin, the cornea; behind that is the anterior chamber. It
consists of living fluid and is shaped somewhat like a
need to focus on something nearby. In that event, it is
far-sighted. Another thing to consider is that in youth the
prescribed with lenses that are concave. These will compensate
the defect. You could say that we are able to see because we
that of our glasses: near- and far-sighted. But the lens in our
glasses stays the same, while that in the eye is living and can
have said, the nerve that lines our eyeball consists of four
layer of nerves consists of the same substance that makes up
light that penetrates into the interior of the eyeball to be
What
we have in our eye is something that looks like a complicated
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Title: Health and Illness I: Lecture VI: The Nose, Smell, and Taste
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the way we did the last time, we discover that there is
indeed a miniature world within. That I have explained to you,
shall see that a particularly fascinating and interesting
human sense is that of smell. This sense appears to be of minor
in the dog. You could say that all the intelligence of the dog
Anyone who observes dogs knows that they recognize and identify
of sight, but by that of smell. If you have heard recently how
yourselves that here the sense of smell accomplishes rare
things that naturally appear simple but are in actuality not so
that they are not so simple.
follows the scent.” Yes, gentlemen, that is true, the dog
Imagine now that you had to point out the difference between
these tracks that the dogs distinguish by smell; you would
detect differences. The point is not that the dog follows
the tracks back and forth in general but that it is capable of
distinguishing between the various traces of scent. That,
their foes by smell. Thus, the intelligence that is found in
Africa can tell long before he has seen his adversary that he
nose must be if by that one can know that an enemy is nearby.
Also, Africans know how to utter a certain warning sound that
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Title: Health and Illness I: Lecture VII: Spiritual-Scientific Foundations for a True Physiology
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constituted in such a way that he has these microscopic
the skin or dermis. It is interesting to realize that just as
Everything that we have as onions in our skin actually has
blossoms within our skull. You may imagine, then, that in
dermis, which is the soil. From it grow all these onions that
gentlemen, in us older fellows things are such that only during
that is, throughout its first year, and just as the sun shines
child that as yet does not translate with the intellect
what it receives with its eyesight. This is indeed like the sun
Ordinarily, it is assumed that the nerves do the thinking, but
steals the light from the nerves, and it uses what it has taken
shapes, possess sensory nerves that end in a kind of onion on
that is why it is so sensitive. We taste on the back of the
located on our body's surface. Now, you know that what one
that a chair is hard because I feel its hardness with a certain
number of nerve bulbs that constantly change, but my
however, always know beforehand what is good, not afterward
when they have already tasted it, and that is why they order
the brain and form blossoms there. Everything that we want to
mouth; we can taste nothing that hasn't first been transformed
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Title: Health and Illness I: Lecture VIII: Concerning the Soul Life in the Breathing Process
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Gentlemen, I said last time that we have several matters still
decide what should be brought up during the next lecture hour.
you have to answer that it is because of his senses. But if you
that is required for our existence. This then permeates
that we contain in our bodies is also found elsewhere in
coal is opaque carbon. It is rather interesting that something
of oxygen and carbon, and it is this gas that we then exhale.
always be inhaling. But we do not possess that much carbon; it
comprehend this you must realize that bacteria and bacilli
who claims that they themselves cause disease is just as clever
as one who states that rain comes from croaking frogs. Frogs
water that is stimulated by what is active in the rain, but
must not say, however, that research with bacilli has no use.
It is useful to know that man is exposed to a certain
illness, just as one knows that frogs croak when it rains. One
cannot pour the baby out with the bathwater and say that it is
unnecessary to examine the bacilli, yet one must realize that
explanation by merely stating that for cholera there are these
That is only a lazy way out for people who do not want to
Why? That these tiny beings need a specific environment is an
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Title: Health and Illness I: Lecture IX: Why do We Become Sick?
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Now I have heard that it must be treated early in the year. If
Steiner: What you have said is correct, but there is
one small catch. You see, the remedy that is in use here is
meant to be applied prophylactically; that is, it is meant to
symptoms of hayfever arise. The problem, however, is that
writes that his medication brings only a little relief to
individual hayfever attacks. He believes that our remedy can
our hayfever remedy works in such a way that if given to the
effective if applied again a year later. After that, the
Matters are not at all that simple, however; they are much more
complicated. You will understand this when you realize that in
then must cure himself. The point is that all of us are really
So you see that even in our everyday lives we bear something
must make clear to ourselves now what in fact happens
you must understand that the human organization immediately
this is that there is continuous, never-ceasing activity in our
the body, but we must also take into consideration that the
with something is it content. That is especially the case after
internal activity that we possess is quite different from man
activity — for reasons that I shall tell you later on
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Title: East and West, and the Roman Church: Lecture I
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Chinese civilisation or what it signifies as regards that
civilisation; what must interest us far more is the fact that it
of what has until to-day been considered as the Asiatic culture, a
what one may call a devastating criticism of modern European
derived from primeval civilisation; and he speaks from that point
a purely negative way, all that our modern Europe has to offer.
at once what a critical spirit finds utterance in that which
That indeed is a
sharp criticism of what has arisen within modern human evolution as
reality it is rooted in what has been produced (and often described
back for a great part of what lives in this European civilisation
in an age in which, side by side with what his education gave him,
same source has also come what has developed into the mechanical
the West, it developed in such a way that according to Eastern
over into men's thinking of what is purely mechanical. Whenever he
be quoted again from this article to the effect that Japan has
European piracy and spirit of exploration. Nevertheless that
So what the Asiatic
perceives in what comes to him from Europe is practical piracy and
a way that, with a mechanical view of the Cosmos, with all that has
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Title: East and West, and the Roman Church: Lecture II
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you of what I said from a certain point of view concerning our
Anthroposophical circles here, I should like just to run over that
given to what we call the Threshold and the Dweller on the
Threshold. I wished once again to state that publicly — that
could be learned about man, but that unless a man was prepared the
right way, he should not press beyond what was called the
— it was assumed that there were certain things which, in
that, if they entered unprepared into that sphere of knowledge,
self-consciousness was strengthened, so that the pupils could cross
out that through the whole progress of human evolution it has come
about that what constitutes to-day the general popular
consciousness of man is filled with what at that time was realised
pointed out that those ancient people had, for instance, in their
in such a way that human beings lost the very ground under their
feet. What everyone knows to-day was just what in those ancient
souls, for what was said with reference to the Heliocentric view of
which to-day are quite common human opinions. What to-day under the
science. That was the reason for the persecution of Galileo and it
accounts also for the fact that up until the year 1827 it was
into a region which was at that time designated as lying beyond the
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Title: Fundamental Impulses in the Mysteries of Ancient and Modern Times
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civilisation, in order to contemplate what I wish to say), to
its results; as fear is closely related with hatred, hatred
and would perhaps give people to understand that indeed in his
be brought into the world, so that deeds and social life may
is what he would feel, and from his point of view he would show
great deal of what we really need in order to find the point
East declares that love was the fundamental force of the
ancient times, the East contained little of what was demanded
those appearing in the later civilisation of by what surrounded
himself to the world with all his inner being. What weaved in
all that has been said to you in this connection for quite a
number of years — and that which lived in the Mysteries
the world, try to approach what lies hidden in the depths of
different elementary formation of the Western world. What these
world, this enabled them now to penetrate deeply into what is
say, lifeless. But what was brought into the Mystery colonies
Indeed, one might say that at first only the strongest souls
could bear what could be seen in man's inner being. Man's inner
what an impression this self-knowledge of manmade on these
sinful are the lips that utter these secrets and sinful the ear
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Anthroposophical Movement, and what must now appear in its
‘Futurum’; — what do they mean to do with these
therefore set on foot, in order that those who confess to an
what lies at the basis of such undertakings and see how they
hand, one cannot deny that, even amongst those human beings who
whole ways and methods by means of which what is here called
absolutely impossible that such a judgment can be in any way
justified, but that will only be clear to those who can grasp
that the development of humanity has to undergo certain
points of transition, and that these turning points should be
that we may have any definite dogma or theory which we seek to
out-growth of fanaticism amongst a few members, that they
then we find that in olden times, those ancient times in which
different place in the world. What was striven for in those
— that means in the time between birth and death —
in those Mysteries, and that instruction came from what the
fact that, in his opinion, the teachings in the Mysteries
did not proceed only from human beings, but that, through the
nature that they attracted, so to speak Divine Spiritual
those olden times, everything was so organised socially, that
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Title: Health and Illness II: Lecture I: Fever Versus Shock; Pregnancy
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can best consider the matters that you have brought up if we
enter into pregnancy that prove beyond doubt that the mother's
developing child. You only have to observe what happens, for
affected for its whole life. Naturally, you cannot say that a
physical change occurs in the child but only that the mother
nothing, of what influences the human soul and spirit. We can
that man experiences primarily in illness, that is, fever and
shock. These are two opposite conditions that man undergoes,
What is fever? You know that man's normal body temperature is
98.6°. If it rises any higher, we say that he has a fever.
hotter. What is shock? Shock is actually the opposite
going into shock. The reaction is that, through the shock, all
amount of food accumulates in a man's abdomen that he cannot
order to understand what is at work here, we must take a closer
look at the human organism. What actually happens when the
abdomen does not work properly? Although it is the abdomen that
isn't working properly, you will find that something is
that the heart with its arteries, as I have described them to
observe that something is wrong with the back of the brain.
if the rhythm of the heart's activity is disrupted so that the
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Title: Health and Illness II: Lecture II: The Brain and Thinking
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fact that as early as January 23, 1921, here in this hall, I
one can already say an enemy, that went like this:
There are plenty of spiritual sparks of fire that strike like
hostility it was something that could easily be feared. You can
understand why it was easy to fear. It is true, however, that
even now one can see what certain groups think about the
been destroyed, ask, “Didn't that `clairvoyant' Steiner
foresee this fire?” That such attitudes are also evidence
that some people find it at all necessary to publish such
statements! One learns from this what people think and how
can be sure, however, that I will never let anything divert me
from my path, come what may. As long as I live, I shall
done up to now. Also, I naturally hope that there will be no
interruption here in any area, so that in the future we can
before; at least, that is my intention. Come what may, my
thought is that the building will have to be reconstructed in
some form; to be sure, no effort will be spared toward that
you that relate to the subject we discussed a little before
this sad event. I tried to show you that a true science must
emotionally charged is the reaction that this matter calls
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Title: Health and Illness II: Lecture III: The Effects of Alcohol on Man
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because it influences what we have been describing in man all
along, that is, the entire constitution of the soul. In the
spiritual confusion so strong that he becomes subject to
passions that otherwise are weak in him and can easily be
easily. So you can see that the first effect of alcohol is
organism, it causes another symptom that you know well, called
a hangover; the appearance of a hangover shows you that the
entire organism objects to the initial effect of alcohol. What
that otherwise would have taken its course at a much slower
close attention to this! Let us assume that the body
altogether or so that its effects the next day are at least
milder so that they can work.
What happens, say, if a person has drunk himself into a visible
hotdog? He stimulates again what has been used up by the
do eat — and he forgets to eat that hotdog, he then will
morning with his head in the condition that is normal for his
intestines, that is, filled with refuse. An immediate revolt by
or arise the next morning with a powerful hangover, what do
What does this continued drinking signify? During the night,
that the last remnants of activity are consumed. Since these
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Title: Health and Illness II: Lecture IV: The Power of Intelligence as the Effect of the Sun; Beaver Lodges and Wasps Nests
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— a favorite innovation of our time that is increasingly
pursued in America — that the people who acquire the
Naturally, these statistics should not be taken to mean that a
American made the statement that, according to statistics,
Something is indicated here that is difficult to study in
interfere. It does indicate, however, that living beings in
fate as that of a certain professor who once measured human
brains; he drew up statistics and found in every instance that
concluded that all women have less intelligence than men
that the brains of women are smaller than those of men. Now,
professor. His brain was removed, and it turned out that the
might turn out that this American was himself born in the
that according to his own theory he could not be too clever;
wish to tell you something today that definitely pertains to
that they cannot be studied properly. If you take what I told
you the day before yesterday, that is, that humans, women as
you will see that this alone makes it impossible to study their
aspects of the problem are such that dissection of animals for
with, I shall tell you something that is not based on
dissection but on positive results that were obtained by men
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Title: Health and Illness II: Lecture V: The Effect of Nicotine; Vegetarian and Meat Diets; On Taking Absinthe; Twin Births
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Concerning conception, how is it possible that women bear sons
What influence does absinthe have on semen?
What is the difference between the ages of wasps and bees?
the influence of nicotine and therefore of the poison that is
heart is not a pump, however, but only indicates what goes on
circulation, animating it. One must therefore be clear that
You must be clear that everything occurring in the human
the fact that the pulse rate of the adult is 72 beats a minute,
This means that on the average the blood substance pulses four
human being. The fact that this ratio varies in people accounts
that is, the blood circulation is four times stronger than that
tobacco, and second, as a remedy. Every substance that is
that even the most commonplace substances can be poisons as
well as remedies. This is why the effect that a given substance
us say, for example, that there were a person whose system was
respiration thus is altered. The result is that the blood
The consequence of nicotine poisoning, therefore, is that the
This shortness of breath is, of course, so negligible that it
filled with a certain anxiety. Now, you know that if you suffer
realize that the heart of a person who constantly poisons
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Title: Health and Illness II: Lecture VI: Diphtheria and Influenza; Crossed Eyes
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vision, is so frequent now. What is the cause of this?
or not it is important that the father tore out the tongues of
father! To say that the children were born mute to punish the
In relation to children's age you can see that if a person
have been excluded. I have told you what a difference there is
This is why I say that to approach the problem conscientiously,
diseases, such as bronchitis, that can afflict the human head
to illnesses such as diphtheria and influenza that are so
know well that those who study medicine in the ordinary sense
descriptions given by doctors of the symptoms that appear with
than the symptoms that the doctors pay heed to, because the flu
membrane, this formation of tissue, is usually what can cause
diphtheria is that the heart of a diphtheria patient is always
aspect of diphtheria is that even if the patient is not
paralysis of the throat that occurs in addition to the
membrane. Finally, the same symptom that is nowadays observed
are the most important symptoms of diphtheria that can be noted
What does diphtheria really consist of? Diphtheria can be
understood only when one knows that man is actually kept alive
imagine what a tremendous influence the air has on the living
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Title: Health and Illness II: Lecture VII: The Relationship Between the Breathing and the Circulation of the Blood; Jaundice; Smallpox; Rabies
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It can thus be said that man today is constituted in such a way
that he absorbs the healthy air and expels the air that would
shall not discuss whether it is accurate to say that the blood
per minute. So, one can say that breathing is related to blood
circulation in an adult today in such a way that his pulse is
Now, we must be clear what is really involved in the human
circulation. First, we must be clear that man breathes chiefly
must always be in such shape that he can breathe through
human being, we can say that breathing occurs through the
know that a magnet has not only a north pole, a positive pole,
that opposite is located in the liver. We have already
other. One could say that the liver's constant purpose is to
bring into order internally what man acquires through breathing
in his relation with the outer world. That is what the liver is
Consider a disorder of the liver that may occur at any time,
because the liver is the organ, the single organ, that doesn't
imagine that the liver malfunctions. When this happens, all the
What happens, however, when the liver's activity is too weak?
of the body to replenish itself there. What happens? Smallpox
sketch); there is also a red line signifying that oxygen from
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Title: Health and Illness II: Lecture VIII: The Effect of Absinthe; Hemophilia;The Ice Age; The Declining Oriental and the Rising European Cultures; On Bees
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clear that we cannot speak only about the solid components of
made by outlining the solid components. So it is believed that
man consists only of his brain, lungs, heart, and so on, that
is, that he is really composed only of such solid components.
is therefore only partially correct to say that we drink water,
water is drunk, we can picture what I just said to be the case.
With the second glass of water, however, what is in the water
Now, it is a fact that the solid components in man are least
remains as it is. If we consider that we are filled with
fluids, we recognize that these fluids are open to any number
into consideration the fact that man is really a column of
fluid, it has simply forgotten that the whole world with all
When one recognizes that man is a mixture of fluids, one is not
too far from realizing that he is air as well. I constantly
that it is possible for man really to be a soul-spiritual
— the body becomes too solid. If one sees that a person
in some form must be given as a remedy. That will make man
fluid again so that he can experience the effects of outer
fluid element, as it were, so one can say that the feminine
element. One can therefore say that certain illnesses, like
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Title: Health and Illness II: Lecture IX: The Relationship of the Planets to the Metals and their Healing Effects
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Question: I would like to ask what the world was like in
— that the planet Venus has something to do with the
it by being told that though it was once known by men of old
I would like to call your attention to the fact that modern
Nothing has remained of this knowledge except that for certain
use of mercury. Please note that nobody in medicine today can
of mercury on syphilitic diseases, one must also mention that
famous new remedies that have replaced mercury today has
can be convinced in a remarkable way that the instinct for
that live partly underground and that therefore take in some
becomes comprehensible only when one knows that in some regions
It is curious that in regions where mercury is present, the
animals absorb it with their food, and it is the mercury that
effects the cure. It is not the toad but the mercury that the
toad has consumed and assimilated into its body that has the
become aware of two things from this. First, that a remarkable
spoiled by ordinary science; second, that if a living creature
bones open and show his students that little drops of mercury
were deposited in them. This is how a substance that a person
living creatures, and so toads that had assimilated mercury
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Title: Karmic Relationships, Volume I: Lecture I
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At the end of his life Rudolf Steiner took up the task that was his
later crystallise out, as it were, that special kind of working which
the earth. There too is all that appears as though it were ground
us consider, to begin with, all that thus appears to us as the
we find invariably that we can seek within the lifeless itself
whatever causes are at work in the lifeless realm. Wherever there is
investigate its forms within the lifeless realm. This means that the
away in cosmic distances. Nevertheless, whatever lifeless process or
death. All that was working and living in him before he went through
human shape which is left behind, that it is lifeless. Just as we
from this moment that we can apply to the human body what applies to
we could not seek the causes within the lifeless realm. Not only that
inert — in short, all the effects appear that we are accustomed
to the end, in all directions, what I am indicating (for I am doing
necessary spiritual faculties what the real man — the man of
“lifeless” which we thus obtain is different from what we
we shall find that we are never able to account for the effects
into two parties. On the one hand are those who say: “What is
aid. You must perceive that the forces for the plant-activity lie in
the wide universe. All that takes place in the plant is an effect of
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Title: Karmic Relationships, Volume I: Lecture II
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At the end of his life Rudolf Steiner took up the task that was his
on the one hand, we see that which man leaves behind him in the
are dissolved away, that is to say, what holds our form together has
that man, as he lives in the physical world, can receive practically
from the plant and the animal kingdoms. Moreover, what he absorbs
from the mineral kingdom bears a remarkable relation to that which he
grammes. That is a pretty fair weight. If it pressed with its full
weight on the vessels that are underneath it, they would be utterly
Then put the vessel of water beneath it, so that the body hanging
of the liquid it displaces. That is to say, if the liquid be water,
that as it may, the body loses in weight by the weight of the liquid
and there, you can already find it recognised in science that man,
thereby becomes so much lighter that it only weighs 20 grammes. The
press on the surface beneath it. Think what this means; then you will
free of the earth — and that in an organ of such importance. We
think with an organ that is not subject to earthly gravity; we think
will come to the conclusion that what comes from the mineral kingdom
so great is the predominance of what we receive as mere
world. He takes into himself from the mineral world only that which
the mineral world, what we call human freedom would not be there at
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Title: Karmic Relationships, Volume I: Lecture III
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At the end of his life Rudolf Steiner took up the task that was his
that impulse which we describe with the word Freedom. Let us
say so. What does it signify? In human life we have to record the
another, and that in turn by yet another life on earth, and so on
become so similar to one another that the immense difference which
our earthly body between birth and death in such a way that in
look far enough to perceive what is, after all, connected with this
heard that there is such substance as “air.” To one who
knows that air exists, and what its functions are, it will not occur
to speak of it as something that is “beyond.” Nor will he
think of declaiming: “I am a Monist; I declare that air, water
regarding air as something that goes beyond the earthly and watery
spiritual world is a “beyond,” in spite of the fact that
in his whole organisation, so that this very organisation gives him a
spiritual form of being. Moreover, in that life between death and a
dead look down on to the physical world just as the living (that is,
far too much happening compared with what man can bear; therefore he
excessively certain about the earthly life. It is a certainty that
stuns him, that makes him actually weak and faint — so that he
Suppose, however, that we now go back, say, no farther back than the
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Title: Karmic Relationships, Volume I: Lecture IV
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At the end of his life Rudolf Steiner took up the task that was his
understand that in the language of today there are no suitable forms
however, it will suffice us to bear in mind that the physical body is
organism, we may truly say that the human being remains in all
birth — according to what he has become through his preceding
that a man brings over from his former lives on earth —
precisely according to how he was and what he did — meets with
only is it of great significance for karma, what sympathies and
significance that he now comes into relation to those human souls to
birth. All that the good relationship implies, was living in him
experienced in helping him, all that you felt for this soul, the
feelings that led you on to act thus helpfully towards him, your own
inner experiences during the deed that helped him, are coming back to
again, you did harm to a human soul. That which was living in you
with respect to your life of action, you have the impression that it
in ordinary human parlance — we know that the reflections are
reflected no longer. But that which is reflected here in human souls
into the physical, we carry in our astral body what we have
that in one earthly life a man is able to perform actions sustained
force in his soul. What he takes with him as an outcome of his deeds,
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Title: Karmic Relationships, Volume I: Lecture V
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At the end of his life Rudolf Steiner took up the task that was his
certain inner factors in his nature. Let us observe, for once, what
basis, all that comes to expression in his life, in the physical
many a prejudice that is contained in the civilisation of today. We
must gain insight, what it really signifies to say that man, as to
that people refer to nowadays as heredity, has even found its way, as
with a predisposition to illness, they will at once ask, what of the
being; they completely miss him. They do not observe what his true
so; they see his whole physical organism as a product of what is
from his parents. But what is the physical organism which he receives
There is a thorough-going difference as between what the human being
becomes in his eighth or ninth year of life, and what he was in his
third or fourth year. It is a thorough-going difference. That which
that he undoubtedly received by heredity. His parents gave it to him.
That which emerges first in the eighth or ninth year of his life is
in the highest degree a product of what he himself has brought down
himself develops what he afterwards becomes. What he develops,
however, is the outcome of what he himself brings with him from the
the neighbouring body that is moving. This fact emerged very clearly
come to the earth in such a way that he could form his own physical
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Title: Karmic Relationships, Volume I: Lecture VI
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At the end of his life Rudolf Steiner took up the task that was his
must perceive, that is to say, how destiny, interwoven as it is with
today's lecture — independently of what we have already been
build a bridge between what we discuss today and that which is
they are not generally distinguished, it is only because that which
way. It has no feeling for what reveals itself when these things are
observed with a perception that is illumined from within. There, to
perceive that this human head appears quite different from the
embryo is the head organisation. That is practically all that we can
the head. All that afterwards flows into man's form and figure and
by the mother-organism, through organs that afterwards fall away —
organs that are no longer attached to the human being later on.
to say that man, to begin with, is a head. The remainder is merely an
the body. But that is only a superficial characterisation of the
being. All that constitutes his original form — namely the
rest of his body. That such is the anthroposophical practice was only
The fact is rather this: that which appears outwardly as the
That is precisely because the three members cannot in fact be
separated spatially. They can at most be separated in the sense that
senses; for that is to characterise it more inwardly. This, then, is
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Title: Karmic Relationships, Volume I: Lecture VII
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At the end of his life Rudolf Steiner took up the task that was his
“This is caused by so-and-so; this or that blow of destiny must
... and so forth. But karma is by no means as simple as that, and a
transcendental thoughts that is characteristic of Hegel strongly
appealed to Vischer. It was clear to him that, as Hegel asserts,
thought is the Divine Essence of the universe, and that when we, as
picture of what he did in a spiritual sense! So much for his outward
had a passionately independent nature and would say just what he
pleased, without any restraint whatever. It happened one day that he
severely reprimanded by the Council. It chanced that on the very same
What
say “Come in,” or what is usually said on such occasions.
He yelled out “Glei” — meaning that he would
that of writing a work on aesthetics according to the principles of
have what is called the “small print,” and most people
very cleverest writing on aesthetics that is anywhere to be found.
Here, too, you find Nature and her processes described in a way that
could never help being of opinion that the productions of his student
fragments patched together. He maintained that it ought to have been
Faust. That is philistinism and no mistake! It is almost on a
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Title: Karmic Relationships, Volume I: Lecture VIII
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At the end of his life Rudolf Steiner took up the task that was his
said yesterday that although it is a somewhat hazardous venture to
speak of individual karmic connections, I intended to do so, and that
the 18th century, and so on. That it is men themselves who carry over
things from one epoch of history to another, that the men now living
have themselves carried over from earlier epochs what is to be found
telling you something of his character. I said that I shall choose
only examples that I have actually investigated. These investigations
way of describing these things is that of narrative, for in this
domain it is only what presents itself to direct vision that can be
which it has directly proceeded — that is, to the life of
what is eternal in him — what passes over from one earthly life
that the right currents can be found in the whole series of earthly
being, we imagine that it is justifiable to argue intellectually that
because of what he is now, he must have been this or that in an
were to conclude from these trees what the trees look like from the
windows facing south. What must be done is to go to the south
but for the moment that is of no consequence — one is led back
essential point is that in this previous incarnation of importance,
took a full share in these conflicts. One may say that he was a
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Title: Karmic Relationships, Volume I: Lecture IX
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At the end of his life Rudolf Steiner took up the task that was his
will have seen that in describing karmic connections it is necessary
next. For it is a fact that when one presses through to the spiritual
corporeality, all that comes to expression in the bodily nature of
being of man. What a man seeks in life as the result of a karmic
upon the fact that forces of destiny, as they pass from life to life,
or that influence. We shall not easily find our way into the
that in ordinary life seems to be quite insignificant is of very
other human being that appears to us particularly important becomes
certainly shall do if we observe merely for observation's sake. That
perception of his karma, I have to picture. to myself what was of
value in his life somewhat in the following way. — Eduard von
century that has now begun; it is impossible to shake them out of
their phlegmatic attitude towards anything that really stirs the
phlegmatic age — phlegmatic, that is to say, in respect of
Christian centuries knew what it was to live in union with the
whereas we today speak for the most part phlegmatically, so that one
these people poured out what they actually experienced into words and
they imbued their words with the character of what they
language, words that still echo the sound of the ancient speech. And
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Title: Karmic Relationships, Volume I: Lecture X
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At the end of his life Rudolf Steiner took up the task that was his
into the life of the present day. What I want to do is to give you a
that at every point some light is shed on the workings of karma.
see, in the first place, that monotheism in a very strict form was
instituted by Mohammed. It is a religion that looks up, as did
is one God and Mohammed is his herald.” — That is what
all-powerful Godhead — a conception of Divinity that is allied
something entirely different. The strange thing is that while, on the
that for well-nigh a thousand years after the founding of
that had achieved great splendour. We see Haroun al Raschid, whose
Haroun al Raschid was the soul, something that had been spreading in
judged from the fact that a widespread and highly developed system of
philosophic thought is applied to what had been founded by Mohammed
Frankish Court of Charles the Great are apt to obscure what was being
we consider all that had developed directly out of Mohammedanism, we
Mohammedanism. Everything that history tells concerning what was done
the light of the fact that while Charles the Great did much to
flourishing over yonder in Asia that illustrious centre of culture of
we look at the purely external course of history, what do we find?
everything that went with the lofty culture to which Haroun al
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Title: Karmic Relationships, Volume I: Lecture XI
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At the end of his life Rudolf Steiner took up the task that was his
of more general historical ones. And it is with this end in view that
will have realised that consideration of the relation between one
me first draw your attention to the peculiar interest that one or
very interest that some persons arouse in us will often urge us to
Whatever
respects, there can be no doubt that he is an interesting figure in
century. This means that the way he expresses himself as a man is
those that are important from a spiritual aspect, we find Garibaldi
to take part in what the current education of the country has to
lively interest in all sorts and varieties of human affairs. What he
of some book that appealed to him, nothing could tear him from it. He
speaking, however, it was the great world that interested him. While
Adriatic and shared in all the varied experiences that were to be had
life of man! He shared in all the experiences that were possible in
times when one could do more or less what one wanted! And so he also
out characteristic features of his life that can lead us on to a
consideration of what is really important and essential. He lived in
and vivid impression of what his own inner relationship to the world
people made an impression on Garibaldi that nearly drove him to
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Title: Karmic Relationships, Volume I: Lecture XII
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At the end of his life Rudolf Steiner took up the task that was his
also enable me to deal with a problem that has been put to me by
correctly — to the fact that in very early times there were
freedom of Italy, Garibaldi; and if you take what I said yesterday
and add to it all that is well-known to you about this personality —
you will still find a very great deal in Garibaldi that is puzzling
and that opens up significant questions.
accustomed to occult researches of this kind; they are clues that
through and through. I made that abundantly clear in yesterday's
an Empire under Victor Emanuel. That is an astonishing fact.
who, as you know, stood for a long time at the head of what was
brought together in history suggests that they have, not only for
agree that he is by far the most significant figure of the four.
Mazzini's mentality is that of a learned philosopher; Cavour's that
Garibaldi. He possesses a quality of mind and spirit that expresses
itself with elemental force, so that one cannot remain indifferent
certainly it will be said that they are not to be found. But, my dear
the age of seventeen or eighteen, so that when they descended from
constituted today), then you would find that those who were once
form that you would expect, in a body that has received education —
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Title: Karmic Relationships, Volume II: Lecture I
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At the end of his life Rudolf Steiner took up the task that was his
as it were, from one earthly life into another, so that the fruits of
our very hearts and souls. We should feel that we who are now here
have been many times in earthly existence, and that in every life we
able to feel this, in order that in the coming lectures we may pass
these examples how the effects of what a man experienced and achieved
example, of Haroun al Raschid, that illustrious follower of Mohammed
that time — it was during the reign of Charlemagne — was
al Raschid there came together everything that an Asiatic
Asia at that time. For the most part they were men who had been
treasures of the spirit that had been carried over from long past
you, it may easily happen that a personality who was an Initiate in a
within him all that he acquired and experienced during his life as an
Garibaldi, we have seen how in that he became a kind of seer in his
present, he lived out all that he had been as an Irish Initiate.
We can see that while participating in
him in the form of Imaginations, all that he bore within him from his
body unable to contain all the impulses that are alive in his soul,
with him the urge to carry further into the West the Arabism that was
already spreading in that direction. And, as you know, Haroun al
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Title: Karmic Relationships, Volume II: Lecture II
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difficult to continue what has been given in the last lectures,
realise that if some of our thoughts to-day prove somewhat difficult
shall have a self-contained course, but to-day I must continue what
although needless to say we are extremely glad that they have
— and that is not an easy matter.
must be emphasised that a new trend has come into the
— You know, my dear friends, that since the year 1918 there
friends, that is something quite different from what the position
would have been if already at that time (as at our Christmas
Foundation Meeting) I had said that I would undertake the leadership
directions. So it came about that after the year 1918, the prevailing
who wanted to do this or that. If I had said at the time, “No,
it said to-day: “If this or that had only been allowed, we
what became of it, so that convictions might be called forth by the
facts themselves. For that is the only way to call forth conviction.
all has been that since the year 1918, opposition to our Movement has
our Society naturally like to be scientific. But that is the very
thing that annoys our opponents. When we say to them, “As
scientists we can prove this or that truth”, they come forward
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Title: Karmic Relationships, Volume II: Lecture III
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and who have not heard much of what has connections. Those who were
particular emphasis on the fact that study of the historical
thereby. Firstly, it is only in this way that the world can be
studied as it truly is. For all that man sees spread around him in
reveal the whole plant. Imagine a creature that is always born at a
that has roots and leaves only.
life, not what blossoms forth from the totality of earthly evolution
way as all the time to realise that she must needs create man out of
concentration of all that is to be found outspread in the far spaces
single, self-contained being. We must take account of the fact that
individuality. This is the one end that is attained when we look in
not know himself that there rise up in him those feelings which have
emotional impulses, rooted as they are in the subconscious, that make
Christianity. — I am relating to you what can be discovered
associate with a slave overseer of those times the feelings that the
him, however, is a rough, somewhat brutal personality. This man is,
officer is responsible for many things that arouse resentment and
fact that he, as the slave overseer, was obliged to obey this
that had existed in the physical world between the overseer and the
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Title: Karmic Relationships, Volume II: Lecture IV
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Studies that are
knowledge of some particular karmic connection that is important.
What is really important is that such studies should quicken the
realise that in the course of history very much has changed in
that will lead him to study, not merely the single earthly life of
I think that the
that our studies may be really fruitful, I want to return to a
death is something that breaks in upon man. The descent from the
deepest foundations of the soul. We must realise what a stupendous
But what once was present in this soul is not lost; it merely comes
truths, because at that time, especially in Southern Europe and Asia
Minor, body followed soul, that is to say, the bodily functions
external world. The result is that owing to the bodily constitution,
the inner concentration of soul-forces that was still possible in the
of things that reveal themselves to inner vision.
institutions in that part of the world in the early Christian
men were more or less aware of the rules that must be imposed on the
read what was described in my book
publication at that time — you will see that the ultimate aim
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Title: Karmic Relationships, Volume II: Lecture V
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purpose of these studies has been to show that individuals themselves
carry into later epochs of earthly existence what they have
kind of causal connection only that the study of karma can disclose
to participate in the great change in thinking and perception that is
place, a sense for what in ordinary circumstances is beyond our grasp
that is incomprehensible in everyday life — that is really the
A call that has so
often gone out from this platform is that anthroposophists shall have
enthusiasm in their seeking, enthusiasm for what is implicit
contemplation of history and from observation of what is immediately
which seem to indicate that human life here and there has lost all
certain types of character emerge from this event? What form will
certainly something that really does not make sense in the phenomenon
Think of all that
What becomes of a soul such as this, who scorns the whole world, who
city, as something he can play with? “What an artist is lost in
radiates destruction. And the question forces itself upon us: What
quite clear on this point: Whatever is discharged, as it were, upon
destruction. A few centuries later, that is to say, a comparatively
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Title: Karmic Relationships, Volume II: Lecture VI
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you will find that it is one which leads still more directly into
life and soul; so that in taking our place in the world as human
wrong to regard them all as insoluble. If that were so, man would
when he learns to penetrate with some degree of insight into all that
is connected with him, all that is connected with his soul and his
saying that the study of karma is a study that has directly to do
conditions there is much that hides karmic connections, makes
them invisible; for this reason, the very things that would make life
strongly within himself. And the strange thing is that when he
himself! For what do we find when someone begins to enter more deeply
belonging intimately to me. I prized this or that; I believed that
this or that was necessary for living. Moreover, I had friends with
Anthroposophy. Since that moment, much in my life has come to a stop.
they no longer have the same value for me. Many things that I enjoyed
farther, and tries to find what it is that has taken the place of
these things, he will very quickly discover that his egoism has not
before: “What sort of impression does my neighbour make on
Thus it is that
on the fact that, in such a case, there has been no expansion of
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Title: Karmic Relationships, Volume II: Lecture VII
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karma. These thoughts and conceptions are such that they can
human environment, we really see in the physical world only what is
physical world something that is not caused by physical forces, we
out of the free will. But all that we perceive outwardly is exhausted
sphere of what we can thus observe, the karmic connection of an
world, is really inscribed in what is the etheric world, in what
All that we
— and even that is half involuntary — adjust our gaze to
all events a fragment of consciousness. And, above all, that which
supposed to achieve it consciously. That would be out of the
capacity of man. If a man thinks only of what he can achieve himself,
that we are incapable of doing, but which must nevertheless come to
instruments that men will have to study for a long time before they
necessary for the observation of karma that we at least begin by
paying attention to what can happen within us to develop the faculty
what we must learn first of all is summed up in one word: to wait. We
— that the inner spiritual construction of Goethe's
was then, for the first time, that the perception as it were of a
presented itself to me. But I also knew at that time: I cannot yet
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Title: Karmic Relationships, Volume II: Lecture VIII
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attention to the fact that it is precisely by observing apparently
insignificant trifles in the human being that karmic connections may
be perceived. It is also a fact that the external appearance of the
that a certain type leads back to a definite attitude and behaviour
certainly seemed strange to those who imagine that they are standing
talking to you in the afternoon, will tell you that they saw a lady
in the street in the morning. When you ask them what sort of dress
can be said: This is a case of such lofty spirituality that a man who
loftiness alone is not the point; what really matters is whether the
case, any penetrating spirituality, because, after all, what a human
what they experience from it. Others go through the world as if
however you may judge of it, my dear friends, whatever opinion you
— that is not the point. Today we want to discuss what
the audience and asked: “Why did you sew on the button that had
I have been speaking. You need only remember what I have frequently
earlier times. It remains to be seen what men with an exclusively
the human being in the next earthly life is so constituted that he
to develop a strong relationship to the forces of the earth, what
earth are very strongly propagated by the head. The result is that in
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Title: Karmic Relationships, Volume II: Lecture IX
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shaping of karma, of the part of karma that is connected especially
that directly we look beyond the physical world — and this is
example in illness, whatever is karmic in an illness has a spiritual
cause. So that under all circumstances we come to the spiritual
told you that the forming of karma is connected with those Beings who
What we call Moon
earth that ancient wisdom of which I have so often spoken. These
of action that we should now call magical. But in point of fact the
comparatively recent times. Rousseau, for example, tells us that in
material science of modern times. It is evident, however, that the
stare at a toad in the same way, supposing that it would at least be
of what he has experienced in life — a grand and majestic
flows in such a way that although we grasp it in remembrance as a
remembrance man thinks back over his life, he forgets that the nights
nothing about it. What happens to him while he is unconscious during
course after death, so that time actually seems to him to be flowing
journey, this vision of what has happened during the nights, is lived
through after death in such a way that the great and significant
In earlier lectures here I have described what happens to the human
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Title: Karmic Relationships, Volume II: Lecture X
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you with what living force and intensity the experiences undergone
and in what a different way he is influenced by the
scene of our karma — the earth — it is obvious that
expressing it rather radically, we may say that no matter what
the quantity of foodstuffs we consume were determined by what we know
by them. But just think to what an extent his life of soul is
involved in everything that concerns the world of stars, how his life
of soul is affected. Take the nearest heavenly body that is related
to man — the moon. That the moon has an influence upon
that the ‘magic of moonlight’ — to use a romantic
impossible to imagine that even this crudest and most obvious
— or upon what he knows of its effect upon his organs; what he
spiritual life is excluded we cannot conceive that any influence
said in the last lecture that inasmuch as they themselves live within
have seen or heard, about what we have gleaned from the world of
nature or from history, or about what other people have said to us
... when our thinking is occupied exclusively with what comes to us
from outside during earthly life, then that Being of the Hierarchy of
But for all that,
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Title: Karmic Relationships, Volume II: Lecture XI
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physical organism but he elaborates what is otherwise to be found in
must realise that he bears the mineral, the plant and the animal
connected with nourishment. For whatever means of nourishment man
kingdom, we know that man has within him life-forces, vital forces.
Again, in reference to the animal kingdom we know that through his
what is present simultaneously in man, namely, physical body,
the Hierarchies we must study what transpires in man's earthly
49th year to the 56th; and so on. Concerning what lies beyond the
life, we find what is characteristic of the animal kingdom especially
the last portion of life, the years that lead into old age, we find
culture are due to what has thus been carried over into old age, into
it is clearly perceptible that at the beginning of earthly life the
more emphatic. In earliest childhood the Third Hierarchy —
So that here, again through three periods, between the 14th and 35th
dear friends, that in the period between the 14th and 21st years the
upon the human being. It is not until the 21st year that the Second
is needed to perceive that when he becomes capable of procreation the
that age. In the child are the weaker forces which, to begin with,
Hierarchy, we should be ripe for death at the age of 35, that is to
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Title: Karmic Relationships, Volume II: Lecture XII
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repeat that the aim of all these lectures is to lead us to a better
I told you that
radiance of the planets, we know that each of these heavenly bodies
is but the sign that in the direction where we behold it there is a
as human beings is such that within the physical body we have an
Imaginative Knowledge, he is able to perceive everything that can be
has lived through and the forces that have influenced his development
must picture that the several phases are blotted out in Inspired
we become aware of what it is that is actually
was the model for Strader in the Mystery Plays, was experienced. What
happens in such a case is that one looks, first of all, at the
not, as a rule, initiated. And if what I am now describing is to be
of seven. That is why vision of what is disclosed by this first phase
of life is comparatively easy to attain. What is here revealed are,
revelation is possible when that part of the backward survey which
corresponds to the years between 7 and 14 — that is to say, to
death as he ascends from the sphere of the Moon to that of Mercury
between the time of the change of teeth and that of puberty, must be
Consciousness, the next phase of life is obliterated, enabling what
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Title: Karmic Relationships, Volume II: Lecture XIII
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degree with causation similar to what is meant when we speak in the
first place, have a clear and exact perception of what is happening
cognition, to Initiation-knowledge, that such understanding can be
continue the study of certain matters that were touched upon in
said, even in public lectures, that at the stage of Imaginative
able to behold things that cannot be yielded by memory in the
sense-perception. But remember that a man is also connected with his
if he succeeds, even if only for a moment, he knows what Imaginative
of being independent of the physical body but for all that remaining
that obtains in the activity of Imaginative Knowledge. We remain
the etheric body to the physical body. Now picture to yourselves that
happen that your vessel is not porous and in that case none of the
spirit. All that has happened is that the etheric body is now
only natural that when a man really tries to make himself free of his
in that of Inspiration, Inspired Knowledge. In the activity of
with consciousness that has been emptied of images — man is
Remember what I
Knowledge, we perceive what it is that is present there within the
out, we perceive that within this physical body there was an Angelos,
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Title: Karmic Relationships, Volume II: Lecture XIV
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anything that has to do with this subject entails — or ought at
were carefully chosen by me in order that now, when we shall try to
conscious of the fact that this Christmas Meeting constituted an
relation to the fundamental changes that have come about in the
any audience otherwise than by reading an exact transcript of what
sentence spoken here, in order that the limits within which
same mistakes that were made by a number of members who thought it
to the Movement by what was then “achieved” — I say
later. If, however, friends are fully conscious that such
I must speak of them in such a way that they actually represent what
within the Anthroposophical Society. I think that the meaning of what
I have said will be understood. I have spoken as I have in order that
that is in direct operation through the whole course of man's
to describe what the reading of a biography can awaken in us, it is
consciousness that play into his life. Time takes its course thus.
aware only of what has happened during the days — unless we
an account of what has happened during the days, during the hours of
But that which
that are connected with destiny — this is not visible in the
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Title: Karmic Relationships, Volume II: Lecture XV
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to repeat that in the elaboration of karma during the life stretching
karma work together and it can truly be said that in this purely
This does not preclude the fact that we also form part of the whole
The fact that we belong to a particular group of souls does not
question: In what way does the work of the Hierarchies influence
the help of Initiation-Science, we shall admit that this is a deep
and searching question. For you can understand from what I have told
you in the course of recent lectures, that the phenomena of nature
devastating volcanic eruptions and we know what is brought about by
with something that is incomprehensible in its relation to the
that simply break into the cosmic order, events which are so
envisaged by man that he gives up all hope of understanding them and
the earth literally covered with volcanoes. We find that other parts
We even find that during this life between death and a new birth when
that such places are deliberately chosen by the souls thus karmically
connected, in order that they may experience this very destiny. For
far from fulfilling what lies in my past karma” — such a
It can happen that
outlooks upon life, — one outlook being that of the spiritual
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Title: Karmic Relationships, Volume II: Lecture XVI
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spiritual world, so that one can see how there stems from this
turn to a thought touched upon in that lecture. I said that the
consciousness of man and the heart that is bound up with this
Europe and from one point of view it is amazing to find what little
realise what this cloud portends.
Think only of what
prevalent in humanity to-day. Look at what is being made of
to be discredited — has reached us that the works of Tolstoy
that now is the time when the many petty concerns occupying
Luciferic direction. It may truly be said that reality is denied and
is a far greater menace than that of the primitive peoples who are
ideas and conceptions of what is, after all, unreality, hold sway in
whole World-Order, and to realise with what earnestness they must be
mindful of what is brought into existence when certain social orders
that a large number of people have met their death or suffered grave
in our study of karma, we must ask, on the one hand: What form does
objective reality? And on the other, we must ask: What form does
catastrophe of nature or one that is the outcome of
observes on the one side what takes place in the foreground of earth
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Title: Lecture: Karmic Relationships, Volume III: Lecture I: Introduction to these Studies on Karma
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time. What I shall say today will serve to illustrate and
explain many a question that may emerge out of the subjects
that evolution of civilisation which is concentrated mainly
judge of what shall be thought and done among them.
good idea of what intellectualism is. We need but
experience the present time, to gain a notion of what came
study history nowadays generally project what they are
Asia — influenced by what lived and found expression
only difference that they were ignorant of so and so many
century A.D., was altogether different from that of
thinks in me’ than that they thought ‘I
said to themselves — and what I shall now describe
people say (it is only forgotten now that it ever was so):
conscious of the fact that they received the thoughts.
rather strange idea, that the thoughts spring forth within
that the oxygen he receives in breathing were not received
Now we know that
conceive a certain fact, as follows: They imagined that
They imagined that they held the thoughts during the time
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Title: Lecture: Karmic Relationships, Volume III: Lecture II: Forces of Karmic Preparation in the Cosmos
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and indeed that whole intercourse with the world which we
associate them with clear conceptions. What is it that we
call instinct in the animals? We know that the animals have
behind it. Now to what world does the Group-soul belong? We
birth, we come into that altogether different world which
animals. And the animals that are here on the earth, when
that a materialistic world-conception cannot explain
instinct, for instinct is: — to act out of that
his later incarnations in such a way that he instinctively
— an instinct that works within the Ego.
understanding this, that we shall come to understand the
before us in ever expanding pictures; and what we thus
addition, all that took place instinctively in the working
it all that was instinctive, of which he was not conscious
see it in the first days after death. But what he would
fail to perceive that something more is contained in it
Initiation on all that the human being has before him at
to begin with from the Thoughts, that lived within the Will
thoughts. But the thoughts that are woven into our karma,
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Title: Lecture: Karmic Relationships, Volume III: Lecture III: The Spiritual Foundations of Anthroposophical Endeavour
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as the heart is an expression of all that man feels working
upon him during life, — of all that happens to him in
removed from one another. Indeed we must say: Whatever else
human life here upon earth and that which goes on in the
a certain connection it attains its limit. Whatever lies
beyond this is in reality a life given by grace. What lies
which only begins to dawn upon us when we consider what I
already described what the world of the stars is from a
fixed stars take part in human life and in all that
earthly life that has taken its full course, — one
that does not come to an end all too soon, but that has
star.’ If we take what is experienced beyond all
star, which determines what he has attained between death
them, — assuming that a certain time has elapsed
We see and comprehend the entire human race that inhabits
always bear in mind what I have said about the beings of
that we can look also at the constellations of stars,
saying to ourselves: ‘How is all this, that we behold
all of these. This is what Anthroposophy is to attain at
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Title: Lecture: Karmic Relationships, Volume III: Lecture IV: The Soul's Condition of Those Who Seek for Anthroposophy
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connections of the Anthroposophical Movement itself. What I
wish to say today will take its start from the fact that
the individuals within it. What I shall say today must of
means such that crude and simple observation would enable
us to say: in the case of this or that member, it is so or
so. Much of what I shall characterise today lies not in the
in such a way that those who belong to it feel their
derives great comfort from the fact that it can be said in
is one that recognises and bears the Christ Impulse within
They find satisfaction in all that Anthroposophy has to say
that at a
there arose, under the influence of these facts, what I
karma to come into that stream which afterwards became the
Christian stream. We must remember, after all, that less
pre-Christian and Atlantean too, that these other souls
be led to suppose that those who by the judgment of
here remind you of what I said at the time when the
of what I said at the Christmas Foundation Meeting, when I
find, as we look backward, that they had had comparatively
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Title: Lecture: Karmic Relationships, Volume III: Lecture V: Spiritual Conditions of Evolution Leading up to the Anthroposophical Movement
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indeed is obvious, for reasons that lie in their inner
with certain other facts in this direction, so that we may
intervening incarnations; but that incarnation is above all
considering this incarnation we found that we must
men were very different from what they are today. When the
said that this entry and expansion into the physical body
really lasts the whole day long. Be that as it may, the
perception that the Ego and the astral body are
the etheric body and the physical.” They knew that
For if man enters thus, stage by stage, into that which
bodies, — the result is that the whole period of
asleep ceases to have perceptions. For the little that
It was so indeed: the man of that time had an intermediate
century that this condition ceased completely in civilised
that all the souls, of whose life I was speaking the other
how those human beings — that is to say you
yourselves, all of you, during that time —
stages. And the effect of this was that throughout his
imagination. No, when the man of that time looked out, upon
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Title: Lecture: Karmic Relationships, Volume III: Lecture VI: The School of Chartres
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spiritual conditions of evolution that have led to the
Anthroposophical Movement and that are contained within its
spiritual evolution, for what was to become a spiritual
which flowed into the streams of life that are welded
comes down to us only from the period that began in the
14th (15th) century. Before that time, the relationship of
ideas but in living experiences that still penetrated to
— when in that incarnation they harkened to what
inner needs. To begin with we have the age that goes on
itself. Even the men of knowledge and learning in that time
in the first Christian centuries, partaking in that former
In all that lies
painful feeling. They saw the slow death of what they
that here or there at any rate there might arise a home and
bear in mind what I indicated here many years ago. Even
centres that had remained as the high places of knowledge,
the spirituality that can manifest itself in the
the realms of mineral and plant-nature and to all that
the cosmos, the spiritual-elemental beings that lived in
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Title: Lecture: Karmic Relationships, Volume III: Lecture VII: The New Age of Michael
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underlie what is now striving to make itself known to the
world in Anthroposophy. We know, my dear friends, that in
that the age of darkness led eventually to that condition
completely to the super-sensible world. We know that in
olden times of human evolution. But if that old condition
had continued — if mankind had lived on in that
would never have arisen in human evolution what we may call
connected with that which leads the human being to freedom
that dim, instinctive condition which once belonged to
he attain to that independent Thinking which we may call:
human consciousness the original, instinctive vision that
dark age — the age that darkened the spiritual world,
— in the ways that are possible — touched by
say that this age has begun in a very light-filled way. It
brought over humanity all the evil that mankind has ever
is only by a kind of inertia that men have persisted in the
that this direction of all humanity towards a new age of
light was prepared for through the fact that at the end of
before our souls what it means to say that the Age of
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Title: Lecture: Karmic Relationships, Volume III: Lecture VIII: Ahriman's Fight Against the Michael Principle. The Message of Michael
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experience his karma through the simple fact that he has
explanations to what I set forth last Monday. I told you of
himself was the great Teacher in that School. Numbers of
and sub-human beings, belonged at that time to the
given at that time.
Mystery of Golgotha? Christ at that time was taking His
the time when the Cosmic Intelligence, that is to say, the
essence of Intelligence that is spread out over the great
consciousness, not that he had evolved the Intelligence
within him, but that he was gifted with it from the
spiritual Beings. It is indeed of fairly recent date that
This is due to the fact that the rulership of Intelligence
find again that which has fallen away from me, which I
Spain, — Averroes, for example. What was the
That which Averroes conceived had been true till the end of
until the end of that age. But Averroes held fast to it
took the actual and true condition at that time (the 13th
This was what
repeated in that School again and again in many
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Title: Lecture: Karmic Relationships, Volume III: Lecture IX: Entry of the Michael Forces. Decisive Character of the Michael Impulses
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see what influence the impulses of Michael can have upon
that the rulership of Michael, if so we may call it,
is connected with forces that go through the line of
Gabriel is characterised by the fact that his impulses
fact that he is the administrator of the Cosmic
working with man and upon him. It is thus that the karma of
what a profound significance his impulses must have for
last third of the 19th century it did really happen that
karma was such that they had a strong feeling —
most radical phenomenon is that of a fainting fit, or a
century, — it was a shattering experience to see
only a thin veil concealed that which we recognise as the
and we need a far stronger power to behold what is present
insists, as I have told you, that his dominion shall
nexus that I have described, in the super-sensible School of
means rarely that one caught a glimpse, through the veil,
significant through that which happens as a consequence,
— through that which ensues when the diversion or
all the conditions that had gone before, it seemed scarcely
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Title: Lecture: Karmic Relationships, Volume III: Lecture X: The Michaelites: Their Karmic Impulse Towards the Spiritual Life The Working of Ahriman into the Once Cosmic and Now Personal Intelligence
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At the end of his life Rudolf Steiner took up the task that was his
Anthroposophy gives to a man. We cannot but confess that in
karma. He confronts his life as though the things that
fact that the things that meet him in earthly life from
prone to believe that a kind of fatalism is herein
expressed, — and that human freedom is thereby called
that the more intensely we penetrate the karmic
freedom. We need not therefore fear that by entering into
will have seen that with all such human beings, that is to
the greatest importance, that the Spiritual plays a deep
the fact that he bears within him a karmic impulse
anthroposophical, we shall always find that they are fully
the men of today who turn to that spiritual life which
that such a man will less easily come to terms with his
simple reason that he has more possibilities to choose from
things that other men easily grow into. Think only,
my dear friends, to what an intense degree many a human
being of today is what the connections of outer life
have made of him. No one can doubt that he fits into these
He is what he is as an absolute matter of course. There is
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Title: Lecture: Karmic Relationships, Volume III: Lecture XI: Evolution of the Michael Principle Throughout the Ages. The Split in the Cosmic Intelligence
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At the end of his life Rudolf Steiner took up the task that was his
bring to a kind of conclusion what I have said. Thus in
indeed, that men could not ascribe to themselves the
of higher Powers all that they could express in forms of
knew that the higher Powers here concerned were the ones
— that is to say, of the old rulership by Michael,
Arabism and with the Aristotelianism that had lived on in
conceived. I will give you a rough sketch of what these
by such an individuality as Averroes, that the Intelligence
the head, into the body of the single human being. So that
Intelligence that was his returns to the universal
that the thing of outstanding value in man's soul, namely
scholars that man does not possess personal immortality.
important thing about him during his life is the fact that
say that the intelligent being possesses personal
immortality of man. And in that time, such a striving could
Today we have to put it differently, but for that time one
can understand that a man like Averroes in Spain, who did
therefore we had asked Aristotle or Alexander what were
their thoughts about immortality, what would have been
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Title: Karmic Relationships, Volume IV: Introductory Lecture
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At the end of his life Rudolf Steiner took up the task that was his
Society was to be given a new impulse, the impulse that is essential if
channel for the spiritual life that has been accessible to mankind since
Anthroposophical Movement, however, must be that what takes its course
on earth is only the outer manifestation of something that is
Anthroposophical Movement must also realise that the spiritual impulses
What does it
thoughts themselves are such that in their development as inner spirit
the inner, conscious power of conviction that the spiritual is concrete
reality; that wherever matter exists for the outer eyes of men, not only
perception must then extend also to everything that is our own close
enough to acknowledge theoretically that spiritual reality hovers behind
mineral, plant, animal and man himself; what must penetrate as deep
conviction into the heart of every professed Anthroposophist is that
contribute in many ways to the provision of the right soil for that
brings me to speak of what I shall have to say to you in the coming
lectures I was to give at that time to a very small circle were to have
how strong was the opposition at that time to much that from the
of what was always there in the form of theory.
return in a certain sense to the starting-point. What must now be
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Title: Karmic Relationships, Volume IV: Lecture II
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At the end of his life Rudolf Steiner took up the task that was his
for it may indeed be said that the temptation is very great for man to
must also be said that in these matters especially the investigator must
repeated earthly lives in detail. What is derived from such occult
depths as these must be confirmed and supported by the fact that many
I may say that in the twenty-three to twenty-four years during which we
that must now be cultivated for the further course of the society's
make these preliminary remarks, because what I shall say to-day will be
for what will follow in the succeeding lectures.
to look aside from many of these obvious and outer things that stamp
we must not imagine that the outer or inner calling of a man has a very
great significance for his karma that passes through repeated lives on
calling, that of a civil servant for example, we can conceive how much
deepest relationships of karma or destiny those things that we can
easily we are tempted, in the case of a musician, to think that at any
things in reality, we find that the continued thread of karma or destiny
that once occurred to me.
he had indeed his profession. But to intuitive vision, from all that he
did out of his profession, or that he did as a philanthropist and the
like, no indication of his former earthly lives could be found. Not that
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Title: Karmic Relationships, Volume IV: Lecture III
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At the end of his life Rudolf Steiner took up the task that was his
life if we consider it in its external aspect, I mean in that aspect
history and life unless we turn our gaze to that spiritual background
as history the events that take place in the physical world, and they
often say that this world-history represents causes and effects. Thus
upwards from below. So it is indeed. That which takes place at any point
picture of what underlies the latter.
age in its spiritual aspects is connected, as you know, with what is
Michael is connected in turn with what the Anthroposophical Movement in
the deepest sense intends, with what this movement ought to be and do.
evolution in the successive centuries. But it is also not be denied that
be permeated by that intense materialism by which it is in fact
True, it cannot be denied that the
peoples who were still living in Europe at that time, though he does so
Now among the non-Christian people of that time those especially are
interesting who were influenced by the streams that came over from Asia
Mohammedanism and much that was connected with these. We see above all a
rich and varied scholarship, but a scholarship that was given an
background. You will remember what I said in our last lecture on karma,
that in considering the successive earthly lives of individual human
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Title: Karmic Relationships, Volume IV: Lecture IV
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At the end of his life Rudolf Steiner took up the task that was his
human action upon earth was everywhere connected with what was taking
place in the super-sensible. It is not that a consciousness of the
we connect what is taking place in one earthly life with that which is
begun to consider that spiritual, super-sensible stream of which I was
allowed to say that it is connected with our present stream of Michael
the Middle Ages was influenced by that Council. We need only watch the
the Middle Ages it is quite clear that the whole of the spiritual life
more intense was that spiritual life which has been working for a long
Constantinople. In that spiritual council there met together the
an oriental spiritual life with an Aristotelian doctrine that had become
Aristotelianism, connected also with all that the Platonic conception
Insulis and others. Now what kind of a spiritual life was it which
within that spiritual life we find a deep and spiritually penetrated
conception of Nature, altogether different from that abstract conception
that in all Nature, not only abstract, dead, conceptual natural laws
admiration, but they looked all the more deeply at what were called the
is so, we see in the Elements what is indeed not present in our seventy
that this Goddess Natura shows only one side of her being to man to
Elements in wind and weather, in all that surrounds the human being and
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Title: Karmic Relationships, Volume IV: Lecture V
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At the end of his life Rudolf Steiner took up the task that was his
will be added next Tuesday. In these pictures you will see what
sense, arose at the place where flourished that spiritual life of which
enter as teachers or students into the living spiritual life that had
deep devotion to spiritual powers, notably to those that hold sway in
that had once been direct spiritual experience. And I have told you of
see, out of the signs of the times, that there would be no place for
which I spoke last time — teachings that were given under
indeed that anyone who would devote himself to the cultivation of
Broadly speaking we may say that there have
who was altogether devoted to the life-element that existed in that
life. All that was reminiscent still of the great and deep impulses of
the spiritual Platonism that had been handed down — all
this was living in Chartres. But it lived in such a way that the bearers
Musica. Even in the reception of the Spiritual that was contained in the
see that Europe in the future would no longer be receptive to these
that one could find in this case most wonderfully the echo and
When one was in conversation with that
authoress, she returned again and again to the theme that she would like
for death, but in this feeling that the soul, being now
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Title: Karmic Relationships, Volume IV: Lecture VI
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At the end of his life Rudolf Steiner took up the task that was his
you that this individuality was next incarnated in one who is only
what he had undergone as Julian the Apostate. For the same individuality
Western civilisation at that time.
view of this Copernican picture of the world that the famous astronomer
this. Thus we see Tycho de Brahe accepting in his world-conception what
instinctively what he had brought with him from his life as Julian the
Apostate. In that former life it had not been permeated with rationalism
succeeded in doing something that made a great sensation.
the basis of Tycho de Brahe's mapping of the stars that Kepler
that activities and forces unfolded in the spiritual world worked down
example, in the time that immediately followed the period of the
impulses and movements. Now the remarkable thing is this, that in Lord
what I have already described as the enactment of a great and sublime
In the super-sensible world at that time a
what we call paganism, of the old life of the Mysteries. It was his
conception all that he had received through his Initiation as Julian the
as that of Tycho de Brahe, of the soul who was last incarnated in Tycho
of that super-sensible ceremony which was to introduce and, as it were,
century. But on the other hand, many who felt themselves drawn to what I
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Title: Karmic Relationships, Volume IV: Lecture VII
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At the end of his life Rudolf Steiner took up the task that was his
individuality. Certain it is that within this earthly life, being
it is there that karma is elaborated from what has happened in a former
can look to the world of stars beyond the earth. For we know that the
Again and again we must repeat that the
astonished to see something totally different from what he would expect.
For what the star shows to earthly observation is in reality only an
outward semblance, comparatively unessential to its own true being. What
way. Imagine that an inhabitant of some other star were to observe the
disagree with what we who inhabit the globe know amongst ourselves. Or
would theorise that a comet was colliding with the Earth, and so forth.
At any rate, what such a being described would have very little to do
For what is the essence of our Earth?
You must remember that this Earth has proceeded from the
warmth-conditions, everything that afterwards became the mineral, plant
humanity in order that it might attain its further evolution. The whole
solid mineral world belongs to us. It is but a relic that has remained
our Earth is not what we have in the kingdoms of Nature, and not even
what we carry in our bones and muscles (for these too are composed of
what we have thus cast out and afterwards absorbed again).
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Title: Karmic Relationships, Volume IV: Lecture VIII
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At the end of his life Rudolf Steiner took up the task that was his
to understand more and more what it means to say that the present age
reality. We showed how difficulties of karma may even go so far that a
through all that is necessary for the weaving of karma by partaking in
to what happens here in the physical life on earth it is of course
difficult for us to receive what we must receive if we are to take the
real earnest — so much so that they can receive what is
things as it were to illustrate what I shall then have to say next
such that the continuous chain would be visible at all to superficial
such that if we describe them one after another, we are at the same time
who lived at the end of the first Christian century. Already at that
the Sceptics, that is to say, he was one of those who really think
He belonged to that sceptical School which
ground that it is impossible to gain certain knowledge, and above all
that it is quite impossible to say with certainty whether a Divine Being
in that incarnation is of no great importance, he was a certain
that time, gathered up into himself as it were, the whole of Greek
a Cynic not in his conception of life, for in that he was a Sceptic, but
making light and joking about most important things that met him in the
world. In that life Christianity passed him by, leaving no trace. But a
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Title: Karmic Relationships, Volume IV: Lecture IX
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At the end of his life Rudolf Steiner took up the task that was his
difficult it is to carry into an earthly life in the present time, what
earth. I mean what he brings with him in the sense that with the
education and culture, anything spiritual that was received and absorbed
all manner of hindrances that can indeed arise to prevent the carrying
Babylonian captivity, and a little after that. In studying that period I
to the Jewish race. When the Jews were led into captivity, however, that
this woman made her escape. And in the time that followed (she attained
a considerable age in that incarnation) she received in Asia Minor all
manner of teachings which could be received there at that time. She
received among other things what was then living with great intensity,
directions what we may call the
opposing power, bearing into the world-evolution of mankind all that is
dark, and not only dark but all that is evil, all that hinders and
I am speaking, in her incarnation as a woman in that time, was able to
remarkable individuality. All that had been discovered and experienced
her which we may express in these words: What were all the ideas I
Imaginations that now stand before my soul? How great and mighty
death. Indeed there springs forth in her a kind of longing that in her
and scholarly activity. I have mentioned once before that many of the
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Title: Karmic Relationships, Volume IV: Lecture X
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At the end of his life Rudolf Steiner took up the task that was his
last lecture you will at any rate have seen that the man of to-day,
this present incarnation is so strange and unusual a one as that of
soul which evolves most especially the intellect, i.e., that faculty of
elementarily human qualities, from that which man bears within him as
what is truly human. And indeed if one can fully see the extent to which
general case of a soul that lived in the centuries before the Mystery of
his own experience as of a world that is no less real and present than
that comes over from former times will withdraw into the subconscious.
up from the subconscious into the ordinary consciousness the things that
things, many a countenance to-day will contradict what openly comes
in such a high degree as it is to-day, that the countenances of men
contradict what they themselves say and declare.
understand that strength and energy, perseverance and a holy enthusiasm
are necessary that the thoughts and ideas of men to-day may rise into
the spiritual world and that man may find the path of ideas upward to
this, then we must fully realise that intellectualism to begin with
spiritual content that is present within the soul. Only when we are
consciousness that with the ideas of Anthroposophy, relating as they do,
hold of that to which they do relate, namely, the spiritual. To enter
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Title: Spiritual Development: Lecture I: The Inner Experience of the Activity of Thinking
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and co-ordinate them, I pointed out that in all these
that is in active manifestation
This physical body is permeated by what may be called the
again be emphasised that it is by no means so very difficult to
complete indifference to what the outer senses present to him,
that has to be applied in geometry, one need only take a
is that a triangle, in reality? What you have on
microscope. That is no triangle! To think that the triangle is
the following. — What you
through beneath the red, so that this figure grows out of that,
and that out of this, entirely in thought. There you have the
gradually become aware that to think means
that moment the whole of your earthly
What is here experienced as the Second Man is
one's skin, but one feels that one is actually in this
One perceives that this Second Man is perpetually
order to effect their extinction. So that
becomes manifest in what man excretes and
in that which, as formative forces, as
and about what is excreted through sweating and so
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Title: Spiritual Development: Lecture II: The Physical World and the Moral-Spiritual Impulses
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vividly conscious of this that he can live in this
something that can be observed in space only for a fleeting
the etheric, one does not feel that shadowy, inner dimness
But that sense of being firmly rooted in the spiritual world
is experienced when by earnest striving man attains what I have
to hold back what wants to
strive inwardly to maintain that activity which otherwise finds
what the spiritual world has to say to us, what
pressing in upon our senses, so that we may
their gross substantiality, we have on the other side what are
one hand all that is grossly material and concrete and, to
energy, finds a kind of eternity being attributed to what is
externally real, while that which arises out of thoughts and
is also conscious of the fact that his dignity as a human being
can discover nothing that is governed by the principle of
common, he must admit that in the animal the moral functions
physical-material nature and find that with part of his being
Nevertheless, what is demanded of man, if his dignity as a
human being is to be fully maintained, is that he
feels that as long as he lives, his own being
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Title: Spiritual Development: Lecture III: Man's Faculty of Cognition in the Etheric World
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Universe. It can be said that the physical body is
connected with all that is the physical, earthly
world of the senses; man's physical body is part of that world.
forces, we must understand that this belongs to quite a
different kind of world, to that world which is itself etheric
and of which I told you that man should experience it as coming
therefore, that man's etheric body is
connected with worlds that are not to be found at all in
that cosmos which is contained in the Physical and the
etheric, and in which we find that with our
we belong to a world that flows as from
embracing world, one that we must
But we must also have regard to the fact that,
etheric body. What we then have to bear in mind is that
in that world everything is different from what we
higher worlds; so that we then see more into the primary
from that, when in the physical world we have, to begin with,
recognise on entering this world of flowing images that these
enabled us to enter these worlds, we know that, just as in
forces of the third Hierarchy. So that the
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Title: Things Past and Present: Lecture I
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are able to say that as far as his own striving in a certain
very friendly to our movement. He himself, says that he
had to pass through many difficulties in order to attain what
that which I have just attempted to characterize, an element
that can perhaps only be evaluated correctly when we realize
what does all this come from?
something that one can perhaps only correctly notice with
which one should always do — so as to realize that
characteristics and allow that to work on them, but they fail
to realize that the important thing is the formal element,
the artistic formal element of what is being attempted, not
that which we would characterize as something which lives in
element of Friedrich Lienhard is that precisely through his
and being able to grasp all that and to place the single
that fact Freiedrich Lienhard is in a position of being able
to represent such a figure as that of the priest Oberlin of
speech to find the possibility of again reawakening that
therefore we can say in a certain sense, as it were, that
spiritual and in that way wanted to create something new.
in a new way the stream of the eternal beauty; he grasps that
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Title: Things Past and Present: Lecture II: Deeper Secrets of Man's Soul-Spiritual Nature
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like to return to much of that which I said in previous
spiritual nature of man. You know that we speak in the first
place of that particular member of the inner human being
intellect and its observation, we know that the ether body is
We remember how often we have emphasized the fact that one
cannot say that the inner being of man is completely unknown
radiated through by his “I”. One can say that man
However one cannot say that you can actually perceive your
astral body. Also one cannot say that you really perceive
Therefore, in a certain sense, it can he concluded also that
what you have is a manifestation, an expression of the
spiritual nature of that which we designate as the etheric
know that man consists of physical body, ether body, astral
feeling and willing proceed in the astral body. However that
that impulse which proceeds from the “I”.
through the fact that we have the mobile ether body. Our
fact that we have this physical body. Thus you see how this
And through the fact that they are imprinted, you can always
situation — what the memory actually represents for man
the thought experiences out of our inner being. That which we
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Title: Things Past and Present: Lecture III: A Fragment from the Jewish Haggada, Blavatsky
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already familiar with the fact that spiritual forces,
occurrences. In order to understand what is going on we must
Blavatsky. You all know that H. P. Blavatsky was a
way that it is not normal, but abnormal. And to understand
that, we must cast our attention on the special folk
characteristics of the Russians, how that is different from
continuous and also the newly creative configuration of that
the Greco-Latin cultural period. What lived in this
Western Europe, through the fact that in this West and Middle
thinking, feeling and willing. That which thinking, feeling
physical body, that should come out in a very primary way in
with the Russians. One can say that the way in which the
You can only understand them when you know that an ether body
consists in the fact that the most important activity of life
as such. That which lives and weaves in the ether body should
that that which is predisposed in the Russian folk, in the
will be understandable from that that with her, the ether
large amount of her ether body, but naturally that is quite
different from what one can experience through thinking and
amount in her ether body. However, connected with that is the
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Title: Things Past and Present: Lecture IV: Secrets of Freemasonry
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gave eight days ago. In the first place, we have seen that
externally presented ideas of the last lectures that in a
That which is
a certain direction through the fact that it unites them in a
Goethe, attached a great deal of importance to the fact that
expression in one way or another. He was grateful that in the
We know that
period people were so configured that their ether body was
that which was around it. When the ether body perceives, then
it sees the elementary world, that which is of an elemental
You can see from external documents that people in past ages
our studies that the tempter was Lucifer and Lucifer is not a
awakened clairvoyance, and then he manifests himself as that
of that which was already present as head upon the moon, but
13th, 14th century. We can see that at that time human beings
also arose in the 4th post-Atlantean period. At that time
that this type of symbolism could be made fruitful for
you can read how the education was so led that the human being
that which can have an influence upon human beings from the
acquisition of the feeling for reverence for that which is
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Title: Things Past and Present: Lecture V: Comenius and the Temple of PanSophia
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not aware of what the spiritual world is trying to reveal to
science, it proves the fact that in truth such brotherhoods
world as did the earlier communities, but they preserved that
or researchers of ancient times. What do these people mean by
the writings of Gautama Buddha you will see that what is said
going back through the earliest centuries to that which was
he can think of is that man is a type of ape man. However, in
unprejudiced person must admit that there must have
such a superior way that in it is contained not only a
consciousness of the fact that man can rise up into the
spiritual worlds, but that man can find other beings in these
find in these ancient religious writings that the people knew
What actually
know that the world around us is not only spread out in the
beings that lie at the base of the mineral kingdom are called
great deal to do. External materialistic science says that
in winter. This means that we have an elementary kingdom
instruction, but one can say that forces pour down in order
that these elementary beings can receive the power in the
impart themselves to these elementary beings so that a new
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Title: Things Past and Present: Lecture VI: Death and Resurrection
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brotherhoods is that which is connected with the thought of
such brotherhoods. Thus, one can say that as a middle point
what is called the legend of Hiram. Thus the name of Hiram,
through this imagination one wants to show what the situation
consider that the death of Hiram, the resurrection of Hiram
the connection with the Easter thought. Now you know that in
occurring; that the festivities of Maundy Thursday pass over
Resurrection is celebrated, which means that Christ is again
it is just the same as that which occurs in occult
The meaning which is connected with this ceremony is that the
present in his consciousness; it goes much deeper than that.
you could not presuppose that deep down in the human soul you
art of the fact that that which gives the artist power
is so that for him any sort of rules to which he might direct
to that which as an elementary consciousness in his soul
explanation of that which comes to the surface from the
that many other hidden qualities hold sway in the soul,
the fact as we have often spoken about it, that the astral
life so that, in the main, in their soul life they only
possess that which is connected with the external material
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Title: Things Past and Present: Lecture VII: Man's Four Members
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and what happens there. And I indicated that you can find the
that particular custom which represented itself in the laying
that which can be called the Easter Cult. Today I will begin
What is
following way. One says that you are looking for the lost
that would lead me too far afield but I will, to be sure, in
a certain way, tell you about what is meant by the
the Word.” Now, it is obvious that that which we
indicate today with the word ‘Word’ is not what
order to approach what is involved here, that mankind had a
wisdom as spread out, you call that the Logos, the Primal
Word, then you have an approximate idea of what is meant by
the following: That which was once given as wisdom to mankind
than that which today we are able to know in our spiritual
science, you can say that has been lost. It is a beautiful
such brotherhoods that such a thing has actually been lost
this will not be found in such brotherhoods, because if that
the souls of mankind in such a way that they would come into
the situation that when they pass through the portal of
return to earth, that then they can at least have an
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Title: Things Past and Present: Lecture VIII: Thomas More and His Utopia
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ways in the Church. What he really wanted was that the
More, 1478–1535, did not agree that such a “holy
“Utopia”, and since that time the name Utopia is
Thomas More indicated in his book “Utopia” that
different religions, because the state agreed that religion
this fact, we know that the Catholic Church is trying to make
sainthood and it is necessary that one should have performed
against the candidate for sainthood. Now, just imagine that
Catholic Church! This is the sort of thing that the opposing
enlightened Lord Justices had to decide what sort of
judgement that these enlightened lords issued. This was not
first half of the 16th century. That is not so long ago. But
we should remember that Thomas More who in his Utopia talked
contains the configuration of a state that was developed on a
state. All the houses would be in squares on streets that
organization of the state; they were educated so that they
when they ate, they ought to feel thankful that there was a
enlightened spirits in Utopia. Things were so arranged that
religious freedom; however there was a presupposition that no
denied the immortality of the soul or denied the fact that
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Title: Things Past and Present: Lecture IX: Celtic Symbols and Cult, Jesuit State in Paraguay
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teachings of the Lost Word and the Word that has to be found
in such occult brotherhoods, how is it possible with all that
way? How does that happen? To understand this I must first
14th century. You will see that the way which he regards
nature is quite strange to present day man. Why is that? Man
at that particular time absolutely reckoned with all that
aspect of modern perception is that everything is thrown out
presupposes that such books as those of Albertus Magnus in
the 13th century do reckon with the fact that overall there
the characteristic that man, in the first place, takes in
that which falls into the realm of his sense from the
because you can only call that which is spirit, that which
concerned with what has occurred in the sense world. thus you
is in the first place to take up into our ideas that which is
to throw out human all that which does not come in from the
excludes the elementary forces for 2000 years; through that
the fact that we are standing just at the beginning of this
beings in such a way that one was still predisposed to the
fact that the elementary spirit wove around them just as the
that in our present epoch we are able to think about that
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Title: Things Past and Present: Lecture X
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for us to imagine that the whole process of the spiritual
the view that something which has occurred in the world could
have also occurred differently, that is not a rejection to
other are familiar with that which occurs in the external
same time as that which occurs in the external world. Both
streams, so that it is actually quite valid that things could
it manifests there and nevertheless that which is necessary
occurred, that aspect of spiritual development which depends
certain, my dear friends, that in most circles Schiller and
effort to investigate what they have written about their
could have proceeded in such a way that people actually could
not work out that way.
happen that things were different? What would have happened
century, what would have happened had these germs really
is what I want to demonstrate in my book which should appear
Why had that which
represent them in such a way that as to make their ideas
way, people have difficulty in trying to understand that
to the Mystery of Golgotha. You know from my lectures that in
great Zarathustra. He lives in that body until his 12th year,
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Title: Things Past and Present: Lecture XI: Fragments from the Jewish Haggada
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from 19th Surah, you will see that it specifically mentions
that the Nathan Jesus Child actually spoke immediately at his
birth. This is what the Koran says: “Jesus spoke and
other writings apart from the Old Testament, you learn that
the Haggadah is the name given to that which modern people
for him that they bring him to that place where he is
that Solomon gave his Moors to the Seherem (Seherem are those
precisely to the place where I wanted them to go. So at that
guarantee for him that they bring him to the place where he
that which Rabbi Joachin said, namely, the feet of man
guarantee for him that he is taken to the place where he
friends, you will see that a number of questions are raised
guarantee that he is brought to the place where he is
sad when he appeared before Solomon with the statement that
ridiculously trivial to say that the Angel was sad; he was
you sad?” What is the significance of this question?
answered. The city of Loos was so organized that no one was
heard that the Angel of Death was going to take his scribes,
he sent them to the city because he believed that if they
human beings are a guarantee that he is brought to the place
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Title: Things Past and Present: Lecture XII: Luciferic Dangers from the East
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and we know that certain of the beings of these hierarchies
unfold that activity which they would have unfolded if they
what the significance is of the inter-weaving of such
Bhagavad Gita and in other writings of the Orient. At that
for present day man to deepen himself in that which at that
fact that we divide history into two parts, that which
preceded the Mystery of Golgotha and that which came
the fact that we have not yet been able to completely
Golgotha. Let us assume that someone appeared in our time and
Gita spoke or as Buddha spoke in his time; that person would
that if the person in question said that at that time when
Bhagavad Gita speaks, that is a Luciferic act and something
over into our time. A person who does that would extinguish
German. We see that this book really belongs to the centuries
this book. However, of that which goes beyond what one can
that which Fichte, Hegel, Schelling and the others who I have
mentioned in this book, what they have done is far superior
to that which is contained in the oriental wisdom, contained
in Brahmanism and the fact that human beings today do not
and for that reason I have written about it in my book, The
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Title: Memory and Habit: Lecture I
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that were Subject to Luciferic and Ahrimanic Influences.
the fact that in order to have a full and complete earthly existence,
memory. Just imagine what it would be like if memory were not one of
past day nor recall from unfathomed depths what we have experienced
that memory begins to function at a certain point of time during our
earthly life and that experiences occurring before this point of time
are sunk in oblivion. We can therefore say that from a certain point
was not needed, for the reason that in the power of the dreamy
take the place of our memory to-day. Suppose that every time you
place remaining accessible to you, and that it was so with every
that was experienced in that old dreamlike, clairvoyant
ether-substance. All that the Moon-humanity experienced through this
with memory to-day was that the dreamy clairvoyant gaze was directed
look round upon what he had experienced in his dreamlike
the world from that of to-day. Suppose everything that now becomes a
that you could re-think it. If this were so, you would have
transferred into your present life of thought conditions that
given over to the cosmic substance. So that after death we begin to
look back upon what was engraved in our individual ether-substance
unfolding of Ego-consciousness. For what had we in the place of
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Title: Memory and Habit: Lecture II
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SHOULD like to add something to what I have said on the
belonged to the Old Moon period of evolution. I said that
during that period of dreamy, imaginative vision, man had no need of
an objective world) of what he experienced in his dreamlike
it has to some extent been ‘pre-experienced,’ that is to
will show you that all experiences in the consciousness of the Old
Moon period were merely after-echoes of what had already lived in the
the Beings of the Hierarchies there lived, in advance, what the
‘thoughts’ at all in connection with what was really a
constituted that what a man thinks has already been thought, or
that he experienced in consciousness. In the period between
death and a new birth man lives through what was thus engraved in his
moment all that human beings think! Would it not be terrible if every
remained there for ever and ever? That, however, is what would happen
correct thoughts that are not worthy of permanence or entirely
to better what is impressed upon the etheric substance of the cosmos
every time he passes through death and he can strive to the end that
after his final incarnation on Earth only that will have been given
different process from what took place in the dreamy, imaginative
for the whole of the normal life of soul during the Earth period, that is
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Title: Memory and Habit: Lecture III
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Thinking that Accords with Reality and Thinking that is in
materialism of our time. But it is the case that the knowledge which
of the universe other than that of the sense-perceptible facts to
of a man's former incarnations. We have also heard that the human
you that knowledge which is a remnant of the wisdom of ancient times
Without speaking the superficial language that is characteristic of most
that behind the connections which are said to exist between the human
Taurus; the shoulders, together with all that comes to expression in
the twelve. Hence in the next incarnation, what to-day is the
what to-day is the larynx (including the neighbouring organs of
world we may say that our whole body is transformed, metamorphosed to
become head in the next incarnation, and in so orderly a way that the
is there any indication that the head is really twelve-fold in its
constitution? Most of you will know that twelve main nerves go
recognise in them that which, in the previous incarnation, was
by the strange dictum that, for example, the hands will be
understand what is meant. Can we not observe in the hands something
that points, in germ, to organs of speech? Do not the gestures of
sense-organ of the head? And the idea that what is physically
is not difficult to conceive that the marvellous structure of the
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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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to say, by way of a greeting, that every step our work progresses has
of the eternal significance of precisely the kind of work that takes
place here. It is important that such work has actually been taken up,
that some human hearts and souls have actually been touched by the
spiritual implications of the work, and that some human eyes have
actually beheld it. For this creates a womb that will always be able
to carry the future, and what we are doing thus enters into the
developing stream of human aspiration. We may hope that what our dear
It gave me deep joy, for example, when I walked past the house that
for the first time. It is significant that this house also stands within our
precincts. For it is significant that it has been possible to build
traditional style in building and against an architecture that no
new. And the fact that in our circles the need to build something new
Whatever objections may still be raised against this style of building
they want to go. By and by it will be seen that those who strive in
darkness are striving for the goals that already are being sought
here. It will be seen that one needs to become acquainted with these
forms that are born out of the womb of spiritual science. However
have this to raise our spirits: that we are permitted, in the midst of
these times of uncertain destiny, to establish what mankind needs for
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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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the variety of natural occurrences, we will notice that they seem to
the one hand we have all the things that happen with the regularity
do not occur with that kind of regularity. We can say that the sun
morning, but we cannot say that we will see a certain cloud formation
of the moon, that, here in our building in Dornach, we are going to be
to calculate eclipses of the sun and moon that will happen centuries
You see here two distinct realms of nature, one that manifests
regularity and extreme unpredictability are intertwined in what we
impression that nature makes on us at a given instant as a mixture of
ones that can take us by surprise, even though they come again and
Now, there is a profound truth that we have considered from many
points of view in the course of our studies here, the truth that man
is a microcosm — that man mirrors the macrocosm and that
everything that is to be found at large in the macrocosm can be
that twofold division of nature into order and irregularity should
That typical individuality was well able to think logically. When it
that regularity can contribute to the functioning of our
life, a life that was expressed in those two works I described to you.
with what human reason has to offer. There were storms in the depths
of that soul, profound storms, and these storms were lived out in the
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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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have seen how everything that comes to life in a human soul during
heavens and of the universe — to what these, taken in their
terrestrial influences and impressions that are earthly in a more
science, everything that is perceived by the senses must be seen as a
nature. That is most easily imagined if you consider the skeleton.
parts of the body. And, in principle, the only thing that holds these
the skeleton that hang down from the head, form the basis for the life
that plays itself out more or less unconsciously. The unconscious life
light. In that, something of an unquestionably earthly nature is
awareness of time that was typical of the ancient Hebrew culture we
found direct evidence that mankind once possessed knowledge, explicit
occurrences and human waking consciousness. We saw how that which can
wonderful way that mankind participates in the whole universe, and
a certain sensibility, and consists in the belief that what is earthly
is worthless and absolutely must be overcome — that it is coarse,
contemptible stuff that a spiritually striving person does not even
mention. That for which one must strive is the spirit! This is the way
Therefore I said that this prejudice expresses itself more as a
— for the super-earthly and for things that should be experienced
the earth in the same way that men on earth speak of heaven. The earth
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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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for us to be clear that, given the Greeks' view of the world, a
would have been out of the question. Today, when someone says that
this or that convolution of the brain is the speech centre, he is
materialist, at the very least he will think that anyone who wants to
arousing any materialistic assumptions, for they still felt that the
centre in the brain that this speech centre is, in the first instance,
built in the spirit. Nor does he think of what is there materially as
being a sign or symbol or likeness of the spirit that is behind it and
exists quite independently of those spiritual events that are played
spiritual reality that stands behind him. It must be conceded that
adhered to our souls. Just consider what was said in the last lecture
meet someone who does not say, ‘We know for certain that
it is mad to say that it is really formed during the long period
But, as you shall see, if you picture matters in the manner of what
the human head, namely, the forces that form and shape it, are active
physical head. But they are the forces that cause the physical shape
but the head that is built there is built according to the form that
cosmos. That is the real truth. Of course it is only when physical
matter comes into this form that it becomes visible for the first
Thus, one must keep in mind that what is visible is extraneous
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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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develop some things that will provide the basis for tomorrow's
discussion. These things are an expansion of what was described
person leads between birth and death. Think of what we have said in
physical body. We know that in a certain sense the three lower realms
together in man, and that he rises above these three realms that are
something happens that resembles the growing into the three kingdoms
clear that everything that has already been said in earlier
that arise are only to be taken as additions to that. Thus we can say:
spiritual realms continue to shine into the human aura, so that if we
more at a distance from that which, so to speak, comes down from the
things are connected with human nature, but please note that it is
just a schematic drawing. All that I am going to show you is just
being, that is, through his participation in the moral forces of the
form of the expression, but you will understand what I mean.
will be especially reminded of what we said yesterday — that the
Plato says that there exist four virtues. The whole of morality takes
hold of the whole human being. But all that is naturally to be taken
those forces that flow from the moral sphere to the head. Therefore it
kind of industriousness that includes the forces of the heart: an
being here (green); here it flows into the I . That
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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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the cosmos, some of what has to be said may seem complicated. When it
anything that is not included! We are confronted, however, with the
fact that a human being is formed in an intricate way from the entire
important that people of our time begin to come to terms with these
know how humanity is related to the cosmos. You could say that we are
complicated! But truth is simple, and anything that is not simple
future has to be prepared, and the stream that carries a
Let us remind ourselves of the fundamental truths that have been
of the body. If we examine a human head as it is today, what we have
is essentially the result of what became of the body in the previous
head, and he has the rest of his body. What is now his head is
what is now the rest of his body appears, transformed, as the head of
that next incarnation. Then this body, in turn, becomes the head of
truest sense of the word it is maya-all the forces that reside in the
period between death and a new birth. And the forces that were bound
now in our heads. That was the basic concept whose particular details
call on the help of some other ideas that we have acquired. To begin
so that they can become the head of the next incarnation?
In order to answer that question we must review in our souls the
things we have been saying about the part of the human soul that is
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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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the cosmos. You will remember that when we spoke of the senses and of
what man, as the possessor of his senses, is, we said that the senses
lead us back to the ancient Saturn phase of evolution. That is where
today. That would be foolish. As a matter of fact, it is extremely
difficult to imagine what the senses were like during ancient Saturn
they were during the ancient Moon period. Even that far back in time
would like to throw some light on what the senses were like during the
ancient Moon phase of evolution. By that time they were already in
were the senses of Old Moon. At that period the sense organs were much
consciousness we now have, but rather for a consciousness that was
generally assume that we have five senses. We know, however, that this
is not justified, but that, in truth, we must distinguish twelve human
senses. There are seven further senses that must be included with the
one really has a sense — if I may use that word — for the
The sense of touch is the sense that relates us to the most material
boundaries of our skin. Our skin collides with an object. What then
Thus, what happens in touching, in the process of touch, happens
The sense that we shall call the sense of life involves processes that
recover a little so that our feeling of life is refreshed again. This
see what is around us with our eyes. We sense ourselves through the
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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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not just a matter of knowing that things are like this or like that.
a few of them. There is, of course, very much more that could be said
To understand these things in their entirety we must be clear that the
actual truth is very different from what our materialistic sciences
teach us. They believe, for example, that the sense of taste and the
corresponding to the senses are much more extended. I think that
hearing, for example, will know that hearing involves much more of the
also see that the sense-zones are intimately connected with the vital
through the entire organism. It follows that the relationship between
So there really are circumstances in the inner human world that
You will therefore be right in supposing that the activities called up
in us by the senses are relatively static in comparison with what goes
If we consider what was said yesterday about how our sense experiences
on Old Moon were more like life processes, we must conclude that human
existence on Old Moon was altogether more mobile than that of our
Earth man really does relate to what he consciously experiences in the
and mobility such as that displayed by the planets of our present-day
often drawn your attention to the fact that when a person of today
achieves the level of initiation that gives him access to imaginative
knowledge, his conscious life becomes more mobile than that afforded
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Title: Lecture: Riddle of Humanity: Lecture Nine: Enlivening the Sense Processes and Ensouling the Life Processes. Aesthetic Enjoyment and Aesthetic Creativity. Logic and the Sense for Reality.
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look at some of the consequences that follow from the facts on which
spirit, that everything that can be referred to as
despised. For we have seen that here in the physical world it is
precisely the lower organs and functions that reflect higher
ourselves to seeing those senses that in the Earth sphere only serve
something that is immense and significant for the spiritual world once
degree, the sense of sight. We have emphasised the fact that in the
to speak about many of the highly significant things that lie in this
direction. For today there are such strong prejudices that all one has
speak out about precisely those things that are interesting and
must forgo speaking about some of the interesting things that go on in
in the last lecture when I said that the Greeks did not fall prey to
manner that from a certain point of view is correct, you find
described what kind of hair and complexion and wrinkles cowardly
people have, what sort of bodies drowsy people have, and so on. To say
to keep themselves in the fog about the truth. That is why some
example, that the human senses are presently located in more or less
Now we also have said that our sense organs were more like vital
whereas the organs that are now vital organs were essentially more
related to the soul. Consider, then, something that has been
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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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What I would like to give you today is a thoroughly undemanding
thought. I would like to describe a certain tendency that is
that is objective. Just observe what difficulties the adherents of
judgements; that is, there is no way of deciding whether they have
been lost and it is quite evident that nothing has come along to take
the concepts produced by the thinking that preceded his time-all the
still spoke of the world and man under the assumption that man
today — that the impressions of colour, sound, warmth, pressure,
and so on, originate in something objective. It assumes that the
our soul life. It assumes that these impressions create sense
experiences which then are further digested. And it also assumes that
I . It is active and it is what ultimately shapes
knowledge, nor the concept of the object that is the basis of sense
impressions. What are we really given? he asked. What does the world
really put before us? Fundamentally, all that is given are our
sensations. The multiplicity of sensations is all that there is. And
if we can say that nothing exists beyond sensations, then we
cannot say that there is some kind of I
active within us. For what is given to us in the sphere of the soul?
Again, only sensations. When we observe what is within us, the only
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Title: Lecture: Riddle of Humanity: Lecture Eleven: Memory and Habit as Metamorphoses of Former Spiritual Experiences that were Subject to Luciferic and Ahrimanic Influences.
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Memory and habit as metamorphoses of former spiritual experiences that
be interconnected. Today I want to look at some things that will lay
things, we might notice that two properties, or complexes of energy,
What needs to be acquired, on the one hand, is memory. Just imagine
that memory was not among our earthly possessions! You only need to
birth, and could not retrieve what we have experienced from these more
frequently. Now, you all know that memory only begins to appear at a
so all our experiences prior to that first remembered point in time
in such a way that, in greater or lesser detail, our experiences can
earthly life. During that long period of our development when we were
physical body. It is only during the Earth period of evolution that
there were other things that took the place of memory. During the Moon
place of memory. Just imagine that every time you experienced
you would have to do to find an experience would be to look in that
to speak, engraved in a subtle etheric substance. Everything that man
toward what was engraved in the fine etheric substance of the world.
substance of the world, one found the previous contents of that old,
today's. Just imagine that you could re-think everything you ever
— that is a translation of the actual experience of Old Moon into
man lives on Earth, whatever is developed in his waking consciousness
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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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everything that was experienced in dreamlike imaginations was engraved
therefore, that everything mankind experienced through its Moon
consciousness consisted in re-experiencing what had been thought for
dreamed consisted of thoughts that had already been thought by the
way that a person's thoughts do not consist in a repetition of
something that has already been thought and which then remain visible.
experienced. What someone has engraved in his own etheric body and
Just consider how much is contained in what a person thinks! Would it
there eternally? But that is what would happen if, in the course of
to make good the thoughts that should not remain — to either
entirely different, and so on. That is one of the things established
the opportunity to improve on what it carries with it through the
gates of death into the substance of the world, so that a person can
ether substance of the world that which really can remain.
Thus, you can see that the process involved here is different from
what took place with the dreamlike imaginative consciousness of Old
caused them to become visible and to remain visible. Whatever thoughts
however, everything that a normally-developed person thinks —
things that need putting right.
apply to the consciousness that is related to waking consciousness and
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Title: Lecture: Riddle of Humanity: Lecture Thirteen: Allocation of the Whole Human Form to the Cosmos. Technical Discoveries and the Human Physical Organization. Collisions between Thinking that Accords with Reality and Thinking that is in Opposition to Reality.
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thinking that accords with reality and thinking that is in opposition
that could with justification be called paradoxical. For these things
of our day. But that is how matters stand: what calls itself science
today is only concerned with the facts that are available to the
to say, to a different form of the world — from that in which
these facts lie. Remember some of the things that we have needed to
of man's relation to the cosmos. It was said that the structure of the
specially adapted to the case of each individual person so that it
want to speak in the manner of the dilettantism that is so typical of
about the deep cosmic secrets that lie behind this way of apportioning
You know that astrology assigns the human head to the sign of the Ram,
are attached and also what the arms and hands express to the Twins,
to the forces that rule the cosmos and are symbolised by the fixed
together. That, too, is a genuine twelve-foldness. The following
dividing it among the twelve signs of the zodiac so that the head is
in mind what has been said about the composition of the whole of the
allocated to all twelve constellations. If what has been said is true,
one must presuppose that the body of one incarnation becomes the head
of the next incarnation. In the next incarnation, what is now the
out of what at present is manifest as the organs of speech, the larynx
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Title: Lecture: Riddle of Humanity: Lecture Fourteen: Metamorphoses of the Twelve Sense Zones through Luciferic and Ahrimanic Influences.
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spiritual-scientific investigation that, in fact, is of most
the rest of the body. We said that the shape and structure of the
human head and all that pertains to it is a transformation, a
forces that are capable of transforming it into nothing but a head, a
head with all that pertains to it: with the twelve pairs of nerves
that originate in it, and so on. And this head that is developed from
These facts should be viewed as truths that testify to their own
inherent validity, truths that point to connections of major
different is the content of what we read from what our eyes see
written upon the page. And so it is that, when we cite truths such as
what is now being said, but also the whole, far-reaching significance
so to speak, able to read profound, living, spiritual truths that have
indicate, I want to turn yet again to what we have been considering
The I sense: Again I ask you to remember what has
I , that I which we first
other men. What this sense perceives is everything that is contained
thinking is not an activity of our sense of thought. That still
remains to be discussed. Our sense of thought is what gives us the
It is the sense that enables us to understand what others say to us.
Those are the twelve senses, the senses that enable us to perceive the
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Title: Lecture: Riddle of Humanity: Lecture Fifteen: The Twelve Senses. The Reorganization of the Seven Life Processes by Luciferic and Ahrimanic Powers. Francis Bacon Inaugurates Materialism and the Science of Idols.
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whole. No doubt you have already concluded that the twelve senses with
From this we can see that it is necessary to be much more objective
case, for the simple reason that they have played such a decisive role
remind ourselves that Lucifer and Ahriman only create hindrances for
not supposed to appear. So it is also easy to imagine that when, as we
so it is inevitable that the things that only the power of Lucifer and
as those that were sketched yesterday, for they contain the key to
considerations — not even in our circles. What we want to discuss
proceeded along its rightful course. Again we can say that the
ahrimanic influence; and the life impulses that have more to do with
Breathing involves something that can be described as follows: We do
consumption as a kind of feeling of well-being. It is a fact that,
ahrimanic influence. One can say, broadly speaking, that if it were
I mean ageing in the sense that it involves something that can be seen
deposits, so that our nourishment is not merely processed, but is also
its ahrimanic side. Of course it also has its luciferic side, but that
food we have eaten so that it remains with us and is stored in our
modification of straightforward processes of growth. Everything that
is associated with it shows that this discontinuity is not in
lead to a continuous process of growth. Everything that is connected
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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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fact that the idea of the unconscious which prevails in
that psychoanalysis is approaching with inadequate means
their implications for social life, we must say that their way
the question arises: What really is it that these modern
recognise that a soul-element exists outside consciousness;
head. I have indeed called your attention to the fact that
minus their heads. That is a definite malady. So among
unconscious, they show that they are under the delusion that an
abnormal malady that comes to the attention of the
river and taken back to the house she had just left, so that
that the spirit which is outside the lady's consciousness, the
if I wished to speak merely from my own point of view, that the
aware of this, for knowledge of the spiritual realm that lies
just now, but it must be said that particular brotherhoods were
honestly convinced that the great majority of people were not
Thus it could come about that a certain kind of knowledge was
clear about these things. For you know that since 1879 mankind
You must then take care to bring what I am going to say to-day,
rather on historical lines, into close connection with what I
movement to the fact that this century should bring human
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what I said with the same intention when I last spoke here, I
must ask you to realise that we are concerned not with a theory
That is the point to keep in mind; otherwise these matters will
or ideas, but stating facts — facts that are connected
in mind when you hear what I told you yesterday. For where
fifteenth century, who hold that certain truths, if only those
other variations; hence you will see that whatever influence is
the spiritual impulses that play into history saw coming on
that battle of certain spiritual beings with higher Spirits
nineteenth century, these brotherhoods felt that this event was
approaching, they had to decide what attitude to take towards
it and to consider what should be done.
materialism of the time; they thought that men who were
prepared to accept only what could be known in physical terms
materialistic form. So it was with good intentions that
Since at that time a critical mentality, concerned solely with
feeling, that a spiritual world existed around them. And
mistaken view that through the use of mediums people would be
phenomena that came through the mediums had in fact been
grieved that the séance manifestations could be spoken of
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To-day I want to make various comments on matters that have
feeling that the thoughts and impressions and impulses which
Anyone who makes contact with this, so that the divine spark
who experiences this one thing, together with all that is
ideas, but you will agree that the article is remarkable
suppose that some intelligence is there! Otherwise we
of view or other, that something lies behind the
spiritual-scientific movement. That would be really harmful.
they are far too complacent to go in for the serious study that
Spiritual Science requires. Nothing less than that must lay
trends of the times, so that healing can come of it. Of course
those things that are demanded by the signs of the times and
that all these congresses and societies will accomplish nothing
What is lacking among people to-day is the courage to embark on
and so on. What is said in that booklet and in this lecture is
talk on cosmic feeling and surges and I know not what. I have
things: they are important and real. What I want to bring home
to you is that we must not befog ourselves: we must be
absolutely clear as to what we wish to do on behalf of
I will turn again to the fact that in this fifth post-Atlantean
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Title: Historical Necessity: Lecture 1: On the Functions of the Nervous System
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have noticed that even during the public lectures which I
we must abandon certain vicious circles of thought that are
to understand the world, it is very important to know that
present and for the future, and have shown that scientific
from its beginnings. One might well say that it is qualified
clear that the evolution of the times only begins today to
time as the invention of printing. All new things that
exception of books containing old things that existed
already) came from the scientific consciousness. I mean that
to what has it led us? The way in which human souls have
printing has brought about this result, that the spiritual
— at least for those who think that they have advanced
explained that the scientific way of thinking was obliged at
spirit, in support of what the Spirits of Darkness bring into
will dawn for human thinking (it is terrible that such things
idea that in the nervous system (we will limit ourselves to
schematically, by showing, for instance, that any nerve, say
from there, an order goes out, as it were, that a movement
diagrammatic aspect, this is an idea that is generally
who can detect this. But it is an idea that is accepted by
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Title: Historical Necessity: Lecture 2: Concerning the World of the Dead
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will culminate by my having to show in what
sense an historical event is necessary, and in what sense
to this large, inclusive question with means that we can have
at our disposal now in the occult basis that is to be
ourselves somewhat, from a certain aspect, in human nature
of that world are playing in which the human being finds
aspect — that in reality, the threshold between the
life, and what we have considered the last time more from the
our human life runs its course in such a way that we have
active in us, first, everything that can be experienced
through the senses during our life, everything that is
For what interpenetrates our feeling life as a deeper reality
more to do with feeling that we in sleep have to do with our
moment of going to sleep to that of awakening, but only those
dreams are remembered or enter our consciousness that are
consciousness of our feeling life, than we know what actually
that the human being does not inwardly experience the content
of what is termed “History” with waking
it in a dream. History is what may be termed a cosmic dream
of the human being. For the impulses that live in history
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Title: Historical Necessity: Lecture 3: Our Life with the Dead
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introductory way, I will touch shortly upon a few facts that
the further course of our considerations. I have said that
what we may call the threshold between the usual physical
himself, also psychically. It lies in him in such a way that
concerned; he is awake in all that comes to him in the form
of ideas — ideas concerning that which he perceives
(clairvoyant endowment is in no way necessary for this) that
will. But we have said that we live through this world of our
it is only known to us through the waves that break up
emphasized further, that in this realm, which we dream and
sleep away, we live together with human souls that are
fact that we are not in a position to perceive with our
time that the task of Anthroposophy is to develop this
consciousness — that we are in touch with the souls of
what man lives through historically, what he lives through
socially, what he lives through in the ethical relationships
history the fable convenue that is usually called
history today; but they will realize that historical life can
only be understood when that which is dreamed and slept away
illusion that our actions are our own, because they flow out
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Title: Historical Necessity: Lecture 4: The Rhythmical Relationship of Man with the Universe
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that we shall discuss now is a very wide one, and today it
that you may obtain a picture of what must be considered from
that, as far as the life between birth and death is
concerned, we only experience in a waking condition what we
perceive through the senses, what reaches us through our
sense-impressions and what we experience in our thoughts. Man
form a conception of what is really contained in the life of
imagine that this carpet contains also the impressions of our
know them through Anthroposophy. You know that in
public lectures I have emphasized that when we look for the
less the same as breaking the mirror to see what is behind
it, in order to find the reality of beings that we see in a
sense perceptions; what I mean is something
the spiritual reality, so that we would see more
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
This life, that does not extend as far as our physical body,
and that cannot be perceived, therefore, with the physical
the expression of this life that could be perceived
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Title: Historical Necessity: Lecture 5: The Members of Man's Being and the Periods of His Life
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understand what lies at the foundation of the two impulses
that penetrate so deeply into human life — that of the
order that tomorrow we may be in a position to draw the
it becomes more and more evident that people —
often mentioned this) that certain things must be known in
times. When it is shown that the human being is a complicated
being, organized in manifold ways, a being that penetrates
deeply, on the one hand, into all that is connected with the
physical plane, and on the other, into all that is connected
with the spiritual world, then people often object that such
things are dry and intellectual, and that the most important
For years we have emphasized that we can differentiate
roughly in man what we may call his physical nature, or his
emphasized recently from the most varied points of view that
— and we live constantly in feelings — all that
waking consciousness is concerned. For what is the real
that the true ego of man is of a will-like nature. What man
psychologists say that the ego develops gradually and that
our will also lives. And what we call our astral body, what
things that we have thus considered, you will see that we
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Title: Historical Necessity: Lecture 6: New Spiritual Impulses in History
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speak of historical necessity; namely, that the events which
What I
course, into everything that proceeds out of human actions
— that is, into social life and civilized life in
scientific matters; namely, that a preceding cause always
thinking very clearly when they say this, that all events,
also those that have broken into our world-happenings with
that is, in the meaning of scientific necessity, this is
you consider the things that passed before our souls
habit of thinking that this reality can be embraced in
gaze will fall on certain phenomena in Nature that reveal
develop! Must we not say that all these germs of life contain
causes that do not produce effects? Indeed, anyone who does
not with the precise theoretical opinion that every cause has
considers Nature in an unprejudiced way will find that there
something that you can see outside in physical Nature. If the
spiritual investigator asks himself what corresponds to this
to things in Nature. Many considerations have shown us that
opposite. Just as we have seen natural causes that bring
about no results — that is, the process is interrupted
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Title: Historical Necessity: Lecture 7: The Inadequacy of Natural Science for the Knowledge of the Life of the Soul
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of words. If we consider what certain persons who think
feeling that they speak in concepts and ideas which are only
is made, for example, out of a gourd, so that the gourd is
well be a gourd as a flask. In a similar way, that which is
deal of what is taken seriously at the present time (partly
necessary that a striving should proceed from
everywhere what is real, be it outer physical reality, or
any case arrive at a real concept of what comes into
that over and over again — even in public lectures and
intensity, from the most varied points of view, the fact that
we can only rightly grasp what we call concepts when we bring
that the basis of concepts in the body is not seen in
body. I have expressed this in public lectures by saying that
system. The nerve-process is such that it must limit itself
same thing were to go on that goes on in the nerves, this
that concepts arise where the organism destroys itself. We
anything at all is to be conceived. I have shown that the
free actions of human beings rest upon just this fact, that
human organism. What happens in reality when man enacts a
free deed? Let us realize what happens in the case of an
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Title: Symptom 2 Reality: Lecture I: The Birth of the Consciousness Soul
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European consciousness and attitudes since the 15th century that have
What I now propose to add will emerge from a study of the
know that from the standpoint of spiritual science what is
From this point of view what is usually taught as history,
the substance of what is called history in the scholastic
repeated assertion that modern man is the product of the
to you at school and ask yourself what influence they may
example, a gentleman told me that he had been given three
reason that by the study and evaluation of these external
facts we can gain insight into what really takes place.
opens, as you know, with the statement that the Middle Ages
have drawn to a close and that we now stand on the threshold
the purely anthroposophical point of view that the last great
usually fail to recognize that, during this period, the whole
overlook the radical change that occurred towards the
approximate; but what is not approximate in life? Whenever
human soul at that time with the progressive transformation
Catholicism that was subject to the Papacy had gradually
that it was a universalist impulse and that, as such, it
indoctrinated with Catholicism, and in the form that
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Title: Symptom 2 Reality: Lecture II: Symptomatology of Recent Centuries
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European consciousness and attitudes since the 15th century that have
shall have time for that later on, but confining ourselves
that was important and decisive. It is not my task today
little more closely at what characterizes the entire
that radical contradiction that we so easily associate with
animal force that was nonetheless endowed with soul and human
and paradoxical situation. On the one hand, everything that
That a
contradiction exists is evident from what I said yesterday.
being; for the essence of the personal element is that the
emerges what is later called the democratic outlook which,
And it is precisely in this egalitarian process that the
ill-fitting garment. One could say that in relation to the
duties and responsibilities that devolved upon him he was, in
every respect, like a man dressed in a garment that ill
and shrewd, but nobody really understood what he wanted
that they had nothing to hope for from him. In 1605 a group
that is the inherent contradiction of this epoch. We must
always bear this in mind. It is not that one rejects the idea
offices, but simply that if a king or a pope already exists,
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Title: Symptom 2 Reality: Lecture III: Characteristics of Historical Symptoms in Recent Times
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European consciousness and attitudes since the 15th century that have
symptomatic forces that play a part in the development of
wars and perhaps other related material. It is true that
historical symptom that has not been sufficiently emphasized
thinking. But it is important to consider in what respect
imagine that only those think scientifically who have some
acquaintance with natural science. That is quite false; in
scientifically because that is the tendency of the vast
thinking and that is why scientists themselves have gradually
thinking of scientists or even of monistic visionaries that
impulse of the church of Rome. What provides this
counterpoise is a universal thinking that is in conformity
to study the course of recent history we realize that these
voyages of exploration, that they popularized and diffused
traditional knowledge, but that fundamentally they did not
centuries. We realize that the old political impulses which
in which science had played no part that the really
understand the determinative factors here are aware that the
impulses behind worldwide colonial expansion, that these
that there are so-called civilized and highly civilized men,
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Title: Symptom 2 Reality: Lecture IV: The Historical Significance of the Scientific Mode of Thinking
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European consciousness and attitudes since the 15th century that have
speak of certain wider conceptions that follow from our
a symptomatology; we tried to show that what are usually
history, but that they are symbols of the true reality that
what can be perceived in the phenomenal world, i.e. the
manifestations of something that lies behind them then we
historical events, that they are already in touch with the
super-sensible. We must be quite clear that whatever the
Therefore everything that is normally depicted as history
having equal value; the study itself will show that, in order
Consciousness Soul, that is to say, the acquisition of the
Soul. That is the essential. But we have recently seen that
revelation from the spiritual world. Men must realize that
vicissitudes that befall mankind. Individuals will gradually
particular, we learn that fundamental changes have occurred
dynamic power that it is perceptible in external
passivity of soul, but a soul that, as you know, is receptive
that it bears within it the seed of the Spirit Self. Whereas,
what we are about to study next.
an element that was closely connected with a totally sterile
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Title: Symptom 2 Reality: Lecture V: The Supersensible Element in the Study of History
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European consciousness and attitudes since the 15th century that have
I gave on that occasion were not without a deeper motive, for
he who understands these things knows what unplumbed depths
that in reality the will to understand these things scarcely
that it is awakened. When speaking of these matters one must
aspects of the contemporary scene. Even what I said
taken superficially. Nothing of what is said here is intended
as a criticism; I simply wish to characterize, so that we are
aware of what forces and impulses have been operative. From a
certain point of view it was necessary that these impulses
should predominate. One could show that it was a historical
necessity that the Bourgeoisie of Europe should remain asleep
raises the vital question: what is the meaning of death for
once again that what passes for science today takes the line
cause his death. The question now arises; what do these
bringing death to man? It would be a mistake to imagine that
their sole purpose is to bring death to man; that is only a
that is what actually happens; the engine gradually wears
down the rails, it cannot do otherwise. But that is not its
nonsense. Nonetheless there is no denying the fact that there
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Title: Symptom 2 Reality: Lecture VI: Brief Reflections on the Publication of the New Edition of 'The Philosophy of Freedom'
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European consciousness and attitudes since the 15th century that have
attention to a few of these impulses — that there are
fact that at a certain moment, I felt that it was necessary
that I was animated by the desire to reflect the needs of the
did not wish to suppress anything that could be found in the
doubts finds his powers emasculated. In a world that is an
a mature, impressive and rich culture associated with what I
Goetheanism in Weimar which at that time was coloured by the
art centre — was what might well have provided
been submerged by something else. For the old, what belongs
Goetheanism — which survived in a somewhat petrified
form in the Goethe archives, (but that was of no consequence,
who at that time, for all too brief a period, had been a powerful
everything down on slips of paper.) When I replied that I
learned much from the fact that people also came to Weimar in
order to see what had survived of the Goethe era. Other
deteriorated rather than improved with time. But at that time
in order to depict the milieu of Weimar at that time in so far
necessary for their preservation. That in later years a
believe that a considerable number of those who were by no
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Title: Symptom 2 Reality: Lecture VII: Incidental Reflections on the Occasion of the New Edition of 'Goethes Weltanschauung'
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European consciousness and attitudes since the 15th century that have
that they are closely connected. I should like in fact to
like to show you in what respect the spiritual life that we
that the decisions taken in such a case have a certain
lectures that, for my part, I should like the centre for the
cultivation of the spiritual orientation that I envisage to
matters concerning the Goetheanum — you know that my
and that it was developed in a domain in which today, even
spiritual science, and equally what I said recently in
connected with the fact that, up to the end of the eighties I
and then to Berlin, a connection of course that is purely
outlined you will have observed that I am obliged to apply to
life what I call historical symptomatology, that I must
would prefer to spare themselves the effort. That is why it
is often the case today that for those naturally endowed with
It is simply a question of realizing what is transmitted.
Something of importance is transmitted, something that
for his inner life. If we examine objectively what the
of a humanity that is fast asleep. This is not intended as a
asking: what must I do, what must others do? For the majority
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Title: Symptom 2 Reality: Lecture VIII: Religious Impulses of the Fifth Post-Atlantean Epoch
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European consciousness and attitudes since the 15th century that have
limitations of language that we can only discuss them
therefore endeavour to read between the lines of what I shall
to the fact that he who studies these things from the
that is the proud boast of modern science, but the thinking
different forms of reality. In order to be able to study what
we are now called upon to examine, I must remind you that I
course of my previous lectures that they have already noticed
what I wish to underline especially today, so that no
in particular, namely that mankind of the postAtlantean epoch
post-Atlantean epoch, that of ancient India, men remained
to bear in mind that this evolution I have just mentioned
current of evolution, as I shall call it, we can say that
second evolution, in the first post-Atlantean epoch, that of
the second post-Atlantean epoch, that of ancient Persia, he
current of evolution to be considered is that which shows the
this context I have already pointed out that the Italian
principle that is characteristic of our present
that truth of necessity must be simple! This principle is not
understand all that plays into the souls of men of this fifth
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Title: Symptom 2 Reality: Lecture IX: The Relation Between the Deeper European Impulses and Those of the Present Day
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European consciousness and attitudes since the 15th century that have
that territory where the true People of the Church developed,
through the fact that the Christ impulse to some extent no
us in this context and which seem to indicate that the state
essential factor. What was of paramount importance in the
Goetheanism endeavours to promote a countermovement, somewhat
akin to Russian Christianity. It seeks to spiritualize that
which exists here on the physical plane, so that, despite the
again refer to that passage in Wilhelm Meister to which I
what was missing in the first gallery — the life of
that all the different religions represented in the first
religion. What he had seen in the second gallery, however,
then remarked that he still missed here, i.e. in the second gallery,
same time the guide pointed out to him that these representations
were a matter of such intimacy that one had no right to portray
one can claim with good reason that what was still valid in Goethe's
day, namely, that the representation of the Passion of Christ Jesus
that time we have passed through many stages of development. But I
should like to point out that Goethe's whole attitude to this
shows quite clearly that he wishes the Christ impulse to penetrate
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Title: Fundamental Social: Lecture 1: The Transforming of Instinctive into Conscious Impulses
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impulses bring forth, that there is one apparently
more external manner, we may say: True it is that the most
their appearance. This or that action is taken, inspired by
vantage-point now gained we put the question: “What is
it that really underlies these things? What is it that is
conscious of what he is and knows himself to be as Man
impulses that were instinctive guided man to do, to think, to
course of this age he becomes more and more conscious of what
whatever it may be — in which he lives.
what comes to expression in a recent speech by Trotsky. If
you consider what I have just said about the desire to place
Trotsky uses here will make an overwhelming, shattering
that the word Man strikes a proud and lofty note, yet in
phenomenon in many people. What Spiritual Science realizes in
Post-Atlantean Age that men have consciously observed the
instinctively. It is only towards the 16th century that men
begin consciously to raise the question: What is the nature
of the order of political economy? What is the best kind of
economic order? What are the laws that underlie it? It is
from considerations of this kind that the impulses of the
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Title: Fundamental Social: Lecture 2: The Logic of Thought and the Logic of Reality
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connected with the matters that we have now for a long time
take careful heed to the fact that this spiritual science,
and indeed for that matter the whole present and the future
way from what he is accustomed to, in accordance with the
and its popularization. You are well aware that all that
and hence too what it has to say on the social question,
indeed especially what it has to say on the social question,
that have not been obtained on any merely rationalistic or
abstract path, but that have been sought and found in the
consciousness. What comes to light on the path of
formulated in concepts and ideas that are capable of
expression, that fills the content of the science which
accustom ourselves — and this is what makes it so hard
that be proven? The question is justified of course. But, my
standpoint of reality. If we mean: can what the spiritual
conceptions and ideas that we have already acquired, in
ordinary thinking that runs on purely abstract lines may fall
The error is that if people see: As a thought it does not
follow — they concluded that it must be false, while
hold upon men that they are wont to think that everything
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Title: Fundamental Social: Lecture 3: The Metamorphosis of Intelligence
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out that Bolshevism has appointed Avenarius, Mach and other
I may add explicitly that this essay was written as long ago
of this Russian author a judgment (no matter what our
worthwhile for you to know that Mach and Avenarius were
of this audience had not the remotest idea what Bolshevism
that the social impulses are to be conceived in a uniform way
take into account that human communities throughout the
“This or that holds good; human society must be ordered
— What is the nature of the forces in Eastern Humanity;
what is the nature of the forces in Western Humanity; and
what is the nature in the Humanity living the midst between
the two? What is the nature in each case of the forces
Humanity, and Eastern Humanity; and observe that in the
us ask ourselves what is the fundamental quality of soul, the
age that began in the fifteenth century and that will last,
— is that of human Intelligence — Intelligence as
the present time, that man as a personality wished to
world, the concepts, the ideas, that is to say the
error to imagine that this great change did not take place at
epochs, but imagines them all alike. But that is not the
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Title: Fundamental Social: Lecture 4: The New Revelation of the Spirit
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all that lies hidden beneath the outward demand. I shall
kind of interlude, continuing to some extent what we touched
connection. I said: Anyone who has the will to apply that
our time, in testing what is brought forward in
we are therefore always in a position to point out that
everything that is here brought forward can be subsequently
the present time. We may even go so far as to say that a
is exposed are due to the very fact that it lends itself so
is inconvenient that something of this kind should arise,
wit, that beginning in our time, and more and more distinctly
Whatever mankind possessed, over and above these ideas,
closely we shall find that it is so. But the time is long
it is that the Mystery of Golgotha first gave earthly
planet would not be what it is if the Mystery of Golgotha had
that took place, and it is another to speak of the doctrines,
the so-called Christian doctrines, that have held sway about
thing of ordinary life for comparison. An event that takes
place before your eyes is one thing; and what is narrated by
two or three people who witnessed it is quite another. That
about it through the course of the centuries. But all that
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Title: Fundamental Social: Lecture 5: Understand One-Another
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there comes to life in our hearts the verse that has
time, the question will arise within our hearts: What then
prospering of earthly evolution and of that peace of which
speaking for weeks past of what is needful to mankind all the
gather up into a single sentence what has been passing
true mutual understanding among men coincides with what we
what we here call Anthroposophical Spiritual Science.
in the world and in the evolution of the world. What is it
that shall come to birth in human souls through this cosmic
last few weeks, you will realize that this understanding of
least, we have tried to understand what are the deepest
we pointed out that our age is characterized especially by
the development of intellectuality, and that in the Western
intellectuality comes to expression in such a way that it
expression in such a way that, to begin with, the Eastern
several tasks over the whole Earth if they know what is
beings on Earth, that man develops the moral qualities as an
worst of illusions if we continued to believe that groups of
another as man to man. One who can understand concretely what
the mutual relationship of nations that which he must see in
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Title: Mysteries of Light: Lecture I: The Dualism in the Life of the Present Time
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These friends will have seen that our Goetheanum Building has
predict definitely when it will be finished. But what already exists
will show you from what spiritual foundations this building has
we shall be able to link to what can be said regarding the building a
of this movement. Suppose that any kind of sectarian movement, no
its gatherings, what would have happened? Well, according to the
would have been erected in this or that style of architecture; and
figures in the interior an indication of what was to take place in
indicating what was to be taught or otherwise presented in this
building. You will have noticed that nothing of this sort has been
details, it is born out of that which our movement purposes to
in whose every detail is expressed that which flows through this our
which expresses the very same things that are uttered in every word
Indeed, I am convinced that if anyone will sufficiently enter into
what can be felt in the forms of this building (observe that I say
forms what is otherwise expressed by the word.
there is an underlying conviction that now, in this present time, it
different from anything that has thus far entered into it since the
that has occurred in civilized humanity in the last three or four
conceptions, philosophies, or whatever you wish to call them, which
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Title: Mysteries of Light: Lecture II: The Development of Architecture
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I wished particularly to point out that these relations are not
external ones, but that the spirit which rules in our spiritual
must be attached to the fact that it is possible to maintain that an
You will see when you contemplate the building that its ground-plan
that I may sketch it roughly thus:
that this east-west line is the only axis of symmetry; that is,
defining the outer circular passage; and I mentioned yesterday that
evolution of humanity. I said yesterday that a very significant,
middle of the 15th century. What is exteriorly and academically
records external facts in such a way as to make it appear that the
that this is nonsense, that as a matter of fact man's
an evolution which we can only understand when we realize that we are
developing toward the future with special soul forces, and that those
fainter; but that they belong to what is perishing, to what is
significantly to what they feel, what they sense. We need only to
can they be understood? Only by realizing clearly that the whole
the fact that it was the drwelling place of a god or a goddess,
a Gothic cathedral that in this cathedral he has before him something
to imagine that it is there, but it must be imagined in order to
filled with people and the word is spoken to them, so that the spirit
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Title: Mysteries of Light: Lecture III: Historical Occurrences of the Last Century
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speaking at times more generally, in connection with what was said
been able to learn that spiritual science, as conceived here, is to
that we are not concerned here with those ideals which originate in
man's subjective nature, but rather with what is being
and from this spiritual history one can clearly see that the science
of initiation, that is, the science which brings over its
that can be said today concerning a genuine knowledge of the
attach special importance to the idea that it must be our purpose to
which they were enfolded by that development which I have already
which began about the middle of the 15th century. Certainly what was
incorporated in the evolution of humanity during that time: namely,
clearly evident today — all that has from this direction
of this sleep. Let us never forget that the knowledge of the
continuance of what they have been accustomed to think. We cannot say
that we should take no notice when on the part of such people
better known. To be sure, anyone might believe that such things
should be allowed to pass entirely unnoticed; but that would be an
of what is now at stake in the evolution of humanity. On the one
whatever is ripe for destruction. We must not suppose that any sort
of indulgence toward what is ready to perish can be allowed to hinder
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public affairs are treated. We might say that people today talk
for judgment — that is the important thing today. I must say
practical are the most decidedly theoretical, for the reason that
into life to form a relevant judgment about what is necessary. One
can say that in a certain sense it is at least intellectually
before the world as the other side has been, it is a fact that the
socialistically-formulated ideals; but what kind of fundamental
concepts underlie these ideals? His fundamental concept is that what
feeling for the fact that every thought that is to be of value to the
humanity, that the ideas and thoughts mentioned by me in
spiritual life is of essentially different origin from that of our
rights or political life, and entirely different again from that of
acquired by people through the influence of what still persists of
life, as it has flowed through what later became our high schools and
down to our elementary schools, is entirely dependent upon that
Latin as a sort of way-station. It is true that in modern times
in Greece: namely, that which is derived from what we call technique
might say that the technical colleges, the commercial schools, and so
element to what flows into our souls through our humanistic schools,
derivative of that which really had its origin in the Grecian
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Title: Man: Hieroglyph: Lecture One
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What is the principal secret of the universe?
Rudolf Steiner explains that this maxim is not asking us to study
important contribution to that goal: the development of a contemporary
performs an action: what has caused it, what is the inner or outer
on a scientific character when we hold the opinion that what we do is
dependent on our bodily constitution and on the influences that work
upon it. There are still many people who think that man acts just as
carry out what is predestined by that Divine Power. Thus we have in
this world that he cannot so much as speak of it without postulating
inquires into what belongs to Moral Cosmogony. Then he felt compelled
sculpture or in painting — we appear to be picturing what comes
position he occupies in the Universe — this is a search that must find a
From this point of view we may really say that the course taken by the
that the knowledge of Man has to a very great extent been lost in
modern times. This was our aim in the course of lectures that has just
what these can receive from Spiritual Science. It is very desirable
that within our Movement there should be a strong consciousness of the
compel it to understand — that here no kind of superficiality
public from our own circles, so that it is supposed, or may easily be
maliciously pretended, that all kinds of sectarianism and dilettantism
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Title: Man: Hieroglyph: Lecture Two
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What is the principal secret of the universe?
Rudolf Steiner explains that this maxim is not asking us to study
important contribution to that goal: the development of a contemporary
to the fact that at the present period in human thought we compress
an adequate conception of all that this means, we must grasp it in
We must ask the question: If it is true that our Thinking is to be
at right angles to both — how is it that we do not experience
interchangeable? How is it that we simply feel them as three space
different arrangements. This only shows that the exactitude with which
The reason that animals can find direction, as is shown most clearly
call to our assistance what we have already learned about the
organisation of the human body. We have heard that man is a threefold
there, and extends all over the rest of the body. Then there is what I
will designate as the ‘Circulation man’ — all that
constitutes that part of man which is connected with metabolism or the
This does not apply to the Head man, for what is he? (We are not now
the Limb man of the previous incarnation. The forces that formed the
last death and the last birth — that birth which brought us into
described. There they were metamorphosed so that they could now form
year forms its fruit and seed. Such a plant grows from the seed that
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Title: Man: Hieroglyph: Lecture Three
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What is the principal secret of the universe?
Rudolf Steiner explains that this maxim is not asking us to study
important contribution to that goal: the development of a contemporary
is contained in the cosmogony of Copernicus. We must not forget that
We must also remember that it is essential now that we should get free
that contain something more than mere abstract ideas. It is not a
matter simply of constructing a cosmogony similar in kind to that of
draw lines that would give us a picture of the world — once more
a picture in quite external abstractions. That of course is not what
is wanted. What we have to do is to grasp in its spiritual nature all
that is not man, in order to build a bridge from the spiritual
in Man to the spiritual outside him. You must understand that here, at
mathematical astronomy. That would necessitate beginning over again
fate that befell Copernicanism came about, as we shall see, because of
that which it has become in the hands of the followers of Copernicus.
inclined axis, we simply put a screw-shaped line! What I want rather
this direction that we will now pursue the matter further.
see before me blue, I see before me yellow. That is due to the fact
that some object has made an impression on me. This impression appears
to me as yellow, as blue.” The point is that we should not begin
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Title: Man: Hieroglyph: Lecture Four
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What is the principal secret of the universe?
Rudolf Steiner explains that this maxim is not asking us to study
important contribution to that goal: the development of a contemporary
again we must try to find in the Universe outside, what exists in one
answer of the question: What is the relation between morality and
When we study Man (I am here only repeating things that have already
of all organised into what we may call higher Man and lower Man; and
then we have what forms the connection between the two — the
We have to observe first of all that a complete difference exists in
this difference when we consider the fact that the ‘upper
That part of us which in our last incarnation was a result of forces
of the sense world, namely the limb man, has become what it now is,
outer form, but in regard to the forces of formation. What is now the
origin — that is, in so far as it was present in a previous
incarnation. But all that which has caused the transformation of limb
world, in that the head projects the principal sense-organs outwards.
The world that is extended in space and that runs its course in time,
relation to his Will nature, in relation to all that exists in the
have a world which outwardly manifests all that speaks to our senses
— all that we perceive through eyes, ears, etc. To this world we
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Title: Man: Hieroglyph: Lecture Five
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What is the principal secret of the universe?
Rudolf Steiner explains that this maxim is not asking us to study
important contribution to that goal: the development of a contemporary
Our studies of the last few days will have made it clear to you that
spatial Universe and its movements in the way that is adopted by
very wrong to extract a part from a whole and study that part by
compelled to draw attention to the fact that we must not study Nature
the Earth around the Sun; asserting that this motion was in the first
place initiated by that tangential propulsion of which I spoke
But Astronomy cannot, and does not, deny the fact that when speaking
must also attract the Sun. This, however, obliges us to conclude that
take place in a manner that would allow us to look on the Sun's centre
I am not raising objections to Astronomy, I am merely telling you what
Our Astronomy, by way of consoling itself, maintains that this pivot
to assume as pivot a point that is not the centre of the Sun, but lies
we judge the real being of what lies behind nature's phenomena.
produce a perfectly true world-picture. We have said before that we
that can be weighed. Light we cannot weigh; it does not belong to the
‘hollowing out’ of space; it is something that sucks
absorbent ether in the outer Universe, but also with the fact that
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Title: Man: Hieroglyph: Lecture Six
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What is the principal secret of the universe?
Rudolf Steiner explains that this maxim is not asking us to study
important contribution to that goal: the development of a contemporary
We have seen that we must search for a harmony between the processes
taking place in and with Man, and the processes that take place in the
study of yesterday led us. We said that Man had to be regarded, to
the forces which are responsible for his form; secondly from that
motion. (You already know that the formative forces are to a large
To begin with we must consider all that has connection with the
Now it should not be difficult to understand that these forces of
the periphery, and this justifies us in saying that the formative
that Goethe quotes as having been uttered by one of the old mystics.
Now it cannot be the light-activity surrounding us all the time that
completely formed. It cannot therefore be this that is meant, when we
that we arrive at a certain conception of what underlies this saying,
All this building up that goes on in man in the time between death and
them. All that takes place during this time to effect the
was also in a different form from what it is now.
consider our present perceptions of what is around us, what are they?
real world; but it is the world that lies behind these pictures, which
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Title: Man: Hieroglyph: Lecture Seven
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What is the principal secret of the universe?
Rudolf Steiner explains that this maxim is not asking us to study
important contribution to that goal: the development of a contemporary
have to treat our subject in such a way that the friends who have come
again some of what has been said in order then to connect with it
you will have seen that in the description it gives of the evolution
the relationship of that evolution to the evolution of Man himself.
Moon periods preceding the Earth period, you will remember that the
Everywhere universal conditions are considered in a way that at the
two entities that do not rightly belong to each other. Here, on the
in a position really to explain Man. What does science do, for
instance, in that sphere where it is greatest, judging by modern
methods of thought? It states in a grand manner that Man has evolved
recapitulation. This means that Man is looked upon as the highest of
up Man from what is found there; in other words, it examines
different method of investigation is used from that to which we today
exposed to its surroundings, but that an after-effect remains. You all
red in the green after-colour. This shows that the eye is, in a
seen should be green, we will only keep to the more general fact that
experience, we find that for a certain limited time the eye retains
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Title: Man: Hieroglyph: Lecture Eight
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What is the principal secret of the universe?
Rudolf Steiner explains that this maxim is not asking us to study
important contribution to that goal: the development of a contemporary
remarks made in the course of our studies. You know that the fact of
Egypto-Chaldean culture, we should find that man did not look upon
belonging to the whole Universe. He knew of course to begin with that
in a certain sense he was dependent upon the Earth. That can easily be
observed; even our own materialistic age admits that Man, as far as
Universe that is outside or beyond the planetary system, all that is
ask: Yes, but how is it that the man of those times made such big
pointed out that the movements man believes in today are asserted by
ourselves that present-day man has entirely lost consciousness of the
fact that that which belongs to the whole man can no more be
life the super-physical in his considerations — that
and re-birth. Yesterday we drew attention to the metamorphosis that
man (and of which we said yesterday that they open inwards), transform
birth, and become what is considered to be the more noble
Space, and also that which takes place in Time. He has these —
interior of man; it is an illusion to believe that we do. Spiritual
Science alone gradually reveals all that is within man. But how do we
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Title: Man: Hieroglyph: Lecture Nine
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What is the principal secret of the universe?
Rudolf Steiner explains that this maxim is not asking us to study
important contribution to that goal: the development of a contemporary
that the truth of these matters can be found in any quick and easy way
the General Meeting not merely to hear something that comes right in
so vast that it is impossible to exhaust it for the friends who are
life between waking and sleeping. You know that in the abstract the
is merely an abstract assertion, for I have often emphasised that as
regards all that belongs to the limb-nature — which is continued
absolutely clear that this state of sleep continues in regard to our
inner organism, when we ourselves are awake. We can therefore say that
In this way we have set before us the fact that man, in his life
We must realise at this point that really to comprehend human nature,
the limb-nature into the interior of man. All the processes that are
limb nature, directed inwards. So that in speaking of the will-nature
saying for instance, that it manifests in the movement of the limbs,
he has in mind that some kind of telephonic signal is sent from the
place, acting upon that limb, so that it is really raised by the
Ego-being itself; only, the process takes place in a state like that
us that we have a limb, it tells us of the presence of such a
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Title: Man: Hieroglyph: Lecture Ten
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What is the principal secret of the universe?
Rudolf Steiner explains that this maxim is not asking us to study
important contribution to that goal: the development of a contemporary
To understand the world without understanding Man is impossible. That
is the net result to be derived from our studies here. And for that
organisation of the head and that of the limb man — a subject on
First of all I would remind you that the head-organisation, as it
must conclude that everything connected with the head-organisation
24 hours. Something is accomplished in us, as it were, resembling what
different directions. If we have a compass, we see that the set of the
with the rest of his organism: the head in a sense has no part in what
in accordance with the extra-earthly. It is a very important fact that
organisation of the head and that of the rest of man. This interaction
is only gradually brought to completion in the course of the time that
ideation. It is in a sense so constructed that the life of ideas can
the head ideas only — that is, no more than pictures of earthly
were strange to the Earth and developed only pictures of all that is
This is not so, and precisely for the reason that the rest of the
effect, speaking diagrammatically, that we acquire the head as the
Will-forces are sent into it from the rest of the organism. What has
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Title: Man: Hieroglyph: Lecture Eleven
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What is the principal secret of the universe?
Rudolf Steiner explains that this maxim is not asking us to study
important contribution to that goal: the development of a contemporary
I drew attention yesterday to the fact that what is present in man
What we have now to notice especially in man is the relation of the
head to a world beyond the Earth — a world that lies outside the
rebirth, its whole organisation being so modeled that it forms a
the Universe, with that of the Earth, to notice a certain difference.
Astronomy recognises this difference by saying that Saturn goes round
superficial view. We will only point to the fact that the observation
the rapidity of his progress with that of the Earth, brings us to the
conclusion that according to the astronomical system of Copernicus and
lasting 19 years. Much shorter is that of Mars. And when we come to
the other planets, Venus and Mercury, we find that they have even
I have pointed out that we only gain a clear insight into these things
by comparing what takes place in the far distances of cosmic space
with what goes on within the boundary of our skin, in our own
organism. Reflect for a moment and you will find that what is called
something in yourself. In the foregoing lecture we showed that in
certain curve, a certain line that turns back upon itself. In a
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Title: Man: Hieroglyph: Lecture Twelve
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What is the principal secret of the universe?
Rudolf Steiner explains that this maxim is not asking us to study
important contribution to that goal: the development of a contemporary
You will remember that I have discussed in detail how much criticism
deeply all that we have hitherto said as to the movements of the
you will see that ultimately astronomy cannot really be studied at all
that materialism, if only it is not directly acknowledged to be such,
is preferred by the religious denominations to Spiritual Science. That
not matter whether one says that there is spirit somewhere, or whether
You know perhaps that the acme of modern interpretation of external
nature is Astro-physics, the theory that sets out to study the
this shadow of religious belief. This means that as a matter of fact,
moment it ceases to be so it would have to go into what relates to the
What has just been said must be taken seriously, otherwise we should
overlook the significant fact that the Jesuit scientists are the most
continually allege that Man cannot approach the spiritual by research
1413. That was the fourth; and we are now in the fifth.
occurred, but in doing so we need not refer to that Event, for we can
course that nothing in history shows that during this time an
Roman and the Latin. Let us reflect that to these people the Event of
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Title: Man: Hieroglyph: Lecture Thirteen
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What is the principal secret of the universe?
Rudolf Steiner explains that this maxim is not asking us to study
important contribution to that goal: the development of a contemporary
— that the Universe cannot be grasped without Man. That means
that it is not possible to understand the Universe in itself, without
— the so-called ‘obliquity of the ecliptic’ — that
filled with the kind of civilisation that prevails at the equator.
upon what interpretation we give it, but any interpretation will serve
the interpretation, whatever the latter may be, compels us to regard
Thus what we experience on Earth must be considered in connection with
reality that what is a partial truth should not be interpreted as a
complete independent reality, a true individual. What he inhabits
body. True, we are aware that he is not precisely a hard body, that he
is to some extent plastic, but we are very often unaware that he
then assume that the solidly circumscribed organs combine in their
no sense whatever in that. It is a question of bearing in mind the
fact that Man within the limits of his skin, is, as it were, surging
water; that what is purely inwardly surging fluidity also has a
meaning, and that we should not describe Man as if he were more or
that the solid in the human being has a certain relation to the Earth.
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Title: Man: Hieroglyph: Lecture Fourteen
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What is the principal secret of the universe?
Rudolf Steiner explains that this maxim is not asking us to study
important contribution to that goal: the development of a contemporary
essential that we should discriminate as exactly as possible wherein
point is, as I have often pointed out, that we have now come to a time
when what we may call the cosmogony of Natural Science, and what we
honestly to hold the position of modern cosmogony. That is why the
in which there is no reason whatever why the name of
Christ should be mentioned; for what appears therein as
between Harnack's ‘Christ’ and the God Jehovah — that
is, there is no difference between what is said of the Christ-Being
and what followers of the Old Testament view of the Universe said of
persons and compare it with what they have otherwise as their view of
life, there is no reason whatever why they should speak of Christ and
avoid courageously drawing the logical conclusion of what they see
the view of things held by natural science and what is held by
You know how in a popular way it has been said that the assertion of
speak more accurately, the law that the Universe contains a constant
think of natural phenomena in a way that they can only be thought of
understand what I mean. There may be something in the action of a
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Title: Man: Hieroglyph: Lecture Fifteen
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What is the principal secret of the universe?
Rudolf Steiner explains that this maxim is not asking us to study
important contribution to that goal: the development of a contemporary
for that which Christianity wishes to be for the world. It might
easily be objected that if this is so, a complicated understanding of
in order that Man should become complete Man in his consciousness. Yet
just reflect that this demand, which now approaches humanity as a
indicate exactly what I mean, let me first put the question: What
of time been completely forgotten. Just consider what has been
way that it could only be understood by comprehending e.g. the
Trinity: The Nature of God the Father, God the Son — that is,
such things as are given by Spiritual Science today. Only all that
that, after having first dogmatically rejected them, people have begun
is said, ‘claims that One is Three and Three One!’ it is
indeed a terrible delusion, it is sheer deception to believe that the
self-sacrificing knowledge, than that demanded by modern Spiritual
if we leave out of account that these live on in the different
confessions as words, we can ask: What really remains to man of the
ideas of Jahveh or Jehovah? I have drawn attention to the fact that
today are clear as to what is to be understood by the Spirit? People
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Title: Man: Hieroglyph: Lecture Sixteen
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What is the principal secret of the universe?
Rudolf Steiner explains that this maxim is not asking us to study
important contribution to that goal: the development of a contemporary
that it is a peculiarity of the Oriental conception of the Universe to
conservation of force, and especially that of the conservation of
which would so place Man in the Universe that he stands there as a
procedure of the transformation through combustion of what man takes
students. They are like thoughts which find expression somewhat in the
following way. A man sees a building, he hears that it is a Bank, and
Bank and how much taken out; and finding that the amounts are the
same, draws the conclusion that the money has either transformed
itself in there or has remained the same, but that there are no
the thought that whatever a man has eaten may be found again in the
testing what we find in modern science; one has only to test
Now the point is that on account of a mass of unreality and of
made today by chatterers in the sphere of philosophy to talk of
prefers to acquiesce in such nonsense as that of Eucken or Bergson.
What is of real consequence is, first of all, that one should ask
oneself: What it is that man bears within him out of the whole compass
of the Universe? What enables him as a member of the Universe so to
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Title: Responsibility of Man: Lecture I
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will have observed from our various studies that a connection
human being and all that belongs to the whole earth from most
know, of course, that man goes through his earthly life in
successive incarnations, and that these bring him into a more
which lie between death and a new birth. The periods that man
in a certain relationship to other beings. For what we call the
what the geologists imagine, may seem to be only a mineral mass
surrounded by a sheath of air, yet in the last resort that is
only the outer semblance. What actually appears as this mineral
beings. And again what we behold beyond the Earth, shining down
as the world of stars, that too as we see it is only the outer
physical external earth, it is through this that in the main we
develop our life between birth and death. Through all that
shines down to us from cosmic space, that sparkles to us as the
star-world and that seems to concern us so little, with this we
one says: Man descends from star- worlds to physical birth that
death. We must not think, however, that the appearance of the
star-world is the same as what meets our spiritual vision in
the period between death and a new birth. That which appears
to do with the inner nature of what is outer nature for our
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Title: Responsibility of Man: Lecture II
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equilibrium, this state of balance, so that one need not
side. We have a general idea of what attracts man to the
Since the beginning of the Fifth post-Atlantean period, that
element is this, namely, that the actual knowledge of the
theory on this, and believes that he understands how the
human being all that he has learnt about the animals. People
arrive at nothing new that would explain the being of man, they
that there is absolutely no real knowledge of man.
circles throughout the world. It has become something that the
property and it fills people with ideas and concepts that
is omitted, That is the one thing.
life that obtained in times that preceded the fifteenth
century. The world was filled, so to say, with judgments that
oneself what was good or bad. Nor had one any doubt about it,
for one grew up in a social order that possessed a common
this or that out of this common judgment, out of something
Much of what was at one time far more intensely established in
cases and to what an extent people are accustomed to use the
Ahrimanising of mankind in our age. And in social life that
getting to know in what way Mars has significance for human
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Title: Responsibility of Man: Lecture III
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that we already know from one aspect or another. They must,
Science for what is necessary to human activity in the present
that which, as it were, is the state of balance between those
Christ-stream. You know indeed that the central Group of our
Ahrimanic, and that of the Christ.
streams work through him. We know that we have to distinguish
what in the main — you know how that is to be understood
breathing rhythm and the blood circulation, that is to say, all
that takes its course rhythmically. And then as the third
development of the limb-system. We know moreover that we
that develops in it. The rhythmic system, or we can also say
shown that the feeling system is not permeated by clear bright
only say that the feeling-life has no greater clearness of
When he wills he really only sees what is brought about through
But what is actually active in the will, the inner
soul-experience and willing, that is actually slept through, as
well. He stands with his whole being, no matter to what degree
that is the spiritual cosmos (see diagram, circle) which, at
a certain part of the spiritual cosmos, namely, that to which
the metabolic-limb system bodily and ask how that is
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Title: Responsibility of Man: Lecture IV
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it is to understand that in the various spheres of existence
It is necessary that humanity in our present age should be
fully alive to the knowledge of this — that different
sufficient basis for life. It is, of course, quite true that in
towards a unity: but if one perceives that unity too soon, one
course of time. It is from this point of view that I should
pointed out in the last lecture that certain Beings find
and animating man, but that they find themselves in conflict.
shall find that what is essentially characteristic of it is the
still continue to permeate it. The point now is that one must
seek to unite with what is externally comprehensible
concepts that belong more to the soul and spirit; for it is
That which underlies thought in our organism consists in purely
mineral processes that take place within us. Please understand
indirectly, and not directly, with the fact that we have become
of the development of nan. The fact that we have in us a firmly
in the fact that our blood, aa the carrier of warmth, guides
intellectual thinking does not depend in any way upon what
organism; but that which meets us in the cosmos as
— none of that stimulates us to intellectual thinking.
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Title: Responsibility of Man: Lecture V
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we turn our attention to what we have often taken as the object
of esoteric study, to what is described in my books,
consider this somewhat generally and. externally, we can
look on the one hand towards all that can be called the forces,
the faculties, of the human intellect. To be sure, what we
something entirely different from what we have described
general, that is, we will ask ourselves: what significance have
the more intellectual forces, and what significance have the
When you remember what has been said there about the Saturn,
Sun and Moon evolutions you will see that the views there
When you follow what was said about the Saturn, Sun and Moon
evolution, you will see that in these evolutions the forces
separate. The fact that humanity has reached a certain
what has been said about the earlier metamorphoses, about the
then we arrive at the fact that this inner development of the
stages of the Earth's development. What is today localised to
could say that intelligence worked in the facts of the whole
reason,” but man dreamed in pictures. What we find today
differentiate between the laws of nature and that which in us
intelligence. The human being of earlier times, and that
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Title: Materialism/Anthroposophy: Lecture I
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the startling announcement that the world has already ended in the fourth
force in man had diminished. Moritz Benedikt and thinking that
middle and second half of the nineteenth century that
great deal of what I shall have to say about the theoretical
will leave that aside and turn our attention more to the
materialistic world conception that was prevalent in the
that we are here concerned with a twofold task. First, we
being armed with the necessary conceptions, we find that from
about that such an extreme materialistic world view was ever
contradictory to say that it is required of man on the one
that they may later by their own efforts lift themselves up
freedom, it is absolutely necessary that they descend to the
life. The danger does not lie in the fact that something like
The danger consists in the fact that if something like this
continue to adhere to it, so that an experience that was
into later times. If it is correct to say that in the middle
that the persistent adherence to materialism is bound to work
terrible harm now, and that all the catastrophes befalling
the world and humanity that we have to experience are due to
the fact that a great majority of people still tries to cling
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Title: Materialism/Anthroposophy: Lecture II
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the startling announcement that the world has already ended in the fourth
let me emphasize that this lecture does not form part of the
respect is intended to relate to what I have outlined
yesterday evening. There, we dealt with studying that
evolution that occurred in the middle and also in the second
materialism. I said that in these considerations our
drew attention to the fact that this materialism must be
confronted with a sufficiently critical mind, but that, on
simply speak of rejecting it and say that it is an
generally said that in the logical life of thoughts it is
possible either to err or to find the truth. What is not
mentioned is that under certain circumstances the glance we
that spiritual science has to do — it is obvious for
people today to admit that there are actual errors in the
results that arise in the course of the historical
that gave rise to them.
say that they also have a positive aspect and are of value in
materialism consisted in the fact — and what remained
of it still consists in this — that man devotes himself
material facts, that in a certain sense he loses himself in
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Title: Materialism/Anthroposophy: Lecture III
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the startling announcement that the world has already ended in the fourth
hence, instinctive awareness that the soul-spiritual element resounding
in the word is identical with the one that, having created nature in the
— in order that the friends of our cause,
along as much as possible of what is more or less closely
anthroposophical spiritual science, I have indicated that an
that in its place a more abstract orientation towards the
pointed out that a significant developmental force in human
history is represented in the fact that through Aristotle, in
the fourth century before Christ, there emerged what
I said that
times that is comparable to what we can study in the
processes of puberty. What appears in the child when it
developing metamorphosis of the process that unfolds later on
maturity. And what runs its course inwardly in this process
him that lived also in the things outside, something the
within that corresponds to processes in the outer world. What
closely connected to human life than what is inwardly
concepts. What human beings then experienced through the word
inclined towards the animalistic soul element than what we
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prevailed, acquired from a cosmic wisdom that instinctively understood
civilization. It is the turning-point that came about in the
fourth century. There emerged at that time a figure still
one hand, against what had come down from ancient times,
element, the one that eventually was victorious in Western
comprehending it intellectually as well as that was possible
at that time.
however, we have to understand clearly that the historic
documents call forth almost completely false ideas of what
if we focus on what people in general could know about this
two areas. One area is that of knowledge, cultivated in the
that of ritual.
already begun to be replaced by what we today call the
fact that human beings by nature belong not only to the earth
concerning this etheric astronomy. It taught that if we turn
our attention to what makes up the organization of the upper
expressions that are familiar to us today — insofar as
Furthermore, people found that the part of the human being
that is of a more astral nature has a sort of
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souls, the mystery of bread and wine is revived and with it that of
I pointed out that, on the one hand, this was the time when
the outer expression of this disappearance falls somewhat
it were, from European civilization. The wisdom teaching that
nature, human beings were to raise themselves above all that
has to say that neither a cultic worship, which would have
world evolution, nor a wisdom that would have tried to grasp
the events of Palestine became popular. The concepts that
fact indicates that a change of great and far-reaching
Orient, all the influences that had laid hold of eastern
what the Greeks possessed of ideas concerning the
that a large part of the Greek people was denied a share in
participated in a realm of ideas that was basically a
attention to a factor in the life of soul that found only
from the stage of world history, for what replaced it in that
illness, and from its ancient ideas it produced what, I would
Greek mysticism, that they express a decline of ancient
that this culture of Greece was destined to decline and
One could say that
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that hinder path of spiritual activation; love of evil.
originated and that a significant and mighty turning point
ancient, primordial wisdom existed in its last phases in what
after all, was a form of wisdom that combined, in the most
manifold ways, what presented itself to the human being as
into the spiritual world that was the foundation of Oriental
intellectual, rational character. The spiritual life that
ancient wisdom that people sought to fit together the
philosophical and humanistic view that was then employed as a
once upon a time to this wisdom, we find that the main thing
in the ancient Orient was that people saw the world with what
was active in their astral body, with what they could
soul had already developed. It was the astral body that
still perceive quite clearly what enters in the spiritual,
beheld with their eyes, the one that ran its course around
view of the ancient Orient that people's attention was
comprehend the spiritual world — if we attempt that at
trepidation. Thus, they also experienced what they sensed to
the philosopher, speaks of the fact that the human being has
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in what direction matters will develop further in the next
few days, but whatever takes place, it is, after all, an
action that much more so than many that have preceded it in
will that originated in the full sense of the word from the
what is described so superficially by history but what so
outlined how after the fourth century the element that could
earlier we have called attention to the fact that in the
crisis that, although given little notice, can even be
All that then took its course in the second half of the
twentieth century, stands under the influence of what
today. One could say that this is an individual who, partly
history as a tragic personality, experienced what was present
during that period. He is the one who sensed the forces of
Germany. This implies that he was surrounded all through his
childhood by what can be designated as the modern
had around him all that expresses itself in a philistine,
was attracted with all his heart to everything that streams
with all that strives out of Greek humanism towards a certain
confronted the mighty contrast existing between what the
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as the force proceeding from etheric body that forms the physical body
shall have to turn to a seemingly more remote topic that will
have frequently mentioned that when the evolution of humanity
is surveyed, people proceed too much from the premise that
difficult, of course, to ascertain what the successive
light. It then becomes evident that the human soul condition
was not always what it is today or what it was in the ages
then consider what measuring and measures represent and
capable of that, these matters have been carried out
prevailing in the Pythagorean School differed somewhat from
of spiritual science, we arrive at the realization that the
what is handed down to us concerning a science of numbers by
create difficulties for some of you, we must make it somewhat
that this measure on which we base everything, such as the
the earth's meridian that passes through Paris, and this
contained in that original prototype meter located in Paris.
It is assumed, however, and we say that we proceed from a
being measured refer to something completely arbitrary that
ourselves that we actually take an arbitrary measure as the
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the body that thus experienced cosmic spirituality; today:
life in the spirit that turns to matter and fails to recognize
spiritual scientific concepts that the modern intellect can create
that is viewed today with such antipathy by some circles,
of Oriental primeval wisdom, that primeval wisdom which,
insight into what had taken place in the Mystery of Golgotha.
But the Christian stream that increasingly flowed into the
gained, this Christian stream eradicated everything that once
in material events, about what took place in Palestine at the
with, these narrations were clothed in the form that
But there was less and less of a feeling that these stories
increasingly lost the feeling that a profound world riddle
established. The demand had been raised that people believe
knowledge that had still existed up until the time of the
Christian church stream, we see that the nature of the
more and more incomprehensible doctrines, and that any living
that the fertile, living Oriental wisdom flowed into the
dogma existed. One must remember that there were some people
who to some extent knew what to make of these dogmas, but it
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individual life as well as that of humanity. Goal of the fourth epoch
human I so that it can dwell in transforming manner in the social
and economic world that has turned chaotic.
considerations to what has been said. In this, it is always
our intention to bring about an understanding of what plays
into consideration here what has been mentioned in regard to
attention to the fact that whereas the individual gets older
of life. While keeping in mind that in this regard the life
of the whole human community and that of the individual are
can still say that individual human life can be a picture for
human life in this way, we find that a quite specific sum of
twelve-year-old; in turn, we cannot expect that the
into what is compatible with individual periods in life. It
can do the same. This is a phenomenon that must be taken into
what this and the following epoch put forward. It is, as it
were, left up to human discretion to remain behind what is
can frequently signify a somewhat unpleasant destiny for such
a person when he has to become aware that in a certain way he
take place in the life of nations. It is possible that some
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of these lectures we have seen that the middle of the
Western humanity. Attention was called to the fact that in a
Yet it also had to be pointed out that this trend that has
really something spiritual. Thus, it can be said that the
evolution was that simultaneously with becoming the most
dominated by the aftereffects of what occurred in so many
climax in mankind's development. What was the purpose of this
the Mystery of Golgotha, we find that a process runs its
course that can be called the development of the sentient
high point in that era of which external history has little
still involved in and that saw a decisive event around the
nations are concerned, we can say that they were faced with
an intellect that had already assumed its most shadowy form.
had evolved to the extent that, from then on it was possible
realized: I have to assimilate something of what is not
that, although it was extinguished and became obscured when I
something that rests within me simply by virtue of the fact
that I am a human being of the nineteenth century.
mind what it is that I am seeking to bring up from the depths
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the startling announcement that the world has already ended in the fourth
in the middle of the nineteenth century that then, in a
sense, flowed from that time on into our present age. All
together several facts that can throw some light on the
all, it is true that the middle of that century is the point
become an activity of the physical body since that time. This
into the spiritual world that had come about earlier and had
denied this spirituality. People related what they grasped
population and that of the Anglo-Saxon part will have become
be characterized if certain spiritual streams that have run
characterized in the following way. Everything that was part
the Roman culture. All this left residual traces in what has
that was considered the ahrimanic one in the ancient Persian
times. We find poured into this Ormuzd stream everything that
still be detected in the offering of the Mass and all that is
present in it. A proper understanding of what lies at the
true value is sought in the forms of thought and feeling that
like a counterblow against what continued to survive in
must distinguish between what found its way into the Roman
streams, and the element that originated from human nature.
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the startling announcement that the world has already ended in the fourth
age of the intellectual culture, the mysteries of that age
that the Greeks still perceived their ideas and concepts in
and so on. For the ancient Greeks, the element that dwells in
When he heard Schiller say that his mental images —
but ideas, Goethe replied that in this case he saw
conceptual content that shone forth to them everywhere as the
That faculty,
of what is encountered there in the way of colored and
Greeks had the feeling that in the morning the world arose
evening and a world then appeared that withdrew from them
for “darkness,” they actually felt that the
boundaries of space consisted of what was beyond conceptual
Those worlds seemed to them closely linked to what they
time. We have to realize what the most advanced
acquire an actual knowledge of what has come to pass in
spirituality of reason that existed in the fourth
attain an awareness of what can permeate our form of shadowy
intellect that the human being, in a manner of speaking, has
what the earth offers to us, particularly when we allow
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shadowy, living spider beings that cover the earth in web-like fashion
century; their activity becomes possible only by way of a thinking that
that simultaneously will become art. Goethe's teaching of morphology;
may have served to show that we can
to look up from the earth to what is extraterrestrial. Our
indicates to us that human beings absolutely have to think of
that one of those mighty events that
the profound changes in human evolution that are connected
that we have to go far back — far beyond the Atlantean
flood — to reach that time when the moon departed from
will only consider what became manifest on earth with respect
seen that the variously colored minerals basically derive
what is now considered mineral matter permeated the human
may so express ourselves, the question of what to do with man
guide the evolution of mankind that the moon was separated
and that the whole earth and man along with it were changed.
For through the fact that the crude moon substance was
organization that enabled him to become an earth being.
Basically, it was this that gave man his earthly weight. On
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hierarchies, spirit doctrine of nature and man, eschatology; no
of intellect at that time to comprehend Christianity and future
of natural science. The contradiction of our age that actually
few weeks, I have repeatedly spoken of the great change that
out one thing again and again, that has already been the
one has to pay heed to the fact that the soul life of
not prevalent today. The prevailing opinion holds that the
duration of the historical development, it is assumed that
they do today; at most, they formerly adhered to a somewhat
say today that it is splendid how far we have come in the
particularly well that human beings in the relatively recent
of thinking that is still completely under the influence of
say that are ignorant of the way spiritual knowledge was
which Paul himself taught in Athens possessed insights that
much, much later on. What was thus recorded at a later time,
was not necessarily anything less than genuine for that
something that was centuries old. Furthermore, the great
value that we place on personality today was certainly not
that must be discussed in connection with Erigena, namely,
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Gospel of John as testimony that Christ, the Logos, is creator of earthly
first centuries of Christianity that throws its light into
recently, we can say that the manner of perception, the whole
from what it was later on. As we already know, a great change
that century onward, people simply thought much more
rationally than they had done earlier. One could say that
until that time all perception, all forming of concepts had
human beings became increasingly conscious of the fact that
they themselves were working with thoughts. What we have
that by Scotus Erigena that man makes judgments and draws
that transmit knowledge or perception. They ascribed those to
proves that the whole way of looking at the world had changed
in the course of these centuries. That is why it is so
at views that will truly correspond to what was thought in
unmistakable indications of the fact that what was earlier
things that were no longer understood, for example, is the
seriously, it actually states something that is no longer
of those who profess Christianity. Consider that this Gospel
Word” — and then it says further that through the
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with earth's four elements; its shape, the work of art by the I that is
particularly important to understand clearly what really
fact that we too are living in an extraordinarily significant
the spiritual world, so that out of the chaos of the present
call to mind other things that also make evident this change
historical times. When we ask what the views concerning
ours. The reason was that they thought of their relationship
that they were gradually separating from the earth. They
by considering what we call “body” in an intimate
it is that the human being pictures himself in a certain
this. It was altogether clear to the ancient Egyptians that
that, at the same time, held sway in the earth. Therefore,
only be done because a view of the earth prevailed that was
imagined that processes took place in the earth that simply
views concerning the soul that seem somewhat alien to a
emphasized that when we go back to early Egyptian times, and
find that, based on instinctive old wisdom, the doctrine of
mistaken, however, in assuming that these ancient people were
of the opinion that what we know as soul today is what always
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should be clear that in the way the human being stands before
phenomena. One need only consider certain relationships that
irregularity of the breathing rhythm. One could say that this
that we go through in the rhythm of our breathing, of our
cosmos. Everything that takes place in the soul is connected
examples. Man, as a bodily being, is heavy, that is to say,
that if it were only the physical weight of the brain that
that all the blood vessels lying underneath the brain would
loses so much weight by floating in the cerebral fluid that
You can see from this that the brain actually strives much
any other body that is placed in water and loses as much of
that place; when we move to another point, we press down upon
that new place. In our human body, we are as much physical
can say that with our spiritual being we are to some extent
summarizing what we have considered over the course of many
months from different viewpoints) we first have all that is
consideration shows that we are dealing here only with the
hypotheses of physicists can maintain that the same natural
unlike what the physicists imagine. If this (sketching)
encloses the space that normally we picture as taken up by
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knowledge. We gave as an example what an ancient Greek would
described what we are accustomed to calling the human etheric
I said that
the entire activity of water, that surging and weaving of the
what, in an earlier world conception, was called the element
that the human being today is studied quite superficially.
his organs, for the fluid human being is something that is in
a continual streaming. His organism is something that moves
fact that the human being has this airy element within, he
that is now within me will presently be outside me again. We
cannot say that man is a self-contained being.
let us take the entire human being, that is, the human being
outside the physical and etheric bodies. What permeates the
and awakening. In that time the human being is in another
world that is penetrated by another lawfulness. We must ask
and awakening? A consideration of what we have said up to now
will show that the astral body and I at this time (between
very seriously something we mentioned two days ago, that with
ordinary space. He is led into a world that should not be
confused at all with the world that can be perceived by the
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subject dealt with last week and also earlier, something that
false, good and evil, etc. For what appears as diseased or
will give you a concrete case, so that you may see what I
rightly as something diseased. Hallucinations, pictures that
appear before human consciousness and that do not reveal a
however, as something that certainly does not belong to the
hallucination. The hallucination appears as a picture that is
What is this
only what enters ordinary human consciousness between birth
enters as something that is unjustified under all
weaving that are active between death and a new birth,
to live into what is experienced quite normally when a human
form of what appears in life between birth and death in an
world of colors, by the world that we feel with every breath
birth, in an element that is altogether identical with what
bodily nature. What appears as hallucination hovers and
breathes through the world that lies at the foundation of our
hallucinations. What are hallucinations, then, within
intuition is the physical body. We may say, therefore, that
the element of hallucination. What takes place, however, when
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something further to add to what I began yesterday. I am
reminding you of something that most of you have already
the realms that lie between death and a new birth. I said
that within the human being himself we can follow the
formative forces that reach from one life into the next. We
know that man is essentially a threefold being, with three
You know that
consider these forces that form the human head — of
but rather of the formative forces, of that which gives to
the previous incarnation that have now become form. We thus
we consider again what we possess as our metabolic-limb
embarking upon the sort of investigation that would be
to arrive at the foolish conception that the liver can be
such a way, and two organ systems that are as different from
be gained. If the methods that I described in
reinforced. I am repeating here certain things that I already
Our ordinary cognition is strengthened, that cognition
possible through the exercises that have often been
and in such a way that as a consequence one sees that it is
present world conception. What is behind sense beholding,
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relationship of the human being to his environment that the
riddle always arises: how did it come to be that one cannot
presume that behind these phenomena that lie before us as
riddle exists in relation to what is within the human being.
In the last few days I have suggested that this inner element
however, that to begin with in ordinary consciousness one
cannot see so deeply down into one's own inner being that one
soul that is connected with our entire, normal daily life. We
out facts that show how the disturbance of this memory can
told you of an example showing that the capacity for memory
such cases. It is a well-known fact that this can occur, and
picture that these processes — without the person
development, another fact arises, the fact that it is
necessary to develop soul forces that actually, during the
an occult development usually experience that when they begin
later they begin to complain that they no longer have these
that for such visions — if they are genuine, true
in an indirect way. One can say to oneself that before the
vision appeared we had gone through this or that in ordinary
account by many people, who believe that a vision can be
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become materialists, why would they admit only the outer, that which
times of Oriental culture if we are to consider what I wish
Since fear is closely related to hatred, hatred plays a great
this quite clear. I mean that a sage of the ancient Eastern
make it plain that in his time and his country, civilization
joy — joy that could be enhanced to the point of a
complete giving of oneself to the world, that then could be
understood) what were from his point of view the most
way, we would gain much that we really need to know in order
civilization,” then certainly it must be admitted that
ancient times there was in the Orient little of what
resounded that found its most radical expression in the Greek
was captured, one could say, by all that surrounds the human
cosmic knowledge that blossomed in the ancient Oriental
wisdom and in the view of the world that owed its origin to
— in all that lived in the mysteries of the East there
outward toward the world and try to let that approach you
phenomena!” — that is how the challenge of the
penetrate deeply into all that actually exists in man's
paralyzed, so to speak. By means of all that was brought from
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become materialists, why would they admit only the outer, that which
of destruction. I showed that as long as we remain within
afterimage of what we have experienced. We carry as our inner
though we had within us a mirror, but one that works
mirror reflects what is in front of it, whereas the living
memory-mirror, then what I characterized yesterday as a kind
placed. What within the human being has a good purpose,
nothing in the world that would not, in its place, have a
manifests itself in such a way that we can experience in it
that already is being formed today in the human being out of
formed out of his anti-moral impulses, out of what works as
struggle between what man on earth is already bringing to
what arises with the cultivation of egoity as the anti-moral.
laws that we then call the laws of nature. With ordinary
vision. They beheld that world in which egoity cannot hold
At one time the Oriental cultivated all that man longs to
vision into a spiritual world that is composed not of atoms
cultivated his egoity, has cultivated all that we have
we are already on the way to suggesting what it is that must
the near future. If the pure intellectualism that has been
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become materialists, why would they admit only the outer, that which
go somewhat further into what we considered here last Friday
particularly to the life of the soul and what we discover
You know that we distinguish four
consciousness, the stage of cognition that is adapted to our
daily normal life, to ordinary modern science, and that
in the sense of what is described in
impossible to observe the soul element. What pertains to the
one must draw back a stage, as it were,so that the life of
This is precisely what is brought about through Imaginative
what is then brought into view.
You know that
if we survey the human being, confining ourselves to what
life thinking, feeling, and willing. It is true that
explained, we nevertheless know that when we as human beings
compare what we grasp there in immediate vitality with what
— what presents itself to Imaginative cognition is the
We know that
that in the sleeping state we have a separation of the
correct to say that the I and astral body separate from the
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become materialists, why would they admit only the outer, that which
consciousness, however, is not able to grasp what lives
These are the same thoughts that actually have taken part in
building up his organism and that he has brought with him
up against that which cannot become deed. What enters into
present at other times. Everything in the soul life that does
not pass into deed, that stops short, as it were, before the
objectively the human soul life itself, and we found that
thinking develops itself in that region which is in fact the
etheric body. We also found that feeling develops itself
between — I said yesterday that this expression is not
exact, yet it is comprehensible — the spaces that we
life. I explained yesterday that the Imaginative
the organization and how what works in these pictures brings
about our feelings. Our feelings are therefore what actually
the waves that mount up from the day's dream life into our
that does not rise to thinking, to a life of thought, but
that is developed actually in a sort of living dream life. We
can form a picture of what reveals itself in the soul life of
pictures that we form during waking consciousness, stream
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become materialists, why would they admit only the outer, that which
briefly what we have been studying during recent days in
important things in what has been said as a sort of prelude
to what has still to be added as a temporary conclusion to
that in the space between the etheric body and the physical
body there exists a sort of web of living thoughts. What
exactly is this web of living thoughts? It is what we bring
world. It is necessary for one to imagine that what we
possess within our thinking activity merely in pictures, what
activity, has an independent life of its own. What we feel in
thought is permeated by objective being, that is to say, it
keep what I just said fully in mind. One cannot say, for
instance, that the human being is formed entirely by this web
of thought, that man is thus woven entirely out of what one
can call world thoughts. That is not the case, at least not
universal cosmos, and what I have described as this web of
this web, that which is the content of our thoughts comes to
sense world itself today, however, the fact is that we do not
come right to the senses, in looking upon them as being what
as it were, and incorporated into the human being. It is what
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become materialists, why would they admit only the outer, that which
One might say that insofar as the human being is spirit he
universe that we can study what takes place in the human
form in such a way that the thinking aspect is situated
another viewpoint — that when we first ascend into the
immediately above him such that he in a way — this is
that it is commonly expressed — develops a certain
Those that then
can say of them that among their functions is that which
works as folk spirit, that which therefore embraces groups of
particular functions that they perform.
ourselves what kind of relationship the human being has to
order to learn what man is as a spiritual being, what kind of
through the portal of death. We know that in this age of
earthly evolution that encompasses many years we live as
human beings in such a way that there are present in the
everything that makes the mineral realm in a certain sense
comprehensible, and he has a feeling that with the concepts
same where the plant realm is concerned. You know that
holds to the ideal that the complicated combination of the
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become materialists, why would they admit only the outer, that which
said that the human being carries through the portal of death
what I called a mineral consciousness. It can be called this
Bearing with him what comes from these two directions, the
journeys between death and a new birth. When we consider what
the human being is after death, we find that the astral body
and the I have wrested themselves free from what surrounded
them as a kind of shell, that is, from the physical body and
cosmic planetary bodies that have to do with it, we know,
know that essentially in the Saturn evolution the first
universal sense organ that was developed further in the Sun,
Moon, and Earth evolutions. We know that the first rudiments
those of the astral body during the Moon evolution, and that
consider the human being as a whole, we find that he has his
through those forces that exist on earth the I is formed, is
molded. If we now say, therefore, that the human being passes
really takes through the portal of death all that he has from
his earthly evolution, all that he acquires within the
what belongs to the earthly evolution, and it is during the
earthly evolution that the mineral world has been added to
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become materialists, why would they admit only the outer, that which
being, that is, what is spiritually active in him, arises out
therefore can say that if we wish to understand the being of
particular way gone through what the human being is going
and have found that this soul development takes place as
no doubt that what determines man's life of soul is the
present. We develop our soul by means of what we draw forth
short, we can say that when we are considering the soul life
What, then, do
realms. It is only there by virtue of the processes that the
he has passed through death, what works as forces into this
science of the spirit, we find that it is true that the
what holds it together exist in man's conscious life. It
inner picture-nature of this physical body. What we behold
physical human body something will then be formed that we may
will arise a future realm of nature out of what today is only
a picture — a realm that in its essential being will
roots and through the air. Imagine that what the plant has
with no dead mineral realm, and a plant world that is not
in such a way that it forms itself into plants, that what now
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Title: Cosmosophy 1: Lecture IX
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become materialists, why would they admit only the outer, that which
relationship to the world, a relationship that he is seeking
you that if we seriously wish to bring the spiritual nature
of those hierarchies that we group together as the
I. Then I showed you how what man today can call his bodies
future worlds. In fact, what will be formed in the world's
future existence has its seed in the human bodies that we
earthly realm, becomes seed for what the earth becomes after
wide universe, but it becomes the seed for what the earth is
astral body and with that which is the sheath of our I. This
which means that we have already been living for a long time
in the intellectual age. The human being understands what
means of intellectual knowing. Everything that the human
the feeling remains dull and dreamlike. What becomes clear to
the human being in feeling is just what the world today
to the outer world only by outer methods. Let us assume that
today, in a spiritual respect. What does such a person, who
only what goes as far as his I. He receives no more than what
immersed but that are not called to do actual self-conscious
pictures, his feelings, and what he knows about his will
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Title: Cosmosophy 1: Lecture X
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become materialists, why would they admit only the outer, that which
comprehended. When we visualize the human soul life, that is,
what the human being feels occurring within himself as
thinking, feeling, and willing, then of course we find that
the thinking component, or what we experience directly as the
the etheric body, that feeling occurs between the etheric
and the I. We thus see that our thoughts, insofar as we are
fully conscious of them, represent only what glimmers up to
the last lectures, however, you have realized that this
real than what we experience in consciousness. What we
something that generates waves from the depths of our being
can say that the I has its most immediate experience of
know, however, that the content of our willing, as
know as little as we do of what happens between going to
shadows that come up from the depths of our being. The mental
images that we experience consciously are the shadow pictures
of what we are like on the inside in terms of our I, and we
really perceive only the hue that our thought content casts
reality little more of this thought-filled, dull I than what
however, that the world of sense perceptions breaks upon
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Title: Cosmosophy 1: Lecture XI
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become materialists, why would they admit only the outer, that which
yesterday that in our present era, since the middle of the
death; everything on earth that he fulfills out of the
guided by free motives — that is, when our will is not
as outer science does, that it is possible to obtain an inner
knowledge of the human organization by studying what is dead
the outer world. What kind of view is this, however? It is
one that we have frequently called the view of
that manifests itself particularly — as I already
and reappearing in another form; that is, it is no longer
pointing out that in
reality the world that we experience may be compared with the
images that look out at us from a mirror. These pictures that
everything that surges up from the human being, without being
reality, but a reality that does not rise up in man's present
and death, the human being lives in a true world that he does
not know, one that cannot ever really give him freedom. It
may implant in him instincts that make him unfree; it may
awaken we must enter a perceptive life of appearance, so that
fifteenth century), we cannot say in the same sense that the
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Title: Lecture: Supersensible Influences: Lecture I: Supersensible Influences in Old Persian, Egyptian, and Greek Time
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attempts are made to depict what comes to pass in the physical world of
Old Persian periods of culture. Naturally, many things that were done
realised that happenings which then constituted external history were
important. The fact that through the exercises of Yoga, breathing
But the process of inbreathing was more important then than that of
that besides, shall I say, the coarse inhaled with the air, all kinds
through the air, is that they have the tendency to assume forms and
too, build forms — forms that do not resemble those of the
it were in space, are breathed in by man — and it is good that
colloquially, they are patched up again by what is inbreathed in this
and, above all, to realise what it means when, together with the finely
into a space emptied of air. Think of an ether-form that passed into
cosmos into the human being. So that in those ancient epochs of
What I am now telling
these Mysteries knew that human beings drew the spiritual Moon-Cosmos
into themselves in this way. The Initiates knew, too, that this took
possible to reckon with the fact that these spiritual Moon-Beings
of the ancient Mysteries aimed at gaining control of what passed into
the human being in this way through the inbreathing, so that men might
You must realise that in
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Title: Lecture: Supersensible Influences: Lecture II: The Education of Man through Modern Intellectualism, -or- Chartres and the Mysteries of the Templars
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domains too, including that of social life, by calling to their aid
that these Beings in turn are connected in the cosmos with what is
I indicated that even
the impression of a kind of listening, of hearing that is also
touching, of touching that is also hearing. Homer listens to those
surges and shimmers through the cosmos. I said that when the Greeks
that hearing of rhythm in the Graeco-Roman epoch of which I have spoken
based as it is upon thoughts that are dependent entirely upon the
with truth that as earlier creeds speak of a Fall into Sin, meaning a
that are universal today, the so-called astute thoughts of modern
bound to the physical body. Not that the thoughts themselves arise out
of his the physical body — that, of course, is not the case. But
modern man is not conscious of the forces that are working in these
thoughts. He does not know what these thoughts are, in their real
that are instilled into him, even in his school days, by popularised
being does not know what is really living in his thoughts; he only
knows what the physical body mirrors back to him of these thoughts. If
for modern evolution lies in the fact that whereas, in truth, the
pictures. And, as a result, something that is really attuned to the
body; what they mirror is merely the external world of the senses. In
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Title: Lecture: Supersensible Influences: Lecture III: The Revelation of the Spiritual World in Old Indian Culture, -or- Old Egypt
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without taking history into account. You speak of what is happening
What did the Egyptian
sage mean by this? He wanted to convey that the thoughts of the
evolution of the earth through different forms, and that the Greeks, at
reality the Egyptian sage wanted to indicate what had resulted from the
that could exist on earth only because the human being exists on earth.
times when the life of soul was quite unlike that of today. Before the
flower, it seemed to him that a divine voice said to him distinctly:
what was being revealed to him from the spiritual world. As a result he
what was present in the mummified form from which the soul and the
what should be introduced into human life and directives for the
however, is an illusory conception. The truth is that purely empirical
that the souls of the Dead were fettered for a time to their
character of Egyptian culture, a perpetual reminder that it was a
golden age in human evolution. It was a culture that encroached upon
kingdoms directly, but only indirectly, in this sense, that the
lingering with their mummies that the Initiates of Egypt, in their
the Dead for a period in order that they may give us enlightenment
but modern science holds the same opinion of a great deal that is true
indicates the kind of attitude that prevailed in regard to all those
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Title: Lecture: Supersensible Influences: Lecture IV: The Egyptian Mysteries, Indian Yoga and Egyptian Mummy Cult
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want to add something to what has already been said and to begin with I
first, to explain to his pupils that in the human head all the
that exists in the cosmos is also to be found in the earth itself.
by the moon as it moves around the earth and all that lies between the
interpret what they find when they dig down into the earth, will say:
What is present in the environment is mirrored, and condensed, in an
must be pictured as a reflection of what is outside in the cosmos.
universe, remembering that what exists out yonder in a state of
activity. The mystery of the human head is that it is infinitely
except that he would, of course, have used the forms of expression
brain. What is thus produced in the human eye, with the resulting
processes that take place in the brain itself are deeds of the outer
You can only perceive what the human head does when you know exactly
what happens in the human physical body — so would the Initiate
knowledge of these things, but because the possibilities that had
We know that when man
recoils. It was this recoil that the pupil of Yoga observed. The
to watch what the brain was doing in the chest, in the abdominal organs
through the whole body, the pupil of Yoga was able to observe what the
lecture that at a certain stage of the Egyptian epoch, this art had
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Title: Lecture: Supersensible Influences: Lecture V: Modern Abstract Thinking and Living Thinking of Future Times, -or- The Idea of Metamorphosis and the Repeated Lives on Earth
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believe that the human corpse, with its characteristic form, could have
Just as we realise that
thinking, of human thought, is that it cannot, of itself, have become
what it is in earthly life, but that it is a kind of corpse in the soul
— the corpse of what it was before the human being came down from
what it means to live in the world of thought have, moreover, felt the
trace of any doubt that the human being lived in worlds of
like Aristotle, have doubts about the fact that the human being does
thinking of the East wherewith it was known that man comes down from
spiritual worlds into earth-existence, and the thinking that is a
corpse, bringing knowledge only of what is accessible to man between
thinking. It was from the human corpse that dead thinking first came
in modern times is that in occult societies here and there, rituals,
been preserved as dead traditions. Think only of rituals that you may
have read, perhaps those of the Freemasons. You will find that there
fifteenth century of our era is, in very truth, a corpse and that is
why it is applied only to what is dead in nature, to the mineral
connection with that spiritual reality of being, which flowed in the
more than once in his life. It was from this that there came to him the
What had Goethe actually
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Title: Lecture: Supersensible Influences: Lecture VI: Spiritual InFluence in History, -or- Pope Nicholas I
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through the unconscious forces of the soul; what transpires outwardly
1170. But we find that even external history mentions all kinds of
enterprises and institutions that developed out of the Crusades.
life during the time of the Crusades. We hear, too, of Orders like that
Things that were inaugurated by these communities of secular and
subsequently developed in such a way that, while their provenance in
that pilgrimages to Palestine would imbue their Christian impulses with
We know too that, to
understanding what was working more or less unconsciously through human
souls, in such a way that again and again, and for a long period of
real question is this: Whence came that first fiery enthusiasm which
heart. Men felt that these sacred concerns were vitally connected with
the liberation of Jerusalem from the Turks, in order that Christians in
convey any real impression of the fire of enthusiasm that flamed up in
Europe when that noble company of knights set out on the first Crusade,
What impulses were working in the hearts and souls of Europeans at that
time — what were the impulses out of which sprang the spirit of
especially to Ireland. In view of what will presently be said, I will
immeasurably deep in content. One of these is what may be called the
Jesus of Nazareth than with the all-important fact that a Spiritual
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Title: Man/World of Stars: Lecture I: The Spirit-Seed of Man's Physical Organism
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earthly life. Steiner reveals that the concepts of spiritual science
serve as our eyes in the spiritual world after death. He shows that we
attention was directed in recent lectures here. I said that
earthly consciousness that is connected with the senses and
organs. Of all this we say that it is within our being.
On the other hand we feel ourselves connected with what is
and rebirth we cannot, however, speak in the same sense of what
are such that the whole universe may be designated as our inner
of stars in such a way that of the Beings of the stars we say
that they are our inner nature, just as here on Earth we say
that the lung or heart belong to our inner physical nature.
From the time of going to sleep until that of waking, we have a
cosmic consciousness. That which here on Earth is our
What, then, is our outer world in that spiritual existence? It
is what is now our inner nature. We fashion what is then
have also said that at a certain point this spirit-seed falls
is during this period that we gather together from the cosmic
the Earth and unite with what the physical body — the
which man becomes the being that he is on Earth.
afterwards become. It is on the Earth that we first learn to
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Title: Man/World of Stars: Lecture II: Moral Qualities and the Life After Death. Windows of the Earth
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earthly life. Steiner reveals that the concepts of spiritual science
serve as our eyes in the spiritual world after death. He shows that we
life man partakes in what we may call the world of the Stars,
the forces that lie in his physical body and in his etheric or
formative-forces body, and those that lie in his Ego and his
astral body. You know, of course, that these two sides of his
also related during sleep? — We know indeed that in the
ourselves that when the Ego and astral body plunge down, as it
hypothetically that this is possible. We should find in it
material processes that are a continuation of those processes
physical body we should also find what is achieved through the
breathing process. It is only what proceeds from the
head-organization of man, all that belongs to the system of
senses and nerves, that is either dimmed or plunged in complete
already versed to a certain extent in what Spiritual Science
etheric forces surrounding existence on Earth. So that we can
everything that belongs to Earth-existence is active. So too in
the etheric body all that belongs to the ether-world enveloping
— naturally our soul's attention — to what is now
the idea that this has anything to do with the physical Earth,
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Title: Man/World of Stars: Lecture III: Man's Relation to the World of the Stars
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earthly life. Steiner reveals that the concepts of spiritual science
serve as our eyes in the spiritual world after death. He shows that we
become increasingly clear that man does not belong to the Earth
world of Stars. Much of what there is to say in this connection
brief remark in order that misunderstandings may be
towards the superficial form of Astrology that is so widely
pursued nowadays. But if what is said on this subject is
apparent between what is meant here and the amateurish
interpretations of ancient astrological traditions that are so
When we say that man, between birth and death, is a being
connected with the Earth and earthly happenings, what do we
mean by this? We mean that man owes his existence between birth
and death to the fact that, in the first place, he takes the
nourishment and digests them; further, that through his
— that is to say, to the atmosphere surrounding the the
Earth. We also say that man perceives the outer things of the
what is extra-terrestrial — reflections which are,
supposed. So that in general one can say: Man partakes of
it is said that an influence from the Moon, or Venus, or Mars,
is exercised upon man, that this is to be understood merely as
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Title: Man/World of Stars: Lecture IV: Rhythms of Earthly and Spiritual Life. Love, Memory, the Moral Life
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earthly life. Steiner reveals that the concepts of spiritual science
serve as our eyes in the spiritual world after death. He shows that we
LET us recall what I have been telling you about man's
descriptions have enabled us to realize that this life —
between death and rebirth — is such that man lives in
communion with the beings of the three kingdoms of Nature. What
The same applies to what comes from the will, namely, human
what his senses convey to him from the three kingdoms of
Higher Hierarchies; we are entirely given up to them. That is
Everything that takes place is the outcome of an activity in
obliterating too all will that works in this way in us from the
Thus we may say that there are times during the life between
that lives within us, but we have as it were ‘come to
in a certain sense all earthly life is an outcome of what we
What we experience in pre-earthly existence in working together
birth, but it is a reflection of that communion. That
understanding for another human being, is due to the fact that
Spiritual-scientific vision enables us to perceive what happens
unfolding that all-embracing love which comes to expression in
among the Gods, in pre-earthly existence, that we acquire the
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Title: Man/World of Stars: Lecture V: Human Faculties and Their Connections with Elemental Beings
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earthly life. Steiner reveals that the concepts of spiritual science
serve as our eyes in the spiritual world after death. He shows that we
THE faculties needed by man in order that he may be able
that here on Earth man lives in certain spheres which on the
When we speak of thoughts, we mean that domain through which
real. Precisely when we are clear that through our
thoughts we have to inform ourselves about the truth of what is
real, then it must also be admitted that thoughts, as such,
cannot be anything real. Just imagine for a moment that you
brain or your heart; if that were the case, these thoughts
express through human speech what human speech is intended to
producing something. In this sense, what is spoken is
reality. And if we consider the Good, then we shall find that
what is formed through physical reality can never be called the
like hunger, as an external reality, Goodness is just what it
does not occur to you to think that you can converse with it.
manifest, namely: Beauty. So that in Truth, reality is
is therefore necessary for man that his thoughts are not, in
is also true that reality is necessary in this physical-earthly
world in order that we can have Thoughts, make the Beautiful
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Title: Man/World of Stars: Lecture VI: Spiritualization of Knowledge of Space. The Mission of Michael
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earthly life. Steiner reveals that the concepts of spiritual science
serve as our eyes in the spiritual world after death. He shows that we
I HAVE often referred to the fact that since about the
entered upon a special epoch. It can be said that the age which
Græco-Latin culture and that the most recent phase of time
— that between birth and death man bears in his physical,
what he has experienced in pre-earthly existence. And recently
we heard in what sense social and moral life is the heritage of
that condition between death and rebirth when man lives in
freedom, for everything that makes for inner strength and
Until the Graeco-Latin epoch, the faculties that enabled man to
has a clear consciousness that he belongs to the same ‘race’ to
divine-spiritual Beings belong. He feels that he has been sent
Beings. And he considers that the civilization he spreads over
the Earth is there in order that the earthly deeds of man and
real home to be what he called the Kingdom of Light, the
come from the darkness of the Earth so that the spirits of the
are read from what the stars reveal. Before anything is done on
that make him one with the movements and laws of the stars,
Earth. They feel that in their world of ideas between birth and
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Title: Man/World of Stars: Lecture VII: Inner Processes in the Human Organism
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earthly life. Steiner reveals that the concepts of spiritual science
serve as our eyes in the spiritual world after death. He shows that we
but with his ordinary consciousness he does not perceive what
if they are to bring to man's cognizance what lies outside the
organs, we should not be able to hear what is outwardly audible
nor see what is outwardly visible. But it is precisely this
that enables man to know the world round about him, in so far
know himself. This presupposes that during the process
cognition of the outer world, so that for a time nothing at all
that by this self-knowledge I do not mean the ordinary kind of
brooding contemplation of the everyday self; for all that a man
world. He learns nothing that is new; he merely gets to know,
as it were in a mirror, what he has experienced in the outer
know that spiritual research advances first to what is called
supersensible world that can clothe itself in the images and
he is in a position to follow what takes place in the human
would not be possible to follow what takes place in the
means that what the ear becomes aware of is not what goes on
within the ear itself but what is continuing from the external
observe the process that goes on in the ear itself,
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Title: Spiritual Communion: Lecture I: Midsummer and Midwinter Mysteries
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earthly life. Steiner reveals that the concepts of spiritual science
serve as our eyes in the spiritual world after death. He shows that we
the Mystery upon which it is based with Mysteries that were the
conceptions of the spiritual world that had primarily to do
When we turn our attention to Mysteries that were celebrated in
Mysteries that were celebrated also in pre-Christian times, in
that they were preeminently Summer Mysteries, connected
with the union between man and all that takes place in earthly
meaning of these Mysteries we must think, first of all, of that
Looking back into very ancient times we find that the Mysteries
were expressions of reality, the men belonging to that ancient
know, often said that what the men of those olden times beheld
somewhat resembling them. Whereas we know quite well that the
pictures in our dreams are woven from our reminiscences, that
the old clairvoyance men knew that they were the expressions
it must not be imagined that those men of an earlier epoch had
the thoughts of that old humanity; but the thoughts were not
distinction made between what men fashioned out of various
materials into works of art, and what they acquired as wisdom.
Today the distinction is made by saying: What man acquires in
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Title: Spiritual Communion: Lecture II: The Mysteries of Man's Nature and the Course of the Year
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earthly life. Steiner reveals that the concepts of spiritual science
serve as our eyes in the spiritual world after death. He shows that we
guidance vouchsafed to mankind hitherto, what tasks devolve
upon men today. It must not, of course, be forgotten that the
point of salient importance in the Christmas thought is that in
that were celebrated in the Mysteries at Midsummer, when man,
they realized that whatever revealed itself to them in the
that for a certain section of mankind, the Midwinter festival
or, because a man feels that he must again find the way to the
of his own heart, conscious that at this time of the year he is
Christmas thought was not the same as it is today. At that time
what it is today. And we learn to know what this condition was
if we turn our attention to certain Mysteries that were
Initiation-Science of that day was imparted to them. And among
do not mean anything that is conveyed by dead letters written
on paper, but what the Beings of the universe themselves
Cosmos know that everything growing and thriving on the Earth
is an image of what shines down from the stars out of the
simpler kind of reading by means of dead letters, knew that he
the secrets of the Universe, and that when he let his gaze
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Title: Spiritual Communion: Lecture III: From Man's Living Together with the Course of Cosmic Existence Arises the Cosmic Cult
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earthly life. Steiner reveals that the concepts of spiritual science
serve as our eyes in the spiritual world after death. He shows that we
subject-matter of those lectures but in a way that will
by the realization that these two polar opposites exist.
by what is called ‘natural necessity.’ He feels himself
deeply sensible — it is a feeling that is bound to arise
in every healthy-minded person — that his dignity as man
are aware that in the age of natural science — the
strong tendency to extend the sway of necessity that is
everywhere in evidence in external Nature, to whatever
illusion that exists only in the human soul, because when a man
decision but whatever reasons are the more numerous and the
impulses that work upon him of necessity. Many representatives
of this way of thinking have said that a man believes himself
such complications in their totality that he does not notice
consideration that the dignity of man would not be maintained
yes-and-no impulses, but there is also this fact, that the
feeling of freedom in the human will is so strong that an
unbiased person has no sort of doubt that if he can be misled
that they allow the theory of a natural necessity which is
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Title: Spiritual Communion: Lecture IV: The Relation of the Movement for Religious Renewal to the Anthroposophical Movement
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earthly life. Steiner reveals that the concepts of spiritual science
serve as our eyes in the spiritual world after death. He shows that we
I HAVE often said in this place that in more ancient
Mysteries knows that within these Mysteries, knowledge was
way that was possible in those times. That way can no longer be
stage was followed by the third stage, that of the revelation
art, but in such a way that thoughts, feelings and also the
once more to gain knowledge that can bring to realization what
Goethe already divined: a knowledge that raises itself
made. Perhaps, my dear friends, at the close of what I have to
say, you will understand what is really the deeper cause of my
words. Let me say in the first place that already for a long
the Anthroposophical Society, but that the Anthroposophical
that in more recent years the way of working had necessarily to
be different for the Anthroposophical Movement from what it was
in order not to speak merely theoretically but to make what I
about something that has recently taken place in connection
with a Movement that is distinct from the Anthroposophical
religion. What they said to me was to the following effect:
under his feet for the practical work of a minister that is
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Title: Spiritual Knowledge is a True Communion, the Beginning of a Cosmic Cult Suitable for Men of the Present Age
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earthly life. Steiner reveals that the concepts of spiritual science
serve as our eyes in the spiritual world after death. He shows that we
year can also be found in man. I pointed out that the forces of
which we call the cycle of a year, so that we can see, during
image in man is that events which take place
them. We can say that while man is asleep, there is a kind of
that once more we find inner Spring, inner Summer and inner
This is what actually takes place, as disclosed by the
Were this possible we should have actually what may be
for it really corresponds to what actually takes place —
is true that man bears surrounding Nature in himself, but its
Even as in a balance that has weights in either scale, the
pointer will come to rest at a certain spot and will at that
Anyone who studies what I said very briefly in my book
accustomed to do — will find that what I am now going to
one another. We may say that the organism of nerves and senses
of the other systems. If we take the two outer organisms, that
of the nerves and senses and that of the trunk, limbs and
were sauntering along slowly. And everything that happens in
mistaken notion of materialistic philosophy that ideas
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Title: Esoteric Studies: Easter: Lecture I: The Mysteries of Adonis, -or- The Evolution of Our Festivals from the Ancient Mysteries
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is ultimately through knowing the true significance of Easter that we come
connection with world riddles by the fact that Easter is a so-called
lectures. Yet if we trace the festival customs and cult rites that
equinox that plays a part in determining the date of Easter, to
festival that occurred at about the same season was, in a sense, the
what, as Nature, had been asleep throughout the winter time. But here
we must emphasize the fact that with regard to its inner meaning and
correspond to old festivals that grew out of the Mysteries; and these
far-reaching misapprehensions that have crept into the philosophic
with the result that it was changed from an autumn festival to a
— what is its essence? It is this: the central figure in
from the grave. It is the memorial day of this event. That is the
resembles the form of what is comprised in the Christian
manifold ancient festivals let us choose that of Adonis for
spiritual representative of all that appears in the human being as
with what it represented, hence the old religions frequently
whole community that confessed this cult, that called it its own. At
That was an
external ceremony, one that stirred the souls of a great multitude of
people: through an outer act, an outer rite, it suggested what was
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Title: Esoteric Studies: Easter: Lecture II: Moon-Birth and Sun-Birth
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is ultimately through knowing the true significance of Easter that we come
that the original purpose of festivals was to induce men to look
that can evoke such thoughts. During the last three to five centuries
of civilization we have undergone a psycho-spiritual development that
powers, and it is quite true that with the means recognized today as
this or that cycle. As these lectures are intended especially
elaborate all the points that I shall merely
spirit. When a man seeks that which gives him life, which lives in
not give our body its form, what could Earth forces contribute to its
influence of the Moon that we are indebted for the forces so active
forces that seize and destroy him at death; forces that combat this
If we know theoretically, on the one hand, that the Moon forces
how the old religions reverenced these forces that introduced man, so
ancient Hebrew initiates were clearly aware that from the Moon
ritual and in prayer, that was the substance of certain ancient
documents and has no access to what can be observed in spiritual
The religions that focused on the Moon and the spiritual beings
locality that later became India. The civilization following this was
man developed was very different from what it became later; and upon
that we really do not notice any break in the continuity of our
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Title: Esoteric Studies: Easter: Lecture III: The Secret of the Moon
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is ultimately through knowing the true significance of Easter that we come
what we have been discussing in the previous lectures I should like to take
must keep clearly in mind that in his entirety man is related to the
age that of the vast cosmos, which expresses its spirituality in the
movement in the human organism, remaining unaware that a
that the cosmic organism expresses itself, not in a unified
limitless multitude of spiritual beings that reveal themselves
man to Earth substances that can serve as nourishment. And man's
closest connection with the universe has to do with what we can call
also that stage in which it entirely withdraws from outer view,
But that does not exhaust what the Moon means to the Earth, and
must understand that if we look out at something as readily
that is, something that presents a physical aspect — this
aspect embodies something totally different from what is
but we must not conclude that because it does not express itself as a
the firmament tells us that it is new Moon, this means that the Moon
namely, that at one time the
time when man existed and developed upon an Earth that still
withdrew, the Earth became poorer by exactly what the Moon
the other hand, the influences that emanated from within the Earth at
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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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is ultimately through knowing the true significance of Easter that we come
that out of the Mysteries grew something that made man aware of being related
to the world in a way that can be expressed in the annual festivals;
and in particular we have learned that Easter is an outgrowth
of the principle of initiation. From all that has been set forth it
will have become evident what a significant role the Mysteries played
nature that has permeated the world and developed through mankind
that the Mysteries were all-powerful in guiding the spiritual
intended from the beginning that mankind should develop freedom; and
guidance that proceeded from the Mysteries, to be cast more upon its
own resources, as it were. We certainly cannot assert today that the
and are ready to pass over into the next phase of evolution that is
to follow upon that of freedom. This is not the case. Still, many
with the coming of a more spiritual age they will develop what they
all things, however, it will be necessary that the wisdom, the
all that takes place within the history of mankind. But men of all
significant environments was that of the Mysteries. A most important
factor in the progress of humanity is the carrying over of what has
If the impulse that went forth from here, from the Goetheanum, at
Anthroposophical Society, it is certain that by leading to ever
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Title: Easter Festival: Lecture I: The Mysteries of Adonis, -or- The Evolution of Our Festivals from the Ancient Mysteries
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is ultimately through knowing the true significance of Easter that we come
that Easter is a so-called movable feast, the date of which is
soul, if we examine the customs and rites that have become
the fundamental impulse to become a Christian provided by that
resurrection of nature, the reawakening of what, as nature, had
similarity ends. It must be emphasized that with regard
serious examination of ancient pagan times reveals that
Easter, in the Christian sense, is related to festivals that
grew out of the Mysteries and that were celebrated in the
This most curious fact demonstrates what serious
completely different festival, with the result that Easter was
enact a content strongly resembling that of the Christian
all that manifests itself in human beings as vigorous
with what is represented; hence their religions frequently
strength, of an unfolding seminal power that reveals in
artificial pond that was dug nearby. For three days a profound
after that time the idol was lifted from the water, the laments
This was an external ceremony, one that profoundly stirred the
it hinted at what happened within the sacred Mysteries to every
made it clear to him that by being laid in the coffin he was to
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Title: Easter Festival: Lecture II: Moon-Birth and Sun-Birth
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is ultimately through knowing the true significance of Easter that we come
can say that the original purpose of festivals is to make human
psycho-spiritual development that has made us focus less and
what we moderns call knowledge, and if he were to approach the
would now like to sketch various matters that you will find
dealt with more thoroughly in this or that lecture cycle.
worship of one deity. That deity is the one of whom we speak in
the cosmic moon forces, forces that stream down to the earth
world views were clearly aware that the human being, who exists
we want to know what shapes our living form, to know what lives
shape us. It is to the influence of the moon that we owe the
uplifting forces within us, the forces that give us a cohesive,
organized form, a form that during life does not succumb
to forces that seize and destroy us at our death. It is due to
this that throughout our earthly lives we can resist
see that these forces, which guide us, so to speak, through
Hebrew initiates knew that the moon radiates those forces that
merely upon external evidence, not upon what can be observed in
Religions that focused on the moon and the spiritual beings
that antedates the foundation of Christianity by many thousands
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Title: Easter Festival: Lecture III: The Secret of the Moon
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is ultimately through knowing the true significance of Easter that we come
must be understood that with respect to our whole nature we are
that lives in the forms of constellations and in the motions of
the human organism while ignoring that it is animated by a
spirit and soul that express themselves through these
humanity's inner nature in the same way that earthly foodstuffs
usual explanation for this is, of course, that the moon is just
a body that moves about in space and is illuminated from
different angles by the sun, so that its shape apparently
Instead it must be realized that when we look at
something that presents us with a physical aspect, we are
must not conclude from this that the new moon is
such that we know the moon to be new, it is simply a matter of
mind that the moon was once inside the earth. It was part of
forces that once acted upon human beings from within the earth
surrounding cosmos. It is here that the new role of the lunar
that time, human beings who had completed the life between
outside the earth, that is, from the moon. Immediately before
what lies in the moon forces, that is, upon something
This etheric body must be shaped in such a way that it has, so
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Title: Easter Festival: Lecture IV: Decline of the Mystery System and the Rise of Freedom, I-A-O is Man, Aristotle's Categories
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is ultimately through knowing the true significance of Easter that we come
conscious connection to the world in such a way that this
principle of initiation. It should be obvious from all that has
been said that the Mysteries played a highly significant role
meant that the Mysteries' powerful influence had to
to their own devices. Although today it can hardly be said that
dawns that is once again more spiritual, the current
experience that can be achieved through modern
chain of historical development, in that they reincarnate
is in some other form of knowledge that past Mystery
rise again. I might say that if the impulse originating
from the Christmas Conference that was held here at the
renewal. The Society was, after all, witness to an event that,
perpetrated. However, what is a terrible wrong on one level can
the moon. I also indicated that moon-beings observe the
planets, and that these observations guide human beings in
matters throughout history. And that interest was nowhere
that bears fruit within the vast cosmic ether.”
everything that grows, buds, and sprouts within the cosmic
instituted in such a way that nowhere else could one find such
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Title: Festival of Easter: Lecture 1: The Mysteries of Adonis, -or- The Evolution of Our Festivals from the Ancient Mysteries
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is ultimately through knowing the true significance of Easter that we come
beings have felt the Festival of Easter to be something that is
the mysteries of the universe by the fact that it is what is
the festival of Easter, we realise the very special value that
festival that was associated with the re-awakening of Nature
Mysteries,” in so far as the subject is one that can be
the winter. Here I must explain that the Christian festival of
Easter is absolutely not a festival that, according to its
with very ancient heathen festivals that had their source in
procedures in the Mysteries, is that it directs our attention
to a radical and profound misunderstanding that has come to
that the Festival of Easter has been confused, in the course of
content of the Easter festival. What is most essential in it?
The most essential thing in it is: that the Being who stands in
Easter. From among numerous ancient feasts let us take that of
is true that ancient peoples have in many respects confused the
image with what it represented. In this way these old religions
in splendid life all that was glorious in existence, all that
was constructed so that it could be lowered into it. During
This was an outward ceremony, one that deeply stirred the
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Title: Festival of Easter: Lecture 2: Moon-Birth and Sun-Birth
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is ultimately through knowing the true significance of Easter that we come
One may say that the original
Festival that can especially bring about such thoughts. In the
and powers. It is also the case that with those means of
example that one most familiar to modern people, the ancient
are mono-theistic, the worship of the one Godhead. This is that
consciousness did exist, that when man came down from the
and strengthened by impulses that streamed to him from the
moon. When a man considers what it is that has formed him as
living being, what lives in him as the forces of nutrition and
form from forces beyond the earth, what could the mere earthly
man, by which he is raised above what is earthly, so that
organic form and not succumb to the forces of earth that lay
on the one hand we can state theoretically that the moon
realize on the other hand that ancient religions reverenced
Hebrew Initiate had a distinct consciousness of the fact that
documents, not by what is observed with the help of spiritual
Those religions which looked up to the moon, and to that which
civilizations human development was very different from what it
have developed so that we are not aware that a split has
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Title: Festival of Easter: Lecture 3: The Secret of the Moon
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is ultimately through knowing the true significance of Easter that we come
of the whole cosmos. For we must clearly realize that man with
unconscious of the fact that it is permeated with soul and
forgetting entirely that in the relationship of measure and of
the universe has to do with what is called the “Moon
see that only a part of it is luminous — a half, then a
quarter. We also have that state of the moon in which it is
that of new moon. Then we have again the return of full
this is explained nowadays by merely saying that in the moon we
different directions, so that to us it seems to assume
different forms. But with this we have not exhausted what the
moon does for the earth, and more especially what it does for
moon is, that what it here presents to us in its physical
aspect is something entirely different, in that physical
aspect, from what the new moon presents to us (which
does not show itself that its powers and activities are not
we wish really to understand what is brought about through
We must recall what is said there: The moon was
the earth and became what might be called a neighbouring
evolved on an earth that still had the moon within it. Since
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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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is ultimately through knowing the true significance of Easter that we come
Mysteries has grown that which has bound the consciousness of
man so closely to the universe that this bond found expression
Initiation. From all that has been said, you must have been
Everything spiritual that passed through the world in ancient
That this might develop, it was necessary that the life
is very certain we cannot yet say that the time has come when
men have attained true inner freedom, that they are now
greater spirituality, men must begin to develop what in their
appreciation and reverence for what is spiritual that has
events point to spiritual facts, and carry over what is
later epochs what they had experienced in earlier ones. Men are
was that of the Mysteries. Thus one of the most important
agents in human progress is the power to carry over what was
are here constrained to say: It is indeed the case that if that
event that can be utilized in evolution in the same way as a
what was done. Things present, however, different aspects on
different levels, and what at one level is a dreadful wrong,
may be used in accordance with human freedom in such a way that
festival of Easter was determined; further, that the other
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Title: Occult Movement: Lecture One: Seership and Thinking
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realised from lectures given recently that in our times a
evolution know that, fundamentally speaking, in all earlier
or five hundred years. We know with what widespread phenomena
mankind. We can envisage that in the earliest ages of
potent, very active, with the result that the range of
survived, steadily decreased. I have often said that these
you will realise that the nearer we come to our own period in
nineteenth century, actually in the middle of that century.
future that the materialistic tendencies of the second half
middle of the century; it was then that these tendencies
every tendency is that certain talents develop and the really
spiritual development, we shall find that in respect of
the spiritual world; it was concrete reality to them. So that
as it would be nowadays to set out to prove that plants
exist. Just imagine what would happen at the present time if
anyone set out to prove that plants exist! Exactly the same
had thought it necessary to prove that the soul also lives
who used whatever opportunity was still available to develop
seership. But even that became more and more difficult. How
Plato, or what exists of that of
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Title: Occult Movement: Lecture Two: Mediumistic Methods
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because what must be added to the subject dealt with in the
our Movement. You know that outwardly we began by linking
Theosophical Society and that we founded the so-called German
Section of that Society in the autumn of 1902, in Berlin. In
Lucifer-Gnosis was appearing. In that periodical I
a noteworthy experience in connection with what was said in
what means was this information about the world of Atlantis
the Theosophical Society at that time was based upon
mediumship. That is to say, someone was put into a kind of
ordinary consciousness. That is how the communications had
been made at that time and the member of the Theosophical
Society in question who thought that information about
what personality we had among us whom we could use as a
investigation, and as what I had discovered at that time was
that it was quite a different matter from anything that had
use only of what can be revealed to the one who is
investigation practised in Spiritual Science and those that
communications received by that Society from the spiritual
entirely in the way described, because that alone was
and showed how great the difference was between what is
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Title: Occult Movement: Lecture Three: Materialism of the 19th Century
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course of our studies a subject that is very important. You
and when I repeat them you will realise that
It is therefore essential to realise that the current in the
actually held with what comes to expression in the
evident that materialism had never previously existed in that
spiritual world. To conceive that the whole universe is
and that these atoms, conglomerating into molecules, give
said that there is, and always will be, something that can be
in the simple fact that human beings think. Without
and by holding to it one will always find that it is not
what it really is. As long as man had, as it were, a
barrenness. It was necessary that at some time man should be
faced with the whole barrenness of materialism. But what is
That is absolutely indispensable. As soon as we do so, we
shall realise that the barren vista presented by materialism
that men might become aware of what actually confronts them
That is one
atoms moving within it, that is to say, those minute
that we are not dealing with any reality. —
Thoughtful physicists would prefer to keep to what they
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Title: Occult Movement: Lecture Four: The Attempt Made by the Occultists to Avert the Lapse into Materialism
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certain things today in continuation of what has been said in
materialistic view of the world, and to the attempt that was
in the way that has already cost us many discussions and will
from the outset, for the simple reason that they relate to
as our starting-point the fact that the nineteenth century
arose in the natural course of progress and that the middle
of that century was the time when the whole of mankind was,
For it may truly be said that the men of the nineteenth
world. — That was the one aspect that emerged. The
other was that the hearts and souls of men were so attuned as
already told you that those among the occultists who, so to
speak, had the responsibility of seeing that humanity should
with mediumship, and I showed you that mediumship led to
significant of these aberrations. It was remarkable that
addition to what I have already told you, was that these
that they invariably have a strongly tendentious character
to the old esotericists — that is to say, those who did
that everything has a strongly tendentious character.
compare them with what was said in the Vienna lectures, are
on Earth to come to light. Wherever the mediums alleged that
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Title: Occult Movement: Lecture Five: The Eighth Sphere
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by Mr. Sinnett — one cannot say that he gave
“information” about it for what he said was a
must be emphasised that our language has been coined for the
there are not many words that can be used for characterising
the Eighth Sphere. The fact that all mention was avoided for
so long will also enable you to realise what is involved when
however, that there will be opportunities for saying more at
some later time. On the basis of what was said in the last
shall try to characterise what is called the “Eighth
Sphere” in order that we may have a foundation for
realised from the lecture yesterday that the Eighth Sphere
cannot be anything that belongs to the material world, for I
have shown you that the greatest fallacy in Sinnett's
statement is that the physical Moon is directly connected
that the actual foundation of the error consists in the fact
that this pointed to something material and physical.
that what is called the Eighth Sphere can have nothing
— that is to say, what can be perceived by man's
that the Eighth Sphere has something to do with the residue
time. I tried to make it clear in the lecture yesterday that
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Title: Occult Movement: Lecture Six: The Dangers of Aberation Along the Path into the Spiritual World
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sense, without going into details, you review what I ventured
that the path of development which the spiritual-scientific
recent studies that when man tries to find his bearings along
into existence in such a way that certain guiding forces for
life are with us during our childhood. We know well that only
observe a child and compare his soul-life with that of a
fully awake that guiding impulses for later life can be
life in order that certain forces of guidance may find their
that we shall not prematurely crystallise the forces bestowed
impulses that have been breathed into our soul.
and again be repeated, that the approach to the spiritual
means that when we adopt the spiritual-scientific view of
life it can very easily happen that the steady direction of
life we formerly knew, begins to waver. So that when we begin
is due to the fact that the strong
otherwise true system, teaching such as that concerning the
that especially in recent centuries Western civilisation and
Christian impulse. I myself have been at pains to show that
the significance of Christianity does not depend upon what
occultism that were connected, for example, with the High
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Title: Occult Movement: Lecture Seven: Investigation of the Life between Death and a New Birth
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foundation for what I still have to say. I said that a
regard atavistic clairvoyance, and knowledge that is a
sets no store by anything that stems from atavistic
that a great deal of the knowledge given out in the so-called
representatives of that Society to oppose us. I will give
compare what I said in the year 1904 in the first edition of
spirit-land with what had formerly been stated. You must bear
will see that great stress was laid upon the distinction to
allow it to gain ground. I remember vividly what efforts were
asserted: You are simply saying in other words what has
people did not wish it to be realised that this threefold
reason that years of testing and strict verification were
except that for which I could be answerable, having submitted
will have realised after what I have been saying, confusion
sense of full responsibility, every opportunity that offers
results of what purported to be investigation were in
investigation as actual powers. Anything that is said on the
thoughts that have been produced stand there as living beings
the nature of things, therefore, when one had resolved that
Kamaloka. But if you compare what was called Kamaloka in that
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Title: Occult Movement: Lecture Eight: The Purpose of the Use of Symbols
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the lecture yesterday I said that opponents of the
present time are up to a certain point bound to be such that
anyone who undergoes a scientific training and thinks that on
be realised that many individuals into whom the methods of
becoming opponents on account of the thoughts that have been
it will be combatted in the right way only when what I have
religious bodies because it is held that the spiritual behind
oppose what Spiritual Science brings into the open, because
expressions of the life of soul, but consider that the spirit
it does not imply that the opposition should be left out of
realise through what he reads between the lines in the
what is contained in its communications. At the basis of the
herself—that is to say, from the surface manifestations
of nature—to what lies behind nature. And because of
this danger there comes about what I have indicated, more or
whatever of what they believe should be in the guardianship
of the Secret Orders and Societies. They consider that such
why it is so difficult to speak about this subject is that
Secret Orders, believing, rightly or wrongly, that they are
into the outer circle. But it is hidden in symbolism, so that
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Title: Occult Movement: Lecture Nine: Investigation of the Mineral World
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what was said in the lecture yesterday, it will be clear to
you that, fundamentally speaking, the appearance of
world in Earth-evolution. Again it is of importance that man
bodies is created by the fact that man passes ever and again,
death and a new birth. It can be said that man must undergo
very much on the Earth, on account of the fact that between
birth and death he has a mineralised body. But what he
embodied in a mineralised body, is balanced out by what he
acquires that which, fundamentally speaking, he must acquire
there that, even in the higher sense, it has its truly great
significance. In that man observes and also investigates the
in the mineral world, what really underlies this world is
during recent weeks what is the outcome if man limits himself
understand what has to be said about materialistic methods.
by the powers into whose realm he enters, so that he becomes
therefore be said that materialistic philosophy represents a
evident that materialistic natural scientists or philosophers
would be that men still unprepared would come into possession
of the forces proceeding from that realm and would be able to
something good about it. That is one side of the matter. But
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Title: Occult Movement: Lecture Ten: Human Consciousness between Objective and Subjective Reality
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nature of our consciousness is such that when we look
We know that
we know too that this inherited clairvoyance faded away and
that our present consciousness, when functioning normally on
may be asked: Why is it that our consciousness today is
constituted as it is? The reason is that during the present
cycle of evolution, as well as everything else that has been
described, we have to develop the true relationship that
belonging to this cycle; and besides all that must be
the fact that through this form of consciousness there can
still such that the will of one had a direct effect upon the
that on the one side our vision does not penetrate through
relation of one soul to another to be such that a certain
frontier is created between them. That this frontier exists
characteristic of which is that what we actually experience
so arbitrary a way that we pour the content of our
are so organised that we can neither exercise too great an
an influence upon us — because the fact that our own
consciousness, what happens is at once evident. Think of a
touch of what we have recently encountered in the form of
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Title: History of Art: Lecture X: Disputa of Raphael - the School of Athens
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are images of the artworks that were presented with the lectures. The
to this we observe that these individuals are taking part in
depicted in the symbol of a dove. Above the somewhat receding
Primarily we need to clearly distinguish between what is given
here and what we can experience when we transport ourselves
painter would paint in, today, we need to say: at that time, in
Rome, when Pope Julius II reigned and what worked in him as
Rome, was at that time, and in every town, the human experience
that while he was mainly painting this picture, he was
predecessors, were the Borgias. One could say that
want to talk about today. It is surely extraordinary that
more closely at these impulses that originated in Rome and were
ecclesiastical world and then again, what the establishment of
western world. Just think for once, that today's human being
into a time, as it were, that have developed out of this image,
have often mentioned that people today have the impression that
mankind were always as they are today. That is not quite the
different way today. People imagine far too vaguely that at the
paint it today it would not in the same sense of truth be what
soul who would paint this image in the same sense as at that
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Title: History of Art: Lecture XI: Fourth and Fifth Post-Atlantean Epochs, Medieval Art in the Middle, West, and South of Europe
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are images of the artworks that were presented with the lectures. The
think that it is good right now to become familiar with the
within it. You know of course that we consider the beginning of
beyond. We may however say that after Charlemagne, in the
century or even today. It can rather be said that in those
times the papacy knew instinctively what the most important
already pointed out last time that the oriental culture was
artistic. If you want an idea about what had been pushed back
at the time to the East, what the west, central and southern
the picture of the Virgin Mary of the East is an echo of what
imagine that behind the picture is the spiritual world and out
world then you have exactly that which had been held at a
Simply on the grounds that the nations of Europe — central,
western, southern and central Europe, an area for what
things it was about what I have just been characterising for
you. So we see that from the 9th Century and into
see, when you focus on what could have been brought to the fore
than what came directly out of the spiritual world like line,
the time. From this it is clear that central Europe prepared
years — borrowed from what came over from the East, spread, one
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Title: History of Art: Lecture XII: Greek and Early Christian Art, Symbolic Signs, the Mystery of Gold
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are images of the artworks that were presented with the lectures. The
more awake for what is happening around us. One can say that
3rd post-Atlantean epoch. Inside all that is
artistic development's depiction was what there was to be
that time, in the most beautiful movements in the widest sense
flourishing. The idea that embellishment could be added was
with adornments so that they would “shine” on the
form and expression as originating from what was alive
epoch mainly represented all that sprouted, grew, and was
words all that could come from the world beyond because
This becomes obvious in all that is juxtaposed in an artistic
struggled with what couldn't be captured in the physical world
the first centuries, to illustrate what I'm trying to present.
Christian art; if one believes that the Jesus figure is linked
can already say that these things should not be taken up in the
mystery of Golgotha, it was believed that one could grow into
human soul which lay behind the door of death. No wonder that
means to delve into what was being done in Christianity, to a
see what Greek art created up to its culmination, the free
exactly what we want to look at in particular. In this example
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Title: History of Art: Lecture XIII: The Changes in the Conception of Christ During a Certain Period of Time
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are images of the artworks that were presented with the lectures. The
Europe depicted the Christ figure, it is repeatedly shown that
This is what people limited themselves to during that time,
referring to what I've highlighted before. I have stressed that
important. One can say that before and up to the 3rd
similarly depicted to what we usually see in pagan myths. Today
pagan. Now a question about such a statement is created: what
call it that, of the pagan artistic expression has not been
stressed. When you — as much as it is possible from what is
find the fact that this Greek imagery, studied realistically in
quite different from what human eyes could actually see in a
refrain from considering what the eyes see in the model and its
form; one should remember what I already mentioned in previous
rendering according to what the eye saw but how it was being
What single factor made this possible? Indeed, it was only
but they are souls that live as results of the entire cosmos:
world souls in a human physical form. One could say that what
absolutely beyond the idea that the human is a result of the
universe, but that through their thinking they considered the
seems extraordinary but much more correct if one thinks of what
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Title: Golden Blade, 1962: Lecture 1: Natural Science and Its Boundaries
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HAT I have been saying about the boundaries of man's
powers of cognition remain at a standstill with whatever we
have acquired through the ordinary education that has brought
us to a certain stage in life, and with whatever this education
qualities possessed by mankind in general. What is called in
further training and development; upon the realisation that as
higher consciousness that there are first revealed the things
which realities at a level beyond that of everyday reality
became accessible to men, that the Eastern sages spoke in
we realise what it is that is revealed to man through such
Inspiration. In that epoch, humanity was, so to
emphasise that this path cannot be suitable for Western
that they have no real understanding of human progress.
through acts of cognition we bring to apprehension what surges
the physical world, that our consciousness first awakes in the
The important point is to realise that for the Eastern
different procedure was necessary from that followed by man in
life in that world. We must acquire the faculties which enable
expressing something that appears to be simple but is by no
and will now say only that it is an
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Title: Golden Blade, 1962: Lecture 2: Paths to the Spirit in East and West
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communication with other human beings that is established by
understand through the word what another person wished
them, so that the soul forces acquired by thus living in the
I showed how in this way a soul-condition was attained that
have used the word. What distinguished the sages of the ancient
Eastern world was that they were true to their race; conscious
be in later stages of human evolution. This meant that their
such disturbances as I have tried to describe to you. What I
said was that those in the West, who wish to come to grips with
speaking. Other soul forces have emerged, so that it is not
way of initiation that conforms to the needs of Western
tells me that for such a man the way of knowledge must be based
on what I have set out in
I will explain what I mean by this.
was not written with the objects in mind that are customary
so that he learns what the book contains in accordance with his
Moreover, what happens to the soul of the reader,
possible to say: “Now I know through what I
have achieved in the thought-activity of my soul what true
The strange thing is that most Western philosophers utterly
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Title: Star Wisdom: Lecture I: Star Wisdom, Moon Religion, Sun Religion
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that happenings on the Earth are not determined by earthly conditions
to grasp what this means, but without the knowledge that influences
I told you that
course, that Palestine was the birth place of Christianity. Jesus of
about the peoples who were living in Mesopotamia, that is to say,
ears it said that the Assyrians “worshipped” the stars.
in the newspapers recently that this hitherto undisputed knowledge of the
stars threatens to collapse as a result of the discovery that the
Earth is not surrounded by empty, celestial space but that at a
would seem, therefore, that science is finding confirmation of the
it was to these Spiritual Beings, not to the physical stars, that men
course that Spiritual Beings belonging to Saturn, Jupiter and the
their earthly life. Now what the Jews had adopted from ancient
Jewish religion in its earliest, original form taught that Jahve, or
computed as ten lunar months. It is only comparatively recently that
period of pregnancy, are in themselves an indication that the
Moon. What does this mean? In its earliest condition after
fertilisation, the ovum really contains earthly substance that has
been broken down, pulverised, and nothing whatever would arise from
said that the forces of the Moon lead the human being into earthly
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recent Parisian newspaper stated that it is possible to be taught to read
for. The article says that certain people ... the man really means
some part of their skin. But let me say at once that such a thing is
means learn everything that they could learn; they do not
things that one does not generally learn can be learnt and
delicate and sensitive that the result is quite astonishing. But it
really need not be so; what has happened is that the power of touch
does not quite cover the case you mentioned, for the man claims that he
before believing that if a page of a book were placed, say, over your
imagine that such a thing might be possible; but what did
astonish me was the stupid comment of the journalists, who said that
twenty-eight days the Moon is again full; the Easter Festival in that
connected with what I have been telling you. In earlier times men
knew that the Moon and the Sun have an influence upon everything that
life of the plant is compressed into this tiny seed. What comes out
that when we take a plant with spreading leaves and root, we can say,
the deeds of Sun and Moon. I told you that the fashioning and shaping
themselves: When is there present in spring the influence that does
called. What was this Adonis Festival? It was instituted by the
spirit-and-soul in man. It was known, furthermore, that man's life of
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What was the cause of the darkening of the sun for three hours at the time of
That, of course, is a most significant question and one which, as you may
imagine, has occupied me very deeply. I can well believe that the
questioner too considers it important, because it indicates that such
things are really no longer credible to the modern mind. That is why
— That, however, is wrong. Careful study of the knowledge
yielded by Spiritual Science leads to the discovery that at the time
the sun was obscured to such an extent that when the death took
you will everywhere find evidence that importance was attached to the
He healed the sick. Emphasis is laid upon the fact that He adopted a
easier to effect cures than it is to-day and this is a fact that is
kind that are universal to-day were absolutely unknown in those olden
times. The human being was deeply and inwardly moved by what he
no effect whatever upon his body because his soul is detached from
the body. It is believed that the men of old were instinctively
in the right way. That is why, when the Gospels are referring to
shining in its full strength. If that had been the case, the words
was only when men came to Him in the evening twilight that the words
among the people alone, but also what was happening in the heavens
fact that they never get away from their abstract thinking. It is
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Title: Cosmic Workings: Lecture I
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are aware that only a part of the
water-sphere, an ocean. And of the rivers it may be said that they
know that the Danube rises in the Black Forest. Or take the Rhine
great significance that rivers and oceans really have for the whole
fluidity running through its veins. We also know that this flowing
able to live. The fact that the arrangement of rivers and seas has
at all. It is not usually realised that water actually forms the blood
and people say to themselves that blood is in fact a peculiar
it is true that the entire water-circulation is of immense
character — namely, it takes its start from something that is
quite different from that into which it enters when it finds its
outlet in the ocean. If you follow up the rivers you find that they
contains salt and all that the sea brings to maturity is founded on
this salt-content. That is of extraordinary importance: water begins
subject is generally dismissed by the statement that such a river as
That in fact is just what is seen externally. But what is not
considered is that whereas the river, the Rhine, for example, flows
mouth of the river to its source. And what happens there
(above the earth) is that the river is fresh water, contains no salt; what
mind that wherever there are river-beds, somewhat deeper in the
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I will first deal with the question about rock, as that can very well be
know that when a building is put up on the earth, great attention has
that one builds a tower, a tower, let us say, like the one on Cologne
Cathedral, or that one builds something like the Eiffel Tower. It is
clear, of course, that it must be built in such a way that it does
to a height about ten times the base — that is, one to ten, you
one must take care that the towers are in themselves somewhat elastic. The
top always rocks to and fro slightly. Attention must be paid to what is
considerably at the summit. But care must be taken that it does not
blade of wheat, you find at once that these laws are not observed at
cannot be understood at all by the laws that a mechanist must obey.
would find that it simply could not be done! But at the top of
it moves to and fro in the wind. That, you see, contradicts all the
wood, that is to say, one gets a woody substance which you all know as
The blade, however, does not grow by supporting itself on what is below.
and what is beneath will always be the support of what is above. With
that works upon the egg and gives it life. In all that lives, you
(A sketch is made.) If that is
that it is formed of thin plates, so thin that they sometimes look
that is everywhere in the fields. At one time they were all
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Title: Cosmic Workings: Lecture III
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know, it was not until the modern age that the potato was introduced
as a foodstuff: I have told you that in earlier times people in
remember that I once spoke to you of four substances upon which
that man may be able to live at all, his food must contain protein,
with our food not only to make it tasty but really in order that we
may be able to think. The salts that are contained in food must
ill that all the salt in his food is deposited in the stomach or
stupid, dull-witted. That is the point to which attention must be
of course be quite clear that the spirit is a reality, but if spirit
out of spirit. That, of course, is sheer nonsense! Substance is
to say, things are not as simple as all that. Man cannot derive
The result of what the human organism does with the salt is that it
brain — it is by no means as simple as that. But if a
man's condition is such that the effects of salt cannot work in
example. It is due to the carbohydrates that we bear the outward
stamp of man. If a person's constitution is such that the
therefore, that it is important for us to get hold of the right kind
normally but has suddenly developed hoarseness, you may surmise that
the consequence is that something goes wrong with his breathing and
form and leave it at that. They do not fill out the form — that
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Title: Cosmic Workings: Lecture IV
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I believe that we are expecting Dr. Steiner to make some further remarks
Well, I will just try to connect my remarks with what I said last time
heard that everything which takes place with regularity in the universe,
the seasons, is all connected with what is necessary in human life.
that it is connected with what can be calculated through Astronomy.
On the other hand, all that which happens less regularly —
connected with what is free will in man, with what gives rise
Iron exists in such abundance on the earth that
It is only quite recently that people have begun to manufacture all
have been due to iron. We must assume that iron is everywhere present
us consider the iron in our own bodies. It is very remarkable that at
only in the course of his life that man begins to take in iron with
his food. What does this mean!
measure that it attains freedom of will, its instincts call for iron.
who is hoarse or has a very weak voice and you want to know what is
outwardly. We can therefore easily understand that the iron which is
everything that happens influences everything else and we must be
clear that iron alone does not form us or the universe —
you recently that soda is especially important for everything
in us that has to do with thinking. For soda is sodium carbonate
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Title: Cosmic Workings: Lecture V
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general way it is quite correct that the plants give off oxygen which
men then breathe in and that man himself breathes out carbonic acid gas.
Thus man breathes out what the plant needs, and the plant what man needs.
that which otherwise it gives to man. Naturally, man is not deprived
altogether of oxygen, but he gets too little and that is harmful.
that others need. So it is with plants, if one observes carefully. If
occurred so far — one can say now that Infantile Paralysis,
Stuttgart simply shown that when one has any substance, dissolves it,
million, one in a billion — that is, with twelve zeros. You can
imagine that there is now no more than a trace of the original
substance left, and that it is a question, not of how much of the
in its surroundings. The soil environment works into it. That is
are clear that very minute quantities of substance have an effect, we
shall have no hesitation in recognising that in such times as the present,
the effect is very diluted, but still it is different from what
because they say: What importance can the human corpse have for the
dependent on the growth of plants and therefore we must know what really
Paralysis, and it has turned out that one must really concern oneself
urgent importance to-day, and it is well that you should understand
plants and this makes hard wood. The essential thing is that the sap
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Title: Cosmic Workings: Lecture VI
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that man must be regarded as a being who consists not only of the
physical body that is visible to the eye, but also of higher members
as the result of super-sensible perception, that these higher members
are a reality in man, a good way of convincing oneself that
that in certain circumstances insect poison can have an extremely
beneficial effect, that it actually counteracts certain illnesses.
the proper dosage, that is to say, they must be prepared as
medicaments in such a way that they have the right
also the fatness that denotes a healthy state of the body. And so
increase them — with the strange result that after some time
that the arsenic will give the skin a good colour; if they were once
that a man wastes away and his skin (not his hair) gets grey. Yet at
What
not correct to state that a man can live without alcohol. He can, of
quantity that is necessary to keep him alive. He produces in himself
all the substances that are essential to his life. What he takes or
ears. The iron that a man actually consumes is merely a support, a
that produces arsenic. Man and animal,
therefore, produce arsenic inwardly. Now what is the purpose of the
arises is that my astral body is producing arsenic all the time.
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Title: Die Soziale Frage als Bewußtseinsfrage: Lecture I
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angenommen hat, das kann aus den Vorträgen
ist von dem anderen. Wer aufmerksam verfolgt hat, was von Paris
ausgeht, wer aufmerksam verfolgt hat, was in Bern versucht
Jahren ad absurdum geführt hat. Von Bern
zugrunde gelegen hat in Zürich, Bern und Basel. Mit
daß man den Willen hat, wenn man die Wegrichtung einmal
angetreten hat, bei dieser Wegrichtung auch zu verbleiben, sich
was gewissermaßen gezeigt hat, daß sich nach einer
Frage auf zuwerfen: Wo hat man gesehen, daß
es waren Professoren zum großen Teil. Aber er hat Eindruck
gemacht, er hat den Weg zu den Gedanken in einer recht
deutschen Volkes mehr beigetragen hat als manches andere, denn
er hat Wellen geschlagen.
Volk, welches ja das Schicksal erlebt hat, seine vermeintliche
Erlebnis hat die Meinung eines halben Jahrhunderts, hat
hat, diesem Reich eine aus dem Wesensinhalt der deutschen
Kriegskatastrophe hat dieses in trauriger Weise geoffenbart.
Bis zum Ausbruche derselben hatte die außerdeutsche Welt
durch diese Verwalter hat notwendig die Meinung in der
Jahren nicht hat zeigen wollen. An die Stelle des kleinen
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in der neueren Zeit es sich nicht hat angelegen sein lassen,
hat mit Bezug auf, sagen wir, den Bau einer Eisenbahn, die
werden soll, oder ob man zu entscheiden hat über die
können. Denn daß irgendeiner den Gedanken hat,
handeln, das hat gar keinen Wirklichkeitswert. Bedenken Sie
sozialen Organismus, der bestimmte Gesetze hat? —
der Freiheit zu tun hat, daß wir nicht den Mond
herunterfassen können. Aber etwas anderes hat zu tun
irgendeinem Territorium ein Stück Boden hat, diese
Kapital überhaupt konfundiert hat mit der
dasjenige, was man als einzelner an mobilem Besitz hat, hervor.
wirklichkeitsgemäß erfaßt hat. Und Sie,
der Mensch erlebt hat in dem Leben vor dem Heruntersteigen
übertreten hat, oder der einem Menschen ein Unrecht
zugefügt hat, zu urteilen hat —, das
Mensch angeeignet hat in dem Zusammenleben in der geistigen
Geistesleben. Das hat nichts zu tun mit dem individuellen
Karma, sondern das hat zu tun mit dem, was sich vorbereitete in
geistige Gebiet, zu suchen hat in dem Leben schon, das der
Mensch durchgemacht hat, bevor er sich anschickte, durch die
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Title: Die Soziale Frage als Bewußtseinsfrage: Lecture III
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Menschheit für den fünften nachatlantischen
nachatlantischen Zeiträume bei den Menschen, die mit einem
Einseitigkeit im modernen Leben herausgebildet hat, den
Handlungen zu geschehen hat, werden, wie das heute der Fall
Hegels in sich aufgenommen hatte, nachdem er den
französischen sozialen Positivismus kennengelernt hatte,
betrachtet hatte — von da aus seine außerordentlich
einschneidenden sozialistischen Theorien gebildet hat, die dann
Katastrophe der letzten Jahre sich so ausgewachsen hat,
eingeschlagen hat, und von denen ihre Träger
gegriffen hat, alles gewissermaßen dem Staate aufbuckeln
einer Dreigliedrigkeit zu tun hat. Es ist schon interessant,
vollzogen hat, zu verfolgen; einmal ganz abzusehen von dem, was
Marx inhaltlich gesagt hat, mehr auf seine
Marx selber aufgeschrieben hat, verfolgen, so können Sie
sich sagen: Karl Marx hat eigentlich über den sozialen
Zeitalter herbeigeführt haben, wie hat sich Lohnfrage,
überliefert hat, schon bei Ricardo und bei anderen.
Zeit heraufgebildet hat, haben die Menschen Meinungen gehabt,
sich unter dem Kapitalismus herausgebildet hat, treten
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Tiefen seiner Seele Impulse hat, die ganz, ganz anderem
Materialismus hat bei den führenden Klassen der
geltend gemacht, hat sich dann über die Wissenschaft
Vorstellungsart angenommen hat, hat sich der Materialismus dann
im wesentlichen eine Ideologie, das heißt, es hat keine in
hat die neuere Zeit ihre Bemühung darauf gerichtet,
gerade die neuere Menschheit nach dem Geist hin. Sie hat, man
der ersten nachatlantischen Kulturperiode, auf die besondere
können: in dieser ersten nachatlantischen
Seelenleben lebenden Imaginationen zu tun hatte.
Menschheitsentwickelung als erste das hatten, was
seelischer Impuls vorhanden war. Die Griechen hatten bereits
hatte, wenn er das Wort Idee aussprach, die Vorstellung,
fünften nachatlantischen Zeit zunächst
was mir die Außenwelt zeigt, denn diese Außenwelt hat
die letzten Konsequenzen desjenigen gezogen hat, was sich
innerhalb der bürgerlichen Kreise ausgebildet hat
hat man es innerhalb der Bürgerkreise mit dem
hat man es zum Beispiel auf einem Gebiete in
Bürgerkreisen so gehalten: Man hatte
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was der Proletarier von seinen Führern gelernt hat.
einschneidend in die Proletarierseelen gewirkt hat; wir
hat zu seinem Untergrunde eigentlich das Streben nach
aufgenommen hat. Wer Geschichte nicht theoretisch, sondern der
selbst gezogen hat in den schreckenerregenden Tatsachen heute,
Gottlieb Fichte hat seine sozialistische Anschauung auch
Verlaufe seines Denkens nachgedacht hat, wie aus den
Staatsgefüge verwirklicht hat, wenn man hinblickt
und gesinnte Köpfe streben, so hat man das
wie wir wissen, auch entwickelt hat, das nicht immer das
seiner reinsten Gestaltung ausgebildet hat. Gerade an einer
«Geschlossenen Handelsstaat» gegeben hat.
Proletariats hat diese Form auf Autorität hin
atavistischen Schauungen verloren hat; er erblickt in sich
noch nicht gefunden hat —, daß sie sich an die ganze
zu nichts anderem hat führen können als
die proletarische Bewegung miterlebt hat, weiß, wie
tief es eingeschlagen hat, als sie von gewissen
hat. Und er empfindet in den geheimen
Begriff der Ware unterbringen läßt. Man hat
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Studentenschaft vor kurzem gehalten hat, findet sich ein sehr
ihn dort gehalten hat:
Basel Ausdruck gegeben hat. Also die Wirklichkeit nötigt
und bis heute hineingefunden hat. Denn diese
Denkgewohnheiten hat man sich oftmals so recht als
Abstraktionen und hat versucht, diese Abstraktionen in
Zusammenleben der Menschen zum Ausdruck gebracht hat, was
wirklichen Kräfte hat, um lebensmöglich zu sein.
entfremdet hat, was gewissermaßen gewirtschaftet hat ohne
eigentlich hatten, bevor der August 1914 angebrochen ist.
Menschheit eben die moderne Zivilisation genannt hat. Und
hat, indem er das Denken der Gegenwart abgeteilt hat in
hat, zwei Bande zusammengebracht, die er ein
schließlich zu dem geführt hat, in dem wir halt drin
Leben. Aber der Staat hat keine Beziehung zu dem geistigen
schließlich hat ja noch jedes Dörfchen seine
aber er hat doch den Glauben: auf der einen Seite ist die
Im Grunde genommen hat kein Mensch in der Welt Veranlassung
mehr und mehr herausgebildet hat das Abgeschlossensein in
andere die Möglichkeit hat, ein soziales Leben innerhalb
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Grundphänomen vor Jahren ausgesprochen hat. Man
hat, auch auf den sozialen Organismus angewendet. Das
ein Bedrücker, er ist etwas Furchtbares, er hat sich
Forderungen hat, so würde der Arbeiter sagen:
Organismus ist ein Lebewesen, das keinen Hunger hat. Aber um
hat. — Was da vorliegt, ist, daß Sie das Konkrete,
man, wenn man gegessen hat, doch wieder hungrig wird —,
würde er selbst Wirtschafter. Er hat es nur
hat, der Sozietät verdankt. Geradeso wenig wie man
nur im Zusammenhang mit den Menschen lernen kann, so hat man
zurückfallen und man hat es nur eine Zeitlang zu
hervorgebracht hat, selber am besten, man kann es daher
Millionen Menschen getötet hat, achtzehn Millionen
Menschen zu Krüppeln gemacht hat und sich anschickt,
Verwandter gestellt wird. Er hat seine besonderen
wenn er zu richten hat, wird er nicht nach diesem
das zu seinem Organe nur den menschlichen Kopf hat, das am
Januar 1917 hat Wilson diesen Gedanken vom
Völkerbund geäußert. Er hat ihn
Er hat das Streben nach diesem Völkerbund als etwas
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Völkerbund gestellt hat, die betreffende Stelle aus
gebracht hat. Und ehe man nicht einsehen wird, daß an die
alltäglichen Leben zu ordnen hat. Denn es greifen
Zeit eine gewisse Gestalt angenommen hat, welche als solche die
Bolschewist! Gewiß, Johann Gottlieb Fichte hatte noch so
Sachen eigentlich gemeint hat.
gedacht, gesonnen hat, wie er versucht hat, den Blick
sagen hatte, öfter sogar ganz
entwickelt hat. So sucht Hegel die Ideen in der reinen
Luft — die es aber damals auch noch nicht gegeben hat
eigentlich gewollt hat. Ich habe einmal einem befreundeten
aller Begriffe gegeben hat, aller Ideen, die in der Natur
im Staate hat sie sich wiederum verobjektiviert, da lebt sie in
hervorgebracht hat, zurück und fühlt sich
zu ihrem Anundfürsichsein gebracht hat, sie schaut
aufgetreten ist, der die Kühnheit hatte, einmal zu
anderen Kopf, der ganz und gar nur einen Sinn hat
die Form des Denkens an, die er bei Hegel gefunden hatte.
Geist in der inneren Ideenbewegung gesucht hat, auf die
Gegenteil der Wirtschaft durch den Einzelnen. Das hat in
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den Bau des Goetheanums stehen hatten, der uns mittlerweile
hat. Wenn man das Kongenialische dieses Buches mit der
ist ja allerdings dasjenige, was ich selbst zu sagen hatte
welche gefunden hat, wie dennoch einiges Fruchtbare
geübt wird, auch eine gewisse Befriedigung hatten und die
sprechen hat, das gegenwärtig sich noch als ein so Fremdes
zuerst den Gedanken an diese Schule hatte, zu gleicher Zeit
hat der Inhalt eines solchen Sommerkursus einen Sinn.
Menschheitsgeschichte angenommen hat.
eingeflossen war. Und es hatte der Mensch eine Kunst, die
hat.
die Abstraktion gegeben hat, eine Wissenschaft, eine
Objektivität nichts zu tun hat, was durch die
Begonnen hat es damit, daß immer mehr und mehr der Ruf
Damit hat es begonnen, ist auch viel weitergegangen. Im
der Maschine ab, und man kann ganz passiv sein. Und so hat man
daß man diese objektive Welt noch nicht hat in der
Bildhaftigkeit dieser objektiven Welt hat.
über die Bildhaftigkeit hinauskommen müsse. Man hat
sich alle Mühe gegeben hat — und Sie können
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hat, daß das Kind eigentlich ein anderes Wesen geworden
im Laufe der Zeiten die Seelen der Menschen verändert hat,
die Tatsachen. Aber noch nicht hat sich die Menschheit
in den einzelnen Zeitaltern derjenige Mensch hat bringen
wollen, der zur höchsten Stufe des Menschentums hat
am nützlichsten seinen Mitmenschen hat werden können.
hat; für denjenigen also, der nicht nur in sich selbst die
höchste Stufe der Menschheit zur Ausbildung hat bringen
hat. Derjenige, der imstande war, die göttliche
erinnern, daß der Grieche nicht daran gedacht hat,
gedacht hat, den menschlichen Körper in einer solchen
wenn man die Wurzel in der richtigen Weise behandelt hat,
möchte ich sagen, zuerst gemacht hat, sondern den
hat.
eingenommen hat.
höchste Verkörperung des Menschen gesehen hat.
aber hat gewirkt auf die Ansichten in der Erziehung. Die
Erziehungswesen hineingebracht hat.
MenschheitsideaL Man hatte ja nur noch Augen und Ohren für
hat drüben in Asien, im Orient, das fand dann, und wie ich
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Erziehungsmethode zu haben, welche der Grieche hatte.
heutige rationalistische, intellektualistische Zeit hat ja alle
dem Menschen ein Wesen, das ein Leben gehabt hat vor dem
sich vollzogen hat. Setzen wir also das göttliche Walten,
mitbekommen hat aus dem vorirdischen Leben und rein elementar
gepflegt hat bis zu seinem Zahnwechsel, die sollten dem Kinde
Wachstumskräften bis zum siebenten Jahre entwickelt hat,
Teil dessen, was der Mensch auf Erden zu verrichten hat, von
so hat eigentlich gerade für denjenigen, der mit inniger
was Griechenland geleistet hat in der Entwicklungsgeschichte
dann im Verlaufe des Mittelalters abgespielt hat, in der
spirituelles Wissen gehabt hat.
eingerichtet hat.
sich dadurch erringen, daß er verloren hat das sich von
sich geschlossen hat.
Griechen hatten, wodurch in wunderbarer Weise ihre
entwickelt hatte, stand sie gegenüber dem, was wie durch
hatte man außen die historische Tradition, innerlich
sich emanzipiert hatte: das Gedächtnis. Und wer da
Notwendigkeit heraufgekommen ist, forterhalten hat.
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ein Verständnis hatten für Seele und Geist.
Menschheit zu tun hatten, könnten heute wieder erneuert
ergriffen hat? — Schrecken Sie nicht davor zurück,
soll, wie der Grieche den Körper erzogen hat? —
Spencer erkannt hat.
Menschen mitgeteilt hat, woran nichts erlebt wird. Wir
Menschheit hat, wenn wir darauf hinschauen, wie die Menschheit
gegenwärtigen Zivilisationsentwickelung hat, den
der Gegenwart hat, ein gedachter Geist, ein Geist, der
mit dem Vollinhaltlichen, das der Grieche angeschaut hat, wenn
er vom Menschen, von seinem Anthropos gesprochen hat, ist ja
Grieche, wenn er vom Menschen sprach, hatte immer das Bild des
irgendwo, dieser Mensch war irgendwann, dieser Mensch hatte
ergreifen. Wo ist es? Welche Gestalt hat es? Es ist ja alles
in der Tat, wenn man ein Vollmenschliches in sich hat, wenn man
als ein stolzestes Erbgut hat, zurückzuführen in das
Wenn aber etwas lebt, so hat das Leben eine Folge. Der Mensch,
der eine bestimmte Gestalt, eine bestimmte Begrenzung hat, der
Unser Denken, das hat zum Ideal, möglichst, wie man es
Grieche, der ging vom körperlichen Menschen aus; den hatte
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hat, energisch zu werden, wenn er stark mit dem hinteren Teil
die vorher nicht gewirkt hat. Der Mensch wird ein geschlossenes
paralysiert hat durch die von unten nach oben strömenden
Kopfe nach unten strömend hat.
Zirkulation lebt, ihren Ursprung hat, da lebt auch dasjenige,
Denken hat, und vom Willen, sofern das Tier einen Willen hat,
er hier auf Erden Gelegenheit hat, erst sein Denken mit seinem
genommen verschlafen hat. Verschlafen hat sie die
hat sich bis in unsere Gegenwart herein erhalten.
den alten Zeiten. Was der Grieche gedacht hat, was der
Grieche empfunden hat, das bildet das Kleid für das
was der Schreiber des Johannes-Evangeliums empfunden hat, als
wenn wir das Wort «Wort» aussprechen, das hatte
menschlichen Bewegungsorganismus. Das hat die Menschheit
wären und nun schöpferisch sein sollten! Es hat
Abschattung desjenigen, was man im Worte empfand; im
Tanze wirkte die Abschattung des Wortes im Musikalischen. Da
hatte.
Dasjenige, was die Menschheit verloren hat, drückt sich am
hatten. Ihnen ging noch bei dem Worte der ganze Mensch in
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Unterrichtende und Erziehende die Möglichkeit hat,
in dieser Art lebendige Ideen hat über den Menschen, bei
Paul, Friedrich Richter, hat ein wunderbares Wort
späteren Leben hat der Mensch einen Geschmack von den
Naturvorgänge eine Herde gesehen hat, die eben auf einer
Wiese, auf dem Felde ihre Nahrung abgegrast hat und dann
Verstände, in einem Schattenbilde des Verstandes, das
wenn nichts anderes im Leben dagegen gewirkt hat, dieses Kind,
wenn es das fünfzigste, das sechzigste Jahr erreicht hat,
Jahre zeigen, wo man nötig hat, diesen Stoffwechsel zu
nachdem es sprechen gelernt hat, auch denken lernt.
man Kinder, die man hat, im späteren Leben beobachtet, wie
nötig hat, wenn es sich um irgend etwas Gesundheitliches
Unser humanes Zeitalter hat, mit Recht selbstverständlich,
Vortrage eintrete —, unsere Zeit hat gerade deshalb
«richtige» Haare hat, die auch richtig angemalt ist,
die sogar bewegliche Augen hat — wenn man sie
hin, schon innerlich erfahren hat beim Aufrichten, beim
hat man in dieser Puppe all dasjenige, was das Kind verstehen
aufrecht ist, daß er ein Unten und ein Oben hat,
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Wenn nun das Kind das siebente Jahr überschritten hat und
Lehrende, der Unterrichtende, hat auf diese plastischen
seelisch beim Kinde vor sich hat, hat man das rhythmische
Art Musikalisches hat, in seinem ganzen Leben ein Musikalisches
hat.
künstlerisch das Kind ergriffen hat, aus dem
läßt, dann hat dieses Künstlerische das richtige
hat, und damit die geistige Erziehung zugleich die beste
Menschheit auszuführen hat, zu einem innerlichen
Körperliche, das ist eben bloß irdisch, das hat
Leben, der Geist allein hat seinen Wert.
körperschöpferischen Geist. Gott hat auch nicht die
Welt erschaffen dadurch, daß er gesagt hat: die Materie
beim Kinde tun können, hat eine gewisse Beziehung zum
Erwachsenen gewöhnt haben, und da man das Ideal hat,
Richtige hält. Das heißt, man hat eine gewisse
dasjenige, was die Schule heranzubringen hat, künstlerisch
seiner künstlerischen Betätigung Hunger hat,
hat. Kann man daher sorgen für ein richtiges
im Künstlerischen. Je mehr der Lehrer Freude hat an
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der Menschheit, die etwa ihren Abschluß gefunden hat im 8.
Jede dieser Epochen hat über dasjenige hinaus, was dem
nach etwas anderem gestrebt. Jede dieser Epochen hat ein
Weltenrätsel empfunden. Und in jeder Epoche hatte dieses
durchgemacht hat. Nur einer heutigen abstrakten Zeit
und abgeschattet im Traumleben haben, ein innerliches
durch unmittelbare innere Anschauung. Und er hatte dadurch,
Menschheit hat. Die heutige Menschheit fühlt sich
altere Mensch hatte ein so lebendiges innerliches Erleben von
Aber immer hat der Mensch nötig, daß er durch eine
Menschheit, die etwas hatten wie ein instinktives Hellsehen,
hat in drei aufklärende, eindringliche Worte, das war es,
hingestellt hat: Aus dem Gotte sind wir geboren.
gewirkt hat, wie Initiationsweisheit religiöses
Bewußtsein in dem Menschen erzeugt hat.
unmittelbares Erlebnis vor Augen. Hatten noch die alten
Weise fühlen. Hatte er früher wenig Empfindung von
jener Zeit, in welcher der Mensch hinaufgeschaut hat zu dem
genannt hat, den eine frühere griechische Zeit den Logos
überwunden hat. Jetzt wurde der Christus wieder Extrakt
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Wasser. Fließendes Wasser hat das Kind nun gelernt ins
man hat das Kind auf diese Weise dazu gebracht, daß es
Verbindung hat bringen können, so daß das ganze
Geht man dann über zum Lesen, so hat man ja im Grunde
es durch den ganzen Körper erarbeiten gelernt hat. So
die man selbst ausgeführt hat. Das ist von einer
Lesen ist durchaus in Begriffen lebend; daher hat man es als
neuneinhalbte Lebensjahr überschritten hat, es nun in
so daß es in Bildern gelebt hat, indem es auf die
haben. Es hat gar keine Bedeutung für das Menschenleben
konventionelle, ob man vorgelegt bekommen hat diese
Haar für sich hat keine Bedeutung — es hat nur eine
Haut des Tieres wächst. Es hat nur einen lebendigen Sinn
in seinem Zusammenhange. So aber hat auch die Pflanze nur einen
als Lehrer innere Lebendigkeit genug hat, der kann dieses
Wurzel nach oben den Sproß getrieben hat, der Sproß
auf diese Weise aus dem, was eigentlich hat Pflanze werden
keine Mühe, die Blüte hervorzubringen. Dann hat man
hervorbringt: man hat einen Pilz.
es, wenn man es in der Weise künstlerisch vorbereitet hat,
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das eine oder das andere hat, das er tut, dann kann eigentlich
wiederum, welche Folge für den Körper etwas hat, wenn
Mensch hat ja zunächst seinen physischen Leib. Man nimmt
wahr. Der Mensch hat aber außer diesem physischen Leib
Bildekräfteleib. Und dann hat der Mensch in sich
seelischgeistige Organisation wirken, und das hat die
ein ganz bestimmtes Lebensalter hineinfallen, hat man bei
Insbesondere aber hat man darauf zu sehen, daß — ja,
Bildekräfteleib hat durch seine eigene innere
hat: bewegliches, erfindungsreiches Denken, das ist das,
was der Lehrer braucht. — Hat der Lehrer durch ein
Erwachsener nachgedacht hat über irgendein Problem:
gearbeitet hat.
Schreibtisch und siehe, er hat in der Nacht, ohne daß er
hat der Ätherleib in der Nacht fortgearbeitet; der Mensch
hat.
Ganzen zu den Teilen, zu den Gliedern, und jetzt hat man aus
Man hat die Einheit «entzwei» geteilt, dadurch ist
Bedeutung hat, während das Gliedern der Einheit eine
solche innere Bedeutung hat, daß es wiederum fortschwingt
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ohne daß es mit dem Menschen etwas zu tun hat. Daher
Verhältnis zum Menschen hat, das ist mineralisch. Mit dem
Welt dadurch ordentlich eingelebt hat, daß es
Wollen aufgenommen hat.
hat, aber er nimmt nicht teil an diesem menschlichen
geschaffen hat, in unserer Umgebung sein lassen, ohne ein
Umfange geschaffen hat. Dadurch stellen wir den Menschen
Europa und Amerika bekommen, als es hat. In einer ungeheuren
was längst der Vergangenheit angehört hat,
entwickelt hat. Wir wollen im Waldorfschul-Prinzip gerade das
ganz und — gar aus dem Gefühlselemente hervor, hat
im Menschen in Anspruch genommen wird. Jede Sprache hat
hat eben in rein pädagogisch-didaktischer Beziehung die
man auf der einen Seite gesehen hat, wie irgend etwas nicht
aufgebaut hat, und daß dieses den Unterricht
sich aus der Anthroposophie heraus entwickelt hat, darauf
Proletarierstande herausgebildet hat — sie war die
Ursprung in einem Göttlichen hat, das läßt sich
Zeit, wo er dies oder jenes zu tun hat, ihm das geeignete
erziehen will, der hat nötig, darauf zu sehen, daß
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Unterricht und in der Erziehung hat man nach zwei Seiten
der Schule zu behandeln hat; die andere Seite aber ist die,
Aber beim Kinde hat man nicht etwa bloß darauf zu sehen,
entlädt, sondern man hat auch die kleinen intimen
eine Weile sich das angehört und angesehen hatte, sagte
hat man das Gedächtnis zu wenig in Anspruch genommen. Da
daß es die Sache behalten hat. Wir müssen also ein
Zuckergenuß hat, entwickelt sich die
Hände hat, Klavierspielen beibringen. Es handelt sich
Lebertätigkeit hat, dadurch daß man seelisch nun
durch Versüßen der Speisen, so hat das Kind die
hinschaut. In gewissen Zeiten hat sich ja in der Erziehung
Alter angemessen ist. In der Waldorfschule hat eben jede Klasse
irgendeinem Teil der Schule zu tun hat.
Lebensabschnitte, daß das Kind einen Ausgleich hat
Malerischen das Schreiben herauszuholen hat. Also man beginnt
Musikunterricht eine künstlerische Ausbildung hat, sondern
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menschlichen Wesenheit heraus den Unterricht zu gestalten. Hat
sich ihre Stellung schon erstrebt hat oder zu erstreben
hat!
hat.
wissen. Die zeitgenössische Pädagogik hat ja
fünfzehnte, sechzehnte Jahr erreicht hat, dann
Gebot mit ins spätere Alter, und man hat es dann
hat, daß ihm ein Bein oder ein Arm fehlt; da betrachtet er
ist nicht der Fall. Man hat dann eigentlich nichts Besonderes
gesehen. Dasjenige, was man da gesehen hat, ist vergleichbar
herausgeschnitten hat, und nach welchem man nun das ganze Bild
erworben hat, was die Eurythmie als Kunst selber einmal sein
hier schon wiederholt auseinandergesetzt worden und hat ja den
Nun, wenn man solche Figuren formt, so hat man vielleicht schon
sonst hört. Man hat daher nur auf dasjenige zu sehen, was
übrigen, was der Mensch von Natur hat, einzig und allein
angedeutet habe; das hat dann eine bestimmte
hat, die linke Seite gespannt hat, das ist dasjenige, was
Also gerade bei diesem Eurythmischen hat man das im
Erfahrungen gemacht hat, inwiefern der andere
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Welt hat von der anthroposophischen Bewegung eigentlich im
auch bei der Einrichtung der Waldorfschule hat uns eigentlich
Doch hat man ja in der letzten Zeit nicht gerade viel von der
hat noch nicht Seele und Geist. Was in der Welt leben will,
anderen praktischen Betätigungen sich gebildet hat,
hier hat verstehen wollen, wie in dieser Art ein
Menschheit — dafür, daß man das hat verstehen
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Erneuerung» gehalten hat.
Mysterien und das man bezeichnet hat mit dem opfernden
religiösen Erneuerung, das in Ihren Herzen geflammt hat,
vollzogen hat, an der Stätte, aus der wir zuerst die
heiligen Eifer, der Sie zuerst ergriffen hat, fortfahren
christlichen Nachwelt hat geben wollen mit der Apokalypse. Es
einmal die Apokalypse des Johannes für den Christen hat.
Christus. Immer war, indem man gestrebt hat nach einer
schön war, unter die Menschen zu bringen hatten, dann
der Menschenweihehandlung immer den Sinn gegeben hat: die
hatten, auszudehnen über alle übrigen Zeiten des
Jahres, in denen sie zu zelebrieren hatten. So bewahrten sie
-kräften in den heiligen Zeiten gemacht hatten. Sie
Zeiten waren, sich vollzogen hatten.
Menschenweihehandlung zu strahlen hat.
genannt hat: die Fermente. Das, was ein be-stimmtes Alter
erreicht hat und in bezug auf sein substantielles Dasein
hat, das ist ein Ferment. Wir brauchen uns, wenn wir einen
hindurch seine eigene innere Substanz bewahrt hat, aufbewahrt
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Erneuerung» gehalten hat.
die aus dem Kosmos heraus eine Verwandlung erfahren hatten, um
hatten, die man auch wohl die «Väter» nannte.
vollzogen hat, war das jedesmal auch in seinem Bewußtsein.
Felsen- oder Erdtempel begeben hatten, um unmittelbar
substantiellen Zusammensetzung nichts hat von dem, was man
aufwärtsfließende Strömung hatte der Vater in
durch das Zelebrieren auf dem Altar erhalten hatte, der von
war mit der Erde, das, was er auf dem Altar zubereitet hatte,
hatte, eine Mahlzeit war, die sein kosmischer Mensch vollzog.
lebendigen Inhalt verloren hatte -, daß da in den Tempeln,
die bereits über die Erde herauf sich erhoben hatten,
irgendeiner Weise zu tun hat mit dem flüssigen Element,
Kultuswort, das Gebetswort. - Jedes Gebet hat im Grunde
Göttern. Das hat dann die Zeiten innerlichen Erlebens
überstrahlt hat, übernommen habt.
Erde strömenden Weltenwort, das alles geschaffen hat, das
Apokalyptische wahrgenommen. Vielleicht hat jemand von Euch -
am Tage als Symphonie gehört hatte. So war es bei den
in ihm anwesend wurde die Gottheit. Sie hatten das Kultwort
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Erneuerung» gehalten hat.
Menschheit hat ja die Laute der Sprache, die eigentlich ein so
merkwürdigen Weise behandelt. Die Menschheit hat die Laute
behandelt. Sie hat die Laute der Sprache numeriert, wie wir die
Zeit, in der man die Laute numeriert hat, dann finden wir in
hatte. Wir haben da schon im Menschen selber eine
Mensch während der alten Saturnentwickelung erhalten hat,
Wärmemolluske gefühlt hatte, etwas wie eine
hat etwas Abstraktes, unsere Sprache zaubert nicht das
Saturnmenschen kannte, der noch nicht die Wärmehaut hatte,
hat, die in ihrer Konfiguration die Welt nachahmte. Das war das
erste, was der Mensch von der Welt angenommen hat.
erste, was der Mensch von der Welt bekommen hat; die Haut -
Makrokosmos als sprechendes Weltall gefühlt hat. Wir haben
für die Menschen, die Laute der Sprache, abgeschattet zur
Jesu Christi, die Gott gegeben hat!
hereingestellt hat in die Welt, dasjenige, was sie in die
Sichtbarkeit gestellt hat, auch in Worten zum Ausdruck
Interpretation der Erscheinung Jesu Christi und Gott hat sie
Gott hat sie ins Wort gebracht und gesandt durch seinen Engel
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Erneuerung» gehalten hat.
Christi, das der Vatergott gegeben hat, und bemerken durfte
handeln, wie wenn er das, was er zu schreiben hat, unter
hat eigentlich das Verständnis für diese Dinge, das
Zeit seines Lebens ungeheuer stark bemüht hatte, zum
Bibel noch nicht wörtlich nehmen kann, hat ja die Stellen,
und nach ergeben hat. Dem evangelischen Bewußtsein
ist das konkret vorzustellen? Auf wen hat man deuten
wen hat man deuten müssen? So wenig das dem heutigen
«Engel» sagte. Man hatte die Vorstellung: Christliche
nun spricht er davon, was er diesen Gemeinden zu sagen hat, und
Mysterien von Ephesus geboren hat, in denen auf die Weise, wie
diesem Christentum ganz besonders nahegestanden hat.
Christentum aufgenommen hat, die mit der ersten Liebe dem
hatten und durch diese verschiedenen Kulte sich in
dieser Gemeinden hat sich das Christentum auf besondere Art aus
Sardes. Die Gemeinde von Ephesus hatte einen Kultus, der tief
schreibt von Sardes: «das da hat die sieben Geister Gottes
Sardes vor, worauf sie besonders zu achten hat? Der Gemeinde
gesprochen hat. So ist zum Beispiel Alexander der Große
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Erneuerung» gehalten hat.
sich zu entfalten hat, muß dasjenige, was die Führung
Grundstruktur der ersten nachatlantischen Zeit war, mehr als
und Lebensanschauung der ersten nachatlantischen Zeit sehen
urpersische Kultur gelebt hat, die dann übergegangen ist
in der die dritte nachatlantische Kultur gelebt hat. Wir
dieser Kultur gelebt hat.
verwiesen auf jene Kultur, die wir die vierte nachatlantische
fünften nachatlantischen Periode. Wenn man hinschaut auf
Entwickelung der nachatlantischen Zeit und zugleich die innere
nachatlantischen
Geheimnis der vierten nachatlantischen Epoche, ein fahles Pferd
unsere Zeit. In der vierten nachatlantischen Epoche tritt in
nachatlantische Epoche zurück. Die menschliche
seines Hineinwachsens in den Erdenaufenthalt hatte. Der Mensch
hatte in seinem gewöhnlichen Bewußtsein noch eine
zweiten und dritten nachatlantischen Epoche so bedeutsam
hinein. Das war es, was in der vierten nachatlantischen Epoche
wirklich erst in der vierten nachatlantischen Epoche ein, so
ist so, wie sich das vierte nachatlantische Bewußtsein im
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Erneuerung» gehalten hat.
Apokalypse hat diese Siebenzahl in der mannigfaltigsten Weise
verloren hat. Sie müssen nur sich einmal vor die Seele
vorstellt. Ihre Verleiblichung hat man in so etwas gesucht wie
gesprochen hat, so hat man eben von demjenigen gesprochen, was
Zahlenreihe. Man hat durchaus nicht in dieser Weise wie heute
genommen, sondern man hat erlebt, was da liegt in der Drei, in
der Vier, man hat erlebt das geschlossene Wesen der Drei, das
absolute Gültigkeit hatte. Seit dem Beginn unseres
von Golgatha stattgefunden hat auf der Erde, so treffen wir
Erzengel Anael hat, dann in das Zeitalter des Zachariel, dann
Fünf/Sieben, im fünften nachatlantischen
dem Zeitpunkt, in dem das fünfte nachatlantische Zeitalter
nachatlantischen Zyklus während des fünften
nachatlantischen Zeitraum mit aus den Marskräften
nachatlantischen Zeitraum trennt, der als der fünfte
nachatlantischen Periode, eine sechste und eine siebente werden
steht und in dem fünften nachatlantischen Kulturzeitraum,
großen Erdenzeitalter, in der nachatlantischen Periode.
einem gewissen starken Sinne losgelöst hat von der
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Erneuerung» gehalten hat.
Gemütsseele des Menschen, wie sie sich ausgebildet hat
Verstandes- oder Gemütsseele hat ja eine große Rolle
selber zu denken hatte. Und da standen sich die beiden
göttliche Wesenheit; und er hat neben diesen großen
göttliche Natur? Hat man in Christus wirklich ein
gemein hat mit derjenigen des späteren römischen
Diese Anschauung hat dann weitergewirkt, sie hat nur ihre
ersten Konzils von Nicäa zerstört hat, daß die
auf römischem Gebiet lange vorbereitet hat, geht ja dann
es nicht deutlich aus, aber er hat es in seinem Gefühl,
eine tiefe Bedeutung hatte, und wir wollen uns jetzt einmal vor
mitgebracht hatte durch die Vererbung, durch die Abstammung.
stärkste Polarität zum Christentum, denn sie hat den
Zeitraum, der ebensolange dauert, wie der Zeitraum gedauert hat
Christentums von einer Lehre, die nur dazu hat führen
geführt hat, man könne die Evolution des Menschen
hat, gerade über die Transsubstantiation hatten. Denn in
Athanasianismus gesehen hat.
Wirken des Geistes in den Naturgesetzen hat? Nicht die
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Erneuerung» gehalten hat.
Christus-Evolution vorzubereiten hat für das menschliche
Intelligenz der Erde. Und jeder solche Planet hat nicht nur
die Absicht und das, was die Absicht im Auge hat.
Sonnendämon, er hat die Absicht, indem er nur das alte
Sonnendämon hat dieses Zeichen:
Griechisch-Lateinische, hatte man ja jene Art von Lesen, die in
Diese Buchstaben schreibt er in ihrem Zahlenwert, und er hat
man die entsprechenden Vokale zu sprechen hat, ergeben den
hat: Sorat. Sorat hieß in dieser Zeit der
hat ihm seine Schätze ja genommen - seine Absichten
den Tod gefunden hatte, in den Herzen derjenigen, die die
verleumdeten und man eine billige Anklage gegen sie hatte, die
des 19. Jahrhunderts wiederum die Erdenherrschaft hat, um in
er gearbeitet hat, bis seine vorige Herrschaft zu Ende war,
sich abgespielt hat. Das hat sich ja weiter fortgesetzt. Und im
herabgedämpftes Bewußtsein hatten. Das ist aber immer
Daß das so ist, das müssen wir wissen. Denn was hat
Götterwelt. Und in keinem anderen Geiste hat der
betrachten hatte, und daß der Impuls zum Formulieren
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Erneuerung» gehalten hat.
erfahren hat, hineinstellt in die Gegenwartsentwickelung und es
zu tun hat mit Lehren, während in der christlichen
Unter dem Einfluß des Intellektualismus hat das
daß der Christus Jesus auf der Erde gelebt hat und die Tat
auf Golgatha verrichtet hat. Und die Lehre ist eben nur das
allgemeines Gefühl hat beim Erwachen, oder er schaut
welche die Sache noch miterlebt hatten, und welche aus den
unmittelbaren Eindrücken, die sie miterlebt hatten',
übertragen konnten. Christus hat ja auch seine Jünger
Apokalypse mit innerem Verständnis aufgenommen hatten, der
gesagt, der Empfänger der Apokalypse selbst erhalten hat
hat zunächst zur Vorbereitung der Menschen das bewirkt,
Mysterien hat gar nicht Anspruch darauf erhoben, etwas anderes
dagewesen in der Erde. Nun bleibt er da. Er hat seine Tat auf
würdig machen. Man hatte es stark empfunden in alten
daß er aber eine Entwickelung hat, die ihn mit demjenigen
entgegenkommt. Man hat stark diese Verbindung mit der
Man hatte diese wunderschöne Vorstellung: Wenn ich
erstes Haus gebaut hat, denn als erstes Haus baut sich der
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Erneuerung» gehalten hat.
wenn man es mit einer solchen Offenbarung zu tun hat, die sich
gegeben hat, war so und so weit gebildet, und man kann von ihm
weite Perspektive gehabt hat. - Ich will diese Frage, ob der
Schreiber der Apokalypse diese Perspektive gehabt hat oder
Erlebnishintergründe hat, von denen ich gesprochen habe.
spricht, daß wir gewahr werden: Er hat nicht nur in seinem
Gottheit, sondern er hat sie in seinem ganzen Menschen. Er
bewußt ist, in den sogenannten drei Personen hat man die
zu tun hat, was in die Freiheit des seelischen Erlebens
tun hat.
Zukunftszeiten, derjenige, der den Namen hat, den nur er allein
eigentlich; und wenn er einen Namen geschrieben hat, den nur er
einen Namen hat. Das ist nicht derselbe Name, von dem
seinen Keim hat in dem Verständnis des Mysteriums von
wird, daß man auf ein ganz bestimmtes Jahr zu weisen hat,
Erde verrichtet hat dadurch, daß er ihnen innewohnt. Aber
gewissem Sinne leiten und führen. Der Priester hat die
zu führen hat. Er ist der Sakramente-Spender, er ist der
äußere Welt hat es zu tun mit den Menschen, wie sie
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Title: Apokalypse: Vortrag XI
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Erneuerung» gehalten hat.
real. Und man hat wohl Grund, gerade innerhalb unseres
des Christus auf Erden. Die Menschheit hat sich darauf
welcher geherrscht hat - ich möchte es stereotyp
hat, ob er der linken oder der rechten Richtung angehört,
physischen Welt hat, um in der physischen Welt zwischen
arbeiten hat. Das kann das Medium nicht, weil es nicht mit
daß Babylon diese Entwickelung durchgemacht hat von der
fortgeführt hat, was in dem Babylonischen gelebt hat,
gegriffen hat, so daß sie in ihren Seelen eigentlich
Apokalyptiker geschildert hat.
Lehren des Tieres verkündet: der falsche Prophet. Man hat
Mediums in Anspruch genommen hat, nun, nachdem die Hypnose
aufgehört hat, in den physischen und ätherischen Leib
alles schon vorhanden. Hat sich doch der furchtbare Fall
homo» geschrieben hat, war nicht die
Unterscheidungen, die man heute hat, wird man in Zukunft diese
anderen Standpunkt hat als die Menschen, ganz anders über
Michael, der die Würde eines Erzengels hat, hat nicht den
hat. Michael ist «nur» Erzengel. Vom michaelischen
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Title: Apokalypse: Vortrag XII
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Erneuerung» gehalten hat.
nachatlantischen Zeitraum, und innerhalb dessen am Beginn des
geschehen hat, und wir blicken zurück von da aus auf den
vierten nachatlantischen Zeitraum, der dem unsrigen unmittelbar
wissen ja, daß dieser vierte nachatlantische Zeitraum
ungefähr begonnen hat um das Jahr 747 vor dem Mysterium
von Golgatha, daß in diesen vierten nachatlantischen
Hälfte des vierten nachatlantischen Zeitraums stattfand,
sagen (es wird gezeichnet): Der fünfte nachatlantische
hat, wie wir wissen, welche sozusagen ein neues Antlitz unserer
Erde herbeigeführt hat.
wesentlich andere Formen hatte, als die späteren sind.
sich die Erde verfestigt hat aus verhältnismäßig
der atlantischen Zeit ein ganz anderes. Es hatte in der Mitte
möglich waren. Wir hatten dort zum Beispiel in der
Sehnsucht hatte, etwas weit weg Liegendes zu ergreifen, dessen
waltenden Götter. Man hatte keinen Zweifel, daß da
nachatlantischen Zeitraumes ansehen - gewiß, in den
nachatlantischen Zeitraum näherte, war das nicht mehr so
göttliche Walten im vierten nachatlantischen Zeitraum. Es
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Title: Apokalypse: Vortrag XIII
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Erneuerung» gehalten hat.
die Imaginationen, die man vor sich hat, hereinspricht die
Inspiration. Man hat dann die Schauung so, daß sich
Okkultismus: Sieben ist die vollkommenste Zahl -, und man hat
Stätten hat man diese Zeit von dem Zeitalter der
mit wem man es bei den Menschen in der Regel zu tun hat.
denken hat, daß der Priester solche Dinge wissen muß.
Wie hat man sich solchen Menschen gegenüber zu
Solchen Menschen gegenüber hat man oftmals eine recht
Individualität in ihnen. Nur hat man ihnen das
zu verbergen hat, handelt es sich darum, daß man für
was zur Zeit der Kreuzzüge stattgefunden hat. Mit den
tatsächlich ungeheuer starke Impressionen hatten von ihrem
man aufzufassen hat als diejenige des vierten Siegels, wo in
sich verbreitet hat, bis zu den Kreuzzügen, in Europa im
Priesterschaft hatte Evangelium und Kultus. Der Kultus war das,
gefaßt hatten, die Geheimnisse des Orients waren. Da sind
Argusaugen gewacht hat über all dasjenige, was man
schriftlich hatte, wie man heute darüber wacht. Dadurch
das hat Wurzel gefaßt gerade zur Zeit der
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Title: Apokalypse: Vortrag XIV
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Erneuerung» gehalten hat.
Nun, im Geiste, wie ihn der Mensch heute hat, leben ja die
vergleichen. Das Bild, das im Spiegel erscheint, hat in der
der Mensch im Leben hat, eigentlich wie Spiegelbilder, so
willkürlichen Einteilung hat man es bei der Gliederung des
Menschen nicht zu tun, sondern, sagen wir es so: Man hat
elementarischen Wesen dem Menschen etwas gegeben hat auf Erden,
das den Drachen unter ihren Füßen hat. Da hat er die
Schwelle zu treten hat, wo eine Dreiheit erscheint als die
sich aus Wolken herausbildet, sonnenähnliches Gesicht hat,
hat, von denen der eine auf dem Meer, der andere auf der Erde
Rätsel unserer Zeit, das sich herausgebildet hat seit
nur das Denken ausgebildet hat, und daß dieses nicht mit
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Title: Apokalypse: Vortrag XV
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Erneuerung» gehalten hat.
menschlichen Evolution hat. Wir müssen dabei nur bedenken,
Gefühl: Es hat sich dasjenige, was man da in der Umgebung
wenn man dies zuerst erfaßt hat, bekommt man eine
es hat darauf keinen Einfluß, ob man in einer Gegend
«Jede Wirkung hat eine Ursache», «Materie ist
man in allen Mysterien immer wieder und wieder betont hat, was
viele okkulte Ursachen hatte, vom Himmel herunter in
hat an schädigenden Dingen, hinweggeschafft werden, was
gleichviel ob man Erfolg oder Mißerfolg hat, es ist
der Hochschulbewegung kommt, denn es hat uns eigentlich wenig
unmittelbar aus der geistigen Welt ihren Urimpuls hat, ganz

Title: Apokalypse: Vorbesprechung
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Erneuerung» gehalten hat.
Kräfte geschrieben hatten, als eine Art von
hatte ich die Frage aufgefaßt, daß diese Alternative
Menschenweihehandlung stattgefunden hat, die Bewegung für
religiöse Erneuerung entwickelt hat, ist doch so, daß
genommen hat, nicht anerkannt zu werden, ich möchte sagen,
Ihrer Frage gelegen hat, das intensive oder das extensive
vorhanden ist und heute den Charakter hat, mit dem Spirituellen
ergeben hat beim Durchschauen Ihres letzten Heftes, wo Sie ja
hat. Ja, nicht wahr, Sie müssen doch auch das Positive in
Auflage von 6000 hat, getan werden kann. Solche Dinge muß
eine solche geistige Substanz hat. Das alles ist doch etwas,
Kirche sagt: Was geht uns der einzelne Priester an, der hat
Aber der Protestantismus hat sich dadurch, daß er alles
auf die Persönlichkeit gestellt hat, aus dem Geist mehr

Title: Apokalypse: Vortrag XVI
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Erneuerung» gehalten hat.
hat sich heute die verblüffende Sache ereignet, daß
vor Ihnen vorzubringen vorhatte. Da sehen Sie, wie
Einheit vor sich hat von Sternenwelt und Erdenwelt, daß er
Mittelalter hindurch noch gesprochen hat. Wo er von den
schon gewußt hat über die Natur des Kometarischen,
Schwerkranken, und katholische Priester hatten durch Erteilen
stattgefunden hat, ist nicht gleich herausgekommen, was Lalande
eigentlich in dem Vortrag hatte sagen wollen. Nun, die
aber die Berechnung hat doch gestimmt.
lichtschwächer war, sondern es waren zwei da; er hatte
geklappt hatte, so mußte eigentlich dazumal das
die Erde. Der Komet hatte sich zunächst in zwei Teile und
mit dem Wesen der Erde verbunden wurden. Er hat den Weg
feinen Berechnungen. Da hat ein aufgeklärter Mensch
über die Sache geschrieben. Er hat eine Berechnung
aufgestellt und hat dabei alle Dinge in Erwägung gezogen.
Er hat ausgerechnet, daß ein großes Unglück noch
damals, als man die Kometenbahn berechnet hat, als der Komet
Erde ersterben müßte. Aber der Komet hat sich vorher
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Title: Apokalypse: Vortrag XVII
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Erneuerung» gehalten hat.
Verhältnis zu setzen, hat nun der Apokalyptiker, wie er
das hat es ihm möglich gemacht, so sachgemäß die
gefunden hat. Denn, meine lieben Freunde, es ist einfach
kennen. Man hat dasjenige vor sich, was man im weitesten
genügend innere Kraft hat, sehen kann - auch wenn er gar
nichts von historischen Nachrichten hat -, daß an einer
für die Menschheit etwas abgespielt hat, haben Erdbeben
bezieht sich das, was er mit diesen Siegeln zu sagen hat, auf
Vorstellung, wenn man so denkt: Man hat den Weltinhalt in
man die Natur um sich sieht, hat man eigentlich in der
der Sterne. Die Sternenwelt hat sich uns in die Wesenheiten der
Das, was ich jetzt auseinandersetze, meine lieben Freunde, hat
geschildert hat, wie ich es jetzt schildere, allmählich in
Babyloniern sich verunreinigt hat an den Symbolen der
jüdische Mystik, hat dieser Irrtum von der Rangordnung der
daß das Reale im Mikrokosmos auch die Berechtigung hat,
tun hat, hinüberführt zu den Funktionen des
merkwürdigen Gang durchgemacht hat, den die Priesterschaft
Instinktleben ausgegangen, sie hat am besten da gewirkt, wo man
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Title: Apokalypse: Vortrag XVIII
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Erneuerung» gehalten hat.
sozusagen in die Hand zu nehmen hat, in seine eigene
Individualität hereinzugliedern hat. Natürlich ist
die Eigenschaften des Satans hat, sondern eine niedrigere Macht
ist. Satan hat den Rang von Urkräften, von Archai, und er
Intellektualität ergriffen hat, lange bevor sie in der
Tradition der Satan genannt wird, hat keine Kraft, weiter
christlichen Tradition Satan genannte Macht die Gabe hat, sich
Mächten. Daher hat Satan es dann, wenn er sich zum
freiwillig zu identifizieren hat mit den letzten Zielen der
anzuschließen hat an dasjenige Wesen, das ihn geleitet
hat, solange er noch nicht kosmosmündig war.
Sozialdemokratie eine riesige Rolle gespielt hat - nur insoweit
individuell betrachtet hat; dann kann man sagen, in soundsoviel
Ebenso hat die statistische Betrachtungsweise einen ungeheuren
wahnsinnig werden. Es hat gar keinen Wert für wirkliche
Macht eben in Mitteleuropa und im Osten gezeigt hat, ist
Macht durch dasjenige, was sie an Anstrengungen entwickelt hat,
da alles gewirkt hat, das ist eigentlich etwas Furchtbares. Es
Sehen Sie, es hat einmal eine solche Individualität
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Title: Anthroposophie, soziale Dreigliederung und Redekunst: Erster Vortrag
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Herumreden im allgemeinen hat.
mitzuteilen, für etwas zu wirken, zu etwas zu befeuern hat, und
hat es zunächst mit dem Wirken verschiedener Instinkte zu tun, wenn man
einen ersten Satz zu sagen hat, der etwas berührt, was seine
Zuhörer bisher nicht im geringsten beschäftigt hat. Wenn
Durchschnittsprofessor habe eine Rede zu halten. Er hat es
und wenn er ein richtiger Durchschnittsprofessor ist, hat er es zu
hätten ja wohl, wenn sie es hatten verstehen wollen,
überdies sehr lange dazu gebraucht; aber denen hat auch das
allerlei Anleitungen solche Regeln aufgesucht hat, nach denen man mit
attackieren. Sympathie oder Antipathie! Aber mit unseren Gedanken hat
Dinge, die man vorzubringen hat, gefühlt, empfunden hat, und was
das Kind vor sich hat. Deshalb läuft zum Beispiel die
aus dieser Nachempfindung, die man gegenüber dem Kinde hat, und
aus dem, was man selber einmal gefühlt und empfunden hat an dem,
was man vorzubringen hat, aus alledem ergibt sich ganz instinktiv die
Art, wie man zu sprechen oder auch zu hantieren hat.
selber hat, anwendet. Weisheit hilft einem bei einem blöden
hat. In dem Augenblick, wo man das blöde Kind unterrichtet,
Klasse zu behandeln hat – sich völlig gegenwärtig
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Title: Anthroposophie, soziale Dreigliederung und Redekunst: Zweiter Vortrag
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gewohnt ist, über Dinge überhaupt zu sprechen. Man hat sich
Materialismus geherrscht hat, rednerisch die Dinge der Außenwelt
in beschreibender Art vorzubringen. Da hatte man in der
etwas, was man anstreben solle. Und da man immer die Meinung hat,
Wesen des Organismus, daß man ihn nicht zu organisieren hat,
nicht nötig hat; aber dann macht sich fortwährend ihr
war, zuerst in die Universitäten hineingeschoben hat. Sie finden
eigentlichen mitteleuropäischen Ausdruck gefunden hat in den
entwik-kelt hat, unbedingt rückgängig machen müssen,
was eine Zeitlang sich fortentwickelt hat, muß an einem Punkt
welche der ganze Mensch im alten Orient zu der Sprache hatte. Diese
besonderen Verhältnis, das der Franzose zu seiner Sprache hat.
und er hat nicht Eloquenz vorgetragen, sondern hat sich als Professor
Eloquenz war. Da hat es sich Curtius allerdings sehr angelegen sein
möglichst wenig berücksichtigt hat. Im übrigen war es
Professoren der Eloquenz nicht mehr hineinpassen, und er hat
das Deutsche etwa, nehmen, so hat ja alles, was man im
ist mit die Aufgabe, die in einem gewissen Sinne zu lösen hat,
Reden in den Zeiten vorhanden war, aus denen sich erhalten hat die
Menschen unter irgendeiner Aufgabe sprach, darauf zu sehen hatte,
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Title: Anthroposophie, soziale Dreigliederung und Redekunst: Dritter Vortrag
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Redner stellen kann, darum handeln, den Stoff, den man zu behandeln hat,
vorgestellt hat und eines nach dem anderen in der Vorbereitung
gewissermaßen durchgenommen hat. Ist man nicht in der Lage,
der betreffenden Sache unmittelbar erlebt hat, und versuchen, nachdem
man eine Art Komposition der Rede vor sich hat, die Erfahrungen in
wird im allgemeinen die Skizze zum Vorbereiten sein. Man hat also dann in
genau hat man dieses Tableau vor sich, daß man, wie es ja
und das ist, nachdem man auf der einen Seite das Ganze hat –
ich sage niemals: das Gerippe hat – und auf der anderen Seite
die einzelnen Erfahrungen, hat man nötig, die Ideen, die sich
überhaupt einen Sinn hat, über diese Dinge, über eine
soll, zu wem man zu sprechen hat, bevor man an das Sprechen
Vorstellungen gemacht hat, weil sie gewissermaßen gedankenlos in
bezug auf das soziale Leben dahinvegetiert hat. Es würde immer
empfunden hat, heraus aus bestimmten Begriffen. Wie man die Sache selbst
nicht geredet hätte, sondern als ob irgend jemand geredet hatte
Ja, eigentlich hat uns der Vortragende gar nichts Neues gesagt!
sozialen Organismus. In bezug auf dieses geistige Glied hat der
sagt: Geistesleben, das hat für sich gar keine Wirklichkeit.
Meh-ring, hat diese Sache ja bis zum besonderen Radikalismus
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der Gleichheit anzustreben hat. Denn eigentlich –
der gegenwärtige Mensch gar keine Empfindung hat für ein
Verhältnissen heraus zu reden hat. Denn die Sache liegt ja im
Zwangsjacke wäre, und hat die Aufgabe, unter solchen
was dieses Neue sei. Man hatte nicht die Kraft, es zu verstehen, aber
man hatte zunächst das Gefühl, man müsse wissen, was
schrecklichste Frage, die hat heraufkommen können vom rein
Schweiz hat so dagestanden während der furchtbarsten
Theorie – daran teilgenommen hat, und durch das, was von
Verhältnisse hereingewirkt hat. Die schweizerische
Bevölkerung hat deshalb gar nicht eine eigentliche Empfindung,
ein Neues kommen müsse oder das Alte bleiben müsse, so hat
gehört hat, gehört hat auf der einen Seite von
Mitteleuropa, gehört hat von England und dem Westen auf der
hineingegangen ist, und nicht, was er eigentlich erlebt hat. Und
oder andere Waagschale noch zu legen hat.
und er hat zu wenig Erfahrung über diese Dinge, als daß es ihm
Jahrhunderte hindurch immerfort demokratisch genannt hat, wiederum
nicht sagen, man wolle die Demokratie nicht! Kurz, man hat wirklich
hat über Österreich sagen müssen. Leute, die etwas von
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Title: Anthroposophie, soziale Dreigliederung und Redekunst: Fünfter Vortrag
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das Geistesleben zu sagen hat, aus einem selbst heraus kommt. Man
über das kommen will, was im Wirtschaftsleben zu geschehen hat,
erst gekommen ist im letzten Drittel des 19. Jahrhunderts, die hat ja
dieses Reduzieren ad absurdum geführt hat.
hatte, da konnte man sehr einfach die Kriegsentschädigung
machen. Aber das hat sich ja selbst ad absurdum geführt. In dem
Handel zwischen Deutschland und Frankreich hat sich das nicht mehr
mitbringt, wenn man nötig hat, sich an so etwas zu halten, eine
Leiter der Schlagsätze hat, hineinkommt.
wenn also der Schluß in einer gewissen Weise etwas hat, was als
Schlagsätze aufgeschrieben hat. Also, sagen wir, man
sagen hat.
Instinkt gebracht hat, daß man also tatsächlich die
hat man auch zugleich die Gelegenheit, in den Zwischenpausen den Atem in
Hat
regulieren, wenn Sie sich einfach an das Lauten halten. Man hat in
der folgende Spruch ist. Er hat vier Zeilen. Diese vier Zeilen sind
zu dem Kräftigmachen der Sprache, daß man die Sprache so hat,
Gliedern hat und sie aus den Gliedern herausfließen läßt.
Auf ein solches Schreiben hat man insbesondere eine Zeitlang –
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Title: Anthroposophie, soziale Dreigliederung und Redekunst: Sechster Vortrag
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Schriftliches von sich gibt gegenüber dem Leser. Der Redner hat
vor sich hat, sondern einen Zuhörer. Der Zuhörer ist nicht
in der Lage, wenn er irgend etwas nicht verstanden hat,
der Leser in der Lage, und darauf hat man Rücksicht zu nehmen.
Auffassungsgabe hat, doch nicht ermüdet werde. Man wird also
gerade um so mehr, je mehr man es zu tun hat mit etwas, das auf
was dazwischen liegt. Dadurch wird er im Auffassen befreit und er hat
nachfolgenden Einatmung. Kurz, das Einatmen überhaupt hat etwas
man einer Erörterung zuhört, dann hat man
einzuschläfern. Denn dieses logische Entwickeln, das hat den
Ich glaube nicht, daß jemand hier sitzt, der die Meinung hat:
hat eben doch Beine! Man braucht nur zum Beispiel sich zu erinnern,
ganzen Menschen, sie hat also doch Beine! Und den Zuhörer zu
Zuhörern zu tun hat, passen sie dann sogar noch auf den
Aufmerksamkeit darauf gelenkt hat, wie wirklich gute Redner solche
der Kanone stehe ein Kanonier. Der Kanonier hat die Zündschnur
Vorgesetzten gehört hat, er habe das Pulver erfunden? Niemand
Gefühl hat, der Mann rede subjektiv. Ich habe Ihnen auch das
sagen wir, zum Beispiel Pfeile hat, gehoben werden. Es ist eben so:
hatte ja eine Zeitlang in dem Abgeordneten Meyer einen solchen
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Title: History of Art: Lecture I: Cimabue, Giotto, and Other Italian Masters
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that is named after him) — Cimabue was working at about the
time, let us say, of Dante's birth. For external history, what
concerned, the work of Cimabue emerges in such a way that to
our way into what comes before us in Cimabue's work, we find
brief description. We must not forget that the time of the origin
of the second millennium A.D. when Cimabue lived, — that
that transcends the Earth. To a great extent, all man's thought
spiritual Powers break through into this earthly life? What was
it that came into this earthly world from spheres beyond? Men
to express in pictorial Art what was thus living in the souls of
sense, or of painting true to Nature, or following this or that
lectures that the Romans were an unimaginative people. It was
into the unimaginative Roman culture that Christianity, coming
vivid ideas arose, as to how one should portray the figures that
unimaginativeness, if I may so describe it, took hold of what
Moreover, we know of a remarkable controversy that arose in the
an ugly form, yet so, that through the ugly features there shone
the inner life of soul, the mighty event that was being enacted
the West, in Italy, men were more of the opinion that the Saviour
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Title: History of Art: Lecture II: Leonardo, Michelangelo and Raphael
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showed the period of Art which finally merged into that of the great
in the artistic world of feeling, which finally led up to what was so
friends, that in our time people have little understanding for what is
a whole. People say that our attention is thus diverted unduly from
case at all. Indeed, it is only in our own time that this distinction
I do not mean that they borrowed their subject-matter from the spiritual
the specific quality of the world-conception of that time. In our time,
feeling for what is truly artistic is not always prevalent among us.
when we say of Leonardo, Michelangelo and Raphael, that they bore within
that a man can build a Gothic church even if he has not the remotest
believe that one can paint the Trinity even if one has no feeling for
what is intended to be living in it. In this way, Art is expelled from
as such, imagining that with aesthetic views and feelings which happen
what should be said on this point), it was only natural for them to
only remember that at the end of the 15th and beginning of the 16th
idea that a specific moral impulse must be living in what goes by the
and moralising forms, by no means identical with what I described the
in a world that was their very own, and they saw Nature herself in the
midst of this same world. We need but call to mind: In that time, even
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Title: History of Art: Lecture III: Dürer and Holbein
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all the elements that culminate in him, we have to deal with a
problem is the relation of this artistic evolution to that other
what is really important in the evolution of this European Art, we
mainsprings in Middle Europe. I mean that Central Europe which we
certain sense, behind what is directly, physically
perceptible. Accordingly, whatsoever the Southern imagination seeks
something that lies beneath the outer objects works into their
back into the oldest time, we find that to begin with it makes no
which it portrays; it seeks to express what comes from the soul's
well-measured Form that is appropriate to human nature, but in the
with the individual expression of the soul's life; with all that
to us of what was there in olden times, — I do not mean so
spread of Christianity. Little is left of what wls contained in the
in all the cultural life that spread from the North towards the
Spain, the true nature of the impulses that they contain. For these
instance, all that is living in the famous “Last
from the Southern spirit. See what dramatic life and movement he
you will realise, working in all this, a Northern impulse that
they no longer contain what comes, as it were, out of the
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Title: History of Art: Lecture IV: Mid-European and Southern Art
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today, supplementing those that were shown last week. Today I
propose in the main to supplement what I endeavoured to explain
Mid-European impulses, layer upon layer, as it were, so that it is
will remember what I emphasised last time. From underlying impulses
of the Mid-European spiritual life, there arose what we may call
soul in movement — that is the goal of the Mid-European
very early stage by the Mid-European) looks more to all that enters
treated as though it were something that lives a life apart. This,
artistic qualities, for all that works in form and colouring, in
recognise that the specifically artistic qualities that come to
with all that is brought to it through the Church — through
strongly individual characterisation of all that is life and
movement in the human soul. We cannot understand what took place
until the 12th and 13th centuries if we merely consider what we
earlier centuries from what it afterwards became. It was only in
later times that the rigidly dogmatic qualities which so repel us,
question: To what does Art appeal among the Southern peoples? To
what did it appeal already in antiquity? And elsewhere in the
the early to the late Renaissance? To what does Art appeal in the
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Title: History of Art: Lecture V: Rembrandt
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— to see what radiates from him into the stream of evolution —
mass of the European people, once more bearing witness to the truth that
or later we must realise the fact that just as one plant in the garden,
by the activity of the Spiritual that ensouls humanity.
of the nineties of last century. It was curious to see what a far-reaching
influence a certain book had which was published about that time. The
of time, all manner of ideas that had occurred to him. He might then
many people. He felt that the spiritual and intellectual life of men
an elemental and original feeling of what pulsates as the underlying
to mankind: “Remember once more what lives in the elemental depths
— what we cannot but realise — that the inner intensity of
only in a superficial way. What, after all, did the late 19th century
felt, as I have said, that the soul's power of perception must be brought
to feel and realise once more all that is elemental, all that is truly
way than he, what was and still is needful for our age, we cannot go
was too much a child of his age to realise that a renewal of all spiritual
our souls. All people of that time passed by unheeding — passed
by what was “in the air,” if I may use the trivial expression:
made a brave beginning. “Look,” he said, “look what
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Title: History of Art: Lecture VI: Dutch and Flemish Painting
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are images of the artworks that were presented with the lectures. The
fifth post-Atlantean epoch — that epoch which is called upon to
bring forth, out of the depths of human evolution, all that is connected
of Art an elementary power of understanding — that is to say, if we
emerges — century after century during these epochs — what
of drawing and painting, we find that the laws of Space, for example, have
We can see that in those
flat surface what he desired to represent. The various things that he
or that figure.
A figure that stands in
into account that that which appears larger is to the front, while all
that which appears smaller is further back. If, however, we return to
the Third Post-Atlantean period, we find that this spatial treatment
thing you will frequently find in older times — I mean what we may
a presentation arising from his own point of view. Hence it is that the
only appears with Brunellesco — that is to say, is the main, with
We may truly say that what
at that point of time. Moreover, the South, through the impulses I
in the inner relationship of Space; concerned, that is to say, with
composition fertilised by the Southern Renaissance — with all that
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Title: History of Art: Lecture VII: Representations of the Nativity
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are images of the artworks that were presented with the lectures. The
our souls, from another aspect, that which is living in the Old Christmas
Christian Art evolve towards Naturalism, that is, towards a certain
reproduction of that which may be called reality from the point of view
of St. Luke's Gospel, as we may call it, and that of the Gospel of St.
by the Shepherds — all that is more or less related to this theme
— could best be understood (understood, that is to say, by the
inner feelings) under the influence of what remained from those Northern
connected with all that related to the Birth of Jesus —
out of the spiritual beings that are bound up with the life of Nature.
“Star” — which means, something that is made known out
heralds His approach and develops in the Zarathustra Jesus. In all that
the Gnostic stream: the consciousness that the Christ-Event was a cosmic
one; that a fertilisation of the Earth had taken place out of the
that is, in quest of spiritual knowledge, by striving upward with all
It may truly be said that
to bear on all that is connected with the Wise Men from the East must
needs be of a “Gnostic” character. All that is signified
important here, again, to realise that there is a certain underlying
composition in all that the Gospels contain. The composition is
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Title: History of Art: Lecture VIII: Raphael and the Northern Artists
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are images of the artworks that were presented with the lectures. The
that came before our souls in former lectures. I shall draw attention
today to further aspects, arising out of what we have said before. In
wish to repeat what has already been set forth. Today we are able to
creations work upon his soul, will admit that in Raphael — with
we ask ourselves again and again: What is it that comes to expression
that we must say, 'The ides, the meaning, the impulse, the world-historic
by means that cannot ever be transcended.
being that worked to create it — the human being, Raphael himself.
artist as Raphael, as the artist of an epoch that was drawing to it
Madonna della Sedia. Again we should have to say: What is here placed
Raphael. Truly, we here have something that proceeds from a great cosmic
personality. Again and again the question comes to us: How is it that
that great Art in the center of which is Raphael.
this one. That is the unique thing.
nature below expressed what man has cast aside from himself, but it is
which Goethe said that nothing he had known till then could compare
“Disputa,” for example. You may take any one of those that
is such and such; it represents this or that. In Raphael's case you
will have to ask: How is the artist contriving to express — whatever
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Title: History of Art: Lecture IX:
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are images of the artworks that were presented with the lectures. The
may remind you of it once again today, now that we shall show a few
And he wrote: After this experience he had become convinced that in
always seemed to me of deep and lasting significance. Goethe at that
moment divined that something was living in the Greeks, in intimate unison
found that the manifold forms of Nature can be referred to certain typical
that underlies the outer things. He started, as you know, from Botany
vivid conception of what he intended. We are wont to conceive things
towards what must be the characteristic of the Science of the fifth
post-Atlantean age, even as that which the Greeks conceived and expressed
often called upon you to observe what is recognisable in the Golden
the living forces that abound in the Etheric Body come to expression.
in them were to gain thereby a real feeling of what lives invisibly
to portray what he himself experienced in his own nature. All this,
men copied what they saw before them with their eyes, what they had
outwardly before them. The Greek copies what he felt within himself.
witness in our time things that are little noticed yet — movements
that tend in the long run to brutalise even the artistic life. Goethe
give a pleasant name. I refer to what are now called sports and games,
many of the activities that fall under the heading of sport —
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Title: Man/Symphony: Lecture I: Man as Microcosm
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- and to the forces of the cosmos that form them. This insight is
You cannot deal with man through logic alone, but through an understanding that can only be reached when intellect shall see the world as a work of art.
lectures on the cycle of the year and the Michael problem, that man in
his whole structure, in the conditions of his life, indeed in all that
Macrocosm: that he actually contains within himself all the laws, all
the secrets, of the world. You must not, however, suppose that a full
Naturally, what can be said about the Great World can never be more
Let us first turn our attention to that realm which represents what is
It certainly cannot escape us that the birds which live in the air,
views, that in their case, as with other animals, we must speak of
of looking at things. I have often drawn attention to the fact that,
stage of mere intellectual comprehension, but that what is
elephant, and how dwarfed its head when compared with that of a lion
head; there is hardly more to it than what in a dog or an elephant or
regard to their formative and creative forces. The view that the bird,
contemplation, we advance from seeing what is physical in the bird to
seeing what is etheric, then in the etheric bird there is only a head.
When looking at the etheric bird one immediately comprehends that the
metamorphosed head. So that the actual bird-head presents only the
palate and front parts of the head, in fact the mouth; and what
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Title: Man/Symphony: Lecture II: The Sun in Relation to the Outer Planets
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- and to the forces of the cosmos that form them. This insight is
connection with the universe from that particular aspect which reveals
said yesterday that when the animal derives its particular forces from
everything, that is to say, which can be absorbed by the bird through
the fact that it owes the most important part of its being to it
— is a necessity to the bird. And I told you yesterday that it is
upon this that the actual formation of the plumage depends. The bird
has its actual being within. What is brought about in the bird by the
all that results from such a contemplation, it is to the tranquil
atmosphere and to the streaming sunlight that our attention is drawn.
its power through the fact that it comes into connection with the
animal circle or zodiac, so that when the sunlight falls to earth from
Mars. It is not for nothing that legend speaks of the eagle as the
the outer planets. And if we were to draw a diagram illustrating what
world-space, in the cosmos, as also that of Jupiter and Mars.
Let us draw this, so that we may actually see it, in a diagram: (see
the Sun in such a way that they are composed of the working together
the eagle-sphere; and therewith we have indicated that element in the
constellations below the sun are so ordered that they exert the least
appear which I described to you yesterday, namely that the forces of
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Title: Man/Symphony: Lecture III: Physical and Spiritual Substance
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- and to the forces of the cosmos that form them. This insight is
substance of the earth, comprising all that provides the material
substance. Think only of the fact that we must place into the total
physical substance, in what in their case we would call their bodily
nature. What they have is spiritual substance. When we look upon what
upon what is outside the earthly, we become aware of spiritual
Today people know little of spiritual substance. That is why they also
speak of that earth-being, who belongs both to the physical and the
heed to such matters. If, for example, we consider that element in man
which leads him into movement, namely what is connected with the human
as having as its basis what is in fact spiritual substance. So that,
sound — it must be said that essentially they are formed of
spiritual substance. So that, when we approach the head, we must
represent the human being in such a way that we allow spiritual
through by spiritual forces (I must mention that the lowest spiritual
head-nature into his whole organism, so that the head — which is
what it is because it is composed of physical substance worked through
into the lower part of the human being; and what man is because of his
dynamics, that is to say what is of the nature of forces.
to us, for instance, that no irregularities can be allowed to enter
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Title: Man/Symphony: Lecture IV: Butterfly and Plant
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- and to the forces of the cosmos that form them. This insight is
to what has already been described in my
planetary system, from Saturn onwards to the Moon, were at that time
what, in a comprehensive sense, I have called the Sun-condition of the
that was of a Sun-nature, which at that time still comprised the earth
— and on the other hand all that was already externalized, and to
Moon-metamorphosis, we meet the fact that the sun separated from what
myself, of the nature of horn, so that the solid constituents freed
Then we have that part of evolution in which the Moon first plays its
of what was contained in old Moon been left behind; the moon itself
departed. The present moon is that colony in cosmic space about which
substantiality is quite different from that of the earth, but it left
behind in the earth what, speaking in the widest sense, may be called
degree, and we must be clear about the fact that everything present in
an earlier condition is again inherent in the later one. What
Only through the fact that the sun was once united with the earth,
that the light of the sun itself shone in the earth which was still in
a gaseous condition — so that the earth was an air-globe
— as present-day physicists somewhat crudely state — as
inter-related through the fact that the earlier conditions ever and
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Title: Man/Symphony: Lecture V: Butterflies, Birds and Bats
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- and to the forces of the cosmos that form them. This insight is
reality in the world, and you have already seen that there are many
recapitulation, we will again consider what I said recently about the
my description of this butterfly nature, as contrasted with that of
the plants, we found that the butterfly is essentially a being
significance. Let us recall how we had to say that the butterfly does
not participate in what is directly connected with earthly existence,
activity, so that the butterfly does not entrust its egg to the earth,
within the sphere of the earthly. But let us bear in mind that the
spiritual substances; and I told you that the remarkable thing about
this is that in the case of man the underlying substance of his
metabolic and limb system is spiritual whereas that of the head is
Now it is this spiritualized matter that we find to the greatest
being only what is sun-imbued; and it takes from earthly substance
only what is finest, and works on it until it is entirely
fact that the matter of the butterfly's wing is imbued with colour,
represented by the eagle — that at its death it can carry
spiritualized earth-substance into the spiritual world, and that
spiritualizing earthly matter, thus being able to accomplish what
The bird-world, represented by the eagle, can do this, so that thereby
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Title: Man/Symphony: Lecture VI: Evolution of Animals and Man
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- and to the forces of the cosmos that form them. This insight is
that it is necessary to investigate how the higher, the so-called
higher beings and human kingdoms have evolved out of what is lifeless,
— that man in his present form is the being who has the longest
ancient Saturn. We must therefore say that man is the oldest creation
that the animal kingdom was added, then during the Moon-period the
Let us now consider man in his present form, and ask ourselves: What
when the Earth was in the Saturn-metamorphosis. It is true that the
casing. We must therefore say that a being of which it is difficult to
today, until Earth-existence, we must say: At that time the rudiments
evolutions proceeded further. Man developed his inner being, so that
encloses within himself, what is of the nature of the upper cosmos,
head, so that in the human head we have something formed from within
outwards. But in the being of the butterfly we have what is formed
directed to what is everywhere to be seen outside, to what everywhere
was added in very delicate substance what later became the
Saturn we have as the essential metamorphosis what produced the human
it was now that man's breast-system was added. At the same time,
Saturn-period and the earlier part of the Sun-period, what must now be
Sun-period there arose the first rudiments of that kingdom of the
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Title: Man/Symphony: Lecture VII: Gnomes, Undines, Sylphs, and Salamanders and their Relations to Ethers and Plants
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- and to the forces of the cosmos that form them. This insight is
The World-Word is not some combination of syllables gathered from here or there, but the World-Word is the harmony of what sounds forth from countless beings.
something of the mysterious, we nevertheless recognize that this will
and the encircling air — in the case of the plant we feel that
some other factor must be present in order that this plant-world may
and weave around the plants, to that degree do we lose the
what they really send down and can perceive the roots with spiritual
more visible; for no root could develop if it were not for what is
conveying what is mineral to the roots of the plants. And they are
see and hear, but immediately understands what is seen and heard,
turn their faculty of perception towards what seeps downwards from
above, through the plant into the earth. What seeps down towards the
root-spirits, that is something which the light has sent into the
secrets into themselves from what seeps down spiritually to them
bear with them what has filtered down to them through the plants, they
Because these gnomes have immediate understanding of what they see,
their knowledge is actually of a similar nature to that of man. They
make use of thought. They have direct perception of what is
they notice the efforts people have to make to come to this or that
And I must say that the gnomes become ironical to the point of ill
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Title: Man/Symphony: Lecture VIII: Gnomes, Undines, Sylphs, and Salamanders and their Relations to Various Animals
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- and to the forces of the cosmos that form them. This insight is
plants and so on, only to this is it due that man, in the present
an idea of what actually escapes the man of today when we realize what
already evolved, develop what man — the oldest earth-being —
themselves that hardening of the substance which can become the
what the lower orders of the animals up to the amphibians lack. This
through the fact that gnomes exist.
completion. They supply what this lower animal world does not possess.
skeleton, no bony support; the gnomes bind together what works as the
what is going on around them. As far as earth-observation goes no
Now I told you that the human body forms a hindrance to our perceiving
need only recall what I recently published in the
“Goetheanum” on the subject of dreams. I said that a dream
destructive forces within him, all that continually destroys. These
those animals which stand at a somewhat higher stage, which have
the undines. Thus it is the undines which impart to these somewhat
higher animals in a primitive way what we have in the covering of our
in the economy of existence. You will always notice that, where
that the undines, in their sensitivity to, their avoidance of their
own tendency to become lower animals, thrust off from themselves what
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Title: Man/Symphony: Lecture IX: Gnomes, Undines, Sylphs, and Salamanders and their Various Activities and Attitudes
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- and to the forces of the cosmos that form them. This insight is
super-sensibly present behind what is physical and sense-perceptible,
Now you will readily be able to imagine that to these beings the world
appears somewhat other than to the beings of the sense-world, for they
from what enters the human eye. This is indeed the case. The human
body of the earth. It is just that they have an inner experience, an
unhindered. They have not the least idea that the earth exists. Their
idea is that there is a space within which they perceive certain
journeying along them — that they acquire the very pronounced
It is towards the moon that they continually direct their attentive
It is towards the moon that they continually direct their attentive
Of course, what for us is an illness is for these gnome-beings their
matter of course. It is what gives them that inner sensibility towards
you — that it actually alters their form. When, therefore, one
impression at full moon from that one receives at new moon, and again
suit them, and at that time they thrust the whole feeling of their
shimmering and sparkling of the thoughts. That is how these
play of thoughts is revealed within them. It is just at new moon that
whole world within himself; and one can say that within this world
discoveries, for one reaches the conclusion that at the present time
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Title: Man/Symphony: Lecture X: The Origin of the Different Systems of Man: Metabolism, Rhythmic, Nerve
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- and to the forces of the cosmos that form them. This insight is
In the lectures which I have given recently you will have seen that
that eventually a really comprehensive knowledge of man might result.
them to everything that is revealed to man as the material world. But
what begins in this way with the study of the entire world of matter
of spiritual existence that we must seek to discover what will
We must be quite clear about the fact that what we now recognise as
man is a product of that long cosmic evolution which I have always
Earth-evolution is not yet completed. But let us be clear about what
that is to say, which is subsequent to the evolution of old Moon. You
of what man owes to the Moon-evolution. And you have a picture of what
In regard to all this, however, you must bear in mind that the human
being is a whole and that world-evolution is a whole. When today we
Saturn-evolution, that from which the Earth resulted. But during the
it is, so to speak, the youngest Saturn-evolution. The one that did
what surrounds us spacially on the earth. Take, for example, the
what they are outside him. I have already mentioned that it is a real
and then think that when a person eats certain foodstuffs these
Let us suppose that we take into ourselves something of a mineral
the human being that the following result is brought about. You know
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Title: Man/Symphony: Lecture XI: Food, Digestion, Plants, and Carnivorous Animals
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- and to the forces of the cosmos that form them. This insight is
You will have gathered from the foregoing descriptions that man's
relation to his environment is very different from what modern ideas
often conceive. It is so easy to think that what exists in man's
surroundings, what belongs to the mineral, plant and animal kingdoms
and is then taken into the body, that these external material
however, be no question of this, for one must be clear that within the
human skin-processes everything is different from outside it, that the
is not aware of this one will ever and again reach the conclusion that
what is examined in a retort, or investigated in some other way, is
You need only recall what I said in yesterday's lecture, that
condition of warmth-ether. This means that everything of a mineral
metamorphosed, so far changed, that at least for a certain period of
that we absorb, in one way or another it must assume the form of
absorb into itself what radiates inwards, what streams inwards, as
earth-substance, does there enter into the body what the body needs
— we can say: What man absorbs in the way of mineral substance is
what is of the nature of fire has the disposition to take up into
that it re-solidifies, the material basis of the separate organs.
Nothing that man takes into himself remains as it is; nothing remains
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Title: Man/Symphony: Lecture XII: Convention and Morals, Bones and Hatred
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- and to the forces of the cosmos that form them. This insight is
When we realize that everything of external nature is transformed
inside the human organism, and this in so radical a way that the
find that all that lives in man, in the human organization, flows out
from what man is as a natural being to what is present in him as his
said that the one is simply nature and that the other is something
that in man all types of substantiality are present and that they
must all pass through a condition more volatile than that of muscles
and bones, we shall find that this volatile etheric substance can
beings of the higher hierarchies. Today, therefore, let us do what was
leads man to ask: what is customary? what has convention ordained?
what is the code? what is the law? — and so on. Less account is
taken of what comes forth as impulses, rooted in that part of man
today they have become traditional. Of course nothing whatever is
recorded in ancient times. Is it to be expected today that something
nature which could be compared to what once arose as the Decalogue,
the Ten Commandments? Now from what source does the moral-spiritual
moral-spiritual in mankind, and this is what we may call human
social life, it will invariably prove to be the case that, whenever
lives with other men to the degree that he develops human
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Title: Lecture: How Can We Gain Knowledge of the Supersensible Worlds?
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emphasized that a person standing upon the foundation of
raised from an external standpoint. Indeed one can say that if
centuries. Moreover, we have frequently emphasized that spiritual
natural-scientific mentality depends on the fact that the Spirit
centuries!) This is evident through the fact that it is the
physical world which induces people to think, so that they adopt
requirement is that the human being should recognize through
self-knowledge that he is a super-sensible being and be able to
when the human being passes over to that condition in which he
against the spiritual-scientific statement or truth that when the
anything that might explain the processes surging up and down
within his soul until he wakes up again — that the bodily
processes do not in any way explain what takes place in the soul
will admit that the soul's content dives down into the bodily
say that the sleeping soul is in a certain sense isolated; that
fall asleep, and we must therefore say that in this isolated
that inhabits his body. It is this circumstance which renders a
winter Nature takes them back into her bosom, so that their
that with the coming of Spring the human being were able to
on that part of the earth where summer holds sway, but in that
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Title: Lecture: Man's Position in the Cosmic Whole, the Platonic World-Year
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humanity. On that occasion, I would also like to speak of
it. I think that at the present moment it is necessary to
will feel that the single part belongs to the whole body. In earlier
feelings. Not only did they feel that the hand, the arm or the leg
formed part of their being, but they also felt that they themselves
families and tribes felt, throughout many generations, that they were
that they were standing within the whole universe, that they had been
formed from out the whole universe. Just as we now feel that the
travels along its course; that which constitutes the sun, is not
entirely disconnected with us; we are a portion of that space through
experienced as a great organism and the human beings felt that
they formed part of it, just as the finger now feels that it forms
part of the body. The fact that this feeling and sensation has more
particular scorns to attribute any special value to the fact that we
must feel once more that he is standing within the whole cosmos. He
You know that the so-called vernal point, that is to
found at the same place, but that it advances. It advances along that
circle which we designate as the Zodiac. We know that this vernal
indicating that place in the Zodiac which coincides with the vernal
time, it traveled through the sign of Aries. Since that time, the
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Title: Lecture: The Overcoming of Evil
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will have to know all the forces that the soul must summon up in
founding of Rome, so that 747 years of the 2160 years forming one
of the different forces of Nature, the impulses that lead to evil
those who suffer greatly through the fact that they do not grasp
suffer because they must take part in this or in that, and they
greatly involved in that which constitutes above all the
unwilling to listen to all that is contained in the impulses
as constructive impulses. We have already described that ever
all, that the Beings who stand immediately above the hierarchy of
that these individual men will think that they are upholding

Title: Lecture: Entry of the Michael Forces
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The attention of readers is called to the fact that fundamental
Michael-forces throughout the centuries, in order to see what
descriptions that the rulership of
of Gabriel is connected with forces that go through the line of
Gabriel is characterised by the fact that his impulses enter strongly
from the very fact that he is the administrator of the Cosmic
Hierarchies are working with man and upon him. It is thus that the
realise what a profound significance his impulses must have for those
that human beings — I will not say of nervous temperament
Above all their karma was such that they had a strong feeling —
radical phenomenon is that of a fainting fit, or a diminution of
years of the 19th century, — it was a shattering experience to
decade, only a thin veil concealed that which we recognise as the
power to behold what is present supersensibly
But Michael insists, as I have told you, that his dominion shall
Now in the whole nexus that I have described, in the super-sensible
rarely that one caught a glimpse, through the veil, as I have called
become most significant through that which happens as a consequence,
— through that which ensues when the diversion or diminution of
that had gone before, it seemed scarcely possible for anything else
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Title: Colour: Part Three: The Creative World of Colour
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pronounced what one might call a profound utterance about Goethe. He
has aid that mankind would not realize the full importance of Goethe
For what does Herman Grimm consider as the most important fact about
Goethe? Not that he was a poet, nor that he produced this or that
particular work of art, but that he created all he did out of the
complete man, that the impulses of his full manhood underlay every
detail of his creations. One may say that our epoch is very far from
comprehending this full manhood that lived in Goethe. In saying this I
specialization of Science, and that is the specialization of our life!
For it leads to the situation that the soul which is confined to this
or that specialized circle of ideas or sensations can understand less
necessary — if only in primitive beginnings — that a kind of
need not take a very comprehensive view to prove what I have said. AS
coloured walls and are ridiculed for what is called the freakishness of
which revels in the fact that the soul can unfold in itself a higher
imagined that one could chatter wherever one happened to be about this
is it necessary, therefore, that all sorts and kinds of expression in
Well, my dear friends, it is of course not to be expected that such
get clear on many points, so that we can answer the questions raised
his activity or give you his life-story, but I want you to note that
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Title: Colour: Part Three: Artistic and Moral Experience
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when the path to Art would be in many respects different from what it
appeal to something that affects the artist from outside. The need to
greater and greater. Not that in the Art of the future there is to be
so strong a union with it, that it covers not merely the external
impression of colours and sound and form, but that which one can
experience behind the sound and colour and form, in what is
this colour, so that we have the colour in front of us not merely as
something that works upon us, but as something wherein we ourselves
identical with red, we shall not be able to help feeling that this red
and our moral feelings will be like what a moral experience of our
describe it by saying that one learns to pray.
divine wrath with all that can lie in the soul as the possibility of
recede, so that the goodness and mercy may shine forth. As clouds are
the feeling: you must make that a red which is fleeing.
of what those beings have felt who specially belong to our earth, and
accompanied by strong desire, a feeling can arise like that in Strader
If you consider this you will see that an attempt has been made in
spirits. That was in fact the beginning of all art. Then the
secondary art, all derivative art that it can only imitate, and that
Let us assume something else, that we do what we did with the red
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Title: Psychoanalysis: Lecture I: Anthroposophy and Psychoanalysis I
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to outline a psychology that takes into account both the soul's hidden
I am freshly reminded that
one can hardly come into touch with the spiritual life of that
attention to what is now called analytical psychology,
with this realization have decided me to introduce what I have
considerations with what is offered by the moving forces of our
own age. It may be said that all sorts of people who feel drawn
characteristic of our own time that so many of our
the other hand it is a fact that the people who concern
understanding of them. So that we may say: psychoanalysis is a
inadequate methods of knowledge, of a matter that quite
may be said that even less than half-truths are, under certain
circumstances, more harmful than complete errors. And what the
psychoanalysts. What is called psychoanalysis today had its
besides what he was as a physician. He was interested to
natural that one case, which came under his observation
Breuer noticed that when this woman was in her dreamy
induced, gave the impression that her hysteria was connected
which is of no value whatever:
(“It is very probable that in the meadow behind the house
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Title: Psychoanalysis: Lecture II: Anthroposophy and Psychoanalysis II
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to outline a psychology that takes into account both the soul's hidden
designated what is called analytical psychology or
examples what grotesque leaps modern erudition is obliged to
It was pointed out that one of the better psychoanalysts
he assumed that in cases of the thinking type, subconscious
conflicts — or in the opposite type, that thoughts in the
it might be suggested that these things will be fought out in
scientific discussion, and that we might wait until people make
impossible in that such things do not confine themselves
Much that relates to this matter can be decided only with the
that the facts which lie before the psychoanalyst really point
science. How often I have reminded you that reasoning,
consciousness, but are everywhere, that we are surrounded
that she had left, where she had a love scene with her host.
foundation is reached only by realizing that consciousness does
not exhaust the cleverness, calculation, the artfulness of what
penetrates man as intelligence, and by realizing that the laws
Consider this case. We can at least raise the question: What
wanted the opportunity for what actually happened, she wanted a
course this had nothing to do with what was in her
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Title: Reappearance/Christ: Lecture XI: Individual Spirit Beings and the Undivided Foundation of the World: Part 2
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We are now cultivating studies that I have associated
with a striving for knowledge that is streaming in, without there yet
case in what I said in my last visit with the same intention, from
facts. It is just this point that we must bear in mind, because
for you but of presenting facts that relate to the intentions and
that incarnate themselves in the spiritual world. It is necessary to
already in last year's discussion. At that time I drew your attention
to the fact that within such brotherhoods we are dealing with a
faction that insists on absolute secrecy regarding certain higher
members of other brotherhoods who contend that, particularly since
this you can see that what is intended, what is planted by such
significant event at the beginning of the 1840s, that is, in the
certain spirits and higher spirits, the struggle that culminated in
the event that is represented symbolically by Michael conquering the
had to take a stand, they had to ask themselves what could be done.
best intentions. It was they who undertook the erroneous impulse that
that there is a spiritual world surrounding man. As compromises
who maintained an attitude that totally rejected the revelation of
this or that once the decision is made.
held the erroneous attitude that by the use of mediums people could
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Title: Reappearance/Christ: Lecture XII: Individual Spirit Beings and the Undivided Foundation of the World: Part 3
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observations that we have made in the course of our studies with this
or that detail. If you follow the times attentively, you will have
been able to notice here and there that, in the thoughts,
experiences, and impulses that in the past man felt had “brought
him so wonderfully far,” he can no longer find what can help
21, 1917. In that journal is an article by a very learned gentleman —
that deals with all sorts of contemporary spiritual needs. In the
course of this article there is a section that is expressed in the
following way: “The experience of being that lies behind things
Irrational that is hidden behind all existence. He who touches it so
that the divine spark leaps across undergoes an experience that has
experience this, along with all that is moved by the same stream of
shown by the perceptible growth of the theosophical movement that
washed-out concepts, but is it not nevertheless true that as a symbol
this cosmic piety, it is not a question of mysticism that begins with
something clever. Otherwise one would perceive it as something that
that is there, something that apparently seems to him not completely
such things must not lull us into slumber just because we notice that
from some direction someone has again observed that something lies
behind the spiritual scientific movement. That would indeed be very
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Title: Influences of Lucifer/Ahriman: Lecture One: The Incarnation of Lucifer in Asia in the Third Millenium B.C.
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opening. It must not be thought, however, that these two powers work
humanity and of what the forces underlying that evolution
that it began in the middle of the fifteenth century
the Egypto-Chaldean epoch we find that the records of ordinary
grasp what is of importance for the present time unless we understand
the intrinsic characteristics of that third post-Atlantean epoch of
that in the ordinary history of that ancient time, all civilization,
bears a mythical, pictorial character, it must be emphasized that all
to bring to light, it will be obvious that here we have to do with a
groups belonging to certain, nationalities. And what is in the
These impulses were not really essential to humanity, for unlike what
mineral, plant, and animal kingdoms, but they felt that the forces
today, but it was a wisdom voiced by the initiates in such a way that
moral impulse from what had been imparted by the initiates in
arises: Why is it that this sublime pagan wisdom, although it
Christian era, we should find that together with the promptings of
wisdom there did come a moral impulse, that the moral
added: that just as there was the incarnation which culminated in
source of inspiration for much ancient culture was what can
that had spread from this Lucifer incarnation over the whole of the
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Title: Lucifer and Ahriman: Lecture I: The Incarnation of Lucifer in Asia in the Third Millenium B.C.
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millennium now opening. It must not be thought, however, that these two
evolution of humanity and of what the forces underlying that
other epochs, reckoning that it began in the middle of the
consider the Egypto-Chaldean epoch we find that the records
is not possible to grasp what is of importance for the
characteristics of that Third Post-Atlantean epoch of
certainly aware that in the ordinary history of that ancient
it must be emphasised that all the imagery, all the pictures
endeavouring to bring to light, it will be obvious that here
isolated groups belonging to certain nationalities. And what
really essential to man, for unlike what now passes as human
the mineral, plant and animal kingdoms, but he felt that the
wisdom voiced by the Initiates in such a way that impulses
Egyptian wisdom contained a single moral impulse from what
question arises: Why is it that this sublime Pagan wisdom,
years before the Christian era, we should find that together
impulse, that the moral principles, the ethics needed by
knowledge too must be added: that just as there was the
ancient culture was what can only be described as an earthly
influence that had spread from this Lucifer-incarnation over
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Title: Influences of Lucifer/Ahriman: Lecture Two: The Advance Preparation of Ahriman for His Future Incarnation
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opening. It must not be thought, however, that these two powers work
LECTURE YESTERDAY will have shown you that if we are to acquire
of our fifth post-Atlantean epoch is that human beings should become
increasingly conscious of what takes effect through them in
of something that is connected with the social problems we have
establishment of this free spiritual life is essential in order that
recently published letter of Romain Rolland, in which he says that
— what has been said about rights and justice is so much phrase
and recognize that all these things for which they aspire are
meaningless as long as they fail to realize that if the old unified
however, it is the imperfect tense that is employed. The
longer.” This, moreover, is what stands in the Gospel of St.
John; otherwise what would be the meaning of the words immediately
“Word” also means anything that human beings can acquire
their intelligence. But it must be quite clear to us that what
future. To express what is now the goal, we should have to say:
“Let human beings seek for the Spirit that reveals itself in
first verses of the Gospel of St. John, you will realize what little
quickened and illumined by what is revealed in spiritual vision
— not that actual seership is essential; what matters is that
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Title: Lucifer and Ahriman: Lecture II: The Advance Preparation of Ahriman for His Future Incarnation
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millennium now opening. It must not be thought, however, that these two
yesterday will have shown you that if we are to acquire
epoch is that man should become increasingly conscious of
what takes effect through him in earthly existence. The
life. Think only of something that is connected with the
order that the right attitude, the right relationship, may be
which he says that men should not allow themselves to be
on the part of monarchies or republics — what has been
men were to discard phrases and recognise that all these
fail to realise that if the old unified State as such —
either case, however, it is the imperfect tense that is
This, moreover, is what stands in the Gospel of St. John;
otherwise what would be the meaning of the words immediately
“Word” also means anything that man can acquire
that what “word” denotes here is not really the
immediate future. To express what is now the goal, we should
have to say: “Let man seek for the Spirit that reveals
realise what little inclination there is to-day to take such
illumined by what is revealed in spiritual vision. —
Not that actual seership is essential; what matters is that
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Title: Influences of Lucifer/Ahriman: Lecture Five: The Human as a Being of Will
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opening. It must not be thought, however, that these two powers work
TO SPEAK TODAY OF something that will help to deepen our
understanding of truths that must now be given to humankind by
You know that these forces separate from each other in a certain
sense when people reach what is called the threshold of the spiritual
studies that even while people are awake, they are in a condition
our consciousness the ideas lying behind what we will, but how
a particular idea takes effect in the form of will — of that we
and it may truly be said that people are no more conscious of the
real process of will than they are of what takes place during sleep.
the surrounding world, we come to something that will strike the kind
of consciousness that has developed in the course of the last three
to five centuries as highly paradoxical. It is generally thought that
they have in mind that from the earth's beginning until its
science today? The reason is that when anything takes place, for
November 9, 1919, people believe that its cause lies in what has
time. People think: the mineral kingdom takes its course and what
happens at any point is the effect of what went before; the mineral
attributed entirely to what once took place in the mineral kingdom as
such; the fact that humanity inhabits the earth is ignored. The
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Title: Lucifer and Ahriman: Lecture V: The Human as a Being of Will
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millennium now opening. It must not be thought, however, that these two
to-day of something that will help to deepen our
understanding of truths that must now be given to mankind by
the will. You know that these forces separate from each other
in a certain sense when man reaches what is called the
earlier studies that even while man is awake, he is in a
True, he has in his consciousness the ideas lying behind what
the form of will — of that he knows nothing. He does
and it may truly be said that man is no more conscious of the
real process of will than he is of what takes place during
that will strike the kind of consciousness that has developed
paradoxical. It is generally thought that the evolution of
not expressly say so, he has in mind that from the earth's
that when anything takes place, for example in the mineral
1919, people believe that its cause lies in what has happened
what happens at any point is the effect of what went before;
— but the causes are attributed entirely to what once
took place in the mineral kingdom as such; the fact that man
inhabits the earth is ignored. The belief is that even were
man not present, everything would run a similar course, that
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Title: Influences of Lucifer/Ahriman: Lecture Four: The Luciferic Origin of Ancient Wisdom, Ahrimanization...
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opening. It must not be thought, however, that these two powers work
HEARD THAT THE human soul was once endowed with a kind of primeval
wisdom, that this wisdom gradually faded away and is now no longer
thrown back more and more upon what is presented to them by physical
science in the accepted sense, but the knowledge that is consciously
heights they have actually attained. That they were able to achieve
luciferic beings. We know from recent lectures that the Lucifer
pre-Christian times, and that the original pagan wisdom to which many
although I know that such requests are of little avail-not to adopt a
“That is certainly luciferic. At all costs let us avoid it,
different aspects and it must always be remembered that the whole of
subject is one that calls for deep and serious study.
Rishis, they knew, if they had been initiated into these things, that
the teachers of the Rishis were luciferic beings. For what the
human existence, we find that the sources of pagan wisdom always lie
this possible? We must realize that human beings would have remained
instruction that emanated from luciferic beings. Those who
— is that the “good” wisdom is in hands other
than those of the luciferic beings. That is the essential point. It
is not a question of there being one wisdom that can be
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Title: Lucifer and Ahriman: Lecture IV: The Luciferic Origin of Ancient Wisdom, Ahrimanization...
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millennium now opening. It must not be thought, however, that these two
that the human soul was once endowed with a kind of primeval
wisdom, that this wisdom gradually faded away and is now no
knowledge, men feel thrown back more and more upon what is
accepted sense, but the knowledge that is consciously applied
actually attained. That they were able to achieve this
lectures that the Lucifer-individuality himself incarnated in
Asia in a certain epoch of pre-Christian times, and that the
earnestly — although I know that such requests are of
“That is certainly Luciferic. At all costs let us avoid
that the whole of the old Pagan wisdom emanated from a
Luciferic source. The subject is one that calls for deep and
things, that the Teachers of the Rishis were Luciferic
beings. For what the Luciferic beings brought with them into
existence, we find that the sources of Pagan wisdom always
asked: How is this possible? We must realise that man would
the constant instruction that emanated from Luciferic beings.
exactly the same — is that the “good”
That is the essential point. It is not a question of there
being one wisdom that can be neatly packed away in
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Title: Lecture: Mission of Michael: Lecture I: The Power and Mission of Michael
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which we, human beings of the present day, may gain to that spiritual
world, that we always may look upon the manifestations of the
were, through the veil of the physical world to that which is active
in the spiritual world. What exists in the physical world may be
observed by everyone; what is active in the spiritual world serves to
seriousness what I have said in recent lectures. {See Rudolf Steiner,
world views to a real understanding of that which so vitally concerns
Now you know that our Earth evolution was preceded by another;
that we stand within a cosmic evolution. First, you know that this
evolution progresses, that it has arrived at a point beyond which it
will pass to further, more advanced stages. Secondly, you know that if
beings which we meet in the earthly sphere, that is, in the mineral,
plant, animal, and human kingdoms, but that we have to deal with
for example, the following: You know that we human beings have passed
that we as human beings who experience ourselves in earthly
influence our earthly evolution, we find that they have already
Form, on what stage do we find them? We must answer: They have
considerations, we must say that the Spiritsof Form have reached the
the head from that of the human being. The latter we have again
and consider man as having, on the one hand, that which belongs to the
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Title: Lecture: Mission of Michael: Lecture II: The Michael revelation.
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will have realized from our discussions that by pointing to this error
spiritual life of mankind that there be clarity in this matter. I have
have also drawn your attention to the fact that just through such
can see the dangers that are facing man's soul life if he fails to
realize that it is impossible to arrive at a true and adequate concept
of spirit, a true concept of Christ, as long as he imagines that the
committed the error of including on the side of evil all that we
realize that they had jumbled up two cosmic elements. Thus it has come
about that the Luciferic element was shifted to the side of the Good;
in other words, people were of the opinion that they revered the
day; and this is particularly true of modern psychology that is taught
into the twentieth century will have to say to himself: all that
pertains to this world conception is a result of that which has just
shall be able to do as a result of much that has been discussed here
discussions that in man there exists, above everything else, the great
must be different from that in regard to the rest of the body.
the cosmic evolution of man. What finds its expression today in the
to this all that belongs to the rest of man, we need not go back as
You can easily imagine, hypothetically, that through some sort of
evolving being, has to be traced back; but this or that limb has only
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Title: Lecture: Mission of Michael: Lecture III. Michaelic Thinking.
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THE DAY before yesterday I spoke to you about the fact that we, as
the fourth sphere of evolution. We know that the Earth
doing so we must realize that the designation “the head of
man” is the symbolic expression of everything that belongs to
human sense perception, to human intelligence, of all that in turn
We speak lightly of the fact that we, as physical human beings, live
in the surrounding atmosphere. We must realize that this atmosphere
belongs to us. For, is it not true that the air which is now within us
outside this atmosphere. But we have become accustomed to believe that
find it queer if we say that just as we walk in the air so we walk in
sense-beings, intelligent beings, in short, that we possess all that
existence as head-beings. Now, I have told you that this is only one
sphere of evolution through the fact that this other evolutionary
sphere belongs to the spiritual beings that are our creators, just as
Creative Form Beings, then we shall have to say that we, as human
fact that our Divine Creators live in this sphere together with us.
Thus, it is revealed to the perception of initiation science that we
fourth sphere of our evolution. But we must never forget that the
was endowed with this intelligence only through the fact that the higher
You can feel what this impulse of intelligence signifies in mankind if
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Title: Lecture: Mission of Michael: Lecture IV: The Culture of the Mysteries and the Michael Impulse.
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of last week I should like today to prepare the ground for what I
the one heretofore employed, of much that we shall need in order to
You know from various lectures I delivered before you that the Middle
using the guidance that could be gained from the Aristotelian mode of
thinking in order to comprehend what prepared
the Mystery of Golgotha and what followed it. Greek thinking became of
occident up to the end of the Middle Ages through the fact that it was
Golgotha. It is well that we should realize what it was that took
What took place in the thinking, feeling and willing of the Greek was
back to those times in which a Mystery culture that extended over the
civilized earth of that age permeated all human willing and feeling.
in order to see what was the nature of this human primeval
fashion are they still contained in that which has become historically
demonstrable culture. We can best judge what has happened here if we
make clear to ourselves what it is that has remained, in the
culture in which Greek civilization was rooted. What has remained is a
how he was the great teacher of thinking, of that thinking which,
continuation of Greek thinking, that which has flowed into the world
Mysteries extends over the civilized earth of that time. In the course
must employ his thinking in a way that is quite different from the
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Title: Lecture: Mission of Michael: Lecture V: The Michael Deed and the Michael Influence as Counter-pole of the Ahrimanic Influence
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human evolution can man attain a real consciousness that supports his
this remark already a few days ago — that the evolution of
evolution. I have often stated that what we call history today is
that the abstract recounting of events and the searching for cause and
show that it is a prejudice to believe that the soul mood of modern
centuries had a soul mood completely different from that of human
you will notice that such a book of a representative of his time
and political foundations of monarchy, Dante tries to show that the
known at that time, was the primeval right of the Romans. He tries to
show that the conquest of the whole earth by the Romans constituted a
smaller peoples; for it was the will of God that the Romans should
that at the time America and Australia were not yet discovered!
outstanding spirit of that time. This was a juridical presentation at
that time. Now I ask you to imagine that any lawyer of the present age
as little imagine that the mode of thought which Dante employs in
Thus a quite obvious fact shows that we have to take into
reason that mankind, right up to our time, or at least up to the end
What people state in their party platforms are only superficial
formulations. That which surges in the depths of human souls expresses
itself in such formulas; mankind feels that it is necessary to acquire
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Title: Lecture: Mission of Michael: Lecture VI: The Ancient Yoga Culture and the New Yoga Will.
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YOU HAVE seen from my lectures of the last few days that it is
the incisive difference between that which we may call the human head
organization and that which constitutes the rest of the human
of two members, so that on the whole we obtain a three-fold membering,
organization in this evolution from that of the rest of the human
chiefly manifests as man's life of thought, is something that reaches
great Atlantean catastrophe, that is, the time of the sixth, seventh,
holding sway in the regions of the civilized world of that period
whole conception of the world of the human being of that time can
scarcely be compared with that which characterizes our sense
Indian culture. We may say: the human head organism of that time was
space and time in world conception was not present in that ancient
period. But even then the whole mood of soul life is such that it
of our age. In that ancient time, the main concern of the human being
today are completely foreign to that ancient earth population. There
time about that which we call today the order of nature, he would not
sounding he designated as dark, shadowy. And that which thus expressed
line. (It will receive its full meaning only through that which will
Then after this soul mood of man had held sway for somewhat more than
this necessity of nature is still far removed from that which we call
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Title: Social Forms: Lecture I: The Waldorf School, Spiritual Science, Outer World, Inner World
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showing that healing will come to social life when the inner mobility
with the gratifying observation that upon my return
have come to inform themselves about what goes on in Dornach
and what is meant to proceed from here into our
arrived friends and hope that because of their stay with us
year has demonstrated that there is cause for satisfaction. I
Present-day conditions necessitated that this basis in
anthroposophy should not produce a school that teaches a
taught. That was never the intention. With this in mind,
therefore, we arranged the religious instruction so that
that teaches a specific world outlook. All efforts were
aim that the anthroposophic impetus should be expressed not
handled; that this impetus be manifested in the specific
process shows precisely what a vitalizing effect
many other instances from which you could clearly see that
application of anthroposophic strength of purpose shows that
Now, when we ended the first year something happened that
explain, it was an event that had great inner significance. A
a procedure that stifles the very nature of schools
every child's soul that they were able to write into the
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Title: Social Forms: Lecture II: Materialism, Party Line
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showing that healing will come to social life when the inner mobility
indicated in a certain context what it is that party opinions
nature. I also mentioned that in this abstract age certain
phenomena that can be perceived with the senses or
regarded as a reflection of something that is of supersensory
explained yesterday that party opinions are formed because a
or that — to help such programs, such party views, to
an abstract idea which they hope can be realized, that is
what constitutes a party.
yesterday that when ascending from the physical plane into
as so many are inclined to do, one finds that only beings
group around an abstract idea, only around this or that
is precisely this insight that men are vehemently rebelling
programs is dear to people's hearts. To understand that
that something that can be grasped in abstract ideas can only
be subject to the physical realm is something that people do
What is merely an image in the physical world corresponds to
emphasized that this knowledge is an absolute necessity for a
umbrella of party programs. They believe that by what they do
much too drawn out. Because people nurture the belief that
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Title: Social Forms: Lecture III: Man's Twelve Senses in Relation to Imagination, Inspiration, Intuition
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showing that healing will come to social life when the inner mobility
like to add depth to what has recently been discussed by
You know that in speaking of the senses one usually lists sight,
that are located, as it were, further within man, a sense of
into consideration that we have completely explored the
external way that everyone can substantiate for himself. The
of ways to arrive at what the sense of sight mediates. If we
we convey to ourselves what does not lie on the surface but
will realize that what confronts you on the surface of
What meets you in the interplay with your own organism, what
imagine that you go still further into the inner corporeality
than is possible through the sense of warmth and that you
focus not only on what permeates a body from outside, but on
what inwardly pervades it like warmth, that by its very
something of the substantiality of this metal plate, that is,
sense of warmth conveys to you what permeates the bodies as
through the sense of hearing what is already bound up with
arrive at something that the body in question exercises upon
than what is perceived through the sense of taste. Smelling
the nature of the metallic element; you arrive at what is, in
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Title: Social Forms: Lecture IV: World Events, Initiation Knowledge and the Impulse toward Freedom
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showing that healing will come to social life when the inner mobility
of what has been said lately with various outside
information, you will have gathered one thing, namely, that
our anthroposophical movement has entered a state that
expects of each individual seeking to participate in it that
importance of what is indicated by such words.
world events presently resembles that of an unusually
complicated organism, and from all the various phenomena that
organism becomes obvious. Much is happening today that
immensely incisive and drastic. Again, things go on that
perception of what is in keeping with the times.
the world by what issues forth from Dornach, how certain
give these matters serious consideration, recognizing that
inform ourselves about the course of world affairs in what is
opportunity I shall have to go into additional matters that
subject by saying that because of the connections of our
duty to acquire a full understanding of the fact that we can
no longer indulge in any sectarianism whatever in our
each one bearing the full responsibility for what he
that does not appear through inner reasons to have the right
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Title: Social Forms: Lecture V: Forming Sound Judgment
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showing that healing will come to social life when the inner mobility
serve as a preparation for what will have to be put forth
questions. Our main concern is to decide logically: What is
true and what is false? This specific mode of inquiry is
something that must change today. Johann Gottlieb Fichte
“One's philosophy depends on what sort of person one
right view and that someone with an opposing idea is wrong.
Right and wrong is something that is of special interest to
presently — that we have the beginning of a transition
clarify that the concepts of “true” and
“false” did not always mean what they do today.
mention the periods that preceded these cultural epochs,
Instead, one had the feeling that if a person judged
that an individual was healthy or sick depending on the way
was judged more on what he himself actually was, less in
regard to what he represented concerning his surroundings
emphasized for a number of you who were present earlier that
looking at things. The course of human evolution is such that
that he is suffering from a certain sickness of soul that can
be designated as a mental deficiency. The view that the
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Title: Social Forms: Lecture VI: New Social Forms, Soul, Material World
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showing that healing will come to social life when the inner mobility
would like to sum up some of what has been presented here
out two things in particular. I stressed that the external
phenomena and that it is a sign of the prejudices of our age
surfaces concerning the fact that the outer sense world is a
behind the rainbow that is obviously only an appearance, a
to understand clearly that surrounding us in what we perceive
question then is posed to us: What is it that really stands
means that we admit that we do not live in a material world
all-important for us not to believe that we thereby arrive at
a special, higher world, something that mystic dreamers
is important not to assume that by inward brooding one could
behind what pushes up into the soul and thus turns into a
liver, heart, lungs, and other organs that mystics in
descending deeply into his inner being only finds what is
organs. Just as tallow turns into flame, so everything that
point is that true spiritual science guides the human being
illusion that they can find physical, material realities, not
illusion of mystics that when they descend into their own
spiritual science, it is important that we do not search for
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Title: Social Forms: Lecture VII: Trends of Souls in People of the East, West, and Middle of Europe
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showing that healing will come to social life when the inner mobility
that must be acquired if we wish to take a Position in life
for all mankind, it is certainly necessary that human beings
understand one another, that an element common to all men is
developments that exist among the different members of
the differences that one comprehends the former. From any
the obvious features of present general culture, what do we
tendencies of the West. Look at newspapers today that are
region here (see sketch), this the middle one and that the
St. Petersburg paper, for instance, you do not find what
the individual regions. The fundamental coloring of what has
discover that there is a greater similarity between the
was born at the turn of the nineteenth century, that is so
characteristic of him that no one today understands it. It
surrounded by things that I could touch. There must be wood,
whatever to do with Johann Gottlieb Fichte. It does, however,
have a great deal to do with what arose out of the Western
delicate relationships are not discerned. That is the reason
exhaustive manner the essential feature of what arises from
inundated today by what arises from the West. In Central
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Title: Social Forms: Lecture VIII: East, Middle, West
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showing that healing will come to social life when the inner mobility
sum up once more what I said yesterday concerning the
have indicated that various predispositions and soul
to what all humanity accomplishes in regard to the whole of
civilization. Yesterday we had to point out that the Oriental
by their nature to develop that element which makes its
realm. This is connected with the fact that Oriental people
preexistence, which is based on the fact that the human being
person to adhere to the view that life goes on after death,
is not logically possible, however, to hold the view that
that this life must repeat itself. Thus, the Oriental was
particularly predisposed to understand that he dwelt in
spiritual worlds prior to this earth life, that in a sense he
something once more that I have already outlined for some of
We know that
man is a threefold being, that he is divided into the
that has to do with man's metabolism. Now these three members
must become principally acquainted with a soul state that he
possessed in a distant past. For the very reason that this
Brahman — something that Europeans and Americans will
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Title: Social Forms: Lecture IX: Hegel
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showing that healing will come to social life when the inner mobility
number of other cultural concerns of that region. Born on
taught at the University until 1806. In that year, while
in thoughts all that human consciousness can experience —
from the dimmest impressions of the world to that mental
ideas with such intensity that this ideal world itself appears
to him as the very substance of spirit. One could say that this
conditions in Germany at that time brought an end to Hegel's
that he was constantly turning and searching among his pages.
He was somewhat awkward in his presentation and laborious in
can see that he retained within himself the Swabian spirit
picture. It was indeed so that when Fichte presented his
that at that time, from all around Jena, individuals in need
philosophical fire-spirit, Schelling, was stimulated by what
thinking, but in such a manner that one sees how these
that have always been the high points of all striving for a
form the whole new cultural striving, that took hold of him
out of this philosophical spirit that he wrote and taught, a
say that the most singular of all kinds of human striving on
was something akin to a summation of what Hellenism, in a
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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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showing that healing will come to social life when the inner mobility
had to mention here that the science of initiation is
required for the forces that are to bring about a
reconstruction of declining civilization; that it is
necessary to know what can be gained from beyond the
threshold of the super-sensible world. One can say that the
knowledge and corresponding attitude, feeling and will that
were drawn from beyond this threshold. Everything that is
knowledge; when we can assume that, to begin with, sources of
in its earth evolution that are not accessible by means of
progressed, human beings increasingly had to depend an what
essentially the content of the forces that have been active
that have emerged out of man himself up to now have produced
rejecting what is drawn from the same spiritual sources from
quite concretely into what can be disclosed to present-day
humanity as a sort of basis for all that is needed in the
that comprises human ethics, moral philosophy, but also
social will. We must therefore go into certain matters that
sense world, by what produces the impressions made on our
the threshold this outer world presents an appearance that
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Title: Social Forms: Lecture XI: Man as a Mediator of the Spiritual Beings of the Cosmos
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showing that healing will come to social life when the inner mobility
beyond the threshold that lies between the world of the
cosmos, as it were, by indicating that there exists a
containing all the sense impressions. I stressed that this
region that is our actual environment is a different one; it
is the one that lies below that mirror that reflects the
memories within us. It is this domain of the spirit that
gives rise to the forming of our limb organism and all that
belongs to it; it is to this spirit region that the ordinary
etheric organisms and discovers what it is that forms and
other domain. Concerning the latter, I said that it is
equipped with centripetal forces that hold the spiritual
that move our limbs, is permeated with the opposite, namely,
into the constitution of the universe. We relate what
constitutes the universe to what is within ourselves. We
trace the forces that live in our eyes, our ears, in short,
forces that hold the world together. We find in ourselves the
pronounce them to be forces that if left to themselves would
that the awareness of this would penetrate human souls, for
presenting man in such a way that he becomes conscious of the
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Title: Social Forms: Lecture XII: The Members of the Human Being and their Relationship with the Social Organism
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showing that healing will come to social life when the inner mobility
what we are supposed to understand. One can say that,
start today. The other will relate to various matters that I
have discussed here for weeks; it will relate to what has
few of the most salient facts that are of some importance to
out in what sense the Orient is the source of humanity's
essential spiritual life. I then indicated that in the
— what must be discussed covers vast periods of time
of human civilization. It has already been mentioned that
when we look across to the Orient, we find that the life of
evaluate properly what the Orient really signifies for the
and others are in turn evidence, however, of what was present
way what is happening in the Orient at present —
although it is a mere caricature of what was formerly there
somewhat later period, the essentially legalistic, political
particularly not what we today define as juridical thinking.
attitude that you are dealing with something quite different
juridical. It is only in recent times that an actually
is assuming those forms that really belong to the economic
observe how everything that the Occident has possessed up to
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Title: Social Forms: Lecture XIII: The Interrelationship between the Human and the Social Organism
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showing that healing will come to social life when the inner mobility
I drew attention to the fact that what in spiritual science
that these facts under discussion are supported from the most
varied aspects; finally, that the degree of conviction
to repeat briefly what has been brought forward. We are
that he is composed of physical body, etheric body, astral
body, and what we call the ego. We are also aware, however,
that this constitution of man is something that is, so to
you will learn from them that physical, etheric, astral body
Instead, you will find that the purpose of human evolution
consists in the very fact that man, throughout his repeated
incarnations, he is born in such a way that it is possible to
say that he normally consists, as it were, of physical body,
the realm of the distant future. For you know that the human
incarnations that we trace in the first place. You also know
that this human form has
that the human being performs upon the members of his
the animal kingdom, we cannot help but say that the human
itself. In all that surrounds us, in all our natural
environment, we are unable to find anything that could be
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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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showing that healing will come to social life when the inner mobility
comprehend a number of things that have to be mentioned in
others within the social order, there arises what we know as
science. I said yesterday that these soul contents —
than what comes about through the work of the human ego upon
what comes into existence through the transformation of the
human evolution than what is accomplished in the spiritual
realm of art, religion and science; and what grows out of the
metamorphosis of the astral body is essentially what we have
Then, even more subconsciously, we have what results from the
union with our fellowmen. All that springs from this, all
that men do through the transmutation of their ether body,
being to what is outside him. Yesterday, too, we saw the
significance of such relationships that the human being has
that until this world-historical hour the evolution of
since the germ of what is to come must always be present in
the preceding evolutionary stages, what is to be the content
the earth, experienced what we are experiencing today. What
remains as form for the succeeding one. We lived on what was
standard of what we possessed as spiritual content in our
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Title: Social Forms: Lecture XV: The Great Cosmic Signs in the Universe
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showing that healing will come to social life when the inner mobility
survey of what takes place in the civilized world today, of
what is present in it, we actually find — indeed, we may
given — that civilization is increasingly falling into
ruin. If we understand what spiritual science can tell us
clearly that everything that takes place outside in the
causes for what takes place at any time in the historical
is that in the present moment of time, humanity's condition
longer live in an age in which it suffices to believe that
and much that a short time ago was not yet left to mankind is
understand a number of things that we have outgrown.
say that the human being has reached the point of grasping
moreover, that differs according to the human being's age.
upon to judge everything. He believes that it is possible to
most significant, though admittedly one that had to exercise
that he is able to judge everything in a sovereign manner;
tremendous amount of the spirituality that once existed.
their opinions on what might be right for the communal life
of interpreting the heavenly signs. For one knew that when a
of the earth; when it rains that has to do with the forces of
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Title: Social Forms: Lecture XVI: Changes in the Meaning of Speech, -or- Dreams and Human Development
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showing that healing will come to social life when the inner mobility
of lectures have now been given by me on the changes that
and foremost, what was said in this connection was expressed
about what should appear. In the present cycle of human
definite fact. Let us suppose that someone announces himself;
be foolish to assume that a miller was coming, a man who
would perhaps be better to form no thoughts whatever, but
just to wait and see what kind of a person conceals himself
us in this case that it would be quite wrong to infer from
himself we would not think that he is a smith. This shows
that in regard to those words we consider proper names, we
feel the need to discover, by means of something that is not
inferred from the name, what or whom we are dealing with.
smith said, — the miller said this or did that,”
villages knows that people frequently do not refer to each
other by proper names but say instead that they saw the
itself originally caused people to infer from the words what
post-Atlantean epoch that proper names have undergone, a
regard to such things we must have the same attitude that we
something that is experienced by many people with abstract
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Title: Poetry/Speech: Lecture I: The Art of Recitation and Declamation
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and declamation itself: so that we have, on the one hand the
Basically, it presents to us that view on the interconnection of
personalities in the physical world may take such a form that the
but also those forces that are inwardly impelled from the soul- and
spirit-worlds. And when you aim at a drama that does not just
What is portrayed in
life those representations that have to do with the ethical and
plastic qualities; you must bring it so far that at the same time
you will hear in this scene, now to be recited, that the
holds in one both the elemental powers of nature and that which
pictoriality. In this sphere we cannot differentiate between what
takes place physically and what takes place ethically. The ethical
fashioning my Mystery Play. I can say that no thought lives in it;
beholding what will now be presented to you – and of
do but write down externally what one has experienced inwardly as a
characters should not be appended only to show that
be heard in what found expression, for example, in Maria, who felt
human character, quite simply in that if one is alive to it, one
feels pulsating within her all that a personality pervaded by love
representations, phenomena and images that are realized through
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Title: Poetry/Speech: Lecture II: The Art of Recitation and Declamation
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is, shows little awareness of the fact that recitation stands
that really anyone can recite – and this, of course, is not
unconnected with the fact that in these same circles everyone
flatters himself that he can also write poetry. It would not so
easily enter anyone's head that someone could be a musician,
recitation, we are obliged to admit that, just as in people's
for the true nature of poetry. There is no doubt that poetry stands
that of ordinary prose, of whatever kind this may be; everything
that man must recognize as that higher world to which he belongs
relationship with that world which is expressed in the art of
namely, that what he wished to convey to the world as his poetry
understanding that lies hidden behind the opening of the Homeric
feeling had been completely lost for what Homer meant to convey
– that when I reveal myself in poetry, it is really something
higher that is revealed in me: my “I” withdraws, my ego
withdraws, so that other powers make use of my speech-organism;
to reveal themselves. One must, therefore, regard what Homer placed
maeren” – what are maeren, for those who
this Alp, we have the last atavistic traces of what is
many a marvel told.” What is referred to in the first
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Title: Poetry/Speech: Lecture III: The Art of Recitation and Declamation
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speech, everything that in singing is still bound up with numerical
expression, albeit of a different kind, to what was present in the
recitation and declamation. It may be said that recitation and
in the very nature of poetry that, in one case, a poem is
way in which all those things that in music and singing, in pitch,
turned inward that nothing external remains except time, which
element, where pitch, and even tone-colour, and that which produces
depends upon what takes place when inhaled air penetrates into our
that of exhalation, as in this case the rhythm is always twofold.
breathing-rhythm is not destroyed, there arises what lives in
observation to mental representation that should manifest itself in
not linked with the representational element, but with that of
will-impulse – what actually is it that is overcome? (This
inner experience closely resembling what hovers behind music, that
that lives in man in the way of vanquished or allayed harmonies,
And when, in a poem, we let sound forth what
forth what lives in us as we exhale our breath – then,
Greeks, into the entirely metrical hexameter: so that inwardly, the
mich die Urne gefasst hat!’
Then do I thinke in deed, that better it is to
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Title: Colour: Part Two: Thought and Will as Light and Darkness
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permeated by what one might call cosmic thought. It is equally
one-sided to consider, like Schopenhauer, that Nature has a basis of
and is shown by the fact that Schopenhauer has a particular preference
with reality. And it is precisely to such a view that the inner
What such men as Hegel and Schopenhauer, who are after all great and
Now let us today, to begin with, understand clearly that we, as human
thought-experiences, it means that he has this thought-experience
the same time to our previous existence on earth. We know that the
head. These thoughts, as we have also seen, are the reshaping of what
what functions as will in our present limbs will be reshaped and
The will thus appears as the seed, as it were, of thought. What is at
This is what in future will become our head: thinking man. But we
Now that which thus arranges the composition of man in this way
thoughts. So that we may say with those abilities which man normally
the basis of the head's organization, that which comes down from
friends, that we can only use the expression: it becomes as if it gave
generation is capable of understanding at all what they mean. I have
that it is not a question of thinking in terms of a new physical
because as thinking men, it is ourselves. You cannot see that which
see the thought-element as light. So that in speaking of the whole
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Title: Colour: Part Two: The Connection of the Natural with the Moral-Psychical. Living in Light and Weight.
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In our last exposition we discussed the possibility of seeing what
that which pertains to Nature. On this point modern humanity faces a
disquieting riddle. I have frequently stated in public lectures that
universe. But then what is born in us as morality, as our ideals, will
physical and in this final condition of the physical that which has
reality then would be that which has developed physically out of the
the thought: Surely everything moral that arises in the human soul
certainly people who acknowledge both views, in spite of the fact that
of things — that good works somehow find their reward, and
evildoers are punished, and so on. This fact, that today there are
people — these moral and physical points of view — what I
pointed out to you that we see around us, first of all, the world of
light-phenomena, that we therefore see in the outer world everything
which is apparent to us through what we call light. I pointed out to
you how dying world-thoughts are to be seen in everything that
of thought, world-though that is dying. This meets us as light. You
at the right place) that if we look back into the far distant past,
that at that time the universe was inhabited, as it is also now. But
holds today. We know that those spirits which we call the Archai or
went as thinking beings with human character through that world. That
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Title: Poetry/Speech: Lecture IV: Poetry and the Art of Speech
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give too little consideration to exactly what is presented by the
art to eurythmy. We then become deeply aware that recitation and
artistic. Let us be clear that a poet – if he is a true poet
simply not be a poet at all. But it must also be made clear that
what is put before the reciter is, in the end, only a kind of score
or music-script – and that the art of recitation and
which he can give expression to what reaches him from the poet only
We must also take into consideration that we are
now living in a time when much of what has hitherto lived
think that by introducing this sort of consciousness they will
believe, too, that by becoming conscious of what really goes on in
the soul in artistic creation they will lose that spontaneity
on the other hand, we must realise that what we are striving for in
struggle toward the experience of what in our spiritual stream is
the intellectual, so that artistic feeling need in no way be lost
are dealing with genuine Imaginations it cannot be lost. For what
something personal: I would like to say that to me it was always
all sorts of intellectual notions. For what lives in these Mystery
In that way I was
that is directed toward cognition. Hence this prejudice, that
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Title: Curative Eurythmy: Lecture 1
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Today we will have a sort of introduction, and what we gain from it
all I want to draw attention to some basic matters. What has been practised
children, since what has been developed until now as eurythmy is in every
way drawn out of the formation of the healthy human being. We will see that
another to become what can be called a sort of curative eurythmy.
course, be essential to emphasize that artistic eurythmy — which
is in essence the expression of that element inherent in the formation
and in the tendencies to movement of the human body — is that which
emphasize that they will have to forget in the most thorough fashion
what they have acquired in these hours when they do artistic eurythmy.
those goals which one pursues in hygiene and therapeutics and that artistic
given this preface, I would like to speak more specifically about what
to understand what eurythmy in its most varied aspects is, one must
to regard each human organ as a thing unto itself. That isn't the case,
however. That is not how a human organ is. Every human organ is a member
Nevertheless, the case is that certain human organs and groups of organs
organ where one can penetrate through that one organ into the essence
What I
we will now direct our attention, you will see that it is possible.
of the windpipe, you will discover when you study its forms that it
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Title: Curative Eurythmy: Lecture 2
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science — that vowels express more that which lives inwardly in
man as feelings, emotions and so on. Consonants describe more that which
that is to say, we reveal what we feel towards an object. Through the
In eurythmy we bring back what attended the vowels and consonants
realize that when we pronounce vowels we omit the movement and make
the vowel inward, that previously joined in the outward movement to
movement what we have taken away from it on its inward-going path. In
the case of the vowel, matters are such that the outward movement is
of the vowel, eurythmically expressed, onto the whole man. That is what
that which is eurythmically vocalized in movement. Here it is very
important that one develops a feeling for what flows into the movement.
That one develops a perceptive consciousness which tells one whether
that which is happening in the respective human limb is a stretching,
for this. In what pertains to vowels it is extremely important
that one feels the movement made or the position taken up. That is what
both arms. This stretching should be carried out in such a way that
movement somewhat lower, returns again, and does it with both (arms)
the front, now a bit back again, and then somewhat deeper. Now I don't
want to trouble you further with that, but if one wanted to carry it
on, go hack, a bit further on, and so forth, so that one has as many
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Title: Curative Eurythmy: Lecture 3
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forms which consonants take in eurythmic movement. In what has been
The person who sets himself the task of observing speech will see that
instead reproduces the external within himself. That is a major
the F-movement. And now keep an eye on what you can observe here in
these two different movements. You can observe what is present by virtue
you will find that man's linguistic instinct places an “E”
Through the foregoing you will perceive that when man utters an
but “fi”, in that moment it is a different matter; in that
what I have expressed for example, in
this going out and taking hold in the external world of what man today
science is not accepted on the grounds of such things is solely that
they want to make it easier for themselves. But that just won't do.
They want to make everything easier for themselves; and that
That,
important that one form a contemplative picture. Naturally, one cannot
penetrate to the very end of that which one has in such a picture, to
find the movement for it deviates greatly to begin with from what takes
be polar to the actual process in speech. You know that the speech process
case of other consonants this element must be toned down. Now, what
the characteristic movement that was present in D. Thus the thrusting
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Title: Curative Eurythmy: Lecture 4
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consonantal eurythmic movements the case is that, although the rhythmic
a contemplative picture of what is involved when one can enter into the
this B in walking as well. Try to walk in such a manner, however, that
B. Now imagine that done more and more quickly and repeated to begin
Now you must attempt to do this with the legs as well. That brings about
tone eurythmy. That must now be repeated frequently and in series by
of the movements that are connected with the eurythmic consonants have
to do with that in the process of digestion which lies on the far side
— thus from the other side of that comprised in the first digestive
inward digestion, on all that which is digestive activity in the blood
vessels, and moreover on what is digestive activity in the kidneys.
related to language, and how a connection thus arises between that which
you hop, and while hopping you bend the legs somewhat at the knee. Here
knock-knees. That is what must be carried out. Our first concern is
works to strengthen the intestinal activity, particularly that activity
out sharply, with the Q as well; but that is the same thing again. Here
in the physiological effect of D and T, G, K, and Q, is that in the
connection with the human digestive activity, and that is with the
finds that urination is not in order. It has a stimulative effect on
whatever reason — here is the movement to be performed.
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Title: Curative Eurythmy: Lecture 5
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soul. Before we begin, however, it will be necessary to take note that
when he arrives at a judgment, that these expressions are connected
case; one must make it clear to oneself that the judgments which the
that man pronounces a judgment out of the totality of his being. Thus
not only the head which will be subject to the influences of what arises
and negation is precisely that which can be called a judgment; when one
— both ten times consecutively. Whatsoever illness this shortness
counteract it in such a way that the entire constitution is affected as
must only keep in sight what is being done here. One could interpret what
Mrs. Baumann has done touching upon what is essential in it as follows:
what she projects thereby into the world is a thought that has become
oneself than otherwise. That is to say, one makes a movement through
actually movements that awaken. However, because one does not wake up
by means of this detour through the etheric body this constitutes what
would be the first symptom reached and what is introduced into the whole
such a movement — not in reality, however, at least that shouldn't
digestion is really stimulated in such a manner that through such a
want to express that which one could call the feeling of love towards
One cannot say that it accelerates or retards the circulation; it affects
at this and picture to yourself that one carries out this movement for
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Title: Curative Eurythmy: Lecture 6
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that part of the physiological which we discover in the proximity of
that which can he observed in this connection in artistic eurythmy will
with in these days. Nevertheless, the essence of that which concerns
us make clear to ourselves what is taking place here, proceeding however
very exactly. What is happening? A poem is recited. The person who does
consideration physiologically. That is the first matter of importance.
He doesn't speak himself, he listens. That is essential. He listens to
thought and of mental representation are alive. What he perceives
association of sounds. That is something which man in his waking,
daytime existence often does, is it not? But what actually takes place
psychologic-physiologic point of view you will easily discover that a
and the astral body glide over what they are taking in, they live into
similar to sleep in that the “I” and astral body are slightly
disengaged, dissimilar in that they remain receptive, perceptive and
It is a subtle, conscious imagining that is still strongly suppressed
we take this into account as well. Let us look at what takes place in
the person who is not reciting. What does he do when he listens? He
movements and has them carried out by the physical body. That is to
one does what the human being carries out with his etheric body constantly
while listening. You can see what is actually taking place.
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Title: Curative Eurythmy: Lecture 7
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to particulars you will find it necessary to elucidate what I have to
so on. How that can he done will reveal itself to you as if of its own
such as that which takes place in eurythmy, we may do no less than to
we must contemplate that extra-human world process which one usually
traces only in its details and not in regard to what is actually inwardly
active. Just consider what earth formation is, in reality: a formative
what lies without the planetary sphere a formative working into the
and building up that which is on and in the Earth from without —
although they encompass all that I have said about such rays previously
as well. The fact is that the metals of the Earth as a whole, for example,
that work through the ether can be called formative forces, formative
forces working in from outside and not from the planets, for in that
specific purpose of modifying them, that is, the planetary sphere. Please
assemble them around a point so that the earth can come into being.
they are present as the forces that build up the organs plastically,
physical world. That is a process which becomes so tangible in the
to yourself that, in association with the tendency to push something
these two processes is that which mediates: processes of secretion and
on the other hand, the absorption of what the other has secreted and
so on, that which can be called processes of secretion in the widest
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Title: Colour: Part One: Colour-Experience (Erlebnis)
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survey of the modern idea of the world of colour, we notice that
present time people are very far from what Goethe intended in his
Any one who, like Goethe, really lives in art, can never doubt that
what the artist has to say about the world of colour must be bound up
always in mind the idea that we ought to estimate colour according to
might say, the mischievous custom — in some places, to contend that
what we perceive as a coloured world really exists only for our senses,
explanations such as these is able to make nothing of the concept that
what he knows as colour-impressions, his personal experience of colour,
feeling. We must try to question our feeling as to what colour is in
inward experiment, so that we may have before us not only the
define further. No one will doubt that we can experience the
You must admit that the sensation aroused is very different in the
three cases, that there is a certain quality of sensation when red,
by bringing a little imagination into what we have painted before us.
say: That is really nonsense, an impossible case. I should really have
not trouble us. Our sensation tells us that these peach-blossom
meadow. That does not last long, for the blue figures deaden the green
have the idea that there must be somewhere an abyss, and that the blue
That is colour-experience. It must be possible to have it, otherwise we
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peach-blossom colour; and in such a manner that we were able to say:
world with the character of pictures; but we saw also that something
character of the colour. We saw, for example, that the living must
proceed from the lifeless, and that in the lifeless the image of the
speak, the receiver and the give, between that in which the picture is
the expression if you take the whole of what we did yesterday) — I
shadow-thrower is the spirit, the spirit receives that which is thrown
according to feeling, and then you will see that we come to a certain
In this way therefore we got green. We have to visualize exactly what
and white alternately — now imagine that this black and white was
opposite of what we had up here: here was had a quiescent white and
cannot of course paint that at the moment, but imagine these
movement and from that fact arises this colour of which we are
speaking. So that we can get this colour only in a roundabout way, and
that we have not yet got, and the result is another
you have a sense of colour, you can feel that. If, for instance, you
card-tables covered in green. What I mean is that it would be enough
we note that as a result of its own nature, colour has a inner
paler all the time. That is what I might call the secret of yellow.
demands that the colour is intensified on the circumference and shades
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We have differentiated colours in that out of their own nature we have
this pictorial character of colours we had to differentiate what I
red. And we saw that just these colours, blue, yellow and red, possess
what I might call certain properties of will, by reason of their being
solid bodies. And we know also that we must make use of bodies as
What is the relation of colour as such, which we have got to know as
body, to matter? What makes matter as such appear to us coloured? Those
will perhaps know that there, this question is not touched upon, from a
the rest of life, you see what interesting things result. He pursued
first four colours we dealt with. We saw that we there have a property
is to be understood really only in movement. So that green is the most
we must enlarge the problem contrary to what is usually recognized
that the Vegetable Kingdom was
we also know that at that time there was as yet no solid matter. We
colour-matter, and with something that is really a fluid element. And
that something was formed in vegetation which made it definite, and not
fluid. So that what we call plants first appeared during the formation
of the earth. It was then that colour must have taken on the character
in plants such as we perceive today; it was then that it became a
merges into yellow. A superficial observation shows you what is at
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Title: Psychoanalysis: Lecture V: Connections Between Organic Processes and the Mental Life of Man
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to outline a psychology that takes into account both the soul's hidden
I shall have something to add to what was stated
and a new birth. I said that we can follow up the formative
know that man is in essence a threefold being, with three
know that each human being has a differently, an
of that which gives to the head its physiognomy, its entire
organism, and if we consider what we possess as a
anatomy and physiology alone, the foolish conclusion that the
that I have already explained in lectures given last autumn in
our view of the outer world changes, and in such a way that as
atoms in the manner of present world-conceptions. What is
spiritual the further we press forward in cognition, so that we
deeply into our inner life there arises — not that
give up the preconceived idea that our psychic
nervous system being there only in order that concepts may be
formed in regard to what takes place in the will. There are no
organs, naturally by means of spiritual sight. What exactly is
also what we elaborate in thought are reflected upon the
forth, and what is thus thrown back constitutes our memories.
organism is involved in these things. That is something which
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Title: Old/New Methods: Lecture One: Ahrimanic and Luciferic, Human Body, Soul, Spirit
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mysteries and how that contrasts with what is required today of people
I shall describe some aspects of what nowadays gives expression to
tragedy. One expression of this breach is the fact that human beings,
— that world which gives the human soul religious feelings both
come to appear before the human soul in such a way that it has
impossible for them to discover what it is that makes them human.
to admit that today's world is divided into two parts which, for
soul life as being linked with the eternal meaning of that world of
and show us that behind the world perceived by our senses there
people today because they have no inkling that real forces stand
behind the expressions used, nor that, whatever kind of speech is
— language cannot give full and adequate expression to what is
seen and perceived. What, after all, do the words ‘human
manner of ways of expressing what, despite everything, will be far
both right and wrong to say that the true being of man is beyond
comparison I might say that defining the being of man is like trying
deviations that constantly want to go off in opposite directions.
ahrimanic side. This is what is characteristic of initiation science.
able to be seen everywhere. Then it will be known, for instance, that
setting to work in the head region; or that when the physical body
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Title: Old/New Methods: Lecture Two: East, Weat, and Center, -or- Asiatic Spiritual Life
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mysteries and how that contrasts with what is required today of people
shall add to what has been said over the past few days, both, before
time an urgent need to reach a global understanding. Yet whatever
understanding. The need for an understanding is there. What is not
congresses, what is to be found in the depths of human souls is quite
deceptive. These appearances are supposed to give the impression that
speaking with one another. What is actually speaking through each one
that it is the folk daemons who are speaking with one another, rather
be hard put to it to find clearer proof of the fact that Christianity
to us, as the God of mankind, only then will Christ come to have what
to understand very clearly that there are things which hold sway in
words that remain stuck in empty phrases as a result of the
about what can actually only be brought about today out of the
profound depths of man's being. Today what is needed is profundity, a
earth evolution. What can be heard today in every corner of the earth
does not to any extent even touch the surface of all that is rooted
in the human being. What ought now to enter into mankind is the quest
for what is most profoundly rooted in the being of man.
now show in a few simple outlines the main differences that exist in
people's attitudes to what could lead to a recognition and an
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Title: Old/New Methods: Lecture Three: The Development of Religious Experience in Post-Atlantean Civilization
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mysteries and how that contrasts with what is required today of people
viewpoint, namely that of history. With the express aim of promoting
echoes of that ancient culture, of which there exist no written
religious element of ancient Indian culture included what we today
pertinent description is that it was a religious culture. This
religious culture generates the feeling in human beings that in the
This feeling was developed so intensely that the whole of life was
to imagine, though, that what lived in these people's view of the
fall on the dead letters of the printed page. We know what they mean
with what the ancient Indian people saw in their instinctive vision
and in relation to this what they saw in the constellations and
What
all that they grasped in pictures about the universe; they also
developed a permanent feeling that whatever they did, even the most
those ancient times people knew very well that Lucifer and Ahriman
they aware that because divine, spiritual beings worked in them, they
description I want to call up in you an idea of what this religion
first Indian age paled. First of all what paled was the feeling of
somewhat, but human beings had to develop something by inner activity
still possessed an awareness of what had once been a part of human
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Title: Old/New Methods: Lecture Six: Methods of Initiation, Old and New - 1
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mysteries and how that contrasts with what is required today of people
spiritual life in connection with what has gone before in human
of the fifteenth century is entirely different from that of earlier
should like to mention that, before the Mystery of Golgotha, people
ancient days of human evolution it was unthinkable that spiritual
turned to the Mysteries in those ancient days, if knowledge was what
Mysteries. That is why the course of scientific development is
Before that time knowledge
consciousness on which this was founded, we discover that those who
important in what they called ‘the prince of this world’
— that is, the spiritual beings — of other worlds.
would certainly have considered all that lived in the knowledge that
of such expressions in order to show properly what is meant, and no
one should think that there is anything superstitious about using
give you a picture of what someone initiated in the ancient Greek, or
understand that these people also spoke about the Christ-being,
Christ to us actually means that Being who underwent the Mystery of
of this world’ — that ahrimanic being — also knew
him. That being — I am describing what lived in the
the earth. He considered that whatever human beings possessed through
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Title: Old/New Methods: Lecture Seven: Methods of Initiation, Old and New - 2
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mysteries and how that contrasts with what is required today of people
practising what is needed for attaining super-sensible knowledge. To a
main reason is to make known what kind of higher knowledge can be
attained by such means. A declaration stating that one thing or
stated that the human being seeking initiation is capable of
discuss briefly. A statement such as this shows that the element of
over and above that of the body. So a discussion about higher
this is, in the first instance, what is important for the
treated so that it became able to free its soul nature in both
directions. I said that the two main aspects of this in the ancient
the main point. The main point was that during the process of coming
was no longer held off by the brain but allowed through, so that the
pupil became aware of his soul and spirit element and knew that this
picture was dreamlike in character. For what was it that was freed on
towards the will aspect? It was that part which descends from realms
such a way that their intellect has become stronger by comparison
since the fifteenth century. It is extremely significant that
throughout the Middle Ages people still knew that in order to attain
German culture that, precisely in the years when Napoleon destroyed
drama would have shown clearly that the members of such an Order,
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Title: Old/New Methods: Lecture Eight: The Passage of the Human Soul and Spirit through the Physical Sense-Organization
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mysteries and how that contrasts with what is required today of people
spiritual world. We shall take particular account of what happens in
the soul during this process, for we must understand that on entering
tremendous transformation takes place, and that another tremendous
What are the last experiences of the soul before it descends to
impulses, so that we can describe all these things that are
throw at least some light on what lives in the soul before it enters
all we must be clear that the thought element leads a shadowy
thoughts about what they have perceived with their senses in the
sense-perceptible world. You could say that as a solid earthly object
what lives in our thinking during earthly existence. If we seek to
birth and death to the true stature of our thought life, we find that
whatever is casting the shadow. Before birth, or rather before
weaving life before conception is, of course, something that fills
The thoughts that then live in us during our life on earth are the
that has life on a cosmic scale prior to conception.
find, as one part of the content of his soul, something that is like
fills it entirely. You must understand, however, that fear as an
element of feeling which can only be compared with what is
that period of human life about which I am now speaking. In the life
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Title: Old/New Methods: Lecture Nine: The Threefold Human, Reincarnation, Heathens, Jews, Christians, Calderon
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mysteries and how that contrasts with what is required today of people
fear. I then went on to point out that the living spirit is
metamorphosed into a thought element, but that it also sends into
earth existence a living remnant of pre-earthly life that lives in
human sympathy. So in human sympathy we have something that maintains
of fear that fills our soul before we descend to the physical world
What
during physical earthly life, of a soul that has — in a way
here in earthly life by what I yesterday described as sympathy
that is, at the beginning of the fifth post-Atlantean period. What
that of the Greek world — abstract concepts as we know them
merely think the world, reserving their feelings of sympathy for what
earthly life means that there is a strong experience of all that
earlier times. It meant that every cloud, every tree, every plant,
That is why, as times moved nearer to our own, all elemental beings
disappeared from what human beings saw in nature.
So what
is this kind of spirituality that human beings still feel within
this question we shall have to consider what I have said with regard
understand it if we look at it pictorially. We have to imagine that
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Title: Old/New Methods: Lecture Ten: The Threefold Human, Four Elements, Imagination, Inspiration, Intuition
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mysteries and how that contrasts with what is required today of people
more pointed out in these lectures that in the most recent cultural
statement that the force of thoughts is actually the corpse of our
Cyprianus. That drama depicts, on the one hand, the struggles which
and how, at the same time, they felt that it would be impossible to
concept. I then went on yesterday to show that the phase depicted in
can certainly say that in his young days Goethe explored all the
in what the intellectual realm had to offer, Goethe did not seek what
We can certainly say that Goethe sought true knowledge. But he could
for he could not find it in the cultural life that at first presented
that wonderful poem which begins with the words:
drama. But it has to be said that Goethe, who wrestled in the deepest
the earth, so that ever since then, when seeking the spirit which
Imaginations transformed into Inspirations and Intuitions. What is
becomes a reality, will what I told you yesterday be fully
understood: That the world around us must come to be seen as a
answer. This is what was to have been given to mankind with the
has no special feeling that the human head, for instance, is in any
that the head is, in the main, a metamorphosis of the system of limbs
head occupies a place in evolution which is quite different from that
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Title: Old/New Methods: Lecture Eleven: Faust and Hamlet in Relation to the Turning Point of the 15th Century
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mysteries and how that contrasts with what is required today of people
which took place at that time in the condition of human souls. We can
say that profound traces of what took place at that time for mankind
there today. That something so important can take place without at
— that of Christianity itself.
spirits of the leading culture of the time — that of Rome. It
was still seen as a minor event of little significance that had taken
what took place in the civilized world around the first third of the
about some aspects recently. For instance, we saw that Calderón's
Anthroposophy has to express it — that in all sorts of places
pointed out that Goethe's
situation in Europe at that time, Goethe came to depict in dramatic
a representative of all those seeking personalities who lived at that
personality living in the midst of this seeking and striving that had
see that the special nature of this seeking and striving, as it
worked on his soul, so that he has taken into his soul the impulses
practice of magic. Let us be clear about what is meant in this case.
What he has gone through by way of ‘Philosophy and
is what anyone can go through by studying the intellectualized
this with what it was like in earlier times. The fact that things
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Title: Old/New Methods: Lecture Twelve: The Transition from the 4th to the 5th Post-Atlantean Period, Shakespeare, the Spiritual Struggle of Schiller and Goethe
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mysteries and how that contrasts with what is required today of people
life, tasks arising out of the great change that took place in the
find that spiritual leaders such as the poets who created these
form, the question: What will become of the human being when he has
all that is most dear to it, and all that is most important for it.
All the evolutionary factors we considered yesterday were what Goethe
evolutionary factors. We saw how both express the feeling that truly
What
evolution of humanity is the fact that their most important creative
how that which fills the soul in an intellectual way is actually the
at that time, and what Goethe and Schiller were wrestling to achieve,
Fragment, and also the parts which Goethe omitted, we find that here
soul, but what is still entirely lacking, what was still quite
foreign to him at that time, was the question of placing Faust within
demanded of him that he continue work on
young. We see also in Schiller what was actually going on in the
writing again in the nineties, we see that now he is compelled to let
most interesting facts that Schiller now feels compelled to let the
drama is comprehensible only when we take into account that Wallenstein
stars. It is perfectly obvious that he is trying to do this, for we,
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Title: Old/New Methods: Lecture Thirteen: The Transition from the 4th to the 5th Post-Atlantean Period, Shakespeare, Schiller, Goethe, -or- The Search for the Spirit
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mysteries and how that contrasts with what is required today of people
that tremendous change, which entered into the whole soul
that is, with the transition from the fourth to the fifth
vibrations of the great change, how he sensed that it was a concrete
soul. He sensed that it was necessary to come to terms with the
knew that it was only possible for them to find real knowledge if
the utmost doubt; that is why I have devoted myself to magic.
Faust figure to represent his own soul struggles. I said that
that professor who might have taught at Wittenberg in the sixteenth
asked whether — apart from what is given us in the Faust drama
effects of what someone like Faust could have taught in the
I said that in the whole mood and artistic form of Shakespeare's
plays, that is, in the historical plays, we could find in the
that time of transition. Then I drew your attention to the way in
lacked, in a certain sense, the will to accept what the intellectual
period and by rejecting what had come into being through
goes back to that time — not by
Karl Moor something which echoes the luciferic element that is also
indicated further that, in the West, Shakespeare was in a position
that is at work in Shakespeare's plays is a retrospective view of
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Title: Old/New Methods: Lecture Fourteen: The 5th Post-Atlantean Period, the French Revolution, Schiller, Goethe, the Freedom Problem, -or- Berlin University Course Report - 2
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mysteries and how that contrasts with what is required today of people
come to develop in the various realms of inner life. Everything that
connection it has to be said that the most significant expression of
the intellectualistic age so far has been the French Revolution, that
conditions of mankind. Only consider that the French Revolution, in
understand that before the time of the French Revolution there was
preceded the French Revolution, people knew that the earth can never
Human beings always felt that they had links with the spiritual world
and they expected this spiritual world to satisfy whatever
essentially what intellectualism seeks, too.
satisfy everything that is present in the sense-perceptible physical
those of, let us say, Egypt, when the social order took in what the
how he was stimulated by what was expressed in the French Revolution
balances what is otherwise either a dictate of reason or a dictate of
Similarly, what comes to him from the object of art through his
freedom? And the conclusion he reaches is that the human being can
at that time. Schiller was full of enthusiasm for this way
this. He felt that Goethe in his artistic activity was as free as is
which means that the human being becomes truly free: This is what Schiller
point where the line starts to curve upwards from what had been
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Title: Lecture: Inner Nature of Music: Lecture IV
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I pointed out that certain human functions appearing in early childhood
are transformations of functions that man carries out in pre-earthly
begun. We know that the form of man's physical body is the
and a new birth. What man forms in this way, however — that
upright. That faculty is incorporated into the human being when he
life nor yet in that of his earthly life. He has left the former and
man has a language that does not actually emerge from within, that
inhalation, inspiration, something in pre-earthly existence that we
language, and here we acquire the means that serve to express our
thoughts, our earthly thoughts, and the human intellect, that is, the
we can say that an essential part of the earth's culture and
unites with soul. We feel that in speaking we have an essential
particularly interesting to understand the connection between what
fitting that at this moment I can add the subject of man's
between man's life in that which corresponds to tone and sound
a reflection of the spiritual through and through. Not only what man
the inside. Man is completely contained, as it were, in what he
revealed when one goes into the details of what man is when he speaks
whole organism is actually involved, and what takes place in the song
or speech organ is only the final culmination of what goes on within
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Title: Lecture: Inner Nature of Music: Lecture VII
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I have called attention repeatedly to the fact that, just as one can
that would serve as super-sensible sense organs — to coin a
what he experiences between falling asleep and awakening. Only
spiritual vision, therefore, could survey that which would be
which runs parallel to the biography that we come to with the help of
include what, together with him and caused by him, takes place in his
super-sensible vision is in a position to speak of a world that
before our souls some of the aspects that can illuminate that world.
human realms. Ascending to those regions that are accessible only to
that during sleep we are indeed in this super-sensible world and have
experiences there, despite the fact that, due to the absence of
arrive at a more specific comprehension of what the human being
that concerns the actual course of events in the world in which we
we shall discuss it from another viewpoint, that of the super-sensible
world. The event to which I refer is one that falls in the fourth
becomes different in that century. Without spiritual scientific insight
feeling. We have described in different words what human beings
experienced in the course of that age. Now we shall take a brief
glance at what the beings who belong to the super-sensible realm
experienced during that same time. We shall turn to the other side of
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Title: Lecture I: The WHITSUN Mystery and its Connection with the Ascension
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Gospels, in order that their deeper content and meaning may be brought
rationalistic way that is possible with concepts and ideas. People
think that once a concept has been grasped they have got to the root
The first picture is that of the disciples of Christ Jesus on the day
clouds. The usual conception of this scene is that Christ went up into
heaven and so departed from the earth, and that the disciples were
The thought may occur to you that in a certain respect this belies the
reality of the Mystery of Golgotha. We ourselves know that through His
earth, that is to say, from the Mystery of Golgotha onwards to remain
Ascension might thus seem to be at variance with what esoteric vision
The second picture is that of the scene ten days after the Ascension,
and they are moved “to speak with other tongues.” What this
actually means is that henceforward the disciples were able to impart
We know from our study of Anthroposophy, that the evolution of mankind
did not begin on the Earth, but that Earth-evolution proper was
physical body. In that epoch, however, the physical body was a body of
warmth only; that is to say, warmth of varying degrees, forces of
really begins with the fourth epoch, that of Atlantis. We are living
mid-point of its development. From this you will realise that the
that the soil beneath our feet to-day belongs to an earth that is
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Title: Arts and Their Mission: Lecture I
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back, in survey, over the evolution of mankind, we see that the epochs
out that the full historical comprehension of the people of the present
of the Greeks. Herman Grimm is right in saying that, as usually described,
no longer see what lived in those souls, it is unable to understand
from our soul life is that of the human beings of the Egyptian-Chaldean
that in ancient Persia, and completely different that of the ancient
of the human being, it becomes clear that our way of feeling about the
in the course of time, life has become so earth-bound that human beings
during the first epoch, that of ancient India. If we go back to the
seventh or eighth millennium of the pre-Christian era, we find that
— that the human being felt quite differently than we do today
about the ego, the self. To be sure, the human beings of that ancient
to him self-evident that it had little to do with earth and earth events.
In experiencing himself as an ego, man did not feel that he belonged
to the earth; but, rather, that he was connected with the heaven of
the fixed stars. This was what gave him the sense and security of his
human being only through the fact that here on earth he was clothed
no other existence than that of earth's plants, rivers, mountains and
rocks, no human being would have an ego. For what guarantees existence
times the teacher in the Mysteries spoke to his pupils somewhat like
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Title: Arts and Their Mission: Lecture II
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everyone thoroughly comprehends the fact that Anthroposophy strives to
longer experienced. Gradually the conception has arisen that art
Oriental and African art forms; but that is not the point at issue.
with this status in the cosmos; he would have no call whatsoever to
being, one has to be dissatisfied with what nature offers. For, if
naturalistic world-conception demands that those who wish to create
it is only when we envisage a world other than the natural one that
conclusion from naturalism as it affects the arts. What would happen
if they did? They would have to demand that people imitate nature; nothing
all that? Why let actors speak as people do in everyday life? If you
find out what people say to one another in ordinary life.” In other
spiritual world. It was out of a spirit-attuned state that the artistic
for spiritual impulses, but merely utilitarian buildings. And what would
People did not always think like that; certainly not in those ages when
in words somewhat like these: “Here I stand in the world, but as
effect.” Which is to say that as long as the human being is not
often remarked that eating is not the simple process ordinarily imagined.
human beings think it is the laws of nature that are active in the roast
active everywhere. The fact that roast beef encounters spirit-soul laws
in that direction.
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Title: Arts and Their Mission: Lecture III
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of the world. In architectural forms we see what the human soul expects
which did not harmonize with what they had experienced during their
of primitive peoples represent what might be called an unskillful copying
correctly the lower head, mouth and chin, then we understand that, even
into that body. Which means a sharp contrast: whereas architecture begins
post-Atlantean period. Painters express through lines the fact that
the plane was a necessity; that fact is self-evident. But it must now
be overcome. This does not mean that in the future painters should be
blind to spatial perspective, only that, while understanding it, they
elemental. Fortunately it can be provided. For that purpose I suggest
that you look again at some words of mine about the world of color as
natural entities which are not spiritual; that is, in minerals. Recent
physicists have made matters easier for themselves by saying that colors
measured, weighed on scales. But what is perceived in physics does not
content: we will not arrive at color. That is why physicists say that
like to explain by way of an image. Picture to yourselves that I hold
in my left hand a red sheet, in my right a green one, and that with
movements. You immediately remember that, contrary to my present use
with a red and a green sheet. For politeness' sake let us assume that
all of you have such a vivid imagination that, in spite of my moving
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Title: Arts and Their Mission: Lecture IV
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wished to call attention to the fact that anthroposophical contemplation
of yesterday's lecture I stressed the fact that, by gaining a direct
an earth life, that brings about a sense of the validity of all that
surroundings akin to his physical body, he comes to realize that
I stand within earth existence, it contradicts that part of my human
intensity: What can be learned through the physical senses leads to
from anthroposophical contemplation that, to pass this door, to enter
the realms where we may perceive what lies behind the outer world, we
feelings and will, a certain inner steadiness. That is why entering
that no person penetrates this door in the state of consciousness brought
if we would enter our true home and discover what bears a relationship
us to recognize that, if earthly existence were immediately satisfactory,
if what modern naturalism dreams to be the case were so, namely, that
aware that he is more than anything which earthly existence implies.
it stresses the fact that one must travel a road of purification before
the truth that religious life leads far beyond the facts observable
recognizes that the Mystery of Golgotha, the earth-life of Christ Jesus,
here that art enters. It forms a bridge across the abyss. That is why
art must realize that its task is to carry the spiritual-divine life
into the earthly; to fashion the latter in such a way that its forms,
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Title: Arts and Their Mission: Lecture V
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to emphasize that the spiritual evolution of mankind has proceeded from
when these three streams flowed from a common source. That source is seen
the primeval ages; or, rather, to what would today be called poetry. To
the deepest needs of their souls. At that period those with clairvoyant
what could be fathomed only by studying the relationship between stars
one example among many. For the conception held sway that occurrences
of the starry heavens. We must also be clear about the fact that in
because the human beings of that time were deeply conscious of the fact
that with the word, created out of their organisms' innermost secret,
they could express something super-sensible, that language was fitted
to express what appears in star-constellations and star-movements; far
felt — and is therefore eminently adapted to what, from cosmic
that man learned what he in turn poured into the other arts. Poetry,
closely united with such inner experiences as that of breathing and
felt that, while with his thoughts he abode among the fixed stars and
of primeval art. What is primeval art? It is nothing other than speech
to the material-earthly; it no longer manifests what it was when human
of the planets past the fixed-star constellations, the vowels. At that
time human beings did not intend to express through speech what they
experienced upon earth, but rather what the soul experienced when it
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Title: Arts and Their Mission: Lecture VI
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that we refer to real spiritual entities when we speak of spiritual
dead heritage from that higher world. It is, therefore, appropriate
(das Schoene) as the ugly or hateful (das Haessliche).
since the opposite of hate is love — the lovely or loving. As it
concealed or non-radiant, that which holds back its being, refusing to
something whose outer aspect belies what it really is. But here
subjectivity enters, for we cannot love what conceals itself, showing
a false countenance; we must hate it. In this way the ugly calls up quite
sense we strive for the beautiful in art, what is our goal? The very
fact that the German word for “beautiful” proceeds outward
(as its opposite suggests a remaining within our emotions, our hate)
means that the beautiful bears a relation to the spiritual outside us.
For what shines? What we apprehend with our senses does not need to
shine for us; it exists. It is the spiritual that shines, radiating
take hold of the shining, the radiance, the manifestation, of that which
In art it is upon a relation to the spiritual that beauty depends.
vocabulary. When an instinctive clairvoyance prevailed, he felt that
he saw not merely the earthly in that metal but the sun proclaiming
objects. But it was only to living things that particular colors were
ascribed, for living things approach the spirit in such a way that the
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Title: Colour: Part Two: Dimension, Number and Weight
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We must clearly realize that of earthly beings only man lives in these
alternation. They do not have that deep, dreamless sleep which man has
somewhat like human dream; but the experiences of the higher animals
When an animal sees a plant, his first feeling is not: that is
inwardly. The circumstance that people of our time are not able to
observe anything that is not obvious, prevents them from seeing in the
impulses and behaviour of animals that it is as I have said.
In order to realize what happens here, let us first start from what
weigh and measure them, and what we ascertain by weighing, measuring
themselves about the things that are heavy, and measurable and
countable. If we want to define any physical object, what constitutes
its real physical nature is the part that can be weighed or counted,
so on. One could really say that the modern physicist cannot make head
cold surge up out of the physical. One says: that which has eight has
But what is there are — if I may so express it — the
other words, what the senses perceive in these things. When we sleep,
weight, we are apt to consider something that appears in the physical,
have no meaning for what is there, but they seemingly imagine them
red object. In order to convince ourselves that it is no optical
that there is something like this in this free-floating, free-moving
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Title: Lecture IV: The Sun-Initiation of the Druid Priest and His Moon-Science
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that Beings are bound up with such an existence, with Sun-existence,
that as regards the further evolution of the Earth we cannot merely
lead an existence outside the Earth-evolution — an existence that
It is exactly the same in the case of what may be called the Moon
cosmic processes, it was necessary to point to the fact that within
of the instinctive clairvoyant forces possessed by man at that time,
cosmic body had separated from the Earth. We must therefore say that
within the Moon-being, not in the light that the Moon radiates back as
reflected sunlight, and not in all the rest of what the Moon radiates
humanity itself, something that was a kind of unconscious memory. And
his whole constitution of soul, so that when we survey civilization we
it were, consciousness-memories of something that in earlier times
worked in a far-reaching sense as Nature-forces in man; and what man
external science man will ask in vain as to what was the real
them Druid sages, for both are expressions entirely suited to that
age, although of course they did not exist then.) What was it that
What is often narrated in history, and indeed often sounds terrible,
always signifies something that was active in the epochs of decadence
and degeneration. What I am going to describe here invariably refers
to what preceded this epoch of degeneration, and was active when the
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Title: Colour: Part Three: The Hierarchies and the Nature of the Rainbow
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evolution of the earth somewhat into line with present-day ideas. In
It is in fact sometimes difficult to explain to modern people what a
of the nineteenth century than it is now. It still happened then that
some poem or other, by this or that poet, was read, and the people
that thought becomes directly light, and illumines everything; and the
act together, in such a way that the thrones constitute a nucleus, and
psychic way; in such a way, however, that the psychic experience is at
being feels the warmth psychically, there really is present what you
beings. The warmth is nothing in itself, it is only the evidence that
all and says: that person doesn't interest me in the least; I am
he is interested in the warmth the other sheds, but that nothing but
Now at the time of which I speak, what I have just described to you
was understood to mean really Cherubim, Seraphim and Thrones. That was
Then one went further and said that only this highest hierarchy, the
that this was done at the beginning of a terrestrial creation could
this happened in such a way that the Beings produced by the Seraphim,
precisely the thing that can appear through the sons of the Second
what distinguishes the paths of these Beings. Under certain
Second Hierarchy in the form of light. What was this shadow? The air.
what the air is. Today one knows only that the air consists of oxygen
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Title: Lecture VI: The WHITSUNTIDE Festival: Its place in the study of Karma
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Karma works, we always have to bear in mind that the human Ego, which is
on Earth. In the Cosmos surrounding the Earth we have that Universe into
feel a certain relationship between what takes place on the Earth and
what takes place in the cosmic environment. But when we come to
— indeed it is particularly proud of the discovery — that
grasp of man himself — a knowledge which takes hold only of what
nature with what we find in the human etheric body. In the same way we
can speak of a similarity between what is found in the human astral body
and a certain astral principle that works through all things and all
we must first discover — what it is in the Cosmos that betrays the
presence of cosmic Astrality; what it is that reveals it. Somewhere or
a totality, you behold the blue sky, of which we also say that it is not
really there but that you are gazing into empty space. Now the reason
why you see the blue of the sky is that you are actually perceiving the
Ether. We may therefore say: In that we perceive the blue of the sky we
are perceiving the universal Ether that surrounds us.
perception of the blue of the sky is expressed in that we say: The Ether
on this point, for the simple reason that it is bound to admit that
this blue of the sky. In reality, it is here that the super-sensible
Every star that we see
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Title: Oswald Spengler: Lecture I: On Spengler's "Decline of the West"
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what offers itself to the casual visitor, who seldom learns the
fact that a few chimneys are smoking again and the trains are
is not what I want to point to now, for in the course of
and saying that here again everything will be just as it has
is that the author expressly states that he conceived the basic
realize their costliness when I tell you that a pamphlet which
what has happened to the economic system in the last few
Spengler calculates in a strictly historical way that the
whether the author (no matter what view of life he may adopt)
today in conferences and believe that out of decay they can
with the prediction (which is more than a vague prophecy) that
thinker that such decline is necessary in accordance with the
sciences, have reached the point of saying that this decay is
physics. This means that the time has begun when belief in
again and again how really serious the times are, and what a
the question: How can we orient thinking so that pessimism
must ask if there is anything that can still lead us out of
gives any hint of a rise. And one cannot say that this is an
that fruit for the future can grow out of bodiless programs,
then you see that an upward movement nowhere appears in what
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Title: Oswald Spengler: Lecture II: Oswald Spengler - I
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time. Here is a man who felt in much that is now active in the
whole western world an impulse toward decline that must
civilization, including America; and it could be seen that the
clear, of course, that Spengler recognized this decline;
and it is evident also that he had a feeling for
mass civilization. That is comprehensible. He believed that the
evident that Spengler, for one, had not the slightest
perception of the fact that salvation for this western culture
will, in opposition to all that is moving headlong toward
something that can yet be brought forth out of the soul of man
we can see that a very well-informed, brilliant man, with a
points out much more forcefully all that lives in a man of the
matter is extraordinarily noteworthy because it shows what a
is primarily the beginning and the end that are of
likewise of many other people of the present time. What is to
tendrils, do not stir. It is the wind that plays with them.
I have wished to point to what gives its significance to the
you will remember that in order to characterize the
course, anyone of the Spenglerian soul-caliber can say that
these balls, nor what the relations are in a deeper sense.
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Title: Oswald Spengler: Lecture III: Oswald Spengler - II
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very large part of all that can be known today. It can be said
that he has complete command of the great variety of thoughts
that have become the possession of civilized humanity in
He is in the highest degree what may be called in Central
for western — that is, French — genius; but, as has
even be seen in various places that out of the sentence-meshes
this is more what might be called an esthetic
what results from thinking, but in his opinion the more
instinctive life-impulses are the deciding factors. So that
it is entirely correct to say that in the world-historical
thoughts with something of universality, at that very
unfruitful thoughts, namely, to what bubbles up in the
in such a way that he says: Everything that this civilization
has brought forth is on the way to ruin. We can only hope that
something instinctive will emerge once again from what Spengler
with what constitutes present civilization, will even crush it,
Spengler sees that people of the modern civilization have
to see that just through reaction, human freedom can result
within this mechanistic life — that is, technical science
know that in the last lecture I quoted the passage in which
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Title: Education as a Social Problem: Lecture I: Historical Requirements of the Present Time
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and co-workers in Stuttgart has given me deep insight into what
takes place in human souls at the present time, into what
for what he means by “spiritual worlds.”]
widespread belief that the problems and tasks of the present
that real salvation is only attainable on the spiritual path,
is extremely difficult to say, for the very reason that
however, that progress can only be made if sufficiently large
numbers of people are permeated by the conviction that
What occupies people's minds today, in the widest circles, are
is as though paralyzed. The belief prevails that the social
problems can be mastered by what is called knowledge, but they
general. Many people have said that this war, which has been
We cannot say that this judgment is wrong. The battle which
will have to be fought by this or that means, and which will
spiritual battle ever waged by mankind. Everything that has
enormous quantity of human impulses. You know that in my book
that for extensive circles of present-day humanity spiritual
life has become an “ideology”; that what
“Ideology.” That is the answer many people give
that is mirrored in the human soul from the only reality, the
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Title: Education as a Social Problem: Lecture II: The Social Structure in Ancient Greece and Rome
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that happens now depends on the fact that since that time there
said that in our spiritual life we still have a Greek
will realize that the impulse of the threefold social order
that in Greece there existed in the highest degree what were
of the ancient Greeks unless we keep in mind that it was
way that resulted from the blood characteristics of the Aryan
conqueror population. Naturally, modern man has outgrown what
self-evident that there were two kinds of people: those who had
One who looks more closely into what lives socially among men
of our time will recognize that in our feelings and our
schools, shape their instruction in a way that represents a
universities derived from Hellenism. Through the very fact that
schools. It has become necessary today to realize that the time
accounts, is at hand, and that we must think about such matters
know that what was formed out of the blood in Hellenism became
this did not pass over to Romanism. What did pass over was the
would never have occurred to an ancient Greek to doubt that
Within the Roman Empire there was the strong consciousness that
power, through might. You need only remind yourselves that the
Romans trace their origin to that assembly of robbers in the
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Title: Education as a Social Problem: Lecture III: Commodity, Labor, and Capital
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WHAT I have to say today will be a kind of interlude. I
commodity, labor, capital. I have already told you that modern
arrive at complete clarity about these concepts. That was not
political economy if we pose the question of what is to happen
the concepts of modern science. You know that in spite of the
and universities completely rejects all that springs from the
what happens in economic life. But this has become almost
in the modern age the less have they had thoughts that could
life. We suffer in modern times from the fact that we have an
economic life that is practice without ideas, and with it the
man it will be easy for you to realize that a certain attitude
life. That is what is so important in the threefold membering
of the social organism, namely, that this certain attitude,
imagine that something of a soul-spiritual nature streams
is the bearer of the air that is inhaled and exhaled, so
Here we come to a chapter that is hard for modern man to
social reformation. The fact that in the social life of the
significance, is something that must be understood. Results
will depend upon what people take seriously when they exchange
their ideas, their sensations, their feelings. The views that
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Title: Education as a Social Problem: Lecture IV: Education as a Problem Involving the Training of Teachers
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will have gathered that among the many problems under
discussion today that of education is the most important. We
had to emphasize that the entire social question contains as
its chief factor, education. From what I indicated a week ago
to you that within the whole complex of this subject the
When we consider the character of the epoch that has run its
evident that during this period there passed through mankind's
it is necessary that we work our way out of this materialistic
in order that men might seek it out of their own impulse, their
of the fifteenth century is what might be called the
that this materialistic wave has most intensively and quite
and again that all instruction, even in the lowest grades, must
raises the question, what becomes of a child if he only
being unites with the objective surroundings, and what should
realize that one kills the soul, but it really happens. And the
consequence is what we experience with people today. How many
later years to produce out of their own inner resources that
at present many shattered natures. At important moments we
system, particularly in teacher training. What then do we have
future? The fact that a teacher knows the answers to what is
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Title: Education as a Social Problem: Lecture V: The Metamorphoses of Human Intelligence: Present Trends and Dangers
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discussions yesterday that it becomes increasingly necessary to
question by that soul force we call intelligence. The man of
and soul in that time childlike. He believes that only through
knowledge of what people in earlier periods of evolution tried
that soul force in which modern man takes such pride. If we
intelligence for modern man, we must ask: What was the nature
that we of the fifth post-Atlantean epoch possess. You see from
this that I assume it is not correct to think intelligence is
intelligence, that only one kind is possible; that whoever has
little, or not at all, about what modern man thinks by means of
their relationship to this or that zodiacal constellation; they
knew what kind of influence moon, sun, and planets had upon
understood everything of the earthly world that is subject to
death. He knew that if he wanted to comprehend the
supersensible he had to turn to that power of perception which
which underlie all that dies on earth. Said the pupils of
see; by merely thinking I only grasp what is
spiritual; spiritual processes and laws also underlie what
seems to be material. There are spiritual laws that concern you
permeated by that spiritual force which appears to you as
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Title: Education as a Social Problem: Lecture VI: The Inexpressible Name, Spirits of Space and Time, Conquering Egotism
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WHAT I said yesterday about the path of the human
intellect toward the future, rests upon definite facts that can
When a man confronts you, he is that being we speak about in
spiritual science. That is to say, above everything we must
always be aware that he is a four-membered being, as you know
astral body, ether body, and physical body. The fact that every
members of the human entity, brings it about that ordinary
human perception does not know what it faces in man. Ordinarily
one thinks: “What I see before me, filling space, is the
physical body.” But what is physical in it we would not
Strange as it may sound, that which is the physical body proper
believe you carry what you consider to be the physical body of
earlier periods. What I am now relating cannot be ascertained
we come to the Egypto-Chaldean period. At that time human
bodies had a constitution different from that of today. Those
If through some cosmic miracle the bodies of that ancient
consists in the fact that the human body atavistically returns
to conditions that were the normal ones in the Egypto-Chaldean
caused by the fact that a part of this or that person's body
develops the tendency to become what the whole body was for the
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Title: Karma: Lecture I
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At the end of his life Rudolf Steiner took up the task that was his
all that we see in the rocky and stony part of the earth, often
in such wonderful formations, but also in all that is reduced
friends, first at what thus appears as the lifeless in the
exception — we discover that everywhere within this
of the lifeless. Through what we have said, however, we have
form, of which we say that it is lifeless. And just as we speak
spirit. What from the beginning prevailed in the rest of
were unable to find in the lifeless itself the causes of what
has passed through the door of death. It is true that, when an
end what I have here indicated — I need only indicate it
— you will realize that, after the human soul has crossed
regarding his corpse, like lifeless nature about him. That
means that we must now seek the causes for the effects in the
corpse, we find something else that is extraordinarily
were, at death. And if then, with that faculty of perception
which is capable of it, we observe what the real human being,
is quite true that the corpse is cast off, and that now it has
this drying out process and become so completely brittle that
What
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Title: Karma: Lecture II
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At the end of his life Rudolf Steiner took up the task that was his
we have on the one hand what the human being leaves behind as a
other, what exists as the widespread lifeless, crystalline and
into the mineral; that is, the element which holds our form
it follows that the human being as he lives in the physical
what we receive from the mineral kingdom relates itself in a
very peculiar way to what we receive from the mineral world
law. This law, which I have described here recently, says that
containing the water underneath one of the scale pans so that
lighter the object in question becomes, you will find that it
taking a bath. By simply sitting in the bath he found that his
Indeed, my dear friends, what has just been said is an
that in so far as he is solid, he is actually a fish. In
lighter than formerly that it weighs only 20 grams. The brain
the mineral kingdom, that what we receive into ourselves as
perceptions in the ratio of 20 to 1500 grams. What we take into
food are, for the most part, things that conserve us inwardly;
independent of what exists in the surrounding mineral kingdom.
He takes into himself from the mineral kingdom only that which
the mineral world did not exist, what we call human freedom
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Title: Karma: Lecture III
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At the end of his life Rudolf Steiner took up the task that was his
is best understood by contrasting it with that other
way, I should say, place the question of karma before us. What
of previous earth lives. It was preceded by another, and that
become so similar that the immense difference which exists be-
earthly body bet ween birth and death in such a way that in
does not look far enough to perceive what really is connected
some primitive man, let us say, who has never heard that there
knows that air exists, and what its functions are, to speak of
and you arc a dualist, because you regard air as something that
something that belongs very much to this side. Thus, it is
simply a question of our acknowledging the fact that at
such a way that this organism gives him a consciousness
dead look down onto the physical world just as the living that
to what a human being can bear, feel a constant longing to
return to earth life, to what is then the life in the beyond;
uncertainty prevails about what happens thereafter — for
consciousness about what happens after death — so in the
life. It is a certainty that stuns the human being, that makes
him literally faint, so that he is in a state resembling a
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Title: Karma: Lecture IV
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At the end of his life Rudolf Steiner took up the task that was his
that in the language of today there are no suitable expressions
civilization, and that, therefore, the expressions employed
here for what takes place under certain conditions can only be
sense with what the human being experiences between death
clear about the fact that the physical body is given to us from
between death and a new birth. And it is a fact that
between death and a new birth, according to what the human
that a man brings over from his former lives on earth according
to what he was, according to what he has done, all this is met
birth. What sympathies and antipathies he meets among the
higher beings according to what he has done in his preceding
period; but, above all, it is of deep significance that he
in relationship on earth, and that a peculiar reflection takes
whom he had this relationship. Let us assume that someone
again between death and a new birth. All that the good
And it is really true that the human being during this passage
advanced this human soul. What you have experienced
through advancing him, what you then felt for this soul, that
your own inner experiences in performing the deed that advanced
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Title: Karma: Lecture V
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At the end of his life Rudolf Steiner took up the task that was his
what the human being, according to his astral and ego
outer world, what others, again, according to his constitution
these various factors. For that purpose we intend today to take
being; we intend to look at that factor which, in many
— that is to say, his inherent tendency toward health and
illness, and that which then becomes effective as the basis for
able to see beyond many a prejudice that is contained in modern
into what it signifies that the human being, as far as his
you know that what is summed up in the concept of heredity has
pre-disposition to illness, they ask: “What about the
observe what his true being is, how his true being unfolds.
Naturally, they say in the first place that he is the child of
what is given to him by his forebears. He carries this physical
organism from his parents. But what is this physical organism
which he receives from his parents? In that regard the man of
thorough-going difference between what the human being
becomes in his eighth and ninth year of life, and what he was
in his third or fourth year. It is a decisive difference. What
year, he received through heredity. His parents gave him that.
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Title: Karma: Lecture VI
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At the end of his life Rudolf Steiner took up the task that was his
that which is connected with the human being in as far as he
we intend — quite independently of what we have already
human being, and we shall try to build a bridge between what we
discuss today and that which we already know.
is, however, not usually observed, because that which
what reveals itself when things and facts are considered with a
is, so to speak, appendage-organ. Since that which at first was
being. All that which actually constitutes his first form
such a way that we behead him, as it were, chop off his head.
That this happens in Anthroposophy was only the belief of
charge is not true; it is not at all a fact; for in what is
human being. That is precisely because the three members of the
in such a way that the head formation mainly appears in the
human being's essential nature, that human nature which
that manifests in rhythmical activity. You cannot say of the
nerve-sense system that it finds expression in rhythmic
that case you would have to perceive one thing at a certain
would have to be a rhythm in your sense perception. But that is
third human organism is that of the limbs — the limb
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Title: Three Streams: Lecture I: The Lower Three Human Members and the Spirits of Form
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Steiner lifts the veil so that we may see the spiritual forces
kind of thing that we want to establish through Spiritual Science for
that a natural scientist speaks of positive and negative electricity,
science, however, we must be clear that directly we rise to
know that during the life between birth and death man has what we are
body which has a conscious character, but not yet that of our
present-day consciousness. What many people to-day call the
subconscious appertains to the astral body. Then comes what is
last member of the human organism, in the ego itself, that man can
It is in this ego that are really enacted all the thinking, feeling
consciousness and also outside the ego. For all that is stated about
are perceived. What we consciously perceive is an external picture of
consciousness. Now you know that with regard to the spiritual order
earlier studies this autumn I mentioned that if we look at these
lower members of man's nature (let us call them that) as they
truly are, we find that Spirits of the individual Hierarchies are
of uprightness that intervenes in our physical development is of the
same nature as all the forces that bestow on earthly man his form. It
is only forces of this kind that penetrate into our ego.
being — those therefore that appertain to his astral body, his
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Title: Three Streams: Lecture II: The Fifth Epoch, Semitic and Greek Cultures, the Christ Impulse
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Steiner lifts the veil so that we may see the spiritual forces
Mystery, you will be aware that we must differentiate between what
the time of the Mystery of Golgotha, and what came in through the
Mystery of Golgotha. You know that in human evolution we have to
point is that the Luciferic and Ahrimanic streams reached a certain
danger of this climax being overstepped, so that the necessary
that, strictly speaking, in the Atlantean epoch (I am talking not of
to what I said recently: when Lucifer is working particularly
mean that because Lucifer is active, Ahriman is somewhat outside our
sphere. On the contrary, it means that, because Lucifer is working
therefore, that in man's earthly evolution a kind of waving line is
there in the case of Ahriman's activity, just as in that of Lucifer.
Mystery of Golgotha, we find that the state of equilibrium between
that in those times the Teachers of
it was so highly clarified in its concepts and ideas that in this way
concepts, and thereby was adapted to the human nature of that time.
What is so admirable among the Greeks, however, is that resounding
through the philosophy of Plato is an echo of that primeval wisdom
look back to the period of Greek spiritual development that
abstract — towards that abstraction which meets us in the
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Title: Three Streams: Lecture III: The Mystery of Golgotha Must Be Approached Supersensibly
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Steiner lifts the veil so that we may see the spiritual forces
I made two observations drawn from the science that we must call the
we shall need them as a connecting link. First, I said that the
by their nature be of the kind that cannot be substantiated through
mankind in such a way that access to its truths is finally
thing I said yesterday is that man, with the understanding he possesses
in the supersensible world, that there develops in man the understanding,
and the forces for that understanding, which can fully make clear the
I said that even the contemporaries of Christ were unable to reach such
Golgotha, during their life beyond the threshold; and that what has been
that period.
is an apparent contradiction to this in the fact that the Gospels are
What I
the knowledge of Tertullian that is generally current. He is
Tertullian that has been held, often dogmatically, right up to
himself as abstractly as any other Roman about what is
in the Greek culture of that time he was not a particularly
inner force, and in such a way that while using the abstract, Roman
of apologia for the Christians he writes in such a way that one
torture, do not deny but testify that they are Christians —
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Title: Three Streams: Lecture IV: Consciousness Soul and Scientific Thinking, Sorat and 666
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Steiner lifts the veil so that we may see the spiritual forces
to know from the most diverse aspects that the evolution of modern man
Now it is important that such a truth as this — that with the
all possible earnestness in life, so that we have the will constantly
to ask ourselves: What must be our attitude of soul, what must we do
that we are living in the epoch of the development of the
is that through this epoch of the Consciousness Soul mankind receives
the impulse to strive consciously for certain conceptions that were
not striven for consciously in earlier epochs. We know that among the
emphasised that the Event of Golgotha entered human evolution in such
a way that its significance could not at first be grasped by the
emphasised that, by reason of forces well known to us, the inclination is
development of consciousness that mankind is going through. Quite
matter how much we learn from anthropology, botany or zoology; what
that these are in line with scientific thinking. This line is
we have to consider pursue a scientific kind of thinking, but that
to hear the sermon, or from being what is called religious, pious.
Now just ask yourselves to what extent this religious piety is still
more or less a side line. One can indeed say that this modern epoch
achievements and of the scientific kind of thinking that goes with it.
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Title: Three Streams: Lecture V: Free Human Personality by Self Training, Justinian and the Schools
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Steiner lifts the veil so that we may see the spiritual forces
us briefly recall this. I was trying to show that a certain state of
been opposed by that other event known as the Event of Golgotha. I
said that men are in the course of an evolution predetermined for
men are intended to enter upon the development of what we call
to the goal that may be termed the perfecting of the Consciousness
Soul. Painful events, joyful events, events that put men to the test
and events that we may call divine gifts for the blessing of mankind,
all that is full of light, all that is full of shadow in this epoch
consciously in the world and thereby to strive for what has hitherto
been pervaded with so much fantasy that it has never been rightly
self-discipline what may be called the free human personality, a real
control of the will founded upon self-education: that will be the
task drawing men on in this epoch. In simple terms we might say that
what is thus going on has been decreed by the Divine Beings with whom
Let us put the hypothetical case that the Event of Golgotha never happened,
that no Christ decided to unite His divine destiny with that of earthly
men — what would then have come about? We can never know the
true facts of history if we take note only of what is apparent, for
it cannot be said that the event in question is rightly estimated if
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Title: Three Streams: Lecture VI: Augustus and the Roman Catholic Church, Rhetoric, Intellectual Soul and Consciousness Soul
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Steiner lifts the veil so that we may see the spiritual forces
history, for the simple reason that affairs revolve round it, and the
the system that is moving. Take a pair of scales. You see the
particularly necessary for us to grasp what happened in this
the fourth post-Atlantean epoch, the midpoint of that
years later — the year 666. Of this year we can say that what
of Southern Europe — that typically scientific mood which still
a way as to ask: What would have happened if the Mystery of Golgotha
Jundí Sábúr and all that it brought about, was
may say that even the impulses which were active in non-Christian
can be seen in their essentials only if we ask: What would
that weighed on him, and only afterwards is drawn to Christianity.
something that is easily forgotten when we look back to that time: we
the old Roman Empire, where people were ignorant of the fact that
important knowledge, that men in the future will have concerning
idea that although this event, which to-day sheds its rays as a fully
our era, it developed at that time in such a way that throughout the
desire that was present later, in 666, among those who were
to give men through revelation, received on an Ahrimanic path, that
desire was to give them prematurely something that was intended to
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must expressly emphasize the fact that I do not by any means
I attach to such things. They are mere abstractions. What I
inevitable. I have said that what we are seeking to set
choice” — I could express myself at that time in
things, or realizing later that these things will come about
declared, this is not a time when each person can say that
believes this or that will happen or ought to happen, but it
perceive what bears within itself the impelling force for its
important to understand that it was impossible for me to give
you anything more than a sketch of what I am compelled to
order to establish a connection with what has already been
said, I shall repeat briefly today what I then spoke about,
that is, that the confusion in the social structure that
imperative to replace it by that threefold organization of
meeting. You have seen that the outcome of this threefold
organization will be to distribute into separate spheres what
study them thoroughly. In order that what follows may not be
misunderstood, I should like once more to emphasize that it
our recent reflections, you will already have seen that the
social question actually exists, that it must be accepted as
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characteristic. This is the fact that spiritual science as a
the whole of human life, to everything that the human being
encounters in life, what it seeks to establish through
what is essential in the urgent problems and impelling forces
himself an understanding of the fact that the tremendous need
just here, that is, in connecting directly with life itself
the causes that have brought about the present catastrophic
that the world views held by human beings, whether rooted in
life, in the most comprehensive sense of the word, from what
that people have carried on their external activities, were
the satisfaction of those needs of the heart and soul that
men. This will take on such a character that thoughts will
stream forth from this world view that will be applicable to
sermon shall by no means be that of our anthroposophically
well with what can be given to humanity by the
their attention to what has really been happening in their
circumstances should we fail to pay attention today to what
powers of judgment that enable us to see into the great
our way into what confronts human hearts and minds today, in
part in such an enigmatic way; that is, into what is
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What I have had in mind in the course of
these reflections has been to cast light upon the form that
something to what we have already discussed that may make it
the spirit of our epoch. Everything that I have presented to
suitable for giving direction to our judgment that may
spiritual-scientific point of view cannot be that of
providing a social critique but solely that of calling
this fact compels us, naturally, to use words that will be
the purpose of raising any objection to what has simply been
of view. I beg you to understand in the same way also what I
our point of departure the comprehensive motive force that
consists in the fact that a certain ideal exists for bringing
about a social order that will be satisfying in all its
aspects. If we wish to describe in a radical way what is thus
basic in these things, there is reason to say that an
that will bring about a paradise on earth, or at least that
happy state worthy of the human being that is looked upon by
social problem.” What I have just said is inherent in
the instinct behind what is called the solution of the social
problem,” it is necessary that the spiritual scientist,
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that a condition constituting a paradise — if we may
assertion that I beg you to receive the explanations I give
relationships. The thing that matters is that this question
shall not be made abstract, that the question shall not be
you the last time — that we shall develop on the basis
what is necessary for our time. We shall now have something
to say in regard to just what is necessary for today as
problems or social demands are discussed today, what is
generally most completely overlooked is the fact that the
intimate knowledge of the being of man. No matter what social
programs are thought out, no matter what ideal social
pointed out to you that the social organization of which I
have spoken, this threefold social organization that I have
is valid for the present age for the reason that it centers
post-Atlantean epoch. It is from this point of view that I
beg you to consider all the explanations that I shall
consideration is the fact that such a social order as is
apart from a conscious knowledge of the requirement that man
shall be aware of himself in his relationship to what is
that, of all forms of knowledge, the knowledge of the human
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as ours, man must behold all sorts of things that are in
position in the midst of the chaotic, as well as in what has
such a time as causes man to pass through much that is
impelling forces in the course of evolution that set him upon
that we have considered, in connection with which we have
brought together a great variety of things that may be suited
what is the most profound characteristic of the evolution of
characteristic of this epoch is that man must become
all those forces that oppose the harmonizing of humanity as a
have in our epoch the peculiar fact that the manifestation of
social ideals appears as a reaction against what is striving
against the evolution of individual consciousness. What I
mean to say is that the reason we have such an outcry about
the need of socializing is that the innermost nature of man,
socializing. For this reason it is necessary that we should
that sustains a certain relationship to man, in order that we
like a reaction to what streams forth from the inner nature
of the human soul. It is simply necessary that we should come
to see clearly that man represents in his life a state of
but that is always in danger of swinging toward the one or
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that the so-called social question is not so simple as it is
usually supposed to be, and that it is necessary to take
take account of the fact that both social and antisocial
of what social structure exists and what social ideas are
educational mission in the evolution of humanity in that they
by reason of the fact that, after the epoch of the
that one person shall really know and be interested in the
attention upon the other person so that each individual shall
What comes to
for something that will come later. These illusions and
errors are due to the fact that social impulses at the
that in its present manifestation it has no right
relationship to what is in course of preparation as a people
that is to come later. We may say that the especially
abstraction, appears really to have not the least notion that
criticism but a mere description. The simple truth is that
one of the characteristics of our times is that the
right without regard whatsoever for complicated human life,
basis of external physical reality. But everything that is to
come into existence must arise from this reality. For that
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has been a great reluctance to look out at what was happening in the
outside world. But, if we want to see what is happening in the world
for what is all around us in the world. And the way in which we
understand something of what is going on in the world. Therefore, I
should like to combine what I have to say in the next few days with
Today I want first of all to point out one thing. You know that about
that century. At the beginning of the last third of the Nineteenth
underlying tone was different from what it became in the later
prevailed among educated people that the human being ought to form
important affairs of life; and that even if, helped by the
that, among people who had reached a certain degree of culture, freedom
of conscience was possible. It is true that in the decades that
being nullified, though, of course, that fact is more or less
prevailed in the widest circles that the human being must have a
it is expressly said: “The view that freedom of conscience and of
religious worship, Rome made an official pronouncement that it was a
doing I want to call your attention to what took place at a time
really in such a way as to show that consciences were involved, was a
insight. Anyone with intimate knowledge of this period knows that the
science which arose at that time; insofar as we are Anthroposophists
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by saying that since the time of its inauguration anyone who holds a
Catholic teaching to deviate from what is recognized as dogmatic
truth by the Roman Catholic Church; which means, in fact, what is
“What is there actually new about this Anti-Modernist Oath?”
clear about that. What is new is that the person concerned has to
take an oath as to what is the doctrine of the Church. I want you to
that there has been a prodigious piling up of historical deeds in the
declared all modern thinking to be heretical. Then on top of that
sphere of will and feeling. That which always had to be acknowledged
indication of what is regarded as the programme for the future in
One knows for a certainty that the number of Lenin’s opponents
because it brings out to what an extent modern humanity passes
sentence; the point is that in certain quarters they will see to it
that the content of what is there expressed will be made known
throughout the world, that among the widest circles of the European
humanity of today is still soundly asleep to the fact that such a
that we should understand that way, for I have had much to say about
the attacks from that quarter that are being forged against what we
that the bill posters had to notify us that the man who this morning
What was written by a man who frequently hides behind the bushes and
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You will have noticed that all my lectures for years past have
of humanity, of the spread of what we spiritual scientists call the
results of initiation research. You know also that by the word
of veil; a veil which may very easily lead to illusions. What is
what today is called science. He combines his perceptions in the
that does not lead him beyond the world of the senses; and we may say that
imitation of what may be called experience in the super-sensible
same degree of consciousness that one has in ordinary life, a degree
that of ordinary life, of ordinary consciousness, as that of ordinary
a poor imitation of what is experienced in that other condition.
same as what underlies one’s thoughts, only that in thinking
therefore what is arranged in the dream by mere analogy, is in
with what this world says to us. You can have a kind of proof of this
wandered, notice that as you recall them in your mind you can
ideas is in a certain sense subject to the same law as that of the
dream. It is only through our senses that we are torn out of our
organized that it becomes permeated by a higher consciousness than
that which our ordinary senses confer. Then imaginative consciousness
told you yesterday in my public lecture, that it is recognized by
evolution of humanity and in that of the near future is that humanity
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have an entirely erroneous view of the human being. All that
at once apparent that we must pass over from what has
contours within the human organism to what is fluid and has,
therefore, no contours. We realize that the human being must
persist at certain locations — and that we must add to
to the opinion that if fluid is taken to quench thirst and
first, and in the case of the second glass of water, what
what is in flow in the organism. Physiology does, of course,
also speak of what is in flow, but the flowing fluids in the
of the laws of dynamics or mechanics. The truth is that the
realize that the so-called etheric body is working in this
forces. Therefore, we must realize that as long as we are
moment we are concerned with what is in circulation, whether
digestive juice that has already been transformed in the
doubt that differentiated warmth is present in the space
insofar as he bears within himself the substances that exist
this condition of warmth has an effect upon what it is
regards the ego organization. What the ego organization does
organization. What the warmth does within the fluids which
you to understand something else. If you take what is
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with everything that has definite contours in the organism.
a world that is not the world of space, as we know it, but
way will be to start from the ego organization. What is this
stands in the physical world, we must realize that it has
forces of the external world. This means that the body is no
longer built up but is destroyed. If you remember that the
physical body is destroyed by the forces that are working in
external nature, you will realize at once that the body
shaping the physical body, therefore, this means that it
removes the body from the forces that are present in man's
something quite different from all that is to be found in the
organization is connected with death. What happens in death,
so that, finally, if the ego organization is working
the physical body. We can say that death occurs when it is
external substances that nothing remains of the outer
What does the
ego organization you are dying all the time, that is to say,
being — a process that is only prevented because there
is fresh reinforcement, so that this activity only begins to
plant existence. No consciousness unfolds in a process that
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about what questions you would like to ask, and then give
these questions to me so that I may remember them as these
to say something in direct continuation of what was said in
‘views’ at all — that are held by modern
possible from things that have become customary and habitual.
For the state of affairs at present is that in certain great
considerably from what has become customary. It deviates in
acknowledge many things that modern science would consider
idea today is that there are about seventy to eighty
is that neither in his form nor in the forces which maintain
of the earth. In speaking of the etheric body, we found that
— you will realize that a balancing, a harmonizing of
the brain is subject to buoyancy so that only about twenty to
It is not the earthly quality of heaviness that enables us to
be alive in the brain, but the buoyancy, the force that is in
this that the earthly characteristic of the brain vanishes
human organization is such that the earthly forces vanish.
obvious that they acknowledge laws which happen to suit them
and ignore those which do not. What I have told you about
thing is that when we are walking, the head, the brain,
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tried to give you an outline of the kind of knowledge that
sketch. But you will have realized that to speak in detail
longer still if that were possible. It is impossible for me
so I should like you to regard what I have said in the three
previous lectures as a sketch of what a physician ought to
is possible now to expand the short sketch that has been
sense of anthroposophical medicine when this work that I am
It will then be apparent that Anthroposophy can give a great
realize quite clearly that medicine is a very special kind of
that results from Spiritual Science. The chaotic conditions
prevailing today are due to the fact that the current trend
have a science of nature that has found its way even into
theology, a science that is suited only to technical purposes
quite special and you will realize that this is so when I
being cannot have within his physical organism. For all that,
it is only in outward semblance that these processes are not
etheric body forms around what are, later on, ego
unites with what comes into being through the physical
that is built in from out of the cosmos. Now at the time when
tin forces and so on. It is only in semblance that the human
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certain general remarks in connection with what was said
all — a greater inner strength than that with which it
cosmic connection that we learn to see through the veil of
the difficulties that may arise in the pursuit of the
describes, in a few brief words, in what these difficulties
have consisted. They have consisted simply in the fact that
repeated statement that it is a matter of overcoming
now onwards, from the time that began with our Dornach
impulses. The help that can be given will be given in the
that one can really find the spiritual as a dreamer, or as a
can only be attained through the knowledge that comes from
already said that much can be learned from the world of the
people describe what they thus see in the plant more or less
as they would describe an armchair, adding that they often
an error, an aberration. At any rate, it is not known that
as the blossoms and flowers are concerned, the most that can
be said is that botanists picture some kind of force in
person sits in an armchair. Yes, but the reality that must be
studying a plant we must realize that a wonderful mystery is
a little way inwards. And the forces that are quickened in
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yesterday that if we want to get at the realities, we must
phenomena, and courage behind all that is of the nature of
that thought is to be connected with all that is solid,
earthy, all that stands before us with definite contours. For
this leads us to say to ourselves that thought —
— only that which has contours, including that which,
corresponding to thought. We have said that behind the fluid,
namely, something that is of the nature of feeling.
connection; we think of feeling that is connected with the
essence. This etheric activity that works within the fluid
same kind of knowledge that we apply to something that is
there are vascular organs within it — in that moment
the knowledge forces which can be applied to what is outside
That is why
medicine lost its knowledge of the fluid man—that was
One may say that up to the middle forties of the nineteenth
It was known that the human organism cannot be understood by
mere sense perception and cogitation; it was known that
parts of the organism which have firm contours, and that
be wondered at that the perception of this fluid man was
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questions fit into what I have said to you in general. There
strengthening the so-called magnetic healing forces, and what
picture to yourselves that the efficacy of what goes by the
suppose somebody has a very strong character, that is to say,
about the sun; think that the sun warms your head first, and
then that the warmth of your head passes to your upper arm,
lower arm, hands, so that your own power is strengthened;
a clear mental picture of what you feel about your illness,
elements. Although I do not say that it will invariably help,
organic one. It cannot be said that such healing can only
occur in what modern medicine calls “functional”
pathology today. In a case like that which I have described,
etheric body in such a way that our own etheric body works
the previous case, the astral body worked. It is in this that
he unfolds that as he passes them on to the patient they
strengthen the patient's forces. You must realize that if it
means that are able, somehow, to bring it about. If we have a
want to say, with emphasis, that magnetic healing forces are
important thing is this, that the faculty is, as a rule, of
on it often happens that magnetic healers, after this faculty
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aphoristic indications here of what will have to be
emphasized, above all, that in the very nature of things, one
of the physician must be that no healing is possible if it
First of all, there must be the unconquerable will that karma
himself is concerned, the effect of what he uses for his
patients. It can, of course, be transformed so that it will
first place, is what I have already said on this subject. The
deeply into the human soul, it can be said that the
two sides. You must regard karma in such a way that you
what the previously earthly lives have brought. But you have
present one. Then you will have the results of what is
you will realize that karma, too, is in the becoming, that
what is happening now adds one thing or another to karma. It
can also be said that here and there our deeds may give a
is this; that the will-to-heal must always be present. This
at work in therapy all the time, so that it can be truly said
that everything possible is being done, even when one is of
the opinion that the patient is incurable. You must suppress
What we have
that may result in the awakening of soul forces in medical
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Christmas Course we turned our attention to things that can
way that is suitable for younger medical aspirants today. In
received things that can quicken the sense for medicine and
myself that you have worked upon these things for a time, my
dear friends. Naturally, my idea of this work is not that
but that from time to time, when the inner need is felt, they
before us, that one perfectly definite fact should emerge
that it was necessary to face certain inner difficulties. The
and human beings. So that when we become alive to these
that which is so often taken in our civilization today. We
between the outside world and the human being that a person
then make matters that can really promote the development of
you, to begin with, to tell me what inner and outer
realized that in connection with definite questions there is
That is not
the most striking example of a human-cosmic relationship that
that they are determined cosmically yet they are not so
external cosmos, so that nowadays there is no direct
dependence. Therefore, one cannot say nowadays that the
cannot be said. But it is certainly true to say that there
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out what is in your minds so that the discussion can center
that we have been given. At what times ought we to do them,
same time as the others? We think that at any rate most of us
feel rather oppressed with all the substance that is
is not likely that there will be any feeling of oppression.
— and the same applies to the meditations that are now
being given in the First Class — that with these
instruction given at Christmas, one has in mind the goal that
the results that happen in the spiritual life, and one will,
something that it really ought to have. Every meditation, you
see, is impaired if one starts from the feeling that it is
to become something that the human being feels in his soul to
exist, when he feels that it is part and parcel of the whole
other meditations, what matters is the inner desire, the
possibly can. I realize that when I do the one or the other
meditation, it has this or that aim.” Out of the free,
that is just what meditation should never be. It should never
conception of what I have here called the “attitude of
soul.” What we call karma is not, as a rule, taken very
realize that to follow something out of a sense of duty is
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Behold what is joined in the cosmos
clear about the fact that we cannot take into consideration
only what binds the human being to the earth, for that is of
that lies in the perceptible universe around the earth. So
that you can think of all the forces which work upon the
really say that the human being takes in some substance which
yourselves that it really comes from the realm of the
a way that one simply cannot make a diagram of it. The ego
of time. What proceeds from the ego organization of man
us — the astral that is also not spatial but works as
now suppose that we have to do with vegetable protein in
everything that might work in this way upon the human being
take shape in the egg. Why is it that not merely an egg-like
just told you, all that could happen would be a completion of
earth. What I am saying about the bird also applies to the
around the earth, no bird would arise, but what would happen
would be this — that the egg shell would get soft and
forces which proceed from them. Picture to yourselves that
the bird. Therefore we can say that the bird's head is formed
What is a
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I thought that today we would develop, in
another direction, things that were mentioned yesterday.
often objective reasons for this and you will understand what
they are when you realize more and more that modern medicine
is really like a foreign body in much of what constitutes
things really are when we realize that the reason why our
spiritual life — has assumed its present form, is that
with what is now happening in the Anthroposophical movement,
said on various occasions that we must turn our attention to
that center of spiritual culture which was at its prime when,
itself appears in the world as something that can only be
not for an inner point of view, it is very strange that the
that Christianity is everywhere living in the
sub-consciousness but that for three or four centuries it has
are the terribly dilettante institutions that have been set
jurisprudence, and medicine. The rest that have been added
What has not
been understood at all is that, to begin with, four men were
realization that the texts of the four Gospels cannot
is, instead, the attitude that has crept into spiritual
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what we have been studying, and afterwards to consider the
speak now of something that it is well to consider only after
we have listened to what has been given here in the last few
picture to ourselves that each of the four members of man's
structure so that we can have a conception of it. This can be
minds, my dear friends, that on the one side we have to do
the structure of spirit and soul that is separated from
differentiated into the single organs, as an organism that
essential thing is that the physical-etheric structure and
organization — to use a form of expression that is not
things. To a certain degree they permeate each other. So that
every physical organ that is warmed through and irradiated by
of the following: Suppose that astral organization and ego
system of organs. In other words, something that ought to
illnesses is that the body of the human being is becoming too
purpose of suggesting that this conception should be
so at least it was alleged. They were burned in order that
they might be freed from what, after their death, would cause
human being were more robust and so it might happen that a
melissa that had been prepared in a certain way, his
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generally thinks that a drop is held together from within,
but it is also possible to think that it is formed from
these things one should realize that the imaginative idea
must be true, and that the present-day ideas which one brings
this idea today that there is an infinite space which has
means that one is imagining things and is brutally ignoring
everything but what one has made up in thought. Just take a
trying to show that the cosmos is not empty after a certain
distance from the earth, but that it is solid and filled with
crystallized nitrogen. Things are so confused today that such
someone can just decide to imagine that we live here in an
with solidified nitrogen all around, and that this simulates
true that if one reads the literature today one can pick up
this report than if one believes what is generally assumed
stars, so that it is true that we have a copy of the
human head, and one has to imagine that one has a modified
bird formation in the human head, and that the bird has the
that our drop is drawn out into a cylinder. If you expand the
drop into a cylinder and you imagine that the part of the
that it becomes modified in many ways, because you draw the
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seem somewhat remote, but it will be important for the
consideration. No account whatever is taken of the fact that
something that is more or less recognized in science and has
organism. It is, of course, acknowledged that the fluid and
than that of the environment is regarded as a state or
shall see what I mean by saying this. I have already drawn
attention to the fact that when we study the rising and
organism itself. The general idea is that, as a physical
factor and do not realize that in addition to this solid
Illustration II) More exact study shows that just
'fluid' and also the 'air'. For the air that is within us, in
space that is occupied by the solid organism, we realize
immediately that we cannot speak of this fluid organism in
is permeated by the forces of the Ego.—That is how the
forces. But in the blood there is also present what is
generally called the warmth-condition. But that
the warmth in the different parts of the human organism that
reflect in this way we find that it is impossible for our
that the different solid substances have, for example,
different weights; this alone shows that the solids within
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the end it was possible to show that a really penetrating
external constitution, and what it unfolds through
us that in order to build this bridge we must know how the
human constitution is to be regarded. We saw that the solid
organic in the real sense — we saw that this must be
constitution; that the existence of a fluid organism, an airy
etheric body that takes hold of the fluid body, of everything
that is fluid in the human organism; in everything airy, the
too, we know from ordinary life that in addition to the
heard yesterday that dreams are essentially pictures or
expression in pictures. I said that we may dream of coiling
the void. But I explained that this experience of the void is
necessary in order that we feel ourselves connected with our
between falling asleep and waking that we are able to feel
essential being beyond the fact that it enables us to have
such that it leads us to the body. And our conception of the
consideration if we are to reach a view of the world that can
are true, that first everything was astir with life, then
— No bridge can possibly be built, and what is worse,
all this is that the only kind of anatomy in existence is
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the one side, to what is presented to our observation; on the
we shall see that feeling links the two poles of our being:
through the fact that we are thinking beings are we human in
the truest sense. Consider too, how everything that gives us
the fact that we can inwardly picture the world around us; we
live in this world and can contemplate it. To imagine that we
that is to say, social beings, will operates in us.
It is not the case in human nature, nor is it ever so, that
the truth is that whatever is an active factor in life can be
inconceivable that anything should proceed from us in the way
ourselves in thought with what thus takes place. In
everything that is of the nature of will, the element of
thought is contained; and in everything that is of the nature
clear about what is involved here if we seriously want to
Imagine that
understood, that you are engaging in no kind of outward
must realize, however, that in this life of thought, will is
thinking human being in this way, when we realize that the
find in every case that they are linked with something in our
environment, something that we ourselves have experienced.
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Lecture I: Anthroposophy as What Men Long For Today
teachers of the twentieth century, he felt that it was vital to describe
in an exoteric way, because he believed that today's spiritual crisis
reader to consider our human and spiritual potential that Anthroposophy
ANTHROPOSOPHY AS WHAT MEN LONG FOR TODAY
on the assumption that the Anthroposophical Movement has just begun.
taken an attitude towards it. Therefore, in whatever way you come before
that the world has already taken up an attitude towards Anthroposophy
member, content to receive what is given. But whoever would share, in
any way, in putting Anthroposophy before the world, cannot ignore what
decides to speak about Anthroposophy must assume, to begin with, that
what he wants to say is really just what the heart of his listener is
to utter anything except that which was really being spoken by the hearts
find that ancient feelings, present in every human soul from age to age,
thoughts, much less find answers in what the civilised world can offer;
fullness of impressions that confront man and gradually fill his soul.
that Nature receives into herself all the human soul perceives of physical,
difference whether through burial or cremation). And what does Nature
practised, we deepen this impression made by a study of what Nature
remains are kept isolated, but not from the air. They dry up. And what
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Title: Anthroposophy Introduction: Lecture II: Meditation
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teachers of the twentieth century, he felt that it was vital to describe
in an exoteric way, because he believed that today's spiritual crisis
reader to consider our human and spiritual potential that Anthroposophy
of man confronts us from both directions. If we look once more at what
the fact that man, on passing through the gate of death, must surrender
the physical world for what gives the human physical body its shape
of another world which builds up this human body that external, physical
that we observe. We always find the same substances as in the external,
are compelled to say: Whatever the inner processes going on in the human
science, however, draws from this fact a conclusion that cannot be drawn
we can only say that we have here to do with a beginning and an end.
conclusion that what enters the body and leaves it again was also within
nature, as the external world; it transforms what it takes in, and then
human organism that is, at first, similar to external nature and, on
excretion, becomes so again. It is what lies between these two stages
that we must first discover.
picture this that I have said: On the one hand, we have what the organism
takes in; on the other, what it gives of including even the physical
itself. From the study of what the human physical organism takes in
We only find such a relationship when we turn to what man excretes. In
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Title: Anthroposophy Introduction: Lecture III: The Transition from Ordinary Knowledge to the Science of Initiation
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teachers of the twentieth century, he felt that it was vital to describe
in an exoteric way, because he believed that today's spiritual crisis
reader to consider our human and spiritual potential that Anthroposophy
initiation. In this connection we must bear in mind what I have already
College of Spiritual Science, namely: that the content of the Science of
everyone who is sufficiently free from prejudice. One should not say that
a person must first be initiated himself in order to understand what the
and what surrounds him on the earth, just consider how abstractly the
Apart from the fact that the sun warms us in summer and leaves us cold
in winter, that the moon is a favourite companion of lovers under certain
that way of looking at things of which I spoke in the lecture before
last. One need only develop a little understanding of what men once
today that his destiny, his ‘Karma’, is here on the earth,
to grasp man's part in the super-sensible world. All that surrounds him,
the stars by their light. Now light, and all that we perceive in the
our gaze this way or that.
the sun and moon aright when we realise that they are gates to the
super-sensible world, and have very much to do with what man experiences
moon, except that it shows us reflected sunlight. He knows that moonlight
that the cosmic body visible to our physical eye as the moon, was once
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Title: Anthroposophy Introduction: Lecture IV: Meditation and Inspiration
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teachers of the twentieth century, he felt that it was vital to describe
in an exoteric way, because he believed that today's spiritual crisis
reader to consider our human and spiritual potential that Anthroposophy
in a quite elementary way. We shall then see that impulses from the
your body and go through life with this perception, you encounter that
of which I spoke. You find that what you see will one day be a corpse;
no longer any possibility that the human form, which has been impressed
study that is not guided by theory but controlled by life itself, leads
(We will not speak, for the present, of what external cognition cannot
that all these laws of Nature are, by their mode of operation, only
now look at our inner life. We experience what we call our psychical
order to move, at length, arms and legs. What it is that here works
— to what is deeply disturbing. We see that all this soul life
sure we may be that our soul, though dependent in its manifestations
disturbing element that, as long as there has been human evolution at
bodily being, but it belongs to Nature that can only destroy it; and,
light up and fade away, yet are bound up with what is most valuable in
only be ascribed to a fundamental insincerity of our civilisation that
continues through Descartes, and attains a somewhat coquettish expression
is connected with what is most valuable in our lives — the moral
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Title: Anthroposophy Introduction: Lecture V: Love, Intuition and the Human Ego
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in an exoteric way, because he believed that today's spiritual crisis
reader to consider our human and spiritual potential that Anthroposophy
composition that we discern in man is also found in the external world.
Only, we must be clear that there is a consider-able difference between
what we find in the world outside and what we find in man.
course, that the anatomist, investigating what remains of the living man
and other compounds found outside of man, and he investigates what the
somewhat bigger scale, and notice what I have emphasised so strongly,
namely: that the human organism as a whole cannot be maintained by external
Nature, but is subject to destruction. Thus we can say that, in the
difference between what is outside and what is inside man. We must
recognise a greater difference however, in what is etheric.
world beyond the earth. I pointed out that, from out of the etheric,
and that this tendency to spherical formation, due to the complex of
of the surrounding etheric is to give spherical form to what is fluid.
In man what is fluid takes on human form, and this is due to his inner
such a way that it develops the plant form out of the earth; and the
everything else that is astral is discovered streaming in centripetally;
say, for example, that something astral is streaming in from this side.
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Title: Anthroposophy Introduction: Lecture VI: Respiration, Warmth and the Ego
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teachers of the twentieth century, he felt that it was vital to describe
in an exoteric way, because he believed that today's spiritual crisis
reader to consider our human and spiritual potential that Anthroposophy
this point of view that one must consider what was said in the last
consciousness, and in what might be called a purely external way, at
unconscious. There is also what we know as sense impressions —
that relation to our earthly and cosmic environments which is mediated
Now, when we study man with ordinary cognition we find that the inner
the active life of feeling that connects willing and thinking, standing
opinions, what we have just found by ordinary consciousness, we are
sleep. At most we can say that the dream life finds expression when
man sleeps. But we must certainly not assume that these psychical processes
consciousness. On unbiased consideration we must assume that the vehicle
however, that this vehicle does not act on man during sleep, i.e. that
Moreover, that which sets the body in motion from out of the will is
also absent; likewise, what evokes feeling from the organic processes,
waking life we are aware that our thoughts act upon our bodily
so that the will is involved. Nevertheless, we are aware of this action
of our psychic impulses upon our body, and have to recognise that it
even external considerations show us that sleep takes something
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Title: Anthroposophy Introduction: Lecture VII: Dream-life and External Reality
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teachers of the twentieth century, he felt that it was vital to describe
in an exoteric way, because he believed that today's spiritual crisis
reader to consider our human and spiritual potential that Anthroposophy
secrets of human life. It is a life that finds expression while
we sleep — soul life, dream life, a life that ordinary consciousness,
for he sees that it shows him all kinds of pictures and reminiscences
experiences; and if man asks himself what it really signifies for the
we experienced this or that in a definite way; now a dream conjures
at this type of dream-life that conjures outer experiences in transformed
pictures before the soul, we find that something in us takes hold of
In memory we have pictures of outer life that are more or less true.
in our dreams, transformed pictures of outer life. That is one kind
then sees that the row of pillars ‘symbolises’ the row of
So we see that there is a second kind of dream which gives pictorial,
we even notice that the cerebral convolutions are symbolised in the
further in this direction we find that all our organs can appear in
Here, indeed, is something that points very clearly, by means of the
have studied these things you will know what particular organ is depicted,
unusual beauty; and when the artist is told what organ he has really
same respect for his organs that he has for his paintings.
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Title: Anthroposophy Introduction: Lecture VIII: Dreams, Imaginative Cognition, and the Building of Destiny
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teachers of the twentieth century, he felt that it was vital to describe
in an exoteric way, because he believed that today's spiritual crisis
reader to consider our human and spiritual potential that Anthroposophy
of Initiation. To a certain extent, the point of view was that of ordinary
cognition — i.e. to present what we were studying yesterday as it
the imaginative life that is inwardly co-ordinated, clear and luminous,
with waking life. I have often emphasised that one who attains really
lives, if he is so ‘superior’ that he sails through life
or to inner joy, to something that we find easy or that proves difficult
the course of the dream just that which does not interest ordinary
— that begins to interest us most. We see behind the scenes of
dream-life and, in doing so, become aware that we have before us something
related to man's spiritual being in quite a definite way. We see that, in
And in this ‘seed-like’ man we learn to grasp what is really
in the autumn of a given year is foreign to the plant's life of that year
is just this way of studying the dream that gives imaginative consciousness
more and more that we bear within us something that passes over to our
that we learn to feel in the dream.
so that we feel like we do when a fresh, green, blossoming plant we
we say to ourselves that these, in respect to the physical, are all
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Title: Anthroposophy Introduction: Lecture IX: Phases of Memory and the Real Self
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teachers of the twentieth century, he felt that it was vital to describe
in an exoteric way, because he believed that today's spiritual crisis
reader to consider our human and spiritual potential that Anthroposophy
preceding lectures that a study of man's faculty of memory can give
with its manifestation in the ordinary consciousness that man has
What
they refer, you will say that they exist as mere thoughts or mental
Nevertheless, it is these pictures that we retain in our ego from our
— our ego itself suffers injury. We feel that our immermost being,
our ego, has been damaged if it must forfeit this or that from its treasury
of memories, for it is this treasury that makes our life a complete
whole. One could also point to the very serious conditions that sometimes
earthly life. But its role is far greater still. What would the external
us, however vividly — what would it be to us if we could not link
we may say that, after all, all learning consists in linking new
we have to teach the children to what we can draw from their store of
to evoke the soul's own life that it may feel and experience inwardly
say that, on earth, memory constitutes the most important and most
see that the sums of memories we bear within us is really a fragment.
frequently abnormal, when what has been long forgotten comes before
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Title: Three Streams: Lecture I: The Lower Three Human Members and the Spirits of Form
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Steiner lifts the veil so that we may see the spiritual forces
kind of thing that we want to establish through Spiritual Science for
that a natural scientist speaks of positive and negative electricity,
science, however, we must be clear that directly we rise to
know that during the life between birth and death man has what we are
body which has a conscious character, but not yet that of our
present-day consciousness. What many people to-day call the
subconscious appertains to the astral body. Then comes what is
last member of the human organism, in the ego itself, that man can
It is in this ego that are really enacted all the thinking, feeling
consciousness and also outside the ego. For all that is stated about
are perceived. What we consciously perceive is an external picture of
consciousness. Now you know that with regard to the spiritual order
earlier studies this autumn I mentioned that if we look at these
lower members of man's nature (let us call them that) as they
truly are, we find that Spirits of the individual Hierarchies are
of uprightness that intervenes in our physical development is of the
same nature as all the forces that bestow on earthly man his form. It
is only forces of this kind that penetrate into our ego.
being — those therefore that appertain to his astral body, his
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Title: Three Streams: Lecture II: The Fifth Epoch, Semitic and Greek Cultures, the Christ Impulse
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Steiner lifts the veil so that we may see the spiritual forces
Mystery, you will be aware that we must differentiate between what
the time of the Mystery of Golgotha, and what came in through the
Mystery of Golgotha. You know that in human evolution we have to
point is that the Luciferic and Ahrimanic streams reached a certain
danger of this climax being overstepped, so that the necessary
that, strictly speaking, in the Atlantean epoch (I am talking not of
to what I said recently: when Lucifer is working particularly
mean that because Lucifer is active, Ahriman is somewhat outside our
sphere. On the contrary, it means that, because Lucifer is working
therefore, that in man's earthly evolution a kind of waving line is
there in the case of Ahriman's activity, just as in that of Lucifer.
Mystery of Golgotha, we find that the state of equilibrium between
that in those times the Teachers of
it was so highly clarified in its concepts and ideas that in this way
concepts, and thereby was adapted to the human nature of that time.
What is so admirable among the Greeks, however, is that resounding
through the philosophy of Plato is an echo of that primeval wisdom
look back to the period of Greek spiritual development that
abstract — towards that abstraction which meets us in the
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Title: Three Streams: Lecture III: The Mystery of Golgotha Must Be Approached Supersensibly
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Steiner lifts the veil so that we may see the spiritual forces
I made two observations drawn from the science that we must call the
we shall need them as a connecting link. First, I said that the
by their nature be of the kind that cannot be substantiated through
mankind in such a way that access to its truths is finally
thing I said yesterday is that man, with the understanding he possesses
in the super-sensible world, that there develops in man the understanding,
and the forces for that understanding, which can fully make clear the
I said that even the contemporaries of Christ were unable to reach such
Golgotha, during their life beyond the threshold; and that what has been
that period.
is an apparent contradiction to this in the fact that the Gospels are
What I
the knowledge of Tertullian that is generally current. He is
Tertullian that has been held, often dogmatically, right up to
himself as abstractly as any other Roman about what is
in the Greek culture of that time he was not a particularly
inner force, and in such a way that while using the abstract, Roman
of apologia for the Christians he writes in such a way that one
torture, do not deny but testify that they are Christians —
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Title: Three Streams: Lecture IV: Consciousness Soul and Scientific Thinking, Sorat and 666
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Steiner lifts the veil so that we may see the spiritual forces
to know from the most diverse aspects that the evolution of modern man
Now it is important that such a truth as this — that with the
all possible earnestness in life, so that we have the will constantly
to ask ourselves: What must be our attitude of soul, what must we do
that we are living in the epoch of the development of the
is that through this epoch of the Consciousness Soul mankind receives
the impulse to strive consciously for certain conceptions that were
not striven for consciously in earlier epochs. We know that among the
emphasised that the Event of Golgotha entered human evolution in such
a way that its significance could not at first be grasped by the
emphasised that, by reason of forces well known to us, the inclination is
development of consciousness that mankind is going through. Quite
matter how much we learn from anthropology, botany or zoology; what
that these are in line with scientific thinking. This line is
we have to consider pursue a scientific kind of thinking, but that
to hear the sermon, or from being what is called religious, pious.
Now just ask yourselves to what extent this religious piety is still
more or less a side line. One can indeed say that this modern epoch
achievements and of the scientific kind of thinking that goes with it.
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Title: Three Streams: Lecture V: Free Human Personality by Self Training, Justinian and the Schools
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Steiner lifts the veil so that we may see the spiritual forces
us briefly recall this. I was trying to show that a certain state of
been opposed by that other event known as the Event of Golgotha. I
said that men are in the course of an evolution predetermined for
men are intended to enter upon the development of what we call
to the goal that may be termed the perfecting of the Consciousness
Soul. Painful events, joyful events, events that put men to the test
and events that we may call divine gifts for the blessing of mankind,
all that is full of light, all that is full of shadow in this epoch
consciously in the world and thereby to strive for what has hitherto
been pervaded with so much fantasy that it has never been rightly
self-discipline what may be called the free human personality, a real
control of the will founded upon self-education: that will be the
task drawing men on in this epoch. In simple terms we might say that
what is thus going on has been decreed by the Divine Beings with whom
Let us put the hypothetical case that the Event of Golgotha never happened,
that no Christ decided to unite His divine destiny with that of earthly
men — what would then have come about? We can never know the
true facts of history if we take note only of what is apparent, for
it cannot be said that the event in question is rightly estimated if
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Title: Three Streams: Lecture VI: Augustus and the Roman Catholic Church, Rhetoric, Intellectual Soul and Consciousness Soul
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Steiner lifts the veil so that we may see the spiritual forces
history, for the simple reason that affairs revolve round it, and the
the system that is moving. Take a pair of scales. You see the
particularly necessary for us to grasp what happened in this
the fourth post-Atlantean epoch, the midpoint of that
years later — the year 666. Of this year we can say that what
of Southern Europe — that typically scientific mood which still
a way as to ask: What would have happened if the Mystery of Golgotha
Jundí Sábúr and all that it brought about, was
may say that even the impulses which were active in non-Christian
can be seen in their essentials only if we ask: What would
that weighed on him, and only afterwards is drawn to Christianity.
something that is easily forgotten when we look back to that time: we
the old Roman Empire, where people were ignorant of the fact that
important knowledge, that men in the future will have concerning
idea that although this event, which to-day sheds its rays as a fully
our era, it developed at that time in such a way that throughout the
desire that was present later, in 666, among those who were
to give men through revelation, received on an Ahrimanic path, that
desire was to give them prematurely something that was intended to
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Title: Die Erziehungsfrage als soziale Frage: Erster Vortrag
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Menschheit auszufechten hat. All dasjenige, was selbst durch
Seele, nur Ideologie, — Man hat heute viel Grund,
hat in diesem furchtbaren Kampf, das ist etwas, was wie
elementaren Kräften an die Oberfläche geschwemmt hat.
Freiheit nennt, für den Osten hat es eigentlich keinen
nicht hat, muß sie danach streben.
hat. Das sind äußere Symptome. Aber auch mit Bezug
Europäer, denn der Inder hat eine Jahrtausende alte andere
moderne Menschheit ausgegossen hat, und was der modernen
hat.
gestanden hat, die es mit der Maschine zu tun haben, dann
von dieser Maschine, die nichts hinter sich hat, was irgendwie
was hat sie für ein Ideal? Das ganze Weltengebäude
ist charakteristisch, wie die Menschheit verloren hat —
hat auf dem Wege seit der Mitte des 15. Jahrhunderts neben zwei
Sozialismus und Demokratie hat sie zusammengeschweißt,
obwohl sie das Gegenteil voneinander sind. Aber sie hat sich
sie zusammengeschweißt, und sie hat ausgelassen das
erlebt hat in der geistigen Welt vor der Empfängnis. Da
Einsicht hat in die Zusammenhänge der Menschennatur,
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Title: Die Erziehungsfrage als soziale Frage: Zweiter Vortrag
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als Aufgabe in der Gegenwart und nächsten Zukunft hat,
15. Jahrhunderts angenommen hat, Schließlich hängt ja
Menschheit in früheren Epochen unserer nachatlantischen
Merkur anzubeten, und Menschen, die den Zeus anzubeten hatten.
Alles war bestimmt durch das, was sich ergeben hat im
Blute heraus sich gebildet hat, im Römertum abstrakt
ist, heraus sich gebildet hat aus der Blutsbürtigkeit,
hat; aber man fühlte die Ursache zu dieser Gliederung
hat, um als Räuberbande Rom zu begründen; daß
Rom mehr aus abstrakten Begriffen alles gegliedert hat, was
schon ziemlich alt geworden war. Er hatte nämlich in der
Jugend, mit 18 Jahren, ein Mädchen lieb gewonnen, hatte
sich sozusagen im stillen mit ihm verlobt, aber sie hatten
da war er 64 Jahre alt, denn da hatte er sich erst soviel
hatte auch einmal ein Gespräch mit einem Advokaten, der
die Möglichkeit hat, einzugehen auf die
entwickeln, die sind nämlich die Schattenbilder
Gefühl dafür hat, daß unser
Menschheit nicht begreift, daß sie ihr Denken hat, um sich
Aufgabe des fünften nachatlantischen Zeitraumes in die
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Title: Die Erziehungsfrage als soziale Frage: Dritter Vortrag
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Nationalökonomie aller Schattierungen vergeblich
denken. Vor dem Beginn des fünften nachatlantischen
Wollen einfließen können. Man hat nichts aus den
führen und hat auch nicht zu Gesetzen geführt, denn
An einen Vortrag, den ich vor Wochen einmal gehalten habe, hat
Verein der betreffenden Stadt eine Versammlung, und da hat
nicht wahr. Der hat gefunden, daß die Anschauungen, die
Arbeit als solche hat im Grunde genommen gar nichts zu tun mit
Leben, Arbeitskraft an sich hat mit dem sozialen Leben nichts
hingearbeitet hat.
hat. Es werden solche Ströme sein (siehe die Pfeile). Und
worden ist, das war der, daß man gesagt hat: Nun will er
seine Begriffe ja schon umgewandelt hat, er merkt gar nicht,
gedacht, ja, das ist ganz meine Meinung. — Aber er hat in
sagt. Er hat in Wirklichkeit die entgegengesetzte Meinung wie
Worten. Er sagt dieselben Worte — und hat die

Title: Die Erziehungsfrage als soziale Frage: Vierter Vortrag
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möglichen Schattierungen von Gleichgültigkeit bis zu
heruntergestiegen ist, sich mit dem Leib umkleidet hat, sich
etwas aneignet, wozu er zu helfen hat hier in der physischen
kommen. Die Menschheit hat sich allmählich im Laufe der
herein immer mehr entwickelt hat, sich an die Details des
Empfindungs- und Denkgewohnheit ergriffen hat, nicht etwa durch
was vorgeburtlich in der geistigen Welt gelebt hat. Wie oft
er sein jeweiliges Ziel nicht mehr gefunden hat. Die geistige
Mensch am meisten astralischer Leib. Und das Ich, das hat
noch das Baby, hat noch kaum ein physisches Korrelat.
Für das Ich hat man kaum auf etwas hinzudeuten im
Sache, die ich eben jetzt auseinandergesetzt habe, hat ihr
denn er hat das Astralische in sich.
sagte Ihnen, das Ich hat kaum ein physisches Korrelat. Sie
immer mehr und mehr ausgebreitet hat, daß sie nur deshalb,
hat mit der Mitte des 15. Jahrhunderts dasjenige erfüllt,
erzählt habe, hat einmal in Berlin verraten, wie die
hatte er natürlich an jedem Abend rechts eine Tischdame

Title: Die Erziehungsfrage als soziale Frage: Funfter Vortrag
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als ein besonders Auszeichnendes errungen hat.
etwas darauf zugute, wie er es weit gebracht hat, besonders in
spricht, dann hat man eben eine Seelenkraft im Auge, die man
Entwickelungsepochen aus und wie hat sich diese Intelligenz der
nachatlantische Zeitperiode zu nennen, die
nachatlantischen Zeitraumes eigen ist, Sie sehen daraus,
möglich; wer unsere Intelligenz hat, ist eben intelligent,
wer unsere Intelligenz nicht hat, ist eben unintelligent, Das
nach. Denn diese Art von Intelligenz hatten sie nicht. Wenn sie
hat; dafür aber kam herein in die griechische Intelligenz
abgesehen vom Kosmos, als Erdenbewohner. Der Grieche hatte aber
Jahrhunderts, seit dem fünften nachatlantischen Zeitraum.
scheinbar Materielle hat geistige Vorgänge, geistige
hatten. Wir begreifen durch unsere Intelligenz dasjenige, was
anderes, etwas weit anderes werden. Sie hat heute schon eine
fünften nachatlantischen Zeitraum, an dessen Anfang wir
geworden, was seine Verwandtschaft eingegangen hat mit den
damit rechnen, daß sie sich zu schützen hat gegen die
von Nazareth hat gewohnt das außerirdische Wesen, der
Nazareth gewohnt hat, der Jesus von Nazareth gestorben ist, ist
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Title: Die Erziehungsfrage als soziale Frage: Sechster Vortrag
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hat. Man weiß es eigentlich wirklich nicht. Man denkt:
nachatlantische Zeitraum beginnt, dann würde man kommen,
Bevölkerung hatte, so würden wir alle krank sein. Das
der verloren hat die Möglichkeit, auf lebendige Art in die
alles verloren hat. Als der Mensch herüberkam aus der
atlantischen Zeit in die nachatlantische Zeit, da konnte man
hat seinen Ursprung in dem, was ich Ihnen eben erzählt
solchen Dingen ausgingen. In der ersten nachatlantischen Zeit:
tiefe Wirkung von dem Ich; in der zweiten nachatlantischen
nachatlantischen Zeit: tiefe Wirkung von dem Ätherleibe,
fünften nachatlantischen Zeitraum in gewisser Beziehung
Pflanzen, war er der Mann des fünften nachatlantischen
Erkenntnis, die gerade in diesem fünften nachatlantischen
nachatlantischen Zeitraum. Es wird gewissermaßen die
Weltanschauung, Mancher Mensch hat die eine und die andere;
aber er schlägt keine Brücke. Ja, er hat eine gewisse
Charakter annehmen, als sie heute hat. Aber dieser egoistische
müssen. In dem Zeitraume bis zu unserer Zeit hat sich
Ego hat durchdrungen die Weltanschauung, das Ego hat auch
Menschheit über allgemeine Menschenschicksale. Man hat
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Title: Thomas Aquinas: Lecture I: Thomas and Augustine
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through a certain universality. So that, when we speak of
hand we see at once that we must put into the forefront of our
inquiry a full and complete personality, and all that term
changed from the fact that the powerful influence — it
was actually a powerful influence in spite of much that has
been said in the history of philosophy — that this
persisted into the sixth century, and then ebbed, but so that
philosophical stream of the West, is quite different from that
to take note that to-day's address is more in the nature of an
introduction, that we shall deal to-morrow with the real nature
of Thomism, and that on the third day I shall make clear my
Christian mediaeval philosophy, that is, to Thomism. I have
often mentioned, even in public addresses, what happened to me
once when I had put before a working-class audience what I must
that though there were a good many pupils in agreement with me,
century hit on the idea that I was not presenting true Marxism.
And although one could assert that the world in future must
teacher, in spite of the fact that at the time a large number
might say I had the same experience in other places with what I
concerning Thomism and everything that belonged to mediaeval
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yesterday particularly to emphasize was that in the spiritual
in the Schoolmen, not only is a part played by what we can
grasp in abstract concepts, and what happened, as it were, in
but rather that behind it all, there stands a real development
of the impulses of Western mankind. What I mean is this: we can
direct our eyes on to what we find in each philosopher; we can
that one thinker has taken over the ideas from another, and
that we are in the presence of a certain evolution of ideas.
gradually to be abandoned. For what takes place there, what so
that it was not a single, individual Ego that wanted to express
itself, but what in fact they felt to be a higher
“Sing, thou individual being, that livest in each man as
the thoughts of the philosophers of what was taking place in
fact that the leaders of its propagation had to address
can understand the separate events that occurred in this epoch
we understand what battles took place in the souls of such
culmination in Albertus and Thomas, that this epoch is only
man of to-day finds it really paradoxical when he hears what we
heard yesterday of Augustine's beliefs; that Augustine actually
believed that a part of mankind was from the beginning destined
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does this knowledge join up with that which at the time
from what survived of Neoplatonism, of the Areopagite, of
have also pointed out that the impulses set in motion by
so that one can say: The problems themselves are great, and the
study — the influence of what was then the greatest
Scholasticism. The question that again faced Duns Scotus was as
— as I explained yesterday — that he considered the
of physical comprehension; but that without pre-existence the
real intellect, the active intellect, that which Aristotle
to transpose that in its entirety — and then to combine
living for ever with what it had won, from the human body, into
eternal heights. Duns Scotus cannot believe that such an
that the human bodily make-up exists as something complete;
that the vegetative and animal principles remain through the
with death, and that really only the spiritual
in the fourteenth century, the chief thing about him being that
imagine that Reality was the product only of the universals, of
view that what establishes itself in man as ideas, as general
him, and that it is really only something which lives in the
That is really a significant fact, for we see: Nominalism, as
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Title: Search for the New Isis: Lecture I: A Christmas Lecture
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Christianity commemorates in three yearly festivals that
feeling inward. The Easter festival makes its chief demand on what we
Whitsuntide on what is termed human will.
Basically we only grasp what is contained in the
Christmas Mystery through inwardising and deepening of that feeling
sufficient inwardness what man is in the whole cosmos, are we
attain to the full understanding of that wonder which is contained in
will-impulse, do we perceive in the right light what Whitsuntide
Christ Jesus is related to what we call the Son principle, and this
that which undulates and weaves through the world as spirit is made
We see nature around us, and we see also that man enters
We know through our study of Spiritual Science that we do not rightly
features. We know that divine forces permeate it and we only become
perceive this divine element that weaves and works within it In this
we perceive the Father principle of nature. All that permeates nature
— whether it be the flowers of the field that we observe, and
what is revealed so mysteriously in this external revelation of
the same time aware of what places us as men within this world
as we do not bring it into connection with what may be inwardly
What does the presence of these Jesus boys say to us? It
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us that directs the thoughts of all circles of Christian people
earth. Regard the events of history from whatever aspect you will,
in all history you will find no thought that has such power to lift
thought of the Mystery of Golgotha, as the thought that is contained
earth, and then follow it up through the thousands of years that
preceded the Mystery of Golgotha, we shall find through that
time that, no matter how great and grand the achievements of the
for that which took place for the sake of mankind at the Mystery of
Golgotha. Again, if we study what has happened since the Mystery of
remember that the Christ who went through the Mystery of Golgotha has
the kind which believe that unknown divinities come to man's help
just where he considers that help is needed, without his
views, we shall find that even the most distressing events in the
earth has acquired significance and meaning through the fact that
intimate connection between what takes place in the ethical-moral
sphere of man's evolution and what takes place in nature, and a
namely, the relationship of the Christ to that Being whose outer
we find such allusions — referring to the fact that the
we would grasp just that which concerns us most of all in view of the
that the Greco-Latin, the fourth epoch of post-atlantean humanity,
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different from what it was after the Mystery of Golgotha. This fact,
both the Magi and the shepherds it was a legacy of that ancient
actual present, that men give very clear expression to that form of
Mystery of Golgotha. Speaking generally, however, what we are going
to the starry heavens was such that men did not regard the stars in
the prosaic, abstract way that is current nowadays. The fact that
something spiritual, something that made them able to describe
with one and the same faculty of knowledge that men of old
We must not think that the faculties of knowledge in
today to picture. I said that the Greeks, in the earliest period of
their culture, did not see the colour blue, that the heavens were not
blue to them. They perceived the colours that lie more towards the
and therefore of green looking different from what it does today, and
you will realise that the world around the Greek did not appear to
colours became duller and out of the depths there appeared what is
the darker colours arose, what the men of old experienced in the
That is the one side. The other side is that in those
olden times men possessed a deep, inner faculty for perceiving what
knowledge that man gazed into the spirituality of the starry heavens,
that he perceived what was living spiritually in the earth's depths.
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significant facts that within the compass of the story of the
highest wisdom that it was possible to attain. The Mystery proclaimed
times in men of piety of heart. I said that these powers were the
aspect of the Event of Golgotha, that Event actually took place on
naive, instinctive visions, what is happening in the world of men.
of the earth, and so forth. What can be discovered externally in this
be said, therefore, that these inner visions were connected directly
that is to say, he is given over to them in his physical body and
and etheric body man is given over to the forces that are active in
remnant of the living pictures that were present in olden times in
fellow-men the abstract feeling that it is today when we pass them by
perception of what concerned the earth as a whole planet or —
of perception that is idolised in natural science where men are only
willing to believe what the intellect combines out of the
material world is the descendant of what we find when we study
perception went to the surface of the senses and became what we call
mathematical-mechanistic knowledge that arises from within us.
years, to very, very early times before what became the
things are prepared for and die down again. What became intensive
and mechanics, and what we call perceptions are limited to what the
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Title: Man as a Being: Lecture 1
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While natural science maintains that we have only five senses Steiner
shows that in reality we have twelve. There are the four outer senses
the world. And to link up what I have to say in the next few days with
what I have already said recently, I should like to begin by calling
I said a long time ago, and I am always repeating it, that orthodox
become customary to say that when we are face to face with another
ego, what we see first is the human form; we know that we ourselves
have such a form, that in us this form harbours an ego, and so we
conclude that there is also an ego in this other human form which
slightest real consciousness of what lies behind the wholly direct
sight. At the same time we must be quite clear that this ego-sense is
experience becomes aware that within this field we have to make a
distinction between the sense that has to do with musical and vocal
the superficial way in which soul-phenomena are studied to-day that no
relationship, so that we can call them all senses, we get the twelve
distinctions in the realm of the senses knows that, just as there is a
can discover what they have in common when we perceive through them.
It is our cognitive intercourse with the external world that this
of hearing. You will unhesitatingly recognise that when we perceive
but that is only because people have taken an abstract view of the
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While natural science maintains that we have only five senses Steiner
shows that in reality we have twelve. There are the four outer senses
human consciousness as external experiences proper, only that these
experiences take place within man. We have seen that the ego-sense,
kind, and that we then plunge into two regions in which man's inner
that there is a cleavage in our experience, that our relationship to
higher nature, within which we have responsibility, to that other
We know that in recent centuries, since the middle of the fifteenth
recognise the task of the times, is quite clear that there is a deep
cleft between what is called moral necessity and what is called
distinguish between a certain sphere of experience that can be grasped
by science, by knowledge, and another sphere that is said to be
grasped only by faith. And you know that in certain quarters only what
scientific; and another kind of certitude is postulated for all that
as to the necessary distinction that has to be made between real
often told you that to-day, when philosophers speak of the distinction
derives from original observation, whereas what they think about body
the doctrine that man must not be regarded as consisting of body, soul
In the centuries that followed, this dogma became more and more firmly
modern philosophy developed out of Scholasticism, people thought that
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Title: Man as a Being: Lecture 3
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While natural science maintains that we have only five senses Steiner
shows that in reality we have twelve. There are the four outer senses
for love. Let me say from the outset that, whether we are
idea. I have often made use of a somewhat trite illustration of what
razor and says, “That is a knife, a knife is used for cutting up
man and animal are somewhat like this, though people are not generally
idea of what birth is, or what death is, just as one forms an idea of
what a knife is, and then go on from that idea, which of course
account that what is usually comprised in the idea of death might be
something quite different in man from what it is in animals. We must
We form our ideas about memory in somewhat the same way. It is
them. Our attention has been drawn, for example, to something that
attempt to cut one's meat at table with a razor. The point is that one
Anyone who can make such a study will be able to note that memory
in the earliest years of a child's life one can clearly see to what a
you will see that his formation of concepts is very dependent upon
what he experiences in his environment through sense-perception,
through all the twelve varieties of sense-perception that I have
important, to see how the concepts that the child forms depend
concepts he forms. On the other hand, it will easily be seen that the
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Title: Driving Force: Lecture I
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From our studies here you know that since
young with the old, bring him experiences that remain
incomprehensible if he cannot grasp what spiritual-scientific
that the four members of man's being discernible in the
bodies that reveals one human being to another on Earth. But
what is determined in the depths of the ego, and is astir in
life. Our senses and intelligence make it evident that from
From what
formation of the physical body, in what comes to expression
in speaking, in thinking, in whatever is revealed through the
evolutionary process — that of the ego and astral body
many of the forces that were active in him in the spiritual
they operate in the process of growth, in everything that
acquired by the physical body and of what in turn works back
life. We must of course also consider the changes that take
during the life of sleep is actually more important than that
general — not this or that particular language.
that the etheric body is more deeply involved than the
after all, man's ordinary senses cannot perceive what goes on
anything. Hence in the ordinary way he perceives only what
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Title: Driving Force: Lecture II
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clear that if we are to understand the destinies of human
as it were, the continuation upwards of what here, in
the Angeloi, above that the kingdom of the Archangeloi, then
you know that
aftereffect of the forces that were in him before he came
the after-effects of the super-earthly forces that were at
earthly existence he is also that super-sensible, invisible
his life the child's waking hours are few: that is to say,
only of the life-history of a human being that is enacted
also of the other life-history, namely that of the ego and
the ego and astral body are in a super-sensible world that is
going to sleep until that of waking has, however, a great
Thus, apart from what I told you yesterday — namely, that
directly to do with that super-sensible world in
existence lower than that of earthly man; they have no actual
primarily an earthly one. And what I described to you
time of going to sleep to that of waking, the forces of the
of weaving tones. That which here in the physical world is
But for all that it takes its inevitable course, so that in
expanse of the Cosmos and at the stars, thus perceiving what
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Title: Driving Force: Lecture III
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point out that it would be just as possible to write a
and going to sleep. Whatever man goes through between
physical and etheric bodies so that it forms, as it were, a
perceive what is contained in the biography of the ego and
different from that of the physical and etheric world.
supersensibly, we find that which may be called the
know that we live in this super-sensible world between going
to sleep and awakening; we know that we have experiences
fact a more exact understanding can be reached of what man
history. In order to set forth what we may call a
disposition of soul, describing what human beings experienced
round about that century. Today we shall turn our attention
That thoughts
of men. Anyone who believes that thoughts are to be found
that the sip of water which quenches his thirst arose on his
Really it is just as absurd to say that thoughts arise in
awareness that they are forces which govern the world and are
investigation that until the fourth century
recording what they do individually or co-operatively, so a
At that time
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Title: Driving Force: Lecture IV
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point in world history that we have for some time now
yesterday to show that we can fully understand the evolution
of humanity only when we keep in mind not only what takes
place openly on the stage of history but also what is going
on behind the scenes. I told you yesterday that the 4th
spiritual Beings — that his relation to his thoughts is
cosmic thoughts so that men were obliged unconsciously to
of this line. What lies behind the sense perceptions
fanciful idea that behind the world of the senses are the
whirling atoms. But that is just a fantastic, materialistic
notion. The truth is that in that sphere weaving colours and
fact in the evolution of the universe that together with the
Beings during this epoch, that is to say, the first centuries
What does this
mean? It means that certain Spirits of Form could not bring
Archai. The result is that thinking, although it remains
— who appear more and more frequently in that era of
in these currents of thought, and in what becomes history as
behind, for the possession that had once been rightfully
that happened in the Middle Ages in a West-to-East direction
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By considering in retrospect what has been
— you will understand that it is essential to realize that
which I said that it belongs essentially to the 4th century
their evolution what should rightly become theirs in our
self. We know, of course, that human evolution on Earth was
in essentials a kind of preparation for this very epoch, that
that within the sphere of what this foundation has enabled
our survey of the super-sensible world, we realize that the
cede rulership of the cosmic thoughts. What part these Beings
be clear to us when we realize what role was justifiably
a foundation for what he can learn only in later life, so
really never say that he was qualified to become a free
precisely that man shall unfold his thoughts himself in inner
activity, and that out of these self-evolved thoughts which
commandments that were unconditionally binding and made a man
bring about something in man. All stimuli from outside that
that as long as the Spirits of Form instilled the cosmic
outside, therefore, that there came to man what he then laid
feeling for his Gods was such that he turned primarily to
and attitude of the human soul were due to the fact that in
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Title: Driving Force: Lecture VI
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above-mentioned epoch; previously to that, thinking had been
postAtlantean epoch, our thinking is the corpse of that
because our thinking now is devoid of life that our
beings but we have also shut ourselves off entirely from what
present existence only. It may be objected that man observes
observes the germinating force itself as something that is
whereas nowadays they have eyes only for what is dead; they
observing what is dead. Hence they do not grasp it at
thoughts are no longer given to him in the way that applies
to sounds and colours. From what I say in the book
you know that thoughts were
themselves to us today. We say that a rose is red ; the Greek
of the rose, that is to say, he perceived something
thinking that is only a corpse of what thinking was in us
related to each other? We must be quite clear that when man
There ought at least to be an inkling today that there is
becomes clear that although modern man invariably directs his
today and believes that he should not allow himself to look
beyond it. But what does this mean for modern man — not
that in which he actually lives.
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Title: Driving Force: Lecture VII
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present age in evolution is to be recognized in the fact that
development leading to abstract, that is to say, to dead
You know that
today took place and that on the dry land, or within the
epochs are distinguished by the fact that the constitution of
we find that in those days a man felt himself to be far
life at that time which, as I have often pointed out, takes
emphasised that, not out of intellectual observation —
for that was unknown in those days — but out of deep,
instinctive perception in that remote past, great importance
a man. Not that the people of those days engaged in any kind
of study of physiognomy — that, of course, was utterly
sensitive feeling for physiognomy. They felt deeply that if
someone had this or that facial expression it indicated
nature in general. At that time, if anyone had come to them
saying that something should be ‘proved’, they
simply would not have known what was meant. It would have
physical pain. To ‘prove’— that would be
need to know anything so certain about the world that it must
‘proving’. There it is known that proving is a
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Title: Healing Factors for the Social Organism: Lecture I
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to me that no time has had to be characterised in this way, in
man of the present, a man of whom I could say that he has
influence over the youth in Central Europe, and that one will
The “Times” have published an article about what is
and it is indeed an outstanding phenomenon that, with the decisiveness
mastered, strictly proves that at the beginning of the 3rd
barbarism. It is a significant phenomenon that by the same means,
distinctly that this civilisation will have to completely
definitely do not have to do with a view of things that is
for the view that the culture of the 17est is heading for
to tell you that this Spengler, without a doubt, is a man of
genius, but that he says the greatest foolishness. I have cited
examples of this for you; so that we stand before the remarkable
experience in the spiritual life of the present, that genius and
foolishness are linked together. That is, in general something
characteristic, that the most remote extremes are linked in the
that if such things were spoken of, as I did yesterday about
because at that time people were still awake! This is a general
phenomenon, that the paradoxes interweave in our time, and that
second thing to you, that this Oswald Spengler is an eminently
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through the fact that I made the effort to show you what a
conceptions, and that which also comes about in the soul in the
fact that man has the strong insight, how the human being, in his
increasingly materialistic attitude (through the fact that he
down into this matter element, so that in the end it is no longer
false when he maintains that the matter of his body thinks, his
brain thinks — but that that is even correct that man
actual losing of this soul-spiritual element occurs. I said that
people, and that many take to be something that they do not wish
to accept for the reason that they believe that the human being,
the material element that he cuts himself off from the
soul-spiritual element, that he sinks himself into the Ahrimanic
progressive element, that is, when he joins himself to everything
that is connected to the Mystery of Golgotha, when he, above all
else, recognises that in our time one has to seek the connection
to what can be brought to all mankind in the way of spiritual
research. In this evolution of humanity that has taken place for
What we experience
today as concepts, what we receive for our view of the world out
of the customary official professions, that contains, basically,
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Hochschulkurses sage. Der Berliner Hochschulkurs hatte sein
Tagesprogramme erfahren hatten. Gewissermaßen hatte jeder Tag einen
Bedeutungsvolle: Jeder einzelne Tag hatte nämlich in seiner
Sozialwissenschaft gewidmet war, hatte ja sogar einen sehr
hat eine Vorstellung davon, wie die einzelnen Disziplinen ihren
Freitags-Veranstaltung gegipfelt hat, und der im Grunde genommen —
theologischen Charakter hatte, daß dieser Hochschulkurs, der ja
theologischen Tag, einen solchen Besuch hatte, daß es «brechend
Programm etwas Negatives hatte. Natürlich gingen diese
Menschenerkenntnis bauen müsse, daß man also notwendig hat, nicht
Beispiel mit dem Hegeltum. Hegel hat ja bereits in seiner
Geldproblem der Gegenwart ganz Bedeutendes gesagt hat; aber es läßt
gebracht, und es hat ja gerade dieser nationalökonomische Tag
tanzendes Versprechen; aber was dann der Tag gebracht hat, das war
Es hatte ja in einem
das religiöse Erlebnis hat, das Erlebnis, das in gewisser Beziehung
sagen muß: Ja, da hat man eben nur ein subjektives Erlebnis. Man
hat etwas rein Psychologisches. Man kann durchaus keine Gewähr
protestantischen Theologen. Ein katholischer Theologe hat nicht nur
ist etwas, was Inhalt hat; nur ein Inhalt, den das moderne
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spiritual life of our present age, so that we can see on
necessity, but on the other hand can fully understand that this
characteristics of this or that opponent, perhaps that is
essential for us at present to understand that if the
emphasised the fact that consolidation of the Anthroposophical
often pointed out that the spreading of Christianity, —
Today we think that following history backwards, we can study
the previous epoch, that we can go back to the Middle Ages,
Further back we come to the Roman Empire, passing through that
we come to Greece, and then we imagine that we can feel the
that is not the case. In reality there lies a deep cleft
between that which can still be placed with a certain
and that which took place as life in ancient Greece. Let us
of Sophocles and Aeschylus, we find that their basic mood of
in itself of what I characterised yesterday as a living
processes. We must be quite clear that Greek thought and Greek
feeling came close to the feeling of man, whereas that later
— already began to get ready for that which came about in
also told you that these three personalities, Bruno, Jacob
for a knowledge of man's nature, but that it was impossible for
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Title: Human Soul/Evolution: Lecture I: The Human Soul in Relation to World Evolution
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that, particularly, man's religious life has always arisen as a
his experiences of the external world; i.e., in what remains
actions he has to admit that from the deepest regions of his
he engages in what is usually termed introspection, is of
that come to expression in external action and of memories of
own being will soon make it clear that this kind of
ask: What is that in me which belongs to something
yet akin to my innermost self? Is their nature such that they
fact that man's soul life harbors a contradiction. This comes
that he feels dissatisfied with this situation. The feeling of
dissatisfaction is enhanced through the fact that the body is
nature in that it comes into being and again passes away.
extinguished, it is not possible to ascertain to what
is felt deeply enough he discovers that the surging, weaving
lies the conceptual life, in the other that of the will
feeling. He becomes aware that concepts and ideas formed, let
direction he becomes aware that his impulses of will are also
honest, that in ordinary life it comes about simply in response
to our experiences of the external world, that is to say, in
different coloring from what was originally experienced
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what is gained through knowledge of supersensible worlds.
Taking the lungs as an example I showed that the moment we rise
come to the conclusion that our organs are in process of
We realize that what we ordinarily observe is a momentarily
conclusion that the lung reveals itself to be at a younger
said yesterday that we could at least put forward as a question
merely say that there is at least a possibility that the
relationship between lung and eye is like that of a child to a
when we have attained imaginative cognition? We find that the
away before spiritual sight. Our limbs are organs that belong
consciousness and observe the external organism, is that the
compare all that, which to higher vision fades from view, with
me draw some sketches of what comes about. Imagine that
of all that which becomes ever paler and fades away. What we
(drawing on the right). In other words, we get an image of what
man leaves behind at death, of that which is either buried or
visible to physical sight, just as that part of man ceases to
said that where physical man has arms spiritual beings have
wings; and that after death so did spiritual man. However, to
that is when one ascends, in the way I have described, from
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order to extend our considerations and link on to what was said
that dreaming is a state between these two. Thus, we have three
pictures. I have often pointed out that only in this state, or
to the extent that we are in this state, are we really awake.
acknowledge that feeling presents a much duller state of
become conscious, that as soon as we are awake, feelings come
When we consider the will we find that what takes place within
us when we have a will impulse remains as unknown to us as that
which we sleep through. The only aspect that is clear in a will
impulse is the thought that initiated it. What next comes into
place in the external world through our will. But what takes
remains as unconscious as that which takes place between
falling asleep and waking. So we can say that while we are
what is given us, on the one hand, as sleeping, dreaming and
feature of sleeping man is that the very factor that makes us
This situation is usually described by saying that the I,
between falling asleep and waking up, is outside of what is
recognize that dream pictures come before the soul in a, so to
before falling asleep, we cannot really say that the pictures
weave within the soul. Thus, what then takes place in the soul
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Title: Human Soul/Evolution: Lecture IV: The Human Soul in Relation to Moon and Stars
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main concern yesterday was to show that the human soul is an
active being, that she permeates the human organism with
keep in mind that, provided one grasps the human organism in
environment, bearing in mind what was said in the first
lecture of this course. The first thing that one notices in
this relationship is that man's life of soul is separate,
cannot be said that we are within the chair on which we sit or
fully realize this, you need only think through what has often
been mentioned in regard to our will impulses: the fact that we
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
not penetrate into what takes place within me when a will
higher, supersensible cognition he becomes aware of what
situation is that man, through his senses, perceives the
pictures of them. That is the situation when man's
that he retains mental pictures of the things he has observed.
These can be called up again, or at least that is how it
appears; we have seen that the situation is somewhat different,
but for ordinary consciousness that is how it appears.
of what meets us there as we are outside the things that meet
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Title: Human Soul/Evolution: Lecture V: The Human Soul in Relation Sun and Moon
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simplest people. This all stems from the fact that modern man
habit of doing so. He is aware of all that which I referred to
in an objective way because when he observes himself all that
become refined, but it is still instinctive life that wells up.
ideas; they prefer to keep to what is subjective and
not aware that, even from the smallest publication, he
does so nonetheless. So it can be said that the only thing that
interested in man as such that it has become a matter of
accepted through blind faith in authority. When told that
science has achieved this or established that, he is
fact that utterly blind faith in authority is involved in the
knowledge of what actually takes place in the laboratories and
to the fact that if we go back in the history of mankind's
object was not what mattered. Of importance was rather that,
the object. Today it is, of course, essential that the idea one
civilization. It must be strongly emphasized that, formerly,
him. Modern man believes that it was mere fantasy and that it
is firmly rooted in Anthroposophy, that we accept this modern
Anthroposophy does just that, by declining every kind of
termed, strictly within the phenomena themselves — that is,
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Title: Human Soul/Evolution: Lecture VI: The Formation of the Etheric and the Astral Heart
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attention to the fact that up to about the time of the change
everything that goes on in his environment. Later in life,
certain sense imitates what goes on in the external world,
reproducing what is there just as a camera reproduces what is
in front of the lens. The human being becomes aware of what is
later life that this imitative principle becomes confined to
imitative process, though to a lesser degree. At that
ideas. The child is more and more guided by what he is told;
environment, he now begins to grasp what he is told. Authority
puberty. What the child is told must be of such a nature that
learns language through imitation but what is expressed through
language — i.e., what grownups impart to the
mentioned that only up to the time when the change of teeth
the physical body. Therefore, it can be said that the change of
description of what takes place; today we shall try to reach a
develops an inclination to leave that world and descend to
descended to unite with what was prepared as physical body in
spiritual-soul world. What we are and what we experience there
differs considerably from what we experience here on
characteristic of the physical world we live in here, is that
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Title: Human Soul/Evolution: Lecture VII: Modern and Ancient Spiritual Exercises
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the world. It is by no means necessary that everyone should be
today. I have often drawn attention to the fact that in ancient
different phases to become what may be described as modern
these things from a certain aspect with reference to what was
civilization. Many people nowadays are returning to what was
the realization that, in order to penetrate into supersensible
previous occasions I have mentioned that, from the masses of
individuals developed, in a manner suited to that age, inner
emerged — that is to say, the one who sets out to attain
different from what it is today. In the present age we
physical world and we are conscious that if we attempt to
intellectual outlook declares that these men of old, through
little understand the nature of man, especially that of man in
ancient times, if we believe that the spiritual beings
way of experiencing the world; namely, that man in those days
world. He felt as my hand would feel were it conscious: that it
the surrounding world. Suppose a man of that time was walking
stepping out in that direction and this has nothing whatever to
feel like that. When he walked along a river downstream, as was
connected with the water of the river flowing in that
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Title: Human Soul/Evolution: Lecture VIII: The Elementary World and its Beings
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connected with what was spoken about yesterday and the day
observation of this kind, to gain insight into the fact that
as he descends to earthly life. We saw also that with this
have often mentioned that a new stream of spirituality is now
accomplished in recent centuries. However, it must be said that
is obvious, even to an external unbiased observation, that the
to those who had achieved something; one was eager to hear what
one is no longer curious about what he will say next. One is
vitality. One gets the feeling that the activity of the
That human intelligence has become something mechanical which
soul to what thus seeks entry, through many doors, as it were,
self. Through inner exercises he sought to attain what today is
compare the ordinary consciousness of self, that we have
today, with that of the Yogi. It makes a difference whether
level of human evolution is not the same as attaining that
will realize from what was said yesterday that mankind
explained yesterday, this has the effect that thinking, by no
identified himself with what his spirit-soul nature was able to
again gain insight into that spiritual foundation of
information. What they actually do is explain how sense
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Title: Human Soul/Evolution: Lecture IX: The Contrasting World-Conceptions of East and West
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is obvious that our contact with the world between waking and
that of sleep. While we sleep we are, with our soul being and
What I have just said is applicable to present-day man in the
question arises: What is our relationship, in our sleeping
state, to that realm which is closed at least to our ordinary
evolution, unless we bear in mind that man has evolved
soul life, that he must exert himself considerably when
necessary. We are superficial in the way we look at that
writings such as the Vedas and all that is contained in the
person's upbringing and education and on what, as a result, he
education, that progress is made in furthering the art of
However, it would be quite wrong to conclude that man was
inspired in him; he felt that what he thought was bestowed upon
Between waking and sleeping he felt that thoughts were granted
Gods that they bestowed thoughts upon him. The Oriental felt
that when, as a human being, thoughts lived within him, it was
religious devotion, the powers that bestowed the
experienced the world in this way, one finds that it is because
his sleep life was different from that of modern man. During
wrong if I drew sleeping man in such a way that I had the
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Title: Philosophy, Cosmology and Religion: Lecture I: The Three Steps of Anthroposophy
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guests my heartiest greetings out of the spirit that prevails
and that underlies all the work that is
humanness. For this reason, what is offered and accomplished
devotion while at the same time its spirit should be that of a
was upon this spirit that it rested, as on the finest
But this spirit also gives, I think, that largeness of heart
that is able to welcome and greet every human being
affectionately. So, it is out of this spirit that rules here at
the Goetheanum that I speak of these first words of greeting.
manner, then, may I express the wish that in the days to come
something that everyone who had wanted to come here will carry
worked at the Goetheanum for years find that our visitors look
back with joy to what they have experienced here, we are filled
and thank you for coming and express the wish that your visit
research so that it will be the foundation for making life in
here at this Goetheanum should not be confused with much that
today is promoted as occultism, or the many things that go by
of natural scientific knowledge in recent times. What is
with what in the strictest sense of the word is in keeping with
the spirit of modern scientific knowledge. What is
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Title: Philosophy, Cosmology and Religion: Lecture II: Soul Exercises in Thinking, Feeling, and Willing
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to show that it relates to reality. So the philosopher is not
relative correctness, one can say then that the one who proves
can be attained that differs from that of one or the other
philosopher, it is impossible to arrive at anything that both
could be felt directly as real and that also carries conviction
differing completely from that of abstract thinking in which it
with one's soul in that state of consciousness. But since
cannot just resume the ancient consciousness that gave rise to
scientifically, that consciousness was dream-like. What
that dream-like way as was the case in olden times. But it must
be realized that these dreams of ancient philosophers were not
consciousness that cultivated philosophy in ancient times it
arose in such a way that the picture absolutely
Our scientific manner of forming concepts requires that
we think in a fully conscious way, that in all respects we live
we must develop a way of thinking that takes its course in the
Such fully conscious, pictorial thinking that relates itself to
Here I shall only mention in principle that it
disregarding everything that makes impressions from outside or
from within, so that the soul's forces may rest undisturbed
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Title: Philosophy, Cosmology and Religion: Lecture III: The Imaginative, Inspirative, and Intuitive Method of Cognition
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Through the meditative exercises that are to lead to
such a way that while the soul rests on this complex of ideas
nothing flows into it of soul-impressions that well up from the
one would a mathematical problem, in order that neither
know at every moment that our soul activity remains
concentrated on what our mind is focused. We know that nothing
is best then if we concentrate on an idea-complex that is
store of memories, we could never be sure what would be playing
experienced spiritual scientist, because he can see to it that
finally brought about that lets man have the definite feeling,
“Now I live in an inner activity that is free of the
physical body; a different activity from that of thinking,
What one encounters especially is the definite feeling that one
within his physical body out upon external objects. But what
is that the thoughts become, as it were, more compact. They not
experiences something akin to the forces of growth that turned
this reason — that man now feels himself in his thinking
these must remain wholly unchanged, so that when man achieves
that he carry out the most diverse exercises,
systematically, for a long time. Through what I have just
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Title: Philosophy, Cosmology and Religion: Lecture IV: Cognition and Will Exercises
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that is to say what are the persistent factors in his physical
body that have been inherited from his ancestors. Man also
organism, and he sees as a consequence what is not subject to
man's individuality. He sees what it is that within his etheric
between what is passed on in the continuing stream of physical
inheritance from ancestors to descendants, and what, by
Pedagogical Course that I gave here in Dornach at Christmas a
year ago, also to what is contained in the last issue of the
within the framework of earth life. He learns to know what he
that his soul-spiritual being begins with earthly life and ends
eternal core of man's being. For that it is necessary to
meditative pictures from consciousness so much that in doing so
pictures produced or created by imagination, so that it becomes
of the images, the soul's strength increases so much that
finally it is powerful enough so that one is able to
consciousness, carrying them so far that the soul becomes
consciousness that no longer has before it the physical
the cosmos that one had first gained through imaginative
What appears then by means of this higher level of
done that, he has, in fact, recognized for the first time the
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Title: Philosophy, Cosmology and Religion: Lecture V: The Soul's Experiences in Sleep
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soul life that cannot be reached, observed or explained
that it must remain unknown — that it contains forces
that do work into the conscious soul life. The emergence of
this idea of the unconscious is due wholly to the fact that a
philosophy, cosmology and religion. The insight that we have
perceptual capacity — that the concrete facts, which are
Ordinary consciousness remains quite unconscious of what
that these experiences have less meaning or are less decisive
spiritual organization, that is to say his ego organism, are
an unconscious condition. But what happens to the soul
something absolutely real. What remains unconscious to ordinary
perceive what, for ordinary consciousness, is unconscious. I
unconscious throughout the night, but what would
be cast upon it so that it becomes visible. The following then
experience that is undifferentiated, in a certain sense
sleeping person what may be called a deep need to rest in the
acquire a definite knowledge of what the dreams really contain.
truth, in relation to what is meant here, can only be perceived
real. So it can also be said that in the first stage of every
what in waking consciousness is cultivated in his soul as
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Title: Philosophy, Cosmology and Religion: Lecture VI: The Transition from the Soul-Spiritual Existence in Human Development to the Sensory-Physical
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intuitive knowledge it will be evident that it is
his soul and spirit. I was able to indicate yesterday that such
an experience occurs during sleep, only that ordinary
that man in his physical sense life experiences himself in his
especially strong in that deepest stage of sleep which I
pointed to yesterday as the sleep in what I have called
the fact that these bodies continue to exist, fully alive,
understood, one must keep clearly in mind that the
that the reason why a man wants to return into his physical and
etheric bodies in the morning is that his soul yearns to do so.
Then someone else could say that this return depends upon the
moon forces. Both are correct, only that the wish to return is
aroused during man's cosmic experience by the moon forces that
falling asleep and waking. These moon forces, that is their
this prenatal existence, this cosmos differs from the one that
infinity. Man experiences this in such a way, however, that his
When I say that man experiences his future physical organism as
something small that unfolds into a larger organism. But when I
say that the cosmic germ of man's physical body is experienced
Naturally, one must consider that in this case — at least
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Title: Philosophy, Cosmology and Religion: Lecture VII: Christ in His Relationship to Mankind and the Riddle of Death
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mind first of all that man's soul constitution and his inner
transformations. Today, people often assume that the soul
of today's human being. But the transformations that
find that mankind had a quite different consciousness, a quite
difference that exists between waking and sleeping in man today
did exist at that time, but it was not the only aspect of the
we are aware of a certain content in dreams, we must admit that
not point to any reality that man can control directly with his
apart from these three states of consciousness, of which that
ancient humanity. It was neither that of dreams, nor of
to our dream pictures, but what they contained pointed to a
physical being with colors and shapes, that it is a physical
move in ours, except that it was impossible to doubt that their
eyes perceive something, we know with certainty that something
physical is out there, so did a man of the past know that he
Among what ancient man experienced as spiritually real there
that epoch simply had every day in his soul inner experiences
that proved to him beyond all doubt that he had lived in a
their initiation science in such a manner that these faithful
could arrive at the conviction that they looked into an
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Title: Philosophy, Cosmology and Religion: Lecture VIII: Ordinary and Higher Consciousness
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that alternate in daily human life, we find that during sleep,
suspended and that what he experiences in his soul life as
that we as human beings sum up as our “self” when
that is here extinguished will now be rekindled bit by bit
how thoughts are employed so that through meditating
still further what is experienced on the path of
initiation knowledge, for only then does it become clear what
described it, the first experience of a person is that he
notices that he experiences a much stronger activity of thought
consciousness — I emphasize that ordinary
that man can enter he loses the capacity, so to speak, to
thoughts that are experienced have to do mostly with the outer
sense world and memories. Also, there are dim thoughts that
mentioned that they are not the memories a person also has in
actually sees into an etheric process that builds up, saturates
physical organization. Everything that has occurred since
connected with organic life that is otherwise hidden from
abyss to a thinking that experiences its own etheric body.
attention must be paid to what escapes you during the
perceive what confronts you at the present moment and you think
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Title: Philosophy, Cosmology and Religion: Lecture IX: The Continuation of Ego Consciousness after Death in Relation to the Christ
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the reason for this is that when we wake up an etheric and
what it experiences in the astral and ego organisms. On the
other hand, in the waking condition only that enters clearly
namely, what underlies the memories as the reality of the
experience in the higher worlds that we have learned about and
what he experiences each night as a replica of the planetary
say that he was feeling an after-effect in his own being of the
foundation that underlies the course of his life. He knows
nothing of the impulses that come from the movements of
experiences nothing of what is expressed in the constellations
activities that are carried out in the everyday condition of
with the forces that he has gathered during sleep out of the
life to express itself in concepts, in thoughts that are
has no awareness of the vitality that courses through him, he
ordinary wakefulness, and this poses the question to us: What
does the soul actually do to the physical organism so that
firmly in mind that the physical organism really prevents the
us examine to begin with what it is that this triad — the
that the activity that is exercised on the human head
filled with life. But in that case no physical consciousness
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Title: Philosophy, Cosmology and Religion: Lecture X: The Experience of the Soul's Will Nature
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what I have described here as man's astral organism and ego
being. I have shown how the part of the soul that does the
how the part of the soul that produces the feelings has a
somewhat different connection to the rhythmic system, to the
connected with the head system, we find that it is devoted
because the replicas of what goes on in thinking can really be
become a part of them. We can say of it that at times it is
circulation, streaming into them so that it becomes as if
and see that it slips into the breathing and circulatory
part of the soul that is the basis for the human will behaves
nothing else intervened. We can therefore say that in this
receive insight into the actual reality that exists behind the
something, then, the process that takes place in mere
“I will this or that,” then the activity that
has a thought that represents an intention of the will,
such a thought that arouses the will, a degenerative process
willing-soul that underlies the human will as reality to pour
balance by rebuilding what has been worn down by the
I want to illustrate this clearly, this is what happens: I have
destroyed. The part of the astral organism that
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Title: Occult Reading/Hearing: Lecture I: Human Being and his Relationship to the World
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inner experiences and moods of soul that are the vowels and consonants
must not expect that these four lectures can be a substitute
what was to have been the content of the Munich lectures but
the most important and essential information that was to have
am astonished to find certain people thinking that the
living. But it will be realised one day that this simply is not
possible, that the highest truths cannot be communicated when
substitution for what was to have been given in Munich. But in
speak of a trivial matter — trivial, that is to say, in
comparison with what our stream of spiritual life would like to
author was obviously irritated most of all by what is said in
forth. Among many things that I will not mention here, this
review also contains something that is absolutely
the present day. It is said that if there is anything in these
former should be asked: ‘What do you see in these people
what they have observed, and the others should confirm that
me say here that there is nothing more natural than this
it is that the objections should be made as long as there is no
be comprehensible that such objections would not be brought
these words I am saying something that will be considered
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Title: Occult Reading/Hearing: Lecture II: Identification with the Signs and Spiritual Realities of the Imaginative World
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inner experiences and moods of soul that are the vowels and consonants
will remind ourselves again of what I told you yesterday about
it is Maya, illusion, to assume that as human beings of
soul-and-spirit we are inside our skin, that things are merely
apparatus. What we experience is not produced in us by
as a mirror produces what is seen in it, does our organism
produce what we experience in our life of soul about the things
around us. And the materialist who asserts that the brain or
declares that the face he sees when looking in a mirror,
said yesterday that, generally speaking, we can regard these
made this clear by pointing out that anyone who experienced
that when those fleeting, fluctuating pictures of the spiritual
is the principle that there are exceptions to everything, real
which I have been speaking. Z his must be realised. What I have
will take a definite case. Let us suppose that somebody who has
now we will assume that this is not the case, that there is an
world, for meeting the dead. Let us assume that everything is
in order — to use a trivial expression — and that a
an undertaking presuming in advance that it will succeed,
Please realise that one can only describe special cases; it is
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Title: Occult Reading/Hearing: Lecture III: Inner Experiences and 'Moods' of Soul as the Vowels and Consonants of the Spiritual World
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inner experiences and moods of soul that are the vowels and consonants
From what was said yesterday and the day before, you will have
realised that occult reading and occult hearing consist in
say, with what these signs signify of spiritual realities.
— as far as is possible in the few lectures that can be
precise idea — of what is necessary in order to advance
from disordered clairvoyance to the genuine clairvoyance that
before we can even begin to approach what may be called the
Cosmos. From what I indicated yesterday you will have realised
that we can speak of seven such vowels — a symbolic
search for someone who is dead. I took that as a starting-point
heard that through the different forms of preparation which the
it must be clearly borne in mind that when these pictures
is very important to keep this in mind. Let us assume that you
appears before you. Now suppose that, instead of a seer there
this is speaking in the abstract. We could also ask: All that
ourselves are — why is it that we do not become aware of
the spiritual world that is round about him. What is this
soul, that we consume these pictures, as it were; we are united
with these pictures. We now know that this is so.
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Title: Occult Reading/Hearing: Lecture IV: Inner Mobility of Thought
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inner experiences and moods of soul that are the vowels and consonants
when we learn gradually to enter with consciousness that
show how we can so regard evil in the world that we recognise
that is linked with the last. We must transform ourselves into
other beings but in such a way that the threads of inner
remember what happened yesterday or some years ago in his
world. This means that when a human being has transformed
that we learn to understand these Beings of the Hierarchies. We
concentrated his consciousness at a time that is not our
Being of the rank of the Angeloi, he finds that Being somewhere
must realise that the name ‘Archangelos’ has meaning. We know
the stage of world-history. It is there that we find them in
such a way that he can actually experience those other epochs,
just as in the physical world we must not forget what we did
Thus, you can see that the whole relation of the soul to time
What We experience in this way — or even if we envisage
then experiences something that is not an abstract feeling in
meanings weaves itself into a Cosmic Word that is full of
say: ‘What I know in this Cosmic Word, the Cosmic Word knows in
— although quite a primitive one — of what may be
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Title: Imaginative Cognition and Inspired Cognition
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is not in a sleeping state only during ordinary sleep but that
life alone. Compared to the conceptual life, what we bear
soon realise that, on the one hand, dream-life — which as
this same faculty alone that the whole range and significance
of our feeling life can be estimated. And what goes on in a
just as hidden from ordinary consciousness as what in dreamless
moment of falling asleep to that of waking.
What actually takes place when we perform the simplest act of
as what goes on in sleep. It is only because we can see the
result of an act of will that the act itself enters our
Having thought of raising our arm — but that is merely a
that we learn the result of an act of will. But the actual
consciousness, so that, even during our waking hours, what
what concerns us here is that, when taken as a whole, the facts
carefully following up the facts in question we shall find what
consciousness, before going on to what this Imaginative
conceptions, however, teaches us too that in them we live in
what, compared with the external world, is something unreal. On
the other hand, precisely in what concerns the life of will
we form conceptions we find more and more that these
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Title: Occult Psychology: Lecture One
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You will easily believe what very deep satisfaction it
gives me to take up work again among you all on this building of ours. It is a fact that anyone
that something connected with the most significant, the most weighty tasks of man's future is
bound up with this building. And it goes without saying that after long, forced absence one is
To this I would add that particularly for me, my
gone forward in an unprecedented way; it has made progress in the spirit that should permeate the
the spirit in our work, as consequence of all that is originating here, the real feeling of
solidarity among many of our friends — the genuine feeling towards all that this building
incorporates. What reveals itself to the soul when one lets this whole matter renew its effect
upon one is that here we have a place with which is united such a true sentiment in a number of
the friends of our spiritual movement, so sincere a sentiment that it promises a continuance of
the work devoted to this building there is already something that could serve as a model for all
that, in common with what we call today the Anthroposophical Society, is actually intended.
On the other hand, I have a strong feeling that
what is favourable, what is so significantly good found here in our building, in the harmony of
to free what our movement wills from the subjective interests of individual men.
Concerning what we have just touched upon, my dear
Anthroposophical Society, certain remarkable views, that to be more exact, are remarkable
true that these individuals do not know that this is a question of mere egoistic interest; in
standing out as a symbol of our cause, and free from all that is personal. And what is connected
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Title: Occult Psychology: Lecture Two
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should like to give this sketch in such a way that it can be said: we are looking at the profile
of man as a soul being. So that we understand ourselves just as if we were to look at the
sketch in outline anything like this we must naturally always keep in mind that we have to do
with imaginative knowledge, that the reality behind the matter therefore is being given in
picture form. The picture refers to the matter and is given, too, in such a way that it correctly
meant to represent something of a soul and spirit nature as we do of anything that in a
time of what I am now saying. I shall therefore omit all that concerns the physical and lower
etheric organism of man and try to sketch only what is soul — soul-and-spirit (see diagram
2). As you know from the various descriptions that have been given, the soul-and-spirit stands in
rather an isolated being; one might even say that physical man of the senses is really shut up
It is not so where what can be called the men of
side the kind of relation the human soul-and-spirit has to what is of soul-and-spirit in the
paint what enters in a soul-spiritual way from the universal, from the infinity of space, like
this. Naturally I should have to paint the whole space in a way... but that is not really
necessary. I shall only paint man's immediate environment. Thus it is now what we may understand
soul-spiritual that into which man is placed. Man indeed is not yet there, but indicated in this
up which is of soul-and-spirit. This is what I should now have to represent perhaps in the
man, we may be able to think of ourselves and what belongs to the human spirit-and-soul as
what might be called the one pole of man's spirit-and-soul nature. We get the other pole when we
can perhaps incorporate in the following way what, adjoining the universal soul-spiritual here,
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Title: Occult Psychology: Lecture Three
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knowledge. We know that these boundaries to knowledge do not in truth exist, but that in actual
on to an inner zone and, by this reflection, being enabled to become memory. What we have in
consciousness does not go right into the depths of the region that lies in man's
subconsciousness. We will draw these two boundaries the boundary of memory (left) and what we
human evolution, go back perhaps farther than the eighth pre-Christian century (you remember that
still existing at that time rested indeed upon this. Certain impulses from the cosmos came
say that what is here outside us first became increasingly impenetrable — I mean
boundary today, quite extraordinarily while continuing to maintain that no one is able to
It may be said on the other hand that another
seething, into which man should not look (above all should not look in the sense of what the
experience that there are repeated lives on earth, and things of that kind. One may say that
is approximately to this effect — Weininger maintains that the human soul during life
today the ego is lying hold of man inwardly in what I may call a more solid and compact way; one
penetrable, and all manner of things are pressing through. What he has written down about his
of character that led him to take Beethoven's room in Vienna one day and then the next day to
You will understand that one is in certain way justified in showing how the ordinary cleverness
that man is now able to develop does not extend to knowledge of what arises from the unexplored
What man attains through his ordinary normal
what is here is the understanding of the wor1d acquired through Spiritual Science. It is possible
the desire to order and harmonise this life of soul through what can be acquired by working for
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Title: i Spirituality: Lecture 1: Historical Symptomology, the Year 790, Alcuin, Greeks, Platonism, Aristotelianism, East, West, Middle, Ego
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stipulating that history should be treated in such a way that one would not only consider the
encompassing, synthesizing force, would see what is at work in the unfolding of history —
which can only be found by someone who knows how to get a total view of the facts in what in a
approach which was then particularly developed, and that it was not the ideas in history that
were pursued but only a sense that was developed for the external world of facts. Attention was
also drawn to the fact that, with regard to this last question, one can only come to clarity
might wish to find ideas as the driving forces of history would never be able to prove that ideas
substantiality can do something. Spiritual science points to real spiritual forces that are
behind the sensible-physical facts, and it is in real spiritual forces such as these that the
of humanity and we will do so today in such a way that, through our considerations, certain facts
that
symptomatology constituted from the fact that one is aware that behind what takes it course as
historical development there are times when what has real being and essence
Let us suppose that this is a flow of historical facts (see diagram). The driving forces lie, for
the fact that what is otherwise hidden comes here to the surface. Thus we can say: Here, in a
Let us assume that this (see diagram) took place in
some year of world history, let us say around 800 AD What was significant for Europe, let us
wished in general that all
perception of the world should be directed to significant points and then, from what could be
that, within the abundance of facts, the important thing is to find a
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will take place in the sign of this development of the individuality. This, however, means that
what comes from the spiritual world and plays into our physical world will take such a course
that, in humanity as a whole, the individual element of the human being will take on greater
a course that the individual human element can work into it.
Every age, every epoch, that we can trace in the
course of human evolution developed some particular quality, just as now it is that of
because of the separateness that we see in the individual human being today when the
increasingly educated for freedom, must also take up a conscious stand more and more to what
results from this. Above all it is essential that a social life take shape, but a social life
fact that the strong egoistical forces of the consciousness-soul, which are opposed to a social
everything that can foster this social living together. We have shown in the past,
have pointed to different things that are peculiar to the human beings of the East, Central
Europe and the West. And we want now to turn to a phenomenon that can already show us externally
We know that, under the influence of our modern
other strata of the population. We have, distinct from that of other peoples, the conception of
that materialistic concept of life which has often been characterized here. This arose side by
socialist conception of life, however, developed in such a way that it stands entirely under the
aegis of economic strife, for it is permeated by economic concepts, thoughts and struggles that
This is the characteristic stamp of what is going on in
Anglo-Saxon proletariat that the impulses of socialism arose.
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differentiation that exists among the peoples of the present civilized world. I indicated how the
beings that have progressed in an irregular way, that are more advanced than humanity, but for
we find in the East that certain beings, that had their real significance in the far distant
imaginations, put into practice in present cultural development what these beings introduce. If
and at everything in the physical-sense world that expresses itself out of these spiritual
human being of the ancient Orient had a highly developed spiritual life that flowed from a direct
Greece there mingled in with it what then became Aristotelianism, what was already intellectual,
dialectical thinking. So what came from oriental wisdom penetrated then into Western
civilization, and, with the exception of what stems from natural science and what can stem from
the modern anthroposophically-oriented spiritual science, everything that exists in Western
spiritual life is, in fact, completely decadent. This spiritual life is of such a nature that it
through it, but can no longer find a link between what he believes about the spiritual world and
what happens here on earth. This shows itself most strongly in Anglo-Saxon Puritanism, in which a
— aspirations of the social life — take on such a spiritual character that they have
is to be traced to the fact that it is actually conceived by the people of the East, even by the
so much in the abstract concepts of Marxism, but essentially in the fact that its bearers are
Hellenistic culture there developed, as we know, what took hold of the human beings of the Centre
thinking. And one can only understand the role played by what then developed out of the Roman
culture when one considers at first that all three branches of human experience — the
mixed up and at cross-purposes in much the same way that is the case today over basically the
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I would like today to point to a certain connection between what I gave yesterday as the
and Eastern ones and what arises in quite a unique way in
over to instincts, to the sensible-physical — and the other possibility — that of
being given over to the logical world of reason. Schiller holds that, in both cases, the human
instincts to such a degree that he can give himself up to them without their dragging him down,
so that these logical necessities do not also enslave the human being.
It is an extremely important fact that Schiller's
towards external upheaval and change also moved Schiller — but moved him in such a way that
he sought to answer the question: What must the human being do in himself in order to become a
that the human being can become free? Schiller asked: What must the human being become in himself
so that, in his constitution of soul, he can live in
that if human beings are educated to this middle mood they will also represent a social community
governed by freedom. Schiller thus wishes to realize a social community in such a way that free
Now we know that Goethe's soul-configuration was
soul-constitutions that these two became so close. Each could give to the other just that which
— for Goethe this was all far too cut and dried, far too simplistic. He felt that one could
to Schiller that he did not want to treat the problem, this whole riddle, in such a
this and on the far side of the river, in a pictorial, rich and concrete way; the same thing that
Schiller presents as sense-life and the life of reason. And what Schiller characterizes
— of the fact that the outer structure of human society must not be monolithic but must be
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attention to the challenges that are placed before us with regard to the evolution of humanity
We know that a new age in the development of
form an exact idea of what the constitution of soul was like in the people who lived before this
which, since that time, have become particularly important. But if, from the many characteristics
speak of a definite longing for knowledge in as much as the human being at that time had
relationship to what was revealed in nature as spirit — and thereby also to achieve a
intensity of the longing for knowledge that held sway before the middle of the fifteenth century.
Striving for knowledge was an intense affair of the human soul; for knowledge that had an inner
when it came to what moved him to perform his work in the world, and so on. Everything that lived
there as a longing for knowledge has become less and less comparable with what has been emerging
idea of what had previously existed as a longing for knowledge.
thus also takes on the configuration of this technology. What then is the cause of this? It comes
from the fact that it is just in this time that we find the particular development and
dim. But one can nevertheless say that, to a certain degree, the last effects of the old
idea of the faculties rising up out of the human soul that are higher than the faculties
faculties that people tried to probe to the depths of the
what people understood as knowledge.
into a deterioration. And it is this decline of real intensity in the pursuit of knowledge that
What then is needed here? It is that which exists
that they revealed the spirit to them. The spiritual spoke out of every spring, every cloud,
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If an understanding for what one can call the
create a preparatory understanding for the course that the Christ-idea, the image people have had
of the Christ, has taken in the course of human development. We remember that human development
characterized the different epochs of human development in such a way that we have placed the
Today we will remind ourselves that there were
that, in its reality, in its essence, the Mystery of Golgotha was grasped at first only by those
towards the West — to the Greeks and the Romans — one could receive what was related
by those people who, out of the remains of the old clairvoyance, had understood what had really
come to pass on the earth. And in order that there could be a perception through an 'eyewitness'
truth, of the genuine nature, of the Mystery of Golgotha. What St Paul was able to relate out of
his conviction — what those who had preserved the remains of an old clairvoyance could
the form of speaking about the Mystery of Golgotha in the way that was possible with these
oriental perception. One could say that this ancient oriental perception was preserved up to the
Mystery of Golgotha to such a degree that a truly human grasp of this Mystery could find a place
particularly in Rome and which can be seen as the wave that prepared the later intellectuality
the dialectical-legal, development of the human soul. In the midst of everything that occurred
Golgotha became clothed in dialectics. Out of what was Christian Gnosis, which still relied on
establishing of the European Empire that later became
ecclesiastical-theological influence. It was a kind of theocratic empire that spread there but it
You know from history and from what I have related
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how European conditions are bound to develop in the near future, and we saw that the course of
disappearance of what, in many areas of our modern times, is still considered by people to be the
that, for many who would rather go through the coming times in a comfortable sleep, with a
this yesterday already — that the prophecies of those who see the most central matter of
must be absolutely correct. But what must be regarded as imminent is what I characterized for you
world-conception, based on science, that the most intense need will have to arise for what I have
that ever since the Mystery of Golgotha, and particularly in recent centuries, all that can
properly be called experience of the Christ has fallen into complete decadence. We saw, too, that
able to develop. And we have already pointed out how the particular constitution of soul that is
Golgotha. But one has to be clear that just as other crucial, incisive events in human evolution
came about in ways other than is expected among philistine circles; so, too, what one must call
fifteenth century the constitution of people's souls has become quite different from what it was
before that time. History does not take this into account because external history ever and again
habitually stick to what was once instilled into them. At most, one can notice a breaking out
from this clinging by force of habit to what has been inculcated when one observes with a wakeful
encapsulate themselves in their habitual ideas so that nothing can penetrate which conflicts with
their usual habits of thought they would soon see what an immense gulf there really is between
science. And this is connected with the fact that popular science has totally captivated the
still cling to a certain piety, a piety that wants to know nothing of what is laying hold of
rooted in this piety; a refusal to face what is spreading here and which one can only define as
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If you put together what I told you yesterday
processes I pointed out that, from the aspect of the physical world,
reality is attributed generally only to what arises and forms itself, as it
so-called destruction, at processes of dissolution, at what finally arises,
what has sprouted in the physical world is in its turn eliminated,
destroyed. I have shown that those processes which life brings forth in us
physical world. Indeed, the truth of the matter is that when we perceive
that the most important process of destruction for the life of the human
during the time after death. Through the fact that our soul-spiritual
souls: ‘What happens during the time through which the
often been pointed out that this period of time is a long one for the
in a manner inimical to the world, and have done only what may be called,
‘By what is the return of a human soul to a new physical
Picture to yourselves that when we enter physical existence we are born
quite specific conditions. You should consider deeply that our life between
born. What we think, what we feel, in short the whole content of our life,
readily understand that what thus surrounds us when we are born into
physical existence is dependent on preceding causes, on what took place
previously. Suppose that we are born at a certain moment and go through
life between birth and death. But if you also take into consideration what
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What way has man to take
conception of the Cosmos — whether that of Spiritual Science or
any other — contain this basic query: What is the evolutionary
his thoughts educated through Spiritual Science, may also ask: What is
the ultimate aim of human evolution! He would like to know what will
thought, and that, for the mind cultured through Spiritual Science, the
You all know that human
various previous stages, and that this earth-state was preceded by the
Moon-stage. And we must remind ourselves of the fact that, in a certain
therein; we can put it this way: that we are earth men, but that we in
further, namely that the Moon man also encloses the Sun man, and the
imagine that this diagram in any sense reproduces the truth. In
this ‘dual’ man, the matter stands thus, for example: That,
become evolved in the human being that which we now call the earth man;
previously we have to do with evolutions or developments that
active development. Hence, we find that the first three cultural
You will all be aware that in
attitude that has led to a materialistic conception of the Universe,
— and that, this materialism we endeavour to impregnate with the
and know of the world, — all, that constitutes man's
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questions, a solution of their problems. That is quite natural and
feeling must be added, a certain perception that the more one strives
sanctity. That is to say, we can expect in our future incarnations
gradually to have an enhanced feeling in what a lofty sense, in what
expect just that regarding this Christ-riddle much will be solved for
us, but also that much of what we have hitherto found full of riddles
becomes still more difficult. Other things will emerge that bring new
this great problem. And I beg you to be entirely clear that only
from various aspects. And so something shall here be added to what
has already been said that may bring us again some understanding of
announced that now men had eaten of the Tree of the Knowledge of Good
and Evil they must be banished from their present abode, so that they
pronouncement: we will bring to mind what we have long known: i.e.,
that the Mystery of Golgotha, in so far as it was accomplished within
We know indeed that the Mystery of
the Graeco-Latin age and that two-thirds of this age follow, having
regard to the Mystery of Golgotha. The first is what took place as
purely objective fact: in short, what happened as the entry of the
say, it would be conceivable, for the Mystery of Golgotha, that is,
perhaps even known what had taken place there. It might quite well
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forming world-history may be divided on the one hand into what may be
the same facts somewhat more subjectively, will give our attention to
rhythmic alternation that occurs in man's daily life; namely, that he
considered more closely and exactly, but for today's study what has
it can happen that, without any special development having been
come before his soul that at the moment of waking he, as soul-being,
lifts himself out of a living and weaving in what one might call a
conditions are favourable, that they do not awake from sleep as if
more etheric, lighter weaving and living than what we pass through
struck many people, in waking, that they lived during sleep in an
that I cannot bring clearly enough into the waking consciousness. And
special occult training, a man can be clear that during sleep he was
two-fold saying to which we referred yesterday, that two-fold
What does it really mean: Not eat of the
Tree of Life? You will perhaps no longer find incomprehensible what I
himself: If what we call the Luciferic temptation had not taken
that we should have had a different knowledge of things if the
Luciferic temptation had not come to pass. This is exactly what the
two-fold utterance implies. It means that the knowledge we obtain of
the world and its phenomena is a knowledge that has entered through
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what we call Spiritual Science.
how intimately connected is the thought-content with what we are as
concepts, and they have the consciousness that through these thoughts
that the images in fact reproduce something of the world. This is the
the feeling that because he sees the trees etc. concepts come to
life, and that the concepts are inner presentations of what he
perceives, and that he thus in some way takes the world of external
world-conception that the thought, the act of thinking, is an
actuality in our inner self as man, that we do something by thinking,
that thinking is an inner activity, an inner work.
fact that every thought is essentially different from what people
moulder. Every thought that arises in us seizes, as it were, upon our
It goes on working continually and again and again replaces what dies
away in us. So it is not only the case that we perceive our concepts
through what we conceive in ideas.
downwards, so that with every thought we actually insert in us
something is being destroyed, is actually crumbling away. And what
longer noticed — that the breath spreads out in
him, and that breathing has something to do with his re-building and
scarcely feels any longer that the thought is actually striving all
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yesterday we were able to show how the intellect, all that is
point of merely seeing images of something external in what he
receives as concepts and ideas, and how he does not notice that at
bewitched in the inner being of man, so that when he feels, when he
brings his will into activity, he has the consciousness that he is
then entirely and solely within himself, that he is concerned only
with himself, and that what takes place in the impulses of feeling
cosmos. We believe that in our feelings we only bring to expression
pointed out that this originates from the fact that certain spiritual
Sun-evolution. What entered their destiny through their not having
pronounced separation between something in us that wishes to be
what is in us, and which are, far more turns outwards and tries to
to make a sketch of what this denotes we could perhaps
fact that here within, it is raying out and continually calling forth
not aware that they now also go out into the cosmos, that they really
notion that truth is imparted to him from two sides, that he attains
come if one extended what tries to go out in the cosmos from the one
that (Drawing 1, yellow) must certainly go out to a
thing in itself is nebulous, is unknown; but that which thrusts up as
however, give our chief attention to this: that as a matter of fact,
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the possibility of going into some important matters that we will
suppose that here were the surface of the earth —
arable land, meadow, or what you will (a drawing was made), and
plants, any kind of plants grew in this meadow. And suppose that here
were a worm or some little creature, that lives and burrows under the
surface. This little grub or caterpillar, or whatever it is, creeps
recognise the roots. And what will happen is the following, is it
— that this caterpillar or grub were a
makes itself a world-conception. In the picture that it devises as
that the sun comes and the shoots spring forth —
notices quite clearly that something is going on, that the roots
become different, and also that in the part of the earth lying round
That is to say, a world-conception arisen in this worm-philosopher
know, this worm, whence this warmth comes ... That it becomes warmer,
that all sorts of processes go on in the roots, all that he
opinion so current today, that all depends on cause and effect,
effect and say: Now the earth becomes somewhat warmer from above
downwards; that causes alterations in the roots. With the further
earth as cause and effect. But it would not include that fact that
see, it is quite clear to you, I think, that this worm-philosophy
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Let us remember that the human being was built up in
stressed that the first rudiments of the sense-organs were present in
the time of ancient Saturn, and that of course they were not then
of human evolution, is that these sense-organs as such have to do
with what we can call physical operations. On Old Saturn the first
of the physical into whatever else is forming in man, so that the
nevertheless that all has to do with the
as the most external of evolved members; what [
seen in the fact that during sleep the ears are naturally influenced
obvious that just the same would happen as during waking. We can
and we must be clear that if we did not sketch it as a diagram, but
Now you can conclude from this that the
of what in fact works as the external world. You can indeed follow
photographic apparatus, and what is created within is then seized
world that we first build up our soul process, insofar as the process
What I have now depicted is how things
divine-spiritual beings had planned. But we know that
perceived what was within him, he would have the feeling: in me is a
It is interesting that in the first
consciousness that they are enclosed as if in a sphere which really
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so are my other books. Only one who knows that in every
different from what it came to be later on. A great and
reasoning faculty. Until that time, all knowledge and all
consciousness that was natural before the 4th century still
echoes on in sayings like that of John Scotus Erigena —
that man forms judgments and draws conclusions as a human being
soul. This very fact indicates that man's whole way of looking
at the world had changed in the course of that century. And
that is why it is so difficult for us today to understand the
unmistakable indication of the fact that what was previously
Gospel carefully, we find a statement that has been overlooked
and without him was not anything made that was made.’
namely, that all things visible were made by the Logos, that
literally and maintain at the same time that the creator of
spiritual world that had survived from ancient paganism. We must
Christ. What did such a mystery really signify to these men?
everywhere that veneration was paid to the element flowing down
that generation after generation had passed by since the
stock, and that the soul and spirit of this father of the tribe
the blood. Whenever an adherent of that ancient view of the
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Title: Lecture: Art As A Bridge Between The Sensible And The Supersensible
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hat is called the social
themselves as excluded by virtue of their entire life situation from what
could be said to have been still more unfavorable. At that time there was
life did not take the form it does today — such that
before God. In the same way, if you look back for that matter to the
and Pharisees, single communities that stood out, that were in possession
of a certain spiritual life, but what they gave out of this spiritual
forgotten that throughout the Middle Ages the content of spiritual life
times that essentially replaced the old pictorial element with what is
what is of an imaginative nature. More and more, people sought
the form that made it possible to a certain extent that, alongside the
the profound social chasm that now has such frightful
transpired that in this fifth post-Atlantean time-period involving the
person to be convinced of another. On that account, spreading ideas is so
here and elsewhere in our Society, that nowadays, on the basis of no
feeling that a point of view for judging life is to be won by way of
becoming convinced of what lives in the soul of the other person
spirituality. I recently emphasized here once again that one should not
deceive oneself in that people still go to church, maintaining they have
what people claim for themselves today as religious content is after all
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Title: Imperialism: Lecture 1
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historically, not so much referring to the present — that can
time. But when such things are discussed, what is not taken into
account, or at least not enough, is that we live within the
historical course of events, that we stand in a very definitive
historical evolutionary epoch and that we can only understand this
Basically, what is most effective today and
what will show itself to be an even more effective imperialism in the
economic imperialism. But most important is the fact that
how in these times realities are completely different from what is
Swiss friends know very well that while Woodrow Wilson was being
in Switzerland, for what Woodrow Wilson is today, he was of course
complete truth — that in America they are thinking of declaring
him unfit to govern, that there are doubts about his judgment.) The
true, for what was behind them was something completely different, it
was of course a question of power. And in order to understand what
it's about, what is said, thought and judged, it is necessary to
century — we must realize that they are the recent products of
of recent times has changed so much that the true character of an
what the fundamentals are.
of a region, let's say an empire, and what we today would call the
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Title: Imperialism: Lecture 2
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historical origin of what today may be called imperialism, and you
will have already noticed from what I said yesterday that it is
platitudes. It is necessary, however, to realize that platitudes need
that is, into something existing yet illusional, then the new reality
life, fully conscious of the illusionary nature of what was formerly
It is only natural that people
platitudes; for to realize that they have become platitudes causes a
feeling of insecurity. They feel that there is no longer solid ground
deception, they feel that they are adrift. They will no longer feel
be especially possible if all English-speaking peoples realize that
very important. At the moment when it is recognized that we are
otherwise with platitudes, as I also explained yesterday. At that
moment of realization must come when we can no longer defend all that
we maintained till now. Reality for us is what we do for our stomachs
recognized them for what they are, as long as we do not realize that
the economy is the only reality, we will not be able to admit what it
is necessary to admit. If we do realize all that, then human nature
That moment of truth must dawn.
For the same reason that we go forward towards a new spiritual life,
exist that prevent the illusions from being seen through so thoroughly,
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When you consider what has been said here
during the past two days you will see that what belongs to the
essence of imperialism is that in an imperialistic community
something that was felt to be part of a mission — not
create certain professions for that purpose: police and military
us now consider once again from definite viewpoints what is apparent
in the historical evolution of mankind. We find that in the oldest
discussion was grounded in the fact that a god in human form walked
the earth as the ruler. That was, if I may say so, a secure
Gradually all that which was based on divine
will and was thus secure passed over to the second stage. In that
symbol for what is not actually present in the physical world, but
was when it first occurred to people that a possibility for
discussion of public affairs was possible. What we today call rights
thing that mattered was the concrete will of a physical person. To
human form should or should not do this or that made no sense. In
spiritual world in physical institutions, if one spoke of what Saint
called the “City of God” — that is, the
heavenly facts and personalities, then one can hold the opinion that
what the person does who is a divine image is right, is a true image:
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Title: First Class, Vol. I: Lesson 1
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explaining that situation, but I wanted to stress the
friends. And I would like to emphasize that in this School
spiritual life is to be revealed in its true meaning, so that
card, to begin in a way that will make you conscious of the
fact that every word spoken within this School is based on the
— that same spirit which has been revealed to humanity
humanity what it is able to receive.
must be clear from the very beginning that it is not animosity
towards what the sense-world has accomplished for humanity when
of the spirit. We must also clearly recognize that the
it is nevertheless important that the spiritual revelations are
own obstinacy, which hinders understanding what the School
course be what it is possible for the spirit to give us. It
will however be demanded of the members of the School that they
have gone into these things in our weekly periodical, What
that this difference be felt in all its explicitness by the
members of the School, so that eventually only those persons
your souls what should stand over our School as a kind of
engraving. That we really identify with what emerges from the
Toward the light that from darkness streams.
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will relate what is said today to the previous lesson, partly
the world that surrounds him - can feel himself related to the
the influence of “Know thyself”, he only sees what
What you are, what you were, or will become.
Unto that light that shines out of the darkness.
that we can never find our own being in this world. For the
sensation that by looking out into the external world we gain
that can carry us into the spiritual world. Yet just as by
world, we must also bear in mind that the person of normal
consciousness in normal life is unprepared to encounter that
spiritual world that guardian stands who earnestly warns people
it is the case, my dear friends, that we must always keep in
mind the fact that the Guardian stands before the [entrance to]
that this looking back, the perception in looking back,
What we should feel at the abyss of being between the maya, the
must be quite clear, my dear friends, that bravery in acquiring
for acquiring knowledge is what dominates. Especially in our
time that cowardice is what holds back most people from even
Your hate of spiritual revelation
That is the second thing that we have within us - which plants
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Title: First Class, Vol. I: Lesson 3
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spiritual world, which characterize what the human being can
spiritual world. And we should not say that when someone
his thoughts - what the person in process of initiation
realizes in reality by entering the spiritual world, that the
former does not actually participate in what is revealed to the
in thought one approaches the description of the path that
superficial, he will experience and feel fully what it means to
That is what I will speak to you about today, my dear friends,
their thoughts. And that includes all of you, else you wouldn't
observations - when man uses the things that he encounters in
looks everywhere for the facts behind it. He asks: What
experience proves this or that? He doesn't like to accept
something in ordinary life which is not proven by this or that
himself: What is true is what is seen, what is real is what is
Just imagine, my dear friends, that you were to go through life
between birth and death in a way that you could never really
know whether something that confronts you is truth or illusion.
being real or merely a dream. Just imagine what insecurity,
what terrible insecurity that would cause in your life.
threshold of the spiritual world. That is the very first
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Title: First Class, Vol. I: Lesson 4
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well, to the extent that its earnestness can really occupy our
from other areas of spiritual life, what is called
spiritual life by today's civilization, that is. The encounter
an example of what we will receive today, my dear friends, I
certain stage of maturity - not that he became what most people
words; what I have to say is merely clothed in human words.
What I have to say to you are the gods' thoughts, and these
be clear to you that I am thus appealing to everything in your
memory what I am now saying to you. I will be satisfied if
tomorrow you forget what I have said today. Because what you
usually call your memory, and what others call your memory, is
renewed for what is to be received. Everything should be new
said that I do not appeal to your memory, to your capacity for
remembering. That does not mean that tomorrow you should
remember nothing of what is said to you today. But you should
what your memory makes of it. What should lead you to me
the innermost feelings of your soul; they should preserve what
is said to you today. For you see, memory, that capacity for
remembrance, is for learning. What the esoteric has to say,
is in fact true that whenever we are dealing with esoteric
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essence of this Guardian. In particular, we have seen how what
to the heavenly. So that in the moment that man stands before
that, my dear friends, is exactly what must be made clear -
that upon entering the spiritual world a growing together with
our thinking, feeling and willing, aware that our thinking,
feeling and willing are somewhat separated, apart from external
also when looking into the inner human we see what for normal
magical being. What does it mean, that nature must be able to
However, we also know that in dreams our consciousness is
submerged, and dreams are not what can directly describe the
physical body with what is solid, with what is characteristic
etheric body with what is characteristic of water. However,
element lie deep beneath what people experience.
What is closer to man is his breathing process, which is
That man lives and moves in the element of air is obvious from
That the element of warmth is extremely essential to man is
with an object that is colder than our body, a cold knitting
needle for example, we feel the cold places that have been
with an object that is warmer than our body, we don't feel the
be sufficient that I have indicated what air and warmth means
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Guardian's continuous admonition is that man be aware that he
deep relationship to that world exists within him.
rather must one return to what is revealed between them.
what is revealed between the things. We see the three kingdoms
friends, behind the kingdoms of nature we have what is called
what the solid earth consists of is also present in the
feet to what is to a certain extent at our own height, what is
the watery element. Although it is true that man's life on
earth has developed in such a way that he only senses this
condensed, it is nevertheless true that he also lives in this
solid as such, in the earthly, we can only say that we live in
differentiate it. We do not specifically differentiate what is
which exist outside of ourselves. We do not consider what is
around us and at the same time within us, so that we must
have what we designate as Earth, what we designate as Water,
what we designate as Air and what we designate as Warmth.
up to what we have always described with a dry, abstract
shall call that great chemicality of the cosmos
then we will call what is highest in the etheric: Life-Ether,
lesson that the human being, according to the manner in which
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have repeatedly spoken - also outside [Dornach] - about what
not only cultivated, it is also carried out; meaning that
the members than that they honestly recognize what
anthroposophy is and that they are in a certain sense listeners
to what anthroposophy says; and that they receive from it what
become members of this School declare that they want to be true
that only those who are recognized by the School as true
members can be recipients of what the School teaches.
Therefore, whatever a member of the School does should have the
member if it considers that he cannot be a representative of
if we do not feel that the School is like building a rock to
members of this School must know that they must adapt to those
that an Executive Committee has been esoterically formed.
alone. Therefore, anything which indicates that a member is not
that person's membership.
is a fact that negligence has entered into the Anthroposophical
Society to a marked degree in recent years. That it ceases is
should feel responsible that every word we speak is tested to
the extent that we know it is true. For untruthfulness, even
when derived from what is called good intentions, is
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It is to be remembered in all earnestness that with the
that many anthroposophical friends are here for the first time
is true that before the Christmas Conference it was always
emphasized that the anthroposophical movement and the
consider it right that spiritual light, which can come through
and life. And it had to be continually emphasized that
That has changed since the Christmas Conference at the
which was founded at Christmas. I can explain what this means
the Anthroposophical Society; now whatever happens through the
must be an administration. But that is not what it considers to
Society is therewith given. And it must be clear that from now
Conference statutes that contain paragraphs which detail what
rather do the statutes describe what the Vorstand intends. And
that is how the Anthroposophical Society is constituted. It is
issued a membership card, which is signed by me, so that even
least present. It has been suggested that I have a rubber stamp
made with my signature. I'm not going to do that - despite it
must also stress that it must be clear to the members - I
stress it because it has already been sinned against - that
Goetheanum. This means that nothing by way of formulations and
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Title: First Class, Vol. I: Lesson 9
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vision rest upon what radiates down to us from the universe in
in the sublimity of what the vast universe offers, we will gain
minds so that we no longer need to even look up at the heavenly
we can also observe all that radiates down and streams through
then when we are conscious of all that binds us to the earth,
that we are heavy bodies among other heavy bodies. In other
words what lives in us as a feeling of being bound to the earth
from these three inner experiences: what we have gained in
merge with what the planets say to us meaningfully from space
by their movements - so that having felt ourselves to be at
This leads to the question: Why is it then that so few do so?
perceived with what is spiritual in man. But spiritual is what
we can read in the stars, what we can feel in the movements of
the planets, what we can experience in the forces which hold us
to understand inwardly means to transfer more and more what is
sensations - or experiences, it doesn't matter what we call
now, my dear sisters and brothers, what is flowing to you from
everything that happens in its environment as though its whole
body were a sense organ. That's why he imitates everything,
from doing with its senses what we as adults do with them. The
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Title: First Class, Vol. II: Lesson 10
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individual must find the way to understanding what it means to
organization, in not a facilitator; that is, to live with the
a picture of what a human soul can pass through on the way from
spiritual world is what will be provided in these class lessons
a way that those who have participated — it is also karma
impossible for us to grasp what the spiritual world reveals as
two possibilities. One is that the person hears about
them to be self-evident. It is obvious that everyone sitting
here today belongs to that group. For if someone who does not
belong to that group wishes to participate in a lesson as a
another group of people who find what is presented by
visionaries. These people show by their behavior that they are
between people. For if you honestly consider that you possess a
esoteric striving. And we should treasure the fact that healthy
the body — if only by means of so slight a jolt that you
plants in our environment to the extent that we feel them
that due to our wearing a physical body we are directly related
Then, however, we will also feel more and more what the
starting point for esoteric life can be. Then we feel that in
according to the usual methods and called to this or that work
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news that Miss Maryon* has departed from the physical plane
are all gathered here, I will say what I have to say about
is sufficient to say that the First Class has lost a truly
she not only participated in what is being esoterically
friends are here, it will be my task to say what is to be
on his karma, on what conditions he brings along from
But not only that, it also depends on which physical and
When the right time has come, we will surely find what has
that existed in the Mysteries in the past when they
If you will remember what was presented here in the last
Lesson, then what I have just said can live in your hearts.
directly into the individual's experience so that he frees
the meditation we confront not only what resounds from our
soul but also what resounds to our soul, which in a
objective way, then will he be able to follow that intimate,
You all know, my dear sisters and brothers, what has
That which can be known theoretically can also be
organizations. He must be clear about what takes place in his
active. We notice that when the head is ailing, thinking is
circumstances. This doesn't mean that the head is really the
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Title: First Class, Vol. II: Lesson 12
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First let us recite the verse which reminds us of what comes from the cosmos
Self-knowledge, my dear sisters and brothers, is what, in a
been said that understanding must exist for true spiritual
that we must understand that the person who is able to transmit
threshold; that the Guardian of the Threshold stands at the
It has also often been said that this living in the
therefor not lead to envisioning something similar to what is
the point where you can sense the speaking, that you sense the
that makes an impression on me relative to the present: Can I
also sense that?
thinking. Then you will be able to touch, touch internally that
profile]. When speaking is sensed so that it must be moved here
[green]. That is, the sense of thinking is moved
somewhat up against the back of the head.
good to think like that, because you will never progress that
to what life brings from morning to night and nevertheless
force. That is best. To withdraw in solitude in order to have
peace is not what works best, but rather to create solitude
through one's own forces. That is what definitely and securely
these lessons were like that. We have however advanced to
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Title: First Class, Vol. II: Lesson 13
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which can bring our humanity into contact with what is
the thinking which acts behind that everyday thinking, which
tells us to be attentive to what the beings related to us
so that we hear the universe from the distant cosmos
And so, my dear sisters and brothers, we can say that
spiritually perceived. We should ignore the fact that we are
What remains for us to consider today, my dear
the human organism, that is, when the human organism is set
intimate concepts if you want to penetrate into what the
arms. Normally we think that we move our legs and the legs
have. We think that an unknown force – it is of course
we believe that we walk with the legs, with the physical
legs, that the physical legs exist for walking.
brothers, that you should go out into the world of triviality
and cry out-loud: “It is not true that man has his legs
in order to walk.” For that would of course not be
is true is unknown – that almost everything normal
The great illusion does not only include what we observe
body [red] — the part of the human etheric body that
astral legs, but we walk with the forces that correspond to
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to see what our relation is to the Guardian of the Threshold
I will repeat what has been considered in the previous lessons
which he develops his normal consciousness. He realizes that
— and that he has every reason to consciously be a part
of it. But he also realizes that he can never know himself if
is, with all its amazing variety of colors and forms, what I
myself am, what my origin and being are, cannot be found in
And it also becomes clear that in normal life we are
at night, for what we would then perceive, unprepared, would
be such a terrible shock that we would not be able to lead a
The Guardian of the Threshold also makes it clear to us that he
Thus the person realizes that before he enters the kingdom of
which rise up as spiritual figures from this abyss, that one
should realize that these beasts are the outer reflections of
impure willing, feeling and thinking — that they first
foretells what awaits us there in the spiritual world.
And from what has entered our souls through the mantras, we will
realize ever more that the human being must become different
when he crosses the abyss, when he wishes to live into what
with the fact that when he crosses the abyss and experiences
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Title: First Class, Vol. II: Lesson 15
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inner heart and soul what certain cosmic beings and events
in order to grasp with full understanding what the content of
world in which we live, which surrounds us here, and that
kingdoms of nature, much of what is derived from them being
feel that we are a part of the world around us. But we should
conscious of the fact that our true highest human self cannot
be found in all the kingdoms of nature; that it cannot be
nobility; that we must seek it in a world separated from our
perception by an abyss; and that what is beyond that abyss in
humanity; we are really within it, that must be emphasized.
that we may not enter immaturely. He is the first spiritual
have participated in these lessons, and leads to what was put
We contain in us, by what is called
Regarding what we inhale through our breathing, the
air-element, in regard to what we take in through warmth,
And the cosmic powers act in us, in order that an
answer forms in us to what the Guardian of the Threshold is
with each of the elements, so that we may feel ourselves to
with the spiritual element – but also so that we know
that as long as we are earthly beings we must always return
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spiritual world to human souls. Therefore, what lives here in
the School and what is brought to human souls are to be
From this you will understand that membership in the School
the Anthroposophical Society than that they feel themselves
what is generally expected of decent people in
that the member recognize the serious conditions for
membership — namely the basic condition that anyone who
in such a way that he is in every respect a representative of
the world necessarily means that whatever he or she does in
School, that is, with the esoteric Executive Committee
Therefore, it is necessary that membership in
the School be understood in such a way that the member feels
in his whole being that he is a part of what is being done
give what it has to give to whom it considers right to do so.
And the fact that no one is obliged to be a member of the
School, but that it depends on his free will to be a member,
means that the leadership may also place conditions on
membership without anyone claiming that his free will is in
Furthermore, in order that the School really be
taken seriously, it cannot be otherwise than that the
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We also begin today with that verse which, by a correct
that is and all that is becoming as a call to self-knowledge,
Once more let us review in our souls what summarized the contents
from what the human being can experience when he feels himself
experiences the world in a new way in that he first hears what
the Guardian says, but also what the beings of the higher
What becomes of the fire's purification, which enkindled
light about which we can say that he sees it.
And the Guardian reminds us that the one who has come over to the
sisters and brothers, that when we cross over from the physical
Then the Guardian instructs us to penetrate through that
which is on the other side, to look back from that cosmic
When we look back from out there, if you imagine that you go
flood of colors that fill the bowl. They are breathing the colors
We observe how what flows from the cosmos to the rainbow,
What so magically appears
Through the impression we receive from that outlook point of the
floods of color in order that what exists here on the earth as
breathed in what they took from the sensible world, what has
penetrated them through the rainbow, what they have transformed
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that what was previously dark and gloomy — although we knew
that it contained the source of our being — expanded and
What you have received
speak to each other, so penetrated with what the highest beings
let stream into human souls as the cosmic-word so that the human
And now we realize that spirit, in which we now
live, alone is. We now know that even here, in the
What is expressed here in the drawing is spirit. It
What is here: Is — is spirit. And what
here Is, here Is, here Is. Everywhere that
spirit revealed to our souls. Over there we did not see what is
drawn here in red. We are too weak there to see what is drawn
here in red. What remains there then? Nothing. Over there
Something. And we call the Nothings the kingdoms of nature. That
and give names to what is fundamentally Nothing, that it is the
great illusion. And what is Nothing, and what we give names to
the spiritual world that we have now entered. Names dedicated to
If we are not clear about the fact that here on
the greatest illusion. We must know that we are giving names to
deeply, deeply: We now know that we have gone from the kingdom of
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that is, was in the past and will be in the future, calls
Guardian of the Threshold into what is at first a dark,
resound together. Let us now bring that to mind once more
– how we had already continued from hearing what the
What you have received
Spirit-Word that underlies the creation of the world. We
enter the esoteric realm, we should first feel that the
which resounds from that other worldly reality. What our
We must be aware that the true “I
am” does not come from us in the earthly realm, that
What thinks in the Spirit-Word
They are the thoughts that come from all the
What thinks in the Spirit-Word
First it was the flames that speak the words;
the star-flames speak the words. The glow that come from
This is what the human being who stands within it all says.
What thinks in the Spirit-Word
What thinks in the Spirit-Word
What impels in the Spirit-Word
Cosmic-Word, which gleams from the cosmic-thoughts, is what
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Title: First Class Lessons: Lesson XX (recapitulation)
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Two), so many new members had joined, or wanted to join, that
the previous lessons. But it is also true that a repetition of
that it works again and again on the soul. Therefore, for those
the advantages of their continued striving, in that again and
that sense. And so for the members of the School who are here
said yesterday — an esoteric breath that can already be
anthroposophy, is to take the place of what has been previously
the future, this cannot continue. The intention of what was
formed together with me as the Christmas impulse was that the
reflection of what has been founded in the super-sensible
that in the succession of the reigning hierarchy of Archangels,
nineteenth century. And it was made known that this guidance
is the case that in human evolution life is guided successively
that is, from the last third of the nineteenth century back
Then we come back to the previous reign of Michael, that
through Alexander the Great and Aristotle, which until that
Asia, to North Africa, so that what was the spiritual life of a
that what had previously blossomed in one place streams out to
and would come again to Michael. And we would find that after
my dear friends, we should be aware that the Michael impulse
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Despite the fact that a number of new members of this Esoteric
words. Therefore, I must insist that if the new members receive
night-cloaked darkness. But the hope exists that in order to
truly solve the riddle of humanity, what shines and is radiant
is in that other world, in which one's own self finds its
being, comes from what appears at first as black, night-cloaked
self-knowledge is dismaying, even shattering.
we must pass through knowledge of that self, which is the
then the second beast — born from the hate of spiritual
and tepidity in respect of knowledge, yes, hate of knowledge
doubt about the spiritual world that today gnaws at the souls'
Your hate of spiritual revelation
Your hate of spiritual revelation
When the Guardian shows us this - the shattering picture of our
a further clarification that can begin to support us again: a
our willing. And he gives us a certain teaching in what he then
dear sisters and brothers, one feels, even exoterically, that
unreal. What is then this thinking?
must place what this thinking really is before our souls in
the thinking that we have between birth and death is the corpse
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therefore request that the members who give the new ones the
souls hear the words that human beings — if they have
envision the need for self-knowledge — that constantly
true bridge to what the human being needs for his thinking, for
they are inwardly observed, but that these forces appear to the
Threshold has placed this shattering view before our souls, he
down into our thinking, but that this thinking is of a seeming
nature [Scheineswesen] that cannot bear our true Self; but how
strength; how, however, we should understand that not only what
light in order that we find the light that can illuminate our
Seeming world is what you see,
Seeming world is what you see,
that in its rhythm it appears as having moved downward from the
Seeming world is what you see,
Seeming world is what you see,
That we have entered in reality is expressed in that we first
“revere”, which is an inner soul function; in that
alongside the process; in that we first arrive at the
to advance in spiritual knowledge. For what is within us is at
to west, permeating us. These are the same forces that grasp
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previous mantras to the newcomers in the usual way, that they
unbiased sense that in them lies the exhortation to seek true
self-knowledge, a self-knowledge that leads to knowledge of the
words that urge the soul of man, if he wants to hear them, from
what this Michael-School should mean:
stood there shattered by the impression of the three beasts,
we have already heard what the Guardian of the Threshold speaks
that we need this image. We need — if we wish to feel in
look up to that realm from which our thinking comes, where
then, if we understand what striving towards the light is, we
find that we must remain erect. And we must know that we are
then when we consider our feeling, we must see — in that
that is permeated by ahrimanic Beings who would cause us to
between that spiritual blissfulness into which the forces of
warmth, the forces of heat, of fire wish to bring us, and that
ourselves in the substance of darkness. We must strive for what
but the powers of darkness must press up from the soil so that
from light and darkness what the plants represent in their
clear to us that our real being is not revealed by all of
wondrous sensory nature, nor is it what leads us to
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has made clear to us that what surrounds us in the exterior
of nature, what on and from the earth lives and moves, what
— all that offers nothing to clarify the being of our own
self; that the brightness, this glistening in the sunshine,
what we should strive for as human beings in order to achieve
what the true shape of our willing, feeling and thinking is
fainthearted and having fear of knowledge lives in us, as hate
for knowledge, as doubt about the knowledge that is
feeling and thinking. It must be a shattering experience for us
corpse that lies before us. We look at this corpse. We say to
it is now. It is what remains of a human being whose soul and
the spiritualized person must have existed beforehand in what
that it is the corpse of the living thinking that was in us
Then the Guardian reminds us that our feeling is only
Guardian of the Threshold also reminds us that in order to
look up to the heavenly heights; that to grasp the nature of
Christ-path. The Guardian of the Threshold indicates to us that
nothingness; that we must find willing in the Middle Way.
That, my dear sisters and brothers, is what the Middle Way is
beyond the yawning abyss of being into that deep,
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Once again, I must say that the introduction about the
must request that those of you who were already here and have
from all that interweaves and lives in the earthly depths, in
water and air, in warmth and light, from what lives in the
the physical human form, in human souls, in human spirits, what
which leads us to where we become aware that, when we seek our
own being in all that lives in the depths, flows in the air,
all that creeps and flies, in all that our senses perceive in
universal space, in the immeasurably distant flow of time, that
all that does not contain our being, the true source of our
humanity, that it becomes gloomy when we look here for our
humanity. The description has led us thus far to show that we
to what is still night-cloaked, black gloom, so that it can
must be clear to us that in the moment — and we have come
abyss of being, past the Guardian of the Threshold, in that
moment an important change takes place in the human being, that
in the near future, we consider it first, so what we carry out
out in impulses of will. We feel that it is worthy. We feel
love flowing to this or that being. Because we feel it, we form
a thought about it. Or we go beyond that and carry out a deed
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cannot be created by human arbitrariness, nor from that human
of spiritual life, so that everything that occurs in such a
that this same Michael-Will - which we can also call the
always cosmopolitanism. What differentiates people on earth is
by that of Oriphiel, and after Oriphiel came the Anael impulse,
manner - what can be clear to you, my sisters and brothers,
Conference leads to what is constituted as the basis of the
lives with the deepest sincerity. They must feel that they
lessons, but rather as what Michael communicates in an esoteric
Therefore, what these lessons contain will be Michael's message
it is because of this that the anthroposophical movement will
that what membership in this School means be taken with the
brothers, truly and deeply necessary, that it be indicated in
for what really flows through the anthroposophical movement,
be in the forefront of what humanity can gradually develop as
the necessary earnestness. Therefore, it is necessary that the
fact that this Esoteric School exists under the direct force of
Conscientious care of the mantric verses so that they do not
earnestness. It has happened that members of the School have
that whole piles of the News Sheets, only intended for members,
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