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- Title: Lecture: Self Knowledge and the Christ Experience
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- that its life follows the cycle of the seasons. Take for example an insect:
- such an insect's life, and find a certain connection between them, for the
- Returning to our example of a lower animal, in insect, where these matters
- these developmental laws with those which, say, an insect experiences
- We may say, therefore, that the insect has a certain direction in its life
- process is compatible with what takes place when the insect is sensitive to
- of the year. The insect ensures that it notices the transition to autumn,
- was analogous to spring in the life of the insect. Then came the Greek era,
- as summer and autumn come round for the insect. This was a bridge to that
- a higher Level of being, as the insect does instinctively, on a lower
- Title: Lecture: Fall and Redemption
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- take just one out of many such facts: There are insects that are
- other insects. When the mother insect is ready to lay her fertilized
- eggs, she lays them into the body of another insect, that is then
- filled with the eggs that the insect mother has inserted into it. The
- eggs are now in a separate insect. Now the eggs do not hatch out into
- other insect. These little worms, that will only later metamorphose
- into adult insects, are not vegetarian. They could not be
- vegetarian. They must devour the flesh of the other insect. Only when
- without the flesh of other insects. Picture that: the insect
- next generation into another insect. And furthermore; if these
- insects were now, for example, to eat away the stomach of the host
- insect, they would soon have nothing more to eat, because the host
- insect would die. If they ate away any vital organ, the insect could
- not live. So what do these insects do when they hatch out? They avoid
- all the vital organs and eat only what the host insect can do without
- and still live. Then, when these little insects mature, they crawl
- Title: Lecture: On the Nature of Butterflies
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- has been lit that all sorts of insects flutter around in the room, feel
- by the insect who plunges into the candle flame, only the caterpillar
- the light. Just as the insect surrenders to the flame, so the
- different occurs from what does in the case of the insect which burns by
- short time the insect takes to hurl itself into the flame, could it but
- interesting to learn the real impulse of the insect which flutters
- implied in what I have told you. One might think that the insect by
- butterflies and insects in general. You see, men imagine everything to
- Title: World History: Lecture III: Asiatic Mysteries of Ephesus, Gilgamesh and Eabani
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- spirit. As a tiny insect that runs over a human being may learn
- forehead, or through his hair, as the insect acquires its
- Title: Problem of Faust: Lecture VII: Some Spiritual-Scientific Observations
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- ants or bees, or the whole unique insect-world in general,
- insect-world constitute a race that does not properly belong
- the insect-race, for example, the ants, and that of other
- Title: Mystery Centres: Lecture IV: The Ephesian Mysteries of Artemis
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- One is reminded of the eyes of insects, those
- Title: Mystery Centres: Lecture XIII: Transition from the Spirit of the Ancient Mysteries to the Spirit of the Mysteries of the Middle Ages
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- acid there. This army of insects, often so tiresome to man,
- continually breathe this, and we owe this to the work of the insects
- Title: Lecture: The Cycle of the Year: Lecture I
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- the flowers; we see in the insects flitting and creeping hither and
- Title: Evolution, Earth, Man: Lecture IX
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- — that are supposed to have feeling. When an insect comes
- close enough, the “trap” closes and the insect is caught.
- Title: Evolution, Earth, Man: Lecture X
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- between the appearance of the grubs — which, like all insects,
- fully developed insect. The grub needs four years to develop into the
- certain insects shows us the kind of influence that Mars exercises
- larva-stage and the insect if Mars were not there. You see how
- Title: Nine Lectures on Bees: Lecture II
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- i.e. until she is a complete full-grown insect, needs only
- perfect insect, as a matured creature. I might say — the
- with other insects; the scientific name for it is parthenogenesis.
- Title: Nine Lectures on Bees: Lecture III
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- an impression was made on these insects. It is characteristic that
- fly-trap waits for the insect and then shuts itself up. Then people
- aware of the arrival of the insect and shuts itself up.
- Title: Nine Lectures on Bees: Lecture V
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- insects, in the dark, bees will fly towards candle or lamp-light. I have
- Title: Nine Lectures on Bees: Lecture VII
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- elapses between the laying of the eggs until the insect is completely
- distinguish those insects that in the wider sense are bee-like, the bees,
- time when such higher insects as the bees go to what is not of the
- Title: Nine Lectures on Bees: Lecture VIII
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- the eggs mature the grubs creep out of them. Bees, and other insects
- of the earth; we have the caterpillars. Then these insects appear, and
- though the whole insect world might just as well not exist at all.
- entirely different. When one is looking at some flower, and an insect,
- if the bee, or the wasp or some other insect, did not come to suck
- was once at such a stage that plants and insects such as we have today, did
- becomes the bee poison. All these insects contain a certain substance
- these insects can play bad tricks on men and animals.
- You see, insect
- flower, you must not say: the insect only wants to rob the flower of
- actually shows that every time the insects are developing their activities
- Title: Nine Lectures on Bees: Lecture IX
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- what the spiritual relationship is between the hosts of insects
- to look so deeply into Nature herself, as the activities of the insects;
- the insects are strange creatures, and they have still many a secret to
- that we should be discussing the insects just at the time of the centenary
- of the famous observer of insects, Jean Henri Fabre, who was born on
- we should remember him today when we speak of the insects.
- to begin with, to give you an example of a species of insect which will
- and then into a complete insect, then it is so arranged that it is
- the fully formed insect to fly out through the passage that was first
- but the second insect that is a little younger, now emerges, and the third
- that is still younger; because the mother insect had first to make
- would slowly die. But the mother insect prevents this by laying the
- Because each insect that comes out later is matured later, it
- and thousands of examples of the way the insects build, of the way
- considering these insects, the bees, wasps and ants, we were at the
- in the plants is oxalic acid. And now think of the insects; with the
- insects all this occurs in the strangest way. First think of the
- always some formic acid present, because the insects flutter through
- what happens in man, there is the host of insects. The great breath
- the plants are everywhere, and everywhere the innumerable hosts of insects
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- Title: Chance/Necessity/Providence: Lecture 1: Probability and Chance
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- the June bug concept to an insect flying around there outside the window?
- Title: Child's Changing Consciousness: Lecture IV
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- down to the insect (one could go even further, down to the
- Title: First Class, Vol. I: Lesson 6
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- being. Universal life kills us if it holds us. Like the insect
- Title: Health and Illness I: Lecture VIII: Concerning the Soul Life in the Breathing Process
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- a swarm of insects in the distance for a dust cloud. This can
- Title: Health and Illness II: Lecture II: The Brain and Thinking
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- animal, a female wasp, heavy with eggs, looking for an insect
- motivates the insect. The wasp tells itself that if the wings
- Now, let's go further. Let's consider other insects. In these
- matters one must study insects, because they can illuminate our
- must study insects in this matter. Indeed, not only are they
- others as well. Insects lay their eggs, and a mature insect
- butterflies, which are insects, it is even more complicated.
- actually occurs with all insects. You see, there are some
- insects that, when they are fully mature, feed only on plants.
- but these insects are vegetarians. They eat only plants. The
- when they hatch. These insects therefore have a great
- insects. When they are still little children and look
- What do these mature insects do? They seek out other insects,
- is time to lay the eggs, this insect, which has a stinger,
- punctures another living insect that is larger and lays many
- insect. These eggs are only deposited in live insects, because
- vital organ in the host insect, thus causing its death, all the
- much is consumed as to ensure the host insect's life.
- the case of animals and insects you can see that it is possible
- insects there is marvelous intelligence. Picture the wonderful
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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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- produce only sexless insects under the sun's influence. Only
- sexless insects have in themselves the cleverness to construct
- Title: Mysteries of Light: Lecture III: Historical Occurrences of the Last Century
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- noxious insects which approach us; we try to get rid of them, and
- Title: Spiritual Communion: Lecture II: The Mysteries of Man's Nature and the Course of the Year
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- animals and in the insect world as Autumn approaches. The way
- in which the insect world becomes silent and seeks refuge in
- insects creeping away into the Earth. Man already knew that if
- been laid into the Earth, and how the insects hibernate within
- Title: Spiritual Communion: Lecture III: From Man's Living Together with the Course of Cosmic Existence Arises the Cosmic Cult
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- animals. Think of all the activity in the insect world during
- Title: Cosmic Workings: Lecture II
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- creatures in real colonies — the coral-insects or polyps. These
- which the coral insects have left behind. Now the earth as a whole is
- Title: Cosmic Workings: Lecture VI
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- Insect Poisons and Antidotes
- speaking about the insects recently, we heard
- that in certain circumstances insect poison can have an extremely
- animal poisons — insect poisons, snake poisons. These include
- the animal poisons: snake poison, different insect poisons, also
- poisons, insect poisons, for example. But the poison of rabies gets
- This can be done by administering the right dose of insect poison. If
- Title: Man/Symphony: Lecture IV: Butterfly and Plant
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- — his gaze falls first upon the manifold variety of the insect
- fluttering, glittering insect world would bring us into a certain
- thing that just in the case of the small insect one arrives at very
- the dragonflies, the insects in general, are actually the gift of
- Saturn, Jupiter, Mars and Sun. And not a single insect could be
- the gift of insect life. And we do in truth owe the fact that Saturn,
- Jupiter, etc. could so generously allow the insect world to flutter in
- insect world. But at that time to entrust something to the outer
- the insect germs had formerly come under the influence of the
- the upper regions, these remained insect-germs. When the third
- If one looks at the butterfly, indeed at any insect, from the stage of
- the butterflies, the insect-world in general, and the world of the
- insects, the butterflies, must say to themselves: There below are our
- It is a unique experience to see an insect poised on a plant, and at
- plant-world are assuaged in looking up to the insects, in particular
- Title: Man/Symphony: Lecture VI: Evolution of Animals and Man
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- the nature of the other insects, but to begin with let us strictly
- Title: Man/Symphony: Lecture VII: Gnomes, Undines, Sylphs, and Salamanders and their Relations to Ethers and Plants
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- insect-world as a whole. And it is these fire-spirits which take the
- utmost delight in following in the tracks of the insects' flight so
- butterfly-world, and to the insect-creation in general. Everywhere
- they follow in the tracks of the insects as they buzz from blossom to
- of insects, that each of these insects as it buzzes from blossom to
- from the insect itself. Particularly the luminous, wonderfully
- gain a feeling of its ego in the presence of the insect, but it wishes
- to be completely united with the insect.
- Through this, however, insects also obtain that power about which I
- when the insects shimmer forth into cosmic space what attracts the
- spirits which inspire the insects to this activity, the fire-spirits
- Title: Man/Symphony: Lecture IX: Gnomes, Undines, Sylphs, and Salamanders and their Various Activities and Attitudes
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- see is this butterfly-and-insect-existence which has been carried
- Title: Social Forms: Lecture IX: Hegel
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- association with him, were preserved, like an insect in
- 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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- explanation. Have you never seen insects flying about in a
- Title: Poetry/Speech: Lecture II: The Art of Recitation and Declamation
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- Some to the sun their insect-wings unfold,
- Title: Young Doctors Course: Lecture I
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- Substances which seem merely to be the excretions of insects
- queen bee is another insect and all the bees in the hive are
- Title: Young Doctors Course: Lecture IV
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- — among the plants and insects and flowers. In the
- Title: "Heaven and Earth will pass away but my words will not pass away"
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- plants have the characteristic quality of consuming insects, such
- Title: First Class, Vol. I: Lesson 6
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- being. Universal life kills us if it holds us. Like the insect
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