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Title: Lecture: The Alphabet
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for granted as the prerequisite basis of this judgment. For most of
to supplement our past studies. If we consider how Man lives in the
characteristic at this moment of the cosmic evolution of mankind. It
In the lectures last week, I mentioned that in the course of mankind's
development. I alluded to how, in very ancient times, speech was
experienced a certain amount of inspiration in it, but the moment he called it
to what is Roman-Latin — men of culture became estranged from the
like a cultural dream which men approach through their own revelations
jurisprudence, all outer compartmentalization, all the prose of life,
Testament words: ‘And God formed Man ... and breathed into nostrils
The poet, by avoiding the prose element in speech, and going back to
speech, attempts to return to its inspired archetypal element. One
Today we distinguish the consonant from the vowel element in speech. I
the external aspect of the physical body. As I have mentioned in the
the firmament of the fixed stars, represented in the signs of the
music of the spheres occurs through the movements of the planets in
movement, the circling around. And the single planets in their revolutions are
their movement through the connection with the star sign S. Thus if a
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Title: Lecture: Soul and Spirit in the Human Physical Constitution
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development of subjects we are studying at the present time. We have
In studying the human being, only those elements which can be pictured
elements pass into and out of the human being, but these are not in
The warmth within man which is greater than that of his environment is
canal, we can observe a regular up-and-down oscillatory movement
The other elements, the fluid element, as I
element, are not regarded by anatomy and physiology as belonging to
the solid element as the only organizing factor and do not realize
demarcated from the environment. Whatever is fluid in any area of
space adjoins the fluidic element in the environment. Although the
fluid element as such is present in the world outside us in a rarefied
element within man andr the fluid element outside man, as in the case
and the fluid element in the external world must therefore be left
The air within us at a certain moment was outside us a moment before,
the aeriform element all the time. We can really think of the air as
in this warmth, what sets it in flow, stirs it into movement, makes it
mental concepts. This process works upon the fluid organism.
sleep, from the moment of falling asleep to the moment of waking;
From the moment of falling asleep to the moment of waking, the astral
asleep man lives directly in an element that is transmitted to his
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Title: Lecture: The Moral as the Source of World-Creative Power
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to us in waking life from the moment of waking to the moment of
in an enhancement of warmth in the warmth-organism. Not only is man
easy to prove with physical instruments. Moral ideals, then, have a
course inwardly in movement, in fluctuation, but equally with the
power, and the source of this power is the moral element.
has its source in the moral stimuli, in the warmth-organisms of men.
the world's development only if we grasp how out of this ‘illusory’
the soul can be directly active in the rarefied physical element, as
terrible problem that weighed upon men in the nineteenth century and
men. Our world-view today is based upon Copernicanism. Until the year
principles, mathematical-mechanical principles. The rudiments of it
light into the universe. But for the men of ancient times the sun was
by stages into the physical, how in reality the two are united, men
these men pictured the sun, we must say: They pictured it first and
the earth, an age when millions and millions of men would perish
dozen men filled with moral enthusiasm, the earth would still
vested in the hands of groups of men, who, as they declared,

Title: Lecture: The Path to Freedom and Love and their Significance in World Events
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As doers, as men of action, we have our place in social life and
fundamentally speaking, everything we accomplish between birth and
forces of the world interpenetrate, flow into each other. Mentally, we
the element of thought is contained; and in everything that is of the
every case that they are linked with something in our environment,
arrive at judgments and draw conclusions, how we orientate
elaborate these thoughts. — Fundamentally speaking, therefore, in
inherently our own. For the fulfillment of what self-knowledge demands
element of will which streams through our thoughts when we form
judgments, draw conclusions and the like. Thereby, however, our
single word by dint of an effort of will; an element of instinct
moment. The life of thought rays in from our existence before birth,
something which, in its reality, is not understood! Men such as Kant
thoughts. In our ordinary consciousness we live in an element by means
have already shown from other points of view how these three elements
these three elements to which ancient instinctive knowledge pointed
this semblance with the element issuing from our metabolic processes,
we permeate it with the real element of the will. There we have
grow, so what is unfolded through freedom must find an element in
through Man, who stands before us as the supreme achievement of the
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Title: Lecture: Search for the New Isis, the Divine Sophia: The Quest for the Isis-Sophia
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Golgotha, we find that, although the achievements of the peoples in all the
various nations were so great, nevertheless, in reality all these achievements
involvement, and that such aid should come just where human beings consider
whom we have often mentioned, calls the sun God's monument, and in
movements are images of the divine-spiritual existence of the world.
world-conception that which existed in earlier stages of human development.
in their movements. This, my dear friends, is a purely luciferic world
the luciferic element holds sway in this world picture, just as the
typhonic-ahrimanic element held sway in the Egyptian world picture. Just as
them in the sunshine and in the light of the stars, in the movements of the
then appear as monuments to the spiritual powers that weave with power
This is the mystery of modern humanity: Fundamentally speaking, Mary-Isis
Menschen werkend, — Es wird Luzifer entreissen Und auf des Geisteswissens
Boten In Menschenseeten auferwecken Isis-Sophia Des Gottes Weisheit.

Title: Evil and the Future of Man
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Concerning Death and Evil, or The Supersensible Element
Switzerland, and in agreement with the Rudolf Steiner Publishing
The Supersensible Element in the Study of History, Lecture V from Symptom to Reality in Modern History.
other creatures. But we can learn to know the phenomenon of death in
pronouncement of modern science on one subject or another are often
How often do we see men arising here or there, making this or that
then we may put this question: In what men do these evil inclinations
plainly visible in evil actions? Who are the men concerned?
tendencies to evil — are subconsciously present in all men.
behold and see his fellow-men in new and ever changing ways. To-day,
which as you know, will continue into the third millennium. To-day men
important; they have no real vision of their fellow-men. In this
respect men have yet to make full use of all that has been instilled
— that artistic creation and enjoyment are declining in almost all
as such is in a period of decay. The most important element of the
element tending towards a deeper and more real knowledge of man.
in painting or sculpture, or into the essence of the inner movements
the faculty to perceive men pictorially. You have already heard the
elements of this. Look at the human being — behold his head: it
altogether different from what the men of today are as yet inclined to
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Title: Lecture: The Human Heart
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Menschliches Seelenleben und Geistesstreben im Zusammenhange
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We have often explained how the development of man takes place during
on in his environment. Later on it is only in the sense organs that
important to let nothing happen in the young child's environment, not
his environment; now he begins to grasp what we say. Authority thus
teeth. And a true power of judgment, when the child or adolescent
begins to make his own faculty of judgment felt, comes only at the
judgments of his own.
the tendency to descend into physical embodiment. We see him there as
cosmos. If we could extract the etheric body of a man at the moment
So we have this strange phenomenon of the star-ether-body drawing
into the astral body from these childish movements, but they impinge
We then see how his movements — intelligent movements, now, walking
you are forty-five years old, almost all your movements are inscribed
inscribed — the movements of our arms and leg, and not only these,
This is a phenomenon of untold importance. For, my dear friends, we
speaking, begins only at the moment when the astral heart takes hold

Title: Lecture: The Invisible Man Within Us
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membranes that envelop the human embryo during its development
nourishment occurs. It is contained in everything in which the human
the metabolic-limb organization, in the forces of our outer movement,
and also in the inner forces of movement that carry ingested food
environment.
The spiritual element's
fragment within. If the blood-formation process confronts them in the
about healing directly through human activity, because the moment
environmental processes are “stuffed” into man so that
— in that moment the other system, which runs along the blood
an appropriate treatment.
carry in us, in incipient form, in the moment of coming into being,
the human being there will be febrile phenomena. These are
the breakdown forces are working strongly, cooling phenomena occur.
The presence of these phenomena is not as easy to substantiate as the
febrile phenomena, but these two types of phenomena alternate so that
from ordinary substances that we find in our environment and use for
have this cosmic astral element dripping down into the plant in the
human being. The moment there is too much of this poison, however, we
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Title: Lecture: Outlooks for the Future
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even the outward physiognomy of our environment will have a very changed
tremendously earnest thoughts. A good way of transforming the dreams of
the moment when the etheric shape of Christ shall appear to us, and so
will be an element to which we shall have to conform ourselves in the
discover the etheric. Even then, this etheric element will have the
appeared to me at a certain moment and it has told me this or that. I
am the instrument through which that spiritual Being can exercise an
fundamental laws, and when those people come along who say that we are

Title: Lecture: Self Knowledge and the Christ Experience
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fact that humanity itself is undergoing a development, which constitutes its
history, and which will form a whole within the long planetary development
With regard to mankind, a certain law of development is found to run like a
an intermediate period of human development, eventually giving place to
find certain observable laws in the development of humanity. We can compare
these developmental laws with those which, say, an insect experiences
or that he did not tell himself at a certain moment: ‘This is how you
as chance directed. Man who by virtue of his higher soul development is
through spring, summer, autumn and winter. It does not give its development
this or that century take its place in the whole development of our planet.
further into the development of the Consciousness Soul. A man should be
account of what the historical development of humanity asks from my
fulcrum in historical development, from which vital, historical deed one
whole regular historical development of our planet — in the whole regular
of maturity. There they undergo further development, which is to lead them
development. But in progressing from his kind of imaginative, natural
man found fulfillment in his soul-life. He bore in himself the effects of
arbitrary figment. It was achieved through a crisis of the soul — after
crossing the threshold of death the moment would come when he would not
stages of human development that, between birth and death, man developed an
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Title: Lecture: Social Understanding Through Spiritual Scientific Knowledge
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nature of man's development is entirely different in the three different
often mentioned, is connected with the development of forces that are not
moment of his life to try and remember something that he cannot
how the forces of our own planet earth live within us. The moment we
the force of elemental memory, what he has received in his youth.
Everywhere, people are still working contrary to this requirement. For
education, and they attach great importance to getting down to the mental
extends beyond his mental capacity. They actually rig up calculating
counting balls. Nothing must go beyond the child's mental capacity.
anything beyond its own mental capacity. People who do this thoroughly
not because it is absolutely on his own mental level, but because his
You know, these are the most valuable moments in life, when your
mental life does not have to be restricted to what comes to meet you from
for the person's later development; for lessons taken in purely through
a clue about the rules. For the moment the child stands in front of him
anti-social with any sort of arrangement.
The essential thing is to make the sort of arrangements that allow for
In every department you find well-meaning people today, who want to
agreement that everything should be changed as long as nothing changes
improvement people long for today is of extremely abstract dimensions.
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Title: Lecture: Spiritual Emptiness and Social Life
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Switzerland, and in agreement with the Rudolf Steiner Publishing
really brilliant spiritual movement which lasted from the time of
order in civilised humanity. Fundamentally speaking, the tendency
strange phenomenon. I said that Hermann Grimm — for whom I have
often mentioned an incident which listeners may have thought trivial,
mention of the spiritual was to make a warding-off gesture with his
made at that moment. It was true inasmuch as Hermann Grimm, for all
signify for men of the Fifth Post-Atlantean epoch of culture. He
most harmful in its effects. But a statement like the one I have made
men in Middle Europe was similar to his. Hermann Grimm wrote an
not only for portraying individual men but for accurately discerning
ideas and mental images in such a way that they have plasticity,
if out of a three-dimensional figure one were to make a
two-dimensional shadow-picture, thrown on the screen. Goethe seems to
Why is it that through the whole development of this brilliant phase
or feeling for it? Men such as Troxler, and
this, men were also ignorant of the needs, the conditions, that are
stream of culture: men were unable to perceive, to divine, the
felt the need to meet the fundamental requirement of the spiritual
the political sphere. Because men had no understanding of the spirit,
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Title: Lecture: The Sun-Mystery in the Course of Human History
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the will is the most mysterious and secret element in human nature. It
instinctive element over which we have little control and which drives
too, the will is an indeterminate, mysterious element.
his conscious mental life; the fact is that this spirituality is at
rise into our consciousness inasmuch as we can form mental concepts
mental images of the workings of our will and in this sense are
egotism, the more strongly is the element of antipathy working in him.
antipathetic element that derives from sleep also works in an abnormal
unfolds the element of antipathy in his life of feeling so strongly
steeped in the element of antipathy; antipathy streams out from him
life, the mental life. The sleeping will lights up in feeling, and
when it surge upwards into mental life, it becomes still clearer but at
this element of antipathetic feeling surges into the conceptual life,
it comes to expression in the form of negative judgments, judgments of
logician calls “negation”, negative judgment, is the uprush of
our judgments are affirmative. We have arrived at something which, as
Whereas in acts of judgment — which are a mental, conceptual activity
relation to the outer world — to the level of abstract judgment.
This, then, is a purely mental, concept-forming activity, which can be
judgment surges into the domain of the senses, what is the result? The
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Title: Lecture: Truth Beauty and Goodness
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always meet with the approval of the times. For in our age men love to
affecting even the very pores of his skin. In ancient times men were
by beautiful semblance, and hence lasts only until the moment we pass
— the goodness that flows to other men and is not confined to
human being elements with which he was wholly permeated only in
When this true morality develops into momentous impulses of will which
is not to experience it. The moment we experience beauty, however, the
A man may do good because of some convention, or because punishment is
Forces that endure beyond the gate of death are present in men's

Title: The Individuality of Elias, John, Raphael, Novalis
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Michael Thoughts, of which today men have no more than a dim feeling, has
honestly incline to the Anthroposophical Movement, belong to these souls
great numbers of their fellow-men, beings who, however, only show themselves
significance the prophet Elijah had for the people of the Old Testament, and
moment of human evolution, appeared again so that Christ Jesus Himself could
Bearing this in mind, let us look for a moment at Raphael and see how he
death, in the respect and recognition of his fellow men. Hermann Grimm relates
the hearts and minds of men, what lives of him still in their reverence and
soul, sent down by the Michael stream as messenger to men on Earth.
again in Novalis in poetry that stirs and enraptures the hearts of men. All
When we read the “Fragments” of Novalis, and give ourselves up to
this Michael garment, this garment of Light, shall become the Words of the
For Michael's garment of rays

Title: Lecture: Exoteric and Esoteric Christianity
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for granted as the prerequisite basis of this judgment. For most of
mankind is recorded in documents that have been preserved as
religious records, or as other documents relating to
us that he was able to believe in Christ only from the moment in
the disciples that were around him, and that are not mentioned in the
of mind in which men of past ages took up the real Mystery of
modern man finds it very difficult to understand that the first men
“knowledge” by us. The first men who lived on the earth
past of human evolution on earth, it was a well-known fact that men
one, could be attained especially by those men who had passed through
conception. Then men felt as if they were being reminded of
look back on a divine spiritual wisdom received here on earth by men
am comparing these ancient men with animals; for, although their
outer aspect resembled that of animals, these oldest of men had a
animal which is dead, so did these ancient men know nothing of death,
great illusion, and it made no great impression on men, for they knew
Men gradually came out
feeling. Men on earth had to come to this feeling, for it was
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Title: Lecture: The Origin of Speech and Language
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Die Erkenntnis des Menschenwesens Nach Leib, Seele und Geist.
objections. Far-reaching, momentous issues as well as matters closer
lived in the soul of the answerer. A pedantic rearrangement of the
gentlemen. Today we will add to what we have heard on previous
transmitted into the blood. There this living nourishment encounters
experiment; all we need to do is pay attention to how nature
experiments with people whenever they have any kind of illness. If we
an experiment for us and that we can gain insights from it.
impairments, he discovered that they had had an injury in the third
person suffering from speech impediments or. muteness, there is some
Now, gentlemen,
progress to regular movements, carried out by the speech organs in
perceive what happens around them. And this perceiving, this mental
a sculptor works on marble and bronze, so the child's movements
their movements right into the brain.
The movements of
brain. This activity begins the very moment we are born and even
repeat this movement. At this moment not only the bloodstream goes up
observe and perceive. The child's movements in uttering consonants
gentlemen, when you dissect a corpse, you will find that the right
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Title: Lecture: The Sense-Organs and Aesthetic Experience
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the Life Processes. Aesthetic Enjoyment and Aesthetic Creativity.
Das Raetsel des Menschen. Die Geistigen Hintergruende
der Menschlichen Geschichte. Kosmische und
menschliche Geschichte.
way; the sense of Movement, the sense of Balance, the sense of Smell,
emphasised that through the sense of Movement we move in the
men, of cowards, of hot-tempered people, of sleepyheads. In a way
sort of complexion, what kind of wrinkles brave or cowardly men have,
sense-processes are brought into movement. Their life is stimulated.
the ordinary development of warmth it is just warmth, and so on. Now
way, and then, if his development tends more towards the will, it
development of the earth; he has to give it a wide general
ensouled sense of movement; but they must be truly ensouled. Here
abandonment of everything concrete in favour of abstractions, and
says: Man as he lives here on earth has two fundamental impulses, the
allow our inner impulses to work in shaping our mental images, as in
desires simply what his body desires, for sensuous enjoyment is
expression in nutrition, in the development of warmth and in
ideas; he could not reach the higher stage of development, attainable
thought today that when anyone makes a logical statement that can be
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Title: Lecture: A Turning-Point in Modern History
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Auferstehungsgedanke. Menschenwissenschaft
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present-day men were not so superficial, many things would be felt
never have expected that men would be led to freedom simply by giving
me to find that I am not virtuous.” That is his satirical comment
fuses spiritual and perceptible into one creation. When all that men
quite different man from Schiller. Schiller had tremendous inner
beautiful essay on “Naive and Sentimental Poetry,” you
is the naive poet, Schiller the sentimental poet. He is simply
copy of Kant's Critique of Judgement; he underlined important
was clear to him that to understand the human being in his development
present-day men. An intimate older friend of mine, Karl Julius
of writing an element of soul and spirit is at work which is not
present-day men and can really speak only through the medium of
spirituality, was present in men, before it finally faded away in the
conditions. Schiller says: If men become what they can become at the
men could bring about a right social structure if they had not been
justified instincts. What men wish for, without knowing what they
At the same time there must be a development also in the study of man.
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Title: Lecture: Elemental Beings and Human Destinies
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Geheimnisse des Menschenwesens
ELEMENTAL BEINGS AND HUMAN DESTINIES
The turning-points in the development of the human being which we
to go on outside us! They come about through our instrumentality, but
become involved in all that is going on among the elemental beings
outside us, including such elemental beings as I described to you
are thus thrown up, elemental beings plunge; they mix themselves up,
in the meantime elemental beings have concerned themselves with it,
outside you of which the elemental beings took hold, you receive also
the influences and workings of these elemental beings. Man spreads out
elemental beings — he and they mutually affect one another. All
of fulfillment of our destiny. If we have some experience today, then
fact is how our destiny is moulded. Elemental beings who feel
his environment, and can see how spiritual forces are at work in the
environment. By following this interplay, we can throw a light on many
elemental stages of consciousness and had more direct connection with
befalls a human being is referred to the intervention of elemental
elemental beings from the Elf King's realm intervene in the destiny of
There you have the elemental world interweaving in the destiny of Man,
at the very moment when his destiny strikes in upon him with the shock
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Title: Lecture: Man, Offspring of the World of Stars
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Perspectives on Humanity's Development.
Perspektiven der Menschheitsentwickelung. Der materialistische
Der Mensch in seinem Zusammenhang mit der Kosmos,
of the development of the Mind Soul in humanity — was directed
inner experience which arose when men looked at the world around them.
passed away again with the setting Sun. Men have now quite lost the
around them. When the Sun rises they see only the phenomena of light
during the night into the spaces of the dark firmament. Without some
We who have been living in the era of the development of the
was connected with the development of his Ego, for the development of
And so on the one hand the development and evolution of the Ego of man
physical body. His etheric body relates him to the whole environment
Its most important period of development is during embryonic life. The
The development of the faculty of thinking takes place essentially
the development of the forces which finally express themselves in
We see, then, that the development of faculties situated primarily in
with his whole cosmic environment through the etheric body. The cosmic
choose a moment for his birth when the rays of Jupiter pour directly
explained by a science which deals merely with earthly phenomena.
cosmic environment of the Earth. The crystallised forms of the metals
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Title: Lecture: The Three Stages of Sleep
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provide no nourishment; then they are stones the soul cannot
observes the phenomena of life with a certain impartiality will
different with regard to the dramatic element of the dream, to
other man comes still nearer and the harmless instrument which
actual sleep. The dream pictures arise only at the moment when
etheric body, or at the moment of falling asleep when, on
movement, in perpetual activity. At a definite moment, however,
spiritual cosmic beings is the second element of sleep, as
feeling is the second element of waking consciousness. Thus
common both to the body and to the soul. Some element connected
imagine that the following experiment may be made. You lie down
element of great significance for the human being.
but, just as Christ descended into the world of men and took

Title: Lecture: Spiritual Wisdom in the Early Christian Centuries
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men. And indeed there were many who applied their Initiation-wisdom
the time of the Mystery of Golgotha men were trying to answer by means
which is present in all the Ideas. — Such is Deussen's argument.
bring about agreement in the terrible quarrels between the adherents
century A.D.) only the first, elementary traces of this kind of
eyes of men was brought down in more ancient times merely in the form
in the form of revelation. There is no fundamental difference between
rise to very high levels of spiritual perception. The lives of men
Naturally one could not have spoken to such men of outer Nature in the
We can form some idea of how such men were wont to speak, if we study
is not enough merely to observe this phenomenon, for three hundred and
four centuries after the Mystery of Golgotha. With this wisdom men
different religions, not as the outcome of vague sentiment but of the
It was a fundamental tenet of this Roman School that the teaching
savoured of the ancient wisdom, little more than the names of men like
found its way to men who were interested in these matters and who
first centuries of Christendom there were a number of men who were
The less men understood Christianity, the more they spoke of the
absorbed a very great deal from pupils of men like Iamblichus and who
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Title: Lecture: The Recovery of the Living Source of Speech
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Die Menschliche Seele in Ihrem Zusammenhang Mit Goettlich-Geistligen
Die Menschliche Seele in Ihrem Zusammenhang Mit Goettlich-Geistligen
a sign for the phenomenon of the flash of lightning. It was
atmosphere of speech and language is the element of the
relate particular facts and phenomena to particular higher spiritual
Now in those far-off times when an element of will came to expression
continuous stream back from our own day to Rome. A certain element of
a trace! And yet people are immensely pleased, quite enchanted with
detect in the speech-forming power of man the element of Inspiration,
region, men still feel how the word pulsates in them as the blood
element. This is a fact of incalculable significance. And what the
development in all its tremendous significance, we shall come to see
Hierarchies. It enters into their experience in the moment when the
Gods. The actual event that took place in that moment on Earth, and
and minds of men — all this is an image of the infinitely more
that as men gradually receive into themselves more and more of the
an element of death, how they tend to become mere empty husks. In
quickened into life, — and that is through men coming to realise
Christ first made Himself known to men, during all this time while He
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Title: Lecture: Gnostic Doctrines and Supersensible Influences in Europe
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Cultural Phenomena — Three Perspectives of Anthroposophy
Drei Perspektiven der Anthroposophie. Kulturphaenomene,
Cultural Phenomena — Three Perspectives of Anthroposophy
Drei Perspektiven der Anthroposophie. Kulturphaenomene,
momentous decisions like the present it is all the more necessary
that in their study of contemporary events and happenings, men's
fragment only of the world in which man lives and moves as a thinking
civilisation and its offshoots have paid attention to one fragment
Testament became the authoritative record, it was proper to regard
men in Greece who meditated upon the earliest stages of
Testament. These men spoke of the Being whom they held to be the
world devoid of every element of that material existence with which
basis in the phenomena of the world of sense. This conception was
which lives in men to reach the spiritual world again was therefore
centuries — and the hearts of many men in those times were
in the man Jesus. The kind of ideas which in those days men brought
By that time the minds of men were no longer capable of rising to the
Christendom. Men's minds were now directed to the physical
different phase of development. It is not a question here of the
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Title: Lecture I: Ancient Myths
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which prevails among the men of our time and has taken root in human
conditions can only be brought to a healthy state if men are able to
active in the social life. I stated that in earlier times men were
belong indeed to the realm of the modern superficial judgment which
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
the Egyptians. For it is this eternal-imperishable element — I
remarkable statement was then added to this myth, that Osiris now
that he knew that in the North men had a God, that was the same God
might be as much common understanding among modern men as, let us
of the World and passes judgment when man has gone through the gate
same time, however, the Egyptian knew: the same God who judges men
star-events. These Dupuis judgments have much that is captivating,
of the Osiris-nature of such Gods as primarily give judgment after
there were already men upon the earth, according to the view of the
descendants of these earlier men. We must say then that the Greeks
calls ‘created’, but that men were there much earlier
according to the Old Testament men were pointed to ancestors who had
was absolutely impossible within the Old Testament conception.
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in a certain sense even the Old Testament teachings to which we will
human consciousness. We know of the development of consciousness
development of which we are standing, to the Fourth Post-Atlantean
already to the time in which it was natural for men to express in
the ruling spiritual beings, as we described yesterday. Men in the
said to themselves: that age in which men still lived directly with
been a time in which men on earth lived in Imaginations. And this
connection with the Scorpio position of the Sun, this moment of
as a normal faculty of the human soul. And men were aware that in the
inasmuch as men read the cosmic mysteries in the star-script, as the
of an alteration in their mental life, in the case of the woman was
get an idea of it if you seek it in the following way. You see, men
old times men were clear that in this way, merely through head
what we now crowd together in a few moments as regards the outer
The Old Testament
man.’ In the doctrine of the Old Testament this was transformed
the meaning of the Old Testament — be led from that living in
doctrine as that of the Old Testament.
environment the Light-Imaginations in the air up to the time of
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between the basis of these myths and the Old Testament doctrines.
These Old Testament doctrines have sprung from a different spirit
contemplation of the Gods, is to be found in the Old Testament
between the mythology of Egypt and Greece and the Old Testament, I
beginning of the Old Testament, the Elohim, Jahve, can only be
according to the fundamental deed of the Elohim, of Jahve. I said
that that is not the case in Egyptian or Greek mythology. There men
generations of Gods, but men were already in existence. The
in their own times. Thus men in Egypt and Greece ascribed to
This is so fundamental
Old Testament doctrine the Gods who were revered were at the same
Testament doctrine makes the Divine the creator of man, only through
this was it possible for the Old Testament doctrine to insert at the
same time the moral element, moral impulse, into the divine
within us in which we believe, which we profess as modern men, that
Testament. The search of many human beings to find their right way
part what immense depth of human consciousness in ancient times
once lived a perception among men through which man could still
perceptions which from the primeval sacred language which men used to
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must be the complementary saying: ‘I am Man. I am the Past, I
difference between men who seek to grasp in the soul the impulse of
the immortal, the spiritual impulse, and those men who disdain this,
exclusively to the mortal element, one who will not approach the
immortal element, cannot lift the veil. Later on when the
expression then came to an end for men living on the physical plane;
truth is to be spoken it cannot be expected that no mention will be
facts, must be censured if the age is to progress. The sentimentality
abstraction in the sense we have come to know it, namely estrangement
harbours within it immense possibilities for the evolution and
immense significance occurred with the entry of this fifth
envelopment of his chest, in his chest-cuirass. As physical human
the outer world, with all that approaches him as elemental world.
one shares the air out-breathed by the other. Modern men have become
be aware of its own movements.
we can perhaps mention presently but which are indeed known to most
in Cancer, its forces are there, and there they come to development
elemental surroundings of earth withdraws, there appears the
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have been capable of development in a way quite different from what
present time we are capable of development up to a certain age
independently of our own action; we are capable of development
capable of development for a much longer time. He remained so into
spirit nature. If today we wish to have a development of the soul and
spirit nature after our twenties, we must seek for this development
element far into old age, but he had also the joy of this dependence.
in which man no more remained capable of development to such a great
development up to the end of his forties. Then in the next epoch, the
period where man carries his development only into his twenties. This
younger and younger — if we call this change in development a
a man then remained capable of development up to his thirty-fifth
year, are entering the twenty-sixth and so on. So that men are
condemned to carry right through life the development they acquired
own freewill to take their further development in hand. And the
historical development with more sharpened senses can see it —
in any kind of parliamentary business in the world, but the
called your attention last time to the immense incision in the
what the development of the time required, and how these requirements
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this statement applies particularly to our own time. We know that
committed to use the head alone as an instrument of our spiritual
case; the remaining part is only a fragment as physical man, and it
is not enough for the rest of man if one takes this bodily fragment
thing: it appears in life quite clearly. The head is the instrument
of our wisdom; it is so strongly the instrument of our wisdom, that
our immediate wisdom is connected with its development. But even
through a quite different development from the rest of the organism.
moment when from outside, from any external cause, a man suddenly
meets with death, an immense amount rapidly takes place. Think to
what the head can provide with its short development, and what the
rest of the human being can furnish with its long development in the
rapidly, one can know a tremendous amount precisely in our age,
young in growing old. Because men do not keep the inner livingness
organism. The miracle will be accomplished when men also learn to
men. For it is a deep demand of the time that if man is to be a
do men work on there? It is not conveyed to the human soul so as to
as in a great world machine. But for the modern clever men what has
element. It was essential that for a certain time in humanity's
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however, to solve the world-riddle in a moment; human life itself in
whom I have often mentioned in other connections, has recently
made experiments in Vienna with persons who have a gift for using the
experiments; as he is very unwilling to acknowledge clairvoyance, but
he made experiments in a dark chamber with those gifted for using the
springs of water for the men. This went on very largely in the
showed under treatment in the camera obscura, an immense aura, so
mentioned on earlier occasions. It is not the aura of which we speak;
we mean much more spiritual elements in man than this lowest, almost
nationalistic. All the dividing of men into groups that finds a place
element through which we are connected with the hereditary
their development will perhaps know that in the very early days it
it does not belong to the chemical elements, streams in continuously
physical substance, not a chemical element, but actually spiritual,
the instreaming forces. Hence its formation and development are
space, in order to form its spiritual element. And whilst our
our birth. We give our spiritual element to the universe by reason of
universe our physical element. By giving our spiritual part to the
mobility, its power of inner development.
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and the Development of Knowledge in Modern Times.
Menschenwerden, Weltenseele und Wetlgeist. Zweiter Teil. Der Mensch
als geistiges Wesen im historischen Werdegang. Der Mensch in seinem
Zusammenhang mit dem Kosmos.
Menschenwerden, Weltenseele und Wetlgeist. Zweiter Teil. Der Mensch
als geistiges Wesen im historischen Werdegang. Der Mensch in seinem
Zusammenhang mit dem Kosmos.
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possibilities of development for the future. I have said that we
struggled through to the conclusion that the fundamental note of this
external phenomena which can be observed through the senses. This, in
those six centuries. External documents (I have already called
utmost to destroy, with but a few exceptions, every gnostic document.
human world-conceptions, these gnostic documents represent that
particular element which has, on the one hand, taken up something
contains last, pale gleams of Plato's arguments, this
up and the intellectual element has remained.
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als geistiges Wesen im historischen Werdegang. Der Mensch in seinem
Zusammenhang mit dem Kosmos.
Menschenwerden, Weltenseele und Wetlgeist. Zweiter Teil. Der Mensch
als geistiges Wesen im historischen Werdegang. Der Mensch in seinem
Zusammenhang mit dem Kosmos.
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philosophical statements, at least in regard to some distant
things, spoke of something which vanished the moment one wished to
peculiar phenomenon then appeared in the history of civilisation;
from an aesthetic standpoint. We can bear in mind the monumental
younger men (nearly all of them were unsalaried lecturers, but in
by indicating that, apart from Haeckel's statements concerning the
this, I do not in any way pass judgment or appraise, for we may allow
yesterday, we have within the human being, as an inner development,
we bear in mind this phenomenon and its connection with the
development, the human being (he described this concretely) shall be
thinks within his innermost depths in regard to his environment and
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Title: Lecture: Goethe and the Evolution of Consciousness
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Teil. Der Mensch als geistiges Wesen im historischen
Werdegang. Der Mensch in seinem Zusammenhang mit dem Kosmos.
Menschenwerden, Weltenseele und Wetlgeist. Zweiter
Teil. Der Mensch als geistiges Wesen im historischen
Werdegang. Der Mensch in seinem Zusammenhang mit dem Kosmos.
mental outlook of man through the centuries. If we tell people to-day
accustomed, their first reaction will be one of astonishment and, for
the moment, the shock will make them put aside all such knowledge.
spiritual or mental attitude to the things of the world. This is very
time. They declare that, so far as his mental attitude is concerned,
man has not fundamentally changed throughout history and that if this
mental attitude as the starting-point; if one were obliged to look
fundamentally the same frame of mind, the same mental outlook as they
and spiritually impossible to share in the mental attitude of his
outlook. This significant example — and I mention his name
a music-stand and laying upon it specimens of minerals from his
At last Goethe is satisfied with an environment, an artistic
environment enfilled with ideas much closer to Nature than those
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to the earth. Jacob Boehme describes a rudiment only of pre-earthly
and assigns to human intelligence the task of combining the phenomena
see the existence of processes and phenomena and then in the
absorbs nutriment; he takes into himself the external substances of
a moment of the process of nutrition being accompanied by the
From this again the animal derives its nourishment. So that we may
The radical change to this condition wherein men no longer
embodiments of the single parts of the cosmic Word. Now the sense of
men. The universe is recognised in man and man in the universe. With
in the element of air, by the process of breathing, again gradually
‘astral’ man lives in the airy element, just as the
this airy element and by the breaking up of the etheric thoughts, by
process. The astral lays hold of the airy element and spreads over
times men did not use the abstract word think to express
but of the astral forces laying hold of the airy element in man, of
process of concrete reality and it was said that the adjustment
made the wise men of old feel like frogs exhausted by lack of air.
development, and anthroposophical Spiritual Science tries to be such
different world. The moment we really understand these salt-and
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Title: Lecture: Some Conditions for Understanding Supersensible Experiences
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Geistige und Soziale Wandlungen in der Menschheitsenticklungen.
Geistige und Soziale Wandlungen in der Menschheitsenticklungen.
experiences through the instrumentality of our body, we also have
nevertheless at work in the physical world. Our physical environment
women will be barren; children will no longer be born in the manner
which under the influence of the impulses working in men to-day are
for men — by no means for their good — to be held in the
However, if men really take hold of the best possibilities for their
To speak of any such matters to-day is possible only when men have
real evil of our time is not that men have no super-sensible
all, too, the force of truthfulness that are worst off. The moment
The first requirement for understanding the super-sensible world is
which arise from ordinary human connections in life and prompt men to
scurrilous statements based on deliberate falsification published in
activities of the Threefold Commonwealth Movement at the time it was
time ago how a friend of our Movement, shortly before he died from
rigidified.”] Think only of the most elementary
myself at the moment to the example of the sunlight, directly the
the moment our thinking is received into the light, it is no longer
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Title: Lecture: The Relation of the Movement for Religious Renewal to the Anthroposophical Movement
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Anthroposophical Movement.
Die Verhaeltnis der Sternenwelt zum Menschen und des Menschen
zur Sternenwelt. Die Geistige Kommunion des Menschheit.
Die Verhaeltnis der Sternenwelt zum Menschen und des Menschen
zur Sternenwelt. Die Geistige Kommunion des Menschheit.
The Relation of the Movement for Religious Renewal to the
Anthroposophical Movement.
were to be filled with spirit. Men felt the living unity in science
will have to take many steps in spiritual development before such an
Anthroposophical Movement.
Anthroposophical Movement to which reference has just been made.
Anthroposophical Movement has not coincided with the Anthroposophical
Movement. The Anthroposophical Movement has laid hold of wider
be different for the Anthroposophical Movement from what it was when
the Anthroposophical Movement was essentially contained within the
Anthroposophical Movement.
something that has recently taken place in connection with a Movement
that is distinct from the Anthroposophical Movement, because, if I
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with the Elemental Worlds. Finland and the ‘Kalevala’”,
The Human's Connection with the Elemental World
Der Zusammenhang des Menschen mit der Elementarischen Welt.
with the Elemental Worlds. Finland and the ‘Kalevala’”,
The Human's Connection with the Elemental World
Der Zusammenhang des Menschen mit der Elementarischen Welt.
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Europe and it left behind an important monument of culture,
is based, felt: “The world contains an inspiring element and
ancient seers, experienced the inspiring element of the sentient soul
element of the sentient soul, inspiring it from out [of] the cosmos,
of the physical plane, an elemental, heroic Being, the inspirator of
out of the various elements of Nature. In “Kalevala”,
mentioned to you: a uniform character of the soul, a soul-element
feeling and temperament. This nation is a Slav nation, influenced by
environment of the ancient Scythian nation. However, a nation living
impregnated with a fundamentally Slav type, souls that are, on the
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Die Geistige Vereinigung der Menschheit Durch Den Christus-Impuls.
Die Geistige Vereinigung der Menschheit Durch Den Christus-Impuls.
the instruments of the senses and their nerve extensions in the physical
movements. It is the light part of the etheric body that we are now
light-body. Our etheric body, then, experienced certain movements, for the
light-body as movements — as inner light-movements; so that apart from
communicated through the senses] that gave rise to movements in our
our light-body experiencing all kinds of movements. Picture this vividly to
light-body was in continual movement. What you said to him, what you felt and
thought regarding him, is all disclosed in the movements of your light-body.
stirs your soul, and this movement causes your etheric body, purely because
of its laws of continuity, to reproduce the movements it experienced five
by this meeting, experiences again the same movements which it did at the
in the outer ether, he feels the movements which stir the outer ether, and
movements; the perception from the outer light-ether of movements in the
for example, that you see two men meet each other. Perhaps the one merely
sees the face of the other, but because of this certain movements arise in
to repeat these movements if stirred to do so. Five days later these two men
make the same movements which it made when he saw the other's face before.
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namely, the first rudiments of our physical bodily nature. What we
there is still remaining an invisible element which may be
Moon have also drawn back into concealment, but they have not yet
externally and observe his form it is solely this embodiment of the
O Man, as you confront me as material man are an embodiment of the
earthly laws of the embodiment of the Ego, we look towards the
and dies away during the embryonic development, in what is lost with
and cares for its nourishment before it is born, in all that
to say, as a dying away in human development, as something that is
towards that which rules in the astral body and finds its embodiment
will have found that four periods in the development
Anaxagoras, Anaximenes, etc. It has been pointed out, for instance,
temperament. They were not based on speculation, but Thales
a watery temperament; Heraclitus founded the fire-philosophy because
he was of a fiery temperament and so on. You find that shown in
proceeding from Christianity began to be seized by men themselves. In
the thoughts were outside. Now, in the third period men became aware:
tree? Doubt first began in the third period when men became aware
but there is no longer the same attachment to the Christ-Impulse as
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Mensch in Vergangenheit, Gegenwart und Zukunft vom
fundamental differences between these heavenly bodies, and this is
twofold aspect. It reveals itself in the environment of the Earth and
is radiated back by the Moon. The Sun's rays work with tremendous
glorious wisdom was once possessed by men who received it without
peoples of a remote past — to men whose nature was quite
nature of animals; these forces also sustain the animal element in
A stimulus to the whole development of the human being is given also
know that as far as his apparent movement is concerned, Saturn moves
moves faster, taking about 12 years. Because of this quicker movement
flash into human destiny those wonderful moments of illumination when
early state of development, the progress of humanity was in truth
Jupiter separately in the course of his spiritual development.
manifold ways to make statements about the mysteries of the cosmos.
and his Demon. His Genius works in such a way that men receive from
is a world of dream. The secrets of men in their earthly existence
significance in the development of the speech or language of a
of heart and temperament. But Mercury provides the forces for
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Title: Lecture: The Elemental World and the Future of Mankind
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The Elemental World and the
I have often mentioned that a new stream of spirituality is now ready
mankind's evolution between an era of mainly intellectual development
intellectuality was the development of reason through the
investigation of external nature and the development of technology.
western civilization the greatest intellectual achievements have been
has no longer the same enthusiasm for intellectual accomplishments.
originally a natural endowment which mankind was predestined to
the four elements of earth, water, air and fire, then it makes no
earthen nature has as its foundation an elemental spirituality.
the world rhythm, then we shall rediscover the elemental beings
characteristic of these elemental begins dwelling in solid earth is
Thus, in the solid earth element live spiritual beings of an
elemental kind who are very much more clever than human beings. Even
The elemental beings dwelling in the fluid element — i.e., in
The elemental beings of air have developed to a high degree what
on. But elemental spiritual beings are active behind all this, and
intellect — as already mentioned, this was from the first
— these elemental beings were pushed to one side, as it were.
there was not much they could do, and because the elemental beings
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Perspectives on Humanity's Development.
Perspektiven der Menschheitsentwickelung. Der materialistische
Erkenntnisimpuls und die Aufgabe der Anthroposophie. Der Mensch in
seinem Zusammenhang mit der Kosmos.
A Picture of the Earth's Future Development
Perspectives on Humanity's Development.
Perspektiven der Menschheitsentwickelung. Der materialistische
Erkenntnisimpuls und die Aufgabe der Anthroposophie. Der Mensch in
seinem Zusammenhang mit der Kosmos.
intellect has become more and more shadowy, and as a result of the developments
element, but is at the same time a materialist. His thoughts — which are spiritual
Human beings are coming to a point when their development of body and soul will
of the Event of Golgotha, human beings in general were capable of development
in body and in soul until the 33rd year of life. Today this development is
men will be capable of development only until the 21st year. In the seventh
millennium the bodily nature will be capable of development only until the 14th
year of life. Women will then become barren. An entirely different form of
more spectral than it is already, if men never resolve to receive into their
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Title: Lecture: The Spiritual Communion of Mankind
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zur Sternenwelt. Die Geistige Kommunion der Menschheit.
we find that the Mysteries were institutions of men still possessed
dreams were expressions of reality, the men belonging to that ancient
men of those olden times beheld of the spiritual-super-sensible world
old clairvoyance men knew that they were the expressions — not,
world. Thus the spiritual world was revealed to men in pictures.
those men of an earlier epoch had no thoughts. They had thoughts, but
similar kind of activity was, it is true, exercised by the men of old
what men fashioned out of various materials into works of art, and
beings in man's environment are permeated by the divine-spiritual He
particular thoughts from those that were revealed to men with their
in the Mysteries from clairvoyant vision. Whereas the majority of men
the leaders of the Mysteries were working at the development of a
up to its own environment, to the atmosphere surrounding it. It has
not contracted because of the cold or enveloped itself in a raiment
environment. Hence man too is given up to the wide cosmic expanse. In
connection in Summer with the whole etheric environment, in order out
back again, as it were, to the Gods.” In this way the men of
Midsummer festivals had meaning only as long as men received their
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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
necessary counter-balance for elements in modern life that have an
environment, and even if only the preliminary steps have been taken
misunderstand it. These things are a quite inevitable accompaniment
thing one immediately opens the way for the passing of judgments.
life, should never find favour in the sphere of our movement. In a
modern life. How does external culture speak of this phenomenon?
men were not capable of studying Nature in a way that could have led
in our modern age. Then at last — so it is said — men
That is modern technical science; it arises because men have come to
mechanical arts and thus create the technical environment
achievements of our modern age.
into application. What happens is, fundamentally, a performance that
feeling of pleasure experienced by the elemental spirits within
important thing is that we drive out of Nature the elemental spirits,
coherence of Nature is maintained. Elemental spiritual beings are
Ahrimanic environment for what is asleep in us alike by night and by
destructive element when in his Ego and astral body he comes down
Ahrimanic elemental spirits. In this third stage, the cultural stage,
Jahve-Hierarchy. In those times the souls of men — Ego and
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Title: Lecture: The Inexpressible Name, Spirits of Space and Time.
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they are now, at the present stage of human development, and as they
development. There, human bodies had a different constitution from
What I told you now, essentially depends on the development of
they continue experimenting, they will one day be able to understand
This is because the human corpse is, today, the true instrument of
cognition, and because a lifeless instrument can only be used to
Ego in man are not instruments of cognition, but they remain, as it
lay judgment it may often appear amateurish to draw in Egyptian
corpse which we use as an instrument of cognition, and that this
But in the course of human development this word was not always
Goetheanism therefore strikes the fundamental note for what we should
concepts unless we take the trouble to unite the elements which form
it is today, if we were to observe a child's development, the
leading up to the present time, the egoistic element chiefly
I have already mentioned this before. What kind of Being do they
People may now have democracies or parliaments — they may come
together in parliaments, but the destinies of humanity do not breathe
through these parliaments, for the men who are elected into
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Title: Lecture: The Coming Experience of Christ
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disappearance of much that is still greatly to men's taste and
withstanding men's demand for the Gospels, their desire to be
hindrance to the development of a Christ-Experience. And we have
the middle of the fifteenth century, the disposition of men's
mankind in general has undergone a fundamental change in its frame of
of this difference. And if men did not box themselves up within their
what an immense gulf really exists between those who are old today
element in human evolution. It is the belief in the authority of
familiar through nineteenth-century scientific development have taken
for the right kind of development — then out of this mood, out
is no general feeling for it. Properly conducted elementary
intellect, the development of which has been and still is of course
fundamental social demand. Side by side with the impotence of science
characteristics. To a dispassionate view this is quite clear; men
grandparents and so on. Unlike men of old, they no longer feel that
men are as Czechs, Slovaks, Magyars, Frenchmen, Englishmen, Poles and
need scarcely say that to many men to-day this truth is unacceptable.
man has to experience his present destiny, is the re-embodiment of
subsequent embodiments, so that our earth is in a midway state. Now
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The paths by which in very remote times men acquired super-sensible knowledge
On previous occasions I have mentioned that, from the masses of human beings
kingdoms of nature, the men of those times beheld spirit and soul. They
that these men of old, through their fantasy, dreamed all kinds of
so those men of old beheld realities of spirit and soul in external
but an integral part of the organism. Men felt themselves to be members
surrounding nature. He felt the elements of nature within himself. Today
what I am now describing was a method for the attainment of higher worlds
depend only on our senses and nervous system as instruments of thinking.
element in his thinking within the rhythm of breathing.
soul, immersed in the phenomena of nature, partakes of every secret, steeping
mental picture into another. While the yogi in ancient India passed from
form concepts of our natural environment is not only connected with nerves
the rhythm pervading the external world. The moment thinking really
becomes free of the bodily functions, the moment it has torn itself away
remember what he was, within a soul-spiritual environment, before he
in hand one's development which is otherwise left to education and the
training of the will is undertaken for the sake of self-improvement, is
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by, and with additional commentary by Frank Thomas Smith.
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the sun has been in the sign of spring. When, therefore, men on earth
that from that moment he became another man. Nay, more: he became an
often drawn attention to the great difference in the development of the
physical development until an advanced age. The parallelism between the
development of the soul and the development of the body continued until
ancient Indian times, however, men experienced a parallelism between
the development of soul and of body up to the fiftieth year of life, in
entered into the evolution of mankind at a time when men — especially
super-sensible experience of what men at that time could no longer receive
parallelism between soul-and-spirit development and physical development
illumination, the understanding once possessed by men in an atavistic
be the one to arouse in men a realisation of what had happened for
supreme importance to make clear to men how through the Christ Impulse an
outlook of men in those days. Not that a complete change took place in a
single moment; nevertheless the Event of Golgotha did bring about an
during which men beheld, together with the world of the senses, also the
pre-Christian times men saw, together with the sense-perceptible, a
wanted to reveal. He told how in ancient times, when men were
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Die Gestaltung des Menschen als Ergebnis kosmischer Wirkungen.
Der Mensch in seinem Zusammenhang mit dem Kosmos. Band VII.
fruit's development to the point where it is just
development consisted essentially of this. Then comes our
world. When we reach this moment, we should, above all,
nourishment and our not allowing it to become completely
substances which we take in as nourishment are so slightly
real connection with his environment, in which he
formed from within. Let us leave this aside for the moment,
if we consider the moment when
is the encompassing element. It is really the symbol of the
case today, but we should set out from this development of
concretely into his human development. Since the middle of
eight members are still in a rudimentary stage. The head is
are rudimentary. The thorax, too, is a complete human
are rudimentary. Also the limbs form a complete human
rudimentary. Three human beings are thus contained in man.
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The Inner Human Impulse for Improvement,
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und menschliche Geschichte.
certain impulses, certain forces which work in the souls of men and thence
to the whole destiny and development of the Order of the Knights
of men of our own times.
It was, so to speak, an important accompanying phenomenon to that great event
Jesus. Every moment of their life was to be filled with the perpetual
what lived in the souls of these men, who might never waver in their duty,
hands or with implements, he places some external material thing into the
addition to the immensely powerful influence that it possessed spiritually
was chosen to be the instrument who should oppose the Templars. That is to
Bel knew more than most men in the world. Through what he had experienced he
Philippe le Bel could be a fitting instrument in the service of
ineffective the Templar Movement in the form it had first of all
Philippe le Bel was, as we have said, the instrument of
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Die Geistige Vereinigung der Menschheit Durch Den Christus-Impuls.
convenience; but it is not so. The men who had to separate time into
As men we are not aware that there really is a certain
physically, externally, it is going through no development; then the
firmament of heaven nearest to the Earth. As we look with our eyes on
Thus fundamentally the mineral consciousness contains
the secret of the whole Cosmos. While we men move about on the Earth
unfoldment the whole mystery of the cosmos is contained, in the way
their further development; again intermingle, and so on. Only think
before which again we go back to the time of development of the
as an instrument. On this account — as you know already from
evolution when that body was the main element of
few fragments remain. It is the winter of the Earth, but the Earth's
ourselves through our Spiritual Science, so that there may be men
a normal elemental way flows into man as inhabitant of the Earth,
lesser Gods follow the secret development of plant and mineral

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recognise the duties here mentioned, if he does not, in his own way,
actual, there to find many of the things of which the men of the
We have seen how at a certain moment of evolution, a
that. For the most part men do not consider to-day that it is an
nation, race or colour; that a certain element of cramped thinking is
phenomena, the impression on the senses, the impression made on the
the fundamental type of the thought of the nineteenth century. I have
gentlemen who have thus led thoughts astray, have started from a
‘so are they all honourable men’ — but just let us
expressing what he had to say to men, than by the use of twenty-two
life in every department.
our movement to establish. When, however, we take the trouble really
to-day. The worst of it is, that this fundamental failing of
what a really tremendous duty springs from an insight into this fact,
experimental knowledge, — and it is power that such
present day, that they are great men, — to show that they
careless thinking of great men, which has been so greatly enhanced
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Wesenzuege des Menschens im irdischen und kosmischen
Bereich. Der Mensch in seinem Zusammenhang mit dem
"Fundamental Impulses in the Mysteries of Ancient and Modern Times."
the most important moments of life. And since fear is closely
says, “Love was the fundamental force of the ancient oriental
to discern it can perceive even now, in the phenomena of decline of
the Asiatic culture, the penetration of this primeval element of joy
man is dependent on the circumstances prevailing in his environment. The
all that lived in the Mysteries of the East there was no fulfilment
phenomena!” — that is how the precept of the ancient
entirely different elemental configuration, with the necessity of
But by means of all that the men of the East brought to the Western
man's inner being that can be transmitted to men only within the
aware that in the course of time many men in Western countries (I am not
Such men have
who accompanied him played a harp-like instrument, for he needed to
Men have little
development of the last few centuries. The two things belong
development; one can quite well picture to oneself people of older
development of the spirit. With all intensity he must be able to say
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Bereich. Der Mensch in seinem Zusammenhang mit dem
— at some later moment — causes this or that impression
evil in the life and actions of men.
seeds of future worlds arise. Then we, as men, take part there in the
surrounded with sense-phenomena. We behold these phenomena spread
consciousness, however, we do come through it. Then men of ancient
who had a peculiar longing to live behind the phenomena of the senses,
developed a longing to see behind the sense-phenomena, and in so
this yearning to reach the world behind the sense phenomena; while
the memory-mirror, a spiritual element lives.” One must needs
not willing to recognise this spiritual element. We live in this
universal spiritual element.
with a certain inevitability this modern thinking leads men to
account only as having appeared in the world and brought to men the
there to speak of God the Son. That men can come forward with the
still a good deal of the Oriental wisdom in Christianity, men were
will feel that the moment you want to make a distinction between the
out even to modern men how they carry in them a centre of
fast — as in earlier times men were told about the Fall and
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Christianity the teaching of greatest moment is that concerning
in the form of fragments in the possession of a few isolated
communion but of whom the Gospels make no mention? The Gospel
these early men were able to receive the wisdom of the Gods. This
teaching to the souls of men. Those who received such teaching
— for the most part they were men who had been initiated in
consciousness men were not dependent upon oral conversation or
feeling arose in these men that they were only being
can look back to a Divine-Spiritual wisdom once received by men
just as a child knows nothing of death. Those men who received
such men knew quite consciously that their souls had come down
these early men with animals, for although their outward
dead, as little did the men of those early times understand
men emerged from this state of consciousness. Following the
about the time of the Mystery of Golgotha, we may say: men were
earliest times, men were not faced with the question of death as
the epoch of the Mystery of Golgotha drew near that men began,
The ancient epochs, when men knew nothing of death, were all
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using the arguments of my old friend, Vincenz Knauer. Vincenz Knauer
argument: — Let us take Nominalism and then Realism, such as we
which men still had an insight into the true nature of such things through
flashes of lightning, as if from an elementary human emotion,
and Comenius currents in German protestantism: — to consider
at first to take part in the movement for a religious renewal,
then we shall really be able to say what I have often mentioned:
the Christ becomes an independent being in the fulfillment of the
For this reason we have the peculiar phenomenon that in the monistic

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you of some fundamental pieces of knowledge of the science of
sciences. The tragic element of our time consists, for instance, in
rise of Christianity — not to mention Jewish history — is
instance, of such a kind that men could read the laws of Nature in
movements of the stars or of the earth, but there was a knowledge of
The doubtful element of
century it was very clearly felt that in ancient times men
Anaximenes, Anaxagoras, the philosophers of the tragic epoch, as
and Anaximenes, appear to us as if humanity had, as it were,
fragmentary passages. The few passages of Thales, Anaxagoras, of the
traditionally, appear to us like fragmentary recollections.
reached freedom in the course of his development, had the primeval
development contains nothing of what may be designated as knowledge,
his statements. Like all the other people of the Middle Ages who
statements, I prefer to believe in Aristotle, and not in
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overthrow. All the distressing phenomena we have hitherto
that, taken as a whole, presents a phenomenon of decline and
— a scientific character of a sort which made men
strangers. In all their daily transactions, these men of old
universe. The men of old possessed a Cosmogony.
Without a cosmogony in life, men cannot be strong.
element leading to the downfall of our civilisation is that
which men yield themselves up to religious forces of some
scope for free action on the part of man. And when men feel
little stress on men being redeemed by Christ, not by
how to foster the impulse of Freedom weakens men and dooms
tremendously interested in himself that the whole world
altruistic, not to egoistic actions and sentiments.
all-comprehensive universal truth; the various types of men
impulse exist for a communal life among men that is religious
conclusion, that the temperament, the mode of thought for an
enshrined in men's hearts those impulses of generous love
temperament for altruism, but they have not got the kind of
altruism into practice. They have merely got the temperament,
about the Asiatic civilisation, that the temperament is
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— made imperceptible to the vast majority of men
light of our ideas, must fundamentally point out.
elementary matters. How little a man is inclined to set out
most elementary self-knowledge. But Mach makes another remark
self-knowledge of men, even as regards their outer form. As
self-knowledge is none other than the first elementary
the widespread environment which we can see on the physical
unaware of all that in his environment which resembles his
the only document he has brought over from the spiritual
world. Therefore he must pass through this, the document of
occurs. Fundamentally speaking, every one who sets his foot
him, but something that looked like an immense mountain. He
which was physically there around him. There was an immense
thought was slowly entering. In later times, men spoke
experience the four temperaments. There it becomes clear to
have gone through the temperaments, we come to what may be
inwardly till you have descended through the temperaments
the realm of the four elements. We have already spoken of all
the properties of the several elements; but it is only at
the earthy, the watery, the airy, and the element of
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Title: Lecture: The Shaping of the Human Form out of Cosmic and Earthly Forces
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des Menschen. Die Suche Nach der Neuen Isis, der Goettlichen
Sophia. Der Mensch in seinem Zusammenhang mit dem Kosmos.
Physischen des Menschen. (Bibl. No. 202).
planetary embodiments of the Earth; and the starting-point
for its subsequent embodiments is all that underlies man's
will go through reorganisation, during the embodiments of
hence he is left more to his own inner development. And if
development: imagine, that is, that through some course of
development between death and rebirth. During this time the
on inner development and not on the external world, is always
development of the human being the chief influences
movement and activity remaining over from the old Moon and
from the other previous embodiments of the Earth. You see
world; how during the development of the embryo the human
about through the movement made by the Moon, through the
encirclement of the head by the Moon, which occurs ten times
during the human being's embryonic development. Thus the Moon
lunar months. Hence something of his development is left
When you move your arm or your leg the movement is not
development of the limb-man is concerned we have to do with
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suffers from the basic evil inherent in so many spheres of our mental
sentiments playing between man and man. This lack of social
things depend on the judgment of specialists. But on the other hand
about the necessity for proper air, light, nourishment, sanitation,
nineteenth century has been overcome, but this statement does not
molecular in character. When we are explaining world-phenomena
verbally or mentally a man is convinced that there is
basis of phenomena. In short, the essential thing is not what
diseases and so-called psychical or mental diseases. The concrete
world-conception of so many modern men, and that far from being
undergoes a partial death with every moment that passes, but it is
with the physical elements of the body. This is Anthroposophical
Movement of ours it behoves us to work earnestly and sincerely to
No purpose is served by making statements in a religious or
possible to overcome elements which, on account of the materialistic
science is bound, by its very nature, to speak. If as men and women
way — succeeds in developing forms of knowledge relating to men
relation of human beings to each other than there is to-day when men
health and disease in our fellow-men would have in social life. Think
falls to the lot of our fellow-men when their mode of life is healthy
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Das Wesen des Musikalischen und das Tonerlebnis im Menschen.
lies a most essential element of all earthly culture and
constructed and organised out of the very element of spoken sound and
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
removed from the pure element of song, and is steeped in the prosaic
find in it two essential elements — consonant and vowel, All
vowel element. Now, the consonantal element is in reality entirely
great musical instrument. Even the external musical instruments
— the violin or any other instrument of music — even
up out of the consonants. When we refer to the consonant element in
musical instruments; and the totality, the harmony of all consonants,
And the vowel element
— in this we have the soul which plays upon the instrument. The
consonant and vowel elements, you have in every manifestation
instrument — the human body.
breathing beats in unison with the movements that are executed along
permeates with nerve, if we might put it so, the instrument which
note. But here in song man does not leave the element of breath; he
the body, by adding the consonantal element, does but provide the
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19th century. Think of the immense contrast between the present time
ingredient. Indeed, it is far more than this! You see, when the men
a moral element. When we enter the sphere of electricity, we
the moral element comes to the surface, so that the electricity
at the same time the moral element in Nature. Modern physicists have
modern men who do not proceed in accordance with old traditional
that the electric element in Nature is endowed with morality in the
world. In the same way in which the moral element one day acquires
real shape in Nature, so the electric element once contained a moral

Title: Lecture: The Problem of Jesus and Christ in Earlier Times
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Die geistige Vereinigung der Menschheit durch den Christus-Impuls,
only through a few fragments. From one of these fragments, I cited
the announcement of Christ's coming was not itself a new
Mysteries, the Christ had already been mentioned as the “coming
such as Clemens of Alexandria, for example, and Origenes — very
perspective — Clemens, as well as Origenes, who came after the
two? Thus we see great spirits like Clemens of Alexandria and
consider Clemens of Alexandria, the head of the catechetical school
Clemens of Alexandria looked up, first of all, to the Christ as a
Clemens also knew something else, which we have emphasized
felt that he was the “coming one.” Clemens of Alexandria
Clemens of Alexandria
the world through Moses and the prophets, said Clemens, was a
So we see that Clemens
not use it. But Clemens designated what entered human capacity
is very significant), Clemens placed Greek philosophy — Plato
in the soul element and, within Jesus Christ, distinguished between
of completely new and fresh elements, and his efforts went toward
Clemens of Alexandria
physical bodies. Clemens of Alexandria expressed this clearly when he
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Menschenfragen und Weltantworten.
the Dimensions of Space.
were, from his environment on all sides, without his having to
Men have always received into their language designations,
its three dimensions gives to him, in forming his ideas about things
translated into movement through his will. The movement is in space,
of movement, in outer activities.
recent times, it is true, men have sought refuge in the conception,
is invariably, when men try to form a conception of the existence of
men were so thoroughly saturated with materialism, even this question
when they have left the body? There were even men who tried to refute
spiritualism by proving that when so and so many men are dying and so
will of man follows his movements everywhere. Moreover, the
movements man accomplishes externally in space when he moves about,
and those too which take place within him in the fulfilment of his
the physical world-are in the three dimensions of space. Hence the
will must also go everywhere, wherever the three dimensions extend.
if we are speaking of the will as of an element of soul-and-spirit, there
spirit — is three-dimensional. It has a three-dimensional
movement through our will, the will adapts itself and enters
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Title: Lecture: Thinking and Willing as Two Poles of the Human Soul-Life
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Der Mensch in seinem Zusammenhang mit dem Kosmos.
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thought element, at the other pole the will element, and
between these two the element of feeling, that which in
quiescence, we think, an element of will reigns in
certain will element prevails, at any rate inwardly. On the other
before birth, before conception. Fundamentally speaking, the faculty
in man from the moment he enters upon his physical, earthly life.
observation this is obvious. Watch the sprawling movements of a child during
chaotic movements through the fact that his soul and spirit are
forces of the will, and the development of child-life consists
these movements so that they become imbued with meaning. Thus there
which enwraps the human being when he is born, indeed from the moment
At the moment however we are speaking of normal human beings. Such people,
record of how many fundamentally original thoughts and ideas at the present
unless man is laid hold of by those youthful elements which proceed
only an automatic continuation of movement in those organs in which
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Title: Vortrage: Denken, Fühlen, Wollen - Das Muspilhgedicht
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Menschenwerden, und Weltenseele Weltengeist.
Erster Teil: Der Mensch als leiblich-Seelische
Der Mensch in seinem Zusammenhang mit dem Kosmos.
heute einige Wahrheiten zusammenfassen, die uns dann wiederum dienen
Pol hin in diesem Seelenleben das gedankliche Element, das Denken
liegt, nach dem ändern Pol hin das Willenselement, zwischen
beiden das Gefühlselement, dasjenige, was wir im
sind immer in Verbindung miteinander, sie spielen ineinander. Nehmen
Willensimpulse von Gedanken durchströmen zu lassen. Gedanken
vornehmen, das wir durch den Willen dann ausführen, so liegen ja
spät kommen. Der Wille kann sich einzig und allein richten auf
das, was da kommen soll, auf das Zukünftige. Kurz, wenn Sie ein
Es ist im Grunde genommen in dem kleinen Kinde, das uns
vorhanden, die der Mensch überhaupt in sich entwickelt. Das Kind
seines Leibes. Namentlich in den ersten sieben Lebensjahren, bis zum
Aufbau seines Leibes als Richtkräfte. Dann kommen sie immer mehr
eben als Gedankenkräfte durchaus veranlagt im Menschen, wenn er
das ganz und gar in der Hülle, die den Menschen umgibt, lebt,
schematisch etwa den Menschen so zeichnen können, daß wir
Willenskräfte, sie nehmen wir dann wahr, wenn wir durch den Tod
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development we wish to see taken up by humanity, and today we
way when we are wholly given up to the physical environment,
achievements in the last few centuries and has been
instinctive and unconscious element has increasingly taken
and take account of the element of the spirit is ultimately
characteristic element to be found day by day, hour by hour,
think and pretend to want? It is that, fundamentally
perfectly clear statements, also with reference to the most
such vehemence. It has burst forth as though it were a karmic
has been preparing for centuries. The new element wanting to
ultimate triumph in the creation of instruments of murder and
present time, and you will realize the immense gravity of the
world the lamentable statement: ‘First one thing
happened, then another, and that was the moment when I went
Suchomlinov. What kind of moments are these in world events
one has gone out of one's mind? They are moments when Ahriman
‘I have gone out of my mind’, that is the moment
cannot say that the judgments, ideas and notions to be found
statements take up so many lines, people accept they have a
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development of humanity. Just think what it means —
and fail to notice many of the tremendous changes now taking
intellectual and moral development in human evolution.
Strangely enough, recent developments in materialistic
conclusion. Haeckel, too, has commented to this effect in his
the rational mind, has made tremendous advances. This is what
tremendous advances made as the laws of nature have been
instruments — most recently especially the instruments
or we may also say scientific, development has shown an
upward trend. Moral development has not progressed to the
development had kept pace with intellectual development. It
would be right to say that because moral development has not
progressed, intellectual development has assumed something of
moral development has not been keeping pace with the
intellectual development of humanity today. However, no one
human actions, because elements which are separate and
entirely different cosmic age. The apparatus or instrument of
of development in the Saturn, Sun, Moon and Earth periods. We
developed instrument we use for our intellectual
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so, for people are tremendously intolerant in their hearts
to realize this, for illusory ideas are a major element in
the New Testament words that are fundamental in this respect:
went. Ratinger was not free at the moment and so the student
came back; he had been given an appointment for later on. So
Any attempt to implement them it would soon show them to be
implemented. If we were able to implement Wilsonian ideas,
embarrassment for the literary historian, but he would stick
of mind has to be such — and with reference to the phenomena
and further development of humanity. People who take these
development that is for the good.
justification to be part of such a movement use their
wide-awake judgement and take themselves to task. People who
The tragic situation of today makes tremendous demands on the
rightly belong to our movement will have come to it out of
are part of our movement they will also be aware of it.
next. Outer interest may have been lacking, but excitement
created their own excitements. This has now become difficult.
of opposition. Being unable to get the excitement of
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Title: Fall/Darkness: Lecture 4: The Elemental Spirits of Birth and Death
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post-Atlantean age, right up to the present moment? It is
a name, let us call them the 'elemental spirits of birth and
death' for the moment. It is true that the individuals who
elemental spirits of birth and death. If one were to speak of
them, and of the whole way in which these elemental spirits
essential nature of these elemental spirits of birth and
destinies have to use elemental spirits who actually are the
really like it to be and that there exists the element which
and every hour here on earth. The moment human beings cross
destructive elemental spirits of birth and death.
were able to have the idea, theoretically and on the basis of experiments,
the case, however. The development of human civilization
involves the participation of elemental spirits, even if
under the influence of elemental spirits. They are always
the spirit of invention is active, elemental spirits are
The elemental
particular sphere of elemental spirits and then human beings
enter into this same sphere and use the elemental spirits. In
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to the environment, the outside world, in a very different
connected with an environment which had spiritual qualities.
Up to then everything was growth and development. In some
mentioned this on a number of occasions — we are
complete harmony with physical development — I have
environment. Human beings were intimately bound up with the
will be all kinds of changes in development.
does not permit a more extensive treatment. With some of the
something of a testament. Those who are inwardly conscious of
developments like that of Brentano would be aware of this,
environment in a different way. The space around us no longer
of space, but it no longer yields up the spiritual element.
Colours no longer speak to us as elements filled with spirit,
our inner strength to become aware of the essential element
continue in what they receive from their environment. It
the ancient Greeks, the prospects for the further development
ahead, possibly as early as the seventh millennium, all women
do on earth. The fact is that women will no longer be able to
said then which relate to developments in our own age. They
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means that we are able to form ideas. For the moment we need
discuss if this really is the case. For the moment I merely
the elemental world. When we speak of entities which are part
of the elemental world in the widest sense of the word, they
published shortly, and which I mentioned yesterday,
ask yourself: If there is such an elemental principle out
the elemental world of thought in so far as we kill its
you do not pay attention to this particular moment of getting
into it, but it is not your own thought. The form of movement
extraordinarily significant instrument and much older than
be purely elemental by nature. In the head, everything would
only a very insignificant attachment.
begin with let us simply consider it to be this elemental,
evolution. The outcome was that this whole, more elemental,
our higher nature. This is the contradictory element in human
to the luciferic element, made the part of him that should be
Many historical phenomena will find their explanation if you
fact, is the luciferic element in our higher nature. Thus
elemental world come to us — they are living thoughts,
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comments today. You probably know the amusing experiment so
experiment will frequently come to mind for anyone who has a
because they do not know the element which is always around
the weight made of cardboard, for the element which lends
phenomena which were, in fact, to be of the essence in the
matter. So what did the sacrament of the transubstantiation
documents you want and scribble endless notes on Luther, you
already mentioned, we are living at a time when certain
the kind of confusion I have mentioned. And so there must be
statements people make today, however erudite, then you have
mentioned, in earlier ages, including the fourth
protection of the divine spirits at such a solemn moment,
the achievements of the individual.
achievements did not come from having his backside tanned; he
important. And a tremendous amount depends on it that in our
completely inept teachers may on occasion have a tremendous
enter fully into your soul, you will find it has tremendous
accept the intellect which is in the elemental environment of
make it the ideal to inculcate the elemental intellect which
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phenomena, but the concepts used to explore them are
achievements of abstract thinking when it is addressing
We can only be in constant amazement at how these things
Fundamentally speaking, such ideas are part of the
brought to an end until the above-mentioned prospect is
not been able to work with the elements which live in the
to experiment, in the desire to understand the present time.
some of the things that belong to the past. Fundamentally
commented on them in a positive way. So I think it will be
important to have a tremendous sense of reality when creating
consequence, however, for we grow blind to any argument
tremendous break that exists between more recent life and
not see the most important element in it. Reality is also
here a few days ago: elemental life goes on out there, and it
reasons given by an enlightened group of medical men when the
single eccentric but a whole group of medical men — I
so the document says — high board fences should be put
such arguments. People laugh about it afterwards, but there
are some elemental spirits who laugh about human folly when
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It is necessary to let certain fundamental
truths of spiritual development come to mind whenever you
those fundamental truths more deeply. In the last days we
developments. We can put these together with fundamental
the spiritual development of the peoples of Europe and
moment relates to this battle fought by Michael and his
mentioned, these battles have recurred over and over again,
tremendously important. There always is the danger of people
necessary to pay real heed to some highly respected elements
these are always non-physical elements — drove them to
documents of our civilization in the same way as did
and other historians who went by the documents, they will
year preceding 1914. You see, the developments which started
development to say over and over again that there is need to
the anthroposophical movement on the destiny and true nature
would be a sign of being wide awake to make a fundamental

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developmental factors which evolution has given except for
development of the last decades. I asked you to take into
mass of people to know nothing of radically new developments
Enlightenment was at its height in the eighteenth century,
and, of course, enlightenment still flourishes today. Really
people nurture the elements which they desire to spread among
second statement should really follow the one I have just
made to render it complete. However, this second statement
only. However, the invisible element must be included if we
There are elemental spirits which observe these things from
myths. Something else, too, causes those elemental spirits to
and also when we perceive the element which gives us a
mentioned this again yesterday. When these things are said by
harmful ahrimanic element.
consciously give to boys and girls, or to young men and
women, are the things that enter unconsciously into their

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being, a more outward stream is always complemented by an
who cannot continue their development in the spiritual world
secret, hidden soul development is given due attention. As I
in the cosmic order. ‘Enlightenment’, as it was
existence in connection with the Earth. For the moment, let
want to make some preliminary statements. If you read my
tremendous. The cosmic current which passes through the
education will be particularly detrimental in the immediate
dishing up elementary zoology to children in the dreadful way
quite young, much to their detriment, we should have a
impoverishment of concepts and ideas have led to the
has written on the Collective Agreement.
contracts and agreements on the one hand and Germanic social
recommend that you read the new issue of
elements are not mixed together in this. Conscience takes
outwardly, historically or in the sacraments. It, too, can
issues in Swiss national policies — I do recommend it,

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our temperaments. Human beings will be unable to get even a
phenomena. At the present time people generally give validity
only to natural phenomena, phenomena of the physical world
spirits’, the spirits of light. Fundamentally speaking,
development through the forces of the earth. This was
have already made some mention of this. Angelic spirits,
their activities have done enough where the establishment of
of spiritual communion will bring a progressive element into
the entirely natural element of decline. Please note, the
element of decline is natural. Human beings cannot remain
downward curve of development. In the same way the whole of
humanity has entered into a downward trend of development. We
elements which follow the upward trend. The downward trend
For he saw the spiritual element in everything. Goethe thus
how much their development depended on the soil. This was
the physical and earthly element and be citizens of the
must be understood today when great, tremendous events happen

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have sought to show that momentous occurrences in the
which brought the full impulse for the development of
this showed a tremendous upsurge in the 1840s, 50s, 60s and
eye for more subtle elements in human life will note that
conception, acumen and critical faculties for the adherents
the particular acumen, critical faculty and so on, which I
physical intellect which I have mentioned are a reflection
— this again is something I have mentioned before
lost momentum and became so strangely corrupted after that
live in a world of indescribable acumen which would apply to
would have been made with incredible acumen. This is one
physical acumen on the one hand, and a way of seeking
into the rightful elements which are now spreading on earth,
where it is less harmful. As I have mentioned,
books on the abnormalities of certain men of genius. As you
mentally and psychologically abnormal; this individual went
important elements which will be the background to events now
seem to be a minor one. It is something I also mentioned last year.
commentaries have been written on Goethe's Faust. Oswald Marbach's
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women will grow infertile, and reproduction will no longer be
statement that human procreative life will be extinguished in
capable of physical development well into ripe old age;
capable of development until they reached the span extending
development up to their twenty-seventh year, as I told you.
of further development only until they reach their 20s, is
human beings are naturally capable of further development
the twenty-eighth and thirty-fifth years, the development
they become journeymen, and finally masters.
development.
a social phenomenon traced back to its spiritual foundations.
elements have their origin in this — when in some place
elements.
active in evolution. Much of the mendacity which exists in
interesting statement that it was not how Darwin overcame
effect; but they seek the cause for the movement of the cab
acumen, positively intervene in life. Go back to the slave
class struggle. A purely critical element, purely
intellectual movement generated agitation among the
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of man as lying at the starting point of the historical development
this significant moment of growing awareness of our freedom and
This moment is a
speaking in Old Testament terms. If we look at this interpretation,
Testament.
flowed into the concepts that the Schoolmen, set up about the sense
world. The concepts of the Schoolmen were not as unspiritual as ours
are today. The Schoolmen still approached the human being with the
For, at least in the Realist stream, the Schoolmen totally believed
torn him out of the divine spiritual element; the historical forces
fact, in its present development, is on the point of reversing the
pointed to the moral fall of man and thought about the development of
If we look back into the development of mankind, we see that human
development of mankind on earth. But the fall must be made right
soul. In our day, therefore, the historic moment has arrived
ourselves out of sin. Without this, the development of mankind
elements. We must learn to understand the movements of the
statements about the relation of man to the animals, we must already
the bird out of the air. As soon as one turns to the elements, one
but the fact is that one was awake in one's acknowledgment of
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course of an intellectual development — do not change. Through
things are mentioned that science is unprejudiced, and so on. But
I have shown repeatedly that these arguments are not of much value.
out already that even the arguments of the opponents of mediaeval
the observation of the outer phenomena of Nature. The process of
habits of thinking were alive, were living elementary beings during our
the thoughts, no longer seize the earthly and watery elements in the
organism, but only the air element and the fire or warmth element.
all four elements. The later development of a child consists in this,
that thought takes hold only of the elements of air and fire. When an
the independent element that it now is, and bears us through the life
directing their thoughts to a pre-earthly existence. If men had been
would have arisen. But men were no longer accustomed to consider
continue. He observed the plant in its development and found the
to-day, does not justify the statement that the skull-bones are
his form that men may see in it his heavenly origin.” The Greek
for ourselves a consciousness of the development of man's soul-disposition,
of little help to our anthroposophical movement, that such ideas are

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conceive the outlook of men in the 19th century, we generally
the learned and brilliant men of the 19th century.
myths, which, as we know, are only veiled statements of the
Sun of the New Testament, by contrast to Hercules, Dionysos
and Osiris, the Suns of the Old Testament.
— play their part in the dreams of men.
kind of symbolic treatment of the mathematical, and indeed,
should make one hesitate to pronounce such judgments. Having
is that in ancient times (to mention radical matters at once)
or 15 years old were simply there in his environment inasmuch
Spiritual Science. For in these olden times, the moment a man
moment he did so, he gave occasion for certain Luciferic
elemental beings to arise at the same time. At any rate, he
elemental beings were thoroughly effective; and, if
of men, if these things had not been kept secret.
evolution. The men of that time had not the vaguest notion.
gathered up in such statements as that Truth knows of no
necessary requirement of the time. But the times have now
those Luciferic elemental spirits of whom we may speak in
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Mystery-revelations are fundamentally based on error or
19th century, which was fundamentally Philistine, the
fundamental root-nerve of the life of the old Mysteries as we
all the Earth over, are united in human souls with a mentality and
financial affairs and so forth, the Ahrimanic elemental beings are produced.
Moreover, these elementals of an Ahrimanic kind will necessarily
ineffective in this sense; for it implies the fundamental
socially. No doubt an elementary process; and it is a long way
with the cosmic Book of the New Testament; it is at least in
accordance with the spirit of the New Testament. But in the
arrangement of Easter according to the heavenly
Undoubtedly the answer to such a question is immensely
pointed out during our recent lectures, the two fundamental
through our larynx and its movements, is wedded to the Wisdom
a meaning in it — important, significant, immense.
instruments for the associating or combining of sensory
indeed occasionally been pointed out by men who had a healthy
according to their own nature, as pure phenomena; he wanted
to refer the sense-perceived phenomena to their archetypal
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clothe himself with a sensely garment. This is the type of
home to the consciousness of men. It was, however, a very
lives in that element which receives the human being when he
Heavens, such Beings are no mere figment of human fancy. They
which are also the fundamental places of the Heavens. This
which represent, as it were, the mobile element in man,
starry heavens. Assume for a moment that a man is born to-day
attunement or non-attunement of the human being is determined
fact. They studied Man in his whole being, in his attunement
on this attunement of Man with the macrocosm.
weight of the whole Earth. Certain measurements of the
measurements of the Pyramids that they can only be the result
century. Men like Carus declared that the pure study of the
important thing is not the mere fact that the Wise Men of
secret of the head — the Wise Men of the Mysteries
twofold nature; and this was well known to those Wise Men of
remaining behind as against the movement of the fixed stars.
stars seem to go a little quicker in their annual movement
fixed stars in their movement have sped on exactly a day
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Fest der Erscheinung Christi. Der Mensch in seinem
Zusammenhang mit dem Kosmos. Band IX,
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the very elements of the whole life of man.
present time we perceive above all through symptomatic phenomena
beginning of its development. But from this young spiritual life
be traced back thousands of years. Immense respect can be felt
into a development of the Oriental civilization stretching over
of this immense change in the life attitude of the East? The
cause lies deeply rooted in the soul development of humanity. If
men the trees did not exist as prosaically as they do for us: In
immensely living way in which man experienced the world in this
if we transfer ourselves into the development of the times, we
humanity of the Orient, began to perceive the phenomena of the
external physical phenomena of the world as something not
that speaks to receptive souls in the movements and positions of
divine element in thought has not yet dawned for us. We are
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us that this statement is absolutely correct; for when
us externally in the present epoch of the earth's development.
The things mentioned above are facts evident to the ordinary
in our environment, with which we have thus united ourselves,
earth's environment.
environment is able to influence man's senses and it may be
environment through the ordinary senses. If we could perceive
what exists in the earth's environment, we would need a kind of
air, in order to look at it, we would see our environment in the
in your air-environment — if I may use this expression
say: The perceptions coming from the earth's environment follow a
environment.
we are influenced from above by the movements and forms of the
in our environment, and similarly we have a consciousness which
coming from every planetary movement and from every constellation
ordinary sense perceptions, so we send out to the movements of
and in the streams descending from the planetary movements and
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showed the fundamental difference between man's whole conception
development of freedom is only possible in the world of illusion.
I have mentioned this in my book,
impulses, instincts, passions and temperament, and everything
The essential thing in the development of mankind is that in
of man's development since the middle of the Fifteenth Century.
development of the earth and of the human race. But man lost
say that he was able to survey a certain line of development; he
development of the earth. But when he went back still further, he
by heat — again, a hypothesis. A fragment was thus
for example, the Old Testament, or other religious teachings of
the past. In the Old Testament we find ideas which are above all
Judgment,” for example, we come across ideas connected with
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we have emphasized that the present historical moment of human
present moment in history.
stage of human development. When he could grasp the world
find this soul attitude in the men who sought to gain an
of the world. It was the course of development during the past
centuries which induced men to believe that by rising up to
morphology developed by Goethe, we may observe that these men
connected with an important law of human development. It is
I have already mentioned the following: During the Middle Ages,
element. When man turns his thoughts and ideas to lifeless
the feeling that when single phenomena had to be drawn out of the
magnificent, triumphal technical achievements, based on the
of mankind's modern development. We must grasp that man separated
present stage of development, which only enables him to grasp
we go back into ancient times, to the men of the pre-Grecian age,
that everywhere men had come down to the earth from a prenatal,
a divine element had come down with him to the earth. In reality,
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To the Earth-men committed to your care,
To the sphere-men committed to your care,
to men on earth who are permeated by good will.’ And as
in which countless men feel the word ‘peace’ resounding,
easily testify how very far removed men still are in our day from
can face each other, enemy face enemy, how men can mutually bring
discord are spread abroad, these men can still be one at heart,
transcends all that separates men from one another. This it is which
Creation gradually arose: how Lucifer appeared to man, and how men
Testament history. Then as time went on there was added that which
the beginning of the Old Testament at this Christmas Eve festival
God Who is introduced to man in the Old Testament gives to man, as
represented by Adam and Eve, this commandment: ‘Ye may eat of
formatively upon us, up to the moment when we have a conscious
becomes an instrument capable of consciously grasping the Ego. A deep
people passed, each one took part by rocking the child for a moment.
but when the child was brought, they made a tremendous uproar,
that felt a passion for movement and a desire to experience the
development of Christianity from the very beginning. And that is the
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pre-testamental history.
beginning of the Old Testament with the mysterious story of the
presented to us in the Old Testament gives one commandment to the
Luciferic element mixed in with it. This then is in the aura of the
to understand it. Definite mental images are required if we wish to
definite moment in childhood. We gain a relationship to this
development of the physical body. The “I” stays
“I” remains there, the “I” fundamentally
on the earth. It looks only toward the further development of the
life, back to our childhood. Our spiritual element has remained
be reminded of the human-divine element from which he has distanced
element in him. He ought to be reminded of Him who brought back the
childlike element to him again. Though it was not easy, one can see
they knew only single fragments of the sacred story. The initial
mentioned because it corresponds to purely historical truth. Some
Child in it for a little while. Gradually similar moments of
development. Although in certain regions and during certain periods
development must enter into a new bond with that which united
of Christian development in Central Europe, only the Easter thought
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Mensch und Welt. Das Wirken des Geistes in der Natur. Ueber das
Mensch und Welt. Das Wirken des Geistes in der Natur. Ueber das
lecture given by Rudolf Steiner to the Workmen, Dornach, 8th October,
gentlemen, have you had any ideas? If not, I will talk to you about
the moment we begin to reflect about the things of Nature, so much
that were we to attempt new experiments in the field of aeronautics,
when based on materialistic science. Experiments are continually being
experimenting along the lines of butterfly flight has never been
on a large scale base its experiments on the butterfly flight. But
total darkness. The moment the caterpillar is hatched it meets the light
phenomena. You have no doubt noticed the astonishing fact when a lamp
flying around. We men have our ego inside, whereas that of the butterfly
butterflies and insects in general. You see, men imagine everything to
gentlemen, how can this be explained? Just picture a large eiderdown
I lean against the eiderdown. In the same way, gentlemen, you have the
an animal which as it lived in the air-water element would have a blood
system suited to that element. If it lives for a time in the light it
and loses the watery element. New regions appear where it must have
the animal. In place of the tail we have feet and, as the movement of
taken by the frog in its elements of air and water. In this case,
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Title: Conferencia: La Comunión Espiritual de la Humanidad
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Das Verhaeltnis Der Sternenwelt zum Menschen und des Menschen
zur Sternenwelt. Die Geistige Kommunion der Menschheit.
intrínsecamente al invierno. Surgió a partir de concepciones
del mundo espiritual que tenían que ver principalmente con el
eminentemente Misterios de Verano, relacionados con la unión entre
aprendido en la escuela. Como ustedes saben, he dicho a menudo que lo
exigirse internamente, debe elaborar sus ideas a fuerza de volutad
basaba firmemente en el conocimiento. Tampoco se hacía ninguna
realmente el último sobreviviente de los que no tenían este
lo artístico y lo científico, no aparece hasta relativamente
Misterios que poco a poco comenzaron a separar pensamientos
pensamientos. Pero eran plenamente conscientes de que esta
destinado únicamente a significar que la ofrenda más
siglos inmediatamente anteriores al Misterio del Gólgota —
comenzando tan temprano como los siglos 8º y 9º AC —
él un estado de ánimo totalmente diferente. Mientras que antes
interior; ahora comenzaba a sentir que los pensamientos eran como algo
atmósfera circundante y es continuamente devuelta otra vez.
revelación y debía eternamente ser devuelto a los Dioses en el
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Title: Lecture: Factors of Karma, Deficiencies in Psychoanalysis
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Kosmische und menschliche Geschichte.
Anthroposophical Movement
‘Karma of Vocations,’ see Anthroposophical Movement,
so vehemently by Haeckel's pupil, Oskar Hertwig. (Our standpoint
evolution. Here, too, the development of natural science has
former lectures we have mentioned specific things which
disappointments of life which they have some time undergone and
catechising and bringing the disappointment to the surface,
at the bottom of the soul.’ Thus they find disappointments,
‘demonic’ element which, they allege, arises from still more
in the subconscious in the human soul, so as to make men
Psycho-analysis. Psychoanalysis, according to these men
and women (for ladies, too, are taking part in these things)
prevented the fulfilment of his plan. And then we shall
the surface experience of consciousness provides. So do the men
Psychoanalysis begins to burrow in the elemental
judgments in such a superficial way, for it may well be
that one's judgment of what constitutes a ‘decent and proper
one's fellow-men. Or again, the man's career might somehow have
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Kosmische und menschliche Geschichte.
Anthroposophical Movement
‘Karma of Vocations,’ see Anthroposophical Movement,
asked these gentlemen, ‘Well, but you yourselves went through
up by a true and vigorous spiritual-scientific movement.
killed. There we have a tremendous Karmic question — not
we have described a case which shows us the fulfilment of
at his fireside. Well, he might have got two years imprisonment,
of the requirements of modern life.
sometimes, however, people who are not exactly ‘men of
report should be to recommend the transition to a kind of
was making the report, the Government policy had changed and
the job yourself? At the moment we are without a Director at
consignment of poppy-seed cakes.’ Sure enough, early the next
during his life. But shortly before his death (all these men
had reached a post from which no further advancement was
significant. For it shows us how the men of our time — if
striving of the men of our time to penetrate into the
has gradually become lost to men. Think only of this: in the
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Title: Lecture: Hereditary Impulses and Impulses from Previous Earth Lives
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Kosmische und menschliche Geschichte.
Anthroposophical Movement
‘Karma of Vocations,’ see Anthroposophical Movement,
of our spiritual-scientific movement not only to provide
see how this spiritual-scientific movement tends to bring near
account if he wishes to pass judgment on the questions
study of this period is therefore immensely important
development of these faculties. In a subordinate sense, no
which enter into his development after this time of life
man ceases, from this moment onward, to develop in himself
Spiritual Science. Take now the moment of birth. Before it, we
birth contains much that is related to the development of the
reality but with a fragment of it — with the realities
to do with the human being's education and development,
own, and that which will follow it. The souls of men return in
behave differently. Now in the fifth post-Atlantean epoch men
on in his environment. It is not only that we should learn to
thoroughly understood if we would claim any judgment upon the
us. It is not merely my statement; it can be said out of the
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Kosmische und menschliche Geschichte.
Anthroposophical Movement
‘Karma of Vocations,’ see Anthroposophical Movement,
kingdom, the mineral kingdom, the elemental kingdom, and
kingdoms which he then finds in his physical environment: the
harmony among men on Earth. Hence in a certain sense they
they guide and direct the repeated earthly lives of men. The
relationships among men. And the Time-Spirits regulate these
fail to see that it is a hidden egoism on the part of men to
tendency of men to-day for every one to worship his own God.
Archangel who guides the communities of men.
Underlying it is a hidden egoism, which men will not confess.
the most detrimental thing of all in our present period of
just like any man, and there is also mention of a
For they darken the consciousness of men, putting an Angel in
Still darker are the relations of men to the Archai — to
depths. As to the Angels, men do at least want to enter into
their sentiment and feeling, inasmuch as they declare their
describe today. Similarly, men are led into false paths
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valid judgment as to the significance of external events cannot
surroundings, he perceives the physical environment of the earth, and
no less significant for the whole development of the world and of man
than the historical events in the external environment of the
solved, so that men may bring their soul-forces into activity.
celebrated with festivals — has another side, also mentioned
here. During winter the earth is united with the elemental spirits.
the earth breathes out, as it were, its elemental being. The
elemental spirits rise up as though from a tomb and ascend into the
is imposed upon them by the stars and the movements of the stars.
earth there is a surging of life among the elemental beings who had
by the reciprocal laws of planetary movement, by the pattern of the
nature unfolds, how the elemental spirits fly and whirl in a pattern
laid down for them by planetary movements. And then, in the
cosmic waking-sleep, with the elemental beings to the region where
of Anthroposophy, a man enters thus into the enjoyment of nature, the
inner planetary experience in company with the earth's elemental
processes — it has a tremendous, decisive significance
forms of men. The force which falls on the earth in the meteoric iron
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in-breathing, occurs, and the elemental beings are drawn back into
watery element. Certainly this is much thinner than the water of the
atmosphere where the watery element comes to an end. Hence if we are
cosmic environment.
warmth (violet). Thus we must add this fourth element, warmth, which
mingling of the mercurial element, always present in the Earth, with
the sulphurising and salt-forming elements. If at this season we
cook them. Now the development of a plant to blossom and then to
— which is fundamentally a combustion process — the
the point of realising that the fragment of bone is a small part only
elemental beings who are united with the Earth have, one might say,
an agreeable abode within it. But other spiritual elements, too, are
often mentioned, when the Moon separated from the Earth.
new life. Below the Earth's surface, in winter, there is a tremendous
reinforcement of the Earth's capacity to produce life.
told, consists of oxygen and nitrogen and other elements. But in fact
taken any earthly nourishment, it was a quite different being from
earthly nourishment it received it became a creature of Earth.
something of immensely profound significance.
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deposits, which are indeed a phenomenon of the utmost importance for
elemental beings who dwell in the Earth. But the limestone is
feeling — an inner contentment in the whole neighbourhood of
contentment on all sides. It expresses itself as an inner permeation
for, as you know from previous accounts, the elemental beings now
able to draw in also the astral element from the cosmos in order to
where the elemental beings of the Earth ascend, where they unite
the elemental beings — who are wholly spiritual, immaterial,
there, among the active elemental beings, is permeated by Luciferic
earthly element, so that the whole Earth, according to the Ahrimanic
humanity would disappear, while the etheric bodies of men would be
fold in the garment should be thought of as placing the Christ-figure
element, and a form consisting of wings, larynx and ear as though
force in the cosmos. Through their undulating movement, these wings,
living artistic work everything is a challenge, and fundamentally
the cosmic astral element, then we learn also to recognise the
therapeutic power. It is the same with the Luciferic element: we
quicksilver element, so in carbonic acid there is always a
sulphurous, phosphoric element.
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described must come in: the elemental spirits of the Earth must soar
just mentioned takes form.
intelligence arises fundamentally from the working together of
characteristic raiment — the raiment which first lights up in
this gold-woven, silver-sparkling raiment? It comes from that which
Earth, where it animates the elements that in the midst of winter are
the connection of human morality with the crystalline element
Imagination of the Trinity would have to emerge. Special arrangements
expressed at St. John's-tide through appropriate musical instruments.
fixed form, but in living movement. That would be one motif, a
Das warmende Leben
Und atmend Gestaltetes —
Fühle dein Menschengebeine
have the whole gathered up as a cosmic statement of these
Das warmende Leben
Und atmend Gestaltetes —
Fühle dein Menschengebeine

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fundamentally it is not understood. Real poets and spiritually
inspired men lay hold of these often wonderful voices which sound
food, or eat some albumen or anything else, people assume that it
spoke also of Uriel's gesture as a warning gesture, indicating to men
however, is not at rest, but in majestic movement. This must be so,
the garment woven out of Sun-gold and shot through with the
that is effected by the plastic, formative forces of nourishment. At
to expression in man as movement and the power of will, enabling him
warning mien and gesture — and, drawing near to men and
men their way. That is the picture up above.
loving look and his gesture of benediction, weaving his garment of
judgment and warning, at the side of men: the positions are reversed.
eyes of men in the same direction, as he stands close to mankind, the
complement of Raphael, in spring.
on the nourishment to Raphael, and it then becomes a means of
healing element in the breathing system, which lies between the
in man they become the forces of movement.
— the golden vessels of nourishment, of healing, of the forces
of thought and of movement. So these golden vessels move on from one
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the activity of blood and nerves. This would be an inner enjoyment to your
from this inner enjoyment of our own blood and nerve-activity, otherwise
would experience this inner self-enjoyment. But man, as he has become,
may not have this enjoyment, and the secret of why he may not, we again
such an inner enjoyment. In the perception of any object in the outer
in the inner enjoyment of ourselves — to get beyond the senses,
rather deeper into himself, is a self-enjoyment, a real true
self-enjoyment. This is why in a certain sense it produces a higher
is in general but a finer development of the organic life, a refinement
more refined existence that self-enjoyment afforded us by eating, drinking
a refined inner enjoyment arises: and this is their clairvoyance.
is nothing else but a refined, rarified, hothouse-like after-enjoyment
in parenthesis, people have not yet lost the enjoyment experienced under
the influence of the coarser, let us say — more selfish enjoyment:
lives in a cyclic, rhythmic movement. And the materialistic age, because
passing of self-enjoyment into the senses, nerves, and blood-circulation,
within a relatively short time. We have but to look at an hotel menu-card
life has made in refined enjoyment, in the self-gratification of our
to a certain point and must then return, so mere physical enjoyment
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nerves. This would be an inner enjoyment of your own blood and
nerve activity. But during our life on earth this inner enjoyment
we did we would experience this inner self enjoyment. But man, as
he has become, may not have this enjoyment, and the secret of why
intellect, which is closely connected with such an inner enjoyment.
the inner enjoyment of ourselves, to get beyond the senses, but
into himself, is a self-enjoyment, truly a real self-enjoyment.
development of the organic life, a refinement of what a man
more refined existence that self-enjoyment afforded us by eating,
not work formatively, so in many people a refined inner enjoyment arises,
else but a refined, rarified, hothouse-like after-enjoyment of
have not yet lost the enjoyment experienced under the influence of the
coarser, let us say more selfish enjoyment; they can still live with
rhythmic movement. And the materialistic age, because it has
self-enjoyment into the senses, nerves, and blood-circulation — can
hotel menu card from the 70's, and compare it with one of
today, and we see what strides life has made in refined enjoyment,
must then return, so mere physical enjoyment must recede when it
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Die Polaritaet von Dauer und Entwicklung Im Menschenleben. Die kosmische
Vorgeschichte der Menschheit. Another name for this lecture is,
Die Polaritaet von Dauer und Entwicklung Im Menschenleben.
Die kosmische Vorgeschichte der Menschheit.
two streams of world-conceptions which we have mentioned:
with its acceptance of the polarity in World-phenomena, Above
in ouch a way that men's visions of the Spiritual world were in
stand on a firm substantial point. On the other hand, a men is
has a certain courage. One would not perhaps need to mention so
him. Every tine you go to sleep until the moment of waking, the
but also reality, because one knew those moments of sleeping
moment of the pre-Christian era. You must hear in mind that the
man and his development.
phenomena connected with our present Moon, that camp-follower,
various phenomena connected to-day with the present Moon, with
time which preceded our earthly development.
earthly development which has now become the most important
scientifically-thinking men. What we think and feel in our
become external reality, like that of our environment, in our
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Stilformen des Organisch-Lebendigen
which is to stand as a promise that into the recent development
were experiencing a critical moment in that spiritual
development which, some of us for a long time already, and some
historical moment in our movement, when we set ourselves to
year, while our movement gradually took shape within them. The
longing of our movement to build its own sanctuary arose
movement and the spirit that pervades it. And from this arose
the other thought, of realising our spiritual movement in the
visible representation of our spiritual movement. But to
been bound up with contemporary spiritual movements, and
find that the achievement of this pure Greek architectural
to his tremendous question about humanity: What powers are
those which are active from the moment of the earth's
earth. And as an external embodiment of this gift of the Spirit
liberty, in such movements as that of Zwingli, Huss, and others
feelings. We see introduced into the pillars, into the element
elementary power has vanished. Here we go along colonnades
terms. Certainly humanity was always aware that monumental art
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men and women. You formed an idea of each one of these persons,
head; they perceived and felt their whole head. These men did
memory-picture and the experience, similarly these men related
became a matter of great moment to him. The way in which he was
had to bring the environment of the Earth, all that is above
heart experiences, which were experiences of the environment of
conscious and aware of their own humanity in the movement of
themselves were within the movements. And in this expansion of
have a picture of what lives in the Earth's environment. In
came into the Earth's environment and then into the starry
in the environment of the Earth, in his limbs he was in the
possible for man. Alas for us, poor men of to-day, who can
signs. And from this habit, so naturally acquired by men in
olden times, has arisen the whole custom of making monuments
we were but honest, we should have to admit that we modern men
are however the relics of the ancient monuments and signs put
memory first made its appearance which we with our lamentable
content and, bearing within it the mysteries of the environment
development of civilisation between the Atlantean
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later and decadent period) was an age of men altogether
differently constituted from the men of later times. And the
we to-day call our physical environment, was the lowest portion
environment was permeated through and through with Spirit,
the rivers; but I live also with the elemental beings of the
Oriental felt the whole of Nature penetrated with the elemental
these dream-pictures man experienced the elemental spirits of
there, even during this Asiatic evolution. By day, then, men
Men
elemental spirits of the earth, water, air and fire, — in
There were however moments when the sleeper would feel: An
were present — were experienced by all men. And many,
through a special endowment of Nature, experienced also the
would be initiates. But the moment the people recognised you as
Compare this with the conceptions men have to-day. How far is
history over the whole of Asia. Whilst men had as I have
enslavements. Undoubtedly that appears to many people as
still sometimes occur, men have an uneasy conscience about
enslavement of its population is a salient feature of the
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nourishment, with the process of breathing, he receives
— part of him. So that at every moment of life he was
that historic document
Sumerian documents of which fragments remain.]
sprang so truly and naturally out of the whole mental and
development in the human soul life of that time.
sought enlightenment; and it came about that these Spiritual
Powers inflicted a certain punishment upon the city.
consider the later life and development of the personality who
receives intuitions and enlightenment from Eabani, and so
and from that moment the problem of immortality began to play
wisdom ruled among men.
their knowledge. Men went about the Earth in order to receive
To-day men may travel to Africa, to Italy, — and yet,
received a certain enlightenment; although, as is always the
enlightenment might be doubtful in some respects. Nevertheless
a degree of enlightenment was there, a certain insight into the
the enlightenment he had received was almost entirely
described and who together bring to expression the mental and
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exist on a human being. For the moment a finger is separated
men of that time, and how they afterwards experienced a
his environment, — in all the things, that is to say, to
fundamentally, everything which surrounds us in the world of
tragedy that men of that time suffered in their preparation for
Men shrink in terror before what inner development actually
knowledge. And so once more they came to a great moment when
could make an indentation into the statue; but the moment one
immediate environment. If man would know the secrets of the
sublime experience that came to men in the Mysteries of
how his “word” looks in the element of air; and
place in the element of air.
into the whole watery element that permeates the human
speech is accompanied by feelings. If the watery element in the
upwards in the direction of the head, goes the element of
it was not then the air element, but the watery element, the
fluid element — which I described yesterday as a
volatile, fluid albumen — that had this wavelike
once the volatile, fluid element, the albumen which surrounded
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in the evolution of the West, I had to mention also this
more are these Wise Men or Priests in a position to call forth
guide the events and phenomena of Earth. The Gods were
North-West, where the Spirits of the element of Water held
Ephesus. There was still alive in men of that time a vision and
of the elementary spirits in Nature, and the working of the
in the watery element — coming to life, fading away,
Men
he had folded the Earth about with a garment of plant growth,
took from him the watery-airy plant element that he was able,
entering into this experience men felt themselves intimately
Earth, men came into a special relation with the God
development.
to clothe the trees in bark. There was always a moral element
Gods, where the Gods bestowed upon men through the priests what
That was the fundamental feeling that took rise in the Greek
connection the human being has with his own childhood. The men
sublime and tremendous experience that was possible in these
‘experiments’ as it were, in Autumn, — another only in
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Setting aside for the moment what went on in the inner places
to a world where men are no longer able to grasp in their soul
to pass on the Earth below. The Gods worked on the will of men,
inspired from the Gods. Gods willed: men carried it into
moment we will pass by this period. Then follows the age that
Men
friends, what a tremendous change we have here! Think how the
although most men are not at all alive to the fact, another
not receive it as men who understood the Mysteries, otherwise
suggestively on men, making it possible for them to behold the
world exactly as the men of ancient Atlantis had seen it.
came to pass that were later made known to men in the Gospels
by the way of tradition. But in the moment when the tragedy of
very moment it was known and beheld clairvoyantly in the
Jerusalem. Men came to know of it, not through tradition but by
the study of it could still continue. Here too, the wise men of
exception. Do but make the experiment of reading first Plato
they were and come into Middle and Southern Europe. Men would,
these places came men like
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under the heading of what the chemist calls the elements.
still to make use of it. But later on, save for a few men like
Until the time of the last great revolution in men's
men were keenly alive to the difference between such metals as
these we have mentioned, that are found when we examine
organism. The men of these earlier times said: Man is a
the being of man. And a disturbing element enters the picture
that which man receives by way of physical nourishment is only
Now, to go beyond physical nourishment and include also
the coarser measuring instruments with which to determine how
human being. And men were able in this way to know many things
it is coal; but the moment you were to take it but a short
come from the whole environment of the Earth, from the far
circumference. Imagine for a moment that you are going out and
animal or man, is albumen. And albumen also forms the basis for
organism, and the substance of the germ is albumen. In these
days, instead of pursuing true science, men build up all kinds
albumen as composed of substances in intricate chemical
albumen the example par excellence of chemical
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The Envy of the Gods and the Envy of Men
the days preceding the burning of Ephesus, when men spoke of
the Mysteries, provided they were men who had some
it was somewhat in the following way: ‘In the Mysteries men
erect places where we Gods can find the men who do sacrifice
in point of fact men of the old world, men of the old world who
meet with men; they knew how all that carries and sustains the
world depends on what takes place between Gods and men in the
be only visible for a moment in the spirit. I declare to you
real to man. If we study the period of human development that
further spiritual evolution was only possible if men became
men.
and men, must in this epoch of human freedom be played out
below in the physical life of men. We can already describe how
it is being so played out. In olden times, when men thought of
over in Palestine. Men had knowledge of it not through physical
the meeting places for Gods and men lost more and more of their
these remarkable men, living in the most simple and
unpretentious manner — men who were God-inspired,
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Anthroposophical Movement, you will allow me to give this
lecture as a supplement to the many vistas opened for us
same for years now — destructive elements on a colossal
various domains of life, we shall perceive that these men are
there sometimes arises, even in men to-day, a premonition that
happening which summons men to adopt a spirituality different
men. A kind of revolution is taking place in the Cosmos, the
Earth. One could encounter one's fellow men on the Earth in the
brought to men's consciousness in very many different ways.
Fundamentally speaking, it was this that was demanded by the
current education provides, then the souls of men would pass
be unable to bring any mental vigour into the next earthly
would be rejected by him in order to avoid mental paralysis;
and this would finally result in a race of men being born in
indicate in terms of the dialectic-empirical mentality of
the spiritual world must be spoken of openly. Men must be able
Dornach men must be able to hear of actual experiences, actual
that in their next incarnations men may be able to confront the
that civilisation in its own right can enable men to face and
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Die Polaritaet von Dauer und Entwicklung Im Menschenleben. Die kosmische
Vorgeschichte der Menschheit. Another name for this lecture is,
Die Polaritaet von Dauer und Entwicklung Im Menschenleben.
Die kosmische Vorgeschichte der Menschheit.
we really feel ourselves as men.
the world of external nature one phenomenon is linked on to
because, from the moment of sleeping until waking he is permeated
is something of which men would become aware, if he were intensely
know, Imaginative Cognition is not present. From the moment of
physical and etheric bodies as an instrument; but we cannot raise
That is the Fundamental Truth which we mast
realise. With reference to this Fundamental Truth, modern humanity,
phenomena of nature, and expressed this in his interpretation of
natural phenomena. Man to-day places his soul in his flesh and
but he considered the phenomena of nature as brought about by this
thought of these Spiritual Beings as operative in the phenomena of
development of man in pre-Christian times; he gives himself over to
able to enter into Nature, into the ordering of natural phenomena.
dream. It is of immense significance that man should at the present
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growth, only development in us as physical beings, we could
that from the moment the soul, in sleep, forsakes the natural
life of the body, from that moment the processes, activities,
that the moment of time when man is destined to unite himself
moment has been placed in the middle of winter, not in the
into the living organism as an inserted element of death
dissolving away these dead elements, all but certain remains
physical body as instrument, we must observe how in autumn
instrument. That is why when the soul is outside the body and
The moment the soul goes forth, the body becomes the world, a
instrument. And we get this idea of what the earth is
instruments. For in very truth just as we cannot work in the
development of consciousness in the time between death and a
— the development of man is gradually withdrawing more
is only from what passes away that men can acquire an insight
of the blossoms, the elementary spirits of the plants, may
enjoyment of life, but again and again we must penetrate
that it is a new element in modern culture. Any
new standpoint. Then men will begin to have an inkling of
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something which you have all known fundamentally for a long
acquiring knowledge, not with the help of the instrument of
the physical instrument, so that, as soul and spirit they
knowledge, because we must always employ the instrument of
which he could explain all the phenomena in the world. He was
mention that a really earnest spiritual movement can have no
significance, for fundamentally speaking, in our present
Breast-clairvoyance leads more to the development of the
most eminent sense to the attainment of results independent
there are also men who occupy themselves with anatomy and
within the process of cosmic and historical development, it
part of the head from the physical instrument, and is able to
we get that tinging with colour and sound I have mentioned.
laborious process of inner development he gradually gives a
matter for slow, selfless development. It must be especially
indispensable to this development. It must be emphasised
of these, and we then form our scientific judgments. This
mention one side of the matter with reference to this. We are
I especially mentioned there, that our thinking
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endeavor to point out the element in Goethe's life that
important phenomena of the advancing post-Atlantean cultural
minds of men?
presents this as his own innermost sentiment and believes that
life of Goethe as a spiritual phenomenon.
moreover, was a woman of the most spontaneous human sentiment,
say this without sentimentality — and acquire certain mystical
individuality of the innate endowments and nature of Goethe.
experienced in vital sentiments and emotions much that is
tormented and exhausted by those strenuous exercises that must
personality who immediately made a tremendous impression on
endeavor to trace the phenomena of the world from the simplest
this regard, he was able to become acquainted with men then in
Such ideas fermented in Goethe's mind in connection with what
documents at the Supreme Court in Wetzlar that were often
then as when Goethe studied the documents at the Supreme Court,
Goethe's work gave his father immense pleasure, and he shared
dusty documents. This is not to say, however, that Goethe was
lawyer as they. That can be documented, as can many things
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men are in their tendency to link cause and effect.
aspiration to know the truth in natural phenomena? Do we not
in the phenomena of nature even in this boy of six or seven!
environment, and we see how what he brought into this
sense with his person. But, in reference to certain phenomena
fundamentally concerned with the truth. In my most recent book,
Mettrie's statement that Erasmus of Rotterdam and Fontenelle
had been fools instead of wise men because of a slightly
to another case. Can you imagine, for instance, the development
nevertheless, something quite similar in them — not to mention
a rebellion against what was in his environment. His nature,
a natural phenomenon in the organism. However, we never learn to
understand a man who creates out of the elemental forces of the
environment, and since he could not have written dramas as
Here we see how a natural event seems to enter with immense
sense, from his environment, and a more complicated process
romantic involvement with Friederike, the daughter of the
In a moment peculiarly appropriate, he saw the other Goethe,
repeat over and over the statement, “Goethe is Faust and Faust
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cyclic movement. Strictly speaking, the ego and astral body are
ego with the sun, which illumines our environment during the
for the purpose of perceiving my hand's movement from within.
statement is made that, just because the ego is really so truly
the ego can bring to consciousness depends on the instrument it
within you at one moment is, in the next, outside, and then
that one cannot mention in polite society. The Frankfurt
astonishment, not only among laymen, but also among
be obtained in experiments with the other animals. Whatever, we
cannot suppress our astonishment that people are so amazed when
As a matter of fact, the enormously important achievements and
the presence of such unusual phenomena as we have mentioned,
with scientific developments. To all those who today are
the phenomenon per se. Carus continues as follows:
see, not only the phenomenon, but also its explanation has long
the proper perception, one can obviously explain such phenomena
of wisdom. The phenomena of these unusual expressions of
the world than the phenomena that are always spread out before
spiritual environment. Here you arrive at an understanding of
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people, but that in its form and time of occurrence men knew
ponders the outer universe, just as we men, while in the waking
leading position in ancient government or priestly life.
men learned from the will of the gods what was to happen here
in earthly life from the various vocations of men — to use a
the fifteenth century. If men would pay more attention today to
since the fifteenth century would cause astonishment to those
as men, we have gone successively through the Saturn evolution,
attain a fourth stage of development, just as certain processes
on Saturn have reached a fourth stage of development of earth.
the various vocations that men take up on earth. As humans
undergone a tremendous transformation since the beginning of
sort of outlook is opened to us by this fact? Fundamentally, it
is that men must increasingly lose interest, as we can readily
his outer work. Anyone who observes the historic development of
humanity will certainly discover to what a large extent the men
increasingly of men that they excel in special fields and
development. There outside of men is the organism, the
detachment, vocational activity grows increasingly into
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these reflections on the segment of human life that is formed
special comment is in order here if, in the word vocation, we
subsume individual human elements from a life's destiny. In
transformed, but the things we must mention here relative to
mentioned, has become, let us say, a minister or councilor of
were not for the immense influence of present public opinion
area, too, scientific development has arrived at a point where
disillusionment in life and other things that have been
sediment. A theologian recently called it somewhat coarsely —
disillusionments, suppressed appetites, ruined life plans, “the
psychoanalysis, which according to the view of these men and
women is not to be found there, but theosophy and other things
also mentioned in this connection. Well, I really did not want
through the portal of death into the next development on earth.
the region of the elemental. Yet it is of great importance to
this plays a significant role in our life from the moment of
not form our judgments so superficially. It might well be that
mentioning these things I simply wanted to indicate how much
between birth and death. Here he or she is really an instrument
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correctly put himself into the nature of those phenomena that
have mentioned in a different connection, Friedrich Theodor
Permit me to mention him here simply as an example of some
such defects in the educational system are mentioned.
world and chose precisely his environment. It wanted to have
necessarily to it. Merely to condemn the mechanical element has
sentiment in this heart. On the one hand, he is a man fully
discovered and included in a supplement to one of his novels,
he creates wholly from the requirements of modern life. It is
entered a government ministry where he was also a remarkable
government ministry, could not take it amiss when he was given
can make quite significant comments on it.
than the one I have just mentioned, who wrote various things
person lived in the same environment as the man whom I have
tremendously. He decided to study the documents again and had
shows us how the striving of men tends in the direction of
meets with many obstacles, especially today because men have
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enough to constitute the basis for a real judgment of life. We will
the vocations a person is destined to have also mention
inherited characteristics when they wish to pass judgment on
division of human development between birth and death into
body then passes through its development.
therefore, that what is essential in human development after
time, in the way he walks, in the movements of his hands, in
because they only consider a fragment of reality, one that
with the education and development of the human being, and also
development — let us say from the third to the seventh
and playing its role in their environment. This does not
development of the spirit of the time will become increasingly
growing within us. In earlier ages men could face life without
environment. Such was John Stuart Mill,
in his environment. He wanted to answer the question that
fundamentally the same thing in his. According to him, the soul
type works toward levelling and rendering all men equal in the
this fifth post-Atlantean epoch in which men in their social
Chinese entity in which men will become the “pressed caviar” of
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our feelings and sentiments that may enable us to look upon
instruments, was also familiar with geometry and mathematics,
himself through his accomplishments, he no longer felt entirely
mention the following authenticated fact; it was related by a
speak with these gentlemen concerning thoughts and those life
can in great part save, since I obtain a large supplementary
requirement was that he deliver lectures on the occasions when
well, indeed. Even poets, noblemen, and princes honored him and
in genuine disillusionment. He had thoroughly tasted the
music, played the lute and other string instruments well, was
immense importance for the evolution of the earth, but it has
of time. I mentioned this a week ago. But what, then, really is
karmas take? One of them became a poet whose achievements were
fundamental laws of the occult conception of the world knew
In particular, you will find in it a neat definition of women
and men. The author says that women represent in their peculiar
characteristics a greater tendency to spirituality, whereas men
according to this statement, spirituality is a weakness of
women! The author then finds that certain crazy psychologists
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mineral, and elemental kingdoms within the earthly world. It is
environment. When an individual passes through the portal of
by such men? Do they really have a conception of God when they
establish harmony among men on earth; thus they are also, in a
has immense practical significance and is most important
because it bears within it a certain germ in that men speak of
god has become most conspicuous. Humanity has been fragmented
important statement because a man really lives in an untruth
picture those false ways upon which men enter because of this
luciferic angel, it is a confusion in belief, in acknowledgment
know perfectly well that the clever men of the present will, of
does, what men do in their relationships, could cause events to
occur in the elemental sphere. But the time is not far distant
when men will believe this simply because they will be able to
mention of it. For instance, the following may occur. Someone
along with others we have already mentioned, we must say that,
men had an entirely different significance for the rest of
evolution that could gradually return to men what originally
say, “I am the Word.” This is the Christ. But men must first
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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 —
primarily concerns human society. We will now have to mention
with the truth of an essential element in the Mystery of
argumentation since it is justifiable and must first be
Testament. In the so-called “Fall of Man,” the image of Lucifer
representations of religious documents.
what men possessed at an earlier time as an atavistic wisdom,
that we may call ancestral cults. Such cults in which men look
nature of the most ancient ancestral cults was such that men
Men
angels, but to man. In order to save men from praying to earthly
was necessary that He should be seen, like the phenomena of
ways, not through the mere development of one's inner being,
before us only the maya of natural phenomena, so are we
man had gradually lost this superhuman element and had
descended all the way to being human. The superhuman element
being the truth of the statement, “What thou dost to the least
Then one also sees all concepts and ideas that separate men
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mankind's development passed at the time of the Mystery of
We know how differently men perceived and experienced before
men did not look up to the starry heavens in the way they do
today. We know how men now look at the stars and say: other
also having their planets. And if men notice what kind of
space. Before the Mystery of Golgotha men knew that the Sun
thus spoken of in physics is only one element of the whole
the wise men of Greece called the universal good of the
And with this three foldness then seen in the Sun, the men
element' comes into human evolution. The Greeks, for
the development of Christianity (as it is called) a veil was
to keep men as far as possible from knowledge of the
Take a phenomenon that forces itself on the attention of any
us in the world men of learning in the most various spheres.
their own sphere. Men today do not willingly see into these
instruct other men, unable to avail themselves of the sources
Egyptian people. He gives these men instruction also
antiquity. It is the part of these men to take all this on
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whole of human life, including man's development between
in their development, and will not be so until the earth has
happened, so what one can jot down of the movements of arms,
remarkable patterns on which men's secret inclinations are
A Fragment of the Jewish Haggada.]
our head means to have a headache. Men only know about their
moments of sleep-life that otherwise would pass in
reality, I should have to do so in four dimensions, so I can
mentioned it also in the notes at the end of my last book
These are the senses of warmth, life, balance, movement and
movement, touch, smell, taste, sight; then you will have
And with these connections, the wise men of the Old Mysteries
agree that men believe that, shall we say, for two hundred
years they have been thinking a tremendous deal. We can
of the ideals of the age of enlightenment to that of the
about the various ideals, men have been thinking during these
centuries, these last two centuries; this has formed men's
filling men's heads farther removed from the great cosmic
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Die Wissenschaft vom Werden des Menschen.
everyday life; certain men die young, others in old age,
life must receive enlightenment when we can really get down
Men still had
century. Men had concepts that came down out of ancient
cultural life of the earth giving men, in conformity with the
here mentioned. What today we call science cannot connect the
is something in them for which men should be seeking a
cosmic space. But behind this sun the wise men of old saw the
for example, with the Good. Modern men do not see any real
fundamentally this kind of representation of the Sun that
for the modern western man to picture. Even today men of the
instrument of the soul-life, of the thinking. The reverse is
therefore is emptier than empty, that is the instrument of
mention of what this soul-and spirit man consists. just as in
development. Development in a backward sense can be seen in
development in time. Many mysteries lie in this particular
their development in time, can be really one and the same
his theory of metamorphosis began in an elementary way to
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Goetheschen Metamorphosenanschauung im Bereich der menschlichen Bewegung
der menschlichen Bewegung
the Art of Movement in Space carried out by individuals and
positions. These movements are not mere gestures, nor are
Art, having as its instrument Man himself, and its movements
are absolutely in accordance with law. The movements which
expression of Goethe. But in speech those inner movements,
or, better, those underlying principles of movement which it
transformed into finer vibratory movements which by means of
plant as a unit originates from the right development of what
organic functions and development and then transformed into
other organs of speech — into movements carried out by
living larynx in movement, as it were, we get a
movement of the arms, for instance, and a certain emotion of
you find in our Eurhythmy the logical sequence of movements.
then expressed by the movements of individuals. This visible
musical element to be found in it. When recitation or
element, the rhythm, the metre, and the inner form of the
other is the pedagogic, didactic element, shall I call it.
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only mention that human beings, with reference to their
previous development. You find this evolution described In my
cosmic environment and of his own life.
wisdom, men are really becoming all the more dependent upon
products of nature with the instruments transmitted from the
course of development as the proper course laid down for
with a movement of his hand, for the simple reason that it is
one time, lived in the feelings of men in the East. But one
men's consciousness. With that wisdom, created out of the
working-man, of world phenomena. There what rests an the
merely remind ourselves of a certain phenomenon, in order to
and he saw in the production and enjoyment of Beauty, (thus
intellectual element, to a recognition of truth,
follow everywhere the path of these three elements in the
is after all, the same element that lives in art; that is,
the element of truth. That same element which is expressed in
inserted into the intellectual-utility-element, just as in
the Centre a kind of ethical element is cultivated, and
century into the Aesthetic element has come over from the
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development when a human being pursues the normal course of
looks out into his environment, he sees nothing but the
fundamentally involved in the forming of abstract thought.
for a moment that any element of the life of the
contained in this external world. Elementary beings,
his outer environment.
of course, the Elemental Spirits who have remained at lower
the development of something absolutely real, an impulse that
to-day, men prefer to have this emptiness inwardly and the
validity of thought when it has been proved by experiment and
the minds of men to unworldly abstractions and is silent an
heart is the outward expression of this; the movement reveals
expression of this whole system of movement.
outer world. I mention this in order to bring home to you
development, has been stifled and suppressed for many long
that is to say, fundamental principles of education and of
thing these religions want is the development of inner
less because it shines from the bodies of men? You will begin
in the thought that you and your fellow men are bearers of
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Menschenseele!
Im Menschen-Welten-Wesen.
Das hören die Elementargeister in Ost, West, Nord, Süd:
Menschen mögen es hören.
Menschenseele!
Im Menschen-Seelen-Wirken.
In den Weltenrhythmen Seelen-begnadend;
Das hören die Elementargeister in Ost, West, Nord, Süd:
Menschen mögen es hören.
Menschenseele!
In Menschen-Geistes-Gründen.
Das horen die Elementargeister in Ost, West, Nord, Süd:
Menschen mögen es hören.
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La Piedra Fundamental – Meditación – ofrecida por Rudolf Steiner
Fundamental es de Frank Thomas Smith (SouthernCrossReview.org) y
La Piedra Fundamental – Meditación – ofrecida por Rudolf Steiner
Fundamental es de Frank Thomas Smith
y vivirás verdaderamente
Oyen esto los espíritus elementales
y sentirás verdaderamente
Oyen esto los espíritus elementales
que desde los fundamentos eternos
y pensarás verdaderamente
Oyen esto los espíritus elementales
de enero de 1924 en el Boletín de la Sociedad, no menciona a las
jerarquías espirituales, y está enteramente en alemán, al contrario
Cuenta Günther Schubert: “Ella [Marie Steiner] habló recientemente
Fundamental de 1923. Al final, atenuó la invocación directa a las
si uno será lo suficientemente fuerte para soportarlo.” (GA 260,
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The elemental spirits
May men hear it too.
The elemental spirits
May men hear it too.
The elemental spirits
May men hear it too.
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Das Raetsel des Menschen.
Das Raetsel des Menschen.
too late. This is a grave statement but it must be made. At the present
a fundamental truth to which reference has been made in recent lectures,
we acquire is to enable us to have mental pictures of the external world,
nourishment.’ He would, in other words, be investigating the nature
nourishment. He would be trying to discover the reason why certain constituents
like men who investigate a grain of wheat from the point of view of
its value in the nourishment of human beings. There is a fundamental
mental pictures of the things of the external world. The process of
forming mental pictures of the external world is just as secondary a
as we use grains of wheat for the purpose of nourishment. But remember,
from the stream of wheat-development taken as a whole, so, during our
for the purpose of grasping the phenomena of the outer world, we divert
of his inner development. But even the Greeks applied less of their
powers for the purpose of inner development than the ancient Egyptian
as the grain of wheat that is used as substance for nourishment is diverted
our being of a very great deal, and an adjustment must be brought about
Spirits who receive their nourishment from it—all the knowledge
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evident — from the moment of waking up to the moment of
our body with our Ego and our soul, in an environment, which
extraordinarily significant moment in the evolution of
encounter an obstacle, particularly in the present moment of
human evolution, unless we bear in mind the development
development without any clear thoughts. At that time
differently the men of earlier epochs regarded education in the
very elementary development of the thinking forces. Oriental
moment of waking up to the moment of falling asleep, he felt
this was not clearly realised; only those men who were
great majority of men did hot realise this, yet they
men felt in one another, and they brought about the obedience
have often mentioned that now people imagine that everything
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substances or of the physical phenomena which we can perceive
lifeless object we can see a soul-element, a spiritual
element, so that we can also speak of a soul and spirit
external physical development. The vegetable kingdom is then
way in which we have thoughts concerning our environment, when
INTERPENETRATE, continue their development separately and again
streams of development — the vegetable consciousness and
the cycle which is connected with the development of the
connected with the development of the Understanding or
soul? If we go back still further, we come to the development
development.
body as an instrument of perception. This brought us to the
during the epoch of human development when the astral body
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liquid there are finely dissolved those solid parts, mentioned before,
to meet the astral on the waves of the watery, is of immense importance
this in turn; what, as radiation of the watery element in connection
then we can say: the head-organism in its whole development, in all
subjective phenomena will come about, that people with sick kidneys
development.
at the present moment. But these processes in the metabolic-limb system
head. We are continuously attacked in our quiet development by
come about just as well. Then those phenomena appear, which present
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this time. Man needs nourishment to sustain himself. He has to take
takes into himself from the outer environment undergoes a very powerful
exists in our environment. Let us look at first other things, which
where our foods have undergone a certain inner development until they
the nourishment inside us, must come from us. And this happens on the
receives, as nourishment driven to the point where it is taken up into
forth from the kidney-system (as mentioned before, the rounding forces
this is to try to dam the too strong development of radiating inner
it. Most people cannot take the real spiritual element. Therefore they
to the formation of the development of membranes and the whole digestive
his disappointment that this, which was being worked out inside the
way works into the astral organism, because in that moment the kidney
does not work in the right way, then all the phenomena that follow up
where our present age, the real epoch of development of the consciousness
so that one knows how such transformations regarding outer phenomena
of today. Those, I mean, were the writers of the Old Testament, where
(Tumpheit). And this development from Tumpheit to
a culture that has become heavy. One cannot quite get him in movement.
the same time to illuminate the different human connections. Men of
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of the old wise men and takes them seriously, one indeed comes to realize
the phenomenon that a person experienced the decay of his organs in
through this treatment to place the whole ether body into the right
that today, also, it must be said: light has a tremendous strong influence
how frequently rickets occurs among children who live in city apartments,
During that old light-filled age, which preceded our dark age, men were
worthy of appreciation by men of olden times. They differentiated between
that is, could combat death — through observation and treatment
how it expresses itself in the temperaments; that one began to look
from this world” in its inner consistency and one knew fundamentally
making a diagnosis of, let us say, an enlargement of the heart. He does
his organism after seven years. But I also mentioned last time how this
on too fast, such phenomena as an enlargement of the heart occurs. First
and foremost you can detect in the beginning of an enlargement of the
one must learn to see things in living movement. That is what confronts
— it is constantly in movement, Therefore if I want to comprehend
the right way that everything should be grasped in movement. (diagram
men were “earthworms” in regard to the cosmos. It cannot
But now I tell you: men
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impulse that must cause a powerful social movement to take
the dead are not understood by them. Many thoughts that men
pronounced judgment; to have judged, to pass
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conception of the circular movement from left to right, the
fundamental concrete conception. But “Spirit
think, if from one side only it is mentioned that the human
and observe him in his movements, the way he acts, you no
finds most men of today—if you will allow me to say
so—sluggards, men who go round with their hands in
thinking is just to be slovenly. But most men are that today.
keep in sight the deeper essentials of human development from
(which I have already mentioned here as essential for future
words comes to expression. And men can find their way back to
Few men are
the same movement in eurhythmy. It is no arbitrary matter
very strongly, very powerfully with the development of our
development. During this fifth post-Atlantean period speech
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this problem is intimately connected with the fundamentals of
Spiritual Science have a special inducement to regard this
behind the social movement. On the other hand, however, these
fundamentally, to concentrate their gaze on the fundamentals.
movement, and for this it is necessary to make ourselves
acquainted with certain fundamental facts without knowledge
what they will. But in the age of the development of the
development of the consciousness soul. Therefore much will
flow into the social movement which, begun half a century
understanding? That must live in the hearts of men and must
other hand, language plays in men's international operation
prevails among men. Today let us spend a little time on
speech. As I mentioned yesterday we had three periods of
turning our attention to the development of language, till
now we, as earthly men, have developed a certain inclination
the esoteric development of the individual man. What I am now
Imagination for esoteric development: but the folk genius
developed which men can see as their ideal economic life. But
necessary for men to work towards what should be achieved in
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spiritual depth, that statements concerning Spiritual Science are made
judgment entirely in accordance with their own knowledge. It is not
judgement comes about merely because one refuses to go into the sources
contemporaries in the direction where we have to look for the improvement
world, which can appear to men as a reality and not merely as something
to be disclosed through a sum of concepts. Today most men prefer to
present world situation. For there are men who understand how to estimate
of the times better than people outside the Anthroposophical Movement.
Movement would feel moved by what is so critical in the present state
from the point of view of frontiers is also discussed among men today,
to that of the migration of peoples. The tempo has been tremendously
date. The danger has not diminished, but since all his arguments were
At the same time, however, we may not forget that just those men who,
to succeed the old deluded ideas? It is just such men who immediately
That is the tragedy, the fearful destiny, of our time, that men indeed
necessity for reshaping the ideas that were unable to save men from
this dreadful catastrophe? No! He would say that were men to turn again
barrel. This is the reverse of what is able to lead men to a sound attitude
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of men and so on. Only a deep understanding of things can help to clear
I said that on certain points, compared with many of the statements
very fundamental observation, the temptations arising from the scholarly
be underrated. It is true that if men have sufficient power of discriminations
appreciated, far too little heeded by men—in this chaos many different
to make you familiar with the kind of judgment about some particular
anywhere in the phenomenal world, there lives the divine, that, in a
of phenomena there is spirit, spirit, spirit. I have always called your
that where men would deceive themselves these things should play a really
recognised creed. For once we will look at the kind of pronouncements
Catholic Christian would not dare take such a path as the one recommended
by God in a way that is out of the ordinary upon men who are out of
of grace upon outstanding men and may not be striven after, accouding
a certain enhancement of the general life of the soul which does not
bring men to any extra-ordinary faculty but to a raising og the faculties
and its Attainment. He would say: man strives for special faculties
his behaviour, only an enhancement, as it were, a facility in becoming
world ground him just as rhynical men with his physical senses, sees
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from many sides today to the detriment of present knowledge as well
to his fellow men, the old relation no longer being suitable, so that
relationship with merely the outer manifestation of his fellowmen. Life
to men of the present time. For the present age is a very critical one
for men on earth. Up to the fifteenth century, and, since things do
sense rather out of the ordinary where the evolution of men is concerned.
throughout the old Indian end old Persian development, and so on, ever
fellow men. He is not surrounded by the real beings into whom he must,
a great deal about man's attitude to his environment, though insufficient
with the animal and human kingdoms. Unconsciously men already have,
fear of the truth which always unconsciously holds men back from really
body men remain—even the most advanced of them—where what
smell of which I have spoken and, forgive me, the childishness of men,
nose in our physical men, the etheric nose not being sufficiently developed.
And the childishness of men does not allow us to confess its presence
because , as men, we are too conceited to do so. Yet this is how the
and men. And the beings he would directly perceive in their whole constitution
to the insensitive men of today as sophistry, must gradually become
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will become increasingly so for all men, to learn to understand the
it but jumped back, thus men would jump away from the spiritual world.
perfectly well known to us, namely, how we as men behave when we bear
we should bear in mind that our body is tremendously rich between going
with the instrument of the physical body. In actual fact a tremendously
one of tremendous richness. But this life does not cease when we wake
of our environment through our body—and this is a very pertinent
reality with our environment has the strength of the sunlight, and what
us, we must also perceive our environment through what results in a
unable directly to face what in reality we experience of our environment.
As men we are actually as if we were blinded by a sunbeam and what we
have referred must be borne in mind. Fundamentally it is not very difficult
he says to himself: The joys, the exhilarating moments of life I accept
brought me these exhilarating moments of joy. But all that I know comes
systematic way that is recommended, for example, in my book Knowledge
of the attitude of soul existing among men today, there can be excellent
of our physical environment can be particularly well understood. It
to as the thinking about nature and natural phenomena. It is on this
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certain time by livingly re-uniting Himself with earthly development.
We could speak of this point in paradox—had men not taken upon
way we characterise one of those great, fundamental contradictions life
of time, in a little mentioned province of the world-wide Roman Empire,
man arises out of the becoming and the weaving of the phenomena of nature,
coming into being bring the moral too into the development of mankind.
really grasp the Old Testament but the essential innermost being weaving
existence. A believer in the Old Testament must look upon the Jahve-God
the Old Testament is thought of as the contrast between the Jahve-Impulse
divine. Both of these, however, had reached their highest point of development.
that such a refinement of spirituality, such a height in the conceptual
a straight-forward ascending development as the modern theory of evolution
these two streams flowing—the one to the highest outer development
and at the very time one is coming to this highest outer development
the other is coming to its greatest inner development. And at the same
time men have arrived on the one hand at a certain height, where the
reduced to nil, the moment the pendulum has swung out as far to the
moment pagan and Jewish culture had reached their zenith the force that
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and will use every moment possible to be together in spirit with one
follow only with sorrow, what our Anthroposophical development wills.
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
forth in an ever clearer and richer stream for men. For this very reason
body we have to count on our body as an instrument. Man would simply
life we were indeed the very men we now call forefathers) these men
than that of today. They were more instinctive beings. And the men of
external arrangements (recently I have given an account of these in
nature. And it is only honourable to admit that the farther men progress
in the development of this intellect—and development in the consciousness
age is pre-eminently development of the intellect—the more incomprehensible
and more a going back—the greater the development of the intellect
development. It was for this reason also that in a certain sense historically
Christ came once again, united Himself with the men who peopled the
but for the moment the personality of soul and spirit of Goethe. It
upon this monstrous phenomenon in human events, where the world is reedy
inclination mankind has today for forming unprejudiced judgment on this
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should be made the centre of the movement for Spiritual Science from
which the movement it was built for could have been carried on. There
position Spiritual Science or Anthroposophy claims in the whole development
the historical development of mankind. One of these, which has achieved
its greatest intellectual development in the last few centuries, can
be traced back to what we may call the Old Testament outlook on the
the one stream of human development. And this still holds good up to
the present day in the modern development of this stream.
the establishment relationship with the inartistic element of the present
case the thought element, the intellectual, is principally developed.
our most recent times. Or, on the other hand, the element which is to
be found in the imaginative may be cultivated, the element of vision,
relation with this latter element. It revives bygone styles, old methods
been a great disadvantage in another sense to the development of modern
of humanity there is something of the Jehovah-striving of the Old Testament,
our civilised life will never be raised until men's hearts are once
development of humanity. The very shape of the building impresses you
with the sense of something new making its way into the development
quite originally and elementally, out of the intuitive thinking.
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something that has a new element to be brought into the evolution of
development in the configuration in the capitals of the columns as well
grown out of the architecture. That is the fundamental principle upon
if you attach exaggerated importance to the nomenclature which as a
and that nomenclature is from a certain standpoint justifiable. But
to abide by such nomenclature would of course be most inartistic. The
that which is to come after. Through the entire development here neither
element. Now we shall see the third pillar by itself. (5A)
essential new element that has been brought into the idea of this Building.
how forms which are in living movement grow through and grow out of
grown out of the previous one. Follow the development further so that
Then you would get a development which is really modelled from nature
a mysteriously complicated element (see the red line). So that the later
most perfect result in the development of the organic creation and that
to understand a certain inward power of development that we must learn
of the world with its dead element, with its destructive element containing
appear new and young make nothing but sentimental and vogue claims.
to go to sleep. There is much too pronounced an attitude among men for
to sleep a bit, we can dream a little, one can be a sentimental mystic.
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we see that this fundamental principle to draw forth all that is pictorial
from colour, can really only be at the very beginning of its development.
artistic feeling certainly will only be admitted by him who has a presentiment
that in this world each element represents a creative whole. If we have
Blue, for instance will always help if we wish to express movement,
the elemental beings which develop their forms of themselves out from
in the arrangement of the Building, which strives to give an understanding
course entirely derived from the colour; yet it also forms an element
in that, with the commencement of the fifth post-Atlantean civilisation
characteristic of our age. Of the real fundamental character of this
seeking few men as yet are conscious. Since the 15th century we have
he who to-day is not himself dead, as most learned men are in soul,
which is already the youth of the next planetary embodiment of the earth.
of the inner soul-development is painted in the small dome. Of course
is just what must be overcome. There are many more elementary impressions
Persian period, continued its development in the Goethean period of
Sea northwards into Europe, and this Initiation-stream reaches its fulfilment
in temperament, in character and the joyous inclination towards that
temperament of man but are no longer human as such.
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colourless theory. In the souls of men in the earlier
of healing was associated in men's s minds with a profoundly
And you yourself, a young men then,
parchments, from books, ma calls the mood that has come over
Some venerable parchment then if you unroll
this moment. When we consider all that we meet with in Faust,
been completely revolutionised, a real soul-development has
look at the external phenomena of the outside world, but to
absolutely characterises the two men, After Faust has dreamed
simple phenomenon Faust sees also something spiritual.Let us
must be; but fundamentally we are concerned with what is
line, for whoever goes through spiritual development Faust
Testament. And the way in which he does so is a wonderful
particular moment. Those who know the workings of the deeply
represented as deep wisdom by the learned gentlemen who quote
men bandy about truth and error when they undertake much a
By the first line a moment tarry,
in his true form. He then calls up the four elements and
fundamentally self-knowledge, a self-knowledge that Goethe
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the whole development of the Faust poem. It is indeed
all this followed her confinement. She lost her reason,
pretty considerable knowledge of the commentaries on
and that those connected with that are thoroughly bad men. He
just evil men with a very evil doctrine. Then one of the two,
could sit in concealment. At a given signal he beheld a very
night of April 30) rub themselves with a certain ointment
obtain information about the mixing of the magic ointment any
not recommended to those who, like Franz in Hermann Barr's
Moon, that unites itself with the former Moon-element, when
is man's element; the Will-o'-the-wisps, issuing from the
moon element still in the Earth, it is in accordance with the
world that is seen to be fluctuating, in movement, as it
he only assumes one; Faust for the moment is not in his
physical body; Will-o'-the-wisps are elemental beings who
For this deeper element Faust is seeking
elemental. The following is a wonderful passage:
not the same sense of smell as men have, neither is it a
wants to go straight — men go zigzag. So it disturbs
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spirits of men were seeking with infinite enthusiasm for
Fichte was teaching with an immense enthusiasm for knowledge.
said about Fichte both in the development of the
they are about him how he strove an elemental way to
around the Goethe. These men sought to penetrate beyond what
mind of men like Fichte, Schelling, Hegel, when I'm talking
fundamentally, even the striving after the highest may at the
he has absorbed. He lives in a living, spiritual element of
with the spiritual element of the past:
tremendous dangers surrounding him.
of them. — Fundamentally, every genuine refutation,
dramatic. Goethe strove again and again lead men beyond the
bring about, to a certain degree, Helen's embodiment. To this
of the opinion that there were certain devices enabling men
physical body but a favorable moment originates from physical
Mephistopheles, the ahrimanic element, appears. For the
forces — succeeded in his experiment, it might have
brought little men to life in his room, but then could not
of such a man. There are, of course, still men today who have
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remind yourselves of how the moment Mephistopheles mentions
development of his Faust.
happen to Faust in the moment that this higher mystery is
moment that the threshold is passed everything is in constant
movement, and the world of the senses rises out of all this
continual movement like petrified forms.
this world so penetrated by movement — the imaginative world
prepares himself beforehand in the female element. And we
to what goes on up to the moment when impregnation takes
intellect, with which men perceives the world of the senses,
significant factor in Faust is development.
mention in Plutarch of how the world has a triangular form.
completed its development. The polaric 7, Hyperborean 7,
But in the next moment that has flowed away water has water
together yourselves out of any elementary book on physics.
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phenomena of Birth and Death entered the heart and mind of
the problem of Evil. In Atlantean time the phenomena of Birth
epoch far more vividly and directly, in a far more elemental
fundamentally speaking, was after all but a faint repetition
What I have said in this moment need only be envisaged in a
fundamental premiss: that it is the task of the fifth
wonderful enhancement. No single word could be removed, where
enhancement, and you will see how Goethe emphasises the
— that is what you have in the enhancements of the
Menelaus. He appeared in Greece; and with Helena's consent
and Menelaus took Helena back with him again. That is the
acquiesce in her elopement; Paris did not elope with her, but
War was ended, Menelaus himself travelled to Egypt, and
in the last of my Mystery Plays. It is an important moment
this moment the Impulse of Evil knows it: — Those who
astrologer, with suggestive influences — I mentioned it
great errors as I mentioned recently, — all these are
characteristic error, but we could mention hundreds of others
element that works in the woman before fertilisation. This
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struggle had already been there in a more elemental, in a
their fellowmen, and thereby also upon Birth and Death. In
with the forces of Evil in an elemental way, just as they did
possible for men to bring Evil over the Earth, by exploiting
dimensions than hitherto. Even directly out of the force of
are derived out of the blood-relationship of men. Now they
are in the realm of men, and as Angel-beings who have
detriment. We have before us no mere subjective rebel against
women. Paris gave Aphrodite the prize of beauty.
a problem that gives men very much to do, and they can never
permeated by that element of which I have also told von
paradoxical when one asserts that it is good for men that
hinder its development. Therefore one should refrain from
enlightenment about itself. Think only how proud it was of
moment, what is so often said in official quarters to this
has to happen among men must also be undertaken by men. If we

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that there is anything in the course of Goethe's development
physical development between birth and death if he were only
that in the course of his earthly development he should
life I have mentioned, with what I have just been describing.
development, peculiar to man, beginning in the middle of his
development aright, we may see his struggle for
tormenting thought: “We are in the world as men,
feeling, thinking and willing as men, but we really only know
that element in knowledge which does not correspond to
further development of his poem, he undertakes to show what
— what he believed the men of his circle actually
nearer Greece and had to live as a man among Greek men. Helen
— as a Greek and the most beautiful of Greek women, as
dim apprehension that became at the same time a torment for
fundamentally very far from all that lives and weaves in the
springs than do his waking moments.
instance what used to be called the elements. Today we call
spiritual nature, something of the essence of the elemental
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science today can never pronounce judgment on anything beyond
consciousness there also lies a very great deal of what a men
asleep. For even en little reflection will show you that men
say that not only do men dream during their waking hours,
his waking life, very often there are moments when he
dreaming. Because men have so little inner, technical
one-sided. And men's heads are bound to be full of this
element that is by no means chaotic, it is merely different,
connection. From the moment you begin to fall asleep till you
to send thoughts to innumerable people. The union between men
rule if anyone has evil thoughts about you. On the whole, men
relation to the world and to men; they would also be stern
these earth-lives, as men we passed through earlier stages of
reasons already mentioned, supersensible knowledge is of
dream-life. And the moment the Oread begins to speak to
with the world of ordinary daytime reality. The moment the
on, because he is afraid of the stormy, surging element into
world is this? Fundamentally, it is the world of the ancient
phenomena, all that has remained of a previous period of he
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possible within the course of human development, when we look
phenomena, and how he built up a botany on the basis of
give you a brief description of the primal phenomena and
theories but to the so-called primal phenomena for his
phenomenon. But it cannot be claimed that so far there has
primal phenomenon in inanimate nature when we consider how he
men, in the so-called Newtonian theory of colors — in that
investigations and experiements, what views he could form
let him keep the instruments, the apparatus, and he then set
natural phenomena. It was an outlook that rejected all
about natural phenomena, but traced back one set of natural
phenomena to another, traced them merely to primal
appearances, primal phenomena.
appear. Goethe's way was not to add to phenomena hypotheses
phenomena speak for themselves. In this way Goethe brought a
as the primal phenomenon, the simplest phenomenon, is
all theory where natural phenomena are concerned, and really
is willing to apply thinking only for assembling phenomena in
that, for the phenomena of external nature, he did not
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some tremendous change in their soul on leaving dry land for
Siren-sounds are those that entice the souls of men out of
secret of men's becoming; and the initiate it in to the holy
put men together out of Axieros standing in the middle, and
has peculiar experiences in this regard. Men come to a
movement like Spiritual Science from very different motives.
all that flows out of elemental forces. Not even in art does
objection that it is not natural, because, among men today,
beings belonging to the third elemental world, from which our
Because of this he feels men do not listen to him, do not
soul. On many occasions he has advised men, warned men; once
into which we men and women grow as we become old. There you
such fundamental knowledge, as Goethe could see what follows
fundamentally abstract. He considered that everything
difficulty of knowing the spirit is the fundamental
experience, the fundamental impulse in the soul of one who
being, the ascent into the elements, which is a finding of

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and opportunities of development. But, in addition to this,
soul only Homunculus, an elemental spirit who has come to a
knowledge acquired outside the instrument of the physical
poetry, there is a true vision of reality. And the element
world was much closer for the men of old than for the
men climbed a mountain, for instance, they did not merely
instrument, the body. The more sensitive sea-faring folk
still have this experience. But the men of old felt as a
inner development that there lies the significance of this
one-sided development, raising the human critical
telescoped into a single moment of life. In the Greek
concealed in man, in his development from the human
place, in concealment within the human being, are going on
consciously as dreamy presentiment, as the foreshadowing of a
becomes the stamen and pistil of the flower. He also believed
Metamorphosis. But Goethe could only give us the elementary
that is demonic, the elemental beings of a spiritual nature,
course of natural phenomena to the point where, as he so
of all the elements — earth, water, fire, air, all
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enjoy a poem, a work of art, in the same element in which it
of use. You see, there are two fundamental feelings at the
as the attainment of a goal if, on the one hand, he thinks as
distinguishes the man of learning who is fundamentally
germinate men's desires arising out of the life of instinct.
into action, we again come to a boundary. Fundamentally,
already referred to. Men must understand precisely from what
goal over all hindrances, disappointments and disillusions.
And whoever strives to avoid disillusionment, and refuses to
moments of life, cannot press forward to knowledge of man, to
initial stage. If we want to describe this development, we
help in time of need, to make good what men as a whole had no
to Him at the right moment.
And when it is possible for men to feel both at the same time
another. And then, as for development, one box represents the
regarded as scientific lunacy of the enlightenment period of
the human being, when a hardening process takes place in men.
expansion. Goethe sensed this in its elementary stages. Read his
then to petal, stamen, on to pistil; how he describes it as a
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moment in the evolution of humanity when intellectualism began
documents speak for themselves, they largely read into them the
suppose for a moment that it had really succeeded. What would
development of the Consciousness Soul itself.
us consider for a moment what they imagined. The in-breathing
men upheld as their ideas. But in a case such as I am now
the authority of individual men. There was no such popular
individuals among us felt how the thoughts of men appear when
they flow out after death into the ethereal environment of the
And yet, in certain moments when they took deep counsel with
of a tremendous inner effort. He was conscious of fatigue in
presence in the spiritual environment of the earth, perceptible
at least in certain moments of their surface consciousness.
immediate environment of the earth — in the same measure,
again upon the minds of men. Thence there arise such social
movements as we see today. We must understand these too as to
there were many people — men of knowledge who stood in
statement in the age of evolution of consciousness (the age of
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requirement that this course be mainly for real theologians and real
individuals who are exceptions to the general requirement, and these
been pointed out that the anthroposophical movement should try to
theologians. It is tremendously important that this should be
movement must not be allowed to become an area where everything is
cultivating so strongly within our movement would suffer thereby. One
someone will be acknowledged as a physician if the requirements of
medical care and the sacraments. When a religious community bases its
activity on the reality of the sacraments, the priest must be
prepared to meet the medical treatment that is being given. There is,
sacrament in relation to the processes of healing in a human
psychopathic cases, cases of mentally handicapped or psychically
renewal of spiritual life. Indeed, from fundamental anthroposophical
everyday life, whether it is taking of nourishment, or exposure to
consciousness: waking, dreaming, and sleeping. The moment we apply an
instance, is surrendering to the usual process of taking nourishment;
consciousness. Thus a physician has to work fundamentally with the
connected with the ritual, and the ritual includes the sacraments.
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first at certain phenomena in human life that easily slide over into
the pathological field. These phenomena require a physician's
only recall how certain phenomena that had been grouped together for
certain phenomena, not in the customary manner but in a really
Let us for a moment
stage of development, and of the astral body, which is in its second
of development. All of this is stamped like the stamp of a seal upon
commentators of the Gospels usually present it. If this is applied
a tremendous amount of material could be eliminated not only from
diagnosis: psychopathological impairment. To modern physicians that
person is a psychopathological impairment case who is at the
strength. The person can be confused and also extremely argumentative
one's neighbor can become tremendously intense, so much so that the
cases said to be severely mentally retarded individuals. They are
childhood, from birth, is also diagnosed as mentally retarded. In the
body as if it were anesthetized. This is extreme mental retardation,
— there really are such men in Catholicism; one must not
tremendous instability and something must be done about it. Usually
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stream in human evolution. This phenomenon lies midway between the
of development are such personalities as St. Teresa. One can observe
of development, these people are even annoyed when someone else tells
seized by tremendous pain. And indeed it is obviously intense, for at
these moments they can be heard groaning; other reactions can be
development, it proceeds in the following way: the ego organization,
one. That is what happens at the moment when the third stage is
through pain. The moment the physical body exerts resistance, intense
pain is there. But the moment the pain is taken hold of by the
spiritual world, the moment the spiritual world enters, the pain is
vitalizing forces. With the individuals I am describing, the moment
the most interesting phenomena in the realm of human evolution.
of St. Teresa you see in the final stage of her development a
earthly incarnation. And it is into that pre-earthly moment that such
One kind of treatment is the kind human beings evolve: that is,
treatment from the aspect of the earth. It consists of restoring the
spiritual world. But one learns very much from those developments in
everything that is perceived at any given moment in the whole world.
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development, for one does not see what part each member is playing in
this development. They have different origins; they come from
have their physical organism. The most striking phenomenon in the
course, more complicated than is implied in the brief statement that
replacement of by far the greatest part of the substance does indeed
basic statement can be made for the first seven years. Human beings
teeth. And from that statement the understanding must follow that the
sense perceptions. But behind all that, what is the fundamental force
animal group-souls, and the group-souls of the elemental beings. In
adjustment is having to be made to the physical world, since the
a small thing, but qualitatively it is something of tremendous
importance. It is what now becomes tremendously active as soul
the first seven years into the physical development and is now
“left over” from the physical development works now
forces had been entirely embedded in the physical development. We
have to comprehend physical development as a soul-spiritual activity
in this second life period in the bodily development; they are not
see this remarkable change. Up to that moment only sun and moon have
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wondering why the person hits upon one thing at one moment and
will works so strongly that if one tries at such a moment to
for their development after
giving certain kinds of treatment. First of all, there will be
accompanying symptoms I have mentioned. For it really happens in
previous conditions would be called mental retardation.
psychopathological impairment as the first stage. We can be
us deep concern. This is called congenital mental retardation —
but there is no such thing! There is only karmic mental retardation,
mental dullness can, under certain conditions, even have a beneficial
for them as a general phenomenon. Such a person should also develop
with tremendous severity, for instance, the Froebel kindergarten
phenomena.” These things cannot merely be criticized, they must
to wander at will! It is connected with other contemporary phenomena
in a trivial sense. My intention is to show you that such phenomena
development.

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should consider something for a moment that some with a modern, more
thousand years or so to the early times of the Old Testament, you
causing the illness, that the individual harbored some elemental
ill person the alien elemental spirituality that had entered through
to it, but it is often fundamental even for those who do not totally
of elemental spirits. To someone who sees the matter from a broader
cruelly. Even as a boy he tormented them, he was mean to them; in
is about ordinary physical human life into which elemental spiritual
Der Alpenkönig und der Menschenfeind
element into his external life.
carriers of elemental beings of anxiety. The breathing irregularities
breathing process, and this draws in anxiety elementals. You can see
system that would be a carrier for anxiety elementals.
Such elemental beings
are not simply anxiety elementals. If at the same time there is
impel him to develop a fantastic element in his daily life. In this
way a karmic stream pushes through his life, a tremendous gift of
the fulfillment of his karma.
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is not my wish to belittle the accomplishments of this science in its
as our immediate environment, so approximately they are also then
characteristic — you will find it mentioned in my autobiography.
disagreement with natural science. For surely one would not be so
— even to such phenomena as those of aerodynamics or
being. If sometimes we have shortness of breath, some alien elemental
element of air, in everything that is air within us. We have a
perpetual human birth in the element of air in the inhalation
occurs in the fluid element, the element that in earlier times was
element of water.
with the fluctuation of heat, with the element of warmth inside and
element. We can speak of warmth as an independent active element. Now
fundamental to our entire human life there is a receptive process
element of air. But when we come up higher to the region centered
occurs not in the element of air but in the element of warmth.
inhalation of warmth into the human organism. The element of warmth
carries light, as well as the chemical and life elements, into the
knowledge. The physiology of the senses has gathered tremendous
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themselves or in connection with their immediate environment. Now we
these various relations if one explores the immense diversity of the
was — made such a statement as this: “When you eat a plant
manifold variety that one does have in one's immediate environment
the human being what I would like for the moment to call a refined
dimension, the sun is seen as a spiritual being, and the same with
disturbing elements in our karma is this knowledge, this insight that
as we receive them. We will wish that the sun element were in us
perpetually; we cannot help longing for it. The sun element enters
how it is striving continually to draw the human element out, to
moment the anointing.
receiving the sacraments live in them with full consciousness, they
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always raised to a higher level. But from the moment of a person's
going to sleep to the moment of waking, they take their course in the
really originate in the human organism. For they are fundamentally
etheric bodies we find the basis for spiritual development; on the
human spiritual development. Thus if we study what is active during
fundamental causes of illness.
what we have found to be the case in the mentally retarded or the
knowledge, that psychopaths and the so-called mentally disturbed are
environment a sum of mineral processes and mineral substances that
down. But then it is this element that is able to perceive. Only that
elemental life of nature comes into dreams, the person experiences
was not so much experimenting as there is today. The sick person was
experimentation in this field will now have to become careful
it began to experiment and more and more substituted experiment for
thing in imitation, and that was not right. It experimented on human
from experimenting to observing, to an observation of life that is
development has made them. They have gradually become pure
influence priests as they enact the sacrament in which they are
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materialistic thought; today humankind is fundamentally entirely
financial transactions. In this area a tremendous amount of mischief
movement who have had scientific training will be of some value in
upward and downward, with respect to many phenomena. Everywhere in
At that moment of time the sun rises at a definite spot in the sky.
at the tremendous time periods, at first
all its elements.
element, while with our physical breath we breathe in oxygen. With
each earth-death we breathe the etheric element out; with each
earth-life we breathe the etheric element in.
alternation is within the element of time; and for so-called nature,
occurs as sediment, not for what grows above the earth in crystal
of nature that led to mere experimentation. We must find the way back
element intervenes.
all happens to be human calculation! And at important moments when we
course it's obvious, the standpoint you've adopted at this moment
certain boundary line in the development of astrosophy and astrology.
path of personal development that requires the effort of the whole
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achievement takes place for the first time through the activity of
moment one reaches a higher level of consciousness even to a slight
the elements. In olden times, “elements” was the name
element. Modern physicists deny all this. For them these four
elements do not exist. For them there are from sixty to eighty
elements, which have qualities. Under certain conditions one is
all. What was described as an element in olden times does not exist
existence of their own. What today are called elements are actually
what in olden times were called elements were understood not as
concept of the four elements. For then it is of prime importance in
form. That was the first requirement. After that, the substance was
them as a fabric woven of the four elements. That was the first
physical-etheric organism do we live in the natural world. The moment
elemental beings, beings of higher hierarchies at various stages of
their development, are all active. We come into relation with those
further evolved; we have the further development of our Saturn and
of Golgotha, up to the moment when Christ went through the gate of
understood. That is the high point, the ultimate achievement of
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been pointed out that the anthroposophical movement should try to
theologians. It is tremendously important that this should be
movement must not be allowed to become an area where everything is
cultivating so strongly within our movement would suffer thereby. One
someone will be acknowledged as a physician if the requirements of
medical care and the sacraments. When a religious community bases its
activity on the reality of the sacraments, the priest must be
prepared to meet the medical treatment that is being given. There is,
sacrament in relation to the processes of healing in a human
psychopathic cases, cases of mentally handicapped or psychically
renewal of spiritual life. Indeed, from fundamental anthroposophical
everyday life, whether it is taking of nourishment, or exposure to
consciousness: waking, dreaming, and sleeping. The moment we apply an
instance, is surrendering to the usual process of taking nourishment;
consciousness. Thus a physician has to work fundamentally with the
connected with the ritual, and the ritual includes the sacraments.
But the sacraments are not symbols. What are they? They consist of
be ritual, not sacrament, but suggestion. The sacraments — if
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first at certain phenomena in human life that easily slide over into
the pathological field. These phenomena require a physician's
only recall how certain phenomena that had been grouped together for
certain phenomena, not in the customary manner but in a really
Let us for a moment
stage of development, and of the astral body, which is in its second
of development. All of this is stamped like the stamp of a seal upon
commentators of the Gospels usually present it. If this is applied
a tremendous amount of material could be eliminated not only from
diagnosis: psychopathological impairment. To modern physicians that
person is a psychopathological impairment case who is at the
strength. The person can be confused and also extremely argumentative
one's neighbor can become tremendously intense, so much so that the
cases said to be severely mentally retarded individuals. They are
childhood, from birth, is also diagnosed as mentally retarded. In the
body as if it were anesthetized. This is extreme mental retardation,
— there really are such men in Catholicism; one must not
tremendous instability and something must be done about it. Usually
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stream in human evolution. This phenomenon lies midway between the
of development are such personalities as St. Teresa. One can observe
of development, these people are even annoyed when someone else tells
seized by tremendous pain. And indeed it is obviously intense, for at
these moments they can be heard groaning; other reactions can be
development, it proceeds in the following way: the ego organization,
one. That is what happens at the moment when the third stage is
through pain. The moment the physical body exerts resistance, intense
pain is there. But the moment the pain is taken hold of by the
spiritual world, the moment the spiritual world enters, the pain is
vitalizing forces. With the individuals I am describing, the moment
the most interesting phenomena in the realm of human evolution.
of St. Teresa you see in the final stage of her development a
earthly incarnation. And it is into that pre-earthly moment that such
One kind of treatment is the kind human beings evolve: that is,
treatment from the aspect of the earth. It consists of restoring the
spiritual world. But one learns very much from those developments in
everything that is perceived at any given moment in the whole world.
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development, for one does not see what part each member is playing in
this development. They have different origins; they come from
have their physical organism. The most striking phenomenon in the
course, more complicated than is implied in the brief statement that
replacement of by far the greatest part of the substance does indeed
basic statement can be made for the first seven years. Human beings
teeth. And from that statement the understanding must follow that the
sense perceptions. But behind all that, what is the fundamental force
animal group-souls, and the group-souls of the elemental beings. In
adjustment is having to be made to the physical world, since the
a small thing, but qualitatively it is something of tremendous
importance. It is what now becomes tremendously active as soul
the first seven years into the physical development and is now
“left over” from the physical development works now
forces had been entirely embedded in the physical development. We
have to comprehend physical development as a soul-spiritual activity
in this second life period in the bodily development; they are not
see this remarkable change. Up to that moment only sun and moon have
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wondering why the person hits upon one thing at one moment and
will works so strongly that if one tries at such a moment to
for their development after
giving certain kinds of treatment. First of all, there will be
accompanying symptoms I have mentioned. For it really happens in
previous conditions would be called mental retardation.
psychopathological impairment as the first stage. We can be
us deep concern. This is called congenital mental retardation —
but there is no such thing! There is only karmic mental retardation,
mental dullness can, under certain conditions, even have a beneficial
for them as a general phenomenon. Such a person should also develop
with tremendous severity, for instance, the Froebel kindergarten
phenomena.” These things cannot merely be criticized, they must
to wander at will! It is connected with other contemporary phenomena
in a trivial sense. My intention is to show you that such phenomena
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should consider something for a moment that some with a modern, more
thousand years or so to the early times of the Old Testament, you
causing the illness, that the individual harbored some elemental
ill person the alien elemental spirituality that had entered through
to it, but it is often fundamental even for those who do not totally
of elemental spirits. To someone who sees the matter from a broader
cruelly. Even as a boy he tormented them, he was mean to them; in
is about ordinary physical human life into which elemental spiritual
Der Alpenkönig und der Menschenfeind
element into his external life.Now we must look at a singular
carriers of elemental beings of anxiety. The breathing irregularities
breathing process, and this draws in anxiety elementals. You can see
system that would be a carrier for anxiety elementals.
Such elemental beings
are not simply anxiety elementals. If at the same time there is
impel him to develop a fantastic element in his daily life. In this
way a karmic stream pushes through his life, a tremendous gift of
the fulfillment of his karma.
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is not my wish to belittle the accomplishments of this science in its
as our immediate environment, so approximately they are also then
— you will find it mentioned in my autobiography.
disagreement with natural science. For surely one would not be so
— even to such phenomena as those of aerodynamics or
being. If sometimes we have shortness of breath, some alien elemental
element of air, in everything that is air within us. We have a
perpetual human birth in the element of air in the inhalation
occurs in the fluid element, the element that in earlier times was
element of water.
with the fluctuation of heat, with the element of warmth inside and
element. We can speak of warmth as an independent active element. Now
fundamental to our entire human life there is a receptive process
element of air. But when we come up higher to the region centered
occurs not in the element of air but in the element of warmth.
inhalation of warmth into the human organism. The element of warmth
carries light, as well as the chemical and life elements, into the
knowledge. The physiology of the senses has gathered tremendous
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themselves or in connection with their immediate environment. Now we
these various relations if one explores the immense diversity of the
was — made such a statement as this: “When you eat a plant
manifold variety that one does have in one's immediate environment
the human being what I would like for the moment to call a refined
dimension, the sun is seen as a spiritual being, and the same with
disturbing elements in our karma is this knowledge, this insight that
as we receive them. We will wish that the sun element were in us
perpetually; we cannot help longing for it. The sun element enters
how it is striving continually to draw the human element out, to
moment the anointing.
receiving the sacraments live in them with full consciousness, they
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always raised to a higher level. But from the moment of a person's
going to sleep to the moment of waking, they take their course in the
really originate in the human organism. For they are fundamentally
etheric bodies we find the basis for spiritual development; on the
human spiritual development. Thus if we study what is active during
fundamental causes of illness.
what we have found to be the case in the mentally retarded or the
knowledge, that psychopaths and the so-called mentally disturbed are
environment a sum of mineral processes and mineral substances that
down. But then it is this element that is able to perceive. Only that
elemental life of nature comes into dreams, the person experiences
was not so much experimenting as there is today. The sick person was
experimentation in this field will now have to become careful
it began to experiment and more and more substituted experiment for
thing in imitation, and that was not right. It experimented on human
from experimenting to observing, to an observation of life that is
development has made them. They have gradually become pure
influence priests as they enact the sacrament in which they are
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materialistic thought; today humankind is fundamentally entirely
area a tremendous amount of mischief is perpetrated.
movement who have had scientific training will be of some value in
upward and downward, with respect to many phenomena. Everywhere in
At that moment of time the sun rises at a definite spot in the sky.
at the tremendous time periods, at first
all its elements.
element, while with our physical breath we breathe in oxygen. With
each earth-death we breathe the etheric element out; with each
earth-life we breathe the etheric element in.
alternation is within the element of time; and for so-called nature,
occurs as sediment, not for what grows above the earth in crystal
of nature that led to mere experimentation. We must find the way back
element intervenes.
all happens to be human calculation! And at important moments when we
course it's obvious, the standpoint you've adopted at this moment
certain boundary line in the development of astrosophy and astrology.
path of personal development that requires the effort of the whole
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achievement takes place for the first time through the activity of
moment one reaches a higher level of consciousness even to a slight
the elements. In olden times, “elements” was the name
element. Modern physicists deny all this. For them these four
elements do not exist. For them there are from sixty to eighty
elements, which have qualities. Under certain conditions one is
all. What was described as an element in olden times does not exist
existence of their own. What today are called elements are actually
what in olden times were called elements were understood not as
concept of the four elements. For then it is of prime importance in
form. That was the first requirement. After that, the substance was
them as a fabric woven of the four elements. That was the first
physical-etheric organism do we live in the natural world. The moment
elemental beings, beings of higher hierarchies at various stages of
their development, are all active. We come into relation with those
further evolved; we have the further development of our Saturn and
of Golgotha, up to the moment when Christ went through the gate of
understood. That is the high point, the ultimate achievement of
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sun has been in the sign of spring. When, therefore, men on earth
that from that moment he became another man. Nay, more: he became an
in the development of the human soul in the several epochs. I have
remained capable of organic physical development until an advanced
age, The parallelism between the development of the soul and the
development of the body continued until an advanced age of life; it is
times, however, men experienced a parallelism between the development
the evolution of mankind at a time when men — especially those of
experience of what men at that time could no longer receive in the
soul-and-spirit development and physical development was not
illumination, the understanding once possessed by men in an atavistic
that he might be the one to arouse in men a realisation of what had
Paul regarded it of supreme importance to make clear to men how
how different was the whole outlook of men in those days. Not that a
complete change took place in a single moment; nevertheless the Event
end of a period of evolution during which men beheld, together with
appear to modern man it is a fact that in pre-Christian times men saw,
This is what Paul wanted to reveal to men. He told them how in
ancient times, when men were only the race of Adam, they had no need
spiritual came to them in elemental form, with everything that lived
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direction of decline. It is very necessary to realise how far men are
to-day in statements often made by well-intentioned people.
be expected, for it is the line of natural development. And then, once
over this unhappy Europe, there can be no improvement. It is
Even in their feelings men could promote the right attitude by
it came about so gradually. When men looked out at nature in olden
rulers, as priestly leaders. We will not at the moment consider how
as men saw not merely a flowing stream but the divine and spiritual
The essence of Paganism before it fell into decadence, was that men
interpretation of Christianity there was a fundamental break, with the
the spiritual world. The bond between men in this community of
dependence it could always be contended, and rightly so, that if men
to be lost. The power to speak to men of a being of spirit-and-soul
revelation of the spirit-and-soul to men in the material world. This
was so no longer, and it was therefore necessary for men to turn to
blood itself was the bearer of super-sensible knowledge. For men of
but the general trend of evolution was such that for a time men
and spiritual, men still went on desiring to find in themselves the
reality. Men came to the point of enquiring into the super-sensible by
birth. But Christianity summons men not to rely upon what is brought
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of human experience. In the course of the development of Western
the life-forces in the rest of the organism. The moment the forces of
that moment actual death occurs.
the Death but to the Resurrection of Christ Jesus that men's minds
of Christendom men were still endeavouring to understand the Mystery
Judgment. The attitude of mind which caused the triumphant Spirit, the
at the Eighth Ecumenical Council in Constantinople, declared belief in
being of man by the decree of an Ecumenical Council.
were largely combined. Even in days when men were not yet so arid, so
background for the Easter thought. But men became less and less
everything that can befall the physical body. Men needed, first, the
achievements in a certain domain are something that humanity must now
those sentimentalities which revelled in hymns and songs about the
increasing materialism. Men wallowed in sentimentalities over the
vogue, obscuring men's feeling of the stupendous Christmas Mystery of
Death. A characteristic symptom is that with the development of modern
Sun-thought to the attainment of which all the forces of human
realm of trivial sentimentality, so too we must realise how necessary
how then, in the sixth century, men looked upon death and felt it to
punishment, become part of the world-order. Michelangelo's picture
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an element of soul may find its place within the bounds of space. At
conceiving whither the soul and spirit pass when, at the moment of
“believe” in such things. The moment, however, he begins to
In these centres the initiates dwelt — men who by dint of special
of the Divine-Spiritual Beings behind all cosmic processes. Men
Now at the time when men turned to the oracles, they had already lost
mission it is to direct and govern the phenomena of Nature. Such
their development when, gazing upon the rising sun, they entered into
the moment of sunrise, when the first rays of the morning sun carried
prepared themselves in a definite way, were able, just at this moment
content of my ordinary sense-perceptions. A spiritual element is
everywhere living, working and weaving. And at the moment when the
Nowadays men describe the sun by saying that it sends its rays down
the physical aspect. The spiritual truth is that men live upon the
In our present age only lovers like to dream in the moonlight! Men of
Knowledge of the Higher Worlds and Its Attainment
gradually reaches a stage in his development at which he no longer
duration of the period. You have merely to wait until the right moment
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light. On the other hand, the element of thought is borne to the earth
thought-element which flow along the lines of light together with
Naturally, in regard to this aspect of the will-element and the
light-element, of the thought-element and the moon's light, and also
an element of spirit-and-soul — not, it is true, uniform and
the bodily expression of an element of cosmic spirit-and-soul. Where
would this cosmic element originate? What would have to be said about
nebula too, the element of spirit-and-soul would have to be contained.
place occupied by our own solar system it would include an element of
element of spirit-and-soul would have remained and that would be
this Jupiter evolution would be contained the element of
primal work, the cosmic element of which I speak in order to have a
now recall that the element of will streams out from humanity on Earth
body the soul too is borne out into the cosmos through this element of
achievement. What it was incumbent upon these pupils to accomplish,
for the deeds of men were engendered.
3. The Moon-forces enable man to take hold of the aeriform element in
for example, a man is unable to take hold of the fluid element even in
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can be mentioned. And it has always been my endeavour to add more and
in an elementary way. I want to speak today of the spirit-and-soul of
is of tremendous importance although in human words no more than the
we experience one world and many men; during the life between death
death and rebirth we look back upon earthly life, men are not seen in
such as were presented yesterday. But the moment we reach a
moment all the detailed matters referred to yesterday also reveal to
his organism. The moment we reverse this whole conception, all these
The Jupiter-existence reveals those elements in man which are more
still entirely of an animal nature, in inclinations an element of soul
the moral commandments a man imposes on himself, but moral
fundamental disposition. Whether a man is courageous in his moral
without any preconceived ideas, you look at the phenomena of the
intelligence finally discovers in itself is present in the phenomena
phenomena. Now the forces which represent this element of intelligence
present in the forming and shaping of mental pictures, of
embodiment on the earth. He sees the weaving life of inclinations,
In very ancient times of human evolution on the earth, men still
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man's relationship to his immediate earthly environment.
In the ordinary way man looks at things in his environment without
this is why human thinking is so far from grasping reality and men
When we reflect upon our immediate earthly environment, we find, to
materialize without the supplementary action of muscles, nerves, blood
Certainly, as the earth is today, the mineral element contained in
thought, which is based on the instrument of the brain, need not
coincide with a movement of the big toe. We are not concerned here with
plants themselves. But when we come to the astral element of the
plant-world, we must imagine this astral element of the plant-world as
plant-element.
Over-exuberance of the plant-element must always be combated by
plant-element in man — if I may put it that way — in a
plants are drawn too forcibly into the earthly element and therefore
element are so overpowering that the unfolding of plant-life — in
To account for the nature of the slaty element in the earth is
that the slaty element within the earth was being prepared. At that
less with this movement as such, which is a local movement, than with
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in connection with the development of natural science. Through this,
This is in a sense the birth of a super-sensible spiritual element
Our aim in these lectures is to establish the moment in history when
the scientific mode of thinking entered mankind's development.
research cannot be understood unless its development is traced
against the infidels. In vehement terms he summoned Europe to unite
good men to defend themselves against this peril and thus save
dwells a common element that need only be discovered to create peace
among mankind. Thus the most conciliatory sentiments in regard to
viewed in the context of the inner spiritual development of his time.
there arose in him the fundamental thought, the basic feeling,
mathematical conceptions accessible to men of that time. He was an
the actual divine realm as the dimension before which human thought
Let us leave Cusanus for the moment, and look into the lonely cell of
the reader comes upon a fundamental mood of Eckhart's soul.
fragments of something here, there, everywhere. But none of these are
soul, he found within the soul a weaving, living spiritual element.
development toward the realm of freedom, men had lost the ability to
Thus Cusanus is the man who in his own personal development
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in connection with the development of natural science. Through this,
I mention this because, in order to characterize the birth of the
scientific form of thinking and research I described two men, Meister
historically observed in the soul and appearance of such men I
human development; this is why I give such descriptions. There are in
spiritual development, which was pressing forward to the scientific
human development.
and he made many similar statements — “I sink myself into
statement.
mentioned in any history book or historical document, for these do
than external historical documents can take us. The man I have in
recapitulation of what wise men of a much more ancient age had beheld
mechanical contraption that it is for men of today when they look out
into space to the wise men of ancient times. The cosmic spaces were
how, out of the widths of space, the cosmic phenomena replied to
experienced as the element that is everywhere and can be perceived
from anywhere. Men perceived things that even the Greeks no longer
content for the earliest wise men of the Post-Atlantean age,
element, apart from which there was nothing and by which everything
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in connection with the development of natural science. Through this,
related to the reality of the external world. The development of
not only did Copernicus try to explain the movements of the solar
appeared self-evident to the men of that time that in mathematics
they had the right model for the attainment of inward certainty.
three-dimensional space (or merely dimensional space, if he thinks of
In three-dimensional space he distinguishes
the three perpendicular dimensions of Euclidean space. Man would have
the men of that time. Today our thoughts and feelings are still
alignment of his axis of vision in order to focus on a given point by
three-dimensional framework of space, which is only the abstraction
that merely because of his being human the geometrical elements
Try to sense the tremendous difference between this mathematical
present in a sort of dream-like experience of three-dimensionality
from his own three-dimensionality. But the way in which he derives
mention any other mathematical category taken from algebra or
the abstract three-dimensional space-scheme is drawn up from inside
drilled into our heads, but unselfishly, putting yourself mentally in
but lines experienced mentally by mathematical methods. In regard to
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in connection with the development of natural science. Through this,
the form-related or geometrical elements of mathematics, the
surface of a given body or to its path of movement. Geometrical and
This conception could change into a different one only when men lost
determine this moment of separation precisely. It occurred when all
to dominate the so-called phenomena of nature, arose in this form
only after it had been separated from the human element. Expressing
some other mathematical formula on natural phenomena — even if
significant aspects in these so-called natural phenomena — is a
natural phenomena is that what has first been mathematically thought
out is then found to fit the phenomena of nature. But why this is so
Take a concrete example, the first phenomenon that confronts us after
cannot be separated from the general mental and soul condition, but
It is only natural that statements like this are considered absurd by
of the cosmic center from the earth to the sun. Fundamentally, the
three dimensions in space, sundered from the orientation within his
phenomena of nature with abstract mathematical thinking. Hence, as a
immense transformation in soul configuration that occurred as the old
the human element really is not at all concerned with finiteness or
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feature of the spiritual development leading to modern scientific
were to him synonymous with the three dimensions of space. What he
environment into two aspects. He divided the characteristic features
and somehow possesses shape and movement. This exercises an effect on
of man is form, position, and movement, whereas all that makes up the
environment, it lives in me. The actual content of sound is nowhere
orientation into his own movement. He experienced this, however, in
and movement. Also, though in another portion of his inner life, man
so forth. Just as the concept of movement was gained through the
experience of his own movement, so the concept of color was gained
man distinguished position, location, movement, and time-sequence
Now, in the scientific age, the determination of place, movement,
brain; therefore, the hypothetically thought-out movements were
arrangement. What had in fact taken place? The secondary qualities,
vibration out in space translated itself into form and movement, and
organisms cast off by the first unicellular being were for the moment
Aside from what I might call a few decorative embellishments intended
periods. In one epoch, phenomena appear that cause the thinker to
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in connection with the development of natural science. Through this,
abstraction in relation to the dimensions. Man was no longer aware
that the three dimensions — up-down, right-left, front-back
no longer took this reality of the three dimensions into
dimensions where it is in fact experienced; namely, within man's
dimensions had an independent existence, but only an abstract
age experienced the three spatial dimensions in such a way that man
The dimensions of space had, as it were, already been abstracted and
character. Man had forgotten that he experiences the dimensions of
like kind with the three dimensions of space, the latter being a sort
build up the spatial element within our own organism, as we do with
dimensions, not outside but within himself during full wakefulness,
moment of falling asleep to waking up, he knows that he is really
element contained in the external world.
who was well aware that man's spiritual element is active when color, tone,
ought to conduct physical experiments as to what happens in the air
occurred to the men of the scientific age. They had no inclination to
I never mentioned clairvoyant knowledge, but I did show to what extent man
three-dimensional character dwells in man, the thinkers likewise
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in connection with the development of natural science. Through this,
composed of different elements.
monumental importance for a world comprehension are completely
this at any given moment of our life, so this statement that we feel
the three dimensions or motion, or with less obvious ones such as
that he had to thank the spiritual element indwelling the light for
counteracting, within him, the soul-spirit element activity in
experienced the essence of movement. He experienced this by comparing
it with what such a movement would be like in himself. When he saw a
speed of the falling stone by applying his experience of movement to
Galileo also measured the following segments of its path. He did not
what would be experienced if one stood amid these movements of the
so there was something alive in tracing the movement described by a
of a human element in his calculating the orbits described by the
through separation of nature's phenomena from man's
By permeating all external phenomena with abstract mathematics, this
elements — earth, water, air and fire (we would say warmth.) We
one asks: How do I experience these elements, the solid, the watery, the
movements of the fluids; the earth as “black gall,” the
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in connection with the development of natural science. Through this,
on what was actually happening in the development of these scientific
understand that the phenomena of external culture are inwardly
taught, but still they are at the bottom of the development. Now, I
We stand at the beginning of this development of a new spirit
understood only by men who specifically study initiation science. The
of the fragmentary ways in which it has been handed down, it had
a work is not regarded as an historical document since it comes from
a time when men thought differently from the way they think today, so
into the fundamental spirit of a work such as that of John Scotus
mathematical-mechanical element in human movement, the experiencing
of the physical body, an inward experience of movement, an inner
experience of the dimensionality of space, as well as experiences of
arrive at these statements by anything resembling today's
element. He sensed that the basis of the external process in nature
would say today, was of a different temperament. Thales, as a
were other thinkers, who are no longer mentioned by external
form of chemistry existed in those days. The external phenomena that
chemistry of ancient times were felt by men. They were experienced as
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in connection with the development of natural science. Through this,
I shall only supplement the scanty outlines and hints already
perpetual flux. Then there are the gaseous, aeriform elements, such
forces body pulsates through all fluid and liquid elements of the
the physical body. Our present-day physics contains statements that
whereas the soul element was experienced by leaving one's being
finds himself in the age of the development of the consciousness
it according to what he felt within as movement. Observing a falling
stone, he experienced its inner impulse of movement in his own inner
velocity as movement per second, hence by means of space. This means,
separated from it in the first place. Instead of the mere movement,
objects as their characteristic element. Then we can know what a
This is what is necessary. The trend of scientific development in
to me that once it was a living organism. The moment you realize that
spiritual-scientific research will meet the historic requirements of
This historic requirement can be put in the following words: Science
the midst of a period of development. If, as is so frequently the
one must also observe the element in him that makes it possible for
Movement:
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confused with those things which, more than ever at the moment, appear
the senses and in experiment. To what do the ideas of Philosophy
Observation and Experiment. The results of research in these lines are
put together to make a picture of cosmic development, and from this
birth and leaves it at death. That element which, during life between
— namely the astral body — is the cosmic element of man.
Because modern knowledge has lost this astral element of man, it has
spirit-men, that being at which our word ‘Ego’ now only

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function in the regulation of the processes of nourishment. We gain in
earthly phenomenon, and that which man brings with him from the
in the modern spiritual development of mankind. In earlier periods of
necessary to the development of human spiritual activity, because it

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this. He will recommend a subject which is perfectly simple and which
inner life a greater control over the statements of a Spiritual
momentarily exchanging this inner experience of the Cosmos with the
would not satisfy the requirement to leave untouched his physical and
first men had. They were in as close a connection with the inwardness

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WE said that for the development of ‘inspired cognition’ one
conception and the development of the embryo. We get a vision of how
Men were often quite unconscious of the fact that these ideas were

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sequence of argument, point to such a ‘subconscious’; but
daily life joy is experienced consciously. Physically an enlargement
enlargement is a fact; when it takes place, joy is consciously felt.
In the case of modern man there appears at this moment of sleep the
events of Golgotha. Then men, when awake, received from their
inner self it experiences a reflection of the planetary movements. The
philosophical ideas in the first occurrence in which sense-phenomena
in the moon. The spiritual moon-activities are the ones recalling men

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MAN'S DEVELOPMENT
instrument of the psycho-spiritual man. Man carries the longing for
reproductive development within the existence on earth. The previous
experience of the human soul is transferred into this development as
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its reference to man's development on earth.
brought to light. Only a few men achieve the former, but the latter is
only through a gradual development. Ordinary consciousness takes the
spiritual evolution, and the decisive epoch of this development is
Moreover, from this moment the perception of death took on a new
death. At the moment of historical time when the view became limited
The further development of purely inner faculties of knowledge did not
which was to come into being in the development of humanity, that
such in His fundamental relationship to humanity He must be

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consciousness can one only experience oneself in a momentary glimpse.
present moment as one's own proper Ego.
moment, images realized in the present which point to the past only
present at the moment.
at every moment. The visionary picturing is a stronger entering of the
imagining is the etheric organism which is manifest in the development
A new element enters the consciousness with inspiration. In order to
prejudice, one must feel their unreality. One feels vaguely the moment

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it. Precisely at the moment at which the astral organism in its
act. But this judgment is not only happening in the life of thought,
added a reflection of moral judgment, which appears within the
in upon this astral organism. Whatever judgment this world pronounces
initiated knowledge was lost in the course of human development. A

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development of mankind this pain was directly occasioned by ascetic
moment of earthly development. The human organism is now so
constituted that the presentation of the ego-development in it would
of sorrow is connected with the development of psychic experience.
for the attainment of ‘Intuitive cognition’ we must first
between the constructive and destructive elements is disturbed
physical phenomena of the moon. Outwardly he has been separated from
earth. But for the development of the spirit-cell for the future

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Die Polaritaet von Dauer und Entwicklung im Menschenleben.
Die kosmische Vorgeschichte der Menschheit.
two streams of world-conceptions which we have mentioned:
with its acceptance of the polarity in World-phenomena. Above
in such a way that men's visions of the Spiritual world were in
has a certain courage. One would not perhaps need to mention so
Every time you go to sleep until the moment of waking, the
those moments of sleeping life in which was revealed, not
moment of the pre-Christian era. You must bear in mind that the
man and his development.
it became Earth was Old Moon, and in many of the phenomena
phenomena connected to-day with the present Moon, with this
our earthly development.
earthly development which has now become the most important
scientifically-thinking men. What we think and feel in our
external reality, like that of our environment, in our next
There had not yet come to people in his age that tremendous
the soul-life of men through these three stages, one finds in
sensible phenomena of Nature supersensible Spiritual beings
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Die Polaritaet von Dauer und Entwicklung im Menschenleben.
Die kosmische Vorgeschichte der Menschheit.
feel ourselves as men.
in the world of external nature one phenomenon is linked on to
man by day when he is awake, because, from the moment of
Beings of the third Hierarchy, is something of which men would
Cognition is not present. From the moment of going to sleep
the physical and etheric bodies as an instrument; but we cannot
That is the Fundamental Truth which we mast realise, With
reference to this Fundamental Truth, modern humanity, by reason
Beings of the third Hierarchy with the phenomena of nature, and
expressed this in his interpretation of natural phenomena. Man
considered the phenomena of nature as brought about by this or
phenomena of nature. It is an important fact, that this change
took place in the development of man in pre-Christian times; he
that there are reasons why men should experience this Duality
the ordering of natural phenomena. For that reason the Ordering
world would simply be a dream. It is of immense significance
understand many things in the development of man. Above all one
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festival in the feelings and hearts of men. It must be remembered that
intended to nourish the souls and hearts of all men upon the earth.
in the Old Testament and the age described in the New Testament, the
the birth of Jesus. The peoples of the Old Testament expressed the
up with the conceptions expressed in the Old Testament.
souls of men were directed towards the birth of the Being Who is the
peoples of the Old Testament changed into a feeling connected with the
men all over the earth. A cherished and intimate experience was bound
souls of men within Christianity were filled with loving devotion for
time fragments were still present of an ancient wisdom that had been
Men's minds were occupied with what was being brought to them on all
has remained in Western Christianity of the holy zeal with which men
centuries from the minds and hearts of men to the Jesus Child in the
peoples of the Old Testament strove in wisdom to be gathered to the
Fathers, so the peoples of the New Testament have striven in devotion
the living power it once possessed? The men of the Old Testament
In another sense too, the fundamental conception of Christendom tended
fail to realise that men have very little insight into the truth that
the fulfilment, the consequence of the Mystery of Golgotha.
mankind in general and in Christianity too. Men who were possessed of
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These lectures trace important developments in evolution such as the
working in the development of our own age. First, however, I must
certain elements that have remained from the past. As you will have
aright at each moment of this life, is he worthy of being called a
creative element of the Greeks. This is the one side of the
Heraclitus, Parmenides, Anaximander, Anaxagoras, — to Socrates,
ideas so strongly that, centuries later, men who have had to rethink
“immortal part” the element of man's soul that passes
manner, taking them right out of reality, but the men of the fifth
in history, politics, law and government, is permeated to a high
element in modern history would confess that neither in the sphere of
aspects. Men who have looked more deeply into these things as, for
enough to feel this living element behind every Greek word, but for
degree in the Greek as it was in the men of the Egypto-Chaldean age,
can be felt in Greek. This inner soul element can still be sensed in
direct soul element, the kernel, the inner feeling that we sense in
emotions to bring his word into movement because Latin is essentially
had to be continually kindled anew by the emotional element that was
body and lives on in feeling and sentiments. What we today call
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Development. The clear Perception of the Sensory World and Free
These lectures trace important developments in evolution such as the
The Influence of Luciferic and Ahrimanic Beings on Historical Development. The clear Perception of the Sensory World and Free Imaginations as the Task of Our Time. Genghis Khan and the Discovery of America
great disappointment to the luciferic powers. One can, of course, only
true of what is to be presented to you today. The development of Greek
civilization was a great disappointment to the luciferic powers
disappointment. A logician would naturally ask, “Why do not these
to redouble their efforts whenever they experience disappointment.
this highest development of the fantasy life. They made every endeavor
philosophers — Heraclitus, Thales, Anaximenes, Anaximander,
Parmenides, Socrates, Plato and Aristotle — saved Greek
development of the rule of might. They sought to establish a widely
Thus did Ahriman meet with his disappointment, as Lucifer had met with
told you that the disappointment of Lucifer and Ahriman in the forms
Lucifer wants to take men's souls away and found a planet with them of
we must turn our attention for a moment to what is intended for man in
of the Greeks and in the political development of the Romans, and it
men of the fifth post-Atlantean age, our own, to develop?
We know that this is the age of the development of the consciousness
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determined by the whole development of our modern culture. This
terrible truths one can experience a kind of feeling of upliftment. As
toward the world based on the primal phenomenon, can only be acquired
the two faculties mentioned above under this protection. Foundations
Now I have already mentioned that something is coming to expression
impresses itself into men's impulses. People know nothing of it,
one who did not descend to physical incarnation. A great many men were
above earthly life. The souls of men could then be drawn out to it, by
Taotl the forces were to be acquired that would enable men to set up a
see, this wisdom of the cosmos is fundamentally in its wording, always
forsake the earth at the right moment.
come down to physical incarnation but also could be perceived by men
momentous decision as the year 30 A.D. approached, namely whether or
magician, Vitzliputzli was able to imbue men again with the desire for
this book was written can be considered collectively as one fundamental
Renan's book is written out of a fundamental impulse that tries to
would lead to a point where men would no longer be inclined to look
Here, the natural impulse of primal phenomenon perception is carried
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can describe in movements or inner laws, are, figuratively speaking,
Now, we have tried to study the fundamental meaning of this modern
accordance with the fundamental character of its spiritual and
simplest, most primitive men. Although the world knows little of it,
character of the present, that it completed the first small segment of
we have often mentioned, this is an important point in time. I have
abruptly beside the earlier. Men, however, are not accustomed to
development. Just as the child of twelve or thirteen lacks the
puts forth what lies within its being is the fundamental fact of human
in time from Copernicus as Copernicus was from Ptolemy, men will again
have a different concept of the heavens. The development of humanity
merely the intellect to natural phenomena in an external way, which
development of other faculties. But man must increasingly take his own
of phenomena so that they can then be expressed in natural laws? For
development.
had to pass through a period of development in which he was shut off
become freer. To be sure, this development is still far from complete
intellectual development of the last three or four centuries. This
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happenings proceeds both in these great cosmic phenomena and in the
phenomena of human historical development. The so-called fourth
elemental and instinctive. It assumed a more spiritual form in the
Greco-Roman culture constituted a deep disillusionment for the
disillusionment for the luciferic and ahrimanic powers. Through their
to develop their powers of fantasy that the souls of men would
of the luciferic powers, namely, to lead away the souls of men so that
hands. The plan was frustrated by the development in a preeminently
make men into ego-less beings was frustrated. It was precisely the
The Greek and the Roman epochs were a great disillusionment for
themselves, and have again and again to suffer disillusionment. As I
faculty of judgment different from that of man. We cannot judge from
phenomenon,” the pure perception, the pure beholding of external
came from atavistic clairvoyance. Men did not see the pure phenomenon,
development of the gift of free imagination that arises in complete
inner freedom. On the one side, the primal phenomenon; on the other
Goethe spoke of the primal phenomenon and also of free imagination.
ahrimanic powers is to alienate the souls of men from earthly life on
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in this spot with all the feelings and sentiments that have arisen
moment of their lives they were to think and feel dedicated with all
were not to flee but were to stand firm. In each moment of their lives
through gold. This grew in him to be the immense passion that has
debased currency to his subjects and others. Uproar and resentment
treasure and were immensely wealthy, but according to their rules,
the unfolding of the will toward other men. To the nation, Philip
bondsmen of the kingly power in which gold ruled. He thereupon caused
Pope Clement V, former Bishop of Bordeaux, resided in Avignon and was
evolution by putting men to death. For this, he needed victims. In a
experience of a number of men, the Christian initiation, which is to
men through Christian initiation, arises from the fundamental depths
of human development.
All that draws men down into the ahrimanic world and up into the
come upon man through the powers hostile to good. He has moments in
Christian symbolism as it had taken shape through the development of
urge men to return to ancient paganism, to worship what the pagans
worshipped and to scorn the advance to Christianity. These men knew
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spiritual development of our age is not fitted for a full penetration
into the causes that hold sway spiritually behind the phenomena.
sentiment and thinking is essential to mankind, a transformation of
their development but if one will observe their consequences, it will
perception, he created the idea of a social relationship among men. I
they are impractical men; one cannot make use of their ideals!”
anything about him, but the influences of such men nevertheless go
had an immense influence on Voltaire, who influenced European thinking
impulses live on in the immensely influential Montesquieu. If we then
through Hume and Darwin, that an immense influence is exercised. And
write his fundamental work, Capital, he went to England. To be
excellent instrument for research in, and for learning to know and
Now we see a certain concomitant phenomenon that appears in all these
mentioned had not come about before, is not considered at all. In
people believe they are standing deep in reality. They are immensely
deny that our age has produced great thoughts and achievements. The
to the silly superstitions of people in earlier ages. In short, men
movement of its own. In any case, it does not move around the earth
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creating a world of mental pictures, which in a certain way reflect
in the attempt to enter livingly ourselves into the element of
according to temperament or character or other influences on a man,
thinking. You will find therefore a fundamental tone or feeling in this
that freedom which depends entirely on the personal element in man.
a garment, or something she wore twenty years ago; she puts this on
by means of an old garment perhaps can have the powerful effect I
experiment yourself in these matters. If you do make the experiment
it is a quality of my own inner feeling. I myself at this moment am
But in the moment man has this thinking-experience he no longer feels
something given to him from the cosmos. In the ages when men had a
Thus man feels himself united with the environment in
nourishment in digestion, so you may also form an idea of the
statement in a lecture to glance at the countenances in the audience,
physiognomy and his gestures, and inwardly his temperament, for we
have not always the same temperament in old age as we had in
childhood. The temperament in old age is often the result of what we
oneself into the temperament of one's childhood, into one's earlier
temperament. But the practice of such an exercise may be of infinite

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him right into the tendencies of his own temperament those impulses,
house. Qualities are mentioned which can be traced back in heredity
fragmentary remains which exist today. This wisdom was once the
physical body which is given over to the elements of the earth, and
to the severest judgment which man can suffer after he has passed
reproduce in himself that which forms the physiognomy of evil men.
given him as a covering, as a garment, as an instrument, namely the
Luciferic and Ahrimanic elements into the right relation to human
Ahrimanic elements into the right relationship with man?
influence of the purely natural environment is indeed of
influence of the natural environment was utilized in a special way in
the adaptation of man to his environment by means of a corresponding
brought about between man and his environment. Men from southern
has melody because in their development of inner warmth they are
connected with the external warmth. Men of northern regions, on the
impulse. Just consider the men of the north. They are known by their
connected with the fact that these men of the north are obliged to
moon-existence, for an arrangement with the Ahrimanic and Luciferic
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environment; how everything which is bound up with heredity is
development play a great part in the human soul-life throughout the
during sleep with the forces which lie behind the phenomena of
terrible, I must say, when people say that behind the phenomena of
the phenomena of nature, with the spiritually active forces. It is
rule spiritually in the crystal, in plants, in all the phenomena of
means to about the seventh year of life — the soul-element
The soul-element which we develop during our early childhood (for
according to good impressions from its environment, and in a healthy
adaptation to its environment. Whereas the body which a child has
impressions it receives from its environment.
I have often mentioned a saying of Goethe, which was
fundamentally the whole life from the age of seven to fourteen is
reason those beings whom I have designated as elementary spirits, the
phenomenon. Previous to this age man is to the gnomes and undines a
of the conditions I have mentioned, may be extremely instructive to
creates pictures of his innermost being. Behind the phenomena of
one may have personal experiences. For instance, it was of immense
often be seen inscribed in the Akashic Record. The moment you have
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the earth, in order that the cosmic environment may be reflected and
I need not mention that the stars are also there during
mention this by the way to make clear to you that this reflection of
my organism; the moment I cut it off from my organism it is no longer
may call a deep sense of the spiritual element in metals; for the
metals not only perceive the environment of the cosmos but they
human beings who are going through the development between death and
re-birth (I have often mentioned this point before) we require for
important things he wanted to know. He went everywhere where men
could tell him more important things; he went to such men as
fundamental things can be experienced in the case of those beings who
are distributed everywhere in the environment of the earth.
something which causes as much to die off in man each moment as is
environment. This however, can be noticed in the case of all metals.
would certainly be in a fiery fluid condition. But in the environment

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undergone tremendous changes. If we go back to the times I have just
similar mental picture might also be made even for those very ancient
but in its fluidity it was similar to albumen; so that in reality the
atmosphere. The albumen in eggs today is very much denser, but it may
From this environment of the earth when later the earth
of these elements, for it did not have these several elements as
albumen in an excessively fluid condition. The whole of this
one of the chemical elements of today, but chemical elements in our
hardness can only be described by mentally employing the sense of
this hard rock one has pictures of the cosmos — this phenomenon
a usual phenomenon which came into this albuminous atmosphere, pushed
fluid albumen which existed in the atmosphere filled in these outline
was no soil there. They floated in this fluid albumen with which they
only did they float in this fluid albumen, they also shone forth I
If we as modern men could transpose ourselves into that ancient
plant-form shoots up, a tremendous plant-form, like our present algae
and reaches a tremendous size. Then it disappears again into the
fluid albumen-like element. Such an observer would see green ever
green in this element of albumen. Then in the time which would
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Anyone who meditates on this significant commencement of
follows: “Learn to feel in your own instrument of speech what
watery element, this pours downwards, as a glandular secretion pours
element, into fire, into heat, and draws down the thought from the
trickles downwards as water, as a fluid element. By means of this
inwardly. The word trickles downwards as a fluid element.
mystery of man is today barricaded off from scientific men, for
next higher element, into the element of heat or fire, and again into
the element of water, Fire-Water-Fire-Water.
and feeling weave, in that by this living wave-movement of speech the
When he went out again this statement was made to him in
last lecture I called fluid albumen. We know that the cosmic forces
worked into this fluid albumen in such a way that it coagulated into
of the rain. The chalky element rises upwards, permeates that which
had condensed in the fluid albumen, filling it with chalk so that it
the element of chalk.
chalk, the union of this chalk with the coagulated albumen, again its
creation which arises when the chalk fills out the coagulated albumen
wonderful collection of musical instruments, forming a mighty
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it has given impulses to this modern spiritual movement, and yet has
taken over much from the older spiritual movements in which the
kind of bewilderment. So that it is only against obstruction that one
In all cases in the ancient Mysteries men were subjected
huge dimensions, the other was equally large but it was in addition
the Cosmic Secret placed before men.
inner path of development, outwardly imperceptible to the senses, it
old manner of civilization, in those old times by men who were to be
tremendous deepening which his mind experienced and endured, was
different kinds of Mysteries, and men were led in the most different
disappointments in the physical world. But there were also feelings
which in the moment of Initiation the pupil experienced in the

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announcement that I should see into that which was present in the
made itself known to the pupil in a quite elementary natural way, so
vanished into nothing. In the moment when it vanished into nothing,
moment the summer-dreams rose on the threshold. And the pupil had the
of the spirit which is continually dying in matter. As men we are not
show in later lectures. Today I only mention the fact. But all these
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peculiar path of evolution which men pursued on the island of Ireland
as men we are that which is inside the skin. It is of course a mighty
today as men when we do not think ourselves, as regards the air, cut
in your mouth and the next moment in your stomach, where it has gone
a certain way, or whether a volume of air is out there this moment
and next moment it is in your lungs. The piece of sugar goes its way
movement out towards the Ether-distances. But while he was moving
counterpart can be perceived today. This astral element united itself
vivifying element, enabling him to feel his organization right into
It is only through lack of power of observation in men
now said as follows: I live wholly in an element with other beings.
This element is really nothing but Nature-goodness, for I feel
streaming into me from all around out of this element (forgive that I
element in which I swim as a fish in water, but myself also only
consisting in quite volatile imponderable elements, I feel how out of
this planetary element from all sides comes this pleasant
streaming into him, forming and fashioning him. This element is pure
swim, hover, move in this element. Thus the impressions which were
that which formerly, as complete life-element, was experienced by the
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in the first centuries of Christian development, we find here and
there in all the regions mentioned single individualities able to
era. From this stream there proceeded that element which gradually
course of development of civilization in Europe.
Fundamentally, all this had been gradually prepared over
Let us look for a moment into the mind of a man about to
It was always a great moment when a pupil, such as the
seriously and without sentimentality. He then learnt to understand:
a moment of special ceremony when the Greek pupil was led to see this
spiritual living being. Men then had a natural science which reached
which ray down to earth from the planetary environment, all that
metal-element with earthly substance.
which, as it were, came forward to meet the heavenly metal-element in
what is given by the Father-element in the cosmos.
Eleusinian Mysteries for the accomplishment of his mission.
and men had simply to link on to what was tradition, tradition
place before your souls a certain historical phenomenon, and in the

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SECRET OF PLANTS, OF METALS, AND OF MEN
whose teaching led men away from the secrets of nature, whereas
understand; i.e., the merely earthly phenomena from which all the
extra-earthly phenomena, the entire phenomena of the heavens, are
could be done, because, at that time men sought the spirit in nature;
This Mystery-instruction taught men to regard nature in
Such a phenomenon was made the starting-point for
element certain properties which he has discovered. Then he observes
Such an argument would at the time of Aristotle have
the self-opening blossom, in which the stamens appear and radiate
externally, even to the colour of their skin, from the men of Greece.
One of the most interesting documents which has come
him. The Zodiac works on the elements of the earth and its connection
atmospheric environment the secret of the Zodiac.
feelings stimulated in him for the perception of the elements of warm
arose that man works on the elements of warm air intermingled with
the elements of coldness and water. He observed man in the time of
elements of warmth and air, how much does he take from us of the
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If we trace the development of Greek life to that time
progressed more and more and learnt to feel himself in this element
great Gods desire you to be.” From that moment the pupil knew
call a knowledge of the atmosphere, wherein men in studying the earth
in speech. Finally there lives the fiery element, which dissolves
beings can arise. These elements live in every earthly formation.
to the salt element which is of course fashioned cosmically, but into
element that which Mother earth brought to the metals and in the
mercurial element, everything which streamed out of the cosmos in
in which in these ancient times men spoke of the earth; for at the
gradually came to speak of that which lies between the environment
and the earth. Now between the environment and the earth there lies
below first the earth itself, then the watery element, then the airy
element, then the fiery element. Thus the ancient peoples saw
of the environment, of the atmosphere. Then in the 14th and 15th
percept ions wholly on to the earth. The elements of water, air,
and their movements and distances, and so on; the heavens become an
spiritual worlds. That was one mighty preparatory moment, in what we

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the earth commenced a few centuries after the foundation of
Samothracian Mysteries mentioned in the last lecture, or, lastly, to
Fundamentally it was a longing, but a longing which was
countenances, but fundamentally filled with joy.
natural phenomena, natural events, were for the ancients directly
movement of the human eye as something by itself. We regard it as a
manifestation of a psychic spiritual bodily element in man. So just
consider any phenomenon, any event in nature by itself, isolated. He
revealed himself through natural phenomena. The surface of the earth
This immediate relation to the phenomena and events of
cognition of the events and phenomena of nature and whereas, in olden
to show you how those men who still held to some extent to the view
Let us take quite a simple experiment, which can be
can easily make such an experiment.
arrangement, how does this process take place in man?
experiment he made in his laboratory. There was one thing
and spirit to the divine spiritual element of the world. It was
himself for his experiments as if preparing himself for a sacrificial
in piety preparatory to his experiments, discovered that his
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element which is so often met with in literature, without one's being
element of charlatanism is at work in these things — but we
but who laboured between the 14th and 15th centuries. I mentioned in
mathematical grandeur and mathematical movements, which can be
parallelism between the human element and what revealed itself
in the ancient Mysteries, men learnt to understand that there existed
silver. If we could at the present moment take a piece of our
alchemical investigators made certain alchemical experiments —
medieval investigators made numerous experiments of this kind which
experiments, the spirits of nature could speak to them. Let us
make various experiments. When I direct my questionings to Nature
through my experiments, there enter my laboratory quite visibly the
historical documents are not so terribly important as they are to
important find, but these are only broken fragments, whereas we may
Historical documents were therefore certainly not such as deeply to
the Spirits of Nature, the spirits behind the elements, when certain
observations of nature were made, or certain experiments performed —
fragmentary way.
give concerning the historical development of humanity from the

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with the biological-physiological phenomena, therefore, one devotes
oneself more to pathological phenomena in order to struggle through to
when this faculty had reached its pinnacle; they were fundamentally
brought to an extraordinary fulfillment in our time.
experimental research through observation. Something like our modern
actually acknowledged his achievements, I was labeled a materialist. Yet
achievements that have proceeded from something like materialism,
phenomenology in science. You have also heard, and with the greatest
certainly stemming from the sequence of my mental images but not seen
phenomenon for me. I would not be making an unwarranted hypothesis if
could then be explained by means of movement, for then light would be
even pathology, for this spiritual element is still an unknown in modern
as it were, out of the mental images that we create from our association
warmth into the environment. So much latent warmth is freed that we no
emotional element, however, is always playing into the thought realm
phenomena of manic conditions or similar phenomena, something from
thought element taking its own course in an emotional way. The
would have to do with various forms of so-called mental illness —
Here we have attempted to pursue in two directions phenomena that lead
In the development of German cultural life we have an extraordinarily
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kinds of therapeutic treatments. I do not know whether this resulted
improvement in a person's condition can be attributed to therapeutic
arrangement, and so on. With this sentence, therefore, we have
fundamentally to do with an absurdity that a man of genius laid at the
was probably not expressed by Schelling in such a fundamental way. In
the soul life permeated by thoughts, by mental images. It has been
mental images is basically nothing but what emancipates itself from
world of thoughts or mental images, in short, as a world force in
thoughts and mental images, a force in its creative substantiality. It
into later life something of a positive, creative-childlike element who
bear the quality of genius. It is this childlike element, this
positive creative element, this knowing-creative element that — if I
conquered in ourselves, however, the memory-forming element that
force our growth force, our force of movement, our force of balance,
human development, this organizing force, this growth force, must be
picture a development in which insufficient forces of organization
If an individual engaged in medical, physiological-phenomenological
illness that occurs in the moments of transition in later life.
significant when considering the phenomena of scarlet fever or measles
course of these illnesses becomes comprehensible the moment one really
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For the future development of humanity, it
dilettantish and lay judgment to intervene in medical matters; due to
time with all the vehemence with which matters tend to assert
general it is quite clear that this cannot support the development of
illness arise that we designate inaccurately as mental illnesses
This view must be modified, however, the moment one proceeds from a
being: in forming mental images, in feeling, and in will impulses.
the nerve-sense system corresponds to mentally active perception, so
mental images, the dull, dreamlike life of feelings is perceived and
system. In this way we are able to bring forth the mental images of
mental images, this activity is not bound up with growth and
system, which unfold as parallel phenomena to perceiving and forming
mental images. You will see then that this assertion is certainly well
but in a living way. To do so you must enliven your own mental images.
organism cannot be encompassed with static, abstract mental images, as
must instead be grasped with mental images in movement, with mental
has inner movement, that is in no way merely a mechanical interaction
the horizontal; similarly life, because it is in constant movement
least in a rudimentary way, on the basis of the guidelines offered in
first elements that are to be studied about the nature of the plant in
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Obviously for the reasons already mentioned this morning, I cannot
predominant in the abdomen, for example. Said in a better way, it
organization of human nature, we can see in the phenomenon I have just
described the development of a serious human illness, namely, typhus
considerations in these lectures, this soul-spiritual element works in
step back in some way. If the soul-spiritual element kicks up some
way by the ego, then various types of the so-called mental illnesses
blood, the ego works with the rest of the soul element, but to go into
soul-spiritual element, of the fully conscious ego, let us say,
force-scaffolding, the line that designates the soul-spiritual element
surrendering itself as an unencumbered instrument for the
phosphorus. (This does not actually need to be done; in elementary
the human being's connection with all his outer, worldly environment.
massage an improvement can be brought about of an inadequate
element is insufficiently inclined to penetrate his metabolic-limb
pulses there as the soul-spiritual element, continues inwardly and
and hands through massage. It means that the soul-spiritual element in
are responsible for the inability of his nourishment to integrate
itself properly in the body or for the results of this nourishment to
supporting the soul-spiritual element in its activity through the
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LADIES AND GENTLEMEN,
the great development of trade and commerce in the economic life in
still conservative: economic development could afford to advance at a
approximation to English conditions, a development of the industrial
almost be called medieval, human thinking was undergoing a fundamental
change. It came into the consciousness of men that something
England talked about these things (to mention even a man like
were elements of consciousness in the whole process, and yet in
But the most important thing is this: Through all these developments a
gentlemen, on this contrast the manner of their economic intercourse
the West and Middle Europe. The way in which men sold, the way in
This was the course of development. First the economic and industrial
continued to depend on that instinctive element which had evolved from
men were incapable of finding the answer.
mention one example. Through the fact that the English economic life
mentioned, we did not yet stand face to face with the monetary
the depreciation of the currency.” Ladies and gentlemen, all
time when men first began to think about Political Economy at all. If
which men felt it necessary to think about these things.
You see, the time when men had to begin to think about Political
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LADIES AND GENTLEMEN,
thing of perpetual movement. As the blood flows through the human
and seller. Fundamentally, this is what it all comes to.
never in a position to apply some general statement to the single case
you may say, such developments must be counteracted. Land reformers
their immediate reality at the particular moment. From all this you
find three factors mentioned — three factors, through the
moment you place Capital and Labour merely side by side, you will find
Ladies and gentlemen, the fact is this: Consider the things from the
in the real economic process things are in perpetual movement. It is
comparatively simple to form concepts of the phenomena of Nature
complicated, variable and unstable are the phenomena in Economics than
Capital. To begin with, ladies and gentlemen!
But the moment human beings no longer provide merely for themselves or
moment a man no longer uses the Nature-products for himself, but
the animals. But the moment you take the very first steps to put the
other side the needs of men have to be cared for. But Marx's way of
moment we let it be directed by the intelligence of man. I must now
round the wheel and uses it to drive some machine, the moment this is
“values” as the elementary thing. It is wrong to try to
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LADIES AND GENTLEMEN,
should be. We mention this here only to help define the concept of
closely later on: for the moment I will but indicate what should be
naturally it will not be enough by itself. For the moment, however, we
it had been taken up by men of affairs and if they had acted
Certain social conditions obtained among men — caste-forming and
is ordained for the economic. The religious commandments very largely
moral life, mere precepts as to how men should feel for one another or
historical moment the assignment of value to Labour in relation to the
rights as we conceive them today. You can only do so from the moment
when the Law becomes distinct from the “Commandment.” In
very ancient times there is only one kind of command or commandment,
Subsequently, the “Commandment ” is restricted more to the
the life of nations the moment human Rights and Labour emancipate
of Rights and human labour, another element arises which — though
its development. To begin with, however, if we think it abstractly to
all. All that he produces by his labour is passed on to other men, and
fellow-men. We must realise how by this means each individual will, in
Ladies and gentlemen, this might easily be taken for a piece of
their way of thinking, men had not yet been able to get beyond Egoism
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LADIES AND GENTLEMEN,
interdependent factors. The single phenomenon is the outcome of an
I want to mention this especially today, for, while we take our start
You cannot grasp any phenomenon of economic life if you do not start
the division of Labour. The division of Labour arises whenever men
number of men have been doing a certain piece of work. From the
economic value. But the moment the human Spirit organises Labour
still shine through. But the moment we emancipate ourselves, thinking
— the moment we do this, the more we shall observe the Labour
development of the economic process will be somewhat as follows: The
an abstract element to all the specific elements that
becomes the means of expression, the instrument, the medium for the
cut (several times, if you like). But the moment Money returns to the
debtor as jurisprudence does. For the moment we are only concerned
relationship of lenders and debtors? It is, ladies and gentlemen, very
But you must pause a moment to consider: What is the active driving
positive activity of men; it is simply the human qualities of
fluctuating. Thus the moment the Commodity is taken from one place to
by the facts of life to get movement into our concepts, so as to

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LADIES AND GENTLEMEN,
Consider for a moment the economic process as we have traced it up to
approaches its moment of devaluation, the whole movement which we have
progressive, forward movement. Thus, values arise through the
Spirit to Capital. All this is a forward movement.
In fact, we have been observing the value-creating movement in the
There will be that development of values which arises as between
against it. This is consumption — the development of a need. Here
progressive, forward movement. (see
arrested, there arises, not a further value-creating movement, but
This is the second element in the economic process. In the economic
process we have not only value-creating movements but value-creating
producer or trader and in the very next moment the creation of value
movements of economic energies, you will never understand why the
diamond in the King of England's crown has such an immense value. For
value-creating factor if we regard the movement in the economic
has more freedom of movement. He can play his part far more
to say, for his fellow-men. For if he cheapens his commodities he is
value-creating movement, which is harmful to the economic process.
Capital, the Capital will become congested the moment it arrives again
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LADIES AND GENTLEMEN,
rents. Now, as I said, fundamentally speaking, the return for land
borrowed on land would mend matters at once, but it cannot be carried
man. You remember: “All men are mortal, Caius is a man,
future from any given moment onward — towards the future —
But, ladies and gentlemen, life does not move towards the past, nor
fundamentally by thinking. But spiritual work is not an easy thing to
grasp in economic terms. Spiritual work begins the moment work itself
of thinking begins the very moment Labour itself is organised and
material sphere. You will see that he applies an immense amount of
real advancement of the economic process is only possible if it
concepts constantly play into one another. The total phenomenon, the
suit of clothes alone. In that moment I am paying for something quite
ideal element in addition. In fact, we cannot do without the concept
of “immediate payment.” This is the concept which holds
pay. Here payment plays the essential part. There must be such
payment. I pay at the very moment when I open my purse and give away
my money; and the value is determined in the very moment at which I
payment. That is one thing there must be in the economic process.
The second thing, which plays a similar part to payment, is the thing
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LADIES AND GENTLEMEN,
grasp at rest what is in constant movement.
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
ladies and gentlemen, we cannot speak of a surplus value arising
exercise of force. Even here, no doubt, the element of exchange will
above its true level. So, for instance, if foresters or huntsmen are
living with farmers, the foresters and huntsmen will come off better
handicraftsmen are living among farmers, the prices once again will
handicraft. Life is dearer for handicraftsmen among farmers; life is
comparatively cheaper for farmers among handicraftsmen (assuming there
are enough of them to make any appreciable difference). Handicraftsmen
few days ago, to the bewilderment of a large number of the audience
In relation to the various branches of industry, ladies and gentlemen,
Now, in addition to this movement which begins from left to right (see
there is another movement. The former movement, as we have
active Capital. The other movement does not lead to the
creation of values in this way, the preceding element always being
movement runs counter-clockwise, the second clockwise. Here, in the
first movement, something arises through the former member always
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movement, this theory has been shaken — the theory (maintained by
does not include what lies behind the phenomenon of
defined by this line of thought. For the development of price is
are things which we need only mention, for if we dwelt on them any
“agitate.” Now assume for a moment that somewhere or other
recognised by my fellow-men that I shall be allowed to keep it. And it
acquired by killing my fellow-men in the surrounding country. What is
interplay of legal Rights and Economics. Why, the moment you pass from
gentlemen, could it be possible, in return for a pair of boots, to get
him. Thus the moment Money makes its appearance in economic
intercourse we see quite palpably the appearance of the element of
of boots. Thus, the moment we have transformed the commodity into
which grow quite freely among men, enter in and incorporate themselves
in the rights which men acquire with money, just as money, which may
men. We have found, within the economic process itself, a division
(threefold memberment, threefold articulation). Only it is necessary
element in right, which, in so far as it is present, is quite
Mutually incommensurable things are exchanged for each other in the
invention, which he has patented. To begin with he accepts payment for
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LADIES AND GENTLEMEN,
regarded also from a different aspect. I mentioned a few days ago that
speaking, undoubtedly — at this moment of the economic process
draw up a rather full statement of account (it would have to be a very
so the payment also proves extremely complicated.
at any given place, what is the true source of payment for a given
discover what is the real source of such payment. People who look for
freely given. For example, assume for a moment that what I advocated a
It is remarkable, ladies and gentlemen, that this is something which
I would recommend you to keep this question in mind when you are
We see, therefore, that at a given moment of its evolution the
it is based on the judgment of men who join together in
that is, in effect, to treat “Loaned Capital” (investment
at the head of the undertaking — Siemens & Gwinner, for
phenomenon in which you can truly recognise what are the interests of
France was innocent of the. War. For, the moment we want to prove that
available for investment — is essentially the man who would like
the trouble of having to form an independent judgment. He likes to be
opinion in the sense of judgment. We may say that in our time the
possession of Capital available for investment is generally connected
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LADIES AND GENTLEMEN,
working in Capital which keeps the movement going. To begin with,
therefore, we have to do with movement. For as soon as we enter the
sphere of Capital, we have to reckon with the movement that takes
Speaking of this movement, we must be aware of one thing above all,
therefore this peculiar phenomenon: Two people make an exchange, and
Fundamentally speaking, the line of thought I have just opened out can
judgments, the kind of judgments, in fact, which must above all be
experience can form their judgments on the basis of such points of
brings these economic elements into movement, into circulation.
movement — to push or press the economic element, so to speak,
It is really this attachment to profit which generates the economic
money, in the moment at which he makes the exchange. Here, then, we
process consists in movement and everything must be brought about in
it by movement, we must place the human being in it everywhere. For an
kind of incommensurable magnitude, he is changeable, we have to reckon
involves the same element in human intercourse which we find in the
we see quite plainly here in the payment of interest takes place
they are often excellent husbandmen, excellent economists. They feel
supplemented or corrected by others who are associated with us.
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at this moment to follow up the reasons which some economists,
would see that their arguments were not at all bad and carried some
is in the economic life. The phenomena of primitive phases of economic
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
reaches the zenith of unfreedom in that embodiment of all political
Soviet Government can be sold at all. The Pope does at least content
himself with proscribing books; but under the Soviet Government
published save those which the Government permits.
— gradually passes over into the hands of government departments,
At the moment, however, we are not concerned with
element of private economy was still preserved. The more primitive
with another. We can draw up a statement. We can calculate how much
modifications and improvements — from Hume, Adam Smith and
Ricardo, and, we may add, Karl Marx — for fundamentally, though
national economy, ladies and gentlemen, they gain on the whole; they
dark forces, this would have been the inevitable outcome of men's
will show you, ladies and gentlemen, that it is quite impossible to
Observe the leading statesmen of to-day coming together at Versailles,
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— 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
already, even in the payment of wages — i.e., in that
upshot is that kind of price-formation which constitutes the payment
payment of wages, and in all the rest of economic life as well. We
seller or of the buyer. Today, therefore, we must pause for a moment
statements on the nature of money. For instance, you will find a list
constitute a fairly strong inducement to the amassing of wealth. If
bulky currency as a preventive against excessive enrichment. If
this statement, too, in one of the text-books on Political Economy).
a rather empty statement. Then they say: Money must be easy to
purchase-money come into existence among all the other elements of
But it is different the moment the slave is hired out or lent. At a
— albeit only a tacit — agreement among those who use the
decay. Here you can see what an unhealthy element is introduced into
conditions will ensure its being consumed at the right moment and a
is fundamentally different from purchase-money. Except for the fact
way. The moment loaned money comes into circulation the Spirit of Man
some business — at the moment he begins to use it, it would be
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establishment of archives. But you must add — at any rate as to
I mention this case only to illustrate how complicated the question
for a considerable part of life it will be perfectly possible for men
and women of sound intelligence, in the right associations, to
Labour upon the Nature-element. For the Labour changes the
Nature-element. It cannot be a merely additive function. It will be
in the movement of economic values. How shall we find anything
element here enters in.
the achievements of these spiritual workers — for they are such,
needs, therefore, are the fundamental premiss. Failing such needs,
This is a fundamental question. We shall only gain an answer to this
least, of a more general treatment. Suppose for example that there is
achievement has a value corresponding to the amount of physical Labour
in constant movement).
regulated backward and forward movement, so in industry bodily work
emerge. The positive may predominate. Let us assume this for a moment.
complicated (or, as we are apt to say sentimentally, the more
is Labour saved; a negative element comes in as against the positive.
workers are active, but the achievement in the one case is work which
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LADIES AND GENTLEMEN,
are now being pursued in the Anthroposophical Movement — and in
results in the existing sciences. Only, the method of treatment, both
desirable for the attainment of a healthy price not to think how the
the fundamental error of our economic life that an excessive
money in circulation we have a kind of reflection of that element of
fundamentally the same whether we contrive to record the items in
their proper places in an immense book-keeping system embracing the
services or things done. For in reality men live by the things
which comes into play the moment there are spiritual services. As soon
another angle, we shall find means of reaching such an assessment. For
“production” as ending in the moment when the wheat is in
Properly regarded, all human economic service or achievement — of
element of “Labour saved” to the extent that he applies
ladies and gentlemen, an economy — including that economy of the
would bring about feasible prices? The moment you begin to lead over
the various social discontents; men dimly feel that here something
reduce an economic to a sentimental argument. I say it simply because
one in every moment will then have his connection with Nature, even in
however, be equivalent to Nature. For the moment they are finished,
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lectures that are now to be given, to speak further of the movement
spirit. I refer to the movement spoken of under the name of
time in history, to find that the men who were accounted to be
elements; but we have no idea how very little we are saying when we
respect of reality — of the physical men he saw with his
happened that in this or that enactment they met spiritual Beings,
of the Universe began to disappear from men's consciousness;
Elements of the Cosmos,
men had spoken of Cosmic Intelligences that rule the movements of the
environment of the Earth. They spoke of the elements of earth, water,
water, earth, that resembled the ideas men have today. Warmth is
men knew better what it is than they do today. In those days it could
it was lifting this element of enthusiasm, this rapture of the soul
that came naturally especially to the men of Middle and Eastern
alone the complete content of consciousness, that men came to form an
element in consciousness, full of light, so that thought turns
did men form of the element of consciousness of the Cherubim.
And the element of consciousness of the Thrones was conceived as
sketch. I could go on speaking of it for a long time. For the moment
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“fallen” body is not suited to the earthly environment in
which you are living. The earthly environment does not afford the
Revelation a light, an enlightenment that comes from the Gods. If you
environment, which is simply unsuited to your being, I will lead you
the following comparison. It was as though, not for a moment only,
especially on Genesis, the beginning of the Old Testament, and on the
have given to man Revelation — for the reason that men are not
an environment in which his consciousness was particularly awakened
rooting; he felt how the mineral element in the Earth works in the
last really spoken to me through her beings; now a moment has been
Fundamentally speaking, all the seeking and striving of Meister
Knowledge of the Higher Worlds and its Attainment
now described, for there are no material documents that record such
world, in a quite simple, natural way, as we have with men on Earth.
Raimon Lull by studying historical documents is indeed very scanty.
historical documents make him out to be. For he shows himself to be
Eurhythmic movement for the sound A.
of O. [Footnote: Readers unfamiliar with the movements in Eurhythmy
for the sounds of speech, are recommended to turn to the first three
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speaking. There were however men who yearned for knowledge in the
conflicts of soul when they heard how in the past men had been led up
reality from men who gathered together in this simple way and sought
Comenius and by many other Brotherhoods. In this small circle,
few men were there gathered together, making devotion, so to say, of
little company of men. This being revealed himself as the same who
after-death state. He had descended to these men from the spiritual
fulfilment within you; you will go on further and find a continuation
development of that mystic, meditative, pious mood of soul. These
nature. Revelations came frequently to men from the spiritual world
these men, who had to receive the very highest knowledge — for
without a certain embarrassment, inasmuch as the men who carried it
world. This gave rise to the development within such communities of
among the very highest of human attributes. Such small groups of men
men and Gods would be completely severed were it not kept whole by
The development of the mood
two men. One is Raimund of Sabunda, who lived in the fifteenth
described to you yesterday, and who continued to inspire men from out
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than a sign, an announcement, so to say, of the presence of spiritual
movements of the planet in the Universe, the whole activity of the
looked upon as ruled in her inner activity, in her movement in the
of the Earth star, for the men of Agrippa's time? It is
the ideas of men have travelled very far away from what was accepted
as a matter of course in those times by men of insight and
being, Man gives to the Earth the impulse for her movement around the
Sun, for her movement further in Universal Space.
When men are speaking of knowledge nowadays it is very seldom that
conception and considering the realm of thought, where men think they
this, we must acquaint ourselves with the way men thought about the
And the development that
anything with men who were Sun-born. When Sun-born man came to dwell
They determine the movement of the Earth in the Cosmos; they govern
conceptions. The Christ became, for these mediaeval men, the Spirit
The garment of Life which the Deity wears.
depth of feeling. They are filled with the sense that men have
the fifteenth century. Then came the tremendous change, which no one
contradistinction to a World-System given by the Gods to men with the
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such a small company of men who had knowledge. As I have said, I
symbol that played a great part for this little company of men. You
then, in another connection, that if men continue only to think so
century by men who based their knowledge on good old traditions of
twenty-eight to thirty vertebrae and how the development of the
spinal column in the embryo corresponds with the movements and forces
column the copy of the monthly movement of the Moon. And in the
in embryonic development. The pupil in that school received this
a kind of embryonic development of a miniature human being.
Knowledge of the Higher Worlds and its Attainment
rudiments were still taught in later days, even practically. And we
that form of leaf, this or that arrangement of its leaves, why it
be found again. When, however, men step over this abyss, they are
Guardian. Men were not able to see this Guardian when they went past

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speaking to you again of the Rosicrucian Movement. Rosicrucianism, I
stream of spiritual life, men like Galileo, Giordano Bruno,
A.D., and in a rudimentary way even until the
Not to speak, for the moment, of pristine ages, I will leave on one
virtue of the fluid element. You must conceive it rightly. The
age of abstract knowledge came — when men became entirely
afforded resistance to the astral light, but only the element of the
written there indeed; but in this process the element of the
the case. Remember once more that in the ancient Persian epoch men
modern time arrived, only the element of the warmth-ether was left to
offer resistance. And the element of the warmth-ether carries all
reflected. Now men could find ideas about Nature, the Copernican
Movement: the Rosicrucians, as it were in a transition stage, made
to men.
Knowledge of the Higher Worlds and its Attainment.
epoch. All Nature: all the elements — solid, liquid, airy, and
— men wrote in the warmth-ether; they had no inkling that these
dear friends, the time has come when men must recognise: not out of
airy, into the watery, into the earthy element, the astral light will
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speaking to you again of the Rosicrucian movement. Rosicrucianism, I
this modern stream of spiritual life — men like Galileo,
rudimentary way even until the 12th and 13th century, man was able to
Not to speak, for the moment, of pristine ages, I will leave on one
virtue of the fluid element. You must conceive it rightly. The
abstract knowledge came — when men were only dependent on the
the astral light, but only the element of the warmth-ether. It is
the element of the warmth-ether is the sole resistance.
the case. Remember once more that in the ancient Persian epoch men
the most modern time arrived, only the element of the warmth-ether
was left to offer resistance. And the element of the warmth-ether
all was reflected. Now men could find ideas about Nature; the
Rosicrucian Movement: the Rosicrucians, as it were in a transition
men.
Knowledge of the Higher Worlds and its Attainment,
all the elements — solid, liquid, airy and warmth-like —
expanse. For a time — until the 19th century — men wrote
has come when men must see that not out of themselves, in the old
gaze into the airy, into the watery, into the earthy element, the
of men. In this sense I have held the lectures this Christmas-time,
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humanity. These things will show us the immense values which mankind
became a most important festival connected with the fundamental
Autumn season! The Earth is losing her adornment of plants and green
impression, the immense and sudden jerk which the life of a man
the Initiates. Men no longer need an image that is immersed and
cannot find its way into the minds of men. Evolution tends now to
develop the sense for material things. Men lose the inner
that ancient time men could not have thought it possible to take their

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together? The moment the forces from beyond the Earth have left it,
only has the outer documents to go upon and is unaware of what can be
mention at this point) of the Saturn forces. Here indeed we are
entering a realm of history for which no outer documents exist. For
development escapes our notice. Indeed it is scarcely perceptible
so that one might call this development continuous. But in the
year, and that then the Sun forces had entered into the development of
Now the Moon forces represent that element in man which determines
to his temperament, his instincts, his emotions — in a word,
another in man's development. In the thirtieth year of his life he
fundamental metamorphosis of life at the age of thirty. — This
open-minded scholar who knows the available documents — who knows
take precedence of all documentary research; for by documentary
moment: what does the spiritual Sun force bring about? We owe it to
departments of the Mysteries. For the same Sun forces which in the
normal course of man's development give him his freedom — give
earthly creatures. Here they represent medicaments and means of
olden times the rays of the spiritual Sun had entered into all men at
attention now to the ancient Mysteries and the way in which men there
requirement was that through all that had come toward him out of the
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In all ages, wherever there was knowledge of the Mystery Wisdom, men
movements of the wandering stars, nothing at all has remained in human
calculation of their movements if they are planets, and so forth.
one were to consider the outer measurements and proportions and
conditions of movement of the human body in complete unconsciousness
movements of this body a soul-and-spirit comes to expression.
the forms of the constellations, in the movements of the planets, in
the Earth environment available for human nourishment are connected
constant metamorphosis. At the present moment we see the full disc of
reveal itself as an outward phenomenon. At the times when through the
It is this process which has changed fundamentally since the time when
knew that constellations, relationships and movements of the planetary
receive the faculty of movement concentrated into his etheric body.
To speak for a moment in terms of these Moon secrets, we may express
experienced. Men did not merely know these things; they inwardly
Wednesday: Movement
earthly environment. He could free himself from his physical body and
speech. He moved in the way that Mercury guides the movements in the
in which Mercury guides the movements of the human being. Nor did he
times transformed into a cosmic Festival. In later times men no longer
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the consciousness of men with the world in such manner that this union
freedom. The development of freedom necessarily involved a decline in
we cannot say that the time has already come today when men have won
shall be met out of the very freedom which men have gained with
But the human beings of every age live in a particular environment.
And the environment created by the Mysteries is among the most
stage, the investment of man with his etheric body, never did they
spiritual life and movement within the ether of the Cosmos. We may say
truly say, nowhere have men lived with the growth of the plant life,
this being who in a physical garment bears the God within him:
significance in the evolution of the world. We have already mentioned
it in our circle, indeed we mentioned it many years ago. When the
constellations and in the movements of the planets is transformed as
And there came the moment when through the influence of the Mysteries
moment there went forth the power to create a new thing, yet a strange
only learn to deal with. And fundamentally speaking, all that
sentimentality but out of the reality of the thing itself. Then even
impulses of the Anthroposophical Movement if only we are able to

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the way it had arisen I also tried to bring home the fact that men
Occult Movement in the 19th Century.” Course of 10 lectures.]
spiritual science to inculcate an element which was deemed necessary
in order to demonstrate to men that something entirely new must be
the different philosophical movements, the literary movement and so
on — there are evidences that a convulsive element interpolated
and minds of some men there was a feeling that significant things
followers to engage in experiments with clairvoyance and the like.
actual form of punishment. Today, the most that happens is that
came upon a curious troop of men, also bound for Lhassa, weeping,
dancing, whistling, beating all kinds of instruments, and led by a
at the head of which was the man on his way to judgment in Lhassa,
with the Luciferic element, the Red Tassels more with the Ahrimanic.
in their deeds: the Luciferic element is predominant in the doctrines
and deeds of the Yellow Caps, the Ahrimanic element in those of the
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Let us for a moment hold in our minds the thoughts that
directs our minds and hearts to the great moment of world-evolution
in which we are living, the moment when it is essential to be mindful
of the new element that must be received into the evolution of
In ages of antiquity men received a heritage consisting
spiritual science. As I have often said, this development ultimately
becomes a natural process in the souls of men. The situation today
primitive stages of life. This development will come about of itself
and this means in our future incarnations — men must be
as in the case of the Polish Count described yesterday — men
of the Mystery of Golgotha depends upon the fulfilment of the words;
inaudible to men. He must be made audible through that which, under
his inspiration, spiritual science has to say, no sentiments or
not taken Christ into this Ego, there is one moment only when it is
the moment when they pass from this world into the other world. But
there to find the way to human hearts, men must inevitably lose Him
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Fundamentally speaking — and indeed it is evident —
in only a tiny handful of men. We can see that this is so.
knowledge came to men through their atavistic clairvoyance.
[“The Occult Movement in the 19th Century,”
of science is propounded, belief in it becomes universal. Men do not
fundamentally, to the fact that the soul is required to activate its
Men who by their
four centuries — such men dimly divine and feel that they must
who want to lull themselves to sleep by inducing a kind of mental
unveiled in this way. It was the time when men were saying: thinking
circumstances the human soul lives through strange moments, moments
moments when the soul asks itself: What is the use of trying to bring
struck by the fate of different medicaments. A remedy is discovered
medicament — iodine — had become famous. But he could not
physical experiments, and not from above downwards, that is to say,
involved in the course of his development.
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fundamental error, and is still harmful as a hindrance to an
elements were specialised in the bodies of man and the animals, as
human organism for the moment, excluding animals from consideration.)
they wrote. They talked of the four elements of the human organism,
but their special description of these elements was derived from a
do not trace. If we were to do this, our argument would be as follows:
Thus Paracelsus viewed what was formerly designated the cosmic element
conscious soul-element was at work, though in another form, upon the
structure of man's body. This naturally provoked a vehement reaction.
the preceding century: the De sedibus et causis morborum per anatomen
still retained some traces of the ancient element of clairvoyance.
to an introduction. Similar experiments must be discussed in their
still held today; the cell is the “elementary organism,” and from the
atomistic element, the cell, as the product of a fluid which can never
see an immense revolution — proceeding in leaps and bounds — in the
official ideal henceforth consists in tracing every phenomenon to
unable to meet the change in its environment. Now, an electric current
of its environment; and it is possible to construct a theory of the
organism differs from normality. No practical treatment can be
in this introduction, the first elements; we shall later on proceed to
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phenomenon in the chemical reactions of the muscle. If these ideas are
subconsciously through your heart, what goes on in the lower abdomen.
understand man, for there is a fundamental difference between the two
to the upper sphere their complementary counterpart in the lower
the lower function, which destroys its complementary equilibrium.
negative. This phenomenon, in which so to speak, the first physical
should be applied in a rational manner. Institutions for the treatment
phenomena which lead to tuberculosis following the special organic
reveal in their future development a general concept of the true
stimulating the resultant phenomena — as will be indicated in the
elements which cannot be controlled by the upper sphere.
treatment for any one suffering from emaciation. For this emaciation
phenomenon which should be concurrent with a spirit and soul activity
with growth and development in the healthy and the diseased human
the phenomena of disease. Emaciation is one phenomenon. But in its
I would say that the phenomena of disease are organically linked up.
They constitute an ideal organisation. One such phenomenon belongs in
when only half-healed, i.e. when the necessary phenomena have been
fatigue have to be stimulated in the treatment of tuberculosis, they
must be subsequently countered, at the appropriate moment, by means of
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curative treatment; and that we took as our starting point on that
will be dealt with in subsequent comments, but it is my intention to
something suggesting lines of treatment to be given together with
“motor” nerves are those sensory nerves that perceive the movements of
hysteria are some that originate in the soul: grief, disappointment,
sentiment This one example will show you how extremely cautious we
must be, if we are to reach an objective judgment of the complicated
healing. For even if we apply cold water treatment, we apply something
connection with healing methods. I believe that medical men who have
substances, if we start from the most elementary conceptions of
difference is of fundamental significance. For instance, I would ask
enabling it to adapt itself, within wide limits, to its environment.
development. You can cut up this gastrula, dividing it through the
whole gastrula would have behaved. You know that this experiment can
frog, and remove a portion in a very early stage of development, the
Anyone wishing to be a sound psychologist, whose statements have
Moreover, we have not drawn these elements in equal proportions from
soul and spirit element. So that, in fact, with our soul and spiritual
resembling primitive forms, even in its later developments; and yet of
be termed the process of healing: the employment of those external
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relationship between individual remedies and individual phenomena of
[Ed: A lecture on the Ritter treatment of disease given
course, only mention this amongst persons who have acquired a certain
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
As individual medical men you have the greatest interest in healing
mentioned yesterday by Dr. E., is of great importance. After curing one
and can fundamentally help us to judge the relationship of man to
I recommend you to give heed wherever these processes contrary to
external nature are found. You will thereby reach a more fundamental
recommend, as a theme for doctoral theses for younger students, to
intestines. Think for a moment of the considerable difference in all
development of both bladder and large intestine. Only in those groups
With the disease as such, this development of microscopic flora and
reasons for well-fed and cared for livestock, in your mental review;
moment that you have thoughts about any organ of your bodies, or to
accompaniment of thoughts which arise and proceed concurrently with
these organic phenomena.
organic phenomena appear concurrently; the two processes run parallel.
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the two, we shall need to mention many things that can only remain a
sort of ideal for treatment and cannot be everywhere fully applied.
the treatment of disease, we should be able to select one or other
particular point, and at least we should know how a fragmentary
treatment We must collect and collate very exact records concerning
wherever possible find out — (I will mention every factor, although
movement and exertion, or inclined to inertia. For personalities with
It would be most important in the treatment of disease, and, as I
of diagram to their patients on each occasion of treatment or
these matters are crucial for the correct judgment of the total human
the state of his teeth in this way, the document would be an extremely
important basis for the treatment.
following external mechanical movements, such as rapidly turning
following certain bodily movements.
I should like to remind you of the general fact mentioned before that
explain more fully later, different methods of treatment are arranged
shall give a general statement regarding it now, but reserve the
methods, by the homeopathic processes of the organism under treatment.
between man and his non-human environment? As I pointed out yesterday,
What has been deposited as the solid element is mainly derived from a
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through the abdomen as well as in all functions of evacuation
complementary relationship of man and the plant, we find special
co-operate in a resultant with movements caused by the sun. If the
you consider the plant's upward development, from the region of
There are not only these two elements in co-operation. Marshalled
plants with great root development. And if you search in their ashes,
external document of the plant's relation to the whole cosmic order,
ponderable and imponderable elements. There we have revealed the
upon the healing process. Medical men who obtain certain favourable
a truth that is quite general; though its statement is apt to be
unwelcome. Where the treatment of human beings is in question in the
method of treatment for such and such a case; and then if it is
is always possible to meet, and even beat, one theory of treatment
between the two and manifests mercurially For the mercurial element is
between the saline, the phosphoric, and the mercurial elements in the
movements of the heart. The heart movements are not only an imprint of
laymen, in a rough and obvious way, by means of the following
element by the physical body; you will find that there are 25,915 or
some time ago; today these processes are photographed, as I mentioned
referred the statements to a laboratory experiment, which, of course,
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drawn your attention to certain fundamentals in human
associated with this permeation of the higher human elements into the
If you observe in pregnant women symptoms of the same kind as in
adequately prepared for this by the necessary treatment in childhood,
Mercury and the Moon, to give them the titles already mentioned. But
estimate and appreciate certain phenomena of human life and
our sphere of vision, that we can grasp these phenomena. For otherwise
the development of carcinoma must always remain a mysterious factor in
Another phenomenon can be considered in a similar way — the cases of
one; otherwise we could never attain adequate development of our brain
the fluid element present in man. Thus we can observe a prolonged
exact moment, which always exists, even if not apprehended, in which
or dieting, or special treatment in childhood, and especially in early
mentioned. It would be of immense help to the prophylactic treatment
phenomena as pneumonia and pleurisy in children by hasty and intensive
treatment. Of course, it is obvious that parents and teachers are most
treatment, or, as it is now termed, Nature-healing, is to be
recommended; this may be desirable in other cases, of course, but in
process of man's growth and development. In this connection one should
method of treatment. These people, when they have reached a good age,
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environment as they open out towards it — is inwardly felt by you
element that embraces it and fills the surrounding universe. So in our
element outside the earth.
and taste the etheric element which is external yet related to man, we
instrument of the physical eye, has a close inner relationship to the
taste are supplemented by the processes due to the intricate structure
taste. Now there must also be a complementary downward metamorphosis
to taste with the whole alimentary tract, and bad digestion results
The two bifurcations, upper and lower, are exactly complementary.
Just consider for a moment how many of the representations you use in
moment the soul-life of the congenitally blind or deaf person with
metamorphosis. What then may be regarded as the complementary
tried to show the close relationship between the so-called mental
process of excretion; basing my argument on anatomical structure and
that in the scent there is already an element of salification; there
blossom are akin to that which lies deep within the abdomen or in the
Let us look for the polar complementary activity; it must be
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is that element in the process of smell which leaves the extra-human
element locks itself up in the substance, and then we look at it from
up the phenomena revealed in smell, not only into the vegetable world
This latter appropriates as it were the elements revealed to our sense
statements may shock your preconceptions, but I hope to convince you
in time that the classification above mentioned is the best of
foundations for curative treatment. As a general rule we find that the
activities with the world environment.
motorcar. This passive abandonment to motion is the cause which as it
treatment of cardiac cases, to provoke spontaneous movements that are
[Ed: Eurhythmy is a new art of movement created by
practice mainly regulates the spontaneous movements permeated with
mention these truly remedial exercises derived from Eurhythmy
(curative Eurhythmy), in the treatment of all irregularities of the
internal movements sufficiently; persons who e.g., do not take
movement with rest, during the digestive process itself and so forth.
nature of man to accept and even try some form of movement, permeated
accept suggestions for regulating internal movements. You will,
oxygenated atmosphere, causes a certain improvement in cases of
The activity of taste is beneficial to the healthy development of the
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Let us keep to the vegetable world for the moment; and consider the
divisions of the human organism.” Such are the experiments of Nature
can be, as we put our questions to it in experimental form.
opposite negative conditions exist, such, for example, as amenorrhoea
in women. It will invariably be found that the same substance is
The elements most recently detached in the course of evolution, must
moment, leave the animal world for later consideration. It is clear
plant modifies and transforms a portion of its mineral elements and
interpolate here the emphatic statement that I am not making
a further therapeutic requirement. We are led to consider a subject
and the same is true for the complementary process of thinking and
tends to display, as it were, obstinate individual requirements in all
of remedial treatment, if we did not cook our foodstuffs. And so to
in the nature of specific curative treatment, than cooked food. I may
such as fruit, acts beyond the alimentary tract, and comes to manifest
You may confirm these statements in the following manner, and indeed
treatment with siliceous substances; then put your patient for a while
the administration of suitable nourishment, while the cure is
extra-terrestrial, the cosmic elements in him, and those which pertain
with elimination in the brain, and provides the foundation for mental
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to man. For what in the whole of nature's immensity is really
to pass through stages of development only possible because certain
himself for his own use. So that there is always a complementary
homeopathic treatment (do not misunderstand me, it is necessary to use
medicaments: for example, the preparation of silicon or of vegetable
hidden inside it to its environment. If a substance during its
becomes able to permeate its environment with the former
reaction” above mentioned may be directly provoked. But it may also
taken the form of irradiation into the environment. These facts must
environment. One arrives at a direct insight into the fact that the
nothing less than to introduce an element with an urgent tendency
main obstacle to an objective assessment of the operation in the human
phenomena for which dosage with vegetable carbon is indicated, are
these comments, if you visualise the following conditions. Here, then,
sphere, and here the atmosphere; and beyond, the polar complement of
we come to all that is fluid, to the watery element, and we may
without any third element, are much modified by the powerful
environment. And the consideration of the formation of these shells,
All that is associated with the fluid (watery) element has its deeper
justification of the light treatment. But light-baths are not
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who has the task to heal should acquire a fundamental feeling
And do not let us forget another current development of great relevant
physics or of chemistry. And we, as men and as earthly beings, are
wholly enmeshed in the combined activities of these two elements,
are in a position to give men air or whether to deprive them of it.
organism; and they act as the only elements operating in their pure
ingredients of albumen are the four main natural substances, carbon,
albumen is brought about; how is protein made? Contemporary chemical
theory to the structure of albumens, vegetable albumen and animal
albumen have been viewed as very much alike, and up to a certain
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
even wholly abolished, by those of vegetable albumen. And this leads
appears as albumen in the animal organism or especially in that of
It is in your recollection that I have had frequently to mention the
and their complement, the heart. Those four organic groups are most
structure of human albumen. So we must study them, and not the
atomistic and molecular forces in the albumen substance. In our
inquiry “Why is albumen what it is?” we must conceive of its internal
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first includes all facts connected with the origin, development and
possible cure of tumours. The second includes the so-called mental
diseases, and their really rational treatment. And finally there is
the field of externally applied remedies, ointments, salves, and so
treatment of tumours. This endeavour is, however, blocked and often
This principle is particularly important, let us say, in the treatment
encroachments, so to speak, of the physical structure over the etheric
the skin. But owing to the vehement opposition developing in some
complementary opposite of this whole phenomenon. For this I refer you
You may corroborate this statement by means of a test which can only
elements of the mistletoe choose the path through the birds, and are
specialising according to the requirements of this or that organ; and
still the vegetable element and from them the other essential parts of all
of the mistletoe. Extend the experiments to Helleborus niger, the
any effect — or any visible effect — if administered to women. But
on men it will show appreciable influence in the case of tumours, if
ointment, especially in combination with other favorable ingredients.
that an ointment compounded on these principles would have most useful
“mental disease”
the expression “mental disease”; the spirit is always healthy, and
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physical judgment — I use this term with intention and reference to
into the operation of intellect and judgment. This will not yet mean
the attainment of a proper clairvoyance associated with definite
visual images, but it will be possible to attain a type of judgment
judgment if you study psycho-physiologically the organisation of the
material for a sound judgment of the person's etheric body; the
justified in stating that a too vigorous development of this framework
accrue from the external formic acid treatment just described. You
judgment. Indeed the experiences we may meet with regard to human
visualisation of these things which is based on judgment. The actual
organs of clairvoyance must be developed from within; but judgment is
the finer shades of judgment in the external world, this highly
evolved judgment will come towards that more intimate process which
difference is still far too little regarded and men persist in
off-hand pronouncements of this sort: “here I have a knife; well, a
frameworks distinct, I will colour the one just mentioned blue; it
The treatment of this scaffold can proceed on two lines. Firstly, it
and similar phenomena.
subject further, but for the moment we are considering merely the
type, and combine this with all the phenomena emerging in sickness.
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today will be a comment made to me from a very
characteristic markings are due to this involvement in extra-telluric
from the moment of devouring the spider, the blackbird in its inner
from the henbane. And why? Because in the very moment that the poison
into the instinct of defence. And so, in this phenomenon we have a
very plastically evolved development of what we ourselves do, if a fly
Later on perhaps we may consider our human instruments of thought in
development on exclusively intellectualist lines; in the atmosphere of
his diseased development? We can only judge these cases aright, if we
formation. It is a matter of correctly interpreting the phenomena. It
elements contributing to the diabetic tendency, and we are confronted
nor forget that in excitable individuals, excitements may be connected
albumen is treated and transformed, where the vegetable albumen is
metamorphosed into animal albumen. These regions are beyond the range
excitement with the result that even in the intellectual sphere these
excitements provoke their characteristic organic processes. Strictly
speaking they should not produce immediately — i.e., as excitements
What is the fundamental cause of such manifestations? Nothing less
so that we may be able to put the ego in an environment which will
sub-division of the oil, the frequency of the treatment and so forth.
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yourselves by experiment that mild massage in the region of the spleen
the moment that the massage becomes too vigorous it becomes apt to
those regions. And very much depends on this displacement of
crude terms of our speech. However strange the statement may appear,
as you can at those meals, and take other nourishment in between
functions are extraordinarily liable to impairment through this
moment of the immense difference between arms and legs in the human
by massage, the astral element is drawn from outside inwards, and the
arms become very much more instruments of the will than they would
on the other hand, the feet and legs are massaged the physical element
effect on the upper organs, and strangely enough, massage treatment of
especially evident in such ailments as, e.g., migraine.
of special organic stress, such as the monthly period in women, are
head, instead of the external environment. And true comprehension of
treatment for disease. This use of light and color should be more
into the environment of a room furnished in one color, because the
of changing the colour in the environment. The changes of color are
in reactions, when the individual who has been in a red environment is
of a red environment into a blue.
not distant future. Color therapy, not only light treatment, will soon
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referred to the development and retrogression of the teeth I want to
for instance, the phenomenon with which you are well acquainted but
formation. Girls and young women have good teeth — and after their
first confinement and childbirth their teeth are defective. This
development of dental structure is perhaps less important than the
development of the teeth, which approach gradual decay. This is a
too late for the prophylactic treatment necessary to dental formation.
early as possible to run with dexterity, with intricate movements of
similar exercises. If this is connected with an acquirement of skill
observed, forms as it were a constant etheric movement of organising
physical organic activity, and thence arise the phenomena to which I
complexity of the human organism requires us to supplement education
builds up the teeth. Only the obliteration in the external experiment
the body. If we rub the lower abdomen with etherised chlorophyll we
matter of mere dental treatment.
So you see how greatly dental treatment — in so far as dental
treatment is still practicable — is related to all the
development of the formative teeth process. And phylo-genetically the
importance for our judgment of the whole process of dental formation.
arguments pro and con, and the prescriptions which are given in these
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arguments and objections against the invasion of micro-organisms, for
attention is diverted from the primary element. Suppose that in the
human frame for development, that soil has been made suitable by the
environment? Should these cosmic forces attain their full expression
Now there is a special requirement of the human organism: all that is
throat and lungs from blending with those of abdomen and breast,
itself. Here you find the attunement of the upper with the lower
into compartments, but the various members interpenetrating one
area is created in the abdomen, which should not be localised there,
secondary phenomena, which are simply inflammatory and due to the
is a result, a secondary phenomenon. And the curative effect must be
sought not in the treatment of the secondary manifestations but of the
elements of which his upper organic sphere is deprived, by painting
blue spots of colour on the wall, and to represent the elements of
abdomen, these diseased conditions are exteriorised and “thrown off”
to cope with all the embarrassments of an arrested growth; and how in
into movement.
be of immense assistance in the whole treatment of mankind.
such ailments as influenza.
phenomena of inflammation and paralysis in the upper organisation,
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judgment. To use individual judgment is far better than to keep to
and concealed by illusions, so that sound judgment becomes most
difficult. If a judgment is formed on a question of heredity, there
are always other phenomena to which it does not apply. For indeed, the
that always in heredity different elements, male and female, play
permanent contest with the terrestrial elements. But the strange
families subject to mental disorders, these may alternate in
which swings to and fro. Therefore it is a matter of immense urgency
preserve and improve the health of women, for in that case, the
and care to the health of their women, wages war against the harmful
as shown among “bleeders.” You will find a striking phenomenon, known
bleeders. But if these marry women free from hæmophiliac descent, the
expression of my statements, and indeed the facts of hæmophilia are
far clearer proofs than all the recent experiments by Weismann, etc.,
general judgment of the human bodily organisation; this organisation
helpful — aspects of human nature. Both of these young women came of
women. They must have both had something in their egos, in their power
in bleeders. If such forces are augmented in a conscious way, this
antimonial forces act on man at the moment in which something presses
albumen forming forces, which work in such a health-giving way — that
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senses with the environment and they have relatively little to do with
fundamentally a metamorphosis of sense-activity, which is the more
for the recognition of wholesome and necessary methods of treatment in
and impairments there. Consider, for instance, the following fact.
the liver's action operates as encapsulation, encirclement and
possible to apply mechanical treatment to what has mineralised
organism. The replacement can be supplied in a certain way, but we
nothing less than a movement of the mineralising process from within
movement is inwardly connected with the utilisation of fluorine in the
detrimental to the teeth and especially to all the normal function of
diminishing the vigour of the intestinal movements somewhat, though
promoted by means of the limb exercises which I have already mentioned
feet. Especially beneficial is the control of movement through
eurhythmy — because eurhythmy permeates movements with soul. If
movements that many young girls are expected to undergo may react
permeated with soul. And what of the hands? The movements proper to
benefits which a sound employment of this handicraft can bring to
Thus even in the sphere of mechanical ostensible movement there is a
forward movement from place to place, in the external world, is a
reversal of the movement interiorised in the process of digestion. It
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variety of remedies and treatments are discussed along with many details
of Steiner's major contributions to the treatment of children "in need
have, as you know, quite a number of children whose development has
psychiatry today limits itself to describing abnormal phenomena of
they are driving out a fragment of genius! We shall get nowhere at
stage of making pronouncements as to what is clever or reasonable, in
For the first-mentioned life of soul is not that in man which
brain — this one is the permanent element in human thinking;
of the development of the child, we must clearly distinguish between
process of growth and development which expresses, as strongly as in
individuality. But now, if this development were to continue after
earthly environment. The relation of the sexes is not the whole
fundamentally of the same nature. We should really speak, therefore,
of being sensitive and not indifferent to his environment. Before
susceptible to his whole environment. Thus does the human being form
structure of the organs, and is conditioned by the whole development
the liver, for instance; in the movement of the fluids — or
defect in the thinking is not of such tremendous importance. Most
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Judgement. Case described of a genius who in a later incarnation
mental illness or mental weakness in some child, modern methods of
into the question of how mental illnesses in grown-up people should
psychology, of all kinds of mental abnormalities, and has written big
statements, than the journalist who is reporting his lecture. The
Wullfen's arguments were most effective. The proofs adduced were
treatment, both educational and therapeutic.
development to the development of will, in the child. We saw
around him only in scattered fragments, so to speak, all that man is
gradually in the human being, as he progresses in his development,
living thought that man holds within him, he receives at the moment
leaves his own living element, his own element of living thought, and
we look out upon our environment, we have around us the world of
means that the thinking, and the forming of mental pictures, which
at that moment, as always, only right and true thoughts in the cosmic
in the region of the abdomen and limbs, a poorly developed etheric
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associated with epilepsy exercises for balance recommended. For
disturbances in circulatory system element of warmth to be stressed.
have to find the method of treatment for almost every single child
can go on to consider methods of treatment in detail. It is,
as you know, many cases of so-called mental disease are of such a
a right educational treatment; and we shall find that in an illness
improvement; indeed the illness may in some cases be got rid of
psychiatry cannot help us here, for the reason that the men of our
from so-called mental disease. It is commonly believed even among
precise in its statements, gives occasion for such a belief, but
first the ego organisation. When, at the moment of awaking, the ego
moment, we will leave the etheric body out of the picture), and the
firstly, with gravity — that is, with the element of “earth”.
that the warmth element works in two directions; part of it reacts on
correlate — namely, the vibration of the air. The movements in
however, at the moment is to know that this is what we mean by
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and encouragement. The best self-education for the teacher.
treatment.
treatment of adult patients by our methods still presents
difficulties. As I explained yesterday, the treatment would require
far can we expect to bring about an improvement? Any degree of
improvement that we are able to bring about is so much gain for the
turned aside, so that the fulfilment comes in some quite other way.
indication of the accompanying phenomenon — namely, disturbance
in our study, where the phenomena that show themselves differ
in human development between birth and puberty. We come, in effect,
that belongs to the fluid element, of the equilibrium that is
into his whole environment — into weight, into warmth; he
seizes hold of all the elements more intensely than is really
this condition is bound to feel his environment much more keenly,
powerful reflection of his environment.
moment he begins to develop will in any direction, the child
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two conditions related to lack or excess of sulphur in the albumen.
Educational treatment for boy mentally apathetic but excitable in the
creative ideas. Educational treatment for a child mentally active but
impulse of karma) and the gradual development of the child through
treatment for some considerable time, and in whom we shall be able to
will draw a different arrangement, where we have the ego organisation
the arrangement there is centrifugal. In the metabolism-and-limbs
physical. And the arrangement in the rhythmic system, in between the
organism, and the moment something is caught and held fast, by means
organisation (below). And then the same thing happens the moment
the albumen substance in the human organism is prevented from
metabolism-and-limbs system which produces albumen that is poor in
constituents are combined in the albumen is, in such a case,
albumen will then be too rich in sulphur. It will have in it carbon,
consequence of the albumen being too rich in sulphur, the impressions
the oversulphurous albumen. And only if we can succeed in getting
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three years. The boy was all this time backward in his development
too as a child was very late in his development, and the second
sees around him call forth wonder and astonishment in him. Let me
movement, but yet on the other hand makes him pay attention, for in
but substance — is derived entirely from external nourishment.
the food that is eaten as nourishment. For it has anyway no
inclination to start working upon the nourishment that does reach it,
the demand for nourishment being so slight in this front part of the
what is received by way of nourishment begins to be deficient.
connected everything in the human being that has fundamentally to do
with movement. What ought to happen is that gradually, in the
course of life, the whole system of movement in man should become a
makes a movement with his arm as if to take hold of something; the
boy does not make the movement.) Never mind! We mustn't force him. Do
provides the foundation for the change of teeth. These phenomena are
the right educational treatment for this child in very early years?
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an objective elemental being from the world outside. Subject and
movements. He sleeps little, and does not fall asleep at all easily.
you see, he is backward in the development of his whole physical
we have to note a retardation of development.
is altogether behind-hand in his development. As you will see for
during pregnancy. Think how she was continually in movement on the
she even drank a good deal. Development is said to have taken its
organism. Suppose the astral organisation has suffered a displacement
from right to left, and this displacement is continued — as it
paralysis showed signs of improvement. The affected part was left a
up on his feet. At such moments you can observe also that extreme
we have tried is treatment with calcium lactate.
is stated in the report given us that development in the first three
certain nervous excitement, that manifests externally and that tends
now for a moment this weak digestive organisation — that is to
there are signs that a natural betterment is taking place. We have in
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features of mother's astral. Ego not developed in last moments of
dreams on falling asleep, not on waking. Treatment of these three
tremendously large the head can become in a hydrocephalic child! We
64 cm. When we first admitted the child, the measurement was 44 cm.
and 11th it grew still bigger. On the 19th April the measurement was
the 1st July to 64 cm. Otherwise, the child's bodily development has
the enlargement begins. It begins, you see, here, and then
internal tendencies that make for enlargement are working. I am
later. Development is said to have been entirely normal during the
grown to a considerable size. The enlargement of the head was noticed
still no more than rudimentary; it reminds one of an ego organisation
seems to have missed sharing in the life and development of the last
first months the development of a child outside the body of the
mother still bears a strong resemblance to its development in the
establishment of the connection throughout the organism is a gradual
there to do with an immense head organisation and a small body. The
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Kleptomaniac boy. Moral judgements belong to earth, not to spiritual
Quietness and darkness recommended. Gneiss as therapy. Nectar and its
horse-radish compresses recommended. Child to be broken of habit of
treatment of abnormal children has necessarily to be pursued —
has no means of access to the capacity for judgement that ordinarily
realm, moral judgements such as we are familiar with on Earth cease
Moral judgements begin only where there is a possibility of choice
develop a sensitivity to moral judgements. Consequently, the moment a
have here exactly the same kind of phenomenon as when someone is
physical plane to develop a sense for any moral judgement other than:
What I like is good, what I don't like is bad. His judgements, that
interest and enjoyment, and of things that are “bad” in
development takes place. If we notice that a little child grows very
depends on the environment of a growing child. Take, for
of environment into which such a child may grow up.
something that gives one tremendous pleasure, something that thrills
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age. School attainments reported nil. He should paint and express in
colour his inner troubles. Medical treatment algae and belladonna.
confirmed). Over-enjoyment of food leads to protruding lips. Loving
Movement of great significance but marred by lack of devotion to
and nicotiana juice recommended for girl above. Albinism in two
already undergone marked development. If the boy could have been
development when he has to tackle the problem in this form, than when
movement, here and now — he is ready for it — he is “all
great energy. Then draw the boy's attention to these movements that
movements.
enjoyment of discovering that he can write with his feet. It is quite
great benefit from such an experiment. For in cases such as his,
also a course of treatment with lead will at his age afford him the
you ever to admit for a moment this point of view. What is wanted is
connect oneself inwardly with the phenomena in question then a great
phenomenon that manifests in him with extraordinary vehemence —
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melodies. Poems with refrain recommended. Medical treatment and
receive same treatment as previous boy of this type. Fidgety backward
Tone Eurythmy recommended and repetition of strongly rhythmical
treatment with radiation of iron. Two questions: Is the mood of
Meditation of point and circle (already given) fundamental to grasp
moment. The inflamed condition that shows itself in the neighbourhood
do not know whether the experiment has yet been made of testing the
rhythm; and then later on, the moment will come when we can approach
movement. He is a most lovable little fellow, but it is
the child, inwardly. Surprise, amazement, begin to rise up in him, as
you do with him; always stop after a few moments and get him to
then, in addition, some therapeutical treatment will be needed; and
bath treatment of this kind has been begun, the children get rather
there before me as I speak. The fundamental fact about this child is
phenomenon intelligible, I shall have to explain it for you in
us to give our attention for the moment to the following.
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in the right manner, you will have to form your judgement and
elementary stage.) For Goethe took a special delight in the
it is fundamentally the same with all living entities — even
once we begin to look at the phenomena of life from this aspect, it
will at the same time give us insight into the way men thought about
healing. For in healing men saw a process whereby that in man which
was, in effect, the establishment of a right balance in the human
indeed to be brought into it by means of education, these men of an
fundamental perception, we can do no other than carry our enquiry
fundamental perception, we find ourselves ready to approach in a much
— that when some medicament or other is given to a child, it
all the abnormal phenomena that can then show themselves in a nursing
transition to receiving his nourishment directly for himself. The
environment. In the flower however begins a life which reaches out,
of the plant that in man has to do with digestion, with nourishment.
right feeling towards what is in a human being's environment and
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on the complementary nature of Christmas with Midsummer and Easter with
agreement.
again in this March, 1923, at about the same point of development at
in her soul element, for the forces of which I have spoken are the
soul element of the Earth. She has drawn it completely in, just as a
the entire soul element of the Earth within it. At the time of the
those men who at the time of the Mystery of Golgotha still ranked as
these initiates formed their judgment of the Mystery of Golgotha. But
to speak, of celestial phenomena, but rather the Sun itself.—
Earth, with the soul-element of the Earth, we find that now this
Christ Impulse, together with the outward-streaming soul element, is
mental picture arises: While in December the Christ withdrew the
Earth-soul element into the interior of the Earth, in order to be
exhaled. The entire soul-element of the Earth has been poured forth
joined with this soul-element of the Earth, now unites His force also
This was the feeling of those men who were inspired out of the Mystery
places, those men who especially understood the festival of the summer
out-breathed forces begin their return movement; the Earth begins once
souls perceive this in-breathing of the Earth-soul element, either in
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on the complementary nature of Christmas with Midsummer and Easter with
able to link with this thought a mental image showing the Christ Being
have mentioned this from the most varied points of view.
thoughts, which we have often mentioned. In these abstract, dead
Christendom, the “Gemuets”* of men were still sensitive
forms the centermost of the three soul elements in Rudolf Steiner's
picture of man. This soul element was predominant in the fourth
in-and-out-breathing by the Earth itself of soul-spiritual elements.
physically. He immersed himself in the soul-spiritual element, and
she draws her soul-spiritual element into herself.
this primordial divine heritage men could still resist the attack of
mankind, depriving men of any consciousness that anything spiritual
completely exhaled. The spirit-soul element of the Earth is then
Then the spirit-soul element of the Earth takes in all that is
it in a direct elementary way.
Since then that which the men of ancient times could behold only
heavenly worlds and becomes man, in the way He is given to men, but we
men the Christ appeared; for certain spiritual beings He vanished.
into the spiritual realm.” And it was felt to be of immense
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on the complementary nature of Christmas with Midsummer and Easter with
was united with the natural phenomena — that they oriented this
Christmas. Then men's souls were filled with feelings which found
utterances of the childish soul with the awkward movements of a child,
the later bodily changes, so men once saw the ruling and weaving of
need of the vision of the Entombment and the Resurrection, of that
inspirations arise for men. People are not always conscious of
these religious attitudes toward the phenomena of the world,
the festivals. The priesthood was that group of men who presented the
As long as people were able to add the Resurrection to the Entombment
We need to recognize this inner connection: The inspired element is
inspiring element and all that comes to expression in human life. When
between this living-oneself-into the course of the year and what men
autumn Michael festival something that would pass over into men's
If this Michael thought could become living, what tremendous
significance just such an event could have for men's whole
which the moral-spiritual element will once again he felt and
perceived along with the natural-sensible element.
“nuance” through being complemented by the Michael thought.
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on the complementary nature of Christmas with Midsummer and Easter with
consciousness people saw more deeply into the spiritual environment.
the phenomena connected with the cycle of the year, with the differing
environment to be different when the air was filled with butterflies
skin, in the racial temperament. This is what people noticed. On the
life in their environment.” — In their dream-pictures these
human consciousness. And on the other side, men feel within them what
today, one's own ego, which is then seen, often constitutes an element
participants were led to unfold a musical-poetic element in round
musical recitative accompanied by primitive instruments. Such a
festival was completely immersed in the musical-poetic element. What
festivals of ancient times, which took place under the guidance of men
simple, primitive, elemental form of music and poetry which was
can still learn today how to make use of instruments, how to form
sing. It is true that men have preserved the art of song, the art of
through the etheric element; it vibrates outward in the cosmos up to a
humanized form, as a further development of what the animals send out
environment.
a question to the divine-spiritual universe. Men received the answer
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on the complementary nature of Christmas with Midsummer and Easter with
cycle of the year in its phenomena was perceived, and indeed today can
received as an external phenomenon. Rather, it was something which was
the world. Men did not expect great secrets of Nature to be revealed
enlightenment. And what he wanted above all to obtain from the heavens
this outbreak of thunder and lightning men felt the moral admonition
“During the day the air is filled with the warmth-element, with
the light-element. In these elements of warmth and light there weave
want to make themselves known to men, want to endow them with moral
dream by which they were convinced that every phenomenon of Nature was
of elemental beings were also active there who revealed themselves to
men in their own way.
All the fanciful embellishment of the midsummer night's dream, of the
impulses which were implanted in man as Enlightenment (see
which men were to occupy themselves above all with acquiring
from Enlightenment to Knowledge. It was the right season
Seven Wise Men of Greece are, however, not actually those which
Now there approached the next development of the year, and with it,
sultry, light-filled element, he felt what came up then in winter as a
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by men of the present and future. It will become intelligible when,
significance of the phenomenon. If a child says: “I saw someone who
realize that a phenomenon which will appear in greater and greater
We shall understand it if we think of two fundamental and typical
absolutely regular and normal. The moment the breathing process is in
all such experiences have their origin in the Luciferic element. When,
form. In olden days men found the solution for this problem. When an
Sphinx. The Sphinx is the being who brings doubts, who torments the soul with
civilization that, in their breathing, men felt themselves confronting
human being faces the Sphinx, how the Sphinx torments him with
to a deeply-rooted experience of men as they were during the Fourth
moment Lucifer approaches him and he must cope with Lucifer, with the
is excessive; and if the physical body became too dry, men would have
more and more general, and the phenomenon which, as I have said, will
Whereas the child in Greece was tormented by a flood of questions, the
preconceived judgments and opinions. What is it that is leading to
interconnections between its phenomena and believes that all its
by way of Eurythmy or the development of a spiritual-scientific
else the motif of bewitchment, of being under a spell. This is the
imprisonment of wisdom in the nerve-process, the premonition arose at
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I made a statement which you will
phenomena of what is going on all the time as physical processes. This
even seen men or wagons. All he can do is to observe from below that
to them by its own activity. The moment such a spirit were to come out
beings. Otherwise we would not be I- or Ego-men at all. If, for
We men are thus in reality surface beings wedged between two entities
as men of feeling we have a space between the before and the behind
where we can unfold an activity of our own, and again as men of will
take an immense mound of wax and make a model of the inside of the
development of right thoughts and right feelings. This is the
core of the moment in evolution in which we stand. This is the step in
garden — beautiful particularly in the whole arrangement and lay-out
Spiritual Science. A time will come in the future when men will say:

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dealing with the most external element of human life in which Lucifer
inner movement. Luciferic and Ahrimanic powers are active here too, as
our attention to the three fundamental activities of the human being
movement, is continually giving expression to man's thinking, feeling
all in our life; but into this stream, into this perpetual movement of
movement. But there are places where the etheric body seems to be
between, where the etheric body is in perpetual movement and activity.
Here you see at one moment hardness — and then suddenly the hardness
with our etheric body into the sphere of the elementary Nature spirits
This feeling of longing to return attracts to us certain elementary
nourishment. They come, because they are attracted by the feeling, “I
leave of the soldiers I met three men. They wanted to exhume a dead
movement and life: in the astral body, consciousness.
the service of our development. The truth is, development takes place
consider it from a religious point of view, the idea of commandment or
realize that they are polar opposites, and that men's inclinations are
have Workers' Rights, Women's Rights, and so on and so on.
distant future — we shall have movements where less and less emphasis
we begin to be able to love our duty, then the moment has come when we
Luciferic — movements, and on the other hand, conservative — that
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Rudolf Steiner: Good morning, gentlemen! Has someone thought of a
is to be got from lifeless elements — he would then only be a plant
the earth either if human beings were not here! So, gentlemen, we
breathe: that is also a way of taking in nourishment. You take oxygen
In the course of the earth's evolution, gentlemen, which I have
the plant, gentlemen, is a magician. It holds the carbon back inside
dioxide and sets the oxygen free. Think what an excellent arrangement
complement one another in this way! They complement one another
won't consider the trees at this moment) — of root, leaf and stem,
blossom and fruit. Now look at the root for a moment. It is in the
And now look here, gentlemen! The part of the human being that is
And so, gentlemen, if — for instance — a child is becoming weak in
moment when you are lifting a potato loose from the soil, the hairs
So now, gentlemen, you can say to yourselves: When I eat carrots, my
still greater forces. Now think of this, gentlemen: when I exert my
work, for movement.
himself by any other means. Only think for a moment how strong people
cooking the grains. And now, gentlemen, what happens when we cook the
raw, his stomach would have to provide a tremendous amount of warmth
But now, gentlemen, let us come to the fats. Plants, almost all of
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Now think how it is, gentlemen, with this protein. Imagine that you
myself. But it doesn't happen that way, gentlemen. A human being has
have in us from proteins and other food elements. And we exhale carbon
Therefore you see, gentlemen, we must take care to bring healthy plain
You can see that it is also a question of giving proper nourishment to
We must remember that for long, long ages men have known that the
And you can see, gentlemen, when one uses mineral fertilizer, it is as
become so popular, or just nitrogen from the air — well, gentlemen,
foodstuffs are being obtained. It is tremendously important. You can
then it never happens that our body is missing some essential element.
are not made stronger by the treatment I have just mentioned. They are so
Question: Dr. Steiner, in your last talk you mentioned
reason, Perhaps I should mention that this person has never smoked and
gentlemen. And it shouldn't surprise anyone.
with tremendous liveliness. He said, “Yes, that colleague of mine,
Gentlemen, you need only think of this one thing: if animals did not
But now, gentlemen, what has materialism brought about? It no longer
Of course, gentlemen, when a person has diabetes, that is obviously a
And so, gentlemen, the most useful thing you can possibly do is this:
what he begins to like to eat and not like to eat. The moment a child
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the anthroposophical movement and its relationship to the
movement for more or less mundane reasons; but through a deepening of
those who end up in the anthroposophical movement have in common. And
Let us think for a moment about the conditions in which most
instance, that my son will, of course, enter the secure employment of
matters. This unbearable element tends to be driven underground into
supplemented by surrounding what one has unconsciously grown into
spiritual world right up to the moment before they find their way to
spiritual ambitions they outgrow their environment, and are thus
anthroposophical movement. It is therefore clearly predetermined in a
outline of this gradual development, you can find in it, if you
not only about the musical element but about the movement as a
cultural phenomenon — was to offer them something which went
world, a world differing from their normal environment. What went on
ministers, officials, parliamentarians or whatever — even
an introduction to the history of the anthroposophical movement, I
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as complementing the material which Rudolf Steiner included in his
of the movement to which they belong and who will thus acquire a firm
link the anthroposophical movement to the theosophical movement in
an anthroposophical movement. I have tried to describe the sense in
extraordinary amount adhered to the outer garment of their souls.
and that provided a strong element of cohesion among them.
tremendous communal spirit in which every single person felt himself
desired, having barely begun to address the development of a communal
or similar philosophers. According to Zimmermann these men thought as
name. I found it exceedingly interesting then as a phenomenon of the
It can then be supplemented by aesthetic ideas. Five ideas once
movement. The name, however, was very well chosen. And I took on the
name when, for fundamental reasons which will become clear in the
to the group which I mentioned
Christ” to a group which called itself Die Kommenden.
In these lectures I tried to depict the line of development
— I have to keep mentioning this — was given by me at the
phenomenon, if only from a deeper psychological point of view. Why?
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In wishing to describe the development of groupings which have a
anthroposophical movement, but also to characterize those of its
source which did not lie within the physical world. Such documents
But let us for the moment take another view, namely to ignore in
fundamental forces of the world than anything which has been
It contrasts with another cultural-historical phenomenon which
discriminate, their surety of judgement, has suffered greatly and
with phenomena which require the application of judgement.
Law constitutes one of the basic rules for the development of the
completed the initial work which was to prove fundamental for the later
official scientific establishment, initially wrote down the idea of
his work was rejected as unusable. That is the power of judgement in
exceedingly important element in contemporary cultural history; an
element through which it would be possible to demonstrate the
movements. It is necessary to be aware of the general level of
judgement which is applied in our time, an age which is excessively
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If we look at a phenomenon such as H.P. Blavatsky from the
a well-educated — bent were glad to be rid of this phenomenon
That led to the establishment of movements which describe themselves
use that as the basis for their judgement. You have to be aware how
historical development of their given area of study are likely to
large sweep the differing impulses and development of the many
an objective depiction is clouded by her subjective judgement, the
judgement of her feelings. It becomes abundantly clear that she had a
impulses of humanity. From the time people enter elementary school
essential element in the spread of religion over the centuries lay
Try to imagine for a moment what it was like in Christian countries
them in their environment. And because they found a spiritual world
environment still existed. Today, people are appearing in whose souls
illusion, which has arisen in parallel with the development of modern
people feel that, precisely because the spiritual element is missing
who felt these impulses. Indeed, this movement aimed to make itself
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anthroposophical movement for Christianity to be asserted,
as ordinary listeners. For the theosophical movement under the
anti-christian attitude, a perspective which I also mentioned in
the first instance simply as a fact in the development of mankind on
possible to find access to this event, which gave earth development
these traditions. But the kind of continuous development which the
opportunity to maintain the memory came to an end in that moment in
modern learning, and thus arrived at a radical indictment of what he
he formulates his tremendous indictment of Christianity, which is of
fundamentally new but the resurrection of that knowledge which was
backward movement is a reality in the spiritual realm, because time
as a society which is able to support a spiritual movement, however
It has to be said that a destructive element existed in the
elements into the theosophical movement which were no longer
appropriate if it was to become a purely spiritual movement.
And if one questioned whether the fundamental impulse of the lecture was
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The Emergence of the Anthroposophic Movement
first two periods of the anthroposophical movement. But in order to
stage, I still wish to deal with a number of phenomena from the first
being concerned with developing the fundamentals for a science of the
anthroposophical to the theosophical movement made it necessary for
movement later as scientists, and observed anthroposophy during its
fact that a critical assessment of modern scientific thinking took
anthroposophical movement. I only give instances, because this
will show you how the theosophical movement was strongly influenced
movement in Munich many homeless souls were already organized in the
the movement had begun to develop gradually in Berlin, Munich,
thrust of my companion's argument. Then we arrived at his home and he
anthroposophical movement entered its second stage did these
the anthroposophical movement. Every time I was in Munich, for
wants to grasp the position of the anthroposophical movement.
forward in the anthroposophical movement until that point. Our
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more intimate aspects of modern spiritual movements, I will attempt
occurred during the third phase of the movement.
second phase of the anthroposophical movement was coming to an end,
line with actual circumstances, that the movement should move forward
content of the movement. The foundations were laid for a truly modern
significant for the spiritual development of the West, the Gospels
and Genesis, a development which included the broader public in
development of its spiritual content.
stage and that these spiritual achievements could then be deepened
stage in the development of the Anthroposophical Society. The
overall development of the Anthroposophical Society. Because it is
to the judgement of an unlimited number of people, is evident
movement, with the German groups already mentioned, and also with
literary men in France, Germany, America, and England. It is a secret
touch with members of the Soviet Government of Russia; in Britain it
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of the movement to which they belong and who will thus acquire a firm
paradoxical, given the immense spiritual confusion of language which
methodology, we are moving in a spiritual environment which enables
us to understand the spiritual element active in the plant or the
element is active in the development of the world, how the individual
It was thus possible to build on this element of Goethe's world
Natural phenomena, the action of the wind and the weather, of the
phenomena. Laws were found for these natural phenomena, but they were
natural phenomena which are governed by these laws of nature. We talk
knowledge which still contained that additional element which
Phenomena may pass, but the laws are immutable. In the sense that
moral commandments had been lost. And that raised the essential
commandments work? Where do we find their roots? Yet again, the sense
individual had to be shown to reside in that divine element with
of nature on the one hand and the moral commandments on the other had
the divine spirit in physical phenomena, through primitive
Those who are involved in the contemporary development of
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machinery right up to the moment of waking.
one immediately provokes judgments. I think that in the case
of our spiritual movement could any kind of recommendation be
settlement where they are out of reach of it, the fact
intellectual culture is proud of the achievements of modern
well-being belonging to the elemental spiritual beings that
elemental spirits belonging to the sphere of the regular
elemental spiritual beings. When we plunder nature we squeeze
of his having been in the company of the ahrimanic elemental
their fellow men and change what is written in rather a
activity to get through what is given for the development of
courage to make yourself at home in this development of
Testament utterances and commandments and Old Testament and
heathen utterances and commandments. People have followed up
it can sound credible. Yet the moment you approach the
In this respect the Old and the New Testament differ
something tremendous behind the fact, for instance, that the
that was so proud of itself took a tremendous leap forward in
fellowmen who, because of the isolation caused by living in
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artistic development.
the etheric body is rhythm, a cyclical rhythm of movement or
movement, formative activity in rhythmic or musical sequence,
number of phenomena that occur during the course of a man's
life. One of these phenomena, to which not much attention is
of these phenomena. Whenever we lift a hand a similar process
hand moves, following what occurs first as a development of
explain the whole process tomorrow. At the moment I simply
want to point out that the making of any movement involves a
development of force which is followed by a state of
dealing with a development of force followed by a state of
moment the ego sends the impulses of its concept into the
tiniest movement of a finger we need the assistance of such a
to show here what is involved even in a movement as simple as
body, is not entering a spatial element: the etheric body is
extent: Round about us, in the environment of soul and spirit
be lowered into the spirit-self. But of course at the moment
be living entirely in an element which as yet is absolutely
superiority, but of arrangement). You will guess, of course,
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we turn our attention for a moment to the greater part of
what we take into ourselves concerning the development and
achievements of the soul with which we are always concerned
essential and living elements in our architectural activities
definitely requires more than the current literary equipment
to men by the gods, which manifested itself as atavistic
the side from which men shrink the most, because it presents
fragmentation, as though it must disintegrate into an endless
instrument, a tool through which the spiritual beings speak;
world so far is still more or less at the experimental stage,
bliss and bitter disappointment; when the knowledge that can
the case with our outward physical experience. Then a moment
times, even in the case of the Greeks who were Sun men, an
atavistic clairsentience led men to abandon their astral and
bestowed upon men which caused them to create such works of
what I have said with regard to our modern technical environment;
environment. For it is not possible to separate technical
was a difficult task, for we know that the ahrimanic element
the technical equipment necessary for running it. As a
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World judgment undergo.
World judgment undergo.
World judgment undergo.
And men appeared before me
World judgment undergo.
World judgment undergo.
World judgment undergo.
World judgment undergo.
World judgment undergo.
World judgment undergo.
World judgment undergo.
And weighed the souls of men
The Lord of Judgment, Jesu Christ
World judgment undergo.
elements. This means that the elements of earth existence do
elements and enters into what these elements really are when
the elements when we come to the part where Olaf reaches the
into the element of earth. It is described in such detail
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make such an impact on the development of our souls, that we
reminder of the power of inner development and should have
quiet moments this year let this indication work on us in
course of human cultural development should take; of the
the judgment of God, and our moral feeling will become the
with its judgment, but is a source of strength. This is how
much further in the future. They will take hold of men's
souls and enliven them with a tremendous sense for artistic
temperament — in fact how you are disposed to life at
at the things and phenomena in the world, or just listens to
something tremendously significant will happen to man, and he
that a judgment could no longer be given, the judge said,
this sort shows us that judgment can very often be wrong, for
judgment. That is the external aspect. But the matter has
extinguished for a moment. During short breaks in
human soul. And in that moment he received forces capable of
unconscious moments need not be long; they can be short
spells similar to fainting. Yet a tremendous amount of
moments, both good and bad, and capable of good and evil.
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to spiritual science is fundamentally opposite to the
will come a perception of movement and life in rich
And it is a fundamental feeling of this kind our souls can
impoverishment, because they have not yet been able to find
support and encouragement as we can otherwise only receive
creep into the elements of weight, support and balance,
our way into the element of architecture.
example, we shall feel a supporting element, an upward
striving, supporting luciferic element; a weighing and
pressing down ahrimanic element, and a balance between the
elements in architecture, so that architecture affects us
aware, too, that whereas outside, the architectural element
ourselves in this encounter with the architectural element,
elements of architecture and music appear to be so alien in
a balance between these two elements.
first time, and in a small, elementary way — in our
to bring the elements of support, weighing down and the
balance into living movement. Our pillars are not merely
and movement.
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beings that reaches a certain stage of development, received
Archai were involved in the development of human beings, and
compared to the statement of the person who denies that the
out of the necessity of his nature. Strange experiments are
what is actually behind physical maya. Here the moral element
follows up the phenomena of life with initiation science, for
already made references to similar things and mentioned at
human being after birth, as seen in the phenomena of children
existence. And people are tormented by doubts and
too, concerning the connection of embryonic development with
begin with and the way we think, are through the instrument
we do by means of the instrument of the physical body until
the moment the thought dies, then we slip out of the physical
there, for the moments when we really want to be able to live
striving, for as I mentioned yesterday, the Goetheanum
our spiritual movement that is not concerned with boundaries
movement. This, you will understand, is said only to show you
that our movement has a seriousness that goes beyond life and
achieve what I have spoken about and mentioned again this
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unfortunately do far too seldom, and think of the tremendous
should like to call his second major achievement in this
the very fact that, fundamentally, even the most dissimilar
what I want to tell you, and only mention one point of view.
element. If there had only been one dome then in essence our
because it expresses the inner connection of the two elements
mirroring in an abstract way at the moment. A very great deal
contains a spiritual element. For just as you have a
elements that will make our world whole again, and which will
will and make a mental image of it you are certainly awake.
up a piece of chalk and make a mental image of picking it up,
that is of course something you can have a mental image of.
the nerves, which would amount to an inner enjoyment of your
inner enjoyment of our own blood and nerve activity during
inner enjoyment to accompany everything we do. Our enjoyment
constituted he should not have this enjoyment. And the secret
from the tree of life. Now this inner enjoyment would be the
something to do with this kind of enjoyment. Whenever we
for a moment a human being who is in the following situation:
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early, and a little experiment is made to show that everything really
experiment, he ought then to say to the children: Out there in the
if it were immensely hot there, there would be no solid granite; it
What then is actually the original element that makes
the soul element is injured too. Fire has an influence on the soul
element of the animal. In the first condition, therefore, we have man
into wings. The human being still has the rudiments of wings up there
environment. So it was with man a long time ago. He certainly grew
older, but he never came out of the living element. He lived in that
Earlier this immense womb did not exist at all. What was
spiritual-soul element remains without becoming a physical human
a skeleton form, but it was fluid. But now came the mineral element,
makes the eggshell around itself! That is the mineral element. The
mineral element from the womb, and so we have mineral formation
already in the embryo at the end of its development. Man must absorb
element is incorporated quite differently. The bird has air-filled
within her. But once the mineral element is provided, the human being
is no longer able to live in the womb environment and must gradually
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I have just mentioned, which is present in small quantities in the
an instrument called a spectroscope that there is a yellow line in
times immense quantities of metals and even of sulphur were present
yolk, a thick fluid, and a thick air environment corresponding to the
needed such limbs. Today the limbs would look immensely coarse and
the body where these immense limbs could arise. All the rest of them
breathing and half for taking in nourishment. What existed in the air
environment was absorbed. These organs were not used for flying;
these rudimentary “wings” were for absorbing the air and
time, these structures served for taking in nourishment, that is, the
creatures below in the water-element — our present turtles are
creatures below in the fluid element were not displeased; they sucked
element could be formed in the earth. If the moon-substances had
immense amount of dissolved quartz in the thick air around the earth.
beneficial, healing effects of silicic acid; it is tremendously
ear, and so forth. That is a long way for the nourishment to go, and
then one must prescribe silicic acid which assists the nourishment to
of immense sagacity, but also of immense phlegmatism. They felt
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way, and in order that your judgment of what I am telling you here
a hammer or some other instrument, in order to record what is exposed
hammering everywhere, makes various statements and then one finds in
You see, it is because some sort of earthquake, some inner movement
gentlemen, that with the present earth-forces such massive mountains
tails. And then the moment these little coils arise, star-formed
present body. But think, gentlemen — we look today into
lifeless air. It has died. Formerly the albumen was living. The air
So it is, gentlemen! And this is true not only of nature
one will not understand how the Christian element evolved if one does
You see, gentlemen, how wonderfully these things
complement each other! We human beings need the oxygen out of the
science accepted my statement even though it astonished them. Then
that time people had got the necessary instruments and it was then
coincidence: Oh sure, Steiner made that statement in Paris, and then
discovered today outside the Anthroposophical Movement that were
this task were tremendously enthusiastic when they started: “Oh!

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I explained to you that we must form a mental picture of
immense sea, an immense ocean, between Europe and America, there was
tremendously.
Thus the earth is in continual movement. In very ancient
times it was much greater, much more powerful movement. If today
everything were in movement as it was in those times, it would be
movements are those of the Flood, and those have come down to
Therefore, gentlemen, the question surely arises: How
fuss and tremendous enthusiasm when at the end of the nineteenth
somewhat like albumen. Out of such a substance it was possible for
boggy, slimy, albumen-like condition gradually changed into the
present water and gradually brought about a change in these fish-men.
fish-men became kangaroos, those a little more advanced became deer
and cattle, and the most perfect became apes or men. You see from
the men left behind, so to speak, the imperfect specimens of mankind
that led it deeply into error, and simple men could not accept it. We
caught in modern science, announced: “Men are descended from
Now people say: Those primitive men with the low foreheads were
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conditions on the earth were such that men were able to live upon it
firm for men to dwell upon it. Before that, only marine animals were
today. But over there in Asia, in eastern Asia, there were also men
earlier than ten thousand years ago. These men naturally left
however, be mentioned.
You must picture to yourselves, gentlemen, what is meant
gigantic, and has had a tremendously large, vigorous population. Now,
So, gentlemen, we find a culture there that is quite
ruler, our ruler must be like that; individual men differ, but he
could not yet be called a state. (That is a mischief that modern men
All this was only possible for men whose thinking had as
Chinese at that time was not at all like that of later men. What we
And indeed, gentlemen, a great deal follows from this.
It is interesting, gentlemen, is it not, that if we
the two gentlemen at the back quite small. Were I to photograph them,
I paint in such a way that the gentlemen sitting in the front row are
imagine things for themselves. This, gentlemen, constitutes the very
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elements — he would then only be a plant — he must get
gentlemen, we reach the interesting fact — and we must grasp it
nourishment. You take oxygen in from the air; you breathe it in. But
evolution, gentlemen, which I have recently been describing to you,
This green sap of the plant, gentlemen, is a magician. It holds the
excellent arrangement nature has made, that plants and animals and
human beings should complement one another in this way! They
complement one another perfectly.
annual plant (we won't consider the trees at this moment) — of
moment. It is in the earth. It contains many minerals, because
And now look here, gentlemen! The part of the human
And so, gentlemen, if — for instances — a
Only in the first moment when you are lifting a potato loose from the
So now, gentlemen, you can say to yourselves: When I eat
one has to use still greater forces. Now think of this, gentlemen:
with strength it needs for work, for movement.
a moment how strong people are who live on farms, simply through the
gentlemen, what happens when we cook the grain? Well, when we cook
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Now think how it is, gentlemen, with this protein.
can make it myself. But it doesn't happen that way, gentlemen. A
carbon we have in us from proteins and other food elements. And we
Therefore you see, gentlemen, we must take care to bring
nourishment to the plants themselves. And that means, we must realize
We must remember that for long, long ages men have known
And you can see, gentlemen, when one uses mineral
well, gentlemen, your children, more particularly, your grandchildren
consider how the foodstuffs are being obtained. It is tremendously
missing some essential element. But if something is lacking in the
eats. Children are not made stronger by the treatment I have just
mentioned. They are so “hardened” that later in their
mentioned arteriosclerosis. It is generally thought that this illness
there some other reason? Perhaps I should mention that this person
way. That is really so, gentlemen. And it shouldn't surprise anyone.
his life, and was still teaching with tremendous liveliness. He said,
Gentlemen, you need only think of this one thing: if
But now, gentlemen, what has materialism brought about?
Of course, gentlemen, when a person has diabetes, that
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Rudolf Steiner: Good morning, gentlemen! A number
“How did man's cultural development come about?”
But, gentlemen, this is making far too simple a picture
originally. The people of India are certainly not much in agreement
wise men of India, speak of man in his original state on earth, they
On the other hand, gentlemen, we must be able to
only thing is, gentlemen, that knowledge was not then imparted in the
figuratively as poetry. It was not poetry to those men of old; that
able to test and thoroughly study the documents still existing, that
his face. This, gentlemen, is a necessity if man is to be free, if he
is to be a free being. These clever men of ancient times were very
today, it must strike us that the men of primeval times —
called in the question here primitive men — were not like the
the former, from the primeval men. You will get a better idea of this
Gentlemen, nothing has ever arisen in that way. No
So you see, gentlemen, we are not justified in thinking
animal-like men the descendants of apes or of other animals? That is
animal form, there were no such animals as our present apes! Men have
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are people, usually women, who can't stay in a room where there is a
applies equally to other sense-perceptions. Imagine for a moment that
For the moment let us disregard what Copernicus taught,
that materialistic physicists would be immensely astonished if they
And now, gentlemen, let us consider how the spiritual is
beyond the discernment of a human being, because while a human being
forms an idea, a mental image of things, a dog smells them. And it is
But now, gentlemen, think of fish. Fish don't smell
mentioned in his question, namely the human races. Originally,
to the earth. And the human nose, gentlemen — that's really a
But now, gentlemen, we sometimes come across strange
rest of it has been transformed into an instrument of thinking and
higher development is due to the fact that these very faculties which
instance, there are men who are quite unable to sew on a
need for a break. But for the time being, gentlemen, I must say

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have made utterly futile statements without even a rudimentary
instruments but only through spiritual science, spiritual vision —
I want to mention something that can help you to
influence of the moon. Thus the sun and the moon have a tremendous
Well, gentlemen, we ourselves can't possibly make all the
experiments, but anyone who doesn't believe what I've said should do
when they are very numerous and force their development artificially
majority of them do not develop into cockchafers. Such experiments
development? Obviously very early, at the age of about twenty or
from the moon, only this is more difficult to determine. Experiments
this some time ago, but I will mention it again.
position. That, however, does not concern us at the moment. In a
strawberry has acquired this tremendous force already, it has it
oily than the soil of the countryside. Now the rose has a tremendous
out in the country. So we can make the wild rose into the ornamental
what will grow on it. Naturally, this is tremendously important for
continues. And indeed, gentlemen, it will continue! In the coming

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must take very strongly into consideration a phenomenon of which
I mean the phenomenon of sunspots. The sunspots are dark patches,
In another respect this phenomenon of sunspots is also
so the phenomenon of the sunspots — among other things —
phenomena that belong to the realm of life, such as the appearance
and development of the grubs and cockchafers every four years. And
think of the finer differentiations in earth phenomena, whereas the
sun and moon are connected with cruder, more tangible phenomena such
with phenomena such as the sunspots, also with the appearance of
comets. Only when they are observed in connection with phenomena in
scale. So it is, gentlemen! It happens. The surface of the earth
again. That phenomenon is, naturally, distributed in the most
regularly in the course of 18 to 19 years. All phenomena connected
years, they are an example of the phenomena about which science is
Now, gentlemen, there are certain minerals — for
is a metallic element. If light is allowed to fall on these minerals
moon? I have mentioned only a few points. One would have to know how
regularity of all the phenomena with which astronomy is concerned —
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supposed, therefore, that lightning is a true electrical phenomenon
that comes about from the friction of dry elements. It is known that
volcanic phenomena have changed in the course of time. As a matter of
than forty years, that we made a certain experiment in the laboratory
laboratory an experiment was actually made by which a small moon was
pyramid. That, gentlemen, is actually still the form of the earth!
originally “cemented” together! But one finds when one
the combined cosmic action of the sun and the “cemented”
a flood, or firedamp. Now, gentlemen, I was present once at an
can expect the occurrence of considerable firedamp. At that moment
were by the entry at exactly the right moment of the messenger with
moment begins to rage; one doesn't know when the moments will occur.
warmth comes from: that it comes from outside, that at this moment
following experiment. They take a piece of paper and light it and
hold it so — in a moment smoke begins to come out of the earth!
The development of science, you know, is sometimes
remarkable. A monument stands today in Heilbronn — certainly it
the remarkable fact that the majority of men who later became
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medical men,
gentlemen declared that the work should be stopped, because the speed
can still read about this in delightful old documents. But despite
But science with its elaborate instruments and remarkably clever
experiments has discovered a mass of facts which — in the way
nourishment. Why is that? It is because something is working in the
the spiritual element. A spiritual element works everywhere, in all
were enormous numbers of miscarriages: the women gave birth
and men can calculate when it will reach a certain point where the
calculations-they will collide. And at that time, gentlemen, they
like shining rain. Everyone could see it, for when such a tremendous
that the Day of judgment had come. Again there was great alarm.
if men had possessed the same spiritual faculties that they possess
a means of earthly nourishment, and it is a remedy, a cosmic remedy:
You recall, gentlemen, that for years I gave lectures to
witnessed the rise of the labor movement. From my parents' house in
development of the movement. At that time Lassalle was still greatly
for the spiritual element in every single thing — whether it be
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evolution of humanity. The assertion that men were originally
conditions. At that time men did not feel inequality among themselves
fore in an epoch when men have more or less lost real knowledge.
developed at a time when men had lost real knowledge of the world,
it that, for instance, a labor movement had to arise with such
an influence upon the development of grubs into cockchafer — it
In earlier times, when men looked at the moon, they knew
of men. Industry has come on the scene. In the age when all people
they know still less what is going on in the world of men.
through first gaining knowledge of the stars. Today, the moment
no influence upon what is happening on the earth, that, gentlemen, is
arguments in proof of it can be found. (You see, in anthroposophy
gentlemen? The blood becomes very active and a terribly rapid process
But now picture for a moment not a man's body, but his
soul, gentlemen, sits there. The spirit and soul sit there. The
And now, gentlemen, what do you eat? Let us consider the
body. It is because we take in very delicate, rarefied nourishment
through the air, which is a slow process, that the replacement takes
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Two lectures given by Rudolf Steiner to the workmen in Dornach,
when conditions on the earth were such that men were able to live
sufficiently firm for men to dwell upon it. Before this only marine
Eastern Asia, there were also men. These men have naturally left
however, to be mentioned.
has had a tremendously big, vigorous population. Now the idea that
are to have a ruler, our ruler must be like that; individual men
for men whose thinking has no resemblance to that of later comers;
that of later men. What we think today would have been quite foreign
to the Chinese. We think, for example, animal; we think men; we think
sitting in front; there behind, Mr. M., and the two other gentlemen
be quite big and the two gentlemen right at the back quite small.
quite small. When I paint I do it in such a way that the gentlemen
way; they do not think like the men who came later.
experiments, produced gunpowder out of sulphur, nitre, and carbon.
years of ill-treatment at the hands of Europeans.
case of the Indians in those very ancient times. They had tremendous
organs that are sick. Those men of more ancient times, the Indians,
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Two lectures given by Rudolf Steiner to the workmen in Dornach,
“What has man's cultural development arisen from?” I am going
interesting to ask how men of former times have lived, and about
like an animal. When the Indians, the wise men of India, speak of man
world-conception always imagine that originally men were in some way
documents that have appeared in India, Asia, Egypt, or even in
poetry to those men of old, however; it was their way of
to test and thoroughly to study the documents still existing, there
can no longer be any question of men originally having been
thing that has to be remembered. When men of primeval times went
clever men of yore, the clever men of primeval times, were very wise
men of primeval times — called in our question here primitive
men — were not like the modern savages, but that these have
descended from the primeval men. You will get a better idea of
or several men got the notion that burying part of a sick man's shirt
condition of mankind. The men who, to begin with, looked more
these original, animal-like men the descendants of apes or of other
are today and say: From these apes, men are descended. That is
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Mensch und Welt. Das Wirken des Geistes in der Natur.
morning, gentlemen! Since our last meeting have you thought of any
have the same kind of intelligence that men have, for we certainly
have the instrument of the brain, whereas the bees have nothing of
surrounding universe do, none the less, work with immense power in
into account that the whole environment of the earth has a very great
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
connection in man between the airy and the watery elements. Nothing
for it makes men strong.

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GOOD morning, gentlemen!
I will add just a few remarks to the statements made by Herr
practical bee-keeping. For the moment, on this side of practical
we men take away as honey a portion of what was collected for the
environment.
must consider something else. You see, the Queen for her development,
that Nature bestows much more care on the development of the
development.
the worker-bee takes just that period of time for its development which
at the moment when the egg is laid, then here we shall have the point
earth development; it will then no longer be having a Sun-influence
in its development because it already had this, and has tasted it to
the full. Now it passes into the earth development, but only as a
worker-bee occupies herself only momentarily with this
earth-development, and has then finished with her Sun-development, is
it is fully matured it enters the earth-development. The drone is
Sun-development, that it becomes either a Queen, a worker or a drone.
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gentlemen!
few words on this subject. You see, these experiments made by Forel and
Kühn show so plainly how thoughtlessly experiments are
than such an interpretation of these experiments as is given here.
Think for a moment that I might do as follows: I might take a
experiments with ants. Suppose that instead of barium
statements that are pure phantasy.
experiments were carried out.
moment this powerful chemical working occurred. This is why the ants
The statement
gentlemen aware of the real question that they do not know, for
We men make
told you what all such experiments amount to. I once told you there is a
say: this plant, the Venus fly-trap, has a soul like men have. It is
Yes, gentlemen,
but I always say: I know of a certain arrangement so constituted that when
we could not have the right working in our bodies of the albumen we
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dealing with the results of certain experiments with honey-cures
interesting, gentlemen, to add today a few remarks on this article.
In this Children's Home an attempt was made to give honey treatments
mal-nutrition. As described here, the treatment was to dissolve the
were thus attained. The author, Dr. Paula Emrich, mentions the satisfactory
leaving, after a honey-treatment, the percentage had risen to
to 78%. In this case there was thus less improvement, but still some
improvement.
quite a number of very interesting experiments. As I shall refer to them,
on a person, it is no use simply to make experiments in the
patient; one must always note the age in any experiments in
of a very considerable improvement in his glands. A case of catarrh
— those really significant elements — increasing from 55%
Mention is also
The experiments
tries to discover why the children benefited so remarkably from this treatment
with honey. And here, gentlemen, he mentions something very
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workmen must see that he gets as much as possible out of them, and
should like to mention. A strong man was stung by a bee. He cried out:
matter, gentlemen, from starting bee-keeping as some of you do while
all price levels are quite false. It is fundamentally impossible to
Quite certainly gentlemen, they manage to get it! Some of them
tell you the following. We have made experiments with a remedy for
foot-and-mouth disease in cattle; we have made many such experiments
these experiments one discovers the following: —
be tremendously increased in such cases. The calf grows up if it does
artificial bee-keeping things are, naturally not fundamentally so bad,
external Nature; it helps itself again. And you see, gentlemen, this
gentlemen, within the hive was not only the instinct to build cells,
totality the harm does not appear all in a moment.
knows men well, one can say for instance, the following: — A man
— there are such men — is fairly fresh and strong at the age
the child gets some elements of this limey soil. This may not perhaps
period. A thing can be entirely healthy at one moment, and yet it
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fundamentally. Modern knowledge is not as a rule in a position to do
climatic elements are still considered, but no longer to the same
regard to their inner activities. A tremendous activity goes on in
immense work. How does the bee accomplish it? It is accomplished
elements of which the bee is constituted, and all the other parts are
methods I can recommend; I am giving only indications, but they will
connections mentioned above must be taken into account. I have no
make experiments with especially cultivated plants in seasons when
not known. What Herr Müller had mentioned at first, was excellent
plant cannot bring about any improvement at all in the blood-sap of
vineyards of Europe, over immense areas. At the time I was able to
other questions you would like to ask? Or are all you gentlemen content
really play a far greater part in the nourishment of men and women
Indeed, gentlemen, this will be of immense value, for the general
happen. Truly, gentlemen, these things which can be learnt by the
Well, gentlemen,
figs, just at the moment when the wasp eggs are not quite fully
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Queen does not wait in her development till the Sun has quite
completed this revolution, and for this reason her whole development
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
dull. The drones who try to bring an earthly element into the Sun
element must even wrestle in the air, and the weaker ones are left
brings the blood into movement, and in accordance with the
movement of the blood, the heart beats. In text books you will always
case mentioned by Herr Müller.
breathe more strongly by certain movements. You know how in these
right movement. The blood must be made to move more quickly. When the
the remedy; medicaments which enter deeply into the body must only be
whether there was a trace of alcoholism about this man I mentioned.
made no inquiries? You see, gentlemen, when one has such remedies as
When men go to
be recommended, for the blood is then very greatly injured. The blood
by means of special feeding, (these experiments have been made) the
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morning, Gentlemen!
earth, minute fragments of wood, and in some corner that has been
There is the ant-hill, and all round it a smooth pavement, almost
the new plants the moment they begin to grow; they will not have them
throw out. After all, we men do very much the same. These farming
caterpillar's stomach, the whole affair of the wasp's development
themselves. So it goes on, over and over again. To us men it seems as
merely take away the nectar from the flowers, and we men then use the
like a mere robbery in which we, as men, take part. The question
gentlemen, this is a point of view that a man usually takes as regards
to the earth, who had no idea of living men, who only went to a mortuary
and saw there the dead men. The dead could not be there at all if
they had not first been living men. The inhabitant of Mars who had
never seen living men, and saw only the dead, would first have to be
guided to living men; then he would be able to say —
not exist at all. The matter, gentlemen, was thus; there was, let us say,
for instance. There were then such clouds in the environment of the
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morning, Gentlemen!
work, what immense intelligence there is in the whole of Nature. Let us
tremendously industrious little creature, a creature which in order to
gentlemen, the larva can now mature in this piece of wood. The bee puts
that the larva now developed can fly out at the right moment. When the
gentlemen, the whole nest is so wisely planned that one can only wonder
Today when men
But gentlemen,
these things. Today one can test the urine for albumen, or sugar and
Yes, gentlemen,
quantities, that is why it is mentioned. But just as formic acid is
Well, gentlemen,
and oxygen. But gentlemen, in very, very minute quantities there is also
following year. Men may not appreciate this, but Nature finds it
quickened by the insects. As men we breathe in formic acid; in Nature
that a man dies at a given moment. Along time then passes, and he
Well, gentlemen,
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to connect one's self responsibly with the movement of
present, we definitely need activity within our movement. It
the Anthroposophical Movement has no use for general talk.
people, they would walk out. That must be the fundamental
remote, yet fundamental significance, that we have acquired
just mentioned.
always a kind of attack on our fellow men when we fire a
yesterday and used it in one's preparation. At the moment of
naturally upon a concrete grasping of the moment. But of
in consequences of our lecture our fellow-men want to do
thought element within ourselves. This has nothing to do with
out of the arguments for and against, which we ourselves
through the sourness of the logical development of the train
surely prompt me correctly at the right moment.” He was
to him. And then, at this moment, while Bernays was waiting
development of the material that has been worked out in the
mentioned, I give this as a guiding principle.
requirements: but one should make an effort to fulfill these
requirements, at the same time as one makes such guiding
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popular lecture with experiments, and thereby demonstrates to
are attended in order to see the experimenting, and what is
made in a parliament — of the kind for example, that the
someone cannot get on well in an unsuitable garment, that is
development in modern times.
that point in historical development where things can go no
movement which has developed in the civilized world of Europe
in a declining movement.
This element
of elocution”. This refers us back to an element that
was the speech element of the German language cannot continue
speech element and to come into a different speech element.
on the special element in regard to speaking which was
element. One experienced the thought element as something
artistic treatment of the language. Even the way in which one
like to insert here that the development of language does not
itself, like a kind of thought. It is the element where the
element of speaking which I am now giving an account of,
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one's conceiving one statement after the other, one sentence
matter of fulfilling a third requirement, which is: after one
properly, mentally, then this is valid actually for every
treatment of our theme. To deal with, we shall have the
which, as mentioned, we shall speak further — a feeling
for decades from the fomenting behavior of the working-
in this moment by old Bebel?
their own. In world-historical development, one can follow how actual
sentiment that I have just characterized, could be heard for decades.
statement.
occupies himself with this increment value, of which he has the
through in this manner, one can see how within that segment of the
other elements of life, the spiritual life and the political life of
conceptions but it turned into establishments. Intellectualism
element is the property of intellectualism. In life, one finds,
for women, and so on. Life is made up of a lot of things, as you
that exists in particular among the segment of the population which
exists. This is what causes the unnatural element in social
of modern-day developments. It is very difficult to make that clear
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of the recent development of humanity, public life as such,
state, is really a chaotic union of the spiritual elements of human
existence and the economic elements. One could say that in the modern
states the spiritual elements and the economic elements have
concept of rights and the equality of men in face of a people like
Futurum and the Kommende Tag. The Kommende Tag
One didn't have the mental strength to comprehend it but one had the
the above can be countered with the statement that there are so many
progressive movements in the Western hemisphere. Still, all
these progressive movements, regardless of whether their inner
management is concerned. The feeling that things cannot continue the
independent judgment and actions in regard to its surroundings. The
for the hearts of men. It only moved into external elements, not into
the feelings of men. Therefore, this is virginal soil for rights,
tiny country! Just because of world conditions, the elements of
man to man. Anything else, all parliamentary debates, are basically
element that is the political state of rights lives an
underground-existence, so to speak, whereas the element that is
and through a middle-class element. What man actually seeks in public
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be false, mystical, sentimental enthusiasm; a made-up
the equality of men, discussing it by means of examples, we
at a judgement as to what must be done in the life of the
ancient, instinctive associations. Just consider for a moment
become impossible to over-see, with the enlargement of the
embarrassment when the memory falters; this is most
movements that are later executed in real life; but they are
movements that make one flexible and dextrous. Similarly, one
purely into the element of speech; they are only designed for
and, instead, places that much more value on mental
(Fulfillment goes)
fulfilment. Now one should really make an effort to execute
this speech movement that I have just characterized. The
Raeumen,
In der Menschenseele Tiefen,
the fulfillment of that escalating expectation that is evoked
the following two examples should still be mentioned:
was conducted for employees of commercial establishments so
Wie wenn Wasser mit Feuer sich mengt ...
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and many other things which will be mentioned today. You
statements. What does it mean to address one's listeners with
as if he were merely giving a reasoned argument has gotten
hold of a great instrument — to put his listeners to
sleep; for such a logical development has the disadvantage
you could formulate the opposite to the assertive statement.
invented the gunpowder. He only carries out the commandments
the course of the argument without feeling that the man spoke
completely subjective coloring. The German Parliament had for
Heinze” was advocated in this particular Parliament. I
I found it, there stood the statement: 'What one cannot
that men listen with their ears alone; but the fact that
listening — and, in fact, the movements correspond
exactly to eurythmy movements. Only people don't usually know
outside with the ear, but the speech of men is really heard
accompanying phenomenon than is the case with the hearing of
having already been mentioned. The speaker must have a strong
of at least the fundamentals of Anthroposophy there can be no
where the govern ment has complete control of the schools on
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und die Weltgeschichtliche Entwickelung der Menschheit Seit dem
by the nationality, temperament and other personal propensities of the
historian, by the element of imagination working in the condensation
Science must begin with a development of the inner, subjective faculties
this, the subjective element is gradually overcome in the course of
and deeper causes underlying the facts of the spiritual and mental life
century a very radical change came about in the development of thought.
The mode of thinking and outlook of men underwent a metamorphosis. People
century. In following up this particular line of development we shall not
disappointments suffered by Europe alter the Revolution. He witnessed
could be communicated to men, and that they would respond to knowledge
born of enthusiasm for the betterment of social life and presented to them
in a form suited to the conditions of the age. Betterment and progress
upon the spiritual and mental conceptions of his day. He looks back
Saint-Simon was well aware of all that the development of industry and
This industrial development will in its turn give rise to a kind of
of metaphysical traditions, devoid of real life, and it is this element
sounding over into the nineteenth century, which led men like Saint-Simon
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und die Weltgeschichtliche Entwickelung der Menschheit Seit dem
of the day. At that time men who sought a higher culture only found it
class which relegated its more menial work to slaves. And still less
important turning-point, these men had spiritual life away in the East
to understand the laws of the universe, so these men too tried through what
developed the pictorial imaginations which these men connected with their
become settled, and through their peculiar endowment a new kind of
their old ancestor-imaginations and dreams, men felt something holy to be
other feature of nature, the phenomena of the cloud-drifts in certain
people in the southern regions. So long as men continue to live in their
can call learned men, our interpreters of a corresponding life of the
able to do that because men lived in small village communities, and
this living element is more or less suppressed. The priest can no longer
And at this point development
mentioned. The latter arose out of the most elemental forces of the
first elements of knowledge, which we should to-day call primary education,
that men have always thought in the way they think today. The entire
oneself but in an external element expresses itself in the education that
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phenomena of nature.
as those that arose from the scientific experiments of the last centuries,
developments in the nineteenth century to pass before the mind's
the instincts out of which the new parliamentary institutions, with
Not only in Marxism but in many other movements as well there has come
element that had entered into social science, into this favorite son of
everything that one finds in one's environment with mathematical formulae.
phenomena that would be thoroughly transparent. It remained for them
its position and momenta in mathematical formulae. They believed they
movements wholly intelligible in terms of mathematics. Hence there arose
that is called forth the moment one tries to extend this striving into
explained by saying that man's need to understand the causes of phenomena
such a conceptual explanation of phenomena perhaps superfluous? Is not
the proper answer to any question that arises when one confronts phenomena
limit be recognized. This placement of a limit to knowledge was then
as du Bois-Reymond. They were no longer Schoolmen, no longer theologians,
mathematical formulae and calculate the movements of matter in terms of
the formulae. The realm of natural phenomena becomes comprehensible if
On the one hand we confront a world of natural phenomena requiring that
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like, since today I shall have to mention certain personalities, to
say the following. The moment one begins to represent the results of
human judgment in their relationship to life, to full human existence,
the judgments originated. Even in a scientific presentation, one must
remain within the sphere in which the judgment arises, within the realm
of human struggling and striving toward such a judgment. And especially
which I commenced yesterday, the modern striving for a mathematical-mechanical
itself upon us the moment we want to begin to speak in a living way
last few years has Hegel begun to be mentioned in the lecture halls
these workers' meetings, who really knew the development of modern thought,
school appropriated precisely the form of one of our new parliaments.
men with radical scientific and social views, who felt themselves to
phenomenon in the evolution of human knowledge? What happened was that
such a phenomenon. And thus there stands before us in the first half
In two phenomena above all we notice the uselessness of Hegelianism
as a basis for judgments that are socially viable.
While Karl Marx occupies one of the two poles of human experience mentioned
within that element (as we saw yesterday in the example of du Bois-Reymond),
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phenomena of nature.
natural phenomena or, proceeding from the state of normal consciousness,
is a kind of moment of awakening, and in the course of the evolution
drawn-out moment of awakening.
of phenomena we do not proceed in the manner of Goethean phenomenology
by halting at this frontier and ordering the phenomena according to
on a bit farther beyond the phenomena with our concepts and ideas and
of our knowledge through phenomenalism, through working purely with
the phenomena themselves. We have also had to show that at this point
in our striving for knowledge something emerges that commends itself
us the system of concepts that allows us to enter into phenomena with
our souls, is entirely different from that employed when we experiment
mental energy to bear, for in this realm full clarity can be attained
only with the greatest mental exertion.
by experimentation. In this case, we bring something into that which
this phenomenon of mathematics as such. We comprehend mathematical truths.
We proceed from mathematical phenomena to certain axioms. We weave the
at a satisfactory comprehension of the world depends to a tremendous
of the phenomena of the material world.
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phenomena of nature.
a halt within phenomena and then permeate them with what the phenomena
We were able to show how Goethe, in establishing his mode of phenomenology,
always strives to find the archetypal phenomenon while remaining within
the phenomena themselves and that his search for die archetypal phenomenon
that underlies complex phenomena is, inwardly, the same as the mathematician's
that he demanded a method for the determination of archetypal phenomena
motif in the moment reminded him of the music he had heard as a young
in the moment in which his attention had been occupied with a serious
an element that no longer contains any sense impressions and nevertheless
this element of pure thought — an element that, to be sure, has
spirit lives within him. We first conceive the spirit within the element
concepts and moral imperatives as a kind of analogue of natural phenomena.
method could meet the rigorous requirements of analytical mechanics,
Inspiration is complemented at the other pole by Imagination, and only
the phenomena themselves, and thoughts then reveal themselves to one
as that within cognition which can organize these phenomena; one needs
spiritual complement to phenomena in the intellect. In just this way
external nature by means of experiments and conceptual thinking. In
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phenomena of nature.
demonstration that experimentation has made scientific habit, one shall
experiment one proceeds — even if one cherishes the illusion that
direction and allows phenomena to confirm what lives within the ideas
to translate one's knowledge into social judgments, in other words, if
this knowledge obtained through experimentation is totally inadequate.
they have originated in pure experimentation, our ideas have gradually
attained except by exercising a certain faculty of mental representation
Knowledge of the Higher Worlds and Its Attainment,
of mental representation [Vorstellen]; when one schools oneself
as the sense of balance, the sense of movement, and the sense of life.
within as sensations of balance, movement, and life so that one lives
when the musical element one experiences there becomes a kind of wordless
if one wishes to pass over these phenomena only half-consciously or
the phenomena of the sense world. We no longer stand in the same relation
Ladies and gentlemen,
such questions arise unconsciously thereby. Such phenomena are evident
especially in women, who have less robust natures than men and who also
but rather through works intended for laymen and dilettanti. For if at
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phenomena of nature.
musical element to a merger with an individuated element of being occurs.
accompaniment of the ego, if he does not suffuse the conditions he
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
of speech, thinking, and so forth, an especially important element in
this human development is the gradual emergence and transformation of
to see the tremendous importance of memory for a fully human existence.
it metamorphoses itself. Then one comes to realize that in the moment
must learn to move freely within the element of time. He must be able
to swim within the element of time. He must learn to travel along with
Knowledge of the Higher Worlds and Its Attainment.
in the phenomena of pathological diseases of a particularly modern form.
requiring psychiatric treatment, the more acute observer can see something
The moment that even a child comes, the sufferer grasps its arm or merely
reaches out to touch the child: in this moment he feels himself inwardly
cause of such phenomena? Why is it that there are, for example, people
of formal representation framed for an external, three-dimensional world
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self-development; one must become aware that in the later stages of
to achieve a higher development, similar to the one we have described,
only when one realizes what such a higher level of development reveals
to man. If one were to characterize the path of development these sages
development followed by these ancient Eastern sages. I want to make
wisdom-literature in order to enter upon the paths of higher development
path of development leading into the higher worlds when we consider
beings in our environment and govern our interaction with them. These
are: language, the ability to understand the thoughts of our fellow men,
within the course of human development to the same extent that the
of development and transformed the soul faculty that we use to understand
but not any outward authority — fundamentally speaking, what we
the guru, you hear on the other hand of the employment of all kinds
and the like or to seek social intercourse with one's fellow men in an
socially with one's fellow men in the right way. Then precisely that
learns to hate interaction with his fellow men and becomes antisocial.
the conditions that arise through the abnormal development of a leaf,
a blossom, or the stamen. Goethe realizes that precisely by contemplating
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linking him with his fellow men. He chose a path different from that
of spiritual development. Within the realm of spiritual life one cannot
just as the Eastern path of development was not unequivocally
Knowledge of the Higher Worlds and Its Attainment,
to the next. The book constantly presupposes the mental collaboration
in the process of such mental exertion. Anyone who has really worked
not even a single chapter devoted to the development of Goethe's attitude
the world of outer phenomena, so that we allow them to work upon us
One can, moreover, refrain from formulating the judgments that arise
of flux, infusing it with life and movement, not as we do when forming
school oneself rigorously in what I have characterized as phenomenalism,
as elaboration of phenomena. If one has really striven not to allow
used concepts to set the phenomena in order and follow them through
to the archetypal phenomena, one has already undergone a training that
enables one to isolate the phenomena from everything conceptual. And
if one still symbolizes the phenomena, turns them into images, one acquires
in a way analogous to the mental representation of phenomena, images
is encountering within oneself the spiritual element that actuates the
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With this course I hope to supplement last
year's course, so that it will really complement it and
fundamental fact: we must be quite clear that we cannot
environment and what happens to him in health and illness. We
mental picture of this so-called object with certain borders.
you could say, from the physical element that is an imprint
human being and his environment. This process that unfolds in
circulatory organism, another element from the metabolic
environment that has a reciprocal relationship with the human
middle system to the outer environment, insofar as the
environment, to a process that exists already in nature and
plant ash is formed — we gain a mental picture of the
polar opposites. The moment that anything that should be
it — or the moment anything acts from outside inward
moment I have the task of producing such an inner counter-
interaction between the human being and his environment. To
element of man's organization, what it does from the limb
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viewpoint to pathological and therapeutic phenomena.
creates an imprint.” This statement can be understood
substances have separated. I mention this only to point out
life-giving element in all organic beings.
super-sensible element concerned. Thus you see the ether, the
universal ether, creates its imprint in the watery element of
of what is woven into the fluid and gaseous elements as solid
element; we are actually drawing only what is in there as
mean the fluid element — is just as organized in the
form, so to speak, only in a moment, but it does nevertheless
drawing, light hatching). Of course, this element streams
element.
streaming in from above. In the same way the other element
significant in the study of undernourishment.
undernourishment?” For the spiritual investigator, the
opposite of undernourishment is in one case what is called
softening of the brain. Just as undernourishment is due to
permeated by forces that should only be in the abdomen, by
abdomen, exercising its organizing activity only there. What
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medical developments have led to advances in the domain of
but behind these strong statements you will find the
stood as a candidate for the Imperial Parliament. The motive
result from the use of substances demonstrated in experiments
metabolic organism and so on. This is a fundamental fact on
which is a fundamental evil of human thinking in our time
include the rhythms of nourishment and elimination, belonging
by including the rhythm of nourishment and the rhythm of
realize that to begin with hunger and thirst are phenomena
astral phenomena. What we experience in consciousness, such
included with the earthly element — and what occurs above
element what later sprouts up as vegetation. In the polar
intimacy between the etheric earthly element and the
earthly element that had worked on him is significantly
tremendous extent. In this way we can work against an
relationship enables us to recognize the basis of treatment
unable to resist parasitic illnesses, such treatment is
especially to be recommended. This does not mean that one has
treatment.” (Of course, we must take all the other
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symptoms are condensed in the phenomena of falling asleep and
phenomena in the waking state that accompany this inadequate
excessive movement of the
fingers and the like — any movement that is not an
phenomena.
unfolding of astrality always arises when a movement that
involuntarily. Whenever an otherwise voluntary movement
— that is, a movement dependent on the ego — is
This is what we are dealing with in fidgety movements. Thus
awakening are essentially soul phenomena. Therefore it is
accompanying soul phenomena — to use the magnetic or
concerning the difference between treatment by direct current
region of rhythm, with phenomena based on the rhythmic
remains unnoticed to the detriment of human health. We should
nourishment we introduce substances from the outer world into
that brings about this fundamental transformation of outer
embryonic development are then active in the human being in
time indicated. Of course, I am referring to the instruments
instruments of the ego, the polarity of the ego — that is
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physical body. I have already mentioned that, by means of a
especially strong at the moment of waking. We must realize
environment is certainly present; certain processes that
reciprocally, between the reciprocal nourishment of the human
being by his environment and the inner organic processes. The
connected with such phenomena. Blood is found in the stool,
proper way. Such phenomena clearly indicate that the vital
human being if these half-conscious movements of the
in all these phenomena the opposite of
phenomenon such as dysentery, for example. In dysentery, we
Now phenomena
individual. The fundamental characteristic of the infantile
encouragement may well have a favorable effect.
all the phenomena I have mentioned. Cinnabar expresses this
substances, however, is only of use when we supplement it
systems of movement that are brought to an equilibrium. This
nevertheless connected with the whole movement of the
organism, including the inner movement. These are the blood
intended to guide movement over into equilibrium. What the
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mentioning something that can suggest a great deal regarding
to think about the matter in accordance with judgments
cognition. But one's judgment activity must first wrestle
we are brought to the paradoxical statement that the lung
lung that has not reached its final development, it is a head
and belonging to the group of organs I mentioned, it
three-dimensional space. This activity manifests within,
man's spirituality — that is, the development of spirit
within, the development of spirituality in the body, of real
why “head men” are often materialistic, because
the air. There the etheric element encroaches on the
absorbing food, and this process is the most fundamental
Just as the thermometer is nothing more than an instrument
comes to rest in the heart's movement. The fats and
right moment, what the lung can no longer oppose. Salt
whole treatment in such a way that the organism is inclined
precise observations yielded by experiments. The
external treatment, you should not be content with salt
last year when I spoke of "mental illnesses." Of course I
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being and his environment can be studied by investigating the
tend very strongly toward the blossoming element. In other
Nevertheless, the effects I have mentioned are produced. We
forces that have a great deal to do with the environment of
defensive movements immediately. Study this cooperation of
special nerves, because the whole phenomenon — action
influence of the plant element, but you will also realize
something else: that the mineral element has undergone a
in the way I just mentioned. We want to do this at our
way: We prepare a metallic ointment and apply it, let us say,
lead, either as an ointment or internally, we can achieve a
organs. If we apply carefully prepared lead ointment to the
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Today's lecture will be an assortment of
element that affect the human being can be interpreted
imprints itself into the system of movement. The effect of
stupor, and syncope, and attest to the fundamental
is always more of a phenomenalist than the allopathic
by this simpler statement, however. They are discovered only
the upper system and vice versa. This restatement of the
understand the effects of the mineral element in the human
acid's element present in the watery earth regions, we have
development, inasmuch as they represent a relation between
metals themselves, we find in the metals that element by
metallic element with our interpretations of nature in an
however, is an oscillation, a pendular movement to and from
oscillatory process, this pendular movement, in which the
activity is based on setting up such pendular movements, on
setting up a movement more consolidated in itself than the
movement of radiations. Among the metals or metallic nature,
tin, for example, has such a movement. The beneficial effect
radiating, pendular movement can be modified further,
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The development of the eye depends on this
in growth phenomena, in formative growth phenomena. If we
consonantal movements. These, as I said yesterday, call forth
points precisely to a treatment with eurythmy.
intelligent but easily becomes mentally fatigued.”
organs, and the movements made outwardly are always met by
shining movements within. Especially with certain consonant
movements a whole shining reproduction of the kidneys'
from a higher point of view, this phenomenon leads deeply
the eurythmy movements. And, if the process is not sweltered
supplement eurythmy exercises for present human nature, which
with the difficulty of not forming mental stereotypes or
movement which is now to be inaugurated in the medical field
indifferent to the well-being of the movement and to the fact
that the well-being of the movement depends on not practicing
movement. In certain cases we will simply always have to be
anthroposophical movement are there to heal the patients.
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been struck by a heart-attack at the very moment of his
occurred, a false judgment would have found its way into
spiritual-scientific movement, it is necessary not only to
that not only men but also the world of facts may quite
attainment. Our aim is to play a vital part in the
Consider for a moment! [ Note 2 ] On
promise was in that moment karmically rounded off, having
is history, and what is it that men so often
fragments of information remain entirely concealed; they
reports and documents actually hinder our
— the documents present the matter one-sidedly and if
there are no documents giving the other side, or if these are
rests for the most part upon such documents as conceal rather
external documents but seeks to discern the impulses which
the extant 13th and 14th century documents about Italy, from
documents brings one far less close to the truth one can get
external documents. Or someone may set himself the task of
can you not find in documents! Yet it is not a question of
about that historical documents are often more of a hindrance
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Fundamentally
to feel it — there still live elements that have come
phases of development, one perceives everywhere how the men
say, in their nerves and blood, elements that have come over
times from Greco-Latin culture. The achievements of humanity
history, but in the characters of men, how men
feeling, as a fundamental impulse. He has received, in
authoritative; what comes from above into the impulses of men
a sketch how the men of the Fifth Post-Atlantean epoch are
takes exprestion in these peoples and their fundamental
living elements of the Sentient Soul. And we shall expect to
peoples? Abandonment to the outer world — in keeping
the relation of the fixed stars to the planets men felt
something that was connected with human destiny. Men looked
spirit who has re-awakened the Egypto-Chaldean element in a
The fundamental
Saturnian character. The Saturnian element works its way
upwards from the fundamental impulses of the human soul and
unconscious impulses remembers this Sun-element. In the light
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Middle-European culture the most varied national elements
think first of the German element in a general sense.
fulfilment. Such is the situation of the man of Middle
another way this German element can best be described by
three filaments of the population. There were once —
thinking and their German language. One of these filaments
present among the Magyars, but also in the achievements of
surrendering their German element to the general nature of
their environment.
laid upon their own national element.
the element that is now dissipating under the influence of a
Middle-European element, in order that this element might
go to the very root of these matters. The Greek element does
Intellectual Soul, lives again in the elements of the
Intellectual South in French culture. The Greek element does
consummate art of Racine's tragedies.” This sentiment
Voltaire's assessment of the evolutionary history of
of German culture, in the Poles. In them, the element of
element of Middle Europe, with its inclination towards
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occurred to some of you that mention has not been made of all
dogmatic statements.
mentioned, for many things which to the observer on the
to bring hearts and souls into movement when, in
the dynamic element, or element of force — the
becomes aware at the same time of the elemental spirits of
experiences. It is that element which, in the case of man as
conscious when he gives himself up to the primal, fundamental
most fundamental of all. Hence the human being is able in his
whole mental horizon widened by these thoughts? And is not
Spiritual Science a means of attaining this wider mental
horizon? Only think of all that could be done to enable men
first declared Object of our Movement (the universal
actually participate in what is expressed in this movement
from below upwards. A certain element which will become more
the development of culture, just as the “J A O”
speaks from within into the development of the soul.
at every hour, every moment. Only when we know what is
actively at work in the human soul at every moment, can we
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element that has not hitherto existed in the evolution of art
When we review the development of art, we can think of the
life and activity, into movement.
available to us, In the Building we have movement from West
brought into movement. What formerly was at rest is now in
movement. This will have to come to expression in the
other that of colour, Fundamentally speaking, there are these
something that, fundamentally speaking, is not present in
Nature at all, or at most can be captured only momentarily.
which one then paints, as belonging to the element of colour
fundamentally speaking, anyone who might try, in the colour
prevailing in the whole environment, in the whole Cosmos, in
so far as the Cosmos is involved in the phenomenon. In
confined to the individual, but is in the whole environment,
the possible exception of atmospheric phenomena such as a
rainbow or other phenomena of the kind. Hence the rainbow has
rainbow and similar phenomena — is attached to objects.
the columns, capitals, and architraves, so can the element of
And the element of thought, when thinking is not merely
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the actual fulfilment of the hopes resting in this building.
in the jugdment of man. An undertaking like this can of
were completed — the Parliament Buildings, the Town
and development of form in architecture and sculpture. The
current conceptions of the historical development of art, on
element crept into the conceptions of art. It was, above all,
ornamentation were forms of external technique. This subject
really become one of ultilitarianism and the artistic element
on decoration, invariably made mention of the special
Corinthian column. Let us think for a moment of the form of
humanity as depicted by external documents. A certain
men that they perceived how the movement, bearing and
as a human being, able to bear the weight.’ Men felt
own postures. This was the sense in which they made movements
diagrammatically, from the side view: a number of men are
man and the process is no mere imitation of outer phenomena
of nature. The artistic representation of the elements of
outer nature only entered into art later on. When men no
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indefinable feeling — a presentiment that a mighty task
This again is, in a certain sense, the satisfying element in
any personal element. As we set about our work, and permeate
Shall it not rather be our dearest wish to bring all men into
moment of many buildings erected in our times by clever
language, will never do wrong to their fellow men either in
of men. When men's hearts and souls are surrounded by the
achievements of true architecture, sculpture and the like,
fellow men if this is their tendency. Edifices and buildings
the true forms of art, for they become instruments through
stronger. Out of this desire — for its fulfilment is
for our spiritual movement that this aim may gradually be
element, sometimes indeed out of the
days of Christianity the feelings of men were no longer the
Greek Temple itself had been now became the chancel. Men
the Divine. The souls of men no longer receive the Divine as
the element of weight and support, following it to the point
the forces of these edifices rest within the earthly element.
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environment has passed into the architectural forms and rises
soul, or if when he sees a fragment of a circle he feels that
go into any building containing fragments of circles or
of “conquest and encroachment,” “victory
find the quality of movement. I have here made a simple
movement, of that which draws us along with it. This is what
for an mental process. In the case of the ellipse, however,
into the fourth dimension— then appears again and
again disappears into the fourth dimension. This
calculations! Here I will only mention one instance: when
movement from West to East, the path of the lower to the
the development and being of the forms. For this reason I do
the mode of its development, how spiritual being itself has
become form and movement and has flowed into it. Suppose
vertical position. It is an achievement of man's nature
tremendous significance. On the ancient Moon, conditions were
pair of pillars denotes his development to his fourteenth
prayer contains, who really understand the living development
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which he may hope to become conscious in the development of
again of an important fact, of which mention has already been
evoke a concrete perception of what I have here mentioned in
cannot express the dimensional proportions and distances of
certain elementary or higher beings from one cosmic body to
remarkable thing is that in the first moments of vision we
image out of consideration for the moment. It would be formed
consciousness. Men experienced the content of their astral
bodies as living movement, tried to express it in a kind of
Fundamentally speaking, of course, one can dispute about
which there can fundamentally be no disputing.
arisen, concomitantly. These two elements then entered into
a certain environment and has this remarkable characteristic,
that its colouring is the same as that of its environment.
their environment, for their enemies do not see them and
minds of men for decades. In sandy places hosts of these tiny
argument that does not reckon with the actual facts. All
the environment, and the effects produced by this interplay
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study man's achievements in art and their connection with
made a certain apparently radical statement about Goethe. He
does not feel inclined to contradict such a statement. To
specialised mode of perception when we study the development
spiritual movement at the present time.
men like Raphael or Leonardo da Vinci — or to take an
they were living in men's hearts and souls and in the very
element that was living in all human souls, even down to the
humblest circles. The learned men of the spheres of culture
mere matter, the mere substance, is only the element that
— is a good deal to blame for this. Practical as men
of that kind. No wonder our age has lost the living element
essence of colour? I have already told you that this element
element moreover in which our soul lives. And a time will
desire in us and we stretch out towards it by movement of the
the effect produced by the environment and when the polar
out with a movement of his hand to pick a rose in response to
a desire. The living creative effects of the environment work
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to connect one's self responsibly with the movement of
present, we definitely need activity within our movement. It
the Anthroposophical Movement has no use for general talk.
people, they would walk out. That must be the fundamental
remote, yet fundamental significance, that we have acquired
just mentioned.
always a kind of attack on our fellow men when we fire a
yesterday and used it in one's preparation. At the moment of
naturally upon a concrete grasping of the moment. But of
in consequences of our lecture our fellow-men want to do
thought element within ourselves. This has nothing to do with
out of the arguments for and against, which we ourselves
through the sourness of the logical development of the train
surely prompt me correctly at the right moment.” He was
to him. And then, at this moment, while Bernays was waiting
development of the material that has been worked out in the
mentioned, I give this as a guiding principle.
requirements: but one should make an effort to fulfill these
requirements, at the same time as one makes such guiding
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Threefold Order and the development of speech. Beautiful
today to speak about Anthroposophy and the Threefold Movement
popular lecture with experiments, and thereby demonstrates to
are attended in order to see the experimenting, and what is
made in a parliament — of the kind for example, that the
someone cannot get on well in an unsuitable garment, that is
development in modern times.
that point in historical development where things can go no
movement which has developed in the civilized world of Europe
in a declining movement.
This element
of elocution”. This refers us back to an element that
was the speech element of the German language cannot continue
speech element and to come into a different speech element.
on the special element in regard to speaking which was
element. One experienced the thought element as something
artistic treatment of the language. Even the way in which one
like to insert here that the development of language does not
itself, like a kind of thought. It is the element where the
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one's conceiving one statement after the other, one sentence
matter of fulfilling a third requirement, which is: after one
properly, mentally, then this is valid actually for every
treatment of our theme. To deal with, we shall have the
which, as mentioned, we shall speak further — a feeling
for decades from the fomenting behavior of the working-
in this moment by old Rebel?

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are so many progressive movements in the Western hemisphere!
— Still, all these progressive movements, regardless of
conservative in so far as their management is concerned.
details to a point where, at a given moment, the latter would
“economic elements” in speaking.
— Now, I did not need to form a judgement about Dessoir
well what I say with this statement, and I well realize how
belongs to the elements that ruin the sermon for people.
at heart when one wants to affect one's fellow-men by means
when a statement must be rejected. Of course, one can not
Bismarck for changing his political alignment. He pointed out
parliament [ — the proper German translation for
parliament is really Schwatzanstalt. — ]
should be able to attune oneself as follows: The moment the
has set forth. And that will be of immense importance if it
false sentimentality (and everything stemming from false
sentimentality is untrue!) — the untruest utterance

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be false, mystical, sentimental enthusiasm; a made-up
the equality of men, discussing it by means of examples, we
at a judgement as to what must be done in the life of the
ancient, instinctive associations. Just consider for a moment
become impossible to over-see, with the enlargement of the
embarrassment when the memory falters; this is most
movements that are later executed in real life; but they are
movements that make one flexible and dextrous. Similarly, one
purely into the element of speech; they are only designed for
and, instead, places that much more value on mental
(Fulfillment goes)
fulfilment. Now one should really make an effort to execute
this speech movement that I have just characterized. The
Raeumen,
In der Menschenseele Tiefen,
the fulfillment of that escalating expectation that is evoked
the following two examples should still be mentioned:
was conducted for employees of commercial establishments so
Wie wenn Wasser mit Feuer sich mengt ...
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gives the audience a moment to breathe in. Logical trains
and many other things which will be mentioned today. You
statements. What does it mean to address one's listeners with
as if he were merely giving a reasoned argument has gotten
hold of a great instrument — to put his listeners to
sleep; for such a logical development has the disadvantage
you could formulate the opposite to the assertive statement.
invented the gunpowder. He only carries out the commandments
the course of the argument without feeling that the man spoke
completely subjective coloring. The German Parliament had for
Heinze” was advocated in this particular Parliament. I
I found it, there stood the statement: 'What one cannot
events of the time. The movement for the threefold
that men listen with their ears alone; but the fact that
listening — and, in fact, the movements correspond
exactly to eurythmy movements. Only people don't usually know
outside with the ear, but the speech of men is really heard
accompanying phenomenon than is the case with the hearing of
having already been mentioned. The speaker must have a strong
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the spiritual life of the Anthroposophical Movement. It is
I could say in our bodily structure in movement. Our ability
soul is what we have in the physical movement of arms, hands
and legs. The other movements are more connected with the
organism the human being is through movement an expression of
another in the air, through a particular movement of our
streamed out in this way and become a sound or element of
the human being to transform his capacity for movement into
the capacity for movement. Thus an element which belongs to
Inspiration becomes an element belonging to Imagination.
harmonies, in the rhythm, in the movement of the consonants,
you experience when doing this is Inspiration. The element of
creation of form through movement you express what lies in
third element, Imagination.
picture. In eurythmy we have to do with an element of art
Anthroposophical Movement. What you have to do is bring into
add a few words, not as a statement but simply in the realm
can genuinely emerge from the will of the meeting. Mention
manageable to a certain degree up to a particular moment. But
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development of the Anthroposophical Society to find its
statements to our friends, I have often sought to show the
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positive in every detail. Now, a year after the moment when
Movement may appear before our hearts and before the eyes of
Anthroposophical Movement warmth comes to give us courage,
ever before we may call to mind that a spiritual movement
for the Anthroposophical Movement.
Movement is not an act of service to the earth. This
Anthroposophical Movement in its totality and in all its
this Anthroposophical Movement desires to link the soul of
Anthroposophical Movement desires to lead the human being to
that final enlightenment — that enlightenment which
foremost principle of the Anthroposophical Movement, which is
Movement desires to be a fulfilment of what the signs of the
we make of the Anthroposophical Movement the profoundest
Anthroposophical Movement came into being. In many and varied
more than a few people to form a judgment on those moods
yet there exists no proper judgment about the enormity which
the Movement — has emerged riven from the War.
Anthroposophical Movement within the Anthroposophical Society
was difficult indeed. It was so grave because fundamentally
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active movement we grasp the all-wielding love of worlds, so
at this moment, we unite these three forces, the forces of
streams out of the depths, let us at this moment give form in
whenever we recollect this moment can shine towards us with
my dear friends, at a moment when human memory that truly
Streamed into souls of men.
The spirits of the elements hear it
The spirits of the elements hear it
The spirits of the elements hear it
moment from the formal mode of address to the more

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comment on the agenda?
me sensible to postpone the discussion on announcements such
arrangement of the agenda, please raise your hand.
agreement with all the statements that have been made and
towards the fulfilment of the tasks which Dr. Steiner has set
few more moments, dear friends. First of all, even during

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great an infringement of the freedom of the individual
wish to remain so. Arrangements are, however, being made for
moment they wish to remain attached to Germany, and the
which for this purpose is provided with a Supplement containing
The things that are written in the Members' Supplement are
the new decisions. He reads a statement from them.
and I have been asked for the moment to represent the
Van Emmichoven:In point 5 mention is made of the three
encouragement could not be given from Dornach to bring about
an improvement in this direction.
classes. The philosophical department was at the basis of all
of any undertaking or initiative arising out of our Movement
anthroposophical matters. At appropriate moments I have
effect of this or that medicament on the human organism; it
a single mention of the word Anthroposophy. It is perfectly
body’; could we not say ‘the functional element
the periphery, to all that is ever in weaving movement. This
is the difference. The ‘functional element in the human
organism’ refers to the function and not to this fundamental

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outside Dornach. In a moment we shall continue with these
yesterday to the names I allowed myself to mention the day
towards secrecy. This presents us with a fundamental problem
the Conference, for it is in our hearts that this fundamental
difficulties, we have indeed experienced the establishment of
Society, to prepare for the achievement of the things that
seriously if at every moment in whatever we do we feel
mankind at this particular moment in historical evolution; it
then commence the discussion of each point. Would Dr
several more announcements to make. As I had to stress
like to mention that from today the upper canteen will be

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Movement, giving suggestions which are really necessary in
Supplement containing the official communications of the
Supplement will be found everything the Vorstand thinks,
especially through the Supplement to
work inwards. Therefore arrangements will have to be made so
moment of the Anthroposophical Society's development it is
important that we make our arrangements on the basis of
effort to make arrangements in the future that arise out of
least in spirit about the establishment of correspondents of
would give us a good opportunity to shape this Supplement to
the fact that the establishment of a Vorstand in the way I
becoming an instrument for persuasion or for creating a
base whatever happens on clear statements. If this had been
Council was made up of the chairmen of the different
immensely pleased to agree with this. I do not mean to say
moment, is to be for the natural sciences. So suitable
DR ZEYLMANS: Ladies and gentlemen, I
matter by asking all those I have so far mentioned —
to raise their hands. (All those mentioned do so.)
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BEFORE the lecture, Dr Steiner makes some announcements
regarding arrangements:
a lecture about the element of music in spiritual life.
can contain the esoteric element, despite this public
Movement. This will make it possible for the esoteric
fundamental feature of what will be at work with regard to
public — this fundamental feature in the working of the
though into a chrysalis in their particular department in the
management of what has to be administered, including what has
Anthroposophical Movement.
in Dornach at the moment. First of all it will fall to me to
branch of the work of the Anthroposophical Movement.
there would arise: Firstly — I have mentioned it
spiritual-scientific Movement as it is intended to take its
department to be created here is a Section for the natural
most fruitfully be able to entrust the department for the
with this will be a department which must be cultivated
been separated in any way from the medical element. It will
synthesis but an organic development can arise for a true
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with the difficulties of the Swiss school movement. It seems
educational movement connected with Anthroposophy is run here
direction we should take with our educational movement.
mentioned are founded; and also that many such associations

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into account in the hope that a satisfactory arrangement can
who will represent the Swiss element within the General
discussions lie, can of course only discuss the arrangement
is not necessary. The moment our Swiss friends can come to a
allowed to interfere, at the moment when our Swiss friends
strongly consolidated so far. The chairmen of the various
altogether of the opinion that in the management of a society
place elsewhere, certainly, but in the management of a
arrangement would lead to the Anthroposophical Society being
it is necessary to make a statement of where one stands.
pertaining at present there will definitely be payments from
rather payments will not be made for more than three to four
payment of interest on loans. But for the building of the
possible to bring about an agreement with the Ceneral
too far for the moment, since we have not yet got beyond the
explains that a little while ago Dr Wachsmuth had mentioned
merely maintain that it is impossible to mention a sum from
difference. This statement makes the payment of the
a statement of what is actually needed. I should be sorry if
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international Anthroposophical Movement, Dr Steiner, this
friends, I now consider that for the moment the Vorstand has
and also the Youth Movement, is Dr Lehrs. May I invite Dr
a few announcements to make and would ask you to remain in
necessary arrangements for those who need them for their

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Streamed into souls of men.
the question of the Youth Movement.
the Anthroposophical Movement if everything Mrs Merry has
Anthroposophical Movement in this direction, for Mr Dunlop
movement within the Anthroposophical Movement which has such
establishment of the School on the generous scale described
all those friends I mentioned the other day, and also a
material with which to fill our Supplements so that they in
there every week in the Supplement. But if a special reply
bringing it down to all kinds of spiritualist phenomena, as
already mentioned a number of things — that it is
impossible to encompass everything in a moment. We ought to
Der Kommende Tag
reports already mentioned. Then, both tomorrow and the next
would not be right to recommend that this meeting should be

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Streamed into souls of men.
spirits of the elements hear it
The spirits of the elements hear it
evident at the moment when we want to take the
Anthroposophical Movement such things are really only
think about it, you will come to realize what a tremendous
experiments are, from an anthroposophical point of view,
human beings need in order to live or the development of
necessary equipment and the necessary institutes and to have

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so that in future there will be more freedom of movement in
the entrance. Here, so that there can be freedom of movement,
problem I just mentioned is the following: In the old
identical measurements, will be for rehearsals only. So there
to be an improvement — which perhaps some might
consider a dis-improvement — but it is designed to take
account of all the developments that have come about. I have
Anthroposophical Movement, you cannot build in 1924 as you

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from that, if we are to enter into a provisional arrangement
these arguments may not apply quite so sharply any longer. I
beginning, should we not start afresh with new arrangements
Switzerland, namely the democratic element. I think that
advisory group for the Vorstand here, three, four or five men
and women who would be trustees, to whom we could turn when
Albert Steffen and myself continuing as chairmen of the Swiss
DR STEINER: The two proposals are in agreement with one
moment.
there are official public announcements to be made, will they
official report in the first supplement to
Vorstand, which I have been so very instrumental in bringing
moments — we shall have to succeed gradually in being

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times before the burning of Ephesus men spoke about the
for a moment and written into the history of humankind. Such
Following the human race in its development up to about the
obvious that a certain further spiritual development of
misunderstandings on the part of both gods and men.
environment on the earth. You see stones; they are permitted
environment of your physical body. Your etheric body moves
have died rumbling about in the atmospheric phenomena of the
earth. Yet the earthly realm with all its environment is
you weave in the fluid element you do not belong to the earth
but to this hierarchy. And by weaving in the aeriform element
the element of warmth which he bears within him. Thus the
element in him. And he learnt increasingly to feel that this
through the solid element, the fluid element and the aeriform
element. But the Rosicrucian pupil knew this full well. He
knew that the warmth element is that which is truly earthly
and human. At the moment when the pupil of the Rosicrucian
element of warmth and the human, earthly element, he knew how
to link his human element with the spiritual world.
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metamorphosed into supporting elements while at the same time
people: Look, this is a spiritual movement; maybe you are not
concerned myself very fundamentally with this question ever
since I decided — with the agreement of the members of
the payment of 12 Schillings per member, always remembering
the date by which payment is required.
agreements can be made with the different groups as to when
suggests that agreement be expressed immediately on the point
hands. There seems to be cordial agreement on this point.
want to mention.
the Glass House. I shall make any further announcements this

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the Anthroposophical Movement. So now let me shape this final
been there for many years: a tremendous amount of
tremendous arrogance. On the other hand, here and there
expressed a kind of presentiment. It consisted of a note in a
development so that your hearts might be opened to take in
physical world at any moment with the full ability to stand
fundamental stipulation of the Guardian of the Threshold. But
at the decisive moment on their return, they would have the
requirements, then we shall never achieve any definite goal
The spirits of the elements hear it
The spirits of the elements hear it
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part of the history of the Anthroposophical Movement. Steiner calls for a
'searching of conscience' and without reservation makes an assessment of
the Movement 'free from illusions.' He explains that in anthroposophical
anthroposophical development, though the ideal itself remains. As we
the tremendous, lofty spiritual life of the ancient Orient, we come
the existence of his fellow men.
poetic fantasy to endow nature with a living spiritual element, is an
and colors assumed by spiritual elements. They could bring their
media were still so rudimentary, artistic creations of the period
were as present to them as their fellow men. They expressed it thus,
Logos as it spoke directly through the gods to men.
that men's beholding of the gods became the inner life of the
men looked up to divine revelation. Their whole soul life was
statements to poetic license, is a grotesque piece of the childish
development. The divine-spiritual that had revealed itself to man
material elements that his senses perceived in the external world; he
not his everyday achievements or an ambitious earthly striving to
feeling for the divine-spiritual element they embodied and to which
symbolical-allegorical treatment of the spiritual reality that
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part of the history of the Anthroposophical Movement. Steiner calls for a
'searching of conscience' and without reservation makes an assessment of
the Movement 'free from illusions.' He explains that in anthroposophical
how things developed. You know from comments I have been making these
and he was given the assignment of getting the whole Executive
midst of these developments. But even if we still had the Goetheanum
is intended. I need only mention the name of the Waldorf School,
some superficial judgment. It implied no reflection on the worth and
and can picture things for himself with the help of the comments I
important developments that have taken place in the Society's life
undertakings to grow out of the soil of the Anthroposophical Movement
was the Movement for Religious Renewal, which has contributed heavily
that youth has approached the movement — youth full of deep
as in a spirit of keen feeling-judgment.
heretofore. Mankind's involvement in the consciousness soul phase of
its development took ever more marked effect. This lived in the souls
Gregor Mendel. Every now and then, scientists of the twentieth
century have rather vehemently stated it as their opinion that Gregor
Mendel, a Moravian, the solitary schoolmaster who later became an
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part of the history of the Anthroposophical Movement. Steiner calls for a
'searching of conscience' and without reservation makes an assessment of
the Movement 'free from illusions.' He explains that in anthroposophical
today, and tomorrow try to add further comment supplementing
bonds felt by men of modern times has been that of class. The old
loyalties, and a good many of the elements witnessed in modern
felt in human souls with growing urgency and vehemence. This has made
any elements that could carry them into something beyond merely
and on the other unite individuals with their fellowmen. Modern man
wants the purely human element in himself to relate him to the purely
human element in others. He does indeed want social ties, but he
of whom were still studying, was the element that gave birth to the
latest offshoot of our Society, the Movement for Religious
of things had to be done for this Movement for Religious Renewal. It
the healthy development of religious life.
undertook the launching of this Movement for Religious Renewal were,
focusing of the religious element on the individual.
bring about the dissolution of the soul elements of the social order
cultus now in use in the Movement for Religious Renewal was
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part of the history of the Anthroposophical Movement. Steiner calls for a
'searching of conscience' and without reservation makes an assessment of
the Movement 'free from illusions.' He explains that in anthroposophical
also want to include some comment on the Stuttgart conference
so easily occur and are such a familiar phenomenon to those
insured against such unbrotherly developments. But it is by no means
yesterday, there is a tremendous difference between dream experiences
element running through them. One person may be seeing one dream
clothes in pictorial elements. This unfolding drama often has its
him alone. This is the case in what is called an abnormal mental
soul life to conditions of real mental illness.
this or that element found in it, and they would be happy to have it
brotherly precepts, an unbrotherly element is brought into the
and other similar elements, which really derive from the physical
one's whole soul development and character will in turn have a moral,
mankind's overall development. In the spiritual world we work with
living in physical bodies they live in a spiritual element, in
It is a fundamental characteristic of modern civilization that nobody
highly paradoxical statement. A person whose soul is attuned to the
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Menschen. Die Suche Nach der Neuen Isis, der Goettlichen Sophia.
Der Mensch in seinem Zusammenhang mit dem Kosmos. Band II.
Menschen. Die Suche Nach der Neuen Isis, der Goettlichen Sophia.
Der Mensch in seinem Zusammenhang mit dem Kosmos. Band II.
world on the one side and the spiritual development of human
beings on the other. Our considerations will be supplementary
European-German thought development, during the first half of
which appeared in the development of thought in the first half
European thought development - a development of thought
the world development and everything pertaining to it, as
consisting of real thought elements. Hegel firmly believed that
development of world thoughts, just like Hegel let these world
moment divert our gaze from Hegelian philosophy and look at the
predominantly have an intellectual, meaning a thought element,
followed by a will element. The thought element is preferably
assigned to the human head, the will element preferably to the
intellectual element as actually being that which permeated our
pouring into the essence of this earth life. The will element
to the thought element in humanity; it goes through the portal
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death and a new birth, the richer may be the development in
life between death and a new birth by the moment of death
is different from the part that is played by the moment of
moment of birth is that point which, in ordinary
Ordinary life, birth is not remembered. But the moment of
life between death and a new birth. The moment of death is
blessing. Described in earthly terms: the moment of death,
wast that ... the moment when, out of the fullness of
moment is experienced of which we can say: we
realise from the lecture-course already mentioned, may
the most important instruments of knowledge we possess for
intellect, our power of forming mental images. In the
course of our development within the physical body,
the highest degree to cloud the judgment we form about our
our deeds, but also to our judgments, to our conceptions of
torment, a kind of need for cruelty. It may be that the one
person who has this desire for torment, this need for
our faculty to form mental pictures, it is also true that
malicious; the first person then proceeds to paint a mental
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remain in the elementary world. (The etheric body itself is
dissolved within the elementary world.) In the elementary
the elementary world.
etheric bodies have been given over to the elementary world
spiritual movement we serve will owe, as we may well
impulses of life. into the souls of such men too there can
mentioned one detail that is connected with the
treatment of the subject in that case, that between Manon
is very adaptable to artistic treatment; out of the maya of
Manon de Gaussin seeks and finds rest at the proper moment,
of the human being something takes shape in the elementary
the moment of death truly, he will describe how the etheric
ordinary three-dimensional space and one-dimensional time,
three-dimensional space and one-dimensional time with its
like this, nor even in the elementary world; there
the moment when the fire seized the physical body. At this
moment the consciousness began to be active. But before the
case that other elements, as well as this process, are
phenomena contained in this death spectrum we already have
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often mentioned that our speech is calculated for the
beings and its phenomena is much more a self-surrender to
of expressing with our instruments its own inner nature and
with people who for instance greatly lamented that they
benefit or detriment ... and similar things. One who desires
statements of many persons there is a lack of material for
out recently that the moment of death is really not to be
compared with the moment of birth into physical human life
men were born, I am similar to other men, therefore at some
of it in mere experience of the senses. The moment of death
is utterly dissimilar from the moment of birth, for one can
always behold the moment of death, whereas one cannot with
moment of birth. In the spiritual world in the time between
death and new birth one can always behold the moment of
moment of death immediately, is connected with the fact
we began in Berlin to carry on our movement of Spiritual
life of thought, but a development of our life of will and
element which we develop in meditation, and which we
that not an impoverishment of the outer life, but only an
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Der Mensch in seinem Zusammenhang mit dem Kosmos. Band II.
Menschen. Die Suche Nach der Neuen Isis, der Goettlichen Sophia.
Der Mensch in seinem Zusammenhang mit dem Kosmos. Band II.
towards arriving at a profound assessment of the human being as
soul-spiritual element was nowhere to be found in the physical
is to be applied to the development of the outer body from the
first days of childhood, as to the development of the
violence the soul-spiritual element is basically only a
who developed an inclination for such phenomena, I might say,
of phenomena, the degeneration of the thyroid influencing
spiritual-soul element would be increasingly seen as something
spiritual development, if they speak about such a thing at all,
These latest phenomena are actually only referred back to
present moment. Without expanding one's manner of observation,
can call a desire for physical birth. This self-development
fulfilment of a desire for physical incarnation, which the
the entire environment. Only because one doesn't look
expression in human development, this is connected with two
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Der Mensch in seinem Zusammenhang mit dem Kosmos. Band II.
Menschen. Die Suche Nach der Neuen Isis, der Goettlichen Sophia.
Der Mensch in seinem Zusammenhang mit dem Kosmos. Band II.
historic development by actually looking at the events of
of mankind's development and we are content. The scientist
is a soul-spiritual element which had lived for a long time in
elemental spirits.
the so-called Christian development. What European Christianity
unbelievably simple, elementary what these souls lived through
therefore, which through their inner development had not
upbringing spent in their environment — because even outer
experience that this embodiment was strange, allowing
themselves to be sucked into this embodiment which they did not
development in future. It has been pointed out already that the
must go out from such points of view which are mentioned here.
is for example curious, partly in the coquettish statements of
arguments about private property and its cultivation, and of
apprehending the fundamental attitude of people, also grips
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Der Verantwortung des Menschen Fuer die Weltentwickelung Durch Seinen
Geistigen Zusammenhang Mit dem Erdplaneten und der Sternenwelt. Der
Mensch in seinem Zusammenhang mit dem Kosmos. Band III
Anthroposophical movement — at least with the intention
have every reason to examine the historic development of the
Anthroposophical movement again, and will again because this
Anthroposophical movement depends on those who want to be its
this Anthroposophical movement grew at a stage which enabled it
most important facts in the development of the Anthroposophical
movement. We need to be very clear how the Anthroposophical
movement had begun and actually had to come into being, because
scrupulously sectarian out of the old Theosophic movement. From
should in fact be examined if a movement strives to uphold a
work habits in certain orders and in the Theosophical movement
through in the Anthroposophical movement, because this
Anthroposophical movement, despite speaking to the hearts and
not in agreement with what your religious tradition has brought
you, it is in agreement with what the popular spreading of a
movement such as the Anthroposophical one which reckons with
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in its very first elements, and due to a remarkable fact which has recently
in mind. The onlooker not only perceives the movement or gesture that
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
and producing of movements, and that in the realm of tone eurythmy,
constant activity, of becoming, of coming-into-being, of lively movement.
for the development of such a being as an aleph. It is from the spine
of movement, you get the arms. And then, if you consider it, you arrive
wonder. All knowledge, said the Greeks, begins with wonder, with amazement.
eurythmy movement for ah, you have brought your astral body
experience the feeling of this fork-like movement of the arms, as has
already been mentioned in earlier instructions. Feeling must be in it.
movement for a demands that we touch ourselves (crossed hands [in Austrian
the movement you make and going somewhere else, leaving yourself and
preparing your way. I run along my arms when I make the movement for
The musical element presents
or in oo, you really are going with your soul into the element
the sound o or oo, I am naturally denying the musical element. But the
by means of a protecting garment. You increase the intensity of your
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as soul-element in the astral body and ego. Along with the astral body
the stream of singing or speaking the element of warmth. The ego lives
in this element of warmth, and singing and speech gain their inwardness
solid elements of the human body. When a human being speaks or sings,
from the solid and fluid elements of the human body, which then remain
entire human being. In the movements of eurythmy, the whole human being
strongly pulsates through the body, becomes incitement and an organ
instrument. And so what otherwise remains an experience of the ear or
of all phenomena in which sound is produced by a living being. (For
the gesture. For this reason the movements of eurythmy are not arbitrary,
entering into movement, while following in the direction of this gesture.
Remaining within yourself: the movement
in the third, it is possible to vary the movement. In order to introduce
you first take up the position, and then make the movement — continuing,
however, to move within the movement. Now you have inwardness.
movement go away (out) from yourself. If you express the minor third,
of the seventh is a movement which you do not follow, but in which the
movement. This is not possible in the experience of the seventh, for
want to introduce the other arm as well into the movement to support
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Melodic Movement; the Ensouling of the Three Dimensions through
Lecture 3:Melodic movement; the Ensouling of the
Three Dimensions through Pitch, Rhythm and Beat
With the right arm, try to make a movement similar to the one I gave
seventh and prime, and sixth and prime. The first movement just shown
movement for the experience sixth — prime; the sound [of each interval]
to bring movement into the gesture.
The movement first shown
If you picture the keynote as the embodiment of calmness and quiet,
back the spiritual quickening element into the resting, bodily part.
become vividly real when we pass over from the musical element to the
eurythmical element. Music naturally is something perceived, as it is
the whole human being into movement. And you will best recognize the
in all its elements, when suitably carried out, which is a factor in
tone eurythmy must be movement), I will ask you to consider how tone
musical, and upon a sculptural, pictorial treatment of speech. And when
so in order to show how something can be built out of the fundamentals
what I have already mentioned and to those things about which I have
out the step and movements of both arms simultaneously, as I indicated,
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from the melodic element, or we could also say, from the motif or phrase.
musical element.
attention to the actual musical element. Now, the musical element makes
sense in the progression of the motifs — that is, the musical element
that people have no feeling for the fact that the true musical element
in the treatment of speech, we can observe the following fundamental
difference between good and bad treatment. You can treat each word separately,
to find some means of differentiating in eurythmic movement the position
This difference may be shown by holding the movement at the bar line,
so that whoever carries the movement does it, so to speak, within himself,
the movement of the form into himself — in other words, becoming stuck
from one metamorphosed motif to the next; in the actual bodily movement
but go together with the whole movement; to be upright at the bar line
understandable. Always show the bar line, and its holding-on movement,
it on. Fundamentally speaking, everything else does not add the spirit
of the musical element, being at all events a more or less illustrative
element. But in order to gain a real conviction of this for yourselves,
the musical element. The eurythmist is really obliged to study the way
in which the human being streams out, as it were, into the musical element.
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to express in eurythmy the essence of the musical element as musical
element. We have tried to show how, for instance, the triad and the
of the musical element by a single person, from a certain point of view,
then we can perceive that which forms the fundamental basis of musical
predominant element of all artistic endeavour.
phenomenon. My reason for doing so is, that if as eurythmists you can
artistic development of eurythmy.
music with extraordinary vehemence, denouncing it as ‘bad European music’.
This in itself is an interesting phenomenon, and should be of special
but, on the other hand, that precisely the musical element is missing,
musical element, the spiritual element in music, lies between the notes,
and perceives that on which the musical element depends. It is, moreover,
I was trying to lead over the musical element into eurythmy, I had to
as a basis for the gestures of eurythmy.’ The movements of eurythmy
Why is it not possible to come to eurythmic movements in this way, when
Hauer undoubtedly feels the movement of Melos with such inwardness,
the rest of humanity admires tremendously. He hates the civilization
of art is an interesting phenomenon, and one which should not be overlooked.
itself into movement. Europe possesses very little understanding for
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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
of something which is not in itself musical. I have often mentioned
musical element as such, simply the weaving of musical sounds) —
where the essential musical element lies. It cannot lie in the notes
in the movements, in the actual gestures themselves, that which lies
for the movement.
into movement, causes you to move, and gives the impetus (Ruck: ‘jolt’)
towards movement. You must continue the impetus between two notes and
this way the movement will not express the note, and will not emphasize
He has nothing within to set him into movement, and wants to be set
into movement from outside. But this being-set-into-movement from outside
what is external — not by means of the pure melodic element, but rather
by employing some subject matter as far remote from the melodic element
in tone eurythmy you wish to express something very inward, the movements
the essential point. The essential point is the inner movement which
out some of it, leave out the colour element, as I described, the warmth
phenomena, even the smells on Saturn (for apart from the ‘smelling-harmonium’
[38] we have no musical instrument functioning to smells, do we!). Even
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the nature of the human organization, from the possibilities of movement
contains the musical element, which in fact is built into it, and on
the other hand (as should be especially mentioned in connection with
tone eurythmy) it contains music translated into movement. It will doubtless
be obvious to you that the musical element is situated, so to speak,
human being is founded, to the “organism of movement” of
limbs of movement out of the chest organism. [42]
Try the following: Bring your arms and hands into movement before you
serves the musical element in singing is continued below. That which
And because movement depends upon making use of these muscles and bones,
S-form) it goes out towards the periphery, towards directing the movements
feeling your limbs so that they can be used for such movements as we
of movement which you pour into your arms and hands really proceed from
or turning of the upper arm, in connection with the movement I have
In order to form the third, you unfold the movement as I described it
to feel the movement that gives you the fourth. The fifth is here on
of observing two people engaged in eurythmy, of whom one makes the movements
goal in eurythmy is not to invent worked-out movements, but rather to
draw out the possibilities of movement that are inherent in the human
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that a living stream of development has to be maintained. I have frequently
the way in which the body is brought into activity in the movements
in every single movement or gesture. Your attitude to eurythmy must
means of expressing that most essential element of music, the phrase
makes it a true means of expressing the musical element: pitch. Further,
we must distinguish note values and dynamics. The three elements of
Similarly, when music streams over into eurythmic movement, everything
which is brought to life in this movement must also be rooted in feeling.
we saw that in its more physical, bodily aspect, movement springs from
intention to intellectualize the musical element. I have no such intention!
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
the movements carried out by the speech eurythmist.
Generally speaking, the whole mental attitude should be suited to the
of the musical element, that is pitch, the activity of the head should
element of seeking meaning, enters into the musical element, and this
is its ruination. This introduces thinking into art, and the moment
may recur, for then the musical element is effective in the . train
in movements made in the upward-downward direction. The expression of
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I have often had occasion to mention the fact
conviction that it is fundamentally just language to which people attach
sees anyone who, attempting to find a wise explanation of the phenomena
search for truth, to base my commentary on the thoughts developed by
with the German language and letter-symbols, nevertheless experiments
correctly, with the result of this mere experimenting producing
Faust from this experiment. There was no need to bother
striking the right key is 1/100. “But since, according to elementary
elements or letters (with repetitions) but all the elements that
You see what tremendously learned reflections
in mind, if He wanted to put the world together out of all its elements,
have had to possess to have built the world out of all its elements!
commensurate with the serious approach of spiritual science. Let us review
have occurred to him that Faust could have resulted from the placement
of the most learned men to fall into childish error such as that demonstrated
meaning; as mere figments of our human minds they hold meaning for ourselves
And on what do they base this judgment? They
statement that divine providence, the cosmic order, cosmic harmony,
following context: “Yes, there are elements of chance in the world,
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theories have been advanced in the same matter, as I have just mentioned.
and waking the development of a viewpoint from which to study these
to bear upon certain phenomena of human life only if matters introduced
But certain phenomena in life, certain facts of life cannot be illuminated
phenomena from this standpoint, you will find them readily comprehensible.
For his falling asleep is self-enjoyment.
enjoyment comes from his interest in himself. So we must find it understandable
life we come upon an element that belongs in the field of necessity,
Though that is true, it is a totally abstract pronouncement, since it
and then a blue one in illustration of my statements to the effect that,
moments we see clearly how mistaken the belief is that we are made of
to convey an adequate impression of this phenomenon, perceived when
luciferic developments that made it possible to begin to see ourselves
passage in the Old Testament, the one that says that people went about
That is the origin of clothing; garments replaced auras.
Joseph and Mary Magdalene wear quite different garments. One wears a
red mantle. Mary Magdalene is often portrayed in a yellow garment by
sleep and doesn't remain just a mental image. Life presents a variety
to orderly conditions in our environment if we pay attention to how
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What I am saying is that many a person whose consciousness and mentality
mentioned here; he is the author of
for example, that Wundt set up a systematic arrangement of the sciences.
have given him as nourishment for his soul has brought him to the following
moment? Faust asks these questions out of the very depths of his soul.
how essential it is to grasp the element of necessity in historical
stressed the connection between the Old and the New Testaments, between
The angle from which we view things is tremendously
on the spiritual element in ideas and concepts; he made these his spiritual
foothold. When we look at the phenomena surrounding us, we seek the
a spiritual element. And he approached history too in such a way that
He examines the documented findings, registers them, and then considers
today: If we conceive, behind the outer development of art, the flowing,
element, to reveal itself mysteriously in the material medium. In other
it. Then, in its further development, the idea gains a further mastery
movement wants above all to know about his own incarnation, and there
risen up in arms against this, and Hegel had to make the following comment:
in his assertions about the development of art from Egyptian to Greek
Hegel comments in the passage mentioned above,
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who give a thorough reading to his comments on a concept or word in his
with another concept, and Lavoisier's replacement of phlogiston with
possible to comment that “the concept was false from the start
such a statement. A lot depends today on the decisions people make about
looking at things.” He finds no reason to think of the element
place where the subjective element actually passes over into the objective
find that what began as a purely subjective element later makes its
element. And if we ask what has become of much that we have forgotten,
his statement that all Cretans are liars can't be true.
that necessity is merely a human idea and that there is no such element
exemplifies the strange experiment of whirling around and trying unsuccessfully
We certainly find objective elements in ourselves, in our individual
as a subjective element is encountered later as objective fact. So we
become objective there. Exactly so did this will element, this raying
in the past by some statement about it. What we cannot change in a situation
with the concept of the past; that is tremendously important. The past
present-day environment. Here you have the link. It is simply not true
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there was another element involved: we hope to be so strengthened by our
I have already mentioned, however, how often
metamorphosis of plants and animals and the primal phenomena of color.
Passive would be your enjoyment if I could show you perfection.
still another occasion on which mention of mirror images was also in
under observation. Reflections are therefore elements added to what
No, those are elements added to the landscape and matters of total indifference
element that relates to it in a way not conditioned by previous events,
as chance can occur in the universe. If that were impossible, the enrichment
that new evolutionary waves can be set in motion in the developmental
defined concepts, for these are of immense significance for life. I
is that something is turned into a reality by a living element as a
made a most beautiful statement, called by him “the word of a
“thus making itself the master of the element of chance.”
I want to digress here for a moment. An insight
is not at just any and every moment in a condition to receive a particular
desired. And if he can't answer a question immediately, the comment
sort of movement this should and must be. Certain spiritual truths simply
in or be pursued according to our erstwhile habits. The spiritual movement
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approach, into the statement made here recently when I characterized
its pronunciamentos. Let us recall what trouble is taken by those who
beyond using the physical body as our instrument. But we do still use
seeker frees himself from the instrumentality of his physical body.
— not the eurythmy that is being nurtured here, but regular movements
inorganic realm in the way other elemental beings belong to plants,
forms, referring however to those thought-forms based on mental images
world and our thoughts about things on the physical plane. As I've mentioned,
the world to which he belongs with tremendous wistfulness, because he
mentioned recently, we are the only ones to gain by this; our thoughts
world belongs to what we call the terrestrial world, the solid element.
study the solid element as we can disregard watchmakers in a study of
We understand the mental state of gnomes,
element and to everything liquidly rippling and flowing must be pictured
root development, then growing a stem, then putting forth leaves, then
mobile elemental beings inwardly related to the shaping, rippling, mobile
element of water.
metamorphoses, resembling the rippling, flowing element. The imaginative
under favorable conditions encountering the elemental world of the gnomes,
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I have often mentioned the fact that we can derive the right impulses
with the world; imaginative perception takes the place of the mental
perceptive instrument. We know that this condition comes about naturally
of soul; they want to investigate the external form element alone. But
developments in the following earth life, but finding no possibility
between death and rebirth of bringing to development the potentialities
question of what conditions contribute to the development of individuality.
can reveal some secret or other. As I've mentioned on other occasions,
soul was unable to make a suitable instrument of the physical body it
you will see that it makes a tremendous, an enormous difference whether
Try to picture yourselves having to shape your entire physical instrument
grows, physically speaking, the more pronounced is this moment of wisdom.
Direct will-force in all its immediacy, the love element, creative love-force,
out love, warm love, a warm etheric love-element, while that of an older
development if everybody grew old, if no one were to die young. There
as yet grown so young as entirely to have worn down the will element;
we realize that there has to be a continuous development of talents
rise to seed-forces of soul-endowment needed by the human race for its
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from perception of the external, physical world to perceiving the elemental
Such a statement is as far from reality as
very markedly under their influence. A statement of this sort is made
the first phenomenon, the first fact, to appear is the laying aside
dissolution into the earth element, regardless of the form of disposal
into earthly elements. We can refer to it simply as dissolution. The
at the present moment. What is important for us now is the situation
It dominates us from the moment of falling asleep to our awakening;
disintegration of our physical body into its elements results in our
the statement was made that when we make a proper study of spiritual
again just this moment. An event, such as the breaking of a vase five
into fragments. The whole picture rises up within her. We can certainly
the soul, but simply re-enters the soul as an objective element.
The things and processes in our environment
find ourselves from the moment we have died, death is the launching
to our death as to the most glorious moment of our past life. Looking
back during the time after death, we encounter the moment of dying,
spirit, vague statements that human beings are received by the spiritual
is received by the spirits of movement or by the spirits of wisdom,
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Ladies and Gentlemen,
have been — will hardly consist of fragmentary details of
“One of our teachers in the elementary school also gave
vehemently emphasized by an Asian. But here you have an example
also mentions in his book — that is, “miserable
culturally primitive. I believe that such a comment is
of a human being in such a state of fragmentation seemed so
introduced to anatomy. Fundamentally speaking, this procedure
further development? Couldn't one conclude that a thoroughly
achievements of the last three to four centuries and, above
scientific view with all its tremendous achievements, which
else one can do. Sedimentation or metamorphosis of rocks was
even fundamental issues are simply overlooked. For example, you
you have actually carried out this experiment yourselves, for
has been fabricated. Needless to say, this experiment is
enough to be self-effacing, but in a scientific experiment of
this sort, the first requirement is certainly not to omit any
a gigantic schoolmaster once twirled round an immense
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yesterday — fundamentally differs from the findings of
background for the attitude from which judgments are made
whether they are going through the development between birth
judgment of how body, soul, and spirit are permeated by spirit
becoming pedagogical instinct the moment one has to deal with a
experiments leading to theories about pupils' powers of memory,
characteristic way of walking. An inner adjustment underlies
possibilities for movement, becomes related to the equilibrium
and all the possibilities for movement of the whole universe,
limbs. The movements of arms and hands have a special affinity
serving more the physical body. This is of immense importance
perceptible to our senses. A deeper look at this phenomenon
movement, are used by Steiner in various ways in this and the
that the movements of arms and hands have become emancipated
development. Thus, the child who is learning to walk adapts
development of the human being. The activities of the legs, in
beat, of what cuts into life. In the characteristic attunement
of the movements of right and left leg, we learn to relate
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walk.” I have already mentioned that a part of this
movements from those of the legs and feet, also forms the basis
that is of a fundamentally different character. I noted this
going on in their environment. One could say — to choose
the child takes in what is thus coming from the environment
similar movement. And so, by imitating the movements of others
in the immediate environment, the usual irregular and fidgety
movements of the baby gradually become more purposeful. In this
the sieve of the modern world-view allow the finer elements of
fundamentally an imitative being. But the kind of inner
emanate from the environment, summoning an urge to imitate. We
must in no way underestimate this most fundamental and
see the tremendous significance that this has for both the
this phenomenon was quickly published by a university lecturer,
physical relationship, this deep-seated attachment, which was
it is possible to observe such a phenomenon even in an animal,
dreamed up; but if, at a decisive moment in life, I have found
find the fundamental links between the way a child adapts
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same time the child also absorbs the inherent moral element of
movements for school reform is recognized by far too few
listing their requirements in order of priority. I have no
intellectual, they excel in achievements of an external and
the requirements for the hypothetical stove. This is the reason
actual pupils. Here one has to deal — allow me to mention
This fundamental difference between life as it is and an
mentioned yesterday. The difference between a child's play and
transformed into work, one has solved the fundamental problem
This adjustment to adult life is an immensely important
enough. It is a tremendously important and necessary task to
mentioned yesterday. Try to see the situation through a child's
out of the organism. Previously, these forces were instrumental
fewer men would be walking around with bald heads!
recognizes how a moral element enters the physical. Already the
creatures of air every moment of our lives. One moment the air
wonder if the moral element, the life of the soul, could not
eighteenth century — was tremendously proud of the new
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that educators acquire the ability to create the kind of mental
judgment, but comes in the guise of what the naturally revered
independent judgment in adulthood if they have gone through the
forces were working in every moment of life. For me to use the
instrumental in creating the inner sense impressions. The task
This will element works very intensively throughout the child's
and the ninth year, this predominant will element in the child
we introduce not aesthetics but a thoroughly artistic element,
are painted with mental images, and if rhythm is brought into
can introduce a musical element into their teaching — if
proceed in this way until the great moment comes when teachers
decisive moments in life is tremendously important in teaching;
and one of these moments is the realization, passing through
solution that forms a sediment at the bottom of a container.
more external presentation of the pictorial element, and this
as a rather peculiar phenomenon. If one were to speak about all
again. This statement contradicts the law of conservation of
energy, which is generally accepted today. I am mentioning this
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personally bring the social environment and its ethical
concerning, on the one hand, the child's own development, and
general. They are three fundamental virtues. The first concerns
Fundamentally, these are the three principal human virtues
nature's phenomena. And if we only act properly in front of the
development. The possibility of a more intense experience of
development of gratitude. Love, born out of the experience of
of teeth and the coming of puberty, the development of a sense
The second fundamental virtue, which is love, then grows from
has to awaken. The development of love really does
process has been reached. Observe for a moment what happens
moment arrives when that awakening passes into the physical
introduce an element of grace. In geometry or physics
light or about the measurement of surface areas in a spherical
perhaps better still, such a sentiment — would pave the
inner development of the teaching faculty.
topical questions in life. And so, I would like to mention
who, fundamentally speaking, have not yet gained any practical
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regulations, curricula, and other fundamental policies. In this
sectarianism to this movement, but this is not the case, as you
to fulfill the necessary requirements for entering
should again be able to fulfill the requirements for entry into
period of development, as already described during a previous
However, as previously mentioned, it is relatively easy to work
Such official judgments, however, can even be seen as an
Mendelisms, which emerged around the beginning of the
scientists to be the best theory for explaining the phenomena
of heredity. It received its name from a certain Gregor Mendel,
[Gregor Johann Mendel (1822–1884) Austrian botanist.
is known for his experiments in breeding peas in the monastery
classical preparation toward university study.] Gregor Mendel
made careful experiments with plants in order to investigate
it is interesting to consider the biography of Gregor Mendel.
post at a high school. Mendel failed his exam brilliantly,
certain period of time. Gregor Mendel did so and again failed
Gregor Mendel did finally become a high school teacher,
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everything we have said about the child's development, from
movement itself, a reciprocal activity occurs between the
actual physical movement on the other.
influences that emanate from the environment, those that reach
themselves. In such cases the element of untruth weaves and
child's digestive tract, and especially on the development of
surprising to anyone with insight into human development. This
circumstances, although this statement must not be taken too
of this course was to bring the fundamental and comprehensive thought
supplementary courses were also given.
mentioned yesterday that a united faculty of teachers,
organism, is absolutely fundamental to running a Waldorf
psychological character is the imponderable element that easily
easily reproach nature for being tremendously wasteful.
in just these matters, an intensely religious element can be
a fundamental religious impulse, with an intensely Christian
deeply rooted in human evolution, in the Christian development
from the Gospel of Saint Luke. (To modern ears such a statement
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impression of eurythmy. It is an artistic movement that draws
will see human figures performing gesture-like movements on
move around. None of all these movements and gestures, however,
visible form of speech, created by movements of the entire
artificially contrived movements, but on exact and careful
study of the forms of these air movements through which human
the agency of physical organs, of course, as already mentioned.
this image we would see movement, the movement of flowing
These air movements are being studied carefully. But instead of
Through this arrangement, what happens in ordinary speech or
the thought element has been left out of these movements. The
thought element always tends to be inartistic and prosaic.
Poets have to struggle against the thought element to express
language, retaining only its will element, which they then use
formation. In performing the appropriate eurythmy movements
or through the element of rhythm and beat, as well as through
the musical and thematic treatment of sound production, is all
through the pictorial element and plasticity of the sounds as
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These lectures to the workmen have also been published with the title,
In order, gentlemen that the last question may be
able to renew his life every moment and life must be every
moment renewed. So if you think away the blood from the body,
You see, men
made blue; above all the vestments are blue. People get
afterwards, not only dark raiment, black raiment. Then men
connected with the element of red is actually connected with
the development of man's blood. When we look at red the nerve
or their black vestments, and the people sit below and gaze at
has only arisen with the men of the Enlightenment, in such men
the living element in the plant then I can really create my
which this eternal development of carbonic acid inside him is
phenomena, the red at dawn and
gentlemen, may I still say something
sleeping men. From the heavens there streams out a calming
ancient pastoral peoples. All men in fact are descended from
herdsmen but something is still given to us, we still receive
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These lectures to the workmen have also been published with the title,
Now, Gentlemen
understand the spiritual element if one first studies
Now we will sketch in the men as they are
to the fore in racing and outer movement that is governed by
dreamer-element.
is in fact only a metamorphosed breathing. Yes. Gentlemen, they
did not evolve their own human element. Europe has therefore
element in connection with the outside world.
to the revolving movement. The Europeans who knew how to do it
naturally grinned tremendously on the shore. This independent
environment is not possessed by the Asiatic peoples. The
As regards the human race, men all over the
development. Think for a moment of a black man; his desire-life
strong bones continuously in movement. The European has more
But now, Gentlemen, men on earth do not
say that whereas the yellow, the Mongolians, are still men in
element of their nature is their desire-life. They can no
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als geistiges Wesen im historischen Werdegang. Der Mensch in seinem
Zusammenhang mit dem Kosmos. Band VI.
Menschenwerden, Weltenseele und Weltengeist. Zweiter Teil. Der Mensch
als geistiges Wesen im historischen Werdegang. Der Mensch in seinem
Zusammenhang mit dem Kosmos. Band VI.
Human development, World soul and World Spirit
Development of the child up to puberty.
to research how the combination of important fundamental forces
add up to the development of mankind. Next we need consider
to various things I have already mentioned recently and reach a
individual's development which co-insides with the change of
the case up to the seventh year. From the moment the stage of
moment in life the ability arises to construct defined concepts
something which is hidden up to the moment it becomes freed to
seven years of life and how from this moment onwards reappear
When the change of teeth has come about, the development of
puberty starts within the soul element, which can be grasped to
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Die Polaritaet von Dauer und Entwicklung Im Menschenleben.
Die kosmische Vorgeschichte der Menschheit.
of how the human soul has altered in the course of mankind's development,
a figurative sense — divine teachers themselves instructed men
epoch onwards men have come to learn of these mysteries of existence
ideas which we have today, which live in us and which we put every moment
moment from their word-store, but they lived in the human soul in earlier
the most abstract thing conceivable. What do men mostly picture as space?
Three dimensions standing at right angles to each other — or if one
— think how prosaic, cold, abstract, that all is! Three dimensions
a form of conceiving sense-phenomena. This abstraction, space, of which
dimensions, which have no other occupation at all than standing at right
angles to one another like the three dimensions of geometry.
As late as to such men as
above and below men felt the right, and left. Today we must use abstractions
and left, he experiences himself in the second element of space. This
today is the abstract second dimension. The above and below, the right
behind if it is to exist in the element of the sense-perceptible.
that he was in the element of his will: before and behind. In between
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Die kosmische Vorgeschichte der Menschheit.
and let us then seek to create the necessary requirements for a conception
is active in us from birth to the change of teeth, the intelligent element
development in a lifetime if you reflect upon what has been brought
the age of materialism, however, men pay little heed to this, yet all
different from what he thinks. There he goes through no development, he
spirit-soul element that acts in the realm of duration, but appears
in the last lecture — a thought on space. The moment you think
the moment your spirit fills itself with the space-thought, you transpose
we are now such men according to the one stream as I have described.
Forces and powers are present which would shape us only as such earthmen;
past. They would conserve us in earth-life, make us purely men of earth.
powers. Ahriman strives to make us purely temporal men, to loosen our
is gruesome even to our materialistic age for men to hear what actually
imparted to men a supersensible knowledge, so that they did not themselves
the spirit-conflict to the outer world. There have always been men who
being behind the scenes of life. There were always men who had convinced
a danger in itself. But the principle also existed not to lead men to
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Die Polaritaet von Dauer und Entwicklung Im Menschenleben.
Die kosmische Vorgeschichte der Menschheit.
Idealism, Realism, and so on, come to an end, and that men realise that
the maya-reality, the reality of the surrounding external phenomena,
must necessarily have the effect of making men more materialistic? If
men have had in their heads; but that is not the case. As soon as one
or other organised according to the ideas men set in their heads. One
phenomenon possible. Let us assume that an age would give itself up
through the traditional abstract churchy element is the corpulent parson;
to a fundamental reality. But now again the increasing materialism of
manes lower nature has no nourishment if the head harbours none but
All these things rest fundamentally
evolutions, There existed then the three elementary kingdoms which preceded
full completion, yet the rudiments of the present human body appeared
of substance is a very well-known phenomenon, You know that if you throw
of the earth is played by men, by the dead bodies, the form, of men.
physical phenomenon. Here we have a bridge thrown between two phenomena
which otherwise, as the phenomenon of death, remain quite incomprehensible
in the household of the world and the phenomena which modern natural
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of the Old Testament. We can observe the phenomena that occurred among
a new light. When we consider the general course of development of an
Fundamentally, the contrast of the Pharisaic element and the Sadducean
element in the ancient Hebrew evolution was nothing else than the contrast
of ahrimanic and luciferic elements. Jesus, coming into external earth
of the Old Testament. It was an image of the entire universe so far
Testament, its symbolism was endowed with life.
what had been given to humanity through the Old Testament; on the other
deepening the life of Old Testament humanity. It might be said that
what has flowed into the entire Old Testament revelation came to expression
it was not known what a momentous Event had taken place among the Jewish
of the deed by which the God Who appeared on earth was killed by men:
is a world of mere phenomena, a world of appearance. He knew that what
a human being experiences immediately in his environment during his
waking hours between birth and death is only the outer view, the phenomenal
what could be drawn out and separated from the merely phenomenal, illusory
into a sacramental act; and this act contains exact truth in contrast
example, the sacramental act performed as the initiation rite, which
push through the phenomena of outer life and, as it were, be captured
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structure, due to all the relationships into which men's karma
if we are educated to strip off the luciferic element and, in a certain
the course of his whole life, when his development in time is really
developmental motif changes in the course of life. You will also find
development in the future. They have been set beside the idea of equality,
either free or unfree. One has to say, man is in the process of development
That is to say, the impulse for equality has a descending development.
to the moment of death, and he has achieved relatively the greatest
possibility of becoming free at the moment he enters the spiritual world
time element in his being. He is spoken of in general terms, in
who are inflexible, who are disinclined to undergo development, accomplish
We unravel the complexity of human development in the course of life
science, for they have been ignored by the recent developments that
The strongest prerequisites for the development of fraternity exist
it will be necessary for our understanding of other men, and also —
soul development upon the physical organism that a human being has today
his so-called physical development into his fifties, in the way that
of life man is dependent upon his physical development. We know the
these early years we see a distinct parallel in the development of soul
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comparison) — embodied itself in three elements: the ancient Hebrew
development of Christianity, we must show to what extent it has evolved
a completely objective view of elementary spiritual facts. Conditions
perceived spiritual realities within the phenomena of nature. They perceived
of elemental spirits in nature, they had a deep knowledge that these
presentation. I wish simply to mention single characteristics of those
upon the development of the being of Christianity.
that is real. The condition of soul in which an individual sought enlightenment
but he was woven into the whole movement of the macrocosm. He went with
men's souls were to separate from them at death, there would finally
of knowledge one does not merely enter into a different dimension of
with my thinking? Yet that was the real achievement resulting from the
(I speak now of the basic theory, not of external experimentation.)
concepts could never have arisen as that of the need for spatial arrangements,
peoples, however they may be represented, their fundamental concern
knew himself at this moment to be one with his God; he no longer differentiated
by the word Christophorus, or Christ-bearer. That was fundamentally
still he found his ego. That does not contradict the statement that,
only in an elementary way—brings us to a true perception of repeated
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self still possessed elements of reality, while in our own era, which
involves principally the development of the consciousness-soul, there is
consider two phenomena that are extreme opposite poles. The rest of
resembles these phenomena. One of them is to be found today in the views
is one extreme phenomenon. The other is to be found in the so-called
extreme, diametrically opposed phenomena.
There are other phenomena
stated) merely an outcome of the eighth Ecumenical Council of
is the reason also for the curious development of the Christian churches,
of humanity the impulse for freedom is struggling upward in the development
is an element of necessity, it constrains you, and you must follow it.
by outer phenomena to those who survey life, may I say, according to
in one of the contrasting phenomena we were considering. You can observe
the fixed tradition of these extreme phenomena. And — leaving
laws of nature) are, fundamentally, inherited concepts. The experiments
As I have often said, Goethe provided an elementary beginning in natural
For in an age when the consciousness is filled, not with elements of
ancient theologians thought up the contents of the Old Testament, or
more recent theologians those of the New Testament, in the way present-day
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gone through in the course of his development, even in historic times.
reflection, for example, in the development of the Christ concept during
effort. That is the reason also for the peculiar development that has
are not historical documents. Finally the connection was lost with Jesus
Those who have followed the development of Christianity with modern
to be sure) such as Pastor Kalthoff in Bremen, have considered it their
role with elemental power throughout the cultured world from the twelfth
mentioned even by materialistic scholars — arose in the human
simply showed that some elemental force was heaving and surging in mankind
discernment. This necessity gradually disappeared after the Mystery
not form mental pictures of that time from our present state of mind.
at a certain moment when a shocking event confronted his soul, his soul-spiritual
to his karma, at a moment when he was so startled, so spiritually shocked,
inner eye, the microcosmic element revealed in the inner eye. It is
what is within them in the same way that at other moments we perceive
this somewhat differently, not as it must be experienced today. He mentions
essentially human within, and reaches the four temperaments.
the temperaments is that when we observe the sense realm the separate
through the temperaments we enter more deeply into the essentially human,
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It relates to an elementary
irrelevant to our previous context. At the moment we are holding before
who are moving with the train, but they ascribe the movement to the
fundamentally but in a more complicated way, we ourselves—where
It is at this special moment
I have just been mentioning.
belonging to natural events. Natural science pays no heed to the tremendous
the development of the physical body. Then we need another seven years
for the development of our etheric body. Comparing ourselves with the
plant kingdom, for instance — which can be regarded for the moment
to go through all the development that can be gone through in the etheric
It has to do with our whole judgment and experience of, and our whole
if we had the same speed of movement. Because we do have a different
out of the way with all its good wishes and excitements, but he wants
how we ourselves relate to things. Just think for a moment how everything
year I have mentioned many of them. Tonight in this New Year's Eve retrospect
the world—this brings about the other adjustment: the reducing,
from the newspapers of the world, of a man whom I have already mentioned
who from his own standpoint is honest. I have often mentioned his name
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present moment in time — to stop short at what is on the surface;
such intervention of a spiritual element. Particularly at the present
The moment we do give our attention to it, we will have to distinguish
I would like to say the following: At his investment in Rome the famous
Cardinal Newman made a remarkable statement. He said that he saw no
raised on all sides to this pronouncement by the Cardinal — who
the coherers are human souls. Don't be deceived for a moment! For it
is fact, that just by living on the earth as men of the twentieth century,
warned not to let our feelings become cramped. This is tremendously
element in our present age. I have shown, for instance, how the present
When someone experiments, even when someone simply observes, he works
out the experiments and the results of the experiments, even his observations,
prepares people to reject all the truly real spiritual elements that
spreading out and already living in men's souls.
you will find something tremendously important for understanding the
In the sea we have, so to speak, merely the blind watery element, but
in various ways the form this world evolution has to take; I will mention
of repeated earth-lives should recede, so that men would learn to live
would allow only old elements and impulses to enter human consciousness.
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Steiner's comprehensive assessment of Freud's work and of psychoanalysis
to the good within your activity in our spiritual movement, I have noticed
our spiritual movement as serving evil purposes, and I see this behavior
as gravely endangering our movement. The relationships you create between
of our spiritual movement. These people have readied themselves to meet
to keep promises. No, this is a case of deliberately causing disappointment.
in order do something that is by rights reserved for destiny. A disappointment
our development. In contrast, a disappointment deliberately arranged
to calmly survey their gradually increasing disappointment. Once the
without intending to keep them. Causing disappointment is something
modern spiritual science appeals to our healthy capacity for discernment,
of a bit of their I. As a result, your coworkers in our spiritual movement
of people working in our movement. On occasion, you have implied that
rule, especially if it comes at the right moment, criticism can take
At the moment, I am not
system confronting me. In this case, no amount of postponement would
influence, however, the principle at work in our spiritual movement
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Steiner's comprehensive assessment of Freud's work and of psychoanalysis
theme going beyond the events of the moment, and I hope that will be
around us to our spiritual movement with its teachings, for in discussing
mentioned a third member of long standing.
our Society and our entire movement are constantly being endangered
recurrent experience that is unavoidable in a spiritual movement such
does need to be mentioned, and I am simply stating my personal opinion
perfect at any given moment. The greatest evil, so it seems, is when
faced by any spiritual movement such as ours is the very pronounced
vanity that comes into play simply because such movements must necessarily
requirements of our cause. It is understandable enough that when some
path of meditation, historical events or the Old and New Testaments
movement, the movement must make a point of approaching them from the
of occult embellishments. They may even console themselves for the existence
movement is. This must also be taken into account, and we must not endanger
the whole movement by doing anything stupid or foolish. That's why we
I must still mention a few more thoughts in connection with this measure.
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Movements such as our spiritual scientific movement have always been
emphasize again that a spiritual movement like this one is of necessity
around it. Therefore, to introduce such a movement to humanity with
thoughts and concepts, to be a kind of tool or instrument for disseminating
moment. If we were to dissolve the Anthroposophical Society, however,
as a society existing on behalf of a spiritual scientific movement,
any figments of the imagination in its organization, but is constructed
Such things have been mentioned
and seriousness of our movement in question. Thus, even though such
any closer connection to our movement.
mention a number of things that will probably seem totally superfluous
that, in a spiritual scientific movement, we can work constructively
mention one extreme example that may not happen very frequently in our
that women who have become aware of these two spiritual facts —
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That kind of association can be dissolved at any moment. But if it became
it begins to obey the physical laws of the earthly elements. The same
to have a detrimental effect on its surroundings, it must be cremated
and look at their content, which, as I mentioned yesterday, is now present
to being absolutely exact with regard to phenomena on the physical plane
them is of fundamental, crucial importance. Of course, this presupposes
and management of the Society as such. When someone lacks this interest,
needed for our whole movement to flourish is for the outer world to
said repeatedly that our movement has no more to do with religion than
movement. At one point, I had to get downright unpleasant, because,
our building and calling it a “temple,” which was very detrimental
about anything happening in our movement— “so long a face
we must make every effort to free our movement from the preconceived
to popularize the idea that this is a spiritual scientific movement
The same thing will happen with our movement as well — the Church
above-mentioned corpse on our hands. You can only prevent it by beginning
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embrace his aura and saw in it spiritual elemental beings proceeding
coming toward him as beings of the outer elemental world, and others
after having consulted with his own elemental beings, he recognized
understand to a certain extent the language of both the elemental beings
of spiritual beings, until a certain moment when he noticed spirits
of gestures and movements of their limbs or of their actual form, which
spirits making certain movements, but was unable to understand them;
their movements conveyed no sense or meaning to his soul. He was surprised
of perception. Our I knows about the objects and creates mental images
on the physical plane—we make mental images of the objects on
There it is replaced with a different fundamental experience, the experience
Without this fundamental
lacked the basic experience of perception and developing mental images.
that other fundamental experience of being observed by them.
be read without considerable mental effort. I have always made sure
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kind of deliberations you are engaged in at the moment, my friends,
necessarily have in mind at the moment.
movement, we will find ourselves obliged to study this case for our
motives and arguments.
judgment.
about the above-mentioned effect on their souls.
out where it comes from. In Goesch's case, we are led to his long involvement
as it relates to Goesch's first two points, and his involvement with
the psychoanalytic movement, it was the practice of Dr. Breuer in particular
phenomena of ordinary life, particularly with regard to how they appear
from page 29 of the above-mentioned book by Freud:
act (the touching), [and looks on it as his supreme enjoyment, but
developments to the mechanism of repression at the same early age.
all possible phenomena of human life. For example, Freud and his disciples
you as exact an outline of them as possible. On page 16 of the above-mentioned
it reveals a striking agreement with the mental life of neurotic patients.
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is of concern to all of us at the moment because of the case at hand.
(you might even say “terrible”) element has entered our
sexual drives, the most subjective element possible, become the motivating
closely at such modern cultural phenomena, because they show us that
materialists among us to recognize a higher spiritual element than the
element of sexuality plays into these theories. In his book
was at the moment “impossible” or taboo.
a higher state of consciousness, however, all this changes fundamentally.
world of reason. You hear all kinds of derogatory comments about this
out how many of the people in our movement who are now reading
knowing anything about me and our movement, if it had fallen into their
ask you to be really, really clever for a moment, and clever in a way
discussed. That is why in the past women were excluded from all spiritual-scientific
gatherings. This measure prevented the men from mixing the two spheres
what went on in the lodge outside the lodge itself. Women, then, could
gone, and spiritual scientific movements such as ours should attempt
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phenomena of loving have always been an identifiable facet of human
were all taken aback by my statement that our idea of love is only six
Knowledge of the Higher Worlds and Its Attainment,
very nice. Mauthner first mentions Spinoza's definition of love and
also tried to explain miracles as pathological phenomena. In the most
out of its own fundamental impulses, it is forced to conclude that what
Recently, after so many attempts by men, a woman,
phenomena accompanying it.
the way men and women express themselves, we see that nowadays, even
the fundamental materialistic tendency of our times, which also leads
radical means was used to safeguard the basic requirements of any kind
special treatment by virtue of being the reincarnation of somebody or
a serious and dignified attitude on the part of both men and women as
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in points of view of the sort we mentioned before is not objective but
for that person's advancement, but in our anthroposophical movement,
affairs of anthroposophy with the conscientious exactitude I just mentioned.
in movement, constantly inwardly active. At the moment, I am not talking
about any particular movement, but about their inner activity as a whole.
We have to imagine a certain degree of complexity in this movement if
we want to understand how the beings that stand behind certain phenomena
relate to the phenomena themselves. The following example will be familiar
during the Sun period, when etheric development set in, and so on. But
what does our physical development on ancient Saturn mean in relation
world as we know it now is there any trace of what human physical development
and undergo a higher form of development in order to achieve an understanding
that all our physical organs are in constant inner movement; they are
development from childhood to maturity, the childhood stage of evolution
between. We will not understand human physical development if we look
place during growth and development, that a growing human being allows
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in connection with the most important problems of life, modern men may
from the events if they simply pass judgment on them, and then these
judgments are locked upon as experiences. This can be very satisfactory
our judgment, instead of pronouncing judgment over the events. Many
be considered as right, through an insight into the development of humanity
for a useful development of social conditions!
moment (this is the essential point!): As a proletarian, he denies the
possibility of any social improvement in human development through the
improvement of social life can only be brought about only through A change
question; which the facts themselves reveal. You see, the whole tremendous
impetus of the modern proletarian movement in social life is based upon
and the true forces which are active in the development of humanity,
the proletarian movement through Marxism. Lassalle felt this truth, when
For the only political, social movement having a scientific foundation,
is the modern working class movement. It is encumbered with all the
the greatest influence of all: The course of development during the
of thought, we find something tremendous in it: If we can penetrate
into this contradiction, we discover in it a truth of tremendous import
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What Form Can the Requirements of Social Life Take
they dealt, to a great extent, with the development of the social problem,
in practical life, we find that men of every profession and of every
about the social problem, but also to form a judgment concerning this
or that question connected with the social development, (it is easy
find any starting point which might enable them to form a judgment.
which might enable them to form the judgments which the present time
so urgently requires. Do we not see that the leading men of the bourgeoisie
form true judgments.
in mind the whole weighty tragedy of the above-mentioned fact, we must
to develop true judgments in regard to that which is really needed.
organisations were more or less useful in the development of humanity.
the development of the personal, individual element, after which humanity
transition, we discern certain transitional phenomena in this process of
demolishment: during the 16th and 17th century, we discern a transitional
form of development which we might call a monopolisation of various
individualism, we can discern the development of a kind of anti-monopoly
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Menschenwissenschaft und Sozialwissenschaft.
From the Personal Element
order during the past centuries of human development. Those. who now
point, the summit of its development, then it already contains the seed
of the following course of development.
of workmen. Through the fact that these industrial concerns have taken
number of workmen. Moreover, the conditions of transport have led, to
and of workmen belonging to certain definite spheres of life. Modern
of industry, and that the accompanying phenomena of this socialisation
process would be that a community of workmen is no longer brought together
The above idea has a tremendously
proletarians, which consists therein that workmen believe that they
of modern men (and this is due to many reasons) that they have a predilection
be healed if modern men lose this habit of surrendering to one-sided
the development of capitalism end the technical economic life of the
between something that is sound or unsound in the course of human development.
If we consider the development
all the development of what has been designated as capitalism, another
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in the World, Towards His Fellow-Men and TowardsSpirituality
Yesterday I mentioned the
conclusions arrived at by the social-democratic mentality. Spiritual
impulses, spiritual potentialities, now influence the development of
the strength of the impulses which influence the development of modern
the power o f ethical impulses. This distrust is a sediment, as it were,
real improvement can only, result from a class struggle, from a struggle
the development of modern humanity, a fact which we have already considered
phenomena of Nature, a science which is, as it were, devoid of morality,
of whose priests are really very learned men, emphasizes that the scientists
phenomena.
by men who are looked upon as authorities. These books undoubtedly contain
moral impulse can take hold of men. The economic order which thus results,
of Nature. Do you find in the words or writings of modern men, belonging
humanity in such a way that ethical requirements become at the same
time social-economic requirements? — The most essential point
economic structure of life, from the development of capital, and quite
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and in his most recent development, this social question has taken a
Movement, therefore, it behooves us to arrive, from our point of view,
at a judgment about human destiny especially in regard to the social
question, a judgment which in a way possible to us could be put into
accomplish nothing. For us at the present moment it is a matter of doing
of a deep gulf between the classes of men. On one side of this gulf
stand the circles that have hitherto more or less led men's destiny;
over the workers, are fundamentally a legacy from the middle-class thinking
phenomena is this deep gulf between the two human groups. In recent
significant phenomenon may strike everyone as justifying what I have
question, the social movement, is already an actual question, a question
of reality that result from the Movement here for Spiritual Science,
results in the coming decades, if men refuse to turn to the consideration
mean by this the dogma of some spiritual movement or other, what we
number of men can arouse hope and belief. And these two things speak
our appeal to the understanding of a sufficiently large number of men
Now the three men previously
seen to have an effect on men's thinking. You may remember an appeal
life's task. For men are like that; so long as anything of the old remains
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is cultivated in men's souls.
when men show themselves capable of producing order. They will be so
for its development. That is not of any consequence; the point is that
in contemporary mankind there is lacking even the elementary basis for
a way to avoid the abstract sentimental concepts at present pacifying
today on acquiring this understanding. I have said that men today in
that a simple reassortment of social levels can bring about real change;
out the best, but of finding what men as a whole would accept as a basis
up even though men appear unwilling to accept it. That is something
different, for there it is not a matter of what men can wish for or
not, such as a system of taxation, but of what fundamentally all men
can make it intelligible to them, for subconsciously men want it to
That is not merely thought-out, but seen to be what men are wanting.
And it is not because they lack the desire that countless men reject
life, then the need will arise in you to have a more fundamental understanding
these laws even on grounds of principle. You can at best lead men into
subject to certain laws — even men themselves — have nothing
it is advisable for us to be in the position to go back to fundamentals,
or tertiaries, which are subsequent phenomena. We may give this example
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of the fifth post-Atlantean epoch with its fundamental change in man's
whole of our social movement is built. The social movement has its
accordance with the fundamental character of our time.
the actual political State is really but one department, one member,
And to understand the present social movement from a serious standpoint
the men who, in some particular direction, are active in social matters.
the structure of men's thinking, and upon our paying less heed to the
movement whether anyone is a reactionary in the original sense or liberal,
there is only anthroposophical thinking that can guide men's thinking
will come from the way in which men think. It is just this that I want
ways in which the views of the proletarian movement have gradually been
development, built up on these foundations his extraordinarily arresting
Now a statement by Karl
in these times one should not forget this statement. For it is only
of Lenin is not to speak of a single personality but of a movement,
which, if you like, is fundamentally open to criticism but from which
the impulse is spreading widely. This movement, however, is also extended
be moulded, will be greatly disappointed. Statements such as those imparted
world should be. He seeks to discover how those men thought who brought
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significant in our time. We see today a whole class of men setting their
how in this age of the development of consciousness something different
the forces active in the modern social movement, is derived from the
first made itself felt among the leading classes of men in the field
— production, trade, consumption; and according to how men have
economic struggle. Certainly all the ideas required by men, what they
men's thoughts reflect only what is of the senses, if men live entirely
This plays upon the surface of men's life of soul, and has constituted.
of soul men today are striving for the spirit; they have, one might
to possess this element that, as an impulse of the soul, was previously
in the depths of men's souls slumbering, unconscious impulses are striving
see all life of the spirit in mere ideas and concepts before which men
the spiritual life. In science the great desire is to experiment, so
If you consider the development
When I have before me a human being or a wood, and I paint this men
a few moments the light effect may be suite different. In my desire
external world shows me for that changes each moment. I try to paint
and reveals itself to anyone in a certain moment. The trouble is that
men. We have only to look at modern human evolution correctly, and we
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standpoint we endeavoured to go deeply into the present social movement.
to have any understanding of a movement promoted by mankind, careful
three impulses behind the modern proletariat movement — first, the
of thought is the real basis of the very intensive life in the element
is the fundamental aim of our times, is expressed also in its opposite
this secret of the existing proletarian movement cannot today discover
to a world historic movement arises in those who look more deeply into
is on the surface. The present social movement is now finding its most
cosmic development of man reveal themselves in their most extreme form.
diametrically opposed to the fundamentals of Spiritual Science represented
work together in relative independence; so it is fundamentally necessary
have its own legislation and government, arising out of its own conditions
is just the element in which man can be so fused that from the working
a men like Johann Gottlieb Fichte came to think out a social system
The social structure is far more readily found when men are brought
in which men must stand if the social organism is to be realised through
development. To most people they seem just a web of thoughts. The reason
filled only with pictures. Men like Fichte, Schelling and Hegel have
have thought in this way, nor the Romans, nor could men have thought
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invention of some evil spirit? Picture to yourselves, gentlemen, some
which, in spite of railway, steam and electricity, we men see nevertheless
is because such men have applied their customary way of thinking to
social conditions in the common life of men that reality has gradually
as men do today that they can continue their economic life in the way
Think of all men called modern civilisation. And then think of what
the wishes of those whose social position allowed of their fulfillment,
the dreams men dream today. Whence is this reality to come? It does
not exist in the region whence practical men derive their thoughts.
lectures I have often mentioned the name Fritz Mauthner. When in a series
of the State. Men who know nothing of the spiritual world can get no
men. And the State is not in a healthy condition when seeking to establish
terrible facts of today men must learn to penetrate this fact in all
spiritual culture. Through speech we learn as men to understand each
how this war has shown that men have been living in a kind of external
To rescue us from this barbarism only empty and sentimental words are
forthcoming, exhorting men to return to a kind of inward spirituality.
men, and to find an inward bond between man and man. It is far more
of men who believe in the spirit. And every little village still has
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developments with full awareness, in all humanity you will find a trend
a fundamental phenomenon running through the whole evolution of the
spring and early summer of 1914 by European statesmen, and find much the
these self-styled ‘practical’ men. Thus it was at that time.
today in the aims and actions of men so largely the children of their
at Berne. There people talked of many things. Fundamentally everything
of the European statesmen in the spring and summer of 1914. These men
emphasise that men's thoughts today have become dull and summary. They
are entirely superficial. Men cannot see into what it is that these
have something that fundamentally has become a terrible oppressor of
phenomenon. For the individual possesses this just as much as he possesses
to the sphere of rights. For the moment man acquires more than he needs
the moment capital is accumulated, what he possesses is no more a commodity
for understanding the social organism. The moment a man acquires a possession,
the spiritual organism where the individual capacities of men are dealt
of all men in common. Thirty years after his death an author's works
of men looking upon it in this way? The consequence is that in the last
again to men in general through a sound organisation, a sound organism,
judgment it will not be in accordance with his feelings but obviously
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feeling of resentment, a bitter memory. A peace resting on such foundations
peace as for the just settlement of obstinate strife over questions
we think clearly, it must be said that the moment this peace without
mention, therefore, must continually come before our souls: What then,
men's acceptance of Spiritual Science, is not merely a question of being
a certain form that holds men back from directing their gaze to the
are in a certain way a kind of punishment for the necessary misunderstanding
say about his actual fundamental being of the world quite distinctly
— Naturally such a statement, that the comets are some sort of
to its greatest height, in the last moment of its development comes,
and world-history; nevertheless they are simply the embodiment of pure
logic, the embodiment of abstract ideas. Those ideas existing before
Man comes to fulfillment in philosophy, looks back on everything else
the whole of its previous becoming. God sees Himself in men. Actually
the supersensible world. For Hegel there is no such path; and if amen
in its fundamental rejection of the supersensible; not, however, in
Vom Menschenrätsel (The Riddle of Man).
moved in an element of ideas while Marx lived in a weaving and living
Now there must be found what will bring agreement, and this can be done
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stage of advancement has yet to be attained. True, it is
knowledge of the truth in the phenomena of Nature? And do we
boy directed to what lives and moves as Spirit in the phenomena
in his environment. In Goethe especially, what he brought with
something else for a moment. Think how futile, in face of
certain phenomena of life, is many a mode of study whose
(Vom Menschenrätsel),
statement quoted, to the effect that Erasmus of Rotterdam
fools instead of wise men. Now in a certain respect this may
development of spiritual life during the last decades before
was an absolute requirement of the time. Lessing is a
differences (we shall return to this in a moment) there is
and Schiller, not to mention others around them who were less
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of any individual and the lives of great men so-called?
cyclic movement for the human being. Strictly speaking, it only
movement of my hand, that is, inwardly to perceive, whereas the
instrument it is able to use. The instrument it uses in the
moment, is outside you in the next moment, and another air is
very next moment, have the form of your body; will have united
enough, according to its fundamental notions. These are
all these things gave rise to great astonishment, not only
world's phenomena appear before us. We have Wisdom not only in
Incidentally, these unusual phenomena can only astonish
developments of modern learning. As to the men who write such
see, not only has the phenomenon itself long been known,
already been achieved in the development of science. Only so
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period all the conditions in which men live will very largely
were then able, as it were, at certain moments to connect them
definite conditions, when men discovered from the Will of Gods
living-together of men in their several callings. And from the
Vulcan a fourth stage of development, even as the
processes on Saturn have attained a fourth stage of development
works in the varied callings which men take up upon Earth. Men
Consider now in this connection the tremendous change which the
Further developments in this respect will lead to the several
of his product in the lives of men.’ So indeed it was in former
times, while to-day, for the majority of men, it is no longer
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development on earth, what it is and what it must become.
us, four stages in the development of man's understanding of
ancient mysteries which existed among men at the dawn of human
today, so gods associated with men and men with gods in those
taken into consideration when the gods associated with men in
which I mentioned determined the way a path is made from gods
to men and from men to the gods during certain constellations
evolution has good reason to look at the times where men
These holy weeks made it very clear that the ways gods and men
two, and one can then find the way from the gods to men and
from men to the gods.
way to them and that men can find their way to the gods.
They kept the water and its mercurial element, etc., from those
human language, the men in the ancient mysteries wanted to
withdrew from men and sent their forces down into the
alchemists called ferments. A ferment is a substance which has
Ferments were taken out of sacred vessels and they were used to
it were, the moment he could stand before the sacred place or
structure, and the old, fermenting substances in the sacred
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the gods sent down their forces, so that the men who lived in
This development of a certain religious feeling, which one can
that men and the gods can work together.
way to men at certain times that are really differences between
when men must add something to the times they calculated
because their calculations are incorrect. In these times men
air which is in your body now was outside it a moment ago, and
for men today.
Thus, we find four elements in man. Earth is under the
earthly developments. What actually happened here? Alan's
siliceous environment of the consecrated subterranean temple
this moment he could say from the depths of his heart: Now I am
baptisms was less dependent upon the actual watery element than
observed things which involved the fluidic element before or
fluidic element in one, and that the etheric body was active in
connected with the earthly element, and during the less ancient
with the watery element which exists in the whole universe. He
every moment he could say to himself: Now I know how creatures
man was to experience his union with the aery element and
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environment during the time of the separation.
about one's environment disappear as soon as one's astral body
not receptive for impressions from the environment during that
experiments today, but they don't want to accept things which
outer observations and experiments.
support each other, in that moment one will stop saying: I
then comes the moment where this Apocalypse can be a creation
to go through a kind of spiritual development or conceptual
development.
what men really experienced on old Saturn. Man experienced
him he sees a world with the elements down below and its sun,
mental image before our soul, if we look into the course of
they still spoke of Saturn men who didn't have a warmth skin
yet, and then of men who had taken the first part of the world
are like absolute amazement about the world. If one wants to
describe them, one has to call them complete amazement. For one
cannot grasp warmth in any other way than as sheer amazement.
astonishment. It's only because people have become as
is astonishment;' and Saturn man is astonishment just as much
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that the writer of such a document did not consider himself to
today, but he felt that he was the instrument of the spiritual
things in your priestly work, for they are typical phenomena
have often mentioned the pastoral letter of an archbishop
or Sardis or Philadelphia is mentioned? Although people can't
Then he mentions what he wants to tell these churches. And he's
the development of the various churches in connection with what
special tasks to really bring this theophanic element or this
the earthly phenomena and the goddess. The people in public
concepts about things today, so one had to acquire mental
as I mentioned before — he turned to the community in
the movements of the stars and planets are connected with
laymen. The solar teachings in Ephesus separated the five
oriented towards the kind of astrology which I just mentioned
certainly a tremendous difference inwardly after they had
document and not a Christian one. However, one has to
a certain number of typical phenomena or types. Now just look
interplay of elemental light spirits, which relate to the water
spiritual phenomena exist there when the ocean surges onto the
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life today, since spiritual development is now taking place
the development of the successive post Atlantean periods is
dimmed considerably by the time of the Mystery of Golgotha, men
documents very much, but the fact is that people, took the
Atlantean consciousness was fully developed. Likewise, most men
respect to the development of our consciousness soul, as it
were, in the fifth post Atlantean epoch. And this is why men of
consciousness soul is being developed, but this development
alongside them. To put it even more concretely: men will
connected with the development of the consciousness soul. They
will experience this development of waking consciousness like a
moments when they pass over from sleeping to waking
This is something which men will perceive more and more in the
in the next moment, hour, day or month, then in accordance with
These phenomena are already here, and some of them exist on a
men's consciousness in such a way that a man is comforted and
same priest began each burial with the statement, “As
Atlantean epoch. Like the other things that I mentioned, this
reads the passage about the white raiment which people who have
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them. Just place the way elements of the creative word are
sound elements before your souls. Now try to imagine what
time that lived with these 32 elements in a very active way and
the things which really weave through the world and which men
Nature to have a different arrangement in the rainbow, —
that displacements in the number 7 are gradually appearing. We
secret of numbers which exists in documents like the
certain phenomena as if they were occurring in accordance with
development. Then we come into an age where Anael is the ruling
butterflies to develop and crawl out, and in the development of
more moral way. As I have often mentioned, a war of all against
warlike elements for initiation were brought from the spiritual
men from the world of the gods. Atlantean men still felt that
Atlantean men felt that the godhead existed, but not individual
main thing that our epoch is for is to make men independent and
mysteries. During, the ancient Indian cultural age men felt
the age where the consciousness soul and the accompaniment by
an end in a certain sense and a kind of an attainment of
the Old Testament the initiates of Asia said that Michael went
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played an important role in the development of the Greek
mentality. It continued to work until the age of the
this age of the development of the intellectual soul or hearty
lines must see the outer facts of historical developments on
that the whole relation off divine beings to men started
Athanasius. Men started to become unsure of how they should
must go back to the time of the first Christian developments in
Athanasius' whole mentality to look upon the Christ as a god
further east. We shouldn't look so much at the detrimental
to east. This is tremendously significant. When such an event
would like to say that it is of tremendous importance that when
assume ancient Roman forms at the moment when Rome decides to
historical element is great and tremendous. He doesn't express
development of Christianity then sets in. Christian Romanism is
preserves the old element in the west which is like an
Apocalypticer and in the souls of all the men of his time, it
men. Christianity was made into a semblance of itself in two
teaching; which could only make men fail to see the humanity
something out of recent theological developments such as
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always only as it were prepare for men's Christ-evolution and
who sees behind the scenes of outer historical developments.
are assembled upon the earth, and if we want to make a mental
image about men on earth which goes deep into our soul, we can,
earth as a world body with a gathering of Vulcan men in it if
its men at a different stage. It is very important for the
reality, just as we can speak of earth men as a whole as the
want to remain in the subhuman element. If the Apocalypticer
Europe. It was clear to him that everything which brings men in
natural connections, and he wants to make men forget about the
sacrament like transubstantiation.
spiritual viewpoint at various times and places. I mentioned
consciousness soul took hold, as I mentioned before. If we look
to be active for a real further development of Christianity,
face outwardly. Soradt men will also be recognizable outwardly;
event, and he saw the development of this abominable possession
at the moment when it broke out. However, this is always a
who wants to lead men into the spiritual must see into the
Hermes, although this distorts the Egyptian nomenclature
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that we have gathered together a number of elements in order to
are brought to men. The Apocalypticer points out that it was a
special event, a mighty enlightenment which enabled him to make
his statement to humanity. However, thereby the Apocalypse
Mystery of Golgotha, and it's not of primary and fundamental
this is why that famous statement could be made: Jesus
he wears his three garments, physical body, etheric body and
environment, in the spiritual region of the earthly
environment, which is behind sensory, physical phenomena. They
Thus if we would think nothing else than what I just mentioned,
would come back again to this earthly, physical garment, and
circles. It's correct to say that there were tremendous
because the church wanted to get rid of the cosmic elements
the moment these things were in danger of dying out. And if the
fundamental tone in the earth's aura, and he continues to work
sentiments one can bring about such a condition of sleep that
content can pass over into men's astral body and ego —
will come about when men make themselves worthy of it. In
the spiritual world but that he has a development which
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agreement with everything one can say about evolution from the
building of cultural phenomena and of the human body changed
more in the free soul development of human beings on earth. But
men — just as men previously raised material ingredients
before men become aware that they must build from above
Jesus Christ. But now let's think of an enhancement of this
only say in connection with himself. The enhancement consists
men.
understanding, this being wears a garment which is sprinkled
However, John the Apocalypticer tells us that this garment
name of the garment which is sprinkled with blood. And the name
pagans read the word of God in natural phenomena. They had to
understanding of the Mystery of Golgotha and of the garment
through himself, secondly through his garment, and thirdly
through the deeds which he does for men on earth. Here again a
particular year but Christian development must move in that
Christ lives in men with the name which only he understands.
concealed by the fact that men are continuing to live in their
from the divine world. But men must prepare themselves by
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Apocalypticer wants to translate men during the next earthly
endangering their soul development. We shouldn't forget how
place the sum of all the errors which men and mankind can fall
every moment in his evolution — man is only truly human
certain period in its mystery development, and everything which
for the fact that the moment he returns to the physical world
went through this development from the greatest revelations of
active in it everywhere. Ahriman is sitting in men, and he is a
element is present in what falls here, as for instance when
Babylon falls, and it is opposed to the Luciferic element. What
The image of jubilating Luciferic, angelic sentiments. We must
world in which man experiences his spiritual development. They
the first one, the fall of Babylon, is all the errors men can
himself. The beings who fall with Babylon are men; it is human
something superhuman is working directly in men with an evil
other ones walk around like men, but their fate is that their
fall of certain corrupt spirits, who are close to men. These
want to steer men in the wrong direction in a moral and
from that of men. Human beings tend to be rather abstract, and
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development of the spiritual life here, as it were. The act of
I mentioned at the, beginning, a study of the Apocalypse is
Apocalypse bears the fundamental Christian character on its
the slight displacements which always occur in world evolution
connected with our spiritual development as follows (drawing).
makeup is concerned men were more or less similar to lower
was even possible for men to make rapid metamorphoses, since
transformations occurred in the ancient Atlantean period men
beings or in the aery, watery beings. You see, at that time men
I recently mentioned in Anthroposophical lectures, the teachers
development of the consciousness soul of humanity. We're still
in the chaos of this development of the consciousness soul to
Fata-Morgana mental formations which will arise in men in an
desert which is brought about by the warm air, so men's
thoughts will be carried by warmth and they will help men to
fifth post Atlantean age men's consciousness souls will become
before men in mighty pictures which the Greeks experienced in a
the near future men will look back at the way in which people
of the Atlantean epoch. After this point in time the wise men
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fundamental rhythmic numbers in the universe and in man earlier
to men in a particular form in the near future. Therewith we
Anthroposophical movement. The main thing then was to interpret
in the world which it was important to mention at that time
mentioned a number of times, you should identify yourselves
We're standing at the beginning of the development of the
development of the civilized world, from a spiritual viewpoint.
into human affairs was a tremendously intensive one. You can
if you prefer. Then men continued to go about their business,
tremendously. An increase in the population is something which
vision is, for such men in their astral body look exactly the
fellowship among men with regard to such matters. People with
must decide what is really inside such men in each individual
case. Sometimes such men contain posthumous souls, that is,
incarnate repeatedly as men. These are souls which remained
must consciously educate such men like permanent children.
with this, who really had tremendously strong impressions from
weaves and works in the sensory phenomena to which they looked
can be illuminated from within men.
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one looks at the development of man and notices how he becomes
monad are united in men through the integration of these into
we pass on to the soul element we mainly find feeling there. It
experience in our feelings as men on earth between birth and
which is maintained in our soul by creative elemental powers.
What constitutes men's bodies on earth today does not develop
elements split up, and the one becomes three. However, what
happens in individual men in this way takes place in the whole
stages of development that are similar to the ones individual
men go through.
consciousness age individual men have to acquire something
Guardian of the Threshold in our time, although, individual men
men on earth up to the end of the 18th century because of the
elemental beings which are living in it, men must now get their
going through. There will be ever more men who will have the
to other feelings that men can develop when these things become
What is contained in the bodies of men who belong to the
present, which is that there are three kinds of men, and not
clearly today. We have cloud men who can only think, whereas
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certain level, — germinally indicating tremendous
upheavals in Russia will later be tremendous stormy revolutions
that will occur above the heads of men.
one's environment didn't come from what was there at the time
But this is not so. At the moment I mentioned one discovers
mentioned in the other course but in any case none of the
elementary shaping process that is present in the dynamics of
to mention the following.
have pointed to a natural phenomenon which we grasped through
And it is quite correct to say that men will contribute ever
men will work together on the great events of the future. Here
you have a unified working of what occurs in men and of what
divine element that is connected with human evolution and into
approach the divine element that keeps a balance between the
realms where Luciferic elements are continuously flowing in and
which forms men outwardly, and which inwardly ensouls them and
fundamental force is pure love.
love in the divine things that are assigned to men. However,
this love is an inner element and it can be experienced by
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present in the souls of present-day men.
the workmen is taking in terms of their content due to the
questions that are being asked. As I mentioned, one can see
gave my lecture to the workmen, when everything which we will
whole development that underlies the beasts that are
continuously being mentioned in the Apocalypse. Now what outer
one's instrument. These are calculable things. Then one also
water at the equator and produce tremendous floods on the
had split up even more into a lot of small fragments which
substances, and the spiritual elements rise up. The earth
digests the comets and the spiritual elements rise up. That is
mentioned the odd things that transpired when railroad trains
mentioned, I can't get too mirthful about this because the
which constitute the bestial element in man weren't being
Some comets have a therapeutic effect upon men's nerves, and
Thus the Apocalypticer looks at cometary phenomena and he lets
cyanogen. This was before anyone else had mentioned anything
ferments that are given to the earth by the cosmos in our daily
Apocalypticer looks at the phenomena and he sees that favorable
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that some natural phenomenon is involved at a particular point
physical world. The moment he goes over to the seals and treats
of our environment if it weren't permeated by spirit. We should
mild development of colors. Lightning spreads out, as it were,
that work in an elemental way. Earthly and heavenly things
there are beings behind it. At most we perceive elemental
hierarchy and through elemental beings. Then we eventually
elemental things, for if we want to perceive something there we
woven into the soul, spiritual elements and essences of the
understand the development of ideas about spiritual things in
angels appear, and they carry the events. The phenomenal thing
like the embodiments of higher hierarchies, just as we look
phenomenon with one's spiritual perception. For instance, when
lives are taken care of by their angel, groups of men by an
wonderful garment that is woven there, which is so nicely
whole garment of the world, one sees that divine love flows in
can only be in men and animals, so what is that supposed to
but one is in danger of losing the religious element altogether
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However, before this age of consciousness soul development is
will live even more deeply and pervasively in men.
of this will be deposited in men, and later on when the Jupiter
structure and men can grasp the important things in their
you see things are like this; when men grab intellectuality
from the cosmos — and after all, it is a wise arrangement
there are always unguarded moments when it becomes possible for
to take hold of this intellectuality that men have. Satan must
in the course of world evolution long before it approached men
human intellectuality to his own to such an extent that men can
chain men to himself through their intellects, but also to bind
when the intellectuality which men contain is taken hold of by
anything with men's feelings, sensations, desires and wishes he
be sure, Satan can use this great moment in the evolution of
humanity and he can pull men's intelligences and the men with
is trying to bring men into its evolution in this way. The way
intellectual element becomes completely emancipated in a
experimental observation of human souls. This is one of the
methods that will eventually prevent the soul elements from
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human development. Then we will connect to this the epochs of the history
of the altar-sacraments. At the left and the right we see teachers of
history of the development of humanity.
These impulses are intimately connected on one hand with the development
of the external Christian-church world, and also with every other element
historical development of the west.
was already active. I have mentioned this often. Today, the opinion
whole of the human development, also this Mystery of Golgotha itself,
elements lived in the souls of that time as image of the world, and
impulses in humanity's development without being clear that this European
development later. For the people who grew in the East, who gradually
that this realm is not to be built on the mere fundamentals of natural,
the moment, when those people by the altar begin to understand: There
formed where the most important element were the mysteries.
things in human development happen unconsciously. And Julius II called
judgements of our contemporaries. Totally different judgements will
and as as the testament of the fourth post-Atlantian epoch. Just imagine
a remembrance, a testament of the fourth post atlantean epoch. Consider
as the testament of the post-Atlantean time.
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for the time of preparation, for the centuries just mentioned, Rome
the most important elements of life, what West-, Middle-, and South-Europe
genius, Rome actually understood this, even though the arguments concerning
dogma-arguments are simply not the content of the whole and true history.
But for what was truly the question, the arguments concerning the dogmas
mentioned, people were deeply penetrated by the thought that such a human
soul carried at its fundament hidden, unknown, impulses, which surfaced
only occasionally, in moments of the soul's inner celebration. Of this,
occurrence, of development. Looking towards the East, one finds the
6. Miniature: Birth of Christ — The Announcement
Here you see the “Announcement
Exactly when you see this “Announcement to the Shepherds”,
How already at the three faces of the men we meet the striving: Let
highest achievement. That is about from the year 1370 to 1410, hence
characteristic element in these pictures? Can we not see the fifth
most characteristic element in the fifth Post-post-Atlantean age:
post-Atlantean time is in regard to painting the most meaningful element
gently, something totally new is entering as the element of the fifth
things completely to the happenings of world-historical development,
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means of a few pictures and considerations, how, within the developmental
richness of impulses. However, for certain elements of reality it is
time in which many elements will make themselves known externally —
elements such as antagonism and impulses to battle — which will
come to light in this time. We are living also within many an element
on. For one may also say: there is hardly a time in the development
distinguish many elements. But we will restrict ourselves to presenting,
important in the area of artistic development in the forth post-Atlantian
beautiful forms, moving in time, in beautiful movements in the widest
cultural development. One concept which was as distant as possible to the
Christian centuries, especially also in the three dimensional works
brings in the Old and New Testaments were especially favoured for use
other, two rows of scenes from the Old and the New Testament. As you see,
the New Testament) Moses' Miracle of the Well. And so, there are all
what really was the most special element of the third post-atlantian
element, this reaching with each other, this flowing together of the
compare (7) and (3) where only architectonic elements are placed into
the enjoyment of the jewel, the joy of the gold, and also the joy of
what then became a great art in the realm of three-dimensional, the
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influence exercised by the Mystery of Golgotha upon every single department
development of Art. We shall not, however, be able to understand this
called intimate details in the development of the several individual
when it was that men began in Europe to depict the figure of Christ,
so artistically was made at the moment in the development of world history
were complete and had begun to pass over into men's minds and hearts,
gradually passing over into men's minds and hearts. We can therefore,
— the antique and pagan development of Art. The forms of Art which
the Christian development in Art. This is exceedingly important. It may be
accomplished in the development of Western art except the transmission
Gospels. We find that men portrayed the figures with which Christian ideas
the earliest times when men first began to portray the Christ, it is
was what men tried to express in all their pictures: we can see how
the Christian element is brought into the pagan, for everything was
element in art?” (I am speaking now from the purely artistic
fundamental “nerve” (if I may use the expression) of what is
for its development, and rules too throughout the whole spirit-world
of the development of pagan art at its highest in Greece. The specifically
was not yet sufficiently advanced in its development to be allowed to
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Der Verantwortung des Menschen Fuer Die Weltentwickelung Durch Seinen
Geistigen Zusammenhang Mit dem Erdplaneten und der Sternenwelt.
Der Mensch in seinem Zusammenhang mit dem Kosmos. Band III.
Der Verantwortung des Menschen Fuer Die Weltentwickelung Durch Seinen
Geistigen Zusammenhang Mit dem Erdplaneten und der Sternenwelt.
Der Mensch in seinem Zusammenhang mit dem Kosmos. Band III.
of the development of man. The fact that we have in us a firmly
a third sphere we can look to the phenomenon of water; we see
mineral substances deposited as sediments, form stones and
significant element in the works of man.
of air and warmth, (for a moment we will look away from the
mineral kingdom, he developed an element foreign to Jehovah.
fluidic elements of the more fantastic or imaginative side,
just consider the fact that, fundamentally, the old Jehovah
element of the dream; and thus Paul experienced the certainty
the purely intellectual element; and, under the influence of
this intellectual element, our modern natural Science
must grasp it in its inner spirit. As an historical phenomenon
Fundamentally this feeling of Divinity has passed over
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Everything that we know in our environment in this way forms
than the consciousness I have just mentioned.
environment of the earth, that which is around and on the
standing upon it. And so you must say that the environment
as he perceives what is in his environment horizontally through
the environment of the earth (without digging a hole) he would
a moment how many metals are contained inside the earth.
just as you can look in your environment of air and perceive
a feeling for life which most men cannot even clearly indicate,
direction the perceptions from the earth's environment come to
what penetrates man in his environment by way of perception.
movement and form. And so, just as we have our sense
something from the planetary movements, from the constellations
and what streams from above from the planetary movements and
the environment of the earth, but not arising through the
above downwards and from below upwards, that is our environment
place while such men are awake. There is always a kind of
fro. And such men as I have just mentioned are adapted to
environment, but also downwards, not through holes, but
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The first four lectures deal with the development of theology from a
— in its fundamental structure, in its inner nature —
[St. Augustine, Bishop of Hippo (354–430). Early Latin church father. Exerted tremenNote 3]
westward development, was permeated in its spiritual understanding
invented the last will and testament as a part of its national
on in the following ages of historical development if only as an
into the development of Europe in the following ages (through
at an earlier, more primitive stage of humanity's development.
phenomena found in the life of humanity. But pursuing
which Charlemagne (742–814) is mentioned as a leader in the
most essential element in their souls. They felt that one must
arts, at the time when Capella wrote. In olden times men had known
the Roman college had thoroughly seen to it that although men might
beyond this world. Formerly men had also had the world of the
there. And now in the environment of the sense world, we are not
Gregor Mendel.
[Johann Gregor MenNote 14]
are all recorded in the Old Testament. Let us look, rather, down
to investigate nature in the manner of Gregor Mendel, whose
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The first four lectures deal with the development of theology from a
kingdom in the wider sense to include water, air, the phenomena of
in magnetic and chemical phenomena. In reality we can only study the
roots are left. Such a development would look like this (drawing 3):
externally but that we can see if we look at a person in movement and
out of their movements begin to understand their form. Here we need
understand his movement if you observe his stout legs, which he
unity between movement and form. You can train yourself to observe
this unity in other aspects of human movement and form. For
you will see a connection between the form and movement of a human
over from his form into his movements and back again into his
Movement passes over into form, form into movement. Here you are
[Johann Gottlieb Fichte (1762–1814), German idealist philosopher. Important for the developmenNote 3]
the streets of Jena could also have sensed the movement and the
time. Inspiration, at least in an elementary form, is required in
pictures, too, when they arise, live in this element.
movements, inwardly in fantasy or in the pictures of fantasy that
ball impacts another. The physical element must always be kept
separate from the other, the moral element. But if we go on to
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The first four lectures deal with the development of theology from a
every kind of ornament of external science and who actually knows
development of human reason. And the most intense battles
simultaneously to behold the spiritual pervading the phenomena of
this sense world. He saw the spiritual along with the phenomena of
ninth century, and which influenced men to fight such devastating
external phenomena. With the minerals he had no cause to advance to
[Imanuel Kant (1724–1804), German philosopher of the EnlightenmenNote 6]
fundamental opposition never really bridged between them, the
this fundamental difference of approach showed itself in the
the element of necessity caused by the mere senses. But this
achievement of freedom, said Schiller, can only be expressed in
think of the sum total of his achievements, these letters are the
[Friedrich Heinrich Jacobi (1743–1819), president of the Munich Academy. In opposition to the thinkers of the EnlightenmenNote 9]
mentions anything concerning plant life, anything that can be approached

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The first four lectures deal with the development of theology from a
such that his nature has changed in the course of his development on
something entered into him through the sacred enactments in the
completely in the period of human development before Golgotha. But
development. It was unique in this respect: In the further advance of
themselves inwardly with the Christ principle, how such men could now
earth, would have been tormented because they could feel the harm
development of the I. And so Christ passed through the mystery of
Thus within the development of European
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founding of this religious community movement. It has to be
this movement it also appears clearly that the outer
spiritual movement. A strong current working from within, truly
anthroposophical movement, Herman Linde, being lead to his
spoken about in the most varied areas not mentioned until
exceptional activity just at that moment.
Just as we are speaking about this at the moment, there is for
will not once have a name mentioned such as “Thirteen
present moment. It is of greater meaning that today some of you
days. You must not forget that in such a Movement, such as
Europe this entanglement of wires looks like a child's game
into account an element which renders these things harmless as
for the importance of your Movement in order to create more and
more impulses to come out of your Movement. The most important
impulse because this religious Movement is built on the basis
movement to be supported. You see, some things need to be
particularly perceived: those movements which are alert and
are now only a small movement and few in numbers, but if you
then you will simply say to yourself: with spiritual movements
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relationship of this Christian-religious Movement to
of will impulses a religious movement can be formed, which can
movements of our time where the hearts of people have gradually
possible to lead a religious movement separated from the rest
elements which has been going on for centuries, this inner
Movement as yours — because a religious movement must,
just like a scientific movement, above all support the truth.
about the content of a religious movement, we again return to
the elementary idea: the Movement must be truthful. We may not
first initiators of this Religious Movement felt at the time,
when they made the suggestion for founding this Movement, was
exactly this detachment of the religious life placing itself
for people who thought like this, only had one entitlement and
by the fact that the religious movement is based on
even a religious movement with a corresponding religious
ritual. When both movements work out of their own impulses then
time are considered. The Anthroposophical Movement can be seen
fundamental change in thinking has never existed before, even
first and foremost requirement in teaching and education lies
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achievement of such an impulse, but taken from the viewpoint of
your Movement, of which I intend speaking to you today. You see
feels at the moment the word “harden” is spoken,
(Mensch)(1). Then you substitute the speech genius and
myself, I must undergo three developmental steps — right
up to the judgement which I may express as the following: I
to first go through three steps of development, I must push
satisfy my own judgement, will I have earned the right to say
the development of spiritual impulses. We need to say to
towards human development, cosmically validated, do we
observing this development, pulverising and re-crystallising
rosebud pinches its petals so tightly together as to complement
oneself at the present moment: Oh, how trivial this world has
thermometer or a barometer, to facilitate measurements. The
Thus you can feel entire cosmic dimensions in yourself. You can
by, the activity of the Holy Ghost as the fulfilment of the
human speech on earth to be implemented in this way. The genius
doing, is but a moment's experience of the continuous spiritual
Consecration into the Christian Movement for Religious Renewal
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Yes, my dear friends, I would like to supplement what I said
The Bible, namely the New Testament, is a document which we
that religious documents originating up to about the time
come out of humanity. I would like to mention that you only
has become authoritative, religious documents are misunderstood
language, they do not represent the original documents because
the original elements in which the religious documents were
When religious documents, particularly the New Testament, are
today. Actually, a kind of untruthful element enters into the
Testament. It is hopeless to think that translations done up to
really understanding religious documents. This we can do, this
Testament.
most important places in the New Testament. I would like to
stress from the start that representations in the New Testament
Testament can only be understood when it is very clear that the
development of humanity, only then can you actually start
formation of the New Testament. If you don't do this, a far too
strong trivial tone enters into the New Testament. We can
reluctance is to perceive the New Testament in its total
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and Thomism in the present time. Also included are appendices and supplemental
philosophical movement of the Middle Ages. Because just this
historical background from which this philosophical movement
both men, and without looking at this event, it is not possible
movement believed that this was no real Marxism. Although I
like to speak about the phenomena, which I have indicated,
worldview. If one goes objectively into his development, one
it is a natural development from Neoplatonism to Christianity.
worldview at the same time with the Old Testament, with
that it assumes spiritual phenomena, spiritual facts, indeed,
for Manichaeism that it speaks of astronomical phenomena, of
world phenomena in such a way as it also speaks of moral and of
of that what moves there apparently as sun at the firmament, of
of this moral-physical, which is there at the firmament, to the
phenomenon happens at the same time as something
renewal of mental life.
human development, where something works up its way from depths
the element of Manichaeism that one has to characterise,
development when the soul had to break away from mere
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was that in that spiritual development of the West which found
can grasp in abstractions and which took place in a development
of abstractions, but that behind it a real development of the
is a quite organic process in the development of western
impossible to get information about that development, we say
men wanted to say no commonplace phrase, they felt as inner
wants to express itself there but a higher spiritual-mental
European consciousness. An essential moment of the propagation
be saved mental-spiritually. The other part of humanity
must perish mental-spiritually, whatever it undertakes. —
spiritual development within the Christian current.
to consider a similar phenomenon, for example, in our time. I
the logical faculty of judgement.
idea to idea, from judgement to judgement, from conclusion to
development during the first Christian centuries in such a way
bodily-mental-spiritual peculiarities from two viewpoints at
spiritual-mental as a human body.
an exudate of the spiritual-mental, a crust
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one may say, the problems themselves are big and immense, and
European development in the philosophical area in the
were the whole mental —
the vegetative mental, the animal
mental —
only conceived from the sensory environment that it is,
development of western thinking.
have in mind: if I have mental contents in my consciousness if
says to himself, by the development of thinking this thinking
understand from this viewpoint the historical development of
that what is contained in the development of humanity. It is
to the Mystery of Golgotha, the fulfilment with spirit becomes
development of humanity this way; it fulfils his
experiments.
The most important sign of this development
development to the real wisdoms who, however, realised them in
incarnation, the existence of the spirit in the sacrament of
certainty of knowledge torments Kant more than any contents of
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The History and Significance of the Anthroposophical Movement to the
ANTHROPOSOPHIC MOVEMENT
the anthroposophic movement and its relation to the
movement through some more or less exterior occasion, and have
then perhaps, inside the anthroposophic movement itself, been
movement. And if one looks back through all the various years,
those who come into the anthroposophic movement, one finally
us but clearly consider for a moment, what the way actually is,
Frenchmen, or Germans, Catholics, or Protestants, or Jews, or
the circumstance, that such a sentiment exists, naturally
sentiments, by these more or less definitely conceived
has moments of revolt perhaps, when of a sudden one finds
moment, so to speak, when they take their way back to earth, in
movement.
course of collegiate addresses, announced for schoolmen, with
spread extremely deep into men's souls. And one could watch
gentlemen in the latest cut of frock-coat, and ladies in the
there gentlemen with their hair very long and ladies with their
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connect the anthroposophic movement on to the theosophic
movement in the way that was done? And secondly, — why
anthroposophic movement. And I endeavoured yesterday to
seeking, by many and various roads, to bring to development in
this, numbers of souls found a kind of inner contentment
us. What is of interest for us is the mental consciousness of
what truth is a question into which we won't for the moment
ghostly figures of men were traced.
of the people there was an immense amount of it all, — in
this gave the people a sort of cement that held them
which was really effective in establishing an immense feeling
fundamental principles of Anthroposophy are to be found
two fundamental points of the Philosophy of Freedom. And
message to the men of the new age from the spiritual world,
light-phenomenon, had yet, in a sense, a deeper
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The History and Significance of the Anthroposophical Movement to the
Critical Judgment and
phenomenal appearance of H. P. Blavatsky, and I tried to give
historic aspect of the anthroposophic movement only; I want
before us in the anthroposophic movement to-day. And this makes
to dismiss a phenomenon like Blavatsky by pointing out the very
world. They used to call these documents ‘Masters' Letters’,
room where they then turned up as magic documents; and other
aspect of the phenomena that. played around Blavatsky, we shall
still have several things to say. But, for the moment, there is
troubling ourselves for the moment with all that went on on the
— revelations which, about the fundamental laws of the
world, the fundamental forces of the world, have more to tell,
way into the spiritual world. And this phenomenon of civilized
evolution is: that the capacity for judgment, the power of
conviction in any judgment, has altogether suffered very
what capacity our age approaches phenomena of any kind, that
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The History and Significance of the Anthroposophical Movement to the
When considering a phenomenon such as Blavatsky, especially
obliged to pronounce any sort of judgment on it. And they could
judgment, but they were above all things concerned to devise
people of the day; and that thereby those various movements
who carry more weight than literary gentlemen, — when
conscientious maybe, and study all sorts of documents in which
collected round the Blavatsky phenomenon, come by their name of
— for naturally there exist not only historic judgments,
as I might say, but also historic sentiments. Those, who have
historically studied the course of development in some special
movement.
Now, when studying the phenomenon of Blavatsky, there is one
subjective judgments, her subjective sentiments into the
not only did she pass judgments, but she plainly shows
spiritual phenomena are by Blavatsky talked of with the same
must be clear to oneself namely, that men to-day — and
in men. For, in truth, the majority of people are given to most
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The History and Significance of the Anthroposophical Movement to the
FLOW OF THE MOVEMENT IN ITS TWO FIRST PERIODS.
movement itself, particularly amongst those first people who
Christianity. For the theosophic movement, in its association
This anti-christian orientation, which I mentioned in
connection with the same phenomenon in a very different person,
Christianity as Mystical Fact, and the treatment of the
men so to speak in veiled form, to be then displayed openly
before all men as an historic fact. So that in the Mystery of
possible for men to approach this Unique Event, which first
the possibility of thus keeping it alive ceased with the moment
the various phenomenon of nature; beings to whom one could
dominates the mass of mankind with tremendous authority. In
relation whatever to the various forms of statement, the terms
his tremendous denunciation of Christianity, which is of
haltingly and brokenly. Men's minds grasped it haltingly and
the old Mysteries men had become acquainted with the divine
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TWO FIRST PERIODS OF THE ANTHROPOSOPHIC MOVEMENT:
Gospels and Genesis. — Development
the two first periods of the anthroposophic movement; and
grounds were there for the anthroposophic movement finding
connection it is true — with the theosophic movement?
in the evolution of the anthroposophic movement.
the fundament' for a substantive science of the spirit.
the actual documents, will see, that during that time, bit by
of the East, there was, from all this, a whole assortment of
have just mentioned. This gentleman was talking once in company
anthroposophic movement ran alongside the theosophic one, made
don't know whether those who joined the anthroposophic movement
movement. I will give you two or three instances. They are
theosophic movement was strongly affected by what I described
founding a sort of centre for the anthroposophic movement
for the movement: the one in Berlin, and in Munich, Stuttgart,
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The History and Significance of the Anthroposophical Movement to the
the spiritual movements of the modern age, as well as of the
tendencies underlying them, — modern spiritual movements,
for which the anthroposophic movement should afford, as it
should like to go on to-day and to-morrow to certain phenomena
anthroposophic movement, and try from these to construe for you
period of the anthroposophie movement was drawing to a close,
speak, of actual moment, and of a kind to enter directly into
movement, so to speak, in pace with the developments of the
course the external arrangements involved making all sorts of
exceedingly important stage in the development of the
anthroposophic movement, must by no means be regarded as
being thus exposed, laid open by the Goetheanum to the judgment
movement, with the German groups already mentioned’ (amongst
the groups mentioned is, as an instance, the ‘Consul’
and literary men in France, Germany, America and England. It is
direct touch with members of the Soviet Government of Russia;
the year 1914 the anthroposophical movement was unquestionably
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The History and Significance of the Anthroposophical Movement to the
substance, flowing all through the anthroposophic movement, and
speaking, in a spiritual element. And though one is applying
animal-world, one grasps by this method the spiritual element
those old times, when men arrived by original clairvoyance at
matter-of-course that this divine spiritual world, of which men
rule the phenomena of the natural world; and in the phenomena
we take, say, the Ancient Egyptian Age, men looked up to the
that men carry the mathematics of earth up into the stars of
world of Divine Spirit permeated the phenomena of the natural
world. People discovered laws for the natural phenomena; but
was made from the same divine spiritual element of which the
Thoughts of Cod. To the men of to-day they are still of
phenomena of Nature, which of course are themselves contained
from the views of the men of old. Only, the views of the men of
Suppose for a moment that you have a rose-bush. You can always
which men found in the natural world, were the separ-ate roses.
These laws, men have picked; they have picked the roses; the
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importance of this moment by indicating the seriousness with
which our movement — which is daily being endangered and
fear in all kinds of pseudo-logical arguments by which he tries
will hear, my dear friends, from this or that side arguments
the world's phenomena with passive thinking. Man is too lazy
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This earnestness should not be expressed as sentimentality.
with mere game-playing, it is not sentimentality, false piety
and it is our feeling that acts as an instrument of world karma
development of knowledge. Through constant review of our own
In thinking: one seeks the path which all men seek. In feeling:
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through normal spiritual training, but due to elementary
When you sit down on a chair - at the moment you don't fall on
the moment when the human being enters the spiritual world, he
undoing, not to your advancement.
Consider for a moment what I just said. You see, memory is
the moment one's volition, which wants to proceed to previous
grasp this threefold element within us, that we firmly direct
breathing, blood circulation and the movement of the members
force of nature, as you are to the movement of your limbs, also
movement of the lungs; you reach them, however, by learning to
stress], it corresponds to the correct etheric movement in the
third element we must plunge into is willing. And the Guardian
attention to the trochaic element here [the first verse], the
and spondee rhythms. At the moment, we are able to move on from
the intellectual meaning to commitment to the rhythm, from that
moment it is possible to leave the physical world and really
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must be taken seriously is that in the moment that we accept
so in real life. At the moment when something derived from the
movement of the cosmos, in that human thoughts weave into human
wave movement: from below to above. Therefore, the mantric
words' movements and that our souls enter into that movement.
development, but also to look afar in the distance at our own
also learn how gods in garments of light circle round the
garment of the gods. And the gods wander over the earth in
shining garments. And what we experience from the light becomes
belongs to the godly beings in shining garments moving over the
really feels how the gods in shining garments move around the
with the gods who move around the earth in shining garments, we
us in shining garments. And we hear these two mantric verses
always go back to the previous elements - not only in respect
We feel how the gods approach in shining garments. Here we are
caused a great misfortune. I mention this here because I wish
the moment when someone does not want to be a representative of
the anthroposophical movement in the right way, the School must
movement which have brought so much mischief into the movement.
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earthly conditions. At the moment when the person approaches
to the heavenly. So that in the moment that man stands before
Well, you see, at the moment when one enters the esoteric, a
of the earthly element. We have a relationship of the human
element lie deep beneath what people experience.
breathing process contains the air element, in which we
Above the element of air we have the quality of warmth.
above the element of warmth we have the essence of light:
That man lives and moves in the element of air is obvious from
That the element of warmth is extremely essential to man is
the moment when a person takes the leap in his life which
have often pointed out how in every moment of our lives, also
The air is outside, the same air which is inside me a moment
become one with the whole life and being of the element of air
the moment we enter the spiritual region this is no longer the
flows out into the environment upon exhaling.
environment which encircles the earth, so are we also one with
are ourselves within the element of warmth - we become more
Thus warmth ceases to be a merely natural element, for we feel
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the world of the elements.
the watery element. Although it is true that man's life on
watery element in fine solution in the air which surrounds him,
watery element.
man also lives in the air element through which he
the moment when we observe these elements we cannot speak of
extent, related to the elements. We live in earth, we live in
us now lay out this elemental world before us, a world which is
elements in the same measure. In fact, the human being only
lives in a completely intimate relationship with the element of
man is relatively distant from the watery elements - among the
the watery element is very closely connected to human life. [A
element, is affected by it. Notice how the watery element plays
watery element. The liquid elements dissolved in his
environment are of great importance for him, but none more
element merges in a certain sense with the outer world's watery
element. And with this easy transition from our own watery
element to the outer world's watery element we feel our
from our watery element to dry outer air. Dry air lets us feel
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anthroposophical movement which was renewed here during the
anthroposophical movement insofar as it streams through the
the difference is between the anthroposophical movement before
representatives of the anthroposophical movement. In this
the anthroposophical movement. The relationship must be
spirit will have to be utilized in the management of the
School. Otherwise the anthroposophical movement cannot advance
founded by men, but in fact by the will of the world's
destructive in an occult movement. There must be no illusions
most dangerous, the worst movements. And, they add, if the
reestablishment of the Holy Roman Empire is not successful, and
most dangerous movements of the present, and they are the
anthroposophical movement and the movement for Religious
can see from this that anthroposophy - the movement for
movement, that means that it is taken very seriously indeed.
What is important is whether a movement is founded from the
which is the first experience towards the attainment of real
instruments of his physical body. And through the instruments
through the attainment of higher knowledge leaving the physical
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say a few introductory words about the School's arrangements.
Christmas Conference at the Goetheanum a new element has
entered into the anthroposophical movement. Especially the
of this new element. I have often indicated this, but I know
emphasized that the anthroposophical movement and the
anthroposophical movement represented the inflow of spiritual
the spiritual world. This anthroposophical movement exists not
character. The investment of the Vorstand was thus an esoteric
thus founded thrive. So, the anthroposophical movement and the
used, the agreement of the Vorstand at the Goetheanum is first
agreement. It is important that in future the Vorstand at the
movement.
Step by step we will try to make arrangements so that those who
Something else to be mentioned is that the School must be
anthroposophical movement.
esoteric activity within the anthroposophical movement.
esoteric work under conditions other than those just mentioned
mention them today because so many anthroposophical friends are
When we look up at what the planets reveal by their movements,
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sensation of being integrated in the movement of the circling
by their movements - so that having felt ourselves to be at
in movement through the cosmos itself. And thirdly, if we then
we can read in the stars, what we can feel in the movements of
everything that happens in its environment as though its whole
the moment when the child stands on its feet and begins to move
about is when its movements become susceptible to the earth's
forces and it must find its own equilibrium, at that moment the
the blackboard each element is placed after the corresponding
man, see yourself in the kingdom of elements.
Elements:
to our souls. For this we must not concentrate on the elements,
over to the universe, but rather by grasping the elements in
the specified way, by the movement of the planets, by the
bodily force; how at the moment we are body-free in our
movements of the planets, that is, for the spiritual beings who
sky into movement; just as feeling likewise does for the
fix the moment as the stars [Ger. fixed stars] are fixed in
when I accompany the earth's movement in thought, but can bring
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must bring about its overthrow. All the distressing phenomena
on in our age, which, taken as a whole, presents a phenomenon
sort which made men realise that what lived within their own
strangers. In all their daily transactions, these men of the
own functions in the universe as a whole. The men of old days
what I might call the scientific element, — that is
Another, the second element that is bringing about its
fatalism, in which men yield themselves up to religious forces
of man. When men feel themselves fettered to the world of
against Anthroposophy, that it lays too little stress on men
Freedom weakens men and dooms itself to downfall.
spiritual world, does he cease to be so tremendously interested
to egoistic actions and sentiments.
of men are only adapted to particular fields of the true
impulse exist for a communal life among men, which is religious
conclusion that the temperament, the mode of thought for an
we find there enshrined in men's hearts those impulses of
is true, the temperament for altruism, but that they have not
temperament but they have no possibility, no gift, for creating
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on to another age and another place, and because men, from
that actual forward movement which the whole cosmic order
element.
in men, and what stirs the minds and the being of men, —
the specifically Roman element — could never have so got
questions of practical economics. The experiments now being
attempting the experiment of propping up this brain spun
men. Time will show — and very terribly — how
the parliaments of Europe. If people could but feel how the
parliaments of Europe have been pervaded by the
intellectualist, utilitarian attitude, by this element that can
civilisation reacted with respect to its religious element. In
centuries a kind of experiment was being made to combine
religious feeling and sentiment with scientific and economic
Thought with the substance of Faith, the experiment is regarded
element from the East that Europe adopted the religious
this statement occurs: — A civilisation can only he
matter of fact, they are made up of mixed elements, each of
drawn up by men who, as a matter of fact, had never really had
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it, are supposed to have grown up all those developments that
those changes in our earthly evolution that I mentioned
modern period of historical development, we can but say: A
tremendous shifting of status undoubtedly took place with
new spirit must find Its way into men's hearts, that under the
contrary to men's interests, as commonly understood. So, one is
really determining element. It entered into everything, it made
the element which, above all others, was the determining one.
developments was the Economic man. The economic man was
element is the intellectual one.
intellectualised religious element, they were in their turn
fundamental change whatever in the course of history. In
Christ that men first really ceased to believe that the power
and spirit. It was a great change, that, in men's souls. If we
we find the men of that time able to say to themselves: Of
and more into men's souls that up here, in this bony empty
at the moment, the epoch-making moment, when the belief in the
argument — to maintain that the intelligence which
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The Inner Human Impulse for Improvement, Goethe and the Crisis in the
Menschheit. Goethe und die Krisis des Neunzehnten Jahrhunderts. Kosmische
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the modern development of humanity. We have had to go very far
centuries and flowed into European development could be
into the Post Atlantean development which was absolutely
arrangements (which were not really State arrangements at all),
development, of permeating human life more and more with purely
UR-phenomenon, one knows how these three names are chosen)
Solovieff this human element is completely lost. Man's gaze is
element working in Christ Jesus, — for this personal
element is only, as it were, a point of support for all those
of its development. We will therefore begin the consideration
concentrated on the phenomena of Birth and the question of
of nourishment, — did not increase at the same rate as
nourishment runs its course according to the number [sequence]
side an increasing lack in the means of nourishment. From this
has the tendency to impel men forward geometrically and only to
impel the means of nourishment forward arithmetically,
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Menschheit. Goethe und die Krisis des Neunzehnten Jahrhunderts. Kosmische
und menschliche Geschichte. Band II.
Utilitarianism and Sacramentalism
between the Life-Ether and the earthly elements, did not as yet
much more intimately united. As you know, the earthly element
were, withdrawn from, the earthly elements, and thereby it has
elements then exist in man's body as a basis for grasping these
Etheric body and Earthly elements was quite different from that
even possible to understand the elements of Greek civilisation.
If one really attempts to penetrate into the elements of Greek
elements; and then one finds that one's etheric body streams
elements. Through these one comes into contact with certain
hence arose the experiments which seek to explain everything
develop all impulses towards phenomena. Thereby can arise this
poured an Indian element of this nature, after she had been
Ho Ming lets fall there a judgement which is well worth
nature very well; the judgement of an atavistic man may be far
more unprejudiced than the judgement of a man here in the West.
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Zusammenhang mit dem Kosmos. Band III. The first two lectures are also
Just think for a moment. To-day we have a widely-extended
indeed made immense progress with respect to our knowledge of
forests, and so fundamentally it is a plant-substance. But now,
knowledge is nourishment for the soul, and can be absorbed and
fundamentally the whole of our soul-life is a life of images,
phenomena of nature without spirit. Indeed, we regard it as the
religion. Many men to-day fight against these because they find
vocal sound. Men to-day feel no need to develop a relationship
was a living soul-nourishment. And again, apart from these
Science meets with so much difficulty, because fundamentally
to-day. That represents the accuracy with which men know
authorities. Thus, do men strive to learn to know the world.
is advocating. One must bring enlightenment to the people.
the 19th Century, in order still to have moral views. Men had
Anthroposophical Movement into the Anthroposophical view of
realising external sense-phenomena as illusion, than to regard
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connected with the development of mankind in our own age.
forces connected with human development. We have merely to
events around then, is something which fundamentally lay in the
Anthroposophical Movement to-day, are also to be found the
document which, because it is so interesting, I have had
photographed. This document originated in Switzerland and was
leaders as a permanent monument, in memory of the 24th November
war-experienced leader, by his strategical arrangements, was
show yesterday how far such a statement is from reality.
were taken under the very first arrangements made for railways.
essential, basic element of the newer evolution, was the
is but the latest phase of the development of National
permeating, penetrating form, in the arrangements made in the
fundamentally it was from that which flowed to me then out of
men I met at that time were some whose destiny still caused
at the right moment, a certain clerical community withdrew
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atmosphere, that fundamentally is simply an external illusion.
complete human development. Here on Earth between birth
Hierarchies, such as the elementary Beings in the three
intended to become, they could not wait for the development of
attain only in a later development of cosmic life.
development. Hence, we are confronted with the possibility,
development on Earth will reach such a stage that human beings
soul-element of the Earth, united with one common body of the
important thing in earthly development does not lie in the
organisation of man himself which are the forces of development
allow the Earth to complete its development, but to let it
the other hand, men can decide to pass over into that
see in developments in Eastern Europe the same things
development on one side or the other. On the one side is the
did, they would see that the time in which men began to think
fundamentally born of the entire Cosmos. Anthroposophy consists
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Der Verantwortung des Menschen Fuer Die Weltentwickelung Durch Seinen
Geistigen Zusammenhang Mit dem Erdplaneten und der Sternenwelt.
Der Mensch in seinem Zusammenhang mit dem Kosmos. Band III.
stony mass surrounded by an atmosphere, that fundamentally is
the path of complete human development. Here on Earth between
Hierarchies, such as the elementary Beings in the three
to become, they could not wait for the development of what
only in a later development of cosmic life.
development. Hence we are confronted with the possibility,
development on Earth will reach such a stage that human
soul-element of the Earth, united with one common body of the
important thing in earthly development does not lie in the
development of our planet. If you recollect this, you will
Earth to complete its development, but to let it remain
hand, men can decide to pass over into that super-intellectual
can see in developments in Eastern Europe the same thing
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Steiner: Good morning, gentlemen! Have any of you
Russia. We know that Germany has made a trade agreement
this done to sabotage the German agreement? Are you perhaps in
Steiner. Well, gentlemen, perhaps this is the reason why
is something we needn't consider. At the moment, France is not
even the Social Democratic Party can find capable men anymore.
environment from which individuals arise who have insight into
on facts. Men's awareness for what is required diminishes
daily. Comments like, “Well, it would be better if the
what does the German government do? As you know, it passed an
let's assume that the government agencies are so clever that
speculation in foreign money. You know that today old men can't
Everything is done on the spur of the moment, which
of the present chaotic situation is to have competent men
in office again. To achieve anything, we must have men who know
George gave a few days ago. Yet, I can say without a moment's
that everything hinges on our finding competent men who
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Title: Health and Illness I: Lecture II: Illnesses Occurring in the Different Periods of Life
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Gentlemen, at our last session I started to answer your
mentioned that infants are highly susceptible to suppuration of
supplies with blood and nourishment. The other matter is
supplementary and is later discarded. In comparison to the rest
provides all the nourishment and air. Hence, during the first
are surprised that mental illnesses are hereditary. In fact,
mental illnesses are always based on physical ailments;
spirit nor the soul can fall ill. Though mental illnesses are
from mental deficiencies. People are surprised about this, but
need it puzzle us, gentlemen? Whatever the child can
afflicts the parents; its eyes are in an environment that's
tolerate air and nourishment. After it has built up its
reality, soul-spiritual elements are united with the child,
committing the same error as one of the following men. Suppose
gentlemen, if a parent is a genius, does that make the child a
soul-spiritual element that works within him. If one does not
because the soul-spiritual element works out of the head, and
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must now take into account something I have mentioned
the ear. Just as we have the intestines within our abdomen, so
can understand the other person. In the ear, the element of our
own speech that we are accustomed to meets the element of what
other in three dimensions. These so-called semi-circular canals
see, gentlemen, this is something quite remarkable. Here in our
human being. All these “little men” that make up
miniature men are created while man is still an embryo in the
abdomen the earth organizes the intestinal system.
enough, these things were also known by men in ancient times,
development is curtailed. The minute “intestine” in
lion — breast; bull — abdomen.
lion, and from the abdomen, a bull. They combined this into the
from the elements of man, bull, eagle and lion.
the healing element can be recognized in his Gospel. Healing is
brings a healing element into the lower nature of man. Luke,
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Title: Health and Illness I: Lecture IV: The Thyroid Gland and Hormones
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Mental
and Physical Rejuvenation Treatments
Steiner. Gentlemen, someone has handed in a written
Soon after surgery, however, a strange phenomenon was
removed exhibited both physical and mental changes. Growth
also was evidence of some mental retardation. When the cause
Steiner: Gentlemen, if you take into consideration
goitre, had a specific effect even on mental faculties. Its
purpose and pathological enlargements were studied in cretins,
that is, retarded and mentally deficient people. One can
it was thought at first that if pathological enlargement
of the thyroid had such a pronounced influence on the mental
concerned only with what is demanded at the moment.
the given moment, but no attention is paid to the future course
of events. It is difficult to make an overall judgment about
mental activities in a normal way. Everything referred to in
improvement. He was relieved of the enlargement and his
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Steiner: Well, gentlemen, perhaps one of you has a
movements exist also in a blind person, and actually
starry firmament if the eye did not already contain within it a
immense starry sky.” You do this all the time. You have
sky from the miniature firmament in your eye; you conceive of
experience is the infinitesimal firmament in the eye.
in proportion and in the right dimensions only because we
times, to the days of the Old Testament, for instance, we
everything would appear as if painted on the firmament.
Our two eyes enable us to see things in three dimensions and to
the case of the ear. I believe I have mentioned already that
the eye has no element of the soul. People say that light
gives rise to all sorts of nonsensical statements that lead to
gentlemen, that you are standing here in this room all by
senses the little man I have mentioned within the eye.
place. Here, as I have mentioned, is the iris surrounding
eyes; the substances from nourishment easily reach into the
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Title: Health and Illness I: Lecture VI: The Nose, Smell, and Taste
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recall, gentlemen, last time we talked about the eye, and we
follows the scent.” Yes, gentlemen, that is true, the dog
is yet another extremely important consideration. Civilized men
nose. Imagine how delicate one's sense of discernment in the
development of this part, you arrive at the elephant's
phenomenon is indeed less noticeable than when one is screwed
arise on Judgment Day. Even though he was a hardened criminal,
he did believe in Judgment Day.
is born with it. And, gentlemen, there are a great many people
correctly in education. I mention this so you may realize
the dog the nose is especially well-developed. Now, gentlemen,
Yes, gentlemen, why does it wag its tail? Because it
reaches a state of excitement that is expressed by the
— then, gentlemen, one does not just have the feeling
mentioned that we do not smell equally well with the left and
what it is pursuing at the moment, while in the left it has the
as we men become more and more intelligent when we learn more
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Title: Health and Illness I: Lecture VII: Spiritual-Scientific Foundations for a True Physiology
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Gentlemen, this time let us finish answering a question raised
number is found — in snakes as well as in men — on
gentlemen, in us older fellows things are such that only during
tremendous number of tiny grooves, and in each little groove a
it, and its fins will immediately move toward it. We men cannot
really a strange matter, gentlemen, because we would actually
From that element that continually would like to swim but
constantly like to swim, swim in the elements of water that are
wag, but what does it really want to do? You see, gentlemen,
and exhaling. Each moment it is expelled and reborn; it is born
solid shoulder blades. Why can the bird fly? Gentlemen,
senses were not rudimentarily developed, we could not live at
concerns the man of water and that the element of smell
in the nose, it is the element of air that smells. Furthermore,
This element of warmth perceives the other world of warmth
temperature, too. Yes, gentlemen, but they are burdened by
begin to comprehend man. Having mentioned all this, we shall be
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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
immense amount of carbon, and the carbon dioxide would have to
already mentioned, they can rapidly increase in numbers. No
kind — then the next moment there are millions. The
tremendous multiplication. These minute beings do not
intestines of men or of animals like rats. All these
microscopic creatures can live only in specific environments.
Why? That these tiny beings need a specific environment is an
at the moment when it is within the human intestines, the force
is out of its element. Man, too, was initially a tiny living
such a miniature living creature. With this, gentlemen, we come
the beginning. The moment it passes too far out of the body it
Women
environment; it does not just disappear. It dissolves in the
totality of the earth's environment. Eggs that cannot be
the earth into cosmic space.” Gentlemen, not only does
moment of birth when it comes into the world. Before that it
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Influenza; Hayfever; Mental Illness
must assume, gentlemen, that this activity of man is no
immensely wise. Now, dissolved and transformed food
vessels to the inner organs, and the nourishment that
at work within. The astral body is immensely wise, much
now consider a simple phenomenon. A sensitive person finds it
growing in the environment that is being prepared.
bacilli thrive within a sulphuric environment in the body.
organism, I myself produce a favourable environment for
naturally is of tremendous significance; otherwise, the
remedies could be tested, and here experiments with animals
men have in common with the animals by giving the same
training in how to do this or that with certain instruments.
experiments.
within. The development of certain inner diseases like
also an “air man,” whose form changes every moment.
One moment the air is outside, and the next it is within.
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statistics and trivial experiments. It no longer possesses any
angry elements and the human ‘atoms’ echo sinisterly, they give out
over into men's thinking of what is purely mechanical. Whenever he
ancient ferment will not at once prove ineffective, which helps to
preserve the ancient achievements in the East, and joins together
the ferment of Buddhism.”
the element of soul into what expresses itself as their culture or
fundamentally true is seen by the Asiatic in very sharp outline. He
architectural setting so that men felt the same spiritual influence
fundamentally no longer knows what soul is in the world, in the
dare, when smashed down a dozen times by the combined bombardments
referring to respect for parents of to fulfillment of one's duties,
ceremonies, of duties, of purity, of the development of a right
feeling of modesty — which are the four basic sentiments on
speak concerns material advancement.’ (Wu Ko Tzu Hei, 1873.) That
sharp eye for the whole spiritual backwardness and encroachment of
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presents itself to an Oriental judgment, and at the conclusion I
such a pronouncement without giving it attention, because it is
special development of the world of thought, a kind of
content which lies at the basis of the sense phenomena that are all
of humanity within those spheres in which men stand to-day. It has
869 at the Eighth Œcumenical Council in Constatinople, went so
the right preparation we can approach such a pronouncement as that
fundamentally nothing but the last relics of those old world views
development by means of its Councils and in other ways, through
men did not yet reckon with what had to come into evolution of man
development. From a true point of view, what comes from Catholicism
the dissecting room or whether we experiment in chemical
not there. When we experiment in chemical laboratories, we are
experimenting with the forces of nature, and the Spirit is not
humanity has progressed as regards external cognition. Men have
Eastern judgment to-day fails to recognise in our modern
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Anthroposophie als Kosmosophie. Erster Teil. Wesenzuege des Menschens
im irdischen und kosmischen Bereich. Der Mensch in seinem Zusammenhang
Anthroposophie als Kosmosophie. Erster Teil. Wesenzuege des Menschens
im irdischen und kosmischen Bereich. Der Mensch in seinem Zusammenhang
SUPPLEMENT No. 2.
Fundamental Impulses in the Mysteries of Ancient and Modern
your whole soul-constitution. In the most important moments of
East declares that love was the fundamental force of the
original element of pleasure, joy, love of the world and
different elementary formation of the Western world. What these
harp-like instrument on which she played in the intervals
have mentioned.
must take an interest in spiritual development. He must be able
sake of the development of human thought. This very force of
that, what constitutes the highest achievement of more recent
such feelings and sentiments, they constitute what lives to-day
life and especially the adjustment between East and West will
not be found. But this adjustment must be found.
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Der Verantwortung des Menschen Fuer die Weltentwickelung Durch Seinen
Geistigen Zusammenhang mit dem Erdplaneten und der Sternenwelt. Der
Mensch in seinem Zusammenhang mit dem Kosmos. Band III.
Anthroposophical Movement for purposes of defence, whenever
Anthroposophical Movement, and what must now appear in its
certain kind, but at the present moment attacks are being
Movement. Far and wide one can hear it said: — “Well,
these people are now founding a ‘Kommende Tag,’ a
Movement, such a reproach could not be made; but, on the other
stand within our Anthroposophical movement, often things are
absolutely impossible that such a judgment can be in any way
the spirit of our whole Anthroposophical Movement. This
Anthroposophical Movement reckons with all the forces present
that the development of humanity has to undergo certain
lie in the spirit of the Anthroposophical Movement. For if, in
the spirit of this Movement, we look back into human evolution,
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Dr. Steiner: Gentlemen, these are extremely important
nourishment, from its mother. Later, it acquires a completely
indeed complicated — if we focus on two phenomena of life
the membranes in the abdomen of the mother, where the child
abdomen, which I described recently, is disrupted. A large
amount of food accumulates in a man's abdomen that he cannot
abdomen does not work properly? Although it is the abdomen that
Consider the human being — the abdomen, the chest, the
blackboard). There we have abdomen, chest, and head. If
something is out of order in the abdomen, then something is not
inwardly together, the forebrain and abdomen. We can also say
a disorder of the abdomen, one always finds some irregularity
the human being and the less noble in the abdomen. And if one
much, possessed a particularly well-formed abdomen and never
forehead never permitted disorders of the abdomen. You can see
to his abdomen.
forebrain, because everything possible collects in his abdomen.
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This was the first lecture given to the workmen after the
read from a brochure a statement made by an opponent, indeed,
something like the fire occurs, and in view of such vehement
statements! One learns from this what people think and how
simply an inner commitment.
movement. You must see that the hatred against the
anthroposophical movement is by no means a slight matter.
things are arranged. Laymen don't know the means by which such
thinking, however, are contained in the statement that the
maggots require meat for their nourishment. They could not live
I mentioned earlier that sometimes you can observe the beetles
demonstrate this phenomenon with all kinds of experiments. It's
a superstitious person but one who had sound judgment. He was a
still on a sounder basis. He was involved in experimental work
and once used toads in his experiments. These tests were
I purposely mentioned to you Darwin, who observed this. What
nobody has acknowledged his positive accomplishments in a more
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you mean the extent to which alcohol generally is detrimental
person's blood is strongly agitated. The increased movement
I have mentioned to you before in these lectures, man has a
is normally assumed. He is capable of readjustment for a long
ruin. When delirium tremens, as it is called in medicine, sets
complex. Delirium tremens is connected with the phenomenon of
delirium tremens, and, though some real mice might well have
if they had not suffered from delirium tremens before, now,
not had delirium tremens earlier, they struggle with it now.
tremens when they stop drinking.
the rest of the body. In the last lectures I mentioned many
of the brain and he suffers from delirium tremens just because
I have mentioned, the nervous system is very closely related to
gentlemen, the red and white corpuscles originate in this bone
her menstrual period, which is actually an activity that the
menstrual periods, and you also know that his semen is not
turn into the main ingredient of semen. Thus, regarding what
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American made the statement that, according to statistics,
Statements like the one made by this American surprise people
women's brains are smaller than those of men. Since, in his
concluded that all women have less intelligence than men
that the brains of women are smaller than those of men. Now,
brain of this man was much smaller than all the women's brains
you the day before yesterday, that is, that humans, women as
well as men, influence the egg cell or semen through drinking,
dissection but on positive results that were obtained by men
like an instrument; it is quite flat and is, in fact, the
because of their phlegmatic temperament, one group will prefer
rascal. Its phlegmatic temperament is so great that it can
“Oaner is a Mensch, zwoa san Leit, san's
the phenomena of the world, therefore, one should not rely too
physical instrument; it uses its front paws and teeth as
physical instruments. The tail, however, is something that has
This is a most important point, gentlemen. In truth, the wasps'
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Concerning conception, how is it possible that women bear sons
What influence does absinthe have on semen?
wasps, so my statements refer to bees, not wasps.
comparison, as I have mentioned to you before, man takes about
judgment to paranoid thoughts. We can therefore say that the
characteristic phenomenon of illness; there are people who go
studied. You therefore can see, gentlemen, that if you wish to
introduction of nicotine into the body has a detrimental effect
osteoclasts, it creates the best environment possible.
delicate forces instrumental in building up the bones have
receive your nourishment directly from grains, or you pluck a
but, taken fundamentally, the animal's body can accomplish
produce the flesh in him. Think of the tremendous amount of
producing anything. There is a tremendous loss of energy. But
crazy. If an experiment could be made in which a herd of oxen
element were effective, they would have to become as gentle as
Now, I wish to call your attention to a strange phenomenon. If
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the four mute children be his punishment?
moment in time, the speaking children were born and the mute
consideration. To speak of a punishment, however, is out of the
question here. First, punishments do not exist and second, if
they did, this certainly would not be a punishment for the
afflicted as these four children, it is not a punishment for
in the upper part of the body. A form of kidney ailment,
tremendously important organ, and man really lives within the
imagine what a tremendous influence the air has on the living
to see well, because we see with both eyes. The moment these
Treatment with modified virus vaccine is effective in the case
strive actually to replace treatment with vaccine with that of
practiced by Englishmen nowadays, has such good effects. What
at an early age, tendencies to all kinds of ailments such as
Now, as for the flu, it really comes from a brain ailment. The
Much is retained in the memory after all, that at the moment
one moment and frozen the next. But if the body is left totally
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welcomed their questions and comments. This second volume of nine of
therapeutics and health, but phenomena from all the kingdoms of nature
Dr. Steiner: Good morning, gentlemen. Have you thought
time from a liver ailment without knowing of it. No one can
destroyed. It is as if the liver were a segment of the outer
smallpox? Smallpox is really the result of the development of
embryonic development in the womb, the human being uses
but nitrogen. The essential elements for man must, therefore,
Now, imagine for a moment that I were to breathe nitrogen
everywhere in his environment. In this early state the embryo
needs uric acid for its development. In the past, when man was
winter — well, gentlemen, the earth does not form the
takes place, because the most important element in the human
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Dr. Steiner: Good morning, gentlemen! Have you thought
is absorbed by the body's fluid elements and does not pass
We have already mentioned various poisons, and you will no
fluid element, as it were, so one can say that the feminine
element. One can therefore say that certain illnesses, like
conditions will not exhibit any detrimental effects in them.
portion is material. As soon as one comes to the fluid element,
active it is in his fluid element. Just as man possesses the
ether in his fluid element, so he has the actual soul element
in the aeriform. He has the actual soul element in the air he
one has the soul element, it becomes clear that man exhales the
soul element with each breath, and with each inhalation he
by means of this soul element, but because no consideration is
element and even believe it doesn't exist.
soul element must be considered entirely by itself. Then, the
absinthe into the body, the aeriform element can no longer
something else happens. When I prevent the aeriform element
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Dr. Steiner: Do any of you gentlemen have a question you
a matter of belief. People gain nothing but a mental image of
it by being told that though it was once known by men of old
of mercury on syphilitic diseases, one must also mention that
mercury-based remedies, I would like to mention the
one time had undergone mercury treatments, he would break their
I will tell you how men hit on the idea of using mercury. for
to experiment, not with dead people but with patients who were
course of typhoid in a way opposite to that of the detrimental
eyes. People can get ailments of the eyes in which vision can
number of eye ailments. Now, the ancients again experimented
Mars, which has something to do with ailments of the blood, it
science that reaches beyond the earth. Gentlemen, do you know
against head ailments. But copper from the leaves of a plant
instruction medical men should have; that is, there is no
mention in these books of the metals that are dissolved in
illnesses that take hold of the human abdomen. If one has such
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when we try to comprehend the World's phenomena and when we wish to
understand the phenomena of human life, we are wont to speak of
from this moment that we can apply to the human body what applies to
moment this human form has become a corpse however, the moment the
Moreover it is in constant change. Apart from the earthy element as
fundamental forces within the earthly realm, but they have them in
for the causes of animal movement and animal sensation. For all that
phenomenon that occurs in the animal — all the phenomena of
sensation, movement, etc., — we must admit: If we investigate
ether-universe, that which occurs in the animal as movement and
forces which in their full growth and development have given rise to
rudiment of the germ-cell as a complex molecule. But this, my dear
chaos. Albumen is not the most complicated body, but the very
capable of sensation and movement. We must go back, before the
movement, the world of causes lies not in the simultaneous, but
capacity of movement in the animal, I can no longer go into the
movement and sensation. They do not come from the realm of space, but
sensation or of movement. To do so, we must set out on a pilgrimage
side. To physical thinking it may seem grotesque. The moment we set
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element of thought we shall go forward to real life. Step by step, we
as it is on the human body; the moment it is cut off from the body,
as we saw again in yesterday's lecture, the world-environment of man
often mentioned here. The human brain weighs on the average 1,500
this principle of Archimedes, probably one of the worst elemental
in mind the wide range and immense importance of the impressions you
salt, and other such substances taken as food or condiment. Then you
gravity like the mineral condiments or constituents of our food, are
should we be free beings. The moment we rise into the plant-world, we
metabolism. All this is far more dependent on our environment than
our instruments and methods of investigation were only delicate
once, as I have told you, the moment you rise to Imaginative
our ether-body. Now there is a second element living in our karma. It
small, living in the souls of men! There are the animals inhabiting
well-being, his contentment or discontent, depends on the
we come to a third element deeply conditioning our destiny, namely
other men of genius.
moment when we met him? Then our entire life seems like the very
that we might find him at the right moment — or that we might
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become so similar to one another that the immense difference which
spiritual world. Out of this everyday consciousness men speak of the
elements.”
entering into these arguments. I only wish to point out the
another world which grants him fulfilment for very many things which
are either deficient or altogether lacking in contentment in this
founding of Christianity. (After all, the men to whom we there go
say so. Truly, the consciousness of the men of today is brutally
consciousness of the men of the ancient Egyptian time was far more
our environment. The Spiritual, then, still penetrated into man's
the clear-cut consciousness of today, have achieved the tremendous
mad people sometimes reveal, in states of mania, an immense increase
physical strength of the men of that time was correspondingly
only know of what is in movement, they do not know that which has
experience, the moment we reflect upon ourselves at all.
free being of man is a fundamental fact — one of those facts
for a moment, that you now resolve to build yourself a house. It will
in it. Will you feel it as an encroachment on your freedom that you
fellow-men. You are free to get up in the house early or late. There
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development of karma, for we shall presently enter more and more into
moment we are mainly interested in the general question, whence come
relation to other men, out of the impulse which we call love. It
something for his fellow-men, something sustained by love. Love
fellow-men. In the passage through life between death and a new
fellow-men — something that warms them. He who has cause to go
through life without joy is different to his fellow-men from one to
basis for that attunement of the soul which bears us along inasmuch
delight in the conduct of other men, if we understand their conduct
incarnation before that. Men who go through the world with a free
offending him, the moment he does a thing they do not like. There is
suffers from it. Rightly he suffers from it, for men are there for
While as to that which comes to us as the indifference of other men —
brought about by men against their fellows, or against sub-human
antipathy are poured out over other men and women, say in the course
which was thus spent in our soul is a kind of mental dullness —
does not confront the things of the world, or other men with an open
the future. And the moment has now come in human evolution when the
passing through their former lives on earth. Men are becoming
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myriad complications and entanglements in which he finds himself
determine — for a given moment, or for his life as a whole —
question are fundamentally in error. For in effect, when he is at the
for others, but this is also the moment in life when the entire human
holds good. To begin with, people only apply the Theory to movements.
as I said, they apply the Theory of Relativity only to movements, yet
fundamental meaning of “inherited sin.” It signifies the
bring to unfoldment in the human being what he has brought with him
course, the judgment of life which people have on earth must differ
in this respect from the judgment they have outside the earthly life
again will depend on the judgment which will be yours when you no
different judgment.
judgments man has in physical life on earth are, in fact, different
from the judgments he has between death and a new birth. For there
builds it entirely from his world-environment. The first body is
little of what has radiated into him from the phenomena of the world,
indifferent with regard to anything in his visible environment, he
ever, like an eternal punishment of Hell, if it could not be
Of course we must bear in mind that it is not always a fulfilment of
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first place to perceive how karma enters into man's development. We
thing at one moment and then another, and a third and a fourth; and
their movement — and inasmuch as they do most of the work in
infinitely richer than the ideas, the mental pictures of it, which we
nature between the mental picture of the intention and the mental
moment you were sleeping. All that lies in this intervening part of
consciousness is the condition in which our ideas, our mental
have as momentary ideas or mental pictures in our intercourse with
form in your intercourse with the world in the given moment are not
mental presentation of it; that the idea goes, down into me somewhere
possible. They performed outward movements of speech — pretty
vehement movements, repeated again and again, like this (with the
greater detail; we might do so, but for the moment we do not need
Our ideas or mental presentations, on the other hand, have their
moment, let us say, I see something. The impression of it (whatever
making pictures of them. The mental pictures come and go; they are
all in this moment, but it goes down into our organisation, and when
yourself form an idea, a mental presentation of the blue. The idea is
perceives, he experiences in consciousness the idea, the mental
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because in his writings he minces no words about men who wear no
announced the event in the lecture-hall with the words: “Gentlemen,
clothing at dances and other entertainments, had better not be
mentioned here. To put it briefly, he was a very original and
achievement. You will find in them the strict division into
These statements are certainly not without interest, but the book
fragments patched together. He maintained that it ought to have been
disappointments, the dreams and superstitions of countless human
disappointments, the longings, the hopes, with which he had to deal —
moment Schubert heard Gluck's Iphigenia, he recognised it as a
at the moment. They sat there quietly, although every now and again
muttering had gone on for a time without being commented on by the
evening in the club room, was it not a fundamental trait in
these notions of infinity. He went on to apply his argument in other
displayed the same astute discernment in the fields of national
(Great Men of Letters). There you will find his strictly mathematical
and adheres to this throughout. The nomenclature he invents is often
much for the fundamental trend of Dühring's thought. Add
its treatment of the great figures in the field of mechanics, so tame
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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
communicated. The moment we turn from one earthly life to an earlier
earlier incarnation — if we make judgments of this kind, we
base an intellectual judgment of one incarnation upon another in this
but for the moment that is of no consequence — one is led back
artistic, perhaps also the inartistic elements in Arabism; it was
other men belonging to the same race.
comradeship with many men belonging to the same Arabian stock and the
the spiritual world removed from the development of Christianity,
time as men who were steeped in the natural-scientific thinking of
the second half of the 19th century, men who had been his associates
sense-phenomena. This he now criticises root and branch. He wants now
gradually rising to principles. And we witness a tremendous struggle:
connection is in operation here. All these men had been Moors,
going about in Stuttgart. I mentioned to you yesterday the wonderful
this individuality regarded the men from the North, especially those
astronomy in the form current in those days, amending and drawing up
and by his treatment of the law of corresponding boiling points. I
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to mention many details in the life and character of a human being
them naturally without wounding our fellow-men — as we
spirit with extraordinary apathy. Indeed, the men of the 19th century
of the inner, dynamic vigour which once spurred men to action in the
spiritual powers of nature. The attitude of these men to the
just as these men felt the Spiritual in the workings of nature and
so we are bound to say: these same men are there again in the world
20th centuries. But if those men were to return in the mood of soul
was among the men of von Hartmann's time to let themselves be roused
he dreamed of how men will ultimately invent a huge machine which
terrific explosion, scattering the whole earth in fragments through
not feel that it has taken any real hold of them. A statement like
earth. It was his work Phänomenologie des sittlichen
Bewusstseins (Phenomenology of the Moral Consciousness) that
religiöse Bewusstsein der Menschheit (The Religious
of the Unconscious the works of Eduard von Hartmann mentioned in
guided to his earlier incarnation, during which at a certain moment
acquiring, however, a tremendous admiration for the latter. The
during the Crusades had suffered injury and embarrassment in an
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you follow the development of Christianity from its foundation,
life. While Charlemagne was trying to spread an elementary kind of
spiritual culture inspired tremendous respect in the environment of
highly cultured man whose followers were by no means men of such
primitive attainments as, for example, Einhard, the associate of
Charles the Great. Haroun al Raschid gathered around him men of real
element which assumes the guise of religion but extinguishes
the end of the first thousand years, the only real menace in Europe
these streams the individualities of the men who have worked in one
yet working still with the same fundamental impulse. In an earlier
seems trivial in comparison with the mighty achievements of their
into another is the same in respect of the fundamental trend and
recently able to show you how the work and achievements of
environment, this same impulse was imparted by Lord Bacon in a more
men bowed before Lord Bacon too. And whoever studies the attitude
will have the impression: men have turned round, that is all! In the
fundamental trend. And just as the outer aspects of a human life
commanded tremendous respect in Spain. Naturally, the Europeans had
fro and the fighting continued from Spain; in men such as Spinoza we
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forming a judgment not only of individual human connections, but also
regulations, but when some freedom of movement was still left in the
now, taking part as he did in all manner of movements in Italy in the
the announcement in the paper of his death-sentence! He read his name
movements for freedom over there, until the year 1848. And in every
for the first time on the occasion of the announcement of his own
biographical fact, something that happens to very few men indeed.
merely contribute to the development of the new Italy: he was its
with, comparatively speaking, quite a small force of men,
impression. Fundamentally speaking, if we may put it in somewhat
decorations, and met Garibaldi's men who had no decorations and were
behind like a rearguard. He and his men had to wait and let the
by the women! Now you will agree, from what I have told you of
became, as we know, one of the great men of Europe after his
achievements in Italy, and traveling through Italy today you know
Garibaldi's honour — not to mention London, where Garibaldi's
one to capture a German flag from under a pile of men who were trying
had such respect for the men who had hurled themselves upon the flag
man — so original, so elementary, acting so evidently out of
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development, and the question arises: If human beings pass through
comparatively few square miles, four men who had a significant
great distance, Victor Emanuel. These four men are all quite near to
it is these four men together who, if not agreeing in thought, if not
even acting always in mutual agreement, nevertheless established the
Garibaldi's mentality, however, expresses itself in an elemental way.
Mazzini's mentality is that of a learned philosopher; Cavour's that
of a learned lawyer. And as for Victor Emmanuel's mentality ... well,
itself with elemental force, so that one cannot remain indifferent
the educated men of modern times.
this. What did civilised men, including Cavour, or at all events the
much in his arguments and in his whole way of speaking that was bound
upon the special facts I have mentioned, then our vision is indeed
alignment with bourgeois conventions.
little difference. These things, fundamentally speaking, are
the underlying elements in human nature which count in the spiritual
world, his temperament, his qualities of character are of importance.
temperament, he would most certainly have been regarded as a lunatic
by the men of the 19th century. He would have been considered quite
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an earlier epoch are carried over to a later one by men
inasmuch as his achievements and experiences form part of his
Asia at that time. For the most part they were men who had been
gained from his education and environment. The impulse of
life of Middle Europe as Amos Comenius.
up with the outer senses; whereas Amos Comenius unfolds his activity
development of thought and knowledge. If you follow his life you will
movements of the day. It was the time when the Order of the Moravian
midst of all these movements which sprang from the selfsame source,
came Comenius, that significant figure of the l7th century, with his
who afterwards appears in Amos Comenius; we see him receiving in the
were, a road from Bacon to Comenius — naturally they do so in a
the followers of the Comenius school, of the Comenius wisdom, you
carried out with a small troop of men with the object of
of men he once set out from north-east France. Now it happened that
was more powerful; he had more men, more soldiers. The rightful owner
these men came together and hatched all manner of plots against those
could be expected? In the 8th–9th century, when men sat
the Arlberg railway, the most vehement opposition came from the same
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Anthroposophical Movement since the Christmas Foundation Meeting at
which was the form in which the Anthroposophical Movement had existed
movements to let those who wanted to do something try it out and see
all has been that since the year 1918, opposition to our Movement has
moment these facts must in no way be concealed from the
Anthroposophical Movement. We must face them with all clarity. As
manner of experiments were made in the hope of being ‘truly
Christmas Foundation Meeting, an entirely new element must come into
Stuttgart — can you believe for a single moment that there can
civilisation of to-day the statement, for example, that the soul of
Anthroposophical Movement there is now a prevailing quality which can
discussion or argument with our opponents. For if we do so, it will
tenor of the Anthroposophical Movement as it has been since Christmas
members. Henceforth the Anthroposophical Movement will take this
individuality we found again as Amos Comenius, whose field of action
Comenius, who had been his counsellor.
Comenius, having fastened Arabism — so to speak from two
time. Bacon and Amos Comenius, having died in the 17th century, lived
Bacon and Amos Comenius from the 17th to the 19th. On the one hand
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development of the life of mankind must lead on to study of the human
essentially mild in form; the overseers were usually educated men.
officer is responsible for many things that arouse resentment and
fulfilment of many things which, through the instrumentality of the
education in the 18th century, is the karmic fulfilment in relation
the karmic fulfilment of the experiences and the sufferings of
in an element of spirit-and-soul that is always on the point of
his earthly environment. A man as he confronts us is a product of his
earthly environment to a far greater extent than is generally
earthly environment. It is the more intangible, more intimate traits
happen. — There are men who have a habit, let us say, of making
a certain movement of the arms. I have known men who simply could not
mentioned. In a similar way, through the peculiar circumstances of
— makes no more than a passing allusion to Christ, mentioning
were splendid women who because of all that had happened under Henry
of Canossa, the scene of issues that were immensely decisive in the
And do you know, the book he opened at that moment, reading it right
book was Emerson's Representative Men.
leads him to Representative Men and he sees at once:
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of men have changed in the course of the earth's evolution will
death and a new birth the moment approaches for the human being to
to undergo this tremendous change in the form of existence, the
of growing into the environment and the current form of education.
into a kind of body which, owing to the intervening development, is
men were deeply initiated into these Mysteries. But everywhere, too,
men were more or less aware of the rules that must be imposed on the
with a momentous question.
how will it evolve further in the hearts and minds of men? And how
misunderstood, will live only in traditions, when men will no longer
Benedictine monk. His achievements in the spheres of medicine and
alchemy were of momentous significance and to study him in connection
time, even in the unpleasant elements themselves, there may be
among men, makes dramas out of them, and becomes: Frank Wedekind.
who can look beyond the surface, and the commonplace judgments of the
produced a strange and remarkable phenomenon. — Alchemical
the point of time at which they occur on earth, the lives of men are
pupils was a personality of rare sensitiveness and refinement. He was
teaching on the Ideas, to lift men's minds and hearts above the
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of men have their roots in moral causes created by themselves in the
certainly something that really does not make sense in the phenomenon
Movement.
regards the life of other men, nay even the existence of a whole
understand the further developments. Insight into the things that
objectively, when no hostile judgment is passed but when human
moment and which had a shattering effect throughout the region
concerned, I happened to be visiting a person frequently mentioned in
in the case of one of such high rank; nobody dreamt for a moment that
was officially announced. Then, after the official announcement, it
announcement of the fatal accident, the Prime Minister of Hungary,
then Emperor of Austria the promise that this incorrect statement
to be responsible for making this announcement to his people, and he
officially admitted and the earlier announcement corrected. And if
connected with destiny. And the fundamental fact here is that one to
friends, is one of those phenomena in life which seem to be wholly
the whole affair, a true judgment can be formed only by one who says
demented, seeking an external entanglement in the love affair, and so
myself: Why does he think of Nero just at this moment? He actually
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a series of karmic relationships in the historical development of
life has come into the Anthroposophical Movement will be able to say
Anthroposophy. Since that moment, much in my life has come to a stop.
adjustments in life which are unpleasant, and possibly even painful
think, feel, will and do things that call for a karmic adjustment. We
enter into relationships with other men, and again things happen
which demand a karmic adjustment. Try to survey from this point of
himself. In the spiritual world, men live entirely within one
into relation with just any kind of men; we enter into relation with
me in a certain way. This treatment can be of such a nature that only
receive a similar, perhaps even identical, treatment from another
with this treatment, in the time between death and
can differentiate between two such kinds of treatment, externally
a man comes into relation with other men, all manner of things are
man. With these other men you make connections which — let us
be that the karmically important element in some connection of life
of incisive moments in life. Then we come to see, in all clarity,
mentioned here an example which may have appeared to you very
this play (which, as I recently mentioned, is a perfect horror from
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human environment, we really see in the physical world only what is
in the physical phenomena of the world we thus observe. In the entire
all events a fragment of consciousness. And, above all, that which
arrangements which exist in the world, and which are quite beyond the
instruments that men will have to study for a long time before they
the world. At a moment when only the seed of a plant is present, we
moment when it is actually there, but afterwards. It must be placed
mention — if you do not disdain to do this, then you will find
majority of men simply do not know what spiritual exertion is.
something of which you must make an absolutely correct mental
But in the very moment when I want to start, when the will is
the present time. They were not so unknown to the men of earlier
culture-epochs. Only, according to the opinion of modern men who are
clever, those other men — in their whole way of living —
were stupid! Nevertheless, those ‘stupid’ men of the
there is that one can learn to know! And then, with a tremendous
the Anthroposophical Movement.
begin with, we must say to ourselves: the first moment when we
world. Even the tiniest fragment of madness is a hindrance to
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passing by or missing anything about men, things or phenomena of the
statesmen of ancient Greece than of the statesmen of our own time. If
of life. In this connection I have often mentioned details which have
at the highest peak of idealism. There are men, for instance, who, in
because a detail like the one mentioned points to a very definite
body of the human being is finally given over to the elements. The
earlier times. It remains to be seen what men with an exclusively
environment, he always had to go to them; he had to make his
such a human being there is a special development of everything that
development.
In times when men
think of cowards, faint-hearted men. They are those who took no
character forms few links with its environment, and consequently the
matter; the harmful element, the tragedy of materialism, is that it
There are men ... how shall I speak of them? Let us say they are
otherwise the opposite will become less intelligible. Men who help
themselves vehemently, who when they so much as take a pear into
individual development.
time should dawn when men no longer reckon only with one earthly
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for a time to study the laws prevailing in the development of human
the great primeval Teachers. It was they who established among men on
Beings worked was altogether different from the way in which men can
these ancient, primeval Teachers among men must in truth be described
knowledge of the whole environment of man.
whole karmic fulfilment of what was done in life is experienced
whole karmic fulfilment, but not, of course, as earthly experience
intensity. What makes this possible? It is because the moment a human
much to do after death once imparted to men that primeval wisdom
explained, men could not have attained their freedom if the mighty
Suffering — these men know as little to what these Categories
but only knew a, b, c, d! Correspondingly, men miss everything that
fundamental concepts of logic, and he gave out what he knew —
to read with the fundamental concepts, the root concepts. A man must
understand in his head how to combine these fundamental concepts as
the fundamental concepts on slips of paper, then take a kind of
with the shaping of karma. These primeval Teachers and the men of
possible: for instance, one can study two men who died not so very
long ago and who have gone their way backward after death, two men
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the fulfilment and development of karma take place, works upon man,
environment.
obliged to eat. Our relationship to our earthly environment is
as exists between man and his earthly environment, where in truth
the experiences of man after death, they impart tremendous power and
experience things as the others experienced them, and with tremendous
existence is entirely remote from what makes us into earth-men and
Now if men leave
— what will such men say? They will say: ‘Natural
things living within the soul will in some way find fulfilment can
realm of the sun finds fulfilment and expression according to its
Although it cannot be proved with crude instruments, it is a fact
inhuman that he wished ill to all men. Let us imagine him to have
fulfilment of karma. What I want to impress upon you now is that what
know only that men have such laws on earth. They themselves are not
the moment we enter earthly existence, the spiritual laws and

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world. When, therefore, we think of the spatial environment of man we
connected with nourishment. For whatever means of nourishment man
development into the period of decline which in reality begins
can carry very much into old age, and many momentous achievements of
development taking place in our sense-life and in our intellectual
rather of the fulfilment of karma, the discharging of karma.
must be brought to karmic fulfilment.
diagram) I can write: fulfilment of karma (28th to 49th
demands and karmic fulfilment are in balance.
remarkable phenomenon to which attention must be paid in our time. In
view; everyone passes judgment on what he hears.
individuals this intellectuality is influenced, fundamentally, by
all the time growing weaker. Men were beginning more and more to take
Striking and tremendously significant discoveries can be made in this
domain when one embarks on investigations into karma. I will mention
was one of the many really clever men of our time. But the moment he
the one I have just mentioned — but again merely intelligent.
his intelligence, had a strong influence upon his fellow-men. When,
demands to karmic fulfilments disclosed that the forces of
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etheric body. The moment a man acquires the faculty of super-sensible,
has lived through and the forces that have influenced his development
terminology used by ancient science. For the element of love is
presently how it is with men who have passed the age of
Now there are men
personality whose spiritual development proceeded, to begin with, in
Beings imbue everything with an element of aggressiveness — be
element is compatible not only with attack but also with retreat
astonishment that Beings like those belonging to the Jupiter-sphere
Beings who need not ‘learn’ anything, because the moment
they take form — I cannot say ‘the moment they are
supremely wise. They are never stupid, never unwise. They are as men
on earth would often like to be — men who do not appreciate the
the throes of decline. When mention is made to-day of Taotl,
by enactments of sacred ritual. And he knew that Quetzalcoatl was a
super-sensible world in such a way that in the development of his
that causes bewilderment, nay indeed actual pain.
Try for a moment
experiencing. But the moment it is all over and the concert ended,
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consider to-day how the attainment of Imagination, Inspiration and
if he succeeds, even if only for a moment, he knows what Imaginative
inwardly detached. The result of this detachment will of course be
In olden times men
is often an element of coquetry in giving a name to a child; people
‘fancy’ the name. But in olden times men were mindful of
long as the primeval Teachers taught men out of their store of
with the development of the Consciousness Soul, freedom begins to be
within the reach of men.
Men of the modern
the cosmos, in the spiritual cosmos, something of immense
impression will be one of tremendous power. You have only to picture
higher Hierarchies but elemental beings, also the Ahrimanic and

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phenomena of world-existence, even of the phenomena of nature.
relation to the fundamental changes that have come about in the
the statements are made shall be absolutely clear. If anyone proposes
the whole Anthroposophical Movement. Otherwise we shall fall into the
to the Movement by what was then “achieved” — I say
responsibility. For the moment things are spoken of in the way we are
not, however, admit of any other arrangement. It is difficult to
our Movement — if, as is still the case even since the
development.
find description after description of events and phenomena which are
Between the moment
outside. Thus, leaving aside the ego, we can say: At the moment of
impression that at the moment of falling asleep the astral body
through the limbs. Thus at the moment of waking the astral body comes
when they have reached the head the moment has come for them to go
this phenomenon is of the greatest importance, above all in enabling
a true judgment to be formed of the human organisation in health and
the limbs, that the unhealthy phenomena become manifest to a special
faculty of perception. Therefore in forming a judgment of illnesses
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fundamental and complicated law. To-day I should like, first of all,
you in the course of recent lectures, that the phenomena of nature
larger or smaller groups of men at one epoch and the facts of nature
phenomena.
connection with these elemental events in nature.
order there to receive their destiny from the elemental phenomena of
enigmatic phenomena of meteorites and comets which burst in upon the
resign ourselves to the outer course taken by natural phenomena. But
being. It is not reasonable to imagine for a moment that a corpse
could exist in itself as a collection of phenomena having an
for a moment. When our physical and etheric bodies are there in the
Initiation. They reached a certain stage of inner development which
moment of its setting. The shining radiance of the sun vanished in
firmament to where it had stood in its noontide, dazzling strength; I
hovering there in the firmament, now approaching man, now drawing
you think of a certain region of the earth where men are sleeping,
echo of all that these sleeping men have
placed before the eyes of men was a copy of what the Initiates beheld

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are to be banned by the present Government of Soviet Russia with the
moment in world-history; we do well to listen to the warning which
men's minds ought to be silenced and the attention of numbers
emotions, of an element in human nature working entirely in a
is a far greater menace than that of the primitive peoples who are
minds to a phenomenon of history which has, however, immediate
elemental nature like those mentioned in the last lecture, when
disablement. — Again, there are events for which the devices of
earthly lives of men. In the case of catastrophes of civilisation
souls of men. And it is what proceeds in the background that provides
of men — in accordance with the will of the
whether a person was in truth an Initiate, men knew the right
of the humour of life, men must again be mindful of its
present earthly lives of these men has in every case come to an end.
the difference between such an event in elemental nature and an event
that is due, fundamentally, to civilisation, for example, a terrible
becomes significant and fundamental when studied from the point of
— just as men who live in a particular district are, broadly
It is the decree of the gods that karma shall come to fulfilment,
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ANTHROPOSOPHICAL MOVEMENT
or about the middle of the Middle Ages. It is the moment in
— when men begin mainly to pay attention to the
different men were in mind and spirit before the present
epoch. Even when they let the old documents speak for
though they had been like men of the present time with the
of thought and outlook, even of the men who lived in the
pulse-beat. This happens quickly. The men of whom I am now
in-breathing and out-breathing — so did these men
Men who had this
for a moment that it had really succeeded. What would then
men whom I have now described. For if they had done so, the
given towards the development of the Spiritual Soul
for a moment what they imagined. The in-breathing of
feeling of the Ego would have evolved in the men of
have become vaguer and vaguer. Men would increasingly have
the earth, but not as individual men distinct from the
me,” the men whom I described above felt themselves
themselves as individualities in the same degree as the men
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course beneath the surface of consciousness; but the moment
Destinies!’ ‘Memento mori’ is all that is
in the way in which they worked on other men, to whom he
feelings of other men. He does not live in his own mind.
— at the moment before his entry into his past
life and action of men with their instinct of karma, their
das Schicksalsnetz des betreffenden Menschen.
gerechten Folgen des Erdenlebens des Menschen. In
Ausgestaltungen des Erdenlebens des Menschen. In
world-historic moment it is as though we could behold the
enacted among men on earth, has now been received by
century — the deeds of men, their relations to one
moment since, — all that took place in that declining
witness to the immense importance of what is taking place
deeds of men into the heavenly deeds of souls.
you must take this statement in its full weight and
cult or ritual men consciously transform their physical
men, but that is brought about by the feeling-together and
working-together of men on earth, is for ever in connection
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at our judgments through a deeper understanding of the
as I have often mentioned from varied points of view, to
last for the souls of men: they shall feel themselves
is indeed a limited life men lead today, compared to what
dwell for a moment on the great vistas that are opened up
Anthroposophical Movement). For Eurhythmy did not exist in
occur to the souls of men: Why am I a Christian? Such souls
It was a time when men were finding their way on the one
interprets in his own way and then makes experiments in
if we may call them so. Thus we see him as an experimenter,
of men on all hands. This man is filled on the one hand
punishment, the just punishment, for meddling with
dreadful disappointment that all his old subconscious
founded in the real essence of human life. Such a Movement
causing the Anthroposophical Movement to arise out of the

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connections of the Anthroposophical Movement itself. What I
Anthroposophical Movement. In general terms I have already
described how the Anthroposophical Movement is composed of
Anthroposophical Movement. The things which I shall
itself on the character and temperament, the mode of action
attachment to Christianity nearest and dearest to their
the widest and fullest sense: The Anthroposophical Movement
mentioned is exceedingly misleading. For one might easily
be led to suppose that those who by the judgment of
Anthroposophical Movement was inaugurated. I may remind you
moment; the point is that this conception was still theirs.
moment when all the support which served him as long as he
groups of men who are described to us in the religious
being an immense warmth and devotion of feeling towards
very flood-gates, which for a moment let radiate into his
indeed have been relatively simple men and women, in simple
Anthroposophical Movement.
to say, the personal element is always to be excluded here)
Anthroposophical Movement. I mean, those who are not even
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MOVEMENT
nay of the Anthroposophical Movement altogether, showing
Movement.
the Anthroposophical Movement. These two groups we have
significant common element, lying at the foundation of the
men were very different from what they are today. When the
reservation which I mentioned here not long ago, when I
in their moment of awakening they had before them —
consider the moment of falling asleep nowadays, the
“In all the spiritual life and movement which I have
he had carried into his awakening moments only a vague and
fundamental differences in the experience of souls in the
men thought and pondered about the depth of the forces that
further course of their development beheld those mighty
knowledge or consciousness among men. For you must think,
feeling of that time enabled men to accept such words, when
warmth and enthusiasm of heart with which the men of those
such men about the truths of spiritual wisdom, they could
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Anthroposophical Movement and that are contained within its
karma from the spiritual side, I have mentioned two
together in the Anthroposophical Movement.
itself. Even the men of knowledge and learning in that time
centres of learning. In isolated centres of learning men
chapter of human evolution. For at this moment the
moment when they might have at least a delicate vision of
environment of man on earth. Then they looked outward to
the cosmos, the spiritual-elemental beings that lived in
learned to know from her the nature of the four Elements:
kingdoms of the four Elements which pour themselves in all
Elements.
introduced man to the elements, to the planetary world, to
enactments of the Abbot Hildebrand — Abbot of the
standing at that moment under a great historic impression,
there appeared the Elements, there appeared the Planets,
stood before the souls of men so often in the first
agreement with one another. The individualities from the
— who were on the earth for instance in the garment
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is only by a kind of inertia that men have persisted in the
fundamental tendencies of successive ages in relation to
pressing and important in the consciousness of men. Man
heredity. It was as though at the last moment he came to
development the qualities he had inherited from his parents
Alexandria. It was a great cosmopolitan movement, seeking
— as we do today, was impossible for the men of
as none other than a Missionary of Michael, an instrument
Michael is acting on the earth, and I am the instrument
revelations would no longer come to men from the spiritual
great moment of decision. It came in such a way that
incarnate or discarnate, must say to themselves: “Men
century onwards. Men were beginning to form their own
been revealed to men, steeped in the Cosmic Intelligence. I
Schoolmen, were bringing forth, we see the earthly stamp
human souls especially were there, whom I have mentioned as
now predestined to belong to the Anthroposophical Movement,
Anthroposophical Movement. For all that was taught in that
required. For what Michael had administered for men through
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rate into the Anthroposophical Movement, through all the
immense, far-reaching and gigantic contrast in experience,
has passed from the hands of Michael into the hands of men.
Ages there was a great conflict between the leading men of
existed in the world-conceptions of men upon the earth
already to prevail) in the large majority of men only as a
those who are the Michael spirits even among men, continues
men were filled through and through with the consciousness:
Divine,” played an immense part at the end of the
everywhere were in a state of discouragement; an atmosphere
of discouragement had come over them all. Discouraged were
were filled with discouragement.
Discouragement
The most intellectual element of this extract was then
Intelligence will be down among men upon the earth, having
now in this new Age of Michael, men will have to become
that has come into the hands of men. For if men once became
personal element. In every conceivable direction Ahriman is
he manipulates his arguments. The really decisive question
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the Anthroposophical Movement, bear this impulse within
Michael-men therefore (if we may use this term), we must
connect the physical phenomena of health and illness with
Raphael-men, or the like. Things in the universe are very
it is Michael who brings the karma of men nearest of all to
human beings — I will not say of nervous temperament
world. In those who were essentially men of Michael, this
men would have passed by more or less indifferently,
Ahriman can only have a strong influence upon men when
most radical phenomenon is that of a fainting fit, or a
thoroughly brave men, men full of inner courage.
the polar antithesis of Ahriman. Thus the men of Michael
the consciousness of men to be diverted by all manner of
impressionability for the Michael element. He actually
understanding for the Michael element.
the Michael element was approaching human beings at that
men were led into events which were none other than the
Movement is placed. For the Anthroposophical Movement is
Anthroposophical Movement. They come, to begin with, from
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The fundamental
Anthroposophical Movement should begin to feel something of
the men of today who turn to that spiritual life which
than other men. And he easily grows out of the very
things that other men easily grow into. Think only,
development of soul and mind and spirit. But this does not
temperament is drawn to Anthroposophy after the events of
other men. All the many possibilities that are there with
judgment or decision out of my own inmost being.”
judgment; and without clear judgment on the conditions of
to clear judgment on the things of life, especially in this
clarity of judgment in face of it?
initiative in the souls of men. Every public meeting, every
downfall. We must also be men and women of our age. Of
but is afraid to use it at the right moment. The sting is
feels a tremendous impulse to refute materialism, to fight
thing that hinders our clarity of judgment. Here stands the
the splendid achievement of our age to have discovered what
karmically united — with men in whom it is as
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connected with the Anthroposophical Movement, with the
life within this Movement. Much will remain to be said on
indeed, that men could not ascribe to themselves the
of the battle which was waged by the Schoolmen of the
immortality. We must not say with the Schoolmen that this
immortality of man. And it was by the Dominican Schoolmen
immortality maintained by Dominican Schoolmen has only been
difference. But we can only understand such developments in
down among earthly men. This was the objective fact, this
869 A.D. At the 8th Ecumenical Council held in that year at
into the souls of men the conviction that the Spiritual is
Intelligence came down to the single men. But this, my dear
Angels are the Beings who guide men from earthly life to
all the power is among men, will Michael be able to carry
overwhelming, shattering experience). In the Ecumenical
the experiences of men were no longer all of them rightly
co-ordinated with their karma. This is the chaotic element
of the Anthroposophical Society. It is a thing of immense
Movement, clearly perceptible to him who knows. It is
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must find embodiment in human civilisation. Since the Christmas
Anthroposophical Movement, however, must be that what takes its course
Anthroposophical Movement must also realise that the spiritual impulses
nature thoughts represent the most spiritual element in modern man, the
thoughts themselves are such that in their development as inner spirit
reality; that wherever matter exists for the outer eyes of men, not only
movement which in the modern age unfolded in the spiritual world and
will go forward in earthly life if men do but keep faith with it.
earthly life will be maintained if men find in their hearts the strength
the spiritual archetype of the Anthroposophical Movement. This
Anthroposophical Movement is actually returning to its own germinal
integral part of the Anthroposophical Movement.
Movement.
the Theosophical Movement it was not possible to proceed with the
from our anthroposophical literature, the development of human
consciousness is bound up with the attainment of those data of knowledge
the penetration into which has become possible through the development
actual penetration into the spiritual world requires the development of
development of states of consciousness other than those we are familiar
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sense been opened through his own soul-development.
the whole period of Anthroposophical development and as time goes on
development.
mention this fact at the end of the new edition of my book
strange requirements that have been made of me from time to time during
that experiments in this spirit can of course give no result. And I also
mentioned that all the paths of approach which lead to the discovery of
high regard for him. You see, I am mentioning the karmic details which
which enables me conscientiously to speak of it. I am mentioning all
of men who were interested in occultism in the widest possible range,
mentioned, whom I knew by reputation and respected very highly for his
on. The two men passed through the gate of death and underwent the
the super-sensible which are connected with the development of karma or
men — though it is not recorded in the biography of Walther,
again simultaneously, complementing one another, living in a kind of
elements that occur in his works. See his peculiar attraction to all
Anthroposophical Movement. For they might easily lead to all manner of

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which underlies the outer, physical happenings. Men do indeed describe
Michael is connected in turn with what the Anthroposophical Movement in
the deepest sense intends, with what this movement ought to be and do.
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rise of all the old elements of Arabian world-conception in Arabism,
inward development of the spiritual life. When the more external spread
illustrious of men. Some of these men still carried in them much of the
departments of what the East at that time possessed in art and science
elements of ancient Initiation.
men, Haroun al Raschid and his counsellor, went through the gate of
Haroun al Raschid taking the following spiritual line of development
the ordinary consciousness does not see it. All these spiritual elements
were contained in the medieval treatment of the subject. So too,
Anthroposophical Movement. Then they returned again into the spiritual
spiritual development in Europe, coincided in the super-sensible worlds
something of immense significance took place in the
spiritual worlds, while down below the 8th Œcumenical Council was
projection of a spiritual event — an event which men do not
recognise but which was of immense significance for European spiritual
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movement in spiritual worlds.
especially when we bring the earthly life of men, as we have been doing
of the Anthroposophical Movement itself, and at the same time, the karma
Anthroposophical Movement.
8th Œcumenical Council at Constantinople had declared the doctrine
Anthroposophical Movement, and on the other hand karmically with the
over the earth at the same time as the 8th Œcumenical Council in
appeared again as Amos Comenius. Much is said, and justly, in praise of
Amos Comenius. Nevertheless, in one aspect, in his striving to introduce
of Christian development, but which brings a foreign element, foreign to
conditions of evolution there was no real point of attachment for their
were recognised, but living creative activity. Men did not look so much
to our present day chemical elements which have since commanded so much
Elements in the ancient sense: Earth, Water, Air and Fire. It was not a
is so, we see in the Elements what is indeed not present in our seventy
to eighty chemical elements, the world of elemental spirituality the
world of certain elemental beings into which we penetrate when we enter
livingly into the four Elements.
movement of the Earth, Water, Air, Fire which become in him the organic
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them within the earthly life until the time when the element of Michael,
who was altogether devoted to the life-element that existed in that
without embarrassment to-day.
to die. But her desire to die did not spring from a sentimental or
fundamental disposition in her own soul, back to that monk of Chartres
temperament or melancholy or sentimentality; it was the raying-in of a
supplement what I then said by referring to the evening twilight mood of
There is another thing which I would mention
of the souls who stand sincerely within the Anthroposophical Movement
For in the Anthroposophical Movement we find
much the Christians who followed such movements as that of Constantine
Anthroposophical Movement sincerely, though often through subconscious
who did not partake directly in that development of Christianity. They
development when the deep inner life of the sects was no longer there,
among those who have entered the Anthroposophical Movement in this way
once more within the Anthroposophical Movement. But many of the souls I
in the Anthroposophical Movement) in the depths of whom much is still
streams I have mentioned. I said a little while ago that we only truly
experiences of men within these events, to the spiritual source and
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is useful of Copernicanism, but rejecting the absolute movement of the
primitive instruments contrived and manufactured by himself, he
most primitive instruments with which other people would not dream of
men on earth. For in reality we can ever meet them, and there is in fact
Copernicus, or with his other astronomical achievements. He observed
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
moment a little miniature picture of this super-sensible cult and action
the Anthroposophical Movement or strive towards this Movement with
centuries, and they were looking towards it again during the enactment
and entered the stream of the Anthroposophical Movement inasmuch as they
have felt sincerely drawn on earth to such a spiritual Movement.
Anthroposophical Movement to-day, having entered into the dominion of
Michael which has now begun. We stand here in this Movement, called to
At this moment of great significance he has begun his earthly rulership
origin of certain remarkable phenomena that appeared in the spiritual
lives on in simple retirement at Munich, until at length the King of
had gained it in the silence of his retirement through the course of
entered deeply into the above-mentioned philosophic dialogue,
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solid element. All these are remnants, precipitated, cast out by
behind. So, too, the watery and airy elements. Thus the real essence of
Michael there have been the greatest difficulties for the men of modern
Movement.
of Strader. It was a man who lived through the developments of the last
certain moment. One may well feel his death as a surprise when reading
in its intensity like the reality of a dream compared to the immensely
death, we begin to realise the tremendous difficulties and hindrances.
the thread of abstract concepts breaks at the critical moment, and in
the Moon, and we to-day, when as dead men we pass the region of the
strange phenomenon.
these phenomena which seemed to show the starry worlds as though in a
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phenomena of the outer, physical life.
the Anthroposophical Movement.
out to be not quite so important. This fundamental mood he carried with
Now when the above-mentioned personality,
Government of Louis XIV when Louis XIV was still a child,
peculiar mentality. It was a mentality which held fast with great
ways the men of the present time built up their present individualities
that other fact is there, which I have often mentioned — I mean that
I will now mention another personality, of
question. We will only bear in mind that it was a question of immensely
have often said, almost all men are clever. They are really dreadfully
stupid and still be able to think ... but the fact is the men of to-day
can think. In those times it was not so. It was not that men could
been to bring forward the arguments for both sides. He brought forward
higher in spiritual development, for then only do we find the god
within. The statement that there is a divine within us at any and every
coloured by that element to which he had come at last. He saw it forever
Still this was no fulfilment of the
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remarkable phenomenon. Through the powerful impressions she received,
estrangement between the two, for the man was more inclined to value the
tended more and more to the pictorial element. Then the two
with a certain feeling of estrangement between them.
and scholarly activity. I have mentioned once before that many of the
wrote the fundamental work on the Seven Liberal Arts, which
a woman's personality, but in this case, the whole fundamental character
man. Thus both of them were now incarnated simultaneously as men. The
— he entered with full life into the strong element of thought
order and connection into that element which he had once commanded when
all men may become happy. What he thus described as the City of the Sun,
judgment.
grew with extraordinary intensity into the element of the Spiritual Soul
the strong tendency to intellectual enlightenment, repudiating his
antipathy to women in general. This antipathy to women found its way
temperament, personal sympathy and antipathy — in this case,
through all that he had missed by his long years of imprisonment in the
imprisonment gave rise to the possibility of being lived through again
moment, when Campanella was thirty years old, or thereabouts, this
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people may be crying out for heart and sentiment and feeling. It is the
elementarily human qualities, from that which man bears within him as
men express their egoism, their lack of sympathy and compassion with the
things people give expression to a feeling of how the element of
in such a high degree as it is to-day, that the countenances of men
are necessary that the thoughts and ideas of men to-day may rise into
the age, which must remain, so to speak, the garment of contemporary
remind you of a personality of ancient time whom we have mentioned here
for a long time in the development of Christianity. And in a certain
found its true development according to the possibilities of that
enters into Plato's world of conception yet another element which has
another it becomes the staff by which men draw themselves upward. And
Philosophers but under Plato's influence. Indeed I mentioned this matter
matter-of-fact and legalistic Roman element, nay indeed to reject all
Christian element. For what was it that dived down into Christianity
Christianity into itself in that age. But the Roman element too was
in which he would give a humorous treatment of the following theme.
those super-sensible developments of which I told you. I mean the passage
its form. Refinement indeed was a peculiar quality of
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intellect, possibly assisted by experiments, is able to arrange
in the element of thought itself as he did
the moment he wakes from sleep, because he sets store
“Knowledge of Higher Worlds and its Attainment.”
point where you need only give yourself a mental push in order
movements to an awareness of your inner forces of thought, you
that moment the whole of your earthly
momentary phase, as if you were catching a
does not live in space except for one fleeting moment. The next
moment it has already changed. It is always in a state of flux,
forces. For our nourishment we take physical
nourishment this physical matter streams into
gained about the processes working within the alimentary track
element. For everything we excrete as
This etheric element whirls and surges and weaves
entering our thoughts, our mental pictures, and then come
into mental pictures which are then held and thrust
achievement, if only nowadays people would take
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physical body, but always in a state of flux and movement,
moment and even then hardly in defined outline. But this
world of movement. At the same time, however, all this is
“Knowledge of Higher Worlds and its Attainment,”
have become the instrument through which the Logos
drawn from the phenomena of nature must inescapably lead. Thus
must contain the element of unreality. In external nature he
material element and the now powerfully creative
moral-spiritual element interpenetrates, is the world
etheric-astral element, so that on waking it
occupied only mentally in thoughts, for there too the will
intention of lifting a hand and the actual movement of the
the lifting of the hand. It is only the actual movement
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moment we behold the life-tableau of which I have
thinking is the element of touch in relation to what
merely through the element of touch, but we must
‘I.’ As it is, only the first rudiments
At the moment of coming face to face with one's
one finds the entire world of earthly environment in its true
the souls of men.
Naturally the level of mentality in our modern
Well, as regards fundamental truths the modern
dilettantism is of immense proportions, and equally great in
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very friendly to our movement. He himself, says that he
that which I have just attempted to characterize, an element
to realize that the important thing is the formal element,
the artistic formal element of what is being attempted, not
his experiences there is a swaying of the ruling of elemental
an elementary way in the ether world behind the pure sense
existence when the etheric element is brought to
as if the elementary spirits want to move on further through
through all this natural phenomena and this rippling, this
warming, this living, this weaving through of elementary
element of Friedrich Lienhard is that precisely through his
present Oberlin in a real plastic three dimentional way and
way in which they carry the elementary nature right into the
of the artistic element which appeared as if it was being
formal element of the ancient poetry, again into the present
development.
opportunity for, I might say, the swinging in of an elemental
spiritual stream which works through the development of the
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from outside, the above mentioned spiritual beings weave
within the whole world development and contributes to it so
development. If we were not born as single individuals, if we
weave, that would be lost for world development. And when we
pass through the portal of death — the elementary
physical body and this is given over to the elements of the
Hierarchies we mentioned and they weave it gradually into the
Movement, the Spirits of Wisdom, the Thrones, or the Spirits
environment, but we are also there as soul spiritual beings
environment. Normally one does not think about how our
physical body belongs to our whole environment. But this is
moment when you visualize yourself in a bodily way, you
previous moment, in the next moment it is again outside you.
that you live with the whole atmosphere environment. However,
atmosphere environment, with the warmth environment, so do we
live with the environment of the Hierarchy of the Third Order
with the beings of the Hierarchies which we have mentioned.
making watches is a directing activity, so the moment which I
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special way in the spiritual movement of the second half of
become special instruments for spiritual working, for
and willing can bring together through the Instrument of the
development of the physical body. During this 5th
grown out of the Russian folk, she can experience an immense
her, but it was overpowered by the East European element,
Norman-Roman element and formed a lower caste. That
French element was still working, and the Anglo-Saxons were
well regarded. However, this thing changed fundamentally
streams of the 4th post-Atlantean period. One knew an immense
an instrument of all spiritual life; and precisely because of
mankind's development had to be so arranged that this dogma
friendly arrangement was set up between them. It was so
which would cause a rightful movement to be called forth, for
developmental forces occurring. And here we have H. P.
future elements from such an ether body, a future that holds
Russian. However, as I mentioned earlier, she had a certain
soul. but, as I said, she had much of this Germanic element
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it sees the elementary world, that which is of an elemental
nature, elemental beings in plants, animals and minerals.
presence of an elementary world behind the physical world.
You can see from external documents that people in past ages
Moon development, one has to represent him with a human head
still had a perception of the elementary world.
were themselves able to perceive the movements of the ether
ether body, etc. I only want to mention the elementary
within the spiritual scientific movement some way and then
scientific movement, then you can be led to receive sign,
those who are prepared in this way become instruments to
of earth and human development, and then one can permit the
in this field. Actually I have to mention the frivolous
development of Russia since that time; a much greater
very significant for the subsequent development through
through the development of spiritual science. This, however,
immense reverence will develop for that which one calls
different line of development.
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can understand the development of mankind from spiritual
from these ancient communities. But as we mentioned earlier,
sorts of alchemistic experiment and then you go farther and
so-called elementary world at the basis of this nature, world
descriptions of these elemental beings. These elemental
known as undines, those aeroform elementals as sylphs and the
warmth elementals as salamanders. These beings which we just
eyes are open to the elementary world sees how these
elementals actually go through a kind of cycle of the year,
upon these elementals, they work differently in spring,
in winter. This means that we have an elementary kingdom
that these elementary beings can receive the power in the
impart themselves to these elementary beings so that a new
and the elementary beings who weave and live in the nature
the hierarchies whose students are the elementary beings who
into the elementary world. But, my dear friends just as today
elementary beings receive those forces through which they are
development of his physical nature, was excluded from a
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already spoken of how the cultural development of mankind, in
to that which as an elementary consciousness in his soul
March. Thus the establishment of the point of time of the
it has undertaken such an establishment of the Easter
dominating, the ruling and weaving of the Folk Soul element
yourself that this Folk Soul element comes up out of the
the materialistic development can again be expanded. If you
that materialistic development has brought not only that
development has brought something else; it has brought, I
which stands at a much later stage of development and which,
of this movement which participates in this movement. What
the brain also execute ether movements, that is to say, the
movements which are quite similar to the hand movements. The
ether movements are there, but the physical movements are
thinking. If it were not through this external imprisonment,
will also be left over from the movement of the hands. I will
make the preliminary comment that he was not only a German,
were; how the whole development which one can describe as the
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if you can, an experiment which naturally cannot be done, but
is some form of movement in the physical body. The main
factors of the movement really occur within that manifoldness
indeed standing lower than I am in the row of phenomena, but
scale. All these things can be transmuted into a fundamental
movement, namely, Christian Morgenstern, has brought this
movement; and this critic writes a book about him but he
never mentions the fact that Christian Morgenstern was really
development which which we are living now. We are living in
but we are surrounded by the sort of judgement that belongs
often mentioned the fact here that every physical event has

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obtain the agreement of Pope Clement VII in order to divorce
enlightened members of Parliament should agree to recognize
state offices, became a member of Parliment, and finally High
judgement should be meted out to Thomas More. The following
judgement that these enlightened lords issued. This was not
police stating how many young men and young women could live
after he died he would enter into some sort of judgement.
earnest about the development of his soul. Remember that we
and Egyptians who were then responsible for the establishment
Roman and Egyptian wise men landed upon that island, but
We mentioned that Thomas More was a person who did many
I described the situation in the period when I mentioned
also mentioned that around this time there was a
experience works with elementary force. When one actually
there is that the three dimensional space rules which we
no spatial elements. Now we ask the question: When he entered
have often mentioned that Christianity rests upon the fact
into earth development and continuously united itself more
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beings, nevertheless, he was aware of certain elementary
are still spiritual forces in our physical environment, then
excludes the elementary forces for 2000 years; through that
environment and was also able to work upon men after they
fact that the elementary spirit wove around them just as the
instead of the experimenting as is done today, you give cults
or sacramental aspects, then with the sacramental aspects,
the ancient symbolism, the sacramentalism, the cult
symbols, sacramentalism, cults, that works deeper into man,
and cults from their environment, that works into the ether
in the establishment of the Jesuit State in Paraguay.
treatment of these original Americans. However, in a domain
or sacrament. The consequence was that the Indians, of their
settlements — not influences but stimulations,
consequence of the symbolism, the sacramentalism, the cult
deal of resentment among the other Europeans, so the Jesuits
Instruments such as organs, certain painting techniques,
punishment had to be meted out, the Jesuit Fathers took care
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development of Central Europe during the last centuries could
world. Something of a spiritual element always occurs at the
develop this theme further. I want to mention another process
of the spiritual development of Central Europe which
occurred, that aspect of spiritual development which depends
ideas. The whole spiritual development of the 19th century
sure demands a much more fundamental, a much more intensive
All this clouds over the essential elements in these
order to understand the phenomenon of Christ Jesus, we must
whole earth development, but had been left behind in the
that we teach about from the New Testament. They are not
continuously in connection with the wave movement which
occurs in our relationship in our environment. With every

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from 19th Surah, you will see that it specifically mentions
other writings apart from the Old Testament, you learn that
sad when he appeared before Solomon with the statement that
cognitive moment in the life of King Solomon. Now, remember
the moment. We know man has an upright spine and the spine of
moon. Why? Because that particular stage of development which
over from the Moon development to the earth development, he
you are alone. To explain this phenomenon of weeping and
out again. Therefore we are part of our whole environment.
and weeping is an accompaniment of life with us human beings
laughing and crying. These are accompaniments of our life.
However, in the moment when we approach certain spiritual

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which corresponds to an earlier stage of world development.
existence. From various points of view, we have mentioned
development.
occurred, there was something very immense which proceeded
belittle the immense significance of such phenomena. You can
Helsingfors where I pointed to the immensity of the deep
think about the development of knowledge. This proceeds from
the whole development of the intellect, of the power of
concrete phenomena to your attention. A book appeared in 1912
grasp it as a Luciferic phenomenon.
mentioned in this book, what they have done is far superior
development of mankind through Christ, then the way that the
mechanistic materiality; also all spiritual phenomena and
very pedagogical way and naturally they would turn into men.
classicism which emphasizes and looks upon men as men of
from Saturn, Sun and Moon developments, but only has that
development since he himself has passed from incarnation to
concept of the immensity of the greatness of the Jesus
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HEN we study the human soul in its development
since a certain moment of time after our birth. The cohesion of
To this movement, the form of the physical body sets the boundary. It
observe the development of the human being from childhood
The development of
comes from our own being. It is so indeed: the attainment of the
possible to develop it. Suppose for a moment that nothing else were
corresponds to a definite phase in the development of the
the special case already mentioned: Why is it that the Luciferic
evolution, memory was powerful to an extent undreamed of by men
times was a natural endowment, now becomes Luciferic. This conception
The moment,
the Middle Ages which made men speak of printing as one of the
necessary for world-evolution, that in his own development he needs
beginning of the Old Testament there is a significant picture of the
Luciferic element which occurred in the age of old
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Moon-men came at a later stage — if indeed we can speak of
moment all that human beings think! Would it not be terrible if every
some extent by Elemental Beings and then echoed by the humanity of
During the Græco-Latin epoch of civilisation, such a statement
onwards, all that men produce out of themselves is capable of
rectification. But under the influence of Lucifer and Ahriman, if men
can do very much with it. But the moment we consider the thought ripe
their waking consciousness men do not realise how strong is the
as those who carry out experiments know well — can only be arrived
considered in every possible light, and judgment held in abeyance for
attempt to use their faculty of thinking as an instrument for
is no possibility of understanding our environment in the time
into men by the Beings of the spiritual Hierarchies. In the Old Moon
certain elemental Beings sent their impulses into us. Now we are
that is to say, men seek for it.
Science must work in such a way that men shall receive from it the
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mentioned by modern cerebral physiology — we should be able to
who have no conception of the phenomenon of metamorphosis in life. It
majority of men.
the more modern phase of evolution. Think of the way in which men
write and of what they write about the achievements of the
such a zenith of achievement! But as I have said before, a wasp's
of years ago, the elemental Beings who stand behind the preparation
here. The twofold movement of the telescope —
movement. Now it would be absurd, as can easily be proved in the case
be quite useless. That such an adjustment of movement has been
and we shall never find these organic arrangements absent. If,
telescope. No other arrangement would be anything like so suitable.
future gain enlightenment on the subject of his connection with
appear, in times to come, in order to understand the Heavens, men
environment, up to the point of the existence of man as a complete
Lucifer in human emotions and in the passions and feelings of men. We
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great significance for our spiritual movement. In these difficult
times, when the fate of spiritual movements can be said to depend upon
longer has anything to contribute to our path of development. So this
little house stands there as a preliminary announcement of something
judgments passed on the book differed greatly. There were people who
of human being in the world-men and women. But only a true philistine
could believe that there are just men and women in the world. To
that there are just men and women in the world, for Weininger believes
much M in her, she is both a Something and a Nothing. The fundamental
depends on our giving up the old prejudice that there are men and
women. He believes that very much indeed depends on our finally seeing
being fundamentally consists of a combination of the Something and the
judgements; they are Weininger's.
human existence and can only be a friend of men who are philistines,
those who have much M and those who have less M. These are the men,
although we can only call them men if we lapse into the old,
more closely? It is nothing but the guilt of the men. Thus W has no
M. If men had not laden themselves with guilt by creating woman out of
appearance of women are to believe that fundamentally, in some
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was a matter of logical thinking, he could reckon, pass judgements and
now from the ones you have at night is that at the moment there are
spiritual-scientific movement should be preparing the manifestations
Men are little aware that the spiritual world is connected with what
worlds. Today, men take no account of this.
I have often mentioned how people have lost their sense of piety as
from among the countless examples that could be mentioned. It shows
how little sense the men of today have for arranging their earthly
life and the life he shares with other men should be an earthly
balanced-out by compensating movements: it comes to 4182 Earth years!
is a tremendous thing. The connections are immensely profound.
movements of the stars would announce to their interpreters the time
existence, so also do the cosmic beings think of that moment which,
course of time were men who had gone through this preparation and
consciousness — corresponds to the movement of the stars. What,
inspired moods? These latter correspond more to the elemental world of
men who are to some degree initiated and who have always asked,

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become aware of the fundamentally dual nature of the human being. We
and fundamental knowledge, of the connections between super-earthly
be called cosmic thought, and which is expressed in the movements of
mention. That for which one must strive is the spirit! This is the way
following is a true statement — and you will find it clearly
the earth in the same way that men on earth speak of heaven. The earth
land, a land where individuals find themselves among other men. The
men among whom they find themselves are normal, earthly men like the
realm is just a dream world. And yes, naturally, these men, too, were
and so on. These men, whose lives on
one represents materialism in the way the aforementioned personages
or earthly life. They were thinking of the contrast we just mentioned
soon notice what an immense and pronounced contrast there is between
misunderstood and immediately mixed up with value judgements. What I
of value judgements that might insinuate themselves into our
to human development, the essential thing during the first seven years
watch once the development of a child's face, and observe how it
to sexuality later on. And the judgement of those who maintain that
important to human development. For the moment, it will be helpful to
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aforementioned assertions as a form of madness.
— not to mention the ego. Thus, as regards the head — its
them their full meaning. In the course of his development, a person
with aesthetic enjoyment and creativity is related to the life of the
enjoyment or in his creative artistic and aesthetic efforts? And what
elements that we are otherwise aware of in dreams surge back and
enjoyment: either the head is dreaming about the contents of the rest
second. The occult basis of all aesthetic and artistic enjoyment is
— and still suffers — from a fundamental disease and it will
mentioned this fundamental illness frequently, but when one, speaks of
lift my hand, I must be able to perceive the movement of my hand. The
movements of the hand. I am of course very well aware of all the
only there to serve our perception of movement. They also serve
movement, becomes something that happens outwardly; and it is only at
intellectual judgement.
prime active forces here, since the shapes and movements still persist
direct influence of our spiritual environment on the forces within us
a certain element of untruth. Oh, herein lies much of significance
more or less completed the aspects of its development that have to do
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particular virtues. The first virtue Plato mentions is wisdom —
quite rightly assigns it to the abdomen. Human desires are aroused in
the abdomen, and the temperate person is the one who is able to rule
there is a slight displacement. Things are simply displaced upward by
striving for truth. Once more, there is a displacement, a kind of
outward displacement. Yesterday I mentioned that the striving for
connects us with certain elemental beings, namely those elemental
I are found the elemental beings of the myths and
— These are elemental beings. There (drawing 3) it was spirits
— For the right employment of the will in the world follows from
So boldly stamp out torment of absurdity,
So boldly stamp out torments contradictory,
So boldly stamp out torment of absurdity,
You see, the more profound elements are only revealed when one
development on Jupiter. Thus we can say: The period within which truth
distinguish twelve senses. The development of the twelve senses
that men grasp so little of how humanity is carried by this broad
up during especially privileged moments. This is manifested in the
most various ways. There are men who feel the depths of humanity in a
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things, as otherwise it will be too late. Today men are living in an
development of earthly culture for the age when a person will have to
Let us remind ourselves of the fundamental truths that have been
and flour, and such, for nourishment.’ And the botanist then
relationship to human nourishment in order to explain why the grain of
by investigating its suitability as human nourishment would be making
Whether or not it contains substances for human nourishment is a
nature provides something good for human nourishment. But that has
originally here for the nourishment of mankind; rather would it say
of the external world, just as we use a grain of wheat as nourishment.
bring about a new wheat plant? Our involvement with knowledge and our
lost to our development, it is withdrawn from our development. All the
grains of wheat we use for nourishment are withdrawn from the plant's
whole, ongoing process of development — and these are much more
is how things are during our present phase of development. We connect
the ongoing stream of human development than we retain. Think back to
clairvoyance. Men's attention was not so dissipated by the external
very little on external development. In this respect, our age is the
and, inwardly, very little is added to development. The Greek culture
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we find the first impulses for the development of the senses, the
development. It is already difficult enough to picture the senses as
their third phase of development — Saturn, Sun, Moon.
What can be called the sense of movement is still more inward, more
whole organism. Having a sense of movement, on the other hand, means
to each another. I do not refer here to movements of the whole person
— that is something else. I am referring to movements such as the
bending of an arm or leg, or the movements of the larynx when you
speak. The sense of movement makes you aware of all these inner
movements that entail changes in the position of separate parts of the
sense of balance, just as we employ the sense of movement when we are
The senses mentioned so far involve processes that remain within the
movement: it is not concerned with how I can walk about in the world,
but with the internal movements I make when I move part of myself or
movement. But the two things must be distinguished from one another:
on the one hand there is my forward movement, on the other, there is
the movement of parts of me, which is internal. So the sense of
movement gives us internal perceptions, as do the senses of life and
distinguishing the senses of life, of movement and of balance from one
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significant role is also played by the senses of balance and movement.
sense of movement, which is now directed outwards, mediates between us
and our movements — for in the spiritual world we are in constant
movement. The sense of life, however, is no longer necessary because
in water, the spirit moves in the element of life.
noteworthy statement. Outside us in the spiritual world there are
present stage of human development, is intimately related to the human
moment the wheel in a ventilator cover moves. Immediately she
deeply into the life processes. And the other case I just mentioned
development backwards, either. Nevertheless, this is a terrible thing
fundamentally materialistic can easily come to the conclusion that
it to lose any fragment of itself, nor does it cause it to lose any of
its enthusiasm for movement. In fact, the contrary is the case.
apparently fragmentary tracks so that every foot or paw or hoof falls
being, for men are longing for it in their souls. Schleich really
preconceived combinations of material particles and their movements.
phenomena.
resists what has to come. It is helpful to notice such moments in
before it is impossible to continue denying the spirit. Men's thoughts
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Aesthetic enjoyment and aesthetic creativity. Logic and the sense for
something that is immense and significant for the spiritual world once
we have passed through death: the sense of movement, the sense of
spiritual world the sense of movement enables us to move among the
The sense processes are truly brought into movement. And it is quite
enjoyment. Truly aesthetic human behaviour consists in the enlivening
senses is to be found in the arts and the enjoyment of art. Something
the enjoyment of art than they are in normal life. These days, it is
far-reaching truths. To mention only one such truth: there is the fact
transposed to the planetary dimension of human life, they can come to
balance and movement must also be focused on the poem — not just
the usual senses of balance and movement, but the ensouled senses. So
development of Earth to the spiritual worlds. From many points of view
testify to an inability to understand. The development of humanity in
mental is merely mental only because the person is not able to make
development, which can be reached through initiation, whereby the
aesthetic man lifts himself above the stream of development and enters
elemental world, which is where what is in the Venus de Milo
the enjoyment of art would be used to produce a life that runs counter
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fundamental to some of the most recent of contemporary schools of
truth’ refers to an agreement between our knowledge and something
decide whether a judgement about reality — about some aspect of
criterion for deciding whether particular judgements are true
judgements; that is, there is no way of deciding whether they have
really put before us? Fundamentally, all that is given are our
of nature. Why should men need to establish natural laws if all they
multiplicity of sensations never leads to judgements. It is only when
we have more or less achieved laws that we arrive at judgements. What
have our Judgements to do with the world of experience, which is
forming judgements? Sensations are all that one has to go on-and Mach
If that is so, what is the source of criteria for passing judgements,
orientation in the world. The only fundamental reason for a thought is
all miniatures, that is all the world has to offer us. Fundamentally,
are as they are. When men think they know something because they have
entirely beyond the capacities of human judgement to ascertain what
discovery consists in this: Men have been foolish asses, he says, to
the truth of judgements and to make discoveries about the nature of
capacity to arrive at truths by means of judgements based on inner
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Consider the development of the human soul as we can observe it here
back to days past, all the way back to a certain moment after our
earthly life. During that long period of our development when we were
is accompanied by movements of his etheric body. The shape of the
physical body marks the boundary of these accompanying movements. To a
substance, whose movements accompany experiences of thoughts, ideas,
I have briefly mentioned how things stand with memory, which develops
earthly form they have today. If you observe human development from
Both these significant elements of our soul life are metamorphoses.
development, earthly, physical existence has its purpose. We reap
already mentioned frequently in the past, for it is very, very
are in the present cycle of human development.
our cycle of development requires that our memory be trained in a
in world development. They must retain their place in it; what matters
the development of humanity, memory was of a different strength than
described in my writings about development in the time of Atlantis. On
a strong impression of this luciferic element in your souls be aware
of the role that Lucifer has played in the development of humanity.
develop his memory, it is necessary for him to enter into an agreement
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it by the beings of the higher hierarchies. On Old Moon the dreams men
not be the most horrible thing imaginable if all men's thoughts were
elemental beings. Then they were thought by the human beings. This
development on Earth and thus applies to the usual kind of waking
already clearly standing on the threshold of decadence. If men are not
aware of an immensely widespread, subconscious tendency, because this
men are not aware of the strength of the impulse to say what is false.
various directions — only if one has really suspended judgement
matter can even be the subject of experiments. We would probably agree
this fundamental attitude towards the truth. In order to understand
is required for our subsequent development. Habit tears us away from
elemental beings directed their impulses into our consciousness. Now
about the development of humanity in the future and the positive
development of humanity begins to flow again. Until people come to a

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As you know, the rudiments of an understanding for the relation of the
heart to the Lion, the activities contained by the abdomen to the
development. Frequently I have spoken about the way men write about
is made of genuine paper. The elemental beings who govern the building
organism. All the mechanical devices men have ever discovered or will
development — namely that part of it in which humanity possessed
useless. Could it have come about through that fundamental law applied
embryological development and find great cosmic laws revealed in what
have been impossible for other men, someone who followed a path, let
the required sentimental ‘soul-sauce’.
themselves, ‘How can it be? These women, or men — and, as a
matter of fact, it does not just happen with the women, but with the
men as well — were thinking quite clearly about the situation a
for a moment.
Ahriman's fundamental place in the cosmos, which I have often
his statements to assist the process. Now, suppose it were useful for
To be sure, there are some men who are so ignorant and foolish that
And these things resulting from the association of men with Ahriman
qualities, which have already been mentioned. But in order to better
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like those we have just mentioned provide us with the light by which
other men. What this sense perceives is everything that is contained
The senses of movement, life and touch.
balance, movement and life, and also distinguishes between the senses
mention of the sense of another I , the sense of
Furthermore, we are able to initiate movement from within ourselves.
We have the power to express all the movements of our inner nature
through movement — through hand movements, for example, or by the
ability to bring our bodies into movement is provided by the physical
did not possess the physical apparatus of movement. It is really true:
in sending out nerves for apprehending the whole process of movement,
thought; man, in so far as he is capable of movement: sense organ for
because, as I mentioned, it is still confused with the sense of touch.
that our organism of movement is what enables us to perceive words. It
organism, much less of the organism of movement. Remember that the
entire organism of movement must be taken into account in the case of
movement is also the organ for apprehending speech. A part of it, a
part of the movement organism, is isolated and brought into motion
portion of the organism of movement, and speaking occurs when will
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and luciferic principles have also participated in their development.
about these luciferic and ahrimanic elements than is frequently the
human development when they are displaced and appear where they are
development depends precisely upon learning to maintain our
Breathing, warming, nourishment, secretion, maintenance, growth,
impulses mentioned at the beginning of the Old Testament; more than
Through ahrimanic influence, nourishment includes the forming of
deposits, so that our nourishment is not merely processed, but is also
long ago that men lost it. You only have to go back a little way in
that makes it possible for us to live as physical men on the Earth.
life-movements, and to show how they participate in the spiritual
verses, when men were not fully conscious. The people who knew these
of people's need to live together. Men believe that these words
people, idols of the tribe. Then, once men start to understand the
arise out of the fact that men are not just gathered together into
in the experiments of the physicist, in the clinic. The important book
fundamental character of a particular period of time. Inventions for

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Individuelle Geistwesen und Ihr Wirken in der Seele des Menschen.
will remember our considering various views and statements
of knowledge a phenomenon of quite special importance for
recognise that a soul-element exists outside consciousness;
concern present-day developments can be wrongfully made use of.
movement to the fact that this century should bring human
is necessarily accompanied by that inward development which
evolution, gives rise to resentment and ill-will among those
himself to dwell after death in an environment related to those
this life determines our environment over there. Many of those
that men have no souls which can live independently of
by all sorts of means to ensure that the majority of men will
extremely harmful; the intention of these initiates is that men
many brotherhoods introduced spiritualism in an experimental
manifesting. This was a bitter disappointment for these
throughout the next four or five hundred years. For the moment
intentions of men. Hence there is no man anywhere, and no
question for men is how they are to relate themselves to Him.
noticed by men. And this endeavour takes shape under the
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Individuelle Geistwesen und Ihr Wirken in der Seele des Menschen.
The Occult Movement in the 19th Century
called for by the needs of the moment, should be carefully and
of the moment were actuated up to a certain point with the best
materialism of the time; they thought that men who were
Since at that time a critical mentality, concerned solely with
phenomena connected with Spiritualism into the world. Where
phenomena that came through the mediums had in fact been
The mediumistic phenomena were interpreted by those who took
experiment was a disappointment for all concerned. Those
expected any mention of the dead, but rather of a general
elemental world, so they too were disappointed.
already mentioned, we have to reckon with others, or with
less satisfying outlook on the world. It is a fundamental
to bring its separate elements into harmony. He does this from
and to expect them not to occur leads to an impoverishment of
Providence has ordained an arrangement which is a great
concerning the elemental spirits or the influence of human
the elemental world we find earth-spirits, gnomes;
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Individuelle Geistwesen und Ihr Wirken in der Seele des Menschen.
To-day I want to make various comments on matters that have
been mentioned lately, and to fill in certain gaps. If you
of the theosophical movement, which undertakes to discover and
spiritual-scientific movement. That would be really harmful.
hold of men's minds if some reality is to be brought into the
environment which must become increasingly mechanised. A
a given number of workmen to load up to 47½ tons, instead
going to be brought on to the scene by men who are unselfishly
these developments for the healing of mankind, or by groups of
men who want to use them for their own or the group's selfish
— like the other problem I have mentioned — is
etc. — should fall into abeyance, so that men should no
longer be able to discern the soul-element in outer Nature and
centuries. Experiments in the old style were carried out: the
Philosopher's Stone was to enable men to become virtuous
modern men speak. They want to understand God through an
understanding has been replaced for modern men by a purely
sickness in men. By this means they come to know the particular
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the new element came from the scientific consciousness. Above
element has gradually left the sphere of religious
he still stands above the others. The real spiritual element
are mentioned today – terrible for those who follow a
man, for the moment, although this can also be applied to
from there, an order goes out, as it were, that a movement
book on the elements of science dealing with these things and
and motor nerves. You will find that they mention
of a movement. This picture is still very much diffused in
soul-element is already fructified when an impulse of the
process in a so-called reflex movement: A fly settles
This is the plain physical process, a reflex movement, except
instruments of the impulses coming from the Spirits of
an example of what I mentioned last time, that it will not be
connected. This will place the experimental attempts of the
are still in the experimental stage. Man's thinking must
not content ourselves with the fact that men are made
spiritual life. Medical men, especially, are very prone to
System and Mental Life.” In order not to arouse your
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From the moment
we awaken in the morning until the moment we fall asleep, we
moment of going to sleep to that of awakening, but only those
environment into which the departed one is transposed is
thereby different from the environment in which we ourselves
live in the physical body. For just conceive for a moment how
environment for which he could not have the feeling that if
release joy and pain in the environment. He does not enter at
that he lives and weaves, not only into the living element,
but into the living element filled with feeling. The
feeling-filled incitement is spread out over his entire
environment.
This world of incitement filled with feeling lives thus upon the
special selection, survival of the fittest, the adjustment to
environment, etc., I do not intend to come to you with these
justly, partly unjustly, that other men were not ripe enough
element filled with feeling. The human being has also this
living element filled with feeling in his soul. But in what
at every moment employ this living element filled with
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(clairvoyant endowment is in no way necessary for this) that
very moment in which we are carrying out our actions.
development of man it will be of great importance to know
with other men, we do this together with the dead.
between death and a new birth in an environment which is
mentioned; he becomes aware of this when we read to him; he
this active element. As soon as man goes beyond his own
in every moment of life he goes beyond these — the
new birth. From the moment on, in which we know that we are
from an element that we share with the dead — the
element of the Archai, or Spirits of the Time.
then another Time Spirit relieves him. The moment in which a
place every hour and every moment of our life. I have told
take place every moment of our life. In every moment of our
playing around the tree, spiritual elementary beings. Here
it disappears. An elementary existence meets what comes out
with the elementary existence, which grows toward it. It is
of its growth cease when the plant ceases. But an elementary
mentioned some of these things. The plants grow out of the
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of sense perceptions as a first step toward the attainment of
as we are now, in this moment, but such as
we perceive this? Man already possesses the instrument needed
etheric body as creative force is the element into which we
movements of the lungs. Through our lungs we are related with
draw in and the elements around. During our life we live in
we breathe through our lungs in the elementary region; this
This is connected with the event that I mentioned to you
in the age of Chiron, men possessed this knowledge
few men who discovered these things, as if in flashes.
were scared and tremendously moved when they discovered what
of death. Last time I mentioned the great change in man's
be some arrangement which always illuminates one letter at a
is in movement — the fixed stars remain still and he
movement to the Earth from the Moon-period. They caused the
planets' movement. A luciferic element in the cosmic
spaces brought the planets into movement. In a certain
luciferic element enters the cosmos. It is that
luciferic element which man must learn to know between death
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often mentioned this) that certain things must be known in
moment, the details of a clock's mechanism. Yet we wish to be
of life without having learned anything fundamental about
individual development. In this way he does not acquire the
important statement. In stating that a certain person is 35
rapidities in the development of the various members.
development on the physical plane. On the physical plane this
development than that of the physical body. You see, the
development, it is impossible to grasp the connections with
to his physical body. His statement would only have a meaning
reckoned according to four entirely different measurements of
at first like an abstract truth. But it is a fundamental
that during our development as human beings between birth and
world for their development. All that which is developed out
idea created within the element of fantasy. Because this is
out of the element of fantasy, I call it moral fantasy in my
had died was told in myths; and these men lived in
development from spiritual impulses. Then it will be seen
achieved when certain things change fundamentally, in regard

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fundamental conceptions than can be imagined. This question
in leading spiritual phenomena back to the sphere of natural
gaze will fall on certain phenomena in Nature that reveal
instance, a phenomenon like the following one: Every year a
from the earth, as elementary forms; these are nothing but
picture this very vividly, you can see a kind of elementary
life rising out of the earth; in this elementary life we
elementary life more intensely still, for we take part in the
process I have just mentioned. As human beings we participate
rise to elementary existence — and that which happens
we connect ourselves with what arises as elementary
an elementary process, which can be seen only through
we consume in this way, from all this, an elementary life
arises. This elementary life permeates us. We take up this
elementary life and are placed within it.
the foundation of elementary life. We can, as it were, exist
elementary results (which arise as it were in the form of
ourselves into these elementary processes. Just as we face
such elementary processes with a certain lust, or desire, so
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to the detriment of humanity). For this reason it is
in order to reach a judgment as to reality.
would signify the death of man at every moment. We may say
referred to the remarkable scientific achievement of Theodor
movements, against the outer objects and other Egos. Of
of emptiness of soul is just as harmful for the development
development of humanity. For the reality of our life of
Fundamentally speaking, the Angels are those Beings among the
withdraw from it in sleep — so from a certain moment
materialistic mentality of today. I would like to show you in
consciousness of a single moment by drawing different rings
consciousness during the space of a moment. You know that a

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In these lectures, Steiner surveys some of the great developments in
movements of his time. These lectures give a basis for a far deeper
to study this recent history up to the moment when we shall
of its inner development in relation to the divine and its
ego development in relation to the Spirit. I should like to
phenomena and uncover the deeper layer of meaning in events
past. Recall for a moment the events of history as presented
development is essential to the knowledge of man, to the
opens, as you know, with the statement that the Middle Ages
fundamental changes in human evolution, to those decisive
from one stage of development to another stage. These moments
moment when an individual arrives at puberty; the onset is
give due consideration to the moment when events take on a
ordered; men were grouped according to social status, family
under the impact of those impulses which I mentioned in
Soul. The development of theology as late as the thirteenth,
development of the Consciousness Soul. None the less men
displayed on occasions astonishing acumen to which many of
element, everything that is related to the Group Soul that is
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In these lectures, Steiner surveys some of the great developments in
movements of his time. These lectures give a basis for a far deeper
environment, the framework of the political and social
witnessed the rise of the parliamentary system of government
elemental force — and I hope I shall not be
developed self-consciousness, men had been creative and had
being; for the essence of the personal element is that the
Augustus, Julius Caesar, Pericles — and I could mention
elemental energy of the personality declines and there
ill-fitting garment. One could say that in relation to the
every respect, like a man dressed in a garment that ill
later he was converted to Anglicanism, but fundamentally he
parliamentary liberalism which had already been in existence
Parliament when the King and his chief ministers were
cellar beneath the parliamentary building. This was the
parliament. James I was a misfit because he was a
certain detachment, a certain self-sufficiency.
personality. As I mentioned yesterday those who characterized
yesterday of the developments in Western Europe and of the
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In these lectures, Steiner surveys some of the great developments in
movements of his time. These lectures give a basis for a far deeper
symptomatic forces that play a part in the development of
very inadequate picture, of the development in recent times
social, or rather socialist movement occupies the focus of
three questions I mentioned yesterday. But the proletariat
historical development. Consequently, up to the present, a
the others I have mentioned — the national impulse, the
— did in fact inspire seamen and adventurers to pioneer
traditional knowledge, but that fundamentally they did not
achievements of natural science in the technical field. It
that there are so-called civilized and highly civilized men,
experimentation, and this applies in all spheres. Now there
the knowledge which is confirmed by experimental proof.
observation and to depend upon experimentation for its
findings. Experiments have been undertaken even in the fields
of biology and anthropology. Now in experimentation the first
determine the order of procedure. In experimental embryology
experimental investigation. Only what is acquired
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movements of his time. These lectures give a basis for a far deeper
consideration of the recent development of human history. We
attempted to examine this development from the stand-point of
called historical facts are not the essential elements in
what can be perceived in the phenomenal world, i.e. the
discover of course a super-sensible element.
phenomenal world presents to the senses, to the intellect or
mentioned many of the more or less important symptoms
of course a fundamental feature pulsing in the super-sensible
organs necessary for the development of the Consciousness
the other pole, the complement to this inner elaboration of
revelation from the spiritual world. Men must realize that
particular, we learn that fundamental changes have occurred
draw attention to these important developments. In the
phenomena. They had not yet been operative for a sufficient
phenomena.
interesting development which can easily be followed, since
it lasted only a few months, is of immense importance to
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In these lectures, Steiner surveys some of the great developments in
movements of his time. These lectures give a basis for a far deeper
death of other beings. We can only understand the phenomenon
scientific pronouncements today are on this level. Such
possible today to make these recommendations without the help
question then arises: in which men are evil tendencies active
in evil actions? Which men are subject to these evil
present in all men. It is precisely this influx of evil
tendencies into men that marks his entrance into the fifth
those forces of which the evil actions of men are a
phenomenon. I spoke yesterday of an important impulse in the
epoch of the Consciousness Soul — the development of an
development, he will see his fellow man in a progressively
Consciousness Soul, up to the fourth millennium. Men still
ignore the most important element in others, they have no
Much can be learned by studying the development of art and on
fundamental feeling that what the physical eyes perceive of
which it depicts. We must develop this fundamental feeling in
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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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movements of his time. These lectures give a basis for a far deeper
fact that at a certain moment, I felt that it was necessary
developing our individual powers. Whoever is tormented by
The fundamental idea of
forgive me if I mention a few personal details, for, as I
have said, I should like to describe my personal involvement
of the international element upon the activities in
only mention Richard Strauss
he belonged to those elements who provided a delightful
and contain veritable pearls of wisdom. I mention these details
figure, a living embodiment of the best traditions of the
freedom which must be the fundamental impulse of the fifth
other fragmentary impulses of various kinds.) To this end it
moral development what is called the free spirit which
to a particular phenomenon. These laws however are in no
but in which, through the reciprocal relationship of men in
the fundamental maxim of free men. They know no other
accepted it, could have awakened in them fundamental impulses
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In these lectures, Steiner surveys some of the great developments in
movements of his time. These lectures give a basis for a far deeper
development of religions in the course of the present fifth
But this entails a change of outlook. Above all men must
how important for his whole inner development was the
spiritual nourishment for his later poetry from his
moment in his life, and how a man without means, who was
transferred to Trieste at this particular moment. I will give
at that time a temporary appointment (he was a supply
appointment, and since this is a matter for the authorities,
the spiritual development of Robert Hamerling. I make this
is imperative to implant in the hearts of men this principle:
Austro-German grew up in an environment that makes it totally
formative years in an environment where the most important
things did not really concern me. I would not mention this if
as immensely important. But in reality it is a bagatelle and
man's future development.
thinking that I owed the impulse which is fundamentally
in my own case, one could have recourse to the achievements
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Title: Symptom 2 Reality: Lecture VIII: Religious Impulses of the Fifth Post-Atlantean Epoch
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movements of his time. These lectures give a basis for a far deeper
moment of particular importance, the decisive turning point
post-Atlantean epoch, that of ancient India, men remained
the ancient Persian epoch development ceased at an earlier
age. In the Graeco-Latin epoch development was only possible
consequence of natural development, men cease to develop
beyond the age of twenty-eight. Any further development must
to bear in mind that this evolution I have just mentioned
mankind is at the stage of development which the individual
development of the different peoples over the whole earth. In
indolence. By systematic arrangement where everything is
understand all that plays into the souls of men of this fifth
examine briefly the religious development of this epoch it
the religious life of mankind was caught up in a movement
that has repercussions, a movement that is by no means
this movement if men really wish to make use of the
Consciousness Soul. For only when men arrive at a clear
will they be able to participate in the further development
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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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mentioned, the People of the Christ was diverted eastwards
a definite moment in time and had to be transmitted through
affairs was the establishment of Jesuitism, and how
Goetheanism endeavours to promote a countermovement, somewhat
that time we have passed through many stages of development. But I
religious development of civilized mankind one cannot say the same
form of sacramentalism and cultus. This form of the Christ
costs the Celtic element wherever they find it, or imagine
national or folk element in Europe we must imagine a
element has survived longest in its original form in the
certain kind of religious sentiment had been diverted towards
this was its fundamental character.
time when this aristocratic, Celtic, monarchical element
that the Celtic element lived on in the monarchical
with Arianism. He was a Christ for all men, for those who, in
with his liege men. This reinterpretation of the Christ as a
call today the bureaucratic mentality. The Roman Empire
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Title: Fundamental Social: Lecture 1: The Transforming of Instinctive into Conscious Impulses
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seen, among the many and varied phenomena which these
fundamental tendency. Characterizing it to begin with in a
varied phenomena emerge, and the most varied demands are
opinions but in the events in which the men of the present
a state of affairs when men will cease to shoot at one
phenomenon in many people. What Spiritual Science realizes in
Now this is a phenomenon which we shall only understand if we
Men only fail to notice
phenomena in the realm of Art, in the realm of Thought and in
Post-Atlantean Age that men have consciously observed the
men think consciously to-day, came forth more or less
instinctively. It is only towards the 16th century that men
turn your attention to such a phenomenon as this, you must
Uncertainty only begins from the moment when the things of
Economy towards and during the 16th century. Men direct their
thoughts and conceptions which men arrived at about the
interesting to trace the several points to which men directed
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truth consists. Today men ask so lightly: can this or
hold upon men that they are wont to think that everything
many new demands result simply from the fundamental premises
necessary that men should listen to those who know
impossible and is not to be imagined for a moment. If we
Hence it is that the men of today are so far removed from
of their own. But today men have come into a kind of
receive it the moment we earnestly consider in its own
phenomena to the underlying Reality.
elements are on the point of emerging, though today they are
his judgment on one point is quite incorrect. He says to
extraordinary statement (albeit not extraordinary for the men
adds the statement: The Russian socialist has no right to use
indeed will that which men call the “Truth” today
consciousness what the men of today cannot realize, that the
materialism found entry into Russia. Men believed in
what does Avenarius think? Avenarius says: Men labor under a
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of this Russian author a judgment (no matter what our
attitude to these things may be), most in agreement with the
present time, or perhaps I should rather say, a judgment
phenomenon.
thoughts and judgments about the social question if we do not
into which men fall when they say, of the social question,
us ask ourselves what is the fundamental quality of soul, the
fundamental and decisive quality which is brought out in the
as I told you, on into the third millennium? This fundamental
but only in its first beginning — the fundamental
environment, with their other relationships in life to the
intelligent element, also flowed into the human being just as
The intellectual element is left out of the world of
instance at the turn of the fifteenth century when men ceased
differentiated, especially in regard to this development of
rises out of the national element. Of course there are men
today in whom the national element works scarcely at all.
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have tried to see this requirement of the age against a
arises just because these things are in agreement with all
the scientific requirements of our age. For there is a
veil of world-phenomena and world events. For a long time
past when there was any direct and elemental Revelation of
difference will scarcely find his way into the fundamental
requirements of our time.
standpoint of an ancient Wisdom. That is to say: Men had
albeit men are not yet willing to admit them. The new
requirements of the age we must be able to speak of the
pine and die away and find no nourishment if it had to
fundamental requirement to which anthroposophical Spiritual
history through the veil of outward phenomena? You know, my
in soul and spirit is fundamentally connected.
whatever kind. No! It comes forward at this moment because
the heavens are sending new revelations down to men, and
that is revealing itself through the veil of phenomena? It is
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manifesting in the Heights and of the peace on Earth for men
of good-will. And at this moment I imagine, especially in our
is necessary for men to strive ever more and more for a full
true mutual understanding among men coincides with what we
explained yesterday as to the fundamental impulse underlying
understanding among men. We must strive for this
veil of outward phenomena. We cannot take this truth too
the development of intellectuality, and that in the Western
future, men will only attain mutual understanding as to their
this; the moment we begin to characterize human beings all
through the veil of phenomena what we described yesterday as
we find that men possessed in an old instinctive way an
immense Wisdom was poured out as it were over the earthly
with perfect agreement on this fact. During that time, they
What, after all, did men produce out of themselves during
often emphasized that for the future men must learn to regard
as men learned to behold the outer mechanical aspect of the
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grown, and how it is connected with the spiritual movement
this building to our spiritual movement will at once occur; and he
this representation of our spiritual movement — of the purpose
of this movement. Suppose that any kind of sectarian movement, no
externally for the use of the Anthroposophical Movement, or of the
details, it is born out of that which our movement purposes to
represent before the world, spiritually and otherwise. This movement
home of our own, the movement felt impelled to find a style of its
movement as spiritual substance. It would have been unthinkable, for
example, to have placed here for this movement of ours just any sort
once conclude how remote is the aim of this movement from any kind of
sectarian or similar movement, however widespread. It was our task
connected with the entire conception of this spiritual movement. This
movement purposes to be something different from those spiritual
movements, in particular, which have gradually arisen in humanity
middle of the 15th century. The most characteristic phenomenon in all
parliaments, the various agencies in different fields speak of the
claims of the proletariat, of the claims of women. Much, much
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our Movement. Today I should like to take up a few things concerning
defining the outer circular passage; and I mentioned yesterday that
still, we might say, haunting the souls of men, becoming fainter and
remind ourselves of one fact in the development of architecture which
has already been mentioned here, but to which I wish to refer again
divine-spiritual powers among men; only that the people felt impelled
divine-spiritual powers the phenomenon of the Greek temple in the
among men, but conceals itself in mysterious depths. Now if one
observed with spiritual vision, then at the very moment when one was
that of our building, which is constructed from two segments of
goddess, and the people knew that the gods were present among men.
fundamentally in seeking the balance between the insipid, the and the
represented in the plastic wood group mentioned yesterday, with the
so-called occult movement is reference made to its age. We had among
in at the mere announcement.
this anthroposophically-orientated spiritual movement has nothing to
The second experience is, that at the moment in which man learns to
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and most serious demands of human evolution. I have often mentioned
powers live must be overcome. The statement of the necessity for a
which they were enfolded by that development which I have already
described to you in certain of its fundamental characteristics, and
first of all — just from pure mental indolence — of the
from mental laziness and other such considerations; and on the other
soul-enjoyment by means of spiritual ideas and concepts. We stand at
aggressive element which will appear more and more from without. Here
gentlemen who are the official representatives of Christianity are
element has influenced the great world-historical events. I said that
the thirty or forty men in prominent leading positions who
long time yet — of the thirty or forty men who participated at
that time, a large proportion were not entirely compos mentis, the
immensely clever in every single one of its individuals! humanity is
development of one's own soul. Humanity believes that without
decide of itself whether the element of truth rules in what anyone
space, when I have called your attention to the dimensions —
not in such a childish way as four-dimensional space and the like are
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order to do something toward their accomplishment. Anyone who today
factual foundations for a sound judgment would be more in conformity
furnishing facts which will enable people to form a judgment for
judgment before them. The longing to know the realities of life, to
know them more and more fundamentally, in order to have a true basis
for judgment — that is the important thing today. I must say
this especially because the various utterances and written statements
actual, momentous, basic facts. It is so difficult for people of the
into life to form a relevant judgment about what is necessary. One
for a fundamentally serious attitude of soul toward life.
socialistically-formulated ideals; but what kind of fundamental
concepts underlie these ideals? His fundamental concept is that what
social life must be born out of the fundamental character of the time
humanity, that the ideas and thoughts mentioned by me in
the spiritual threads, those of rights or government, and the
down to our elementary schools, is entirely dependent upon that
element (Diagram 13. orange); for our spiritual life, our European
element to what flows into our souls through our humanistic schools,
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he must therefore recognise a moral world. I have mentioned before how
to write also a Critique of Judgement which was intended as an
development a fulfilment of the aphorism which won respect centuries
development of the spiritual Movement directed to Anthroposophy has in
that within our Movement there should be a strong consciousness of the
more how earnest is the striving underlying all that this Movement
Movement; for we have now made a beginning with a true knowledge of
Now with what does the mentality which finds expression in this
abstract three dimensions of space. Astronomy reckons with the
abstract three dimensions of space; it distinguishes one dimension, a
angles. It fixes attention on a star in movement, or on the position
of a star, by looking at these three dimensions of space. Now man
would be unable to speak of three dimensional space if he had not
three-dimensional space. In the course of his life he experiences
first the vertical dimension. As a child he crawls, and then he raises
himself upright and experiences thereby the vertical dimension. It
would not be possible for man to speak of the vertical dimension if he
finds this vertical dimension only by experiencing it himself. By
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perpendicular to one another and forming the three dimensions of
space, whereas in its life aspect this three-dimensional world proves
dimensions of equal value? We certainly speak of length, breadth and
different arrangements. This only shows that the exactitude with which
these three dimensions are built into the human body, when it is being
dimensions from concrete ones? An animal could not do this! An animal
opposites, and the central, Rhythmic man is the adjustment between the
Consider the plant — not, for the moment, a perennial plant, but
of the new seed terminates the process of growth. Development
is beyond the earthly element, we must then bring it down again, under
we men able to think in abstract thoughts. Were it impossible for our
This fact is indeed expressed in the form of man. Think for a moment
taking part in any of the movements, but withdrawing itself in a very
three-dimensional space as abstract, but would strictly differentiate
conception of the Universe, this comfortable three-dimensionality
organism were to think without the instrumentality of the head —
and silent room, for you would perceive nothing of its movement. But
called Imagination — it is possible to feel the movements of
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abstract conception of the Universe. It came indeed at a moment of
from the very rudiments; for the fundamental concepts employed to-day
begin with the most elementary principles and elaborate them anew. The
I have tried to show you how, the moment one begins to pass to a more
one another; it is only the faculty of mental abstraction in the head
which makes these three dimensions abstract and does not distinguish
for a moment we turn to something else.
should seek for their own Ego behind the phenomena and then try to
not a matter merely of drawing three dimensions at right angles, but
concrete reality of the dimensions.
always been seen when men have studied the stars. It is what we call
Sun run its course through the Zodiac; we relate all the phenomena of
a spiral. Such a statement is, of course, merely diagrammatic, for the
what is important for us at the moment is that the Earth as we have
Man too is so interwoven in this movement that he is absolutely
whether the Earth or the Sun goes rushing along is of no moment ... If
of the events in the Universe — and movement is also an event
certain respect the first year of human development can after all be
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The fundamental nature and construction of the Universe cannot be
will causes the movement; we only examine the movement afterwards as
an outer phenomenon through our senses. We are asleep in our limb
awaking, we experience in the environment which then surrounds us,
Consider for a moment how nearly related are dreams to the process of
If we take the statements of modern astronomy — we need not
Nutation movement. In other words, we look into this breathing of the
Macrocosm through this Nutation movement of the Moon, and we have
environment. We have that world that we can follow as the world of the
interpret in the right way this Moon movement, this Nutation of the
time. After that we have a third very momentous period 18 years and
could try to let his mental eye look back over the years he has
out of quite a different one. Our world opens at these moments to
thought that the world composing our every-day environment is merely
still more rarefied; and then there is the ‘mental’ and I do
three-dimensional space — we pass from pressure to suction. That
ahead. This is the reason of the movement of the Vernal Point (the
In the Old Testament the Initiates, who were familiar with these
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spatial Universe and its movements in the way that is adopted by
The study of natural phenomena outside Man must have its basis in the
the use of all manner of arguments, to speak of an elliptic path of
we judge the real being of what lies behind nature's phenomena.
phenomena; we can only arrive at a true result by examining the
Try for the moment to consider Space alone, and out of the whole
produced in him, and it takes place within him the moment he escapes
dealing with these various sections of space there is no sameness, for
proved, and by quite external experiments, if attention is paid to
certain phenomena. For it is by no means mere nonsense to say that
recommendation to each of you to place your bed in a certain position!
Anthroposophical Society there were being recommended, as esoteric
wish at all to recommend you each to place his bed in one particular
let us examine these phenomena which appear to our sense of vision. We
simple fact that at any given moment we face one part of the Zodiac,
come into different relations with it through the movement of the
world takes him away from them. But the moment he withdraws with his
movements and configurations to the outer celestial Universe. But the
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Forces of Inner Movements.
Let us, for the moment, consider the last named. The process of
revolves around the Earth. Well, in respect of this, men are today no
longer ignorant, they know that the movement is merely apparent, and
revolution, for it was only then that the pendulum experiments of
the movement of the Earth in the processes of metabolism in man.
speak of this movement of the Earth on her axis as of something
us; and the relation of movement in each case corresponds.
between (2) and (3), between Inner Movements and Organic Forces. We
you consider the movements within the human organism, you will readily
connected with this movement. The movements include that of the blood
list of them here, but there are seven of these inner movements.
Connected with these movements are the individual organs. The forces
circulation. Into the living inner motions or movements is inserted
observing, on the one hand, the movements of the Planets, especially
if we consider their motions in relation to the movements of the moon.
phenomena of the tides; and much more besides is connected with this
lunar motion. Were we to study the phenomena of Nature more deeply, we
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are accustomed. At the very commencement mention is made of
subjective, and of physiological colours, and the phenomena of the
living experience of the human eye in connection with its environment
know a very simple phenomenon connected with this. You gaze at a red
Let us now consider quite objectively a phenomenon connected not with
in the form of a thought-picture. The whole phenomenon is somewhat
between these two phenomena — between the after-picture of the
aware of a fundamental, essential difference; namely, that all the
experience means to remember it. So when we look for the fundamental
instrument, only specialised according to the particular organ that
essence of material phenomena, for it does not recognise the spiritual
moment, only remind you of one instance of this. In English,
instruments of your senses, would, in the next incarnation, be a
expressed in the ancient description of the movements of the heavenly
movements are constantly imitated.
system has in itself also a movement. The movement can be seen in
all phenomena resulting from the weekly cycle must take place at a
head-development, and that of the rest of the organism. We see the
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also in his soul on the one hand on the elements of fire, water
and air, and on the other hand on the movements of the planets. These
mistakes in connection with the movements of the heavenly bodies,
progress in relation to the real truth of these movements? Well, we
pointed out that the movements man believes in today are asserted by
shall have more to say tomorrow, but for the moment we may remind
spatial dimensions do not count at all. It is the fullness or poverty
so long as men still think atomically, so long as they fail to search
three-dimensional physical matter extending in a three-fold way in
factor, one that forms the adjustment or connection between the other
pressing elements. You will say: I do not observe this connecting
element. But try to follow the digestive process, and you will find
elements, but his being only manifests here on Earth as the mediator
implied in the words ‘equilibrium’ and ‘movement’.
We adapt ourselves to the movements of the external world, we find our
development between death and re-birth we say: In my inner being is
eye; there we find blood-vessels, choroid and retina (omentum). The
important to prove to men the continuation in this life of a pre-natal
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the Universe, its being and its movements. Of course, this subject is
is at the same time the outer instrument for our world of feeling. The
saying for instance, that it manifests in the movement of the limbs,
usual theory of the motor-nerves and the movement of a limb. As
tests and experiments commenced are always discontinued just at the
most critical moments, simply because people are ignorant of the
ultimate direction of such experiments. Really important foundations
result if these things were actually done, first as experiments and
facts lie far deeper than, for instance, the repeated statements of
Statements, however, that have come down to us as remnants of the
movement of a leg and the movement of an arm. The movements of
the arms are free, and in a sense follow the feelings. The movement of
we produce their movements. This, of course, is something which is not
leg movements are less articulated and the movements of the arms and
movements of the arms, a certain co-operation of the soul on the part
to give this co-operation. While watching the movements of a dance
where only the legs are in movement, and the arms at most are subject
to arbitrary movements, there is little need either to think or feel
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death to the earthly embodiment of this present life. From this we
manifested. We complete one revolution, of taking nourishment and
the cycle of nourishment and digestion to the movement of the Earth in
Suppose we were on board a ship. The ship makes various movements in
magnetic needle does not follow the movement of the ship, but points
always to the magnetic North Pole. It is independent of the movements
of the ship. The ship's movements can indeed be themselves regulated
use it as an instrument. If it were to develop only on the basis of
needle to the movements of the ship. The needle is independent of
limb-men we are adapted to earthly relationships, but that through the
no personal part in the movement. They sit still and allow the
developed the movements of the Universe, disregarding a certain
movements such as ‘The Earth revolves in an elliptical path round
world of the Copernican system, this movement of the Earth around the
Jehovah. This points to two movements, two currents in human nature.
relations. You can go through the Parliamentary reports of that
‘practical’ men have predicted as ‘certain to
essential point. What is of moment is to study the conclusions of
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for the corresponding phenomenon in the Cosmos.
organism. Reflect for a moment and you will find that what is called
that the movement of the Earth is at the same time a movement round
one will suffice for an unprejudiced judgement to understand that we
conscious of my environment from the moment of waking; before that all
preceded by life, I lived again, back to the moment of waking; but
this, you picture it so that the moment of awaking and the moment of
comparable to what takes place on Earth from the moment when plants
To what exactly does this correspond? In the movement of Saturn you
Mercury separates itself from the movement of the whole by its quicker
movement of Venus. Here we have something analogous to the relation of
off from the movements of the rest of the organism. Venus and Mercury
emancipate themselves from the movement set by Saturn. They go their
more rapid movement shows this. What is the corresponding thing to
Mercury, which show a much quicker apparent movement, are related on
Now let us suppose that Saturn pursues his movement also in a like
through cosmic space — with the 30 times less rapid movement than
show a more intimate adjustment to the spiritual world — the
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deeply all that we have hitherto said as to the movements of the
already mentioned this, but we shall see how deeply grounded is the
statement in the whole being of the world, for we can only understand
material phenomena. In confirmation of this you need only consider the
moment it ceases to be so it would have to go into what relates to the
which, when we consider this part of our argument more closely, will
make clear to us a parallel phenomenon between spiritual life and the
possible to describe the successive epochs in their fundamental
world, and the first mention of its effects is to be found in Tacitus,
to the ordinary methods of history. Certainly remarkable men —
phenomenon of the nineteenth and beginning of the twentieth centuries
explanation for the phenomenon of Christianity; why then should not
phenomena which must not be disregarded, otherwise we do not see what
periods of time. The new beginning commenced at the end of this epoch,
as described; she too describes a lemniscate; but for the moment we
compensated by the further movements; the whole seventh does not quite
— she actually reels. I will only mention this here; in any
elementary astronomy book you can look up further details. Could we
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the Universe, one need only think of a theme in elementary astronomy
interpretations we are not for the moment concerned as to whether they
reflect a little on this matter to arrive at the tremendous
Earth. This connection exists; the watery element in Man
with all the forces of the Cosmos. These movements of the Cosmos have
that even then researches were made into the movements of the
Egyptians to movements of the Universe. They had, of course, for what
certain velocity, and that the daily movement of the Sun had also a
characteristic of the time. It was said that if all men knew the
withholding of the knowledge of the connection of cosmic phenomena and
earthly phenomena, biological, physical and chemical. It would be
evidenced in the fact that men who had no external reason for being
development. And you will find this true down to the very details. You
head alone is the development from the lower animal form. What is
development, it is a later appendage. What is now our
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small degree, in its full reality, passed into the minds of men. The
Christ should be mentioned; for what appears therein as
Testament as the God Jehovah. There is really no actual difference
and what followers of the Old Testament view of the Universe said of
I have often mentioned the name of a prominent personality of the
physicist holds this view. Although in popular consciousness men are
think of natural phenomena in a way that they can only be thought of
from Heilbronn — (his monument stands there) — said ‘If
this secondary effect is wholly omitted. The men of the nineteenth
scientifically, but what occurred through this natural phenomenon
might, as can easily be imagined, have tremendously far-reaching
phenomena have been severed from all the secondary effects, as we may
warmth produced by their movement! It is not possible in this
immaterial at the moment — round the Earth; the Sun also. Thus
would not be able to run on in front of the rest of his development
with his mental powers, as he does at present. Such a condition would
only complete as regards mental powers, but not in experience, for
reason lies in a certain fine adjustment in the Cosmos. Our
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important contribution to that goal: the development of a contemporary
gradually lost to Man in course of time of the fundamental views and
to ridicule them. The best of men have ridiculed these empty husks.
Christian movement has ever demanded less understanding, less
fundamental ideas of Christ Himself? How does modern man discriminate
so. Today men imagine, especially those who speak of progress in the
human development. We must realise that in the real stream of human
development there is always a tendency to degenerate. There is not a
environment and later by school and by life, he would degenerate.
communication with my Earth-environment, will be an inner organ, as is
different. What they now have as corresponding with their environment
the earthly elements, we see that Light was brought into relation with
— as a vibratory movement of the ether; but in relation to Air,
shorter time to reach the Earth. Just imagine for a moment: What have
Light-phenomena as such make themselves apparent in the phenomenon of
Consider for a moment the circulation of the blood. The blood,
nourishment. And into this is introduced all that is dependent on the
overcome. Another affirmation of Einstein's is that even the dimension
of a body is merely relative, and depends on the rapidity of movement.

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in as nourishment, and to find out how the heat of combustion is set
science, and that is the element of heat.
in this particular heat (leaving aside for the moment that of the
ordinary observation that the element of soul and spirit
is at a higher temperature than its environment. In this increased
temperature lives the soul and spirit element of man, and the soul and
we really live and move in our heat element, is one of the
the environment — no, we must regard it as having
sediment, it is precipitated, and nothing remains of it but the mere
sediment collects below, and above remains finer liquid. This is also
themselves, for this process only takes place at the moment when
Such falling away of all matter is a result of human development.
importance that we should observe this development in earthly life
— that man in his evolution has become free from the embodiment
all a group of men felt themselves as a group into which the starry
representative of humanity, Parsifal, men were able to wrest their way
pre-Christian evolution, out of which came all that men were
organised into the Fluid element as into the Solid; he is organised
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Der Verantwortung des Menschen Fuer die Weltentwickelung
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und der Sternenwelt. Der Mensch in seinem Zusammenhang
elemental beings are to be found in the three kingdoms of
they should reach only in a later development of cosmic
all this has a deeper significance for the whole development of
make his earthly evolution come to a stage where men remain
That is the goal for which Ahriman strives; he would hold men
on earth. In fact, many men have just such an ideal, that is,
the power of Lucifer. It can then even be placed before men as
soul-nature, but of becoming over-individualised. Men would
someday reach a stage of Ahrimanic development where they
second tendency would be for men to permeate themselves
Men stand today before the decision either to become spiritual
see the danger threaten from the East that men burn up and
— in the frightful social developments arising in Eastern
is stunted to a merely abstract intellectual acknowledgment as,
his planet and through his planet to the whole cosmos. Men must
essentiality with which we as men are really connected.
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und der Sternenwelt. Der Mensch in seinem Zusammenhang
particular epoch men are drawn more to the one or the other
element is this, namely, that the actual knowledge of the
different orders have evolved from the most elementary to the
seek the elements of explanation within the animal world
century. The world was filled, so to say, with judgments that
were the property of all men in common. One did not judge for
judgment on good and bad, whether it had reference
this or that out of this common judgment, out of something
judgment.
of peace as the necessary settlement? The Chinese Minister
wrote an immense sum in millions on a cheque. This cheque was
value. The moment one knows that the human being with his
the spiritual element to an understanding of the human
blood-circulation and then, in the course of human development,
that an instrument formed in a certain way could only have one
elementary elements has not at all a similar meaning in the
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Der Verantwortung des Menschen Fuer die Weltentwickelung
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und der Sternenwelt. Der Mensch in seinem Zusammenhang
development of the limb-system. We know moreover that we
the moment I will not characterise further — you know
the same way as if I were to describe to you the development of
in the womb of the human being. And the whole development of
independent? This question of whether men should become
becoming the power of judgment. That has come about through
element, actually does not depend on just those Spirits who
here, men were more exposed to the Spirits of the first kind
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und der Sternenwelt. Der Mensch in seinem Zusammenhang
of the development of nan. The fact that we have in us a firmly
a third sphere we can look to the phenomenon of water; we see
mineral substances are deposited as sediments, how stones and
element in human activity.
air and of warmth — for a moment we will disregard the
developed in an element foreign to Jehovah. And it was that
Jehovah-life. Everything which moves in the fluidic elements of
just consider the fact that, fundamentally, the old Jehovah
element of the dream; for it was in this way that Paul
increasingly to the purely intellectual element; and under the
influence of this intellectual element our modern natural
phenomenon the point that strikes us is that the Jehovah-God
culture, how far does it extend? Fundamentally, it is limited
processes in the living. He will not enter into the element of
life itself, and still less into the element of soul. Thus,
element foreign to Jehovah — the element of the mineral
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und der Sternenwelt. Der Mensch in seinem Zusammenhang
justification for this you will discover through statements
then we arrive at the fact that this inner development of the
stages of the Earth's development. What is today localised to
cosmic phenomena and man did not say to himself, “Out
there the cosmic phenomena take place and I grasp them with my
development of human nature, namely, that science should be
humanity, as it were, and that when men devote themselves to
all as regards temperament — when one arrives at a
this. Just think how most men today who are connected in an
right catchword in the catalogue. There things rest. But men
men is still unindividual, impersonal, how they would like to
or those improvements. Then one writes it down in books and
generations outgrow, and men can wither away with such a
grasp everything that it is received from the first moment with
the murderer of the human soul and spirit nature. It dries men
that one can call a dead planet with automatic men on it, who
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developments in the nineteenth century when the physical body,
materialism had its period of greatest development. In
practical aspect of materialism. For the moment, however, we
mankind moments must needs come when human beings are in a
phenomenon in human evolution. And as a passing phenomenon,
forms of development emerge only in early man in prehistoric
had reached perfection in their development.
physical sense, as had men of the nineteenth century.
truth — is due to the inadequate development of the
element is developed in him, but so feebly that he himself is
mention what came from the pen of people like Herder, Goethe
commentaries today are written as if this were not the case.
For those who write these commentaries and believe that they
these men.
closely connected with the development of materialism in the
I mentioned an experience that is really suited to throw
the soul-spiritual element. Thus, a person who, in the first
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particular form of development within humanity's historical
mentioned is that under certain circumstances the glance we
development and manifest themselves, so to speak, in the
a certain sense for the development of mankind. Theoretical
development of humanity in an age when other contents have to
system of movement, and every form of movement is basically
first of all, pointed out the fundamental difference between
fact that, by means of the same drawing, two men with
the form of judgments, logical conclusions and so on, should
an Imaginative element.
world. But the moment we cease to have this immediate
called your attention to yesterday — the moment we turn
the moment we turn our senses to something else, this
moment the riddle of memory confronts him he cannot advance
time when we first lose sight of it until the moment we
us, concentrated into one moment, in regard to the whole
only when we die. In reality, we die at every moment of our
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hence, instinctive awareness that the soul-spiritual element resounding
reattainment through anthroposophy.
pointed out that a significant developmental force in human
one's way consciously into the logical element, which earlier
inclined towards the animalistic soul element than what we
world-historical moment, when human beings were in a sense
mental experience at the same time suffered a dilution into
compared to the Greek development of civilization. In central
things are connected with this development in regard to the
comprehension of language and the abstract element. I have
soul-spiritual element holds sway in them just as it does
soul-spiritual element leads an existence in supersensory
development, though in an instinctive manner. It survived in
physical corporeal element, they understood something of the
in Greek development of thought, we find a philosophy, for
as having been formed out of this spirit-soul element filling
significant process in the development of civilization in
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the development of humanity in recent history. Basically, we
have only given a few indications concerning the developments
follow the spiritual development of mankind further back in
element, the one that eventually was victorious in Western
according to the course it had taken since its establishment,
documents call forth almost completely false ideas of what
the religious element. Something belonging to very ancient
ancient element was still more or less present during the
they thought of the earth with its elements. Apart from the
like a child he is received by the elements of the earth, by
these elements were considered the actual earth.
is so tinged by these external elements, so saturated, that
now the temperaments originate in it. Thus, the temperaments
the physical impressions of the etheric soul temperaments
etheric astronomy, and, actually, the accomplishments of this
the teachings of the solid element, of what is bounded and
world view I have just outlined above. A fundamentally
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Palestine remains, also dogmas of the ecumenical councils necessary
referred to the significant turning point in the development
in the development of Western civilization, and consequently
alive as such within itself. Yet, it was a lifeless element
human beings, our fellowmen, live side by side with us. Out
a moment the destiny of the ancient Greek people. It is
Men like
period of Greek development preceding the Socratic and
does not mention at all. We note the fear of becoming
in human life. This was a fundamental experience of the
that occasionally comes to visit us. If the development of
estrangement from the ego would have been the consequence of
an unbroken development of what can be noticed or sensed as
the fundamental keynote or actual basic temperament of Greek
element pierced through all the clouds of obscurity that
fantasy of Arabism. In these wise men, who distinguished
Arabs, the Moors, there existed a fantastic development of
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phenomena of the cosmos and nature. This not withstanding, in
development, Gnosticism already had a more, shall we say,
turn their glance away from the earthly phenomena and to
astral element, and in it they still lived in a certain
harmony with the world phenomena surrounding them. In a
phenomena, the purpose of the structure of the organisms, and
environment on the basis of the superphysical, supersensory
with the profound, tremendous problem of life, with the
and the sensory-physical element of their being, and because
sense-perceptible Jesus; we would observe the development of
element were saturated with a form assumed by Christianity in
element; everywhere, legal concepts moved in as the Roman
men. We observe how a kind of ecclesiastical imperialism
form of government. What had been molded in spiritual forms
Christianity, the governmental, Roman Christianity. Then,
these tales with the merely human element. Furthermore, into
ask, that the time had come in human development
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Friedrich Nietzsche's philosophical development and tragedy as struggle
outlined how after the fourth century the element that could
confinements of culture, the narrowness of civilization. He
sentimental manner and yet simultaneously exhibited smugness,
conceit, and trivial contentment. I say complacent,
superficial sentiments. I say content with trivialities
because these sentiments are indeed the most commonplace.
They penetrate philistine sentimentality from the very
this philistine sentimentality as if they were the
pronouncements God uttered in the human mind.
majority of modern humanity in its philistine sentimentality
and narrow, trivial self-contentment calls reality and the
trivial garments that won the undying admiration of all those
to penetrate the artistic element based on knowledge and the
etheric and astral body and spiritual development may all be
whole experience of mankind's development as much
filled with deeply tragic sentiments concerning the forces of
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have frequently mentioned that when the evolution of humanity
remained the same ever since any human development can be
historical documents. If, on the other hand, one is able to
determined as a certain segment of the northern quadrant of
segment, the ten millionth part, is not even exactly
unit as the basis, the minute objective element still
sensed a significantly different element from that in the
an open element, something where two things lie indifferently
arithmetic we have today, our elementary counting, this
element of numbers.
elementary idea of this matter, let me outline the following.
is simply a third element, abstractly speaking, but by
passing in reality to this third element, a third unit can no
realize that this third element is in itself different from
period of the post-Atlantean epoch. The development of
element and quality of numbers is something that only evolved
and arbitrary unit of measurement. Even in the third
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development in Europe in the fourth century. Earlier, at
it more or less. Then we have scholasticism, often mentioned
concepts are fundamentally all about. Among them are
that you know as the sacraments. They were intended to lift
centuries of historical development in Europe. Side by side
relationship to Christianity. As you know, the element that
the element that in Masonic tradition is linked to other
development can be traced more or less if only we focus our
external natural phenomena with a certain excellence and
actually reached in European development in the middle of the
element that represents the whole world. The corporeality is
the intake of nourishment. In the etheric body, the whole
element. While it was a dim consciousness, it was present.
creatures other than man. I have already mentioned several
then on, the intellect, the rational element, increasingly
struggled to come to the fore in the human being, the element
element of the cosmos. The same is true for the ratios of
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was development of intellectual soul; on basis of etheric body's activity,
days, we have dealt with the development of European
mankind's development. Nevertheless, you must naturally take
into consideration here what has been mentioned in regard to
the differences between the development of the individual and
the overall development of humanity. I have repeatedly called
his potential of development, so certain segments of mankind
can do the same. This is a phenomenon that must be taken into
development of the intellectual or rational soul among the
civilized part of humanity. This development of the
historical development of the Greek people. The Greeks still
possess much of what can be termed the development of the
period was devoted to the development of the sentient
whole cosmos. They questioned the stars and their movements
of the elemental spirit beings within the outer
phenomena.
intellect. This then remained the fundamental quality of
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nineteenth century is an important time in the development of
characteristic of this developmental phase of recent human
climax in mankind's development. What was the purpose of this
take place in regard to contemporary humanity's attainment of
course that can be called the development of the sentient
European development is to be comprehended at all. This
development of the consciousness soul, a development we are
development. You need only consider what basic conditions
the period of rational development, and in the age of the
sentient soul it was all the more true that, fundamentally
teaching. Something of the psycho-spiritual element still
age of the development of the consciousness soul.
development of the consciousness soul, hence for what matters
that this nation is especially suited for the development of
in modern cultural development?
mentioned on other occasions, that influence predominantly
element in the whole conception of the human personality
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in the Ormuzd worship, the Anglo-Saxon element in Ahrimanic initiations.
nations for the significant point in humanity's development
connections between external phenomena and the inner
spiritual course of development. Today, we shall bring
mentally only to the physical world. And as I attempted to
prepared in different ways for this moment in the development
earlier characterization, the fundamental difference between
the soul condition of the Roman-Latin segment of Europe's
in the Romance segment of the European population. The last
government, by turning into the papal church of Rome, are the
streams, and the element that originated from human nature.
characteristic moment in humanity's evolution in that century
on in the nineteenth century. But the national element in the
continuation of the Ormuzd element in those times in which
this element — naturally transformed through the
not understand much of the course of European development, if
stream of Roman Catholicity, a remarkable phenomenon arises
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post-Atlantean epoch, awareness of the ego development's link with sun;
post-Atlantean epoch, the epoch of the development of
and so on. For the ancient Greeks, the element that dwells in
When he heard Schiller say that his mental images —
spirituality of the whole environment. Today, a person sees
shining atmospheric phenomena; it is the same when the sun is
dark cosmic firmament. We have to have insight into this
earlier as a divine element they now wished to experience by
the consciousness soul development, we have retained only the
of the tremendous achievements of modern science, through
be brought into a connec tion with their ego development
insofar as this ego development is tied to the conceptual
substantially a being related to the ego. The element the
element molding the human being from outside. What develops
as it were, from outside on the development of the human
development due to adding their influence to that of the
forces, but elements of the moon's forces work into them. If
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grasps living, ensouled elements. Path to this transformation:
Particularly since the developments of the nineteenth century
yet in his environment. The mineral kingdom and everything of
mineral element. Nor was he as yet a being who depended on
regressive development, as it were, and the nineteenth
century was the culmination point of this development. I have
more the case. This development reached an extreme in the
sense of reality. They live in a spiritual element but are
more the case that the development of body and soul only
development until age thirty-three. Today, people are able to
development only until age twenty-one. Again, in the seventh
capable of development only until the fourteenth year of
life. Then, women will cease to be fertile; an entirely
separation had a tremendous impact, so will the moon's
men were never to make up their minds to receive what can
depend for the further development of their existence on
men.
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John Scotus Erigena's thinking, an expression of a developmental
metamorphoses of human development, markedly differing from
lines of the most recent documented records. Then, going back
duration of the historical development, it is assumed that
shall consider one detail in this whole development. I would
today. The personality, who has been mentioned also in
we encounter our fellowmen, for example, we speak of
culmination point of the development of human reason. With a
These then reached their highest point of development in the
spiritual achievement of the human being, initially it turned
spoken out of mental depths that subsequently could no longer
in a general spiritual element into which the human being
and so on. This world of spiritual beings, mentioned already
elements, fire, water, air, and earth are permeated by
statement! When John Scotus Erigena speaks of judgment and
court where one pronounces judgment over somebody —
society as if it produced the social elements out of its
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is still echoed in statements such as
that by Scotus Erigena that man makes judgments and draws
century. In men like Scotus Erigena it emerged once again,
Christ in the Sacrament of Communion. But what did people
of wisdom. Fundamentally speaking, the further back we go in
that of local gods — something I have mentioned in the
the soul-spiritual element of this tribal father, still held
the soul-spiritual element of the tribal father, they also
actual truth, the elements working in the human body depend
The corporeality and the elements active in the blood depend
they did not speak of electricity but of an earthly element
realized that the divine element worked in the blood and in
element. The primal ancestor was believed to be working
human being is not only affected by the earthly element. It
existed of the deity, the elements that affected the human
the sequence of generation, in the development of mankind in
Father God worked in the element flowing in the blood through
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with earth's four elements; its shape, the work of art by the I that is
existence. The reflection of these transformations in development of the
Christianity. Julian the Apostate. Constantine. Justinian. Displacement
moment in humanity's evolution; it is necessary for us to pay
mentioned in the last lecture how such a concept arises, how
of the soul element. They viewed it as something that stood
above them, enkindled their temporal soul element and
Egyptians really placed no special value on the soul element
higher human element and the earth. They really directed
development of Greek culture, which began in the eighth
increasing value on this soul element that lights up between
this soul element became valuable. But they still had the
soul element took place. This gave rise to the famous Greek
upon the soul element. To them, the latter became important,
Egyptians. This development is connected with the view of
that this soul-spiritual element, which does not really enter
builds up the human body out of the earth elements, out of
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goes through the world independently of outer phenomena,
phenomena. One need only consider certain relationships that
is merely an elementary example, and yet all soul life is
environment, we cannot do the same regarding our soul life,
stand within universal world phenomena as bodily beings.
Again, at first we may proceed from merely elementary
physical tool of the spiritual life. We have often mentioned
human being to his entire environment. Now, let us look for a
moment at man's environment. In man's environment (I am now
know in our environment on the earth. We must say that we are
environment, for example, when we study the environment of
on the weather. She wanted to reach an agreement with Frau
line is related to the movements of the planets, how these
movements. One thus would find that many things on the
movement of man — that is, a definitely physical
movement, but within man — is included in this cosmic
upon the movement of the nourishing substances in the
the actual movement of the blood through the blood vessels
the forms and also the movements of the plants; in the human
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body in relation to the element of water.
water element, the striving toward the periphery, the sinking
shapes, with the pictures of the plant element in its
be attained practically for human perception if a development
what, in an earlier world conception, was called the element
of air. This airy element, such as it was conceived in more
experience of the airy element. I have often mentioned to you
fact that the human being has this airy element within, he
skin if we observe him with reference to this third element,
the airy element. And even less could we speak of him as
reference to the warmth element, the element of fire. One
who is organized not only in the solid element but also in
the fluid, airy, and warmth elements, in a configured, moving
mentioned four kinds of lawfulnesses: first, the lawfulness
very seriously something we mentioned two days ago, that with
and also whose airy element is organized through rhythm
is impossible to understand the airy element if we do not
expression of man within this airy element.
however, in passing into the airy element, one must remove
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can lead on to the further development of our studies. In
aside all such judgments regarding hallucination. Let us
picture element.
element in which man lives when he is suffering from
This point of view is found when in the course of development
birth, in an element that is altogether identical with what
out of the element of hallucination, particularly in our
present one; in being born, we rise out of this element,
the element of hallucination. What takes place, however, when
of the element of air, and so forth. This human physical body
decreased — then the original hallucinatory element out
nature is due only to the fact that the original element out
pictorial mental images, and so forth.
pictorial mental images would not have immortality. The
mental images. You can say that in your everyday
consciousness you do not have pictorial mental images, that
pictorial mental images, imaginations, are constantly forming
imaginations, as it were, by means of the soul element and
ordered, elementary activity in existence. It must not,
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one, because man's movements are intimately and organically
Knowledge of the Higher Worlds and its Attainment
environment and through which we also look into our inner
phenomena of the senses there is a spiritual world.
soul element. To begin with, one learns to give up the
prejudice that our soul element is merely connected with the
nerve-sense apparatus. Only the world of mental images is
can have mental images of what actually takes place in the
of recollection. When we focus on the soul element we must
cartilage-formation or ossification of the abdomen, where, as
metabolism, through the movement of the limbs, and these
there arise abnormal phenomena that are usually designated as
has to do with the temperamental tendencies in the broadest
over-excitement of the human being, inner or soul
over-excitement specifically, hypochondriacal conditions,
being prepared the temperamental tendencies in the broadest
heart is only a reflection of these movements. The movement
of the blood is an autonomous movement, and the heart only
brings to expression the movement of the blood caused by
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relationship of the human being to his environment that the
world lies before us in its phenomena, in its events, and
presume that behind these phenomena that lie before us as
In the last few days I have suggested that this inner element
one really arrives at this inner element. The fact is,
in a lesser degree this phenomenon is much more frequent than
development, another fact arises, the fact that it is
moments of spiritual seeing, also extinguish ordinary memory.
an occult development usually experience that when they begin
to work on their development they have certain visions; then
development. This is absolutely necessary and cannot be
such an occult development must above all be certain that in
tendency to wallow in unclarity and sentimentality is not fit
to undergo an occult development. One absolutely must have
that are recommended for an occult development are actually
rooted in the nature of occult development itself. You thus
through this memory membrane into the inner element of the
human being; the memory conceals from us the inner element of
through occult development, we see into our organs, as I
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and its reverberations in the most important moments of life.
fundamental force of the ancient Oriental
now, in the phenomena of decline of the Asiatic culture, the
penetration of this primeval element of joy, of delight in
his environment. The ancient Oriental culture was founded
being as the world, and he had a special Inducement for
phenomena!” — that is how the challenge of the
and its entirely different elemental configuration, with the
instrument, for he always needed to have this harp-music in
belongs to the intellectual development of the last few
development; one can quite well picture to oneself people of
received from outside, the mental images developed from these
sense impressions, these mental images as they penetrate
link mental images to them. These mental images are then
again that rational thinking, which is the highest attainment
because he cannot penetrate through the sensory mental
mental images. Every night between falling asleep and
sensory mental images is not the atomistic world conjectured
sphere of the sense phenomena. Hence to the perception of the
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existence, with the side where sense phenomena are spread out
around us. We behold these sense phenomena spread around us
relate them in order to discover within these sense phenomena
live behind the sense phenomena, used to speak of Nirvana, of
behold behind the sense phenomena, and he cultivated the
development of this inner yearning to reach the world behind
the sense phenomena, while the human being of the West has
we look at the modern development of the idea of Christ
development at all. The truth is that for modern man in the
memory-mirror, a spiritual element is living.” One must
spiritual element. We live within this world that is given
universal spiritual element.
moment you wish to make a distinction between the Father God
hear in conversation with our fellow men, hearing and
there in the world are outer phenomena that arise and pass
environment and then splintered and scattered (

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impossible to observe the soul element. What pertains to the
valid mental image. The I with the astral body is outside the
the moment of awakening.
moments of awaking and falling asleep. These moments of
levels of cognition you will remember that mention was made
that people do not notice these impressions. At the moment of
actually able to grasp the moment of awaking with this
moment of awaking is not concerned with reminiscences. These
ordinary consciousness, but fundamentally they are foreign
them in the moment made possible for us by spiritual
scientific training, or even in the moment of awaking.
we actually grasp at such a moment? We have penetrated into
grasped objectively the first element of the life of the
objective thought-weaving is perceived, when the moment of
the moment of awaking with presence of mind, we perceive as
thus grasped the soul element in a certain realm.
further in grasping the waking moment in presence of mind we
dreamlike element in passing through the etheric body with
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there is the moment of awaking when man plunges into his
human environment to show how the human being actually stands
to look at something of the human environment. Let us bring
into the environment of the human being and consider first
an enhancement and a diminishing of this feeling, and, when
something that actually continues as an unconscious element
inserted into our conscious element, forming gaps in our
actually carry man's relation to his environment to the point
human being. How can we receive a certain mental image of
can a mental image of such higher beings be formed? You know
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bodily nature. We weave in the ether life. Our mental images
fundamentally lives and weaves through all things. We live
spiritual world, this we find only as a fragment, as
is active as well in our nourishment. This weaving of thought
our environment is the self-imagining one, expressing itself
in the development of our cognitional capacities the next
that weaves and lives in the same element we hit upon with
element of our soul that has gone through the life between
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understand it in such a way that we say: in any moment of
in every moment of our life we are
consciousness how in some moment of his earthly life man is
this mood in some moment of life, there is no need to go into
moment. One can arrive already in ordinary life, however, at
then the wonderful fact emerges that every momentary mood in
secret of the mood of soul at any moment. Here one touches
is so inexplicable to himself; it appears as something elemental
detail. As the development of anthroposophical spiritual
our inner being, we are, in this moment when subjective
thoughts. What we cultivate as the geometric element, as
birth; the separate, individual elements that we incorporate
element into our inner life of thought in such a way that we
mood of soul of the human being in a moment where past and
thought element then begins to long for the human state, and
the will element begins to long to pour itself out into the
cosmos. The will element thus lives in the inherited
characteristics, while the element of thought lives in the
element surrounds us, as it were, in what we receive from our
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phenomenon of the human being as he is here in his life
being as spiritual events. The soul element is, so to speak,
our study of the soul element entirely within the human
as the nearest to his individual development. When the human
like to study the moral element as something surging up from
language, so that actually he does not bear the element of
expression itself is an expression of the element of
the plant element, which is incorporated into him. The more
element into the animal element. In passing through the
altogether a tremendously significant moment in human
the world with its soul and spiritual elements, it is indeed
terms. The moment we pass through the archai, we can express
upon the tremendously significant fact that the people in
sensed knowledge. It is tremendously moving when one finds
hands as the organ of our soul element, not only as an organ
that can act freely out of the impulses of the soul element,
himself away from the animal element, who grows out of the
animal element. All this now fills us; it becomes the content
an outer, mechanical way into this environment.
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development man goes through between death and a new birth.
rudiments of the physical body were formed as a kind of
Moon, and Earth evolutions. We know that the first rudiments
even further, considering his relationships to women. These
attention, however, to a matter that calls for comment, that
the third part of this development, when a new incarnation, a
in the outer world, of what lives in the movements of the
into the outer mineral world the thought element, the mineral
thought element, that he took with him. By virtue of having
environment. What descends from the spiritual world is thus
lives on in his etheric body. From the first moment of his
grow into it especially when I form such mental pictures of

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and have found that this soul development takes place as
Now, the moment we approach this physical world with the
nourishment. It remains in the subconscious. We cannot
growth, forces of nourishment — therefore all that
were, by the universal world environment and becomes the seed
exist for the earthly today. The present earthly environment
within it the outwardly substantial, the moral element there
element, however, will be absolutely impossible in the
fundamentally the human being is something that has grown out
been considering the spiritual in man, the soul element in
our soul element (bright) in thinking, feeling, and willing.
in the soul element.

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the soul element, I was able to describe to you how thinking
civilization only an intellectual mastery of the environment.
the environment take us? I could also put the question this
environment penetrate into our soul life?
lecture courses in which lots of experiments are done and,
between the experiments, in the unpleasant babble by which
the experiments are explained, he falls asleep. Or he even
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manifests itself in an arm movement, in a leg movement, we
shadows that come up from the depths of our being. The mental
appearance of the senses ceases at the moment we lay down our
approximate mental image of what the human being carries
if we send abstract thoughts, non-pictorial mental images
one with abstract mental images — what is that like?
Abstract mental images retain almost nothing of the
human essence resides in mental images. Therefore, what we
special kind of emotion or temperament with which he held
mental images are pictures: if we see ourselves, as we stood
mental images, insofar as we have made them our own, we do
death a gentle reddish environment of his whole being. The
being he will have after death in his environment
not see the world described like our human mental images from
simplest, most elementary phenomenon — if one only projects
are described you will find simultaneous mention of scent
have the aforementioned impressions, but he can lose his

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explorations have shown us the fundamental difference between
development of freedom is possible only in the world of
appearance. I have mentioned this in my book,
(vom Menschenratsel),
impulses, instincts, passions, and temperament, and
able to bring them into clear mental images, at least into
waking mental images, then all this is not appearance; it is
remained. The essential thing in the progressive development
the course of man's development since the middle of the
human being had mental images of the evolution of the earth,
of the mental images that might have given him satisfactory
heat — again a hypothesis. Man thus saw only a segment,
Old Testament, for example, or other religious teachings of
the past. In the Old Testament we find conceptions that are
“Last Judgment,” for example, and other
“Last Judgments,” we come across conceptions
the ideas of sin and atonement are difficult, these
conceive of humanity's historical development. They reach
nineteenth century, it still gives historical development a
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The Fundamental Impulse of Cosmic Historical Development of Humanity.
Die Grundimpulse des Weltgeschichtlichen Werdens der Menschheit
into the activities and doings of men. In our epoch, human actions in
by men in those times go to form the content of history. But it must be
men, for human consciousness was pervaded by a kind of dreamlike
clairvoyance. Pictures arose in men's consciousness — pictures
interwoven with the activities of Spiritual Beings who then spurred men
organs, however, these cosmic forms are usually of gigantic dimensions.
epochs of history it was possible for men, without special training and
historical evolution on the earth, men drew the spiritual Moon-Cosmos
olden days men were endowed with dreamlike clairvoyance, living in a
the human being in this way through the inbreathing, so that men might
have regarded it as unlawful thus to influence men on earth during the
they sought what they needed for the guidance of men through somewhat
Moon-Beings who passed into the bodies of men via the inbreathing. Now,
times it was merely a matter of being together with men and
These places were the mummies, the mummified corpses of men. The
able to inculcate, in manifold ways, into the historical development of
that if we wish to understand historical development during the
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Die Grundimpulse des Weltgeschichtlichen Werdens der Menschheit
to give guidance to men not only in matters of religion but in other
spheres too, of ancient historical development. We also heard of the
importance assumed in Greek culture by Luciferic Beings, elementary
to the impressions which came to men from this composite rhythm.
development of the physical body, exposes the whole of mankind to the
spiritual visions, thoughts were imparted to men from out of the
spiritual world. The thoughts revealed themselves to men and such
The element of danger
able, because men were endowed with the old clairvoyance, to utilise
But during the Egyptian period men gradually lost this old clairvoyance
mummified bodies of men, the mummies. The mummies played a part of the
of evolution, for in the mummies there dwelt those elementary Spirits
influence the social life of men. In more ancient times still, it had
inbreathing of men for the spiritual guidance of earth-evolution; and
again there will be men who live in communion with the spiritual world,
of men is such that the air exhaled by an individual who has within him
will be taken by what flows, spiritually, out of the souls of men to
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Die Grundimpulse des Weltgeschichtlichen Werdens der Menschheit
ancient India and ancient Persia, all such names came to men via their
development of the human being in ancient Egypt had not reached the
spirit had departed, he could receive enlightenment about nature around
receive from the Moon-Beings indwelling the mummies, enlightenment upon
guidance and education of men. But because the necessary faculties of
the Initiates, to obtain, without further measures, enlightenment on
the super-sensible destinies of men, for human souls after death were
enlightenment about nature, about the animal, plant and mineral
turn, obtained enlightenment about the kingdoms of the plants, animals
receive enlightenment about nature; a science of nature is beyond our
enlightenment. As human bodies now are, men can acquire knowledge about
the Dead for a period in order that they may give us enlightenment
Thus a dubious element
was introduced into the historical development of humanity through
— all these things were known, particularly, to men of Hebrew
Testament although, through Moses, many elements of Egyptian culture
found their way into the events there recorded. The Old Testament
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Die Grundimpulse des Weltgeschichtlichen Werdens der Menschheit
Egyptian development, in times when the custom of the mummification of
What is present in the environment is mirrored, and condensed, in an
understood in that period of ancient Egyptian development and through
their pupils with the help of those super-sensible, elementary Beings
men in the time of Atlantis, and when we remember that the teachings
physical organism this momentary birth of the ether-mummy and its
been preserved. I told you that at the time when men needed such forms,
enactments he saw Spiritual Beings from the surrounding elementary
He beheld spiritual reality in these enactments.
would find that this is never the case. In these ritualistic enactments
preserved in the Egyptian mummy, inasmuch as human enactments and rites
when men have discovered how to bring into all their deeds the power
Men today have very
an inkling, at least, that the spiritual must so live among men that it
egoistical element finds its way. People only turn to religion when
religious act. To Paracelsus, healing was still a sacred enactment and
ceremonial enactments will take root in men. And then the true teachers
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The Fundamental Impulse of Cosmic Historical Development of Humanity.
Die Grundimpulse des Weltgeschichtlichen Werdens der Menschheit
BEEN HEARING in recent lectures how fundamental impulses in the
development of history are expressed in such phenomena as the strange
Egyptian culture as expressed outwardly in the phenomenon of
as exemplified by pre-Socratic philosophers such as Parmenides or
Think of men of the
philosophers even before the days of Socrates — such men may,
in the East, men experienced living thinking. But the Egyptian sage was
Men trained themselves to unfold a picture of the dead human form in
cults and ceremonial enactments once filled with living reality have
lectures I have mentioned the name of Goethe. Goethe was, as you know,
colour, then the stamens and the pistil in the middle — all being
transformations of the one fundamental form of the leaf itself. Goethe
red petal is the same, fundamentally, as the green leaf; they are not
two separate and distinct phenomena. There is only one leaf,
might be argued: Here are two men — two, because one is pale and
the other is red. Just as little as there are two men, one who is red
from one place to another and the men you will see in different places
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Die Grundimpulse des Weltgeschichtlichen Werdens der Menschheit
1170. But we find that even external history mentions all kinds of
character, namely, the Turks. The maltreatment inflicted by the Turks
although in a different form. We see how men gave vent to this mood by
events requires only brief mention, for the story is familiar enough in
time, numbers of men, in most cases with extraordinary devotion and
heart. Men felt that these sacred concerns were vitally connected with
nor of the re-kindling of this enthusiasm by the ardour of men like
be rightly understood if we trace their development back through the
are examples of men concerned less with the earthly personality of
mighty impulse to the further evolution of the earth. These men viewed
the super-sensible truth was possible to men in whom the ancient
work through all the subsequent evolution of the earth. Men simply had
clothe this Mystery in words, men were forced more and more to
of academies in Asia, where men studied the ancient Greek philosopher
especially in the Schools of Ireland. We see too how the best elements
Arabian thought introduced an alien element, coarsened and corrupted
other streams have been considered. To indicate the fundamental
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physical organism to a definite stage of development; now it
and the mother. It unites with the human element in the stream
will is also present, as is proved by the movements, however
through walking, speaking, and thinking, what a tremendously
man's achievements in culture and civilization on the Earth,
alternating conditions; at one moment we have contracted, as it
and then as though expanded into the cosmos. At one moment he
gravity is involved; but he is organized for movement and for
into movement so that physical speech may resound, neither has
rudimental faculties of walking, speaking, and thinking. And
while this is happening, something else of tremendous
spheres of the planets and the stars. But the moment the
human being not in an a-moral way as do the phenomena of Nature
and thinking that he loses the moral elements. This is of
immense importance. When here on Earth we speak of the ether
cosmic rhythm. As men on Earth our life depends upon the fact
movements are set going rhythmically, so out in the universe
the moral element. Thus there are two different rhythms: human
disorder. Between them, in effect, are all the phenomena
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be otherwise in our life among our fellow-men. In like manner
is in this element in which the Sun-Imaginations unfold that
things go unperceived. In earlier times men distinguished very
summer-sleep had for them. In those ancient times men knew that
we cannot conceive that we men shut ourselves away, as it were,
behold what men actually are on the Earth.
and Archangels behold what men's deeds have been the whole year
is what lives in the minds and hearts of men as I have just
whether we are good or evil men, whether we feel for others or
beings who are closest to the Earth in its environment and
merely to the environment of the Earth. The yearly revolution
which his feelings have entered with the fulfilment of every
His mental life and his feeling-life now stream towards
And we have an environment that is permeated by our follies and
men realize the urgent necessity of gaining knowledge about the
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rightly understood, the immense difference will at once be
nourishment and digests them; further, that through his
etheric bodies in connection with the process of nourishment.
that issue, not from the Earth but from the cosmic environment
in the environment of the Earth. Suppose, for instance, we
consume white of egg — albumen. This albumen is only
astral body and Ego. During sleep this albumen is worked upon
here are of tremendous complexity. As soon as the veil that is
know that the people of the Old Testament worshipped Jehovah
leaves his moral achievements behind him on the bed. He does
sleep of all. Really hardened criminals are never tormented
into his astral body and is then tormented by dreams as the
embodiment of the Earth.
disappointed. And the disappointments they experience are not
how these Ahrimanic beings suffer disappointments if one comes
of course the illnesses that befall men have one aspect that
illnesses suffered by men arise out of the dark sources of
egoism. Man is not fundamentally intended to be ill, to
At the moment we must pay attention to the fact that just as
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speaking, everything in his earthly environment belongs to one
environment, is also related to these three kingdoms of Nature.
obtaining between death and a new birth. We could not be men in
entirely given up to them. Such men here on Earth are incapable
the power to understand other men. We may say with truth: it is
on Earth as well. And it is the development of a life where the
earthly sleep, the impressions from the environment are
possibility for us to have experiences at a definite moment and
moment instead of in our whole past life as far back as a few
environment of soul and spirit. Man is unconscious between
spiritual world, a faculty of tremendous power is present
loving understanding of other men. And on the other side, from
development, to the strengthening of his own nature.
at the same time the basis on Earth for the immorality of men,
men's minds to the study of this relationship to a spiritual
Assume for a moment that the cosmic nebula of Kant and Laplace,
These activities are the moral element in its reality, the
reality of the moral element. In that realm the moral has
of tremendous importance to understand such a sentence as this
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Good to fulfilment through it.
cannot be anything real. Just imagine for a moment that you
certainly indicated; but Truth itself moves in an element of
fulfilment.
immediately vanishing from us again. We men are really too
fast our thoughts with the ordinary consciousness. Elemental
fast our thoughts. Such elemental beings are indeed present,
the light of Spiritual Science. For at the very moment we begin
for men? — through this very desire to know about the
thoughts, so that they shall not vanish the moment he grasps
Ahrimanic realm, to the elemental kingdoms, and therefore are
intelligence possessed by men. Call to mind those scenes from
gnome-spirits of the elemental world because they are clumsy
spirit-fools who use the life that remains over from men; they
the wisdom would be fugitive, would pass away the moment it
indicated, by observing very clever men who are followed by a
there are not enough clever thoughts fastening on to men, these
judgment — and they, in fact, consider the other beings
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psychical and spiritual development on Earth the heritage of
relating to the movements of the stars. The destinies of men
that make him one with the movements and laws of the stars,
A.D., men already feel themselves to be true citizens of the
the following. The men who are founding science in that age are
strive to illumine it. True, in the Graeco-Latin epoch men can
places of the Oracles and in Temples, men sought to ascertain
men so that their deeds on Earth might be in conformity with
fundamentally to what can be calculated and measured and so be
the help of external observation and experiment, where the
element is still obscure in the Norse and Germanic
And the result is that all human judgments are based on the
principle of Space. Modern man has elaborated this element of
photographs, then the modern man is verily in his element!
indifferent to the element of Time in the picture. He is
content with the merest fraction of the Time element and is
entirely given up to the element of Space.
into the element that leads beyond what is physically
essential element, is fully recognized by anthroposophical
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moment it is actually not in connection with the external
environment of the Earth where the astral forces come into
objective world, operating in a sphere where we men are not
even present, yet through which we are truly men, men endowed
called Inspiration in the books already mentioned.
enhancement of surrender of the senses to the outer world. When
something else, namely the moment of waking. The moment of
sense-process itself remains unconscious. But if this moment of
movements, giving the impression that something is speaking, is
that man with his astral body passes out of his environment
process reaches into the sphere of the senses. At the moment of
the moment of waking, ordinary consciousness swiftly obtrudes
not take its course on its own. Not only at this moment of
waking, but at every moment the movement of the breath in the
waking life by day, this movement backwards would not be
morning of the 22nd December. You wake up; at the same moment
moment you are compelled in your inmost soul-life to go forward
expansion increases. But what lives in Time, the element of
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were institutions of men still possessed of the faculty of
were expressions of reality, the men belonging to that ancient
know, often said that what the men of those olden times beheld
the old clairvoyance men knew that they were the expressions
revealed to men in pictures.
it must not be imagined that those men of an earlier epoch had
kind of activity was, it is true, exercised by the men of old
distinction made between what men fashioned out of various
his realization that all the beings in man's environment are
thoughts from those that were revealed to men with their
majority of men were content with pictorial vision, were
Mysteries were working at the development of a wisdom composed
the Summer the Earth is more given up to its own environment,
of the cold or enveloped itself in a raiment of snow; it is in
perpetual intercourse with its atmospheric environment. Hence
etheric environment, in order out of his deepest feelings to
the men of olden times tried to safeguard themselves from
only as long as men received their thoughts by way of
having laid aside the symbols of wisdom, they appeared as men
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upon men today. It must not, of course, be forgotten that the
Cosmos; enveloped in her raiment of snow she lives in cosmic
When Autumn approached, men saw how the letters of the Cosmic
lead men in a spiritual way when external guidance through the
men on Earth the message had gone forth that the ancient
peace will spring forth on Earth in men who are of good
the life of men on Earth, can learn to experience in all its
Cosmos, just as those secrets were unveiled to men inspired by
men learned long ago to listen to the inspirations of the
men will come to understand the spirit-birth needed along their
power of that Mystery to reveal itself to men as a living
men do but try with depth and tenderness of feeling and with
has been leading men deep into the darkness of matter —
in all good men leads on into the future, and at the same time
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element in his life between birth and death. Necessity
Against this argument there is not only the ethical
elementary sense-perceptions. If the elementary experience of
this problem of necessity and freedom, with all the phenomena
phenomena are very varied and numerous — is a problem
believe that necessity works through the actions of men; the
men of olden times thought that divine-spiritual forces, in
of telescopes or subjected to experiment. This means that
experiments conducted in chemical and physical laboratories, in
from his single observations and experiments a picture of the
different forces and laws in our world-environment work
in our environment work together to form a self-contained
as men have been able to look at other men, they have always
and night, processes are going on in our environment and
phenomena. They form a whole, just as the processes taking
experiments, or to what is often taught today in botany and
life, or the laws of animal instinct, or the laws of mental
vegetative and mineralized commences in man after he falls
This is the moment, my dear friends, when scientific study and
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man's will were to be filled with spirit. Men felt the living
humanity will have to take many steps in spiritual development
blessing to the Anthroposophical Movement.
Anthroposophical Movement to which reference has just been
time now the Anthroposophical Movement has not coincided with
whole impulse of the Anthroposophical Movement. The
Anthroposophical Movement has laid hold of wider circles than
be different for the Anthroposophical Movement from what it was
when the Anthroposophical Movement was essentially contained
as the kernel of the Anthroposophical Movement.
with a Movement that is distinct from the Anthroposophical
Movement, because, if I did not do this, misunderstanding might
Movement having a religious, cultic character has arisen, a
Movement which indeed has much to do with the Anthroposophical
Movement, but should not be confused with it: it is the
religious movement which calls itself ‘The Movement for
[This Movement was the beginning of The
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motion in our limb-organism, movement in space. To this
proportional to the amount of activity or movement in our limb
by intestinal movements — produces a tendency to rest in
accompany our movements with thoughts and ideas. It is quite a
originate from movements in the nerves. On the contrary, if
room for the soul-and-spirit element of thought. This will help
organ in man in which the adjustment takes place, in which
From this you can see what a fundamental change of method is
mineral matter crumbling within him. The mineral element of man
mineral element, causing even that too to evolve a kind of
aright the natural laws and forces of our external environment,
exclusive of the animal element and physical man, we must
external Nature are really directed to the dying element in
the case of the animals, the soul element enters in, and
vegetable matter. Consider the process of nourishment. It
which, during our waking moments while our physical and etheric
are quite elemental, he has brought the Ego and astral body
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historical development.
centuries; a Christian festival linked with the fundamental idea, the
accompaniment of songs and of rites representing the deepest human
and the previous laments were changed into paeans of joy, into hymns
coffin-like case, was dark and somber. Beside this coffin laments and
coffin, a branch, denoting sprouting life. In place of the laments,
years the secrets of the spiritual world have been revealed to men
the ancient enactment of initiation appeared as a historical fact on
In the first centuries of Christianity very few men knew that a
— through developments to be described
formerly to be sought in the Sun had descended to men on
on the Earth a deed to which men could look.
subsequent development I must represent time — that is,
procedure, this threefold phenomenon appears to us raised to the
appears openly in external history. All men now have access to what
a peculiar turn: men are less and less able to penetrate into
Golgotha can gain no foothold in the souls of men; evolution tends
toward the development of a materialistic mentality. Lost is
matter, upon those elements of Nature that do not die — the
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that the original purpose of festivals was to induce men to look
of civilization we have undergone a psycho-spiritual development that
cohesion? The moment the cosmic forces leave the body and the latter
documents and has no access to what can be observed in spiritual
documents exist, a period antedating the foundation of Christianity
this development depended his creed. We human beings have been
earthly development, and indeed, the break is scarcely
a man's development was continuous up to about the thirtieth year,
into the development of their earthly
that he must act according to his instincts, his temperament, his
documents do not bear out at every step the results of spiritual
documents must be pointed out, for the latter cannot unlock the
men looked were the Saturn forces. In these they saw all that
Nature — about the only ones mentioned in our philosophies
entered into all men, whereas here it was the primal Being of the
this comprised three stages; but the first requirement for attaining
to true enlightenment, to initiation, was that everything offered the
their achievements, even in cases where one who can see through them
requirement, and the neophyte had to meditate as follows:
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form of the fixed star constellations and the movements of the
appearance of the stars and the computation of their movements
studied the relative measurements and the outer conditions of
movement in the human organism, remaining unaware that a
psycho-spiritual element pervades the physical organism and
comes to expression in these measurements and conditions of
movement.
In the human being a unified psycho-spiritual element manifests
movements of the planets, through the light raying forth from the
man to Earth substances that can serve as nourishment. And man's
especially to Earth men. In the case of the Moon in particular we
physical phenomenon, it has no effect. When our knowledge of
the firmament tells us that it is new Moon, this means that the Moon
between death and a new birth and has absolved all the requirements
sanctuaries that the constellations and the movements in the
their observation of Mercury, the capacity for movement
Movement
which Mercury guided the movements in the cosmos: not merely with
Mercury directs the movements of the human being. Nor did he possess
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time has arrived in which men have achieved their true inner freedom
are nevertheless potentially present in the souls of men. And
enlightenment and a spiritual life of humanity is really not
men keep returning to Earth in repeating incarnations, thus carrying
beings are the most important factor in the further development of
all that takes place within the history of mankind. But men of all
periods live in a definite environment, and clearly, one of the most
significant environments was that of the Mysteries. A most important
other means of enlightenment. Today it must be the latter, for the
an event that can be utilized in our development as once a similar
the advancement of human freedom — in the sense that
must enter into the particular manner in which the spiritual element
establishment of the annual Easter Festival grew out of a spiritual
But it is important to ponder in our souls the human element as well,
As a matter of fact, never did the souls of men take part so
on Earth, he felt intimated in the consonants complementing the
occurs in the physical environment of the Earth. When the neophyte of
movement:
universe. And many of the wanderers I mentioned yesterday —
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the fundamental impulse to become a Christian provided by that
development. In the early Christian centuries, nothing
in the development of humanity. Consider for a moment the
the accompaniment of songs and rites portraying humanity's
after that time the idol was lifted from the water, the laments
something like it. Laments and dirges were sung around this
laments gave way to hymns of joy, and the initiate arose from
developments we shall discuss presently, to a festival in
to show later developments, I must here represent time in terms
remarkable development began to take place during the centuries
Evolution tended toward the development of a sense for
enduring elements of nature, for their understanding of
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psycho-spiritual development that has made us focus less and
earth forces alone hold them together? The moment the human
of history of which no physical documents survive, one
certain discontinuity in their earthly development, and
development was continuous up until about the thirtieth year,
much later than the former. Suppose now that the two men
entering into their development.
instincts, our temperament, our emotions, in a word, our
academic discipline to prove that existing documents do
brought to light since the study of documents cannot lead to a
completeness' sake I should briefly mention that ancient people
requirement for initiation was to develop, through
requirement. The candidate had to know that it was only before
Mysteries. And the moment a person learned in this way to
observe the phenomena of nature, to describe them, and so on.
terrestrial air. Surveying is concerned with the dimensions of
this had to be so; at the moment I only want to point out the
physical body had to cease during moments of knowledge. He had
elements combine and separate, you must look to the spiritual
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an extension of my comments of the last few days, I would like
movements, as we do with the planets.
phenomena.
vanishes from sight in a phenomenon we call the new moon. This
fundamentally since the moon separated from the earth. Prior to
bodies are infused with the capacity for movement. In fact, if
are the facts I mentioned relating to the secret of the
Wednesday Movement
resonates from Mars. Their movements, too, were in harmony with
admonishment to prepare for the summer's work. By contrast, the
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in humanity's development. Indeed, in ancient times
development originated within the Mysteries. To put it in
even though human beings are the most fundamental link in the
chain of historical development, in that they reincarnate
understand such matters we must examine them, as I mentioned
that animates our limbs, makes us into beings of movement:
outer development, preparing us to descend to Earth and
Yesterday I mentioned that certain people wandered from place
reincarnated in Aristotle and Alexander, as I mentioned at the
evolution, I may mention, as I have before, indeed for
very moment as Alexander the Great was born. As it burned,
Consider for a moment how much the devotees of the temple had
movements of the planets will all begin to transform
continue with the Ephesian Mysteries: as I mentioned,
out by the flames into the vast cosmic ether. At that moment
essence, all past and future achievements of
that is embodied in the above-mentioned eight concepts (they
joylessness and sentimentality, it must be a natural
anthroposophical movement, provided we are in a position to
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historical development.
importance, one associated with the fundamental idea and the
fundamental impulse of Christianity, as revealed to
in human evolution. But let us consider for a moment the
arrangements were carried out in such a way that he who was in
goes the way of all natural things. But just at the moment when
impression, the tremendous forward push that human life
veil in earthly acts performed by men, what is experienced by
of men, or at least for placing before their eyes in pictures,
conversant with the ceremony of initiation, were such men as
Golgotha. What could such men say of it? They could say:
Through thousands of years men have been brought to the secrets
life. What was experienced there by a few exceptional men has
historic fact. The most essential fact for men to know was
initiation. Such men could not take their bodies into the deep
come down to men on earth. How did they know this? Because the
accomplish a deed through which men might now find Him. That
how actually did the Mystery of Golgotha appear to men living
initiation men looked up towards existence on the Sun
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moment the non-earthly forces — those coming from beyond
corpse. The forces of the earth can only make corpses of men,
documents, not by what is observed with the help of spiritual
study for which external documents no longer exist, lying as
civilizations human development was very different from what it
development. During the last two thousand years and more we
foundation of Christianity. The development of individuals was
the facts that concern us at the moment.
happen, these two men not having seen each other for a long
certain arrangements
thirtieth year. These men then knew: I have become a quite
Sun-forces entered into the development of your earthly life.
as to his actions, and determine his instincts, his temperament,
experienced generally by men, and they became the
can be learned from documents, with everything external
take precedence of all documentary science; for the
documents.
moment what this force, this Sun-force, does. It is the force
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During all those ages in which men were aware of
the movements of the stars, when these are planets. No trace of
of the stars and the calculation of the movements of the
the external relationships of movement of this organism, and
movement the soul and spirit find expression.
grouping of the stars, in the movements of the planets, through
through statements made in my book,
circles round it. It showed influences exercised by it on men
This occurrence has been fundamentally changed since the time
Oracles held that the constellations and the mutual movements
in accordance with these movements the deeds of the Moon-beings
came to be associated in the consciousness of men with
men came to associate what was perceived from the moon with
side we have the impression made on the consciousness of men by
etheric body the aptitude for movement.
that permeates the souls of men, as love and
observation of Saturn impart to the etheric bodies of men their
Movement.
the way Mercury controls movements in the cosmos; not with feet
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Mysteries in the development of mankind.
times, by which men were able to develop, did in fact have its
of the Mysteries should decline, so for a long time men were
men have attained true inner freedom, that they are now
still it is there — it is implanted in the souls of men.
greater spirituality, men must begin to develop what in their
because men come again and again into earthly existence in
later epochs what they had experienced in earlier ones. Men are
the most important factors in the further development of human
influence the soul. Never did the souls and minds of men take
of Ephesus approached the image of the goddess, an enhancement
the arrangements at this centre of the Mysteries were so
(aufzunehmen)
(Mensch im allgemeinen).
Mercury's swinging movement of thy limbs ;
that enables him to become a being of movement, comes
this burning of the temple. Oh, how manifold and tremendous are
constellations, in the movements of the planets, is
firmament by those to whom the stars are not merely objects for
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evolution know that, fundamentally speaking, in all earlier
or five hundred years. We know with what widespread phenomena
themselves with such matters, it will be clear to men of the
accompanied by another phenomenon. If we carry ourselves back
spiritual development, we shall find that in respect of
spiritual knowledge, men were in a comparatively fortunate
spiritual world through direct vision. Just as men of the
aware of tones and colours, so were the men of old aware of
did men in olden times develop a particular gift of seership?
philosophers, Thales and Parmenides,
Anaximenes and Heraclitus, are still
influenced by their particular temperaments. This has not
hitherto been pointed out; the first mention of it is in my
significant took place when men allowed this philosophy to
men who devoted themselves to philosophy, faculties that were
from understanding what is seen. In the earliest epochs men
in our day. Men had certain great, all-embracing notions,
Mysteries and there gave the monumental teaching of the four
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our Movement. You know that outwardly we began by linking
question. And it is this question which I want to mention as
with the position I have to take in the spiritual Movement,
inevitable result of the developments I described in the
instruments for research had to be sought among persons in
Lodges and Orders experiments were made whereby spiritual
was not the case we shall hear in a moment. Taken as a whole,
introduced into the occult Movement.
men that there is indeed a spiritual world. That is what they
in the development of occultism in the forties, fifties and
bring these special aims to fulfilment. The leading circle of
spiritual development on the Earth must be at hand. I can
the development of occultism, a personality appeared who
not but say to himself: Now, at the right moment, a
but certain matters of importance must be mentioned. A really
crucial moment had arrived which I can indicate in the
left-wing. But she was fundamentally honest by nature and
her fundamental honesty, she tried on her side to reach a
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Movement in the nineteenth century and its relation to
men were still too closely connected with the impulses of the
rise to all the phenomena of life and of the spirit —
fragment of spirit he still sought to find in the phenomena
that men might become aware of what actually confronts them
in movement — and this is the All. Fundamentally, it is
again men come to these atoms. How are they found? How does
Mention has
rudiments of the physical body were imparted to man on Old
product of the Earth. During the Earth's development,
neighbourhood of others and then still another filament
moment when, together with his ego and astral body, he slips
and especially of the moment when he slips into the body
nerve-filaments, right to the very outermost ramifications of
body also plays a part—its movement at any rate. The
does. At the moment of waking man dives down into
number of spatial points within him. At this moment he is in
get behind it. Similarly, at the moment of waking a man comes
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these lectures about the development of spiritual life in the
materialistic outlook by means of the spiritual Movement of
from different sides among occultists to save men from
spiritual development of the nineteenth century to the
Circe, a temptress, and men's proclivities and feelings
For it may truly be said that the men of the nineteenth
achievements of natural science which with all their
other was that the hearts and souls of men were so attuned as
All the factors combined to put men to the test, as it were,
men live after death. The most remarkable thing of all, in
repeated Earth-lives! In the development of mediumship there
was so strong in men. Now what is said in the Vienna lectures
matter about which, if a spiritual Movement is to make any
Lucifer. In the nineteenth century men had no faculty for
only make certain statements on this subject today, but later
consequence mentioned yesterday if people would only hold
into the concepts formed of outer phenomena and deceives man
situation in which men were involved in the course of the
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a secret matter until it was mentioned by Sinnett.
the Eighth Sphere. The fact that all mention was avoided for
describing the development of the spiritual Movement in the
statement is that the physical Moon is directly connected
evolution and, fundamentally, such a diagram is of no other
our environment. Hence it must be presumed that just as the
Eighth Sphere in our environment. This means that an organ
environment; what is perceived through the physical senses
that the mineral element is totally absent from the Eighth
eliminate the mineral element in thought, all that remains is
to say, a transition of the third elemental kingdom —
kingdom took place. The mineral element was added. Otherwise
with, the Old Moon element, but owing to a particular
happening this Old Moon element undergoes a change. What took
Spirits of Movement are added those of the Spirits of Form
of the Spirits of Movement.
Ahriman are added to those of the Spirits of Movement and, as
the moment of the birth of the Fourth Sphere. Thus when the
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that the path of development which the spiritual-scientific
exercise our power of free judgment.
exercise his own faculty of free judgment. It is very
is during the period when our power of judgment is not yet
received. For the sake of our power of free judgment we must,
judgment in later life.
men — I say, can have an effect. Just because oriental
real; they take effect even when men do not yet
Cosmos; and it was desired from this quarter that men should
knowledge, was present as an ancient heritage, men directed
questionable science — played a part of tremendous
men, in the feelings of the believers, so that men might be
man's gaze was restricted to the phenomena of earthly
again find his links with the phenomena of the Heavens.
times men did not perceive, did not think with the physical
materialism in the nineteenth century, then men must
concept of nourishment is connected erroneously with the
external nourishment is not the fact of primary importance
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spiritual-scientific Movement such as ours must be one which
this evolution. Such a Movement must therefore necessarily
longer suitable for our times; it must be a Movement which
he was trying to make our Movement known in Italy. It was
of all was the inaccuracy of the statements purporting to
mediums, statements had been made which were not
Our whole development depends upon this
from taking root among men. You will know from your own
it down as a fundamental principle to speak only of what one
different matter from the development of the second teeth. I
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spiritual-scientific Movement arise, naturally in a way, from
the moment one does so, one is obliged to give certain
not make any fundamental misuse of it because the symbols
upon him as if they were phenomena of nature. If he wished to
employed for this purpose but for penetrating the phenomena
of phenomena of nature, the moral aspect does not come into
objectively and with complete detachment. Symbols are a
development of natural science since the time of Galileo,
this did not happen, and so to those whose mental horizon has
of tremendous import have come to pass. Carlyle illustrates
distinguished Lord Mayor, a figure of tremendous importance.
stupidity to maintain that there are no men of genius in the
seven men had worked in Florence at that time, we should
Viewed in this light, matters of immense significance open
phenomena of outer nature. But there are also certain dangers
when men do not only pierce through the veil of the phenomena
outcome was that Paul the Simpleton underwent a tremendous
recommending that this example of what Father Antonius did
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you that, fundamentally speaking, the appearance of
external phenomena of the physical world, materialism is
good; it is a good instrument for investigating the mineral
into the mineral element contained in stones, plants, animals
and men is the task of materialism and its method; in
acquires that which, fundamentally speaking, he must acquire
so hand over the secrets to men. The natural scientists said
men only so far as the veil and not behind it.’
nevertheless. Fundamentally speaking, they render humanity
would be that men still unprepared would come into possession
everything to cause men to be beset by doubt upon doubt. But
task of Spiritual Science to make men realise that a great
the soul, there will come what men truly need.
immediately shows that he has no notion of the fundamental
it were thus presented to men, it would bring about exactly
there actually exists in the world an Order which leads men
preparation. In all such men, instincts of destruction are
conceal this by offering men the consolation that the life of
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on the one side by the veil placed before us by the phenomena
phenomena of nature on the one side, with the objective
relationship to other men; in a certain sense he was too
fellowmen than one who is normal; and by strengthening his
fellow-men, because they allow themselves to be too strongly
him as a rare, out-of-the-common phenomenon. Precisely where
we are now living in the age of the development of the
the development of the Spirit-Self. Such development has a
be outspread as a power to which men must submit — as a
men.
epoch. A time will actually come when phenomena now only in
the world can form a true judgment in regard to this
phenomenon. It is well known, for example, that writers in
mind, for it is a phenomenon which will become more and more
possession of the intelligence of men. That is a prospect
men's individual intelligence and appropriate it for
From his environment, for whensoe'er
Spiritual Science should be aware. Men must strive as time
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historical development of mankind. We will then link these to
host, a sacramental symbol. To the left and right are religious
certain nostalgia for the artistic immensity of antiquity and
the close connection of the development of the outer Christian
ecclesiastical world and then again, what the establishment of
other side it relates to the entire historic development of the
have often mentioned that people today have the impression that
these mentioned centuries, which we find difficult enough to
supplementary. To search for The Christ amidst spiritual
the earth really was some kind of supplement to the
course of time. A moment is eternalized in this painting by the
sacrament, we have to some measure an image in the lower layers
spiritual background in the development of humanity.
history still has to reduce some judgements regarding our
testament of the 4th post-Atlantean time.
into the East, it was now a testament of the 4th
somewhat divided as the testament of the 4th
The musical element of the North took the place
of the colour and form-rich testament of the
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it was preparatory. In the first moments of this epoch one only
can say these centuries just mentioned was a time for
out of original elementary nature, this was being pushed back,
mentioned, would have made available certain observations of
appearing only sometimes at celebratory moments in their soul
this was the requirement for everything experienced in the
from the South. Naturally depictions with this requirement
domination, the blossoming of rural development. The cities, so
remained behind, traditions of alignment, colour application
it here where the artistic element first only dares to appear,
the bible, this battle of the two elements can be seen in a
earth to men of goodwill”, when you take this you
all three of the men's faces we find the endeavour: represent
on. You sense the requirement and at the same time sense such a
requirements of how something like this was to be done, teach,
Roman Empire the impulse from the establishment of cities to
depict history and unite it with the requirements of
solidified. It had to wait. Movement was brought in from the
just mentioned, shown in another representation. Consider just
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elements which are the closest to reality in these
the 4th post-Atlantic epoch one element asserted
itself in particular — here we approach the development in art
artistic development's depiction was what there was to be
that time, in the most beautiful movements in the widest sense
no other time of earth's development can such a similar
adornment. The idea of embellishment was unknown to the Greeks.
flourishing. The idea that embellishment could be added was
the continuing cultural development. The idea to which the
with adornments so that they would “shine” on the
accomplishment.
prospering element, the vitality as it grows within the
human being as the highest accomplishment of life, who in death
how this development wants to merge with the other form, yet
the Old and New Testament were the favoured elements to be
below of biblical scenes from the Old and New Testaments. It
figural moving back to allow the refinement of human form. I
in the movement of the linear quality of the figures, how the
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only started from the moment when, within historical
development, the concept of the Gospels as a literal perception
forms of the old, ancient pagan artistic development.
the content of the Christian development. This is very
development to depict images of the Gospel scenes as such,
pagan. Now a question about such a statement is created: what
form; one should remember what I already mentioned in previous
movement, streamlined with muscle contraction. The rendering in
which in Greek art, in their higher development, are regarded
see this is the curious thing in pagan art development in its
sufficiently far in its development that it had its own powers
was merely represented by using the mentioned deviation of an
further development of art. It is basically also being answered
we see, the moment humanity wanted to conquer the pagan, just
specifically human into the commonly typically cosmic element.
figure a reality, but to show how the cosmic element is at war
other. The cosmic element here still carries more weight, but
individually human element into the form. So we see how
endeavour existed to maintain the whole arrangement of lines
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further training and development; upon the realisation that as
became accessible to men, that the Eastern sages spoke in
they strove to achieve this higher development. Not until
higher development can the meaning of the records of ancient
In characterising the path of development adopted by those
understand these paths of development into the higher
those who in their search for ways of higher development see
Some understanding of the ancient path of development
then live freely with our Ego in the element of
to the point of penetrating into the spiritual world. As men in
social community with other men.
with the outer world of men: speech, the capacity to understand
development and was the means of transforming into
inner, not an outer, authority. (Fundamentally speaking,
men to Inspiration — the precautionary
intercourse with other men.
earthly men with the path leading to pathological phenomena.
blossom, or of the stamens. Goethe realises that precisely by
of antiquity men of the East were predisposed by nature to live
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way of spiritual development. A reactionary harking back
historical development is impossible. For the Western
requirements of someone with a definite scientific training.
in an element of his soul-life where this had been
fundamentally misunderstood the book. It should be more or less
Philosophy is fundamentally impossible without a grasp of at
chapter devoted to the development of Goethe's attitude to
phenomena, so that we absorb them without thinking about them.
infuse it with life and movement, not in the way we
in what I have called phenomenalism — that
is, in elaborating the phenomena — is an
the phenomena and to follow them through to their
conceptional activity away from the phenomena. And if at
the same time we turn the phenomena into symbols and images, we
arise, leaving them undisturbed by phenomena present in
spiritual element which actuates the processes of growth. We
living forces at work in our bodies. It is phenomenology itself
outer world. It is the observation of phenomena, and not
function. We have a sense of movement, which tells us, even in
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the Jews — I mentioned them as the fourth people in the evolutionary
Nazareth lived in Palestine, in a Jewish environment. The Jewish religion
the environment of the Jewish religion.
“crystal heavens” spoken of in Greek antiquity. I mention
it was to these Spiritual Beings, not to the physical stars, that men
other heavenly bodies have a certain influence upon men and upon
development into a human embryo is only able to take place because
Men from the East who had seen a star and were led by this star to
constellations the Wise Men recognised from the position of the stars
that a momentous event was about to take place. And so at the very
momentous teaching. But such things must not be regarded merely as theories;
soul entered into man by way of the Moon and received its endowments
discernment can readily distinguish the fundamental character of the
a tradition and is no longer understood. At a certain moment in
with new life by the Sun ... And from that moment, He who had been
the forces of the Moon; but because at a certain moment in his life
men were like new beings when they reached the age of 30, and they
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moment?
does not quite cover the case you mentioned, for the man claims that he
From the statement as it stands, the details could not all be put to
myself was not at all astonished at the statement because I can well
astonish me was the stupid comment of the journalists, who said that
been known for a very long time! This kind of comment astonished me
far more than the phenomenon itself. The phenomenon itself is
connected with what I have been telling you. In earlier times men
these things were known but they have all been forgotten. Men asked
to the accompaniment of songs of mourning and lamentation. The
Death, the Friday of mourning and lamentation. It was a
those who instituted the Adonis Festival was to make men realise that the
year to men's consciousness, the Adonis Festival was instituted. In
and spirit after three days. Of this men must be made conscious! ...
beautiful festival, celebrated through long ages of antiquity. Men gathered
But by that time men had lost all understanding of the spiritual
come up when it rains. And so it is with the men of modern times;
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These are three lectures given to workmen at the Goetheanum, Dornach,
you of something I have often mentioned in your presence. In ancient records
taken of this to-day. In the New Testament a great deal is said about
the body. It is believed that the men of old were instinctively
men and this picture would give them goose-flesh, cause a burst of
to be effective, the forces in the environment of a man must be used
was only when men came to Him in the evening twilight that the words
caused in the hearts of certain men by what came to pass in Palestine at
the development of the Jewish people proceeded in olden times was a most
recognised spiritual beings in all the phenomena of nature — a
in the phenomena of nature. They acknowledged the one God, Jahve or
both. Generally speaking, men are very lax about clarity of thought
living in all the phenomena of nature; God the Son, working in man's
adherence is not strongly forced upon them, men readily become
longer known but men unenlightened in this respect actually pray to
the Monstrance, they pray to something external. Men are easily
obvious of all in one particular field. Fundamentally speaking, Christians
tremendously important part in the development of medicine in the
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maintains life. As physical men we are entirely dependent on the
able to live. The fact that the arrangement of rivers and seas has
it is true that the entire water-circulation is of immense
subject is generally dismissed by the statement that such a river as
soil by obtaining the salt for nourishment. The plant is most salty
not merely a development of the egg in the maternal body, but that
roundness. We see the movement of the universe outside us
it all. While this experiment was being made we were obliged by the
requirements of modern science to produce a palpable and evident
statements of Spiritual Science. You can gather from this that
pronouncements made out of spiritual knowledge can enter quite
influences, so are the rudiments of man and animal formed spherically
give its muscles right nourishment it needs the earth-forces found
alive on the earth is in movement.
And so too with speech. For right-handed people more nourishment is
possible arrangement is made for man to contain the earth-forces on
himself, as I have said. He develops this left-earthly element, this
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Fundamentals of Therapy,
“The Phenomena of Life.”]
cementing the two together.
present animals and men were not then in existence, but the
from silica, mix it with other substances by which the silica element
achievements in medicine can be secured if one reflects upon the
and which one can very well employ as medicaments.
healed with silica; the abdomen tends most towards the earth, hence
very forces by which the birds find their direction! Only we men have
and make use of it as a medicament, you can heal head ailments very
earth will once more be plant-like and men and animals return to the
instance, we find that children cannot absorb proper nourishment.
persistent undernourishment, the digestive organs gradually form the
again to take in nourishment. Here one is well served by the little
one's treatment in this way. It is also possible to ask: what
experimenting in using the less dead for colours. So when we painted

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but are an extremely important means of nourishment. We take salt
nourishment from salt in the form in which it is present in external
which it develops; it is the primary and fundamental substance out of
moment of his life he were without protein he would immediately die.
because in order to think its forces must be kept free; the abdomen
Europe from the moment the potato became an important constituent of
who can think in a truly therapeutic way will know that a medicament
soul-and-spirit finds in the embryonic head elements which derive
are matters of tremendous importance! Social conditions depend upon
and so forth, is of no fundamental value. If Communism ever succeeded
for example, that potatoes nourish the mental life of human beings as
health or sickness among men this kind of knowledge is of no
reaching heaven through prayer and the sacraments. Well and good ...
no foundation in knowledge actually sidetracks men from recognising
experience that most clergymen think it important to preach about the
nature, not only when men pray or converse on the subject of Holy
to such statements! It was just the same in 1908 when Anthroposophy
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for example, comets and meteors — all these phenomena are
otherwise we should be iron men ... which would certainly make for
strength, but if we were iron men we could not do many other things.
want to be dead carbon men, but living men, who destroy substance and
how would this free will help us as earth-men if we had not arms and
have carbon, for it is taken from the carbonic acid of men and
animals. Thus plants are formed by what is breathed out by men and
serves the process of the taking of nourishment. And so there is: a
tend to mix everything up. A man may say of the condiments on the
coffee, since salt is a condiment and so is sugar! This is on a par
just as nonsensical as saying: condiment is condiment. For when one
periods commence. This hoarseness corresponds to the anaemia of girls

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men then breathe in and that man himself breathes out carbonic acid gas.
in its surroundings. The soil environment works into it. That is
when so many men take incorrect nourishment and then rot as corpses in the
happens when men live healthily. And here again, the food which grows
well if we speak about the whole plant. The health of men is completely
be found a treatment made up of soda baths, iron arsenite
fluid-airy element into which the plant comes when it has grown out
of the earthy-fluidic element.
up her life to the plant, the plant dies, the air environment along
none. One must take the same earth, because many specimens previously
experiments were made in Stuttgart, and you plainly see, when you
simply through the constitution of the earth, through what men put into the
rightly direct his movements. If the effect is much stronger,
men. It is useless to make a lot of statements — one must do so
necessary for the development of the brain — the brain, one
the women do not produce proper milk; the children get milk on which
adults can also suffer from it, because men are all their lives
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such a statement is well-founded — there are other ways too, of
Most medicaments, indeed, are prepared from substances which,
medicaments in such a way that they have the right
supplement, and most of it is subsequently excreted. If as human
who make these tentative experiments really know to what syphilis is
experimentally Strangely enough, all these medicaments contain
course, that something happens in the human being when a medicament
moment a man has taken a mineral poison. This is the self-defence put
egg has been beaten; in this way, fluid albumen reaches the
poison unites with this fluid albumen and can be got rid of by
albumen. This is a deterrent to the injurious effects of the lead.
I have myself produced is that I also have albumen in my body. And
all the time. The albumen that is always present in the human being
stomach and then add albumen, I am really doing what the body is
either albumen-water — the egg comes from the hen and has life
in the stomach by an antidote, it passes on into the abdomen where
antidote, something that derives from the ether body — albumen
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Gegenwart nennt, etwas im sozialen Leben der ganzen Menschheit
Menschheit, und inwiefern in der ganzen neueren
Entwickelung der Menschheit die soziale Frage eine
angenommen hat, das kann aus den Vorträgen
gewissermaßen das Bedürfnis gekommen, auch von
der Menschheit, namentlich auch mit Bezug auf die soziale
Frage, irgendwie zu einem Urteil zu kommen, das durch die uns
mancherlei in Aussicht genommen worden.
sagen wir, Menschheitsposition vorbestimmt ist, die ihm
Aspirationen, die aus unserer Mitte herausgekommen sind,
eine Kluft, ein Abgrund ist zwischen den Menschenklassen: auf
Menschheit mehr oder weniger leitenden Kreise waren — und
wir, Menschengruppen ist. In den letzten Tagen konnte ja jedem,
leitenden Kreise der Menschheit ist, diese Geschicke der
Menschheit und der Gegenwart in die Hand genommen werden
Menschheitsentwickelung, zunächst wohl gar nicht
ist eine so fundamental wichtige Erscheinung, eine so
einen großen Teil der zivilisierten Menschheit schon als
Menschheit da, daß wohl kaum in diesem geschichtlichen
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Anknüpfung an das gestern im Zusammenhange mit
Menschheit darauf ankommt, in möglichst vielen
Menschen richtiges soziales Verständnis
hervorgebracht haben; ein Chaos, dem nur beizukommen sein
wird von den Menschenseelen selbst aus. Äußere
einmal gekommen ist, nicht in durchgreifender Weise der
Menschheit helfen können. Gewiß, es kann in
eine die ganze Menschheit umfassende entwickeln muß. Von
den Begriffen der Menschenseelen gegenüber den
keine Hilfe kommen.
streben, wenn die Menschen sich nicht geeignet erweisen, diese
Menschheit — man kann sagen, die heutige Menschheit aller
erreichen könne. Was den Menschen heute fehlt, das
den Menschen, weil die ganze Entwicklung des Denkens, die ganze
Entwickelung des Fühlens und Wollens der Menschheit
elementarsten Richtlinien nach dem sozialen
Verständnis hin der heutigen Menschheit
fehlen. Die Menschen denken an ganz andere Dinge, als an
Menschen heute beruhigen; die Menschen glauben, daß
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Menschheit hineinkommen muß, wenn in der richtigen Art
und damit auch das Wollen der Menschheit radikal anders
Menschheit von dem Gesichtspunkte aus, der sich aus
Menschheit für den fünften nachatlantischen
nachatlantischen Zeiträume bei den Menschen, die mit einem
Menschen das zugrunde liegende Denken bestimmte Formen annimmt.
Und von diesem zugrunde liegenden Denken, das bestimmte Formen
der Menschen, die sie haben können gemäß dem
politische Staat, von dem die meisten Menschen heute glauben,
meisten Menschen heute mit dem sozialen Organismus verwechseln,
gewissermaßen nur ein Departement, ein Glied des
dem Zusammenhalten dieser beiden Dinge ein Wichtiges für
gegenwärtigen Menschen. Mit Bezug auf das, was an
ist, die Menschen noch lange im Unbestimmten tappen. Das
Denken der gegenwärtigen Menschen ist, die nach einer
wahr, uns muß es mehr darauf ankommen, die Artung, die
Formung, die Gestaltung des Denkens der Menschen zu beobachten,
schließlich die Menschen denken, darauf kommt es sehr,
sehr viel weniger an, als wie die Menschen denken, wie
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Verlaufe der Menschheitsentwickelung sich zeigt, daß im
Innersten der menschlichen Seele, in dem unbewußten
Inneren der menschlichen Seele etwas ganz anderes
dieser menschlichen Seele vorgeht. Der Mensch kann, wie wir
öfter vernommen haben, glauben, er strebe diesem
ganze Menschenklasse in einer bestimmten Artung eines
wovon die Menschen glauben, daß es vorgeht, nur eine
Arbeitgeber dem Arbeiter abgenommen wird, ohne daß der
Gliedern setzt sich im wesentlichen das zusammen, was im
gegenwärtigen Menschheit, zu der im wesentlichen
Nehmen Sie die materialistische Geschichtsauffassung. Sie ist
Menschenentwickelung heraufgestiegen ist. Dieser
Menschheit zuerst auf dem Felde der Naturwissenschaft sich
das im Grunde genommen nur das Erbe der
Vorstellungsart angenommen hat, hat sich der Materialismus dann
ökonomischen Lebens der Menschheit abspielt.
Verlaufe des Menschenlebens ist nur das, was eben im Gebiete
vorgeht, und je nach dem die Menschen in der einen oder
auf die Wirtschaftskämpfe, was die Menschen in ihre
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eine Bewegung innerhalb der Menschheit zu verstehen,
sorgfältig darauf sehen muß, was bei Menschen,
übrigen Zeitgenossen dieser Menschen einerseits an
modernen Menschheit nach einer gewissen geistigen Erkenntnis
modernen Menschheit wie eine tiefe Sehnsucht
aufgenommen hat. Wer Geschichte nicht theoretisch, sondern der
Strömungen im Weltenwerden der Menschheit auch
Bolschewisten? — da wird man mit verschiedenen Namen
Namen sind Lenin, Trotzki. Aber ich will Ihnen einen
Inhaltlich genommen, wenn man darauf sieht, wie sich das in der
würde es sich ausnehmen als Bolschewismus. Man
Dingen zu sehen einen einsamen Denker, der zu hohen
philosophischen Ideen gekommen ist, und der auch im
derselben Weise auf die Gliederung der Menschheit hingeht, wie
denken, daß viele Menschen, die von den mancherlei
Gefühl, daß das, was die Menschen auf der einen
hätte. Es ist, als ob die menschlichen Seelen ein
Verstandesgrundsätzen zusammengesetzt werden.
künstliche Herstellung eines Menschleins, des
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Menschheitszustand erleben kann, eine Wirklichkeit ist, oder ob
was die Menschheit jetzt erlebt, eigentlich nur eine Art von
Krieg: läßt sich eine menschliche Vernunft denken,
Gesellschaft, in der die Menschen trotz Eisenbahn und trotz
heute den Menschen, sich zu fragen: Träumen wir oder
wäre eigentlich ganz gut, wenn die Menschen sich heute in
Zusammenhang wirklich erkennt, so sieht man das — zu der
Zusammenleben der Menschen zum Ausdruck gebracht hat, was
die Menschen aus ihren Denkgewohnheiten haben einfließen
geworden, in dem der Mensch heute zwar drinnensteht, und das er
Impulse der geistigen Welt kommen kann. Denn das, was
Sackgasse hineingekommen, aus der es sich nicht wieder
eigentlich erlebt? Wir haben erlebt, daß die Menschheit
kommen konnten, wenn wir gerade innerhalb derjenigen
Menschheitsströmung waren, die sich in irgendeiner Weise
Menschheit eben die moderne Zivilisation genannt hat. Und
innerhalb der menschlichen Gesellschaft bezeichnet habe. Man
Menschen ging, die einen solchen Wunsch entsprechend ihrer
geben, um zur Heilung zu kommen, als eben einzusehen, daß
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werden Sie finden, daß durch die ganze Menschheit im
Grunde genommen ein gewisser Zug geht, der wenig geeignet
Menschen gegen Gedanken, die nicht in altgewohnter Weise
heute, zu fragen: Wie kommt es, daß die Menschen
gehend, ein Grundphänomen. Ich habe schon
Grundphänomen vor Jahren ausgesprochen hat. Man
Maßnahmen, der so recht der heutigen Zeit
angehörigen Menschen? Ich habe in den
Verschiedenen war im Grunde genommen alles von demselben
Frühsommer des Jahres 1914. Diese Menschen reden in
seit Jahren zu reden gewohnt sind. Sie haben im Grunde genommen
wirklich nichts, aber auch gar nichts aufgenommen von den
lebendigen Gottes. Da man nicht annehmen darf, daß der
Christus ein Heuchler gewesen sei, da man auch nicht annehmen
werden» — so rief der Mann in die Menge hinein
Temperament in die Menge hineingeworfen, und es waren wohl
die Menschheit hereingebrochen? Sollte es heute noch ein Herz
wiederum in die Menge hineinzuschreien. — Und ich
die besten waren; denn sie kamen wenigstens aus einer
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daß mir keine andere Auffassung in den Sinn gekommen ist.
unter unerträglichen Opfern angenommen werden, und
gemeinsamen Genuß einer allen gemeinsam zugute kommenden
Menschheit heilsamen Art ändern können.
ineinander die Maßnahmen, die der einzelne im
höchsten Angelegenheiten der Menschheit. Daher
Geisteswissenschaft durch die Menschen nennen, handelt es
aufgenommen werde. Das wäre das Was. Es
Zeit eine gewisse Gestalt angenommen hat, welche als solche die
Menschen abhält, ihre Blicke nach der geistigen Welt
traurigen Ereignisse eine gewisse Strafe der Menschheit seien
der menschlichen Gedanken in eine soziale Richtung in der
Zukunft nicht auskommen wird. Das lehren die Tatsachen;
Menschheit bewirken muß. Eine Grundlage, das
mancherlei zusammenfassen, was wir bisher an Andeutungen
ohne den Menschen gefährlich zu werden, dazumal
haben die Menschen ja so wenig Neigung, auf den wirklichen
gekommen in Hegel. Und von Hegel habe ich Ihnen ja
für den Menschen. Hegel stellt ja, was er
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Sache aus England teilgenommen haben, war ja abgehalten worden
durch das Feuer hinweggenommen worden ist.
Geistessitz, in Oxford. Und vielleicht darf ich annehmen,
Vorträge, die Veranlassung kommen konnte, daß eine
angenommen werden, daß gewissermaßen schon in dem
Schilderung von Prinzipien handelt, die an den Menschen selbst,
eigentlich im Grunde genommen von vornherein eine Art
Verräter ist an dem, was sie selber in ihrem Namen
ihren Namen in der größtdenkbaren Einseitigkeit. Das
vornherein, wie der Grieche aus einer menschlichen
schloß die Hälfte der Menschen ganz aus von dem, was
der Mann ein Mensch, und das weibliche Wesen mußte sich
Namen nach ein Knabenführer. Er ist nur für das
Menschlichen abzustreifen. Wir mußten dasjenige, was der
Einseitigkeit, die in dem Namen Pädagogik vorliegt. Im
Menschen im allgemeinen. Es war ja nicht nur die
denn nach den alten Prinzipien der allgemeine Mensch zum
war? Nie! Heute ist aber die Menschheit durchaus auf dem Wege
nach der Suche des Menschen, der reinen, ungetrübten,
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inneren Gang der menschlichen Zivilisation, mit demjenigen, was
im Laufe der Zeiten die Seelen der Menschen verändert hat,
mit dem, was die Seelen der Menschen im Laufe von
an den Menschen im Kinde herankommen kann. Man gibt ja im
erinnern, wie der Mensch im alltäglichen Leben mit diesen
Differenzierungen rechnet. Nehmen Sie das
Mittag, am Abend. Und wir würden uns absurd vorkommen,
trügen. Wir würden uns auch absurd vorkommen,
wenn wir einer anderen Entwickelung im Menschenleben nicht
anderes an den alten Menschen heranbringen müssen als an
die Tatsachen. Aber noch nicht hat sich die Menschheit
Menschheitsentwickelung zu respektieren.
Menschheit da war als im Mittelalter und als es in der
Kräfte der Menschen zur Erkenntnis zu bringen, wenn
Kräfte gerade heute im Menschen walten.
gegenwärtig in der Menschennatur walten,
den Menschen heute in das soziale Leben nach Körper, Seele
des Erziehungswesens der Menschheit in der
in den einzelnen Zeitaltern derjenige Mensch hat bringen
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gegenwärtigen Zeitpunkte des Menschheitslebens dieselbe
diesem siebenten menschlichen Lebensjahre, so bietet sich uns
Tatsache hin, die im menschlichen Leben gegenwärtig gar
hin, daß der menschliche Organismus so geartet ist,
siebente Jahr herum, treibt aus der Gesamtheit der menschlichen
im gesamten menschlichen Lebenslauf, weil es sich ja nun nicht
bedeutet, dann im ganzen menschlichen Erdenleben bis zum Tode
dasjenige, was sonst mit dem Menschen um dieses siebente
wächst und gedeiht der Mensch, man mochte sagen,
bis zum siebenten Jahre eine Einheit. Indem der Mensch seine
Weil alles in diesem Lebensabschnitt noch beisammen ist, ist
der Mensch gewissermaßen mit jener starken inneren
dem Inneren des Organismus heraus. Warum? Nehmen wir einmal an,
wir bekämen alle sieben Jahre Zähne. Ich will die
der Seele stehen kann. Nehmen wir an, wir würden dieselben
alle sieben Jahre neue Zähne bekommen; die alten
bekommen, aber wir würden auch unser ganzes Leben hindurch
ähnlicher Vorgang geschieht ja auch dann, wenn der Mensch
Lebensabschnitte, bis zum siebenten Jahre der Mensch
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Menschen gehabt haben, und aus dieser intimen Kenntnis des
ganzen Menschen heraus in einer Art, die wir heute nicht mehr
Erkenntnis des ganzen Menschen war beim Griechen eine solche,
die ganz und gar folgte aus dem menschlichen Körper. Der
menschliche Körper war in gewisser Beziehung für den
ganzen Menschen erzogen. Was nicht aus dem Körper
Menschen verhältnismäßig spät, etwa erst
größten Illusionen in der Menschheitsentwickelung
Menschheit zu tun hatten, könnten heute wieder erneuert
körperlichen Erziehung hinzukommen vom Geiste aus.
Denn die Menschheit ist einmal — es mag einem das
dem Punkte angekommen, den Geist als solchen erfassen zu
müssen, den Geist als eigenen menschlichen Inhalt sich
durch menschliche Arbeit erringen zu müssen.
des Geistes gekommen ist. Und dann entsteht die
Sehnsucht, gerade um der Erziehung des Menschen willen,
den Geist immer weiter und weiter auch zu einem menschlichen
dasjenige, was die gegenwärtige Menschheit an Geist
beherrscht im Grunde genommen auch in den Weiten und in den
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Fühlen im Menschen um das siebente und das vierzehnte Jahr
möchte ich zeigen, wie der "Wille in der menschlichen
Grunde genommen ist der menschliche Wille am längsten an
einundzwanzigste Jahr hin ist alles, was menschlicher
Tätigkeit, die namentlich ausgeführt wird durch
Beinen, den Füßen, Armen, Händen, wenn der
Mensch sich bewegt und in willensmäßige
wahren. Man muß sehen können, wie ein junger Mensch
alles aber: wie der Mensch seine Beine setzt, wie der Mensch in
den jungen Menschen nach dem fünfzehnten Jahre eine
Erscheinung im Menschenleben. Die Emanzipation des
Menschen schon weniger auffällig. Das Gefühl also
Zeitalter sind ja die Menschen nach ihrer eigenen Meinung
Menschen vor sich geht, weil sie durchaus innerlich ist. Aber
einundzwanzigsten Jahre approximativ ist der Mensch noch nicht
Mensch gewissermaßen von unten herauf einen
Mensch setzt mit dem einundzwanzigsten Lebensjahre die Sohle
einer fundamentalen Wichtigkeit für die ganze
Menschenerkenntnis, insofern sich diese in Erziehung
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menschlichen Herzen. Und dies ist gerade für den Erzieher,
Menschenerkenntnis.
in die ganze menschliche Wesenheit nach Leib, Seele und Geist
in dieser Art lebendige Ideen hat über den Menschen, bei
orientierte Menschenerkenntnis leitet dazu an, in dem
die Bedingung, daß die entsprechende Menschenerkenntnis
Erziehung eine Angelegenheit der ganzen Menschheit, jeder
Familie, jeder Menschengemeinschaft ist. Aber gerade dieses
Lebensjahren lernt der Mensch für das Leben viel mehr als
die Gesamtentwickelung des Menschen die allerwichtigsten,
denn da ist das Kind als Mensch etwas ganz anderes als
späteren Leben hat der Mensch einen Geschmack von den
aufgenommenen Speisen im Munde, im Gaumen, auf der Zunge.
höheres Niveau heraufgehoben. Der Mensch ist nie Tier,
Stufe heraufheben, dann bekommen wir das Erlebnis des Kindes
lokalisiert sind beim erwachsenen Menschen. Aber das, was beim
erwachsenen Menschen in den Sinnen lokalisiert ist, ist
wird innerlich nachgebildet. Das Kind bildet nachahmend die
den Armen und Händen. Der ganze Organismus wird
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Lebensjahre der Mensch innerlich eigentlich Plastiker
ist. Vom Haupte des Menschen gehen die Bildekräfte aus und
organisieren den ganzen Menschen. Was der Mensch in seiner
und so weiter mit, so daß der Mensch als physische
was er bis zum Zahnwechsel nachahmend geworden ist. Nicht als
Menschen mit auf den Lebensweg geben, wenn wir seinen
Plastiker im Menschen bis zum siebenten Lebensjahre in der Art
damit er es nachahmen könne. Von den genaueren Details
der Zeit zur Darstellung kommen.
musikalisch angelegter Mensch ist, so daß wirklich
Elemente. Und wenn heute das Unterrichten viel zu wünschen
Zivilisation als solche bei den Erwachsenen im Grunde genommen
appellieren an das rhythmische System des Menschen. Es
körperlich gesunde Menschen erziehen, das
Körperübungen so einrichten, daß der Mensch
hineinblicken in die gesamte menschliche Wesenheit.
menschlichen Leben gehört ein Drittel der Zeit, die
menschlichen Erdendasein einen regelmäßigen
größte Rolle im menschlichen Erdendasein, und man
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aufzublicken von der irdischen Menschenerziehung, die wir uns
göttlichen Erziehern der gesamten Menschheit, zu den
Weltenerziehern, welche die Menschheit im Laufe der
im Zusammenhange mit der Welterkenntnis von der Menschheit
Menschheit entgegenstellen, als eine fortlaufende Erziehung des
Menschengeschlechtes, als ein immer erneutes Durchdringen mit
der Menschheit nennen kann.
Menschheitsentwickelung eine irgendwie geartete
Initiationswissenschaft erscheint der Gang der Menschheit ein
der Menschheit, die etwa ihren Abschluß gefunden hat im 8.
Menschheitsentwickelung blicken, welche ihren Glanz und
immerdauernder Impuls in diese Menschheitsentwickelung
hereingekommen ist. Und man kann dann eine dritte Epoche ins
Menschen durch seine naturgemäße Entwickelung, durch
großes, in das Menschenschicksal tief eingreifendes
Gestalt, weil die Menschheit verschiedene
erscheinen die Menschenseelen, seit sie sich, wie man
unbefangener in die Wirklichkeit des Menschenlebens
hineinschaut, dem erscheint die Menschenseele in der ersten
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hinzufügen, um namentlich zu zeigen, wie durch einen
Anspruch genommen wird, so daß man durch einen solchen
Grunde, weil das Schreiben mehr von dem ganzen Menschen in
zu dem sich aber im Grunde genommen der ganze Mensch anschicken
aus dem ganzen Menschen heraus dasjenige holen, was zu
Bild zu bringen. Wir nehmen an, wir seien so weit
gekommen, daß wir dem Kinde etwas beigebracht haben
fließenden Wassers entlang, zum zeichnerischen Formen
folgende Zeichnung macht, daß es den menschlichen Mund in
läßt es von da an herüberkommen zu
des Anfangslautes des Wortes kommen: «Fisch». Man
werden. Man bringt dem Kinde das Hinstürmen des
denn die Vokale entstammen der Offenbarung des menschlichen
Inneren. Im Grunde genommen ist das A zum Beispiel immer eine
Gebärden, die ja aus der menschlichen Lebendigkeit
menschlichen Seele hervorgeht.
genommen nichts anderes zu tun, als darauf hinzuwirken,
ungeheuren Wichtigkeit. Es verdirbt die ganze menschliche
Entwickelung, wenn der Mensch zu einem Abstrakten direkt
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ist der Mensch einmal ein Wesen, das aus Körper, Seele und
höheres Glied in der menschlichen Wesenheit, als den
Mensch hat ja zunächst seinen physischen Leib. Man nimmt
wahr. Der Mensch hat aber außer diesem physischen Leib
eine innere Organisation, die nur wahrgenommen werden
Bildekräfteleib. Und dann hat der Mensch in sich
eine Organisation, welche nur wahrgenommen werden kann durch
und in das eigentliche Ich des Menschen, in das
eigentliche Selbst des Menschen.
Schlafzustande läßt der Mensch seinen Äther-
Bette liegen, wenn der Mensch schläft; der astralische
Ich-Organisation. Das nimmt der Mensch beim Einschlafen aus
oder Menschenkunde lehre, die nimmt das Ich und der astralische
Menschen.
sich zu vervollkommnen, vollkommener zu werden. Dagegen
Menschenkunde dem Kinde beibringen, auf die eigentlich
unvollkommener zu werden, blaß zu werden. Es ist daher
nehmen, ob wir einen Stoff haben, der zum Ätherleib und
über den tierkundlichen und menschenkundlichen Unterricht
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das menschliche Haupt durch ein vitales Prinzip die Haare aus
wir gewissermaßen im Menschen die Zusammenfassung der
dann setzt sich der Mensch in das richtige Verhältnis zu
daß wir immer das Verhältnis des Menschen zur
ohne daß es mit dem Menschen etwas zu tun hat. Daher
Verhältnis zum Menschen hat, das ist mineralisch. Mit dem
das Tierische, in sein Vorstellen und namentlich in sein
Wollen aufgenommen hat.
Zusammenhänge in der Geschichte und in der
Geographie, für alle diejenigen Zusammenhänge, die
abgesondert vom Menschen betrachtet werden müssen. Die
großen historischen Zusammenhänge, die nicht so
den Menschen charakterisiert habe, die müssen verschoben
begönnen werden, was den Menschen zunächst
Zahnwechsel, in die Schule bekommen, vorher gehört das
hereinnehmen, so müssen wir natürlich allerlei
hereinbekommen, dann erteilen wir den Unterricht so,
den Zusammenhängen von Ursache und Wirkung. Und das
Beschreibung sein, dann soll das imaginative Element
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wirklicher Menschenbeobachtung hervorgegangenen Weise die
Menschenkenntnis heraus in früherer Zeit zuviel an
Und die Art und Weise, wie das Kind nachahmend alles in
Entfaltung kommen lassen, so daß man in diesen Jahren
muß das ganze Leben des Menschen hindurch den physischen
Körper in Anspruch nehmen. Ohne einen allseitig
Menschen irgendwie auch unterbrochen. Man weiß ja auch
schon in derjenigen Menschenkunde, die heute an den Laien
entlädt, sondern man hat auch die kleinen intimen
handelt es sich darum: wie kommen wir zu einer richtigen
Entfaltung kommen lassen. Das ist die beste Unterlage für
gerade im Elementarschulzeitalter.
physischen Leib für das Gedächtnis hineinkommen
gedächtnismäßig an das Kind herankommen zu
ganze Mensch für Gesundheits- und für
Wenn das eben aus der Natur des Menschen hervorgeht, so
hineinkommen, die aufnimmt, was sich auf Gesundheit und
hat man das Gedächtnis zu wenig in Anspruch genommen. Da
Gedächtnisstoff aufzunehmen und wiederum zu zeigen,
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menschlichen Wesenheit heraus den Unterricht zu gestalten. Hat
aber kann auch durch das Zusammensein der Knaben und
Verständnis von Mensch zu Mensch erzielt werden.
als ganzer Mensch nach Geist, Seele und Körper. Deshalb
körperliche Betätigung namentlich, durch die der
Mensch richtig verständnisvoll ins Leben
wir damit nichts Unmenschliches, sondern etwas sehr
Menschliches treffen, das können Sie dadurch
wahrnehmen, daß tatsächlich mit einer gewissen
Zustände, daß der eine Mensch so wenig versteht, was
kommen, nicht als abgesonderte einzelne Menschen oder Gruppen
eine Pflege solcher Handarbeiten macht den Menschen nach den
wenn man nicht im Grunde genommen im Notfalle sich sogar seine
mit innigem menschlichem Anteil in die Weltgeheimnisse
extremen Fälle darauf hinweisen, wie das Hinaufsteigen in
menschlichen Natur heraus gefordert wird, wenn man das
Messer und Säge und den anderen Instrumenten ein und sind
froh, wenn sie dabei Dinge fertig bekommen, welche dann den
sie dies oder jenes über den menschlichen Organismus
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Ihnen kennen ja gut den Zusammenhang zwischen dem, was als
über diesen Zusammenhang darf ich am Schlüsse dieser
Grunde genommen heute noch eine mißverständliche
der anthroposophischen Bewegung jede Woche einen anderen Namen
mir das allerliebste. Denn Namen schaden gerade in unserer Zeit
Namens der vorigen Woche der Anthroposophischen
Köpfen der Menschen dadurch entstehen würde!
ständigen Namen hätte; denn dieser Name führt
Menschheit heute noch bloß mit dem Namen befaßt und
gerade dem Namen nach geformt haben. Da denken sie: sie
Sache herangeht. Man kann nicht bloß an den Namen
Namen zu haben brauchten.
danach strebt, den Menschen irgendwelche Dogmen an den Kopf zu
Fortentwickelung der Welt irgendwie teilnehmen, dann
daß sie in einem wird die Kraft, den Menschen ganz
heutigen Zeit eine allgemeine Menschenpflicht, insbesondere auf
verehrten Anwesenden, diesen Vorträgen entgegengekommen
daß eigentlich die wirkliche Menschenbildung hierzulande
Schule hereingekommen ist; so daß man hier gerade jenen
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war voll berechtigt, daß Sie im Namen der Priesterschaft
Menschen gesprochen wird, voll berechtigt ist. In diesem Falle
die Menschen die Aufgaben wieder groß. Sie werden
erschöpft sind, in denen es der Menschheit möglich
Erde entfaltet. Die Menschheit mußte sich so entwickeln,
durch die Menschen auf der Erde wirken konnten. Die
Kräfte, die in dieser Zwischenzeit menschlicher
Entwickelung durch die Erdenmenschheit gegangen sind, sind
die ohne die Mysterien innerhalb der Menschheitsevolution
Menschheitsevolution nicht weitergeht, wenn nicht wieder
Unter dem Einfluß dieser Wahrheit muß es namentlich
von dem kommen, was ähnlich ist dem Wirken in den alten
Hingegebensein des ganzen Menschen, mit dem Aufgehen des ganzen
Menschen in seiner Aufgabe.
den ganzen Menschen opfernd hinzugeben für die Sache, die
müssen, mit der inneren Spiritualität des Menschen
als Sie hier zu mir gekommen sind zur Begründung Ihres
hinauszukommen.
heiligen Menschenweihehandlung sich vor zwei Jahren hier
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Zusammenhang zwischen der Menschenweihehandlung und dem
herabstiegen, um in den Mysterien mit den Menschen zusammen zu
den Menschen ermöglichten, dadurch, daß sie in dem
zusammen im Weltall zu wirken.
daß der Mensch diejenigen Kräfte, die er
wir sehen da, wie der Mensch durch die Intonierung des
unmittelbar in der ganzen Seelenstimmung des Menschen wirkte -,
den Menschen - den man eigentlich nur gesondert beschreiben
die der Mittelpunkt der heiligen Menschenweihehandlung war. Die
Menschheitsentwickelung eigentlich dem Leben nach bestehen.
eine haben wir gesehen: Die Menschenweihehandlung mit der
Transsubstantiation - ist ein Handeln der Menschen in
Bewußtsein, daß der Mensch gemeinschaftlich mit den
Menschenweihehandlung und auf die älteste Form des
was der Mensch als Zeitfolge im Jahreslauf berechnen kann und
den Menschen finden. Die Götter stiegen herab in solchen
Mensch in die von ihm berechnete Zeit gewissermaßen etwas
in denen der Mensch sich unmittelbar unter kosmischen
Daß das versucht wurde, hängt zusammen mit den
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dadurch in der Menschheitsentwickelung entstanden ist, daß
Menschen am Kosmischen innerhalb der Menschenweihehandlung, die
ist in demjenigen Glied der menschlichen Wesenheit, welches
eigentlich im heutigen Menschen wirkt. Er ist es ja, der
durch die wir die Welt begreifen, dem Menschen vermittelt. Denn
eigentliche Ich im Menschen, wie er heute ist, der
der physische Leib des Menschen, hier ist der
Ätherleib des Menschen. Der Tafel 2 astralische Leib und
Sinnesempfindungen, die Sinneswahrnehmungen, wenn der Mensch
Ätherleib ist, und weil, während der Mensch
Mysterienepoche - als der Mensch durch das Kultuswort sich in
gegenwärtigen Epoche an stattfinden bei den Menschen in
daß sie durch die Transsubstantiation teilnehmen kann an
Dafür kann der Mensch wirklich heute empfänglich
werden, das heißt, es kann der Mensch wirklich zum
den inneren Zusammenhang gekennzeichnet zwischen der heute zu
Anthroposophie an die Menschen herantritt.
habe oftmals ein Bild gebraucht. Ich sagte: Der Mensch ist ja
aufzunehmen, was irgendwie durch die äußere
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Dokumentes sich durchaus nicht als dessen Verfasser fühlte
Geistesanschauung zu kommen. Ihr müßt solche Dinge
wörtlich zu nehmen». - Ich sagte ihm: «Ja».
meinte, daß die Bibel doch nicht wörtlich genommen
wörtlich zu nehmen wäre.»
Wörtlichnehmen der Bibel. Man kann geradezu sagen: Wer die
Bibel noch nicht wörtlich nehmen kann, hat ja die Stellen,
wo er die Bibel nicht wörtlich nehmen kann, auch noch
bisherigen Verlauf unseres Zusammenseins überhaupt noch
wie Blitzesflammen, denn die kommen von oben her, aber wie
Vulkanflammen, denn die kommen von unten her - mancherlei, was
höher, der Mensch oder Gott? - Und es wurde in diesem
der Mensch als Priester am Altar steht - von den übrigen
Menschen gilt das nicht, aber für die Priester -, er hoher
zwingen, irdische Gestalt in Brot und Wein anzunehmen. Wenn der
geläufig ist. Es ist geläufig und im Einvernehmen mit
allem Mysterienwesen die Vorstellung, daß der Mensch ein
sich der Brahmanenpriester, namentlich der von ehemals, in
dem, was sich namentlich im evangelischen Bewußtsein nach
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muß es ja vor allen Dingen darauf ankommen, die Apokalypse
Entwicklung des Menschen im Zeichen der Bewußtseinsseele
vollbewußt in uns aufzunehmen.
Anschauung der Gegenwart hineinzubekommen. Wir leben in der
Welt gekommen ist (Apk. 6, 8). Damit wird zunächst eines
gewissem Sinne wirklich der Tod in die Menschheit ein. Machen
Sie sich das nur klar. Man lernt die menschliche Natur gut
nachatlantische Epoche zurück. Die menschliche
Menschen, sein Sich-Fühlen, ist in den früheren
so, daß der Mensch ein deutliches inneres Fühlen
seines Hineinwachsens in den Erdenaufenthalt hatte. Der Mensch
vorhanden in jeder menschlichen Persönlichkeit, daß
der Mensch wußte: Ich bin auch ein geistiges Wesen
Seelenverfassung ist weniger in äußeren Dokumenten
auftrat, gerade in der Epoche, die zusammenfiel mit dem
Mysterium von Golgatha, daß der Mensch sein irdisches
Bewußtseins, daß der Mensch streng eingeschlossen ist
Epoche war. Die Menschheit der Gegenwart trägt ja zumeist
die Menschen noch wie in der vierten nachatlantischen Epoche
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Sinn, seine ganze menschliche Seelenverfassung, hingelenkt
in ganz anderem Zusammenhang, in dem Kurs über
tatsächlich die Menschheit heute das Erleben im Laute
stellen, wie ja im Laute Elemente des gestaltenden und wesenden
werden kann durch die Kombination der etwa 32 Lautelemente.
Zeiten, wo der Menschheit das noch eine Realität war -,
diesen Elementen der Laute und ganz lebhaft empfand das
Lautelemente heraus eine Welt gestalten zu können. Man
Wenn Sie diese 32 Laute nehmen, dann werden Sie sich leicht
Konsonanten und etwa sieben auf die Vokale kommen -
Überhaupt muß wiederum von der Menschheit
wirklich durch die Welt webt und an dem der Mensch mit seiner
Apokalypse bei manchen Menschen da war, weil das Geheimnis der
genommen, sondern man hat erlebt, was da liegt in der Drei, in
offene Wesen der Vier, das mit dem Menschen verwandte Wesen der
wenn nun in den alten Mysterien der Mensch soweit war, daß
Daß es auch im Menschenseelenwesen eine richtige
Menschen in das kosmische Geheimnis der Siebenzahl oder der
strikten Gelten der Siebenzahl war, und es kommen
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eines hinzufügen, das aber mehr von außen genommen
spirituellem Sinne in Zusammenhang mit der allgemeinen
Gemütsseele des Menschen, wie sie sich ausgebildet hat
allerernstesten Weise gerade die Menschheit, die in Betracht
Ich in die Menschenseele stattfand, was haben wir denn da
plötzlich für den Menschen das ganze Verhältnis
des Göttlichen zum Menschen unverstanden und wankend und
haben in diesem Zeitpunkt den bedeutsamen Streit zwischen Arius
Menschen, wenn auch noch etwas unbewußt, die Unklarheiten
göttliche Ich in der Menschennatur? - In dieser Zeit wurde
der Mensch wankend darüber, wie er sich das
Verhältnis des Göttlichen zur Welt und zum Menschen
einen Seite den Menschen, wie er immer höher und
näher kommen soll, und er sieht auf der anderen Seite die
steckt in Christus selber die menschliche und wie die
eigentlich diese Frage mit Nein. Er steht im Grunde genommen
die Grenzscheide aufzurichten zwischen dem Menschen und Gott,
die Innewohnung Gottes im Menschen nicht eigentlich zugeben zu
Menschen.
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nur materialistischnaturalistische Formen annehmen kann.
die Tonzusammenklänge nach dem Geheimnis der Zahl
dann wird sich uns doch dasjenige, was zusammenhängt mit
Geistige des Christentums mit der Sonne zusammenhängt. Es
wichtiger sein als dieses, daß die Menschen
vergessen und der ganzen Evolution der Menschheit eine andere
für die Menschheit überall sozusagen die
Christus-Evolution vorzubereiten hat für das menschliche
Auf der Erde haben wir eben die Versammlung der Menschen in
gehende Vorstellung von den Menschen auf der Erde machen
Menschheit eine viel höhere Stufe erreicht haben wird als
jemand von der Erde für eine geistige Vorstellung bekommen
Weltenkörper, der die Versammlung von Vulkanmenschen
Menschen, nur in einem anderen Stadium. Es ist ja von
großer Bedeutung für die Menschenseele, daß sie
daß sie nicht nur den heutigen Zustand der Menschheit auf
was der Mensch in sich trägt und was er daher auch
ist: der Mensch im Vulkanzustand. Wenn wir die anderen Planeten
eigentliche Entwickelungsstätte des Menschen zu sein,
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Elementen zusammengetragen haben, um hinter das Wesen der
Apokalypse zu kommen, die Apokalypse selber ins Auge zu fassen
Menschheit mitteilen will. Es wird sich nachher schon zeigen,
Mitteilung an die Menschen, eine Offenbarung an die Menschen,
Hellsichtigkeit hervorgehende Mitteilungen an die Menschen
Mitteilung an die Menschheit zu machen. Dadurch aber erscheint
Golgatha selbst. Aber dann kommen die einzelnen Tatsachen, die
weitere Taten zu diesem Wesentlichen hinzukommen müssen.
Daher ist es nicht von allererster, fundamentaler Bedeutung,
daß der Mensch die Evangelien ausgelegt bekommt, sondern
das Wesentliche ist, daß ein realer Zusammenhang mit dem
Formen angenommen. Und so, kann man sagen, konnte selbst so
könne den Inhalt der Evangelien als Lehren hinnehmen, aber
fortlaufend? Nicht wahr, formal betrachtet lebt der Mensch,
namentlich wenn wir seinen heutigen Zustand betrachten, so,
zunächst beim Menschen heute nicht auf Wahrnehmbarkeit
Mensch lebt ein dumpfes Dasein im Schlafe, von dem er nur ein
darinnen den astralischen Leib und das Ich des Menschen, und
und würden da keinen unmittelbaren Zusammenhang mit dem
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Bauen des Menschenwesens und der Kulturerscheinungen von unten
Menschenerkenntnis eingeht. Das ist durchaus dann der Fall,
hinwegkommen: Ist denn der Apokalyptiker wirklich in der Lage
meinetwillen äußere rationalistische Forscher kommen
Gottheit, sondern er hat sie in seinem ganzen Menschen. Er
drei Formen des Einigen Gottes vor sich, und man kann, wenn man
menschliche Natur hineinwirken, dem Sohnesgott, der mit allem
Während der Mensch, wenn er die Schwelle zur geistigen
physischen Plan ausgehend nach den höheren Welten kommen,
seelischen Entwickelung der Menschen auf Erden. Aber nun tritt
andeuten, der für die Menschen da sein wird. Er sagt
Welt sich herabsenken, um von den Menschen aufgenommen zu
werden, bevor dieser Zustand kommen wird, daß die Menschen
dieser Zustand kommen wird - den ja Johannes als einen realen
betrachtet, wie ich neulich gesagt habe -, wo der Mensch
sein, an dem der Mensch bloß mit seiner Erkenntnis
macht: Und er trug einen Namen geschrieben an sich, den nur er
Menschen bezeichnen in den verschiedenen Sprachen dasjenige,
niemals von einem einzelnen Menschen so ausgesprochen werden
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die der Apokalyptiker die Menschen durch die Schilderung der
des irdischen Menschenwesens durch diese geistigen Welten. Nun
muß, bevor die Menschheit würdig und fähig sein
Denken und Empfinden aufzunehmen.
Hinblick auf die Menschheitszukunft, im Hinblick auf eine
Menschheitsevolution, wahrhaft recht gegenständlich, recht
Menschheitsevolution entscheiden wird, auf diese drei
des Christus auf Erden. Die Menschheit hat sich darauf
merken - es ist das eigentlich etwas, was einen Menschen, wenn
Seele stellen die Summe aller Verirrungen, in die die Menschen
verfallen können durch die eigentliche menschliche Natur.
Alles, was geeignet ist, den Menschen unter das ihm eigene
Mensch ist nur dann wahrhaft Mensch - obwohl er diese
Menschlichkeit natürlich nicht in jedem Moment seiner
der Mensch ist nur dann wahrhaft Mensch, wenn in ihm eine
dasjenige, was im Menschenleben die Emotionen darstellt, seien
zusammengefaßt in dem Namen jener Stadt Babylon, in
menschlichen TraumHellseherkräfte in einer Weise
Medium zustandekommt. Nicht wahr, ein Mensch wird dadurch zum
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daß wir während der Zeit wieder beisammen sind, in
welcher vor zwei Jahren die erste Menschenweihehandlung hier
Lebens hier: Die Menschenweihehandlung dazumal vor zwei Jahren,
zweiten Jahr, sind wir hier zusammen, um, wie es Ihr
erwähnt habe, eng zusammen mit demjenigen, was die
Menschenweihehandlung in sich schließt, und daher ist
Menschenweihehandlung deshalb zusammenhängt, weil er ja
objektiv mit der Wesenheit des Christus zusammenhängt. Es
sprechen im Zusammenhang mit der Apokalypse. Denn die
Abirrendes herausbekommen können, wenn wir das betrachten,
zusammenhängt. Und es darf Ihnen versichert werden,
zusammenhängt, schematisch etwa so zeichnen, daß wir
wesentlich andere Formen hatte, als die späteren sind.
Eine feste Erdkruste war ja namentlich in der Mitte der
angenommen werden, sind ja Illusionen. Die Zeiten, in denen
atlantischen Zeit. Und das Menschengeschlecht war während
Knochengerüst. Die Menschen in ihrer damaligen Bildung
Metamorphosierens so, daß der Mensch, der von weicher
Jahreszeiten, gewahrt ja der Mensch das Wirken des Geistes
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über die fundamentalen rhythmischen Zahlen des Weltalls
und des Menschen wiederum gesehen, wie tief begründet die
vollkommenste Zahl ist; es ist geradezu ein Satz des
Okkultismus: Sieben ist die vollkommenste Zahl -, und man hat
verstehen. Ich will Ihnen ein Beispiel sagen. Nehmen wir an,
Hintergründe empfindet; menschlich ist das ja
willkürlich. Nehmen wir also an, ich bin der Beobachter im
eine Sprache versteht, den anderen Menschen verstehen kann, der
zusammenhängen mit dem «Weib, mit der Sonne
Menschheit im allgemeinen, das ist mehr in meinen
Posaunenklänge wahrnehmen, weil von den Menschen der
gleichgültigen Sinn hingenommen werden. Ich habe ja des
schon entschieden. Das weitere war im Grunde genommen
das, was über die zivilisierte Menschheit Europas und
ihres amerikanischen Anhangs gekommen ist, ist schon der
ahrimanischen Mächte in die Menschheitsangelegenheiten ein
Jahren 1843/44 sind ja noch schlimmere Ereignisse gekommen. -
denken, daß Ahriman gescheiter ist als die Menschen. Im
materialistischen Weges. Dann haben die Menschen
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in anthroposophischen Zusammenhängen auch schon
Wenn wir die Entwickelung des Menschen ins Auge fassen und
dabei darauf achten, wie der Mensch beim Übergang seines
Menschenwesen ist in der Form des physischen Wesens gerade eine
Dreiheit und eine Einheit zusammengefaßt, und diese
Zusammenfassung ist im Grunde genommen eine ganz deutliche. Es
der Gliederung des Menschen innerhalb der Anthroposophie
ausgesprochen wird. Nehmen wir da den Menschen nach Geist,
Nun, im Geiste, wie ihn der Mensch heute hat, leben ja die
geschaffene, reine Gedanken im menschlichen Bewußtsein
passiv. Die menschlichen Gedanken haben in ihrer Entfaltung
der Mensch im Leben hat, eigentlich wie Spiegelbilder, so
daß wir schon im Menschenwesen zwar den Geist tragen, aber
als Erdenmenschen zwischen Geburt und Tod erleben in unseren
geträumt wird, denn wir träumen nur diese Seelenwelt
wie ein von den schöpferischen Elementarmächten in
unser Leib entwickelt, so wie wir nun als Erdenmenschen sind,
menschlichen Wesenheit verschiedenen Welten an. Und Sie, meine
des Menschen, werden daher in Ihrem Gefühl haben
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menschlichen Evolution hat. Wir müssen dabei nur bedenken,
Menschenbewußtsein hinausgehende unermeßlich starke
sich über den Köpfen der Menschen abspielen
kommen wir nun auf etwas, was auch zu den Geheimnissen des
Stelle in der Apokalypse aufklären soll. Wir kommen
gewaltigen Visionen der Apokalypse, wir kommen zu dem, was wir
uns mit unserem heutigen menschlichen Erleben ganz klarmachen
nehmen, dann kann man sagen: Draußen geht die Natur ihren
einen Zusammenhang zu konstruieren -, daneben geht das, was wir
fühlt sich niemand gedrängt, einen Zusammenhang
und wo man auch war, die Pflanzenwelt namentlich, die Tierwelt,
sie haben einen ganz anderen Charakter angenommen. Man
woanders hergekommen.
wächst, das sei halt entstanden aus den Samen des vorher
verfolgt man nun immer Samenhervorgehen aus Samenhervorgehen
Wiese mit allen Blumen nichts von dem, was in früheren
Zeiträumen da war, sondern man muß sich vorstellen:
Jahr, auch das Eis, und indem in diese ganz elementare
bleibende Zustände. Das ist aber im Grunde genommen
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Zusammenhang mit dem, was Sie von dem Abbau der physischen und
nicht anders zu nehmen als eben als eine medizinische Aufgabe.
Emil Bock fragt über karmische Zusammenhänge.
nicht da sind. Da müssen wir doch eines nehmen, und das
Menschenweihehandlung stattgefunden hat, die Bewegung für
eine solche Entwickelung in Betracht kommen - eigentlich alle
Mißerfolge oder Hemmungen, die von außen kommen, die
auch natürlich daher kommen, daß nicht jeder gleich
über ein paar Punkte spreche, namentlich über einen,
genommen hat, nicht anerkannt zu werden, ich möchte sagen,
Element in der Arbeit. Nicht wahr, dasjenige, was in Ihrer
ist denn vorher die Möglichkeit gewesen vor 6000 Menschen
Grunde genommen nicht ernstgenommen werden; und wiederum, wenn
wird die Bewegung nach zehn Jahren wirklich der Menschheit
nehmen, das doch auch etwas ist, daß mit Ihnen zusammen
wieder als etwas Positives genommen werden. Mir scheint,
kommen, sich Rat holen können und so weiter, aber die
eine ahrimanisch spirituelle Führung gekommen ist, was man
negative Behauptung hineingekommen, so daß die Bulle das
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zurückkommen, um bei unserer Betrachtung dann davon
Sehnsüchten der Menschenseele heute wirklich ein starkes
Seelen der heutigen Menschen vorgeht. Nun gibt es dafür
ich für die heutige Betrachtung bei etwas angekommen bin,
Zusammenhang ergibt. Und heute morgen, als ich meinen
wären. Es wäre nie dazu gekommen, den heutigen
Solche Dinge muß man ganz ernst nehmen, sie sind
zusammennehmen, was gesagt worden ist, werden Sie verstehen,
Mensch in der ganzen Welt drinnensteht, im Grunde genommen eine
das menschlich Wesenhafte ebenso an die Sternenwelt
hingewiesen, was innerlich menschlich erlebbar ist. Aber Sie
läßt den Menschen teilnehmen mit Bezug auf seine
wollen wir im Zusammenhang mit der Apokalypse einmal etwas
1773 ein Zusammenstoß stattfinden würde zwischen
und es müsse ein Zusammenstoß erfolgen. - Sie
müssen sich nur einmal die Stimmung der Menschen in der
Frühgeburten in großer Menge, Todesfälle bei
von Absolutionen riesige Einnahmen, weil die Leute alle zur
Beichte liefen und die Sakramente haben wollten, bevor die Welt
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vorübergehen werden an den ohren- und augenlosen Menschen.
kommen kann. Der eine Weg ist derjenige, wenn man sich einfach
dieser Erkenntnis kommen kann: In irgendeinem Jahre, wo sich
für die Menschheit etwas abgespielt hat, haben Erdbeben
Menschen leise oder laut haben -, daß der Mensch von innen
handelt es sich darum, was eigentlich vorliegt, wenn der Mensch
Zusammenhang mit der Apokalypse erörtern, denn in der
Menschensprache nur ausdrücken läßt durch
Posaunenklängen, kommen wir in das Geisterland hinein, und
Zorn, dem Inhalt der Apokalypse gemäß, kommen wir in
nur bedenken, daß, während der Mensch diesen
genommen in der Welt drinnensteht, so daß sein Erleben
Nehmen wir die physische Welt so, wie sie uns zunächst
ihrer Wärmenuancen und alles desjenigen, was von allen
Seiten der Weltumgebung auf den Menschen einfließt, so
Menschenwesenheit versetzen, wie der Apokalyptiker ist,
einer solchen Menschenwesenheit aneignen, und diese
Welt innerlich zu formen. Da ist zum Beispiel dieses:
Weltall herauskommende Aufflammen, er betrachtet es als das
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daß namentlich die ganze Komposition der Apokalypse
bekommen kann, daß zunächst dasjenige, was hier in
Bewußtseinsseele, jener Etappe der gesamtmenschlichen
Evolution, in der der Mensch die Intellektualität
sozusagen in die Hand zu nehmen hat, in seine eigene
des Menschen noch beschränkte, in welchem die Dinge, die
innerhalb des menschlichen Sinnens und Denkens. Es wird ein
Zeitalter kommen, in dem auch die tieferen Kräfte der
menschlichen Seele ergriffen werden von demjenigen, was sich
Gegenwärtig ist der Mensch noch in der Lage, sich
dasjenige eben noch tiefer und gründlicher im Menschen
redete. Das alles wird ja im Menschen abgeladen. Und wenn dann
später die Jupiterzeit kommt, so wird auch die menschliche
die Dinge noch so liegen, daß der Mensch in Gedanken und
ist es daher namentlich im Priesterwirken noch möglich,
Denn sehen Sie, die Sache liegt ja so, daß der Mensch,
Mensch die Möglichkeit gibt, in unbewachten Momenten, die
Art, wie es geschildert wurde, an den Menschen herantritt. Er
Intellektualität, und er strebt danach, die menschliche
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entgegennehmen, was von Anthroposophie kommen kann, werden nicht viel
genommen wird, daß derjenige, welcher sich eine solche
Rahmens wirkt, wo schon Interesse vorhanden ist, sondern wirkt in
Mitmenschen heranzubringen, wird sich ja selbstverständlich eine
Wechselwirkung abspielen zwischen dem Menschen, der etwas
zwischen den Menschen, die ihm zuhören. Ein Wechselspiel der
ist beim Menschen nur eine einzige Seelenkraft für sich in
–auch in seiner Wechselwirkung zwischen den Menschen –
heute nun sagen: Was wir denken, das interessiert keinen Menschen; und
irgendeinen Menschen interessieren, der wird sich eine rednerische Aufgabe
oder vielleicht auch nur einen einzelnen anderen Menschen befeuern wollen,
ärgert die Menschen, das weisen sie instinktiv zurück.
rednerisch an die Menschen herantritt. Das Denken, das man selber in
sich entfaltet, interessiert die Menschen nicht, das Wollen
genialsten Gedanken wie Monologe vor den Menschen entrollen
allgemeine Unterhaltung unter Menschen oder einen Kaffeeklatsch oder
das, was sein soll. Nehmen wir den extremsten Fall: Ein richtiger
häufig vorkommender und für unsere Gegenwart doch
dann scheint es auf das Fühlen anzukommen; es scheint also eine
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befriedigenden Art zurechtkommen können als Redner für
zusammenhängt. Denn wenn sachgemäß über
zu sprechen, wie man eben gewohnt worden ist zu sprechen, namentlich
werden muß in unserer gegenwärtigen Menschheit. Es muß
im Grunde genommen vorausgesetzt werden, daß ein
gleichgültig, wenn man nur den Menschen zur Anschauung dieser
einen populären Experimen-talvortrag hält und dabei den
dasjenige sieht, was experimentiert wird, und was da noch gesprochen
wird, das nimmt man eben wie eine Art mehr oder weniger angenehmen
oder unangenehmen Nebengeräusches mit. Man muß diese Dinge
ist es ja auch in vieler Beziehung gekommen: Viele
Menschen, die heute über die Dreigliederung reden, rufen
kommen können in fünfzig, in hundert Jahren – oder
wären, heranzukommen. Man gleitet sehr bald von der Wirklichkeit
das Verhältnis des einzelnen Menschen zur Nähmaschine sein
dem Sinne, wie man in irgendeinem Parlamente von der Art, wie zum
Zusammenleben der Menschen folgt. Man kann dieses natürliche
Zusammenleben der Menschen fälschen, indem man, wie es zum Beispiel
natürlichen Zusammenhang der Menschen lebt die
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Wirklichkeit aufgenommen wird eine nicht-komponierte Rede nicht.
gewissermaßen durchgenommen hat. Ist man nicht in der Lage,
Nehmen wir also
nehmen wir dieses uns naheliegende Beispiel der Dreigliederung des
intensivsten durch den Menschen der Gegenwart bemerkt werden kann.
Nehmen
zusammengemischt wäre aus bürgerlicher Bevölkerung,
Adelige sogar, so schadet das natürlich durchaus nichts. Nehmen
daß du besessen warst in diesem Momente von dem alten Bebel}
– den ganzen Zusammenhang der Terminologie übersetzt in
Erfahrung heraus und gebe Beispiele, die durchaus vorgekommen sind
Nehmen
Proletarier seit dem Heraufkommen des Marxismus sich sehr deutliche
ausgebildetes Erziehungsmittel, den Menschen zum Verständnis zu
fähig war. Man hat es gar nicht mit einem Menschen zu tun in
dieses Lessing-Buches zusammengefaßt vorgebracht hatte als eine
das ist ja auch ein wirtschaftlicher Zusammenhang – und so
Verhältnisse als Beziehung von Mensch zu Mensch herausstellt.
Werte seiner Arbeitsprodukte genommen werde.
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könnte, und ich machte darauf aufmerksam, daß es namentlich
gegenwärtigen Menschheit erst begreiflich zu machen, daß es
so etwas geben kann wie einen demokratisch-politischen Zusammenhang,
und das muß man bedenken, namentlich wenn man sich für
der gegenwärtige Mensch gar keine Empfindung hat für ein
Fundament aufgebaut ist. Und dieser Teil, der politisch-staatliche
Rücksicht darauf nehmen, wie man aus den schweizerischen
Menschheitsentwickelung ist das eigentliche Staatsleben als solches,
chaotisches Zusammensein der geistigen Elemente des menschlichen
Daseins und der wirtschaftlichen Elemente. Man könnte sagen: In
Elemente und die wirtschaftlichen Elemente
bekommen sollte, wie man einen Stiefel zu einer guten Kopfbedeckung
Menschen vor einer solchen Bevölkerung zu erörtern, wie es
daß irgend etwas Neues kommen müsse. Und in diese
Empfindung hinein, daß irgend etwas Neues kommen müsse,
des «Futurum» und des «Kommenden Tages». Der
«Kommende Tag» steht mitten drin, so wie wenn er in einer
werden, denn da spricht man zu Menschen, die ja zunächst das
Neues müsse kommen, und man müsse nur zunächst wissen,
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aus einem Gedanken heraus formen und dann auch einteilen kann. In dem,
darauf, was in den ersten zwei Gliedern vorkommen kann, nämlich
sentimentale Begeisterung, nicht gemachte Begeisterung sein. Das
wir sprechen über die Gleichheit der Menschen, diese durch Beispiele
hineinzudenken in den anderen Menschen. Wir sollten etwa die
allgemein menschlichen Gründen heraus solch eine Forderung
anderen Menschen hineindenken, das wird dasjenige sein, was wir
nicht den Glauben aufkommen lassen, daß es so etwas wie eine
man sich zusammenstellt, wie sie etwa sein sollten oder sein
auch nur sprechen, wenn man es vor die Menschen hinstellt an der Hand
Wirklichkeit abschriebe, vor die Menschen hinstellt, so sprechen,
plausibel machen, daß der einzelne Mensch eigentlich gar nichts
genommen ganz darauf angewiesen ist, wenn er zu einem Urteil
über das kommen will, was im Wirtschaftsleben zu geschehen hat,
nur aus Menschengruppen ein wirkliches wirtschaftliches Urteil
abstrakte Markt Dinge zusammenbringt, deren Zusammenkommen und
wiederum Weiterverteiltwerden an den Konsumenten gar nicht
diesem Marktverhältnis gekommen? Im Grunde genommen aus der
lebendigen Zusammenhängen. In solchen primitiven Wirtschaften
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dem Gesagten vorbringen, und Sie müssen das schon so hinnehmen,
Rücksicht darauf zu nehmen, daß er eben nicht einen Leser
der Leser in der Lage, und darauf hat man Rücksicht zu nehmen.
mit dem Ganzen mitzukommen. Man wird natürlich darauf sehen
Rücksicht nehmen muß. Vielleicht muß man um so mehr
Nehmen wir zum Beispiel dies, daß der Redner von Zeit zu Zeit,
Frage vor, dann kann das Ausatmen gewissermaßen
unbeschäftigt bleiben. Das Einatmen ist dasjenige, was sich auf
eigentlich erst recht perzipiert, aufgenommen wird bei der
nachfolgenden Einatmung. Kurz, das Einatmen überhaupt hat etwas
Dadurch aber, daß das Einatmen engagiert wird durch das Aufwerfen
der anderen Seite, daß es wiederum das Atmen nicht eigentlich
darauf Rücksicht nehmen müssen, daß man
Zimmer. Die Rede ist im Grunde genommen der Ausdruck für den
ganzen Menschen, sie hat also doch Beine! Und den Zuhörer zu
Zeit wieder an zu hören und kommen eben nicht mit. Daher
muß man die Zuhörer zuweilen beim Ohr nehmen, und das
nächstfolgenden. Und wenn man es mit ganz besonders zahmen
bei den Politikern, ein Bild, das sogar entnommen ist dem anderen,
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it that came into this earthly world from spheres beyond? Men
men, it could be no question of copying Nature directly in any
the West, in Italy, men were more of the opinion that the Saviour
time when in the West, under the influence of Rome, men had
dimensions — large surfaces covered with the most eloquent
of his colouring, with its wonderful two-dimensional conception,
When in that time men let these pictures with their golden
the further development of art — was inspired in his inner
have always described as the fundamental characteristic of the
enjoyment in all things that make life pleasant, or that enhance
have no idea how intensely men had lived with these transcendent
things. Hence, as a rule, we do not realise how immense a change
Christ is for poor simple men. Out of the very heart of a
two-dimensional conception, to Giotto, in whose work we see
with it there is already the human element, in the way in which
Francis himself. Even when you take the visionary elements in
looked at the faces of men.
see how natural it was to the men of that age to express
themselves in allegories. The conditions of life undergo immense
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men in recent times, by way of pictorial representation and the like.
movement in Germany a man once came to me in Berlin, bringing with him
time, on the other hand, people fail to understand the artistic element
men who truly cannot be said to have satisfied even the most rudimentary
the earthly element. Such was the conception — a harmony, an
even the men of later times during the 4th Post-Atlantean age —
it was no longer given to him, as to the men of former ages, to trace
of constructing machines whereby men would be able to fly through the air;
life included — bears the stamp of this his fundamental character.
In spite of the fact that he grew out of the Italian environment, he
horse, Leonardo constructed an instrument of music, from which he enticed
a Florentine element into the Roman setting. Leonardo bore a universal
which — to put it bluntly — replaces the sacramental by
this undertaking was an element which could not but inspire him with
painted, as it were, into the Last Judgment, the protest of a Florentine,
would oppose it. Hence the real human greatness of his Last Judgment,
not signify for the development of his picture of the world: For the
mentioned the fact that he witnessed, too, the great change which came
All these conceptions, lifted right out of the moral element, assumed
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all the elements that culminate in him, we have to deal with a
itself in gesture and in movement — not so much in the
the impulse of the Will, must be regs.rded as the fundamental note
in this direction. The time will come when men will see and unravel
from the Southern spirit. See what dramatic life and movement he
instrument for its expression.
Chapel we cannot but realise, even in this element of movement, an
human nature before the movement and mobility expressing the
the Northern impulse of movement and expression, and the Southern
— was wedded in mid-European Art with that impulse of movement which,
as I described just now, sprang essentially from the element of
Southern France. Thus we have coming from the North an element of
may describe as the mystical element, striving upward from the
of the Gothic, for these two elements have grown together in it, a
mystical element and an intellectual. No one will understand the
Gothic who cannot see in it on the one hand this mystical element
it, on the other hand, there is an element of cool intelligence and
quarter, adding to the mystical element the height of
impulse always tends to spread. The Classical element of Form is
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Riemenschneider,
today, supplementing those that were shown last week. Today I
propose in the main to supplement what I endeavoured to explain
soul in movement — that is the goal of the Mid-European
the Mid-European, or Northern element, works its way upwards more
centuries we witness the development of a unique artistic life in
Middle Europe, uniting the more Roman or Latin elements with a
movement in the human soul. We cannot understand what took place
especially into the more subconscious, feeling elements of the
a truth which can be characterised in two very simple statements
This statement is of infinite importance. The appeal is to the life
temperament in these respects. Thus in the southern regions we see
a statement must not be pressed too far. I would say, the statement
speaks differently and appeals to a different element of soul,
pressed; nevertheless, in such a statement guiding lines are given
element of fancy and imagination in the Southern culture which
especially the tragic elements of Christianity, to human heart and
after all, is the essential element in the Renaissance Art: But the
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Rembrandt, as a human phenomenon, stands, to a great extent, isolated.
— to recognise the immense originality which is peculiar to
Rembrandt. As an isolated phenomenon of history, he grows out of the broad
plant, so the successive phenomena of history have not always their
do the phenomena of history grow from cut a common soil, conjured forth
for something elemental and original. Many people in Mid-Europe began
many people. He felt that the spiritual and intellectual life of men
an elemental and original feeling of what pulsates as the underlying
heart of things — even in the phenomena of the great world. He
to mankind: “Remember once more what lives in the elemental depths
his start from the phenomenon of Rembrandt and he therefore called his
ideas of men floating about on the surface; but in Rembrandt he saw
an individuality who had drawn from the very depths of elemental human
to feel and realise once more all that is elemental, all that is truly
life was necessary by a discovery of those fundamental sources which
we, in our movement of Spiritual Science, are trying now to bring before
the need for a spiritual-scientific movement. Most of them, after all,
dependent on that artistic movement which I have characterised in recent
element. He stands on his own ground entirely, creating out of the
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today are to illustrate the development of Dutch and Flemish painting
point of view, this is one of the most important moments in the evolution
with the development of the Spiritual Soul. In the Dutch and Flemish
of Art an elementary power of understanding — that is to say, if we
we may regard as the fundamental frame-work of the artistic conceptions
of today. It is interesting to see the several elements of it emerging
in a most rudimentary way, by introducing the principle of overlapping.
at any rate, the dimension of depth.
the Third Post-Atlantean period, we find that this spatial treatment
the element of Space to express their thought. This, indeed,
of treatment.
in its nascent state, as it were, in the very moment of its origin,
which emerges out of the Mid-European, Northern element. These things
their fundamental character and mood of soul. In the South men have
more attachment to the Group-soul as such. Hence the people of the South
gathering of men together into a Group. In Mid-Europe there is a faculty
development of the Spiritual Soul this implies, to begin with, the
the Group-element, which is, of course, extensive (spread out in space),
we shall naturally live in the element of composition. One who has
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Shepherds and by the Three Wise Men, and finally the Flight into Egypt.
thus be concerned today, not in the first place with the artistic elements,
as such, but with the treatment of a certain theme in the history of
bear in mind the general lines of development of Christian Art, which
mainly with the story of the Three Wise Men of the East — the
Magi, on the other hand — the mission of the Three Wise Men from the
of the Cosmos — the Wise Men draw near to the Christ Who
is connected with the Adoration by the Three Wise Men, we have, therefore
enough to put up here a drawing of the Three Wise Men. The picture is
1. Three Wise Men.
of the Three Wise Men of the East cannot really be understood with the
to bear on all that is connected with the Wise Men from the East must
by the Wise Men “following the Star” will only come into
the Three Wise Men. It happens, as it were, on the basis of what was
first undertaken by the Three Wise Men. This bears witness to the fact
related about Egypt in the Old Testament. Moses was learned in the Wisdom
of the Egyptians. Now we are told in the Gospel that the Three Wise Men
Wise Men themselves — for so the Gospel explicitly tells us. Here
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for a moment from this aspect of the Madonna della Sedia, — how
view you cannot imagine a further enhancement of this theme —
picture for a moment as though we knew nothing of the Christian
Sposalize; four years later the Entombment; four years after
the souls of men. Here the world speaks to us directly — not
from the soul with elemental force. Raphael paints with the ever-present
fellow-men, bringing his own soul to expression. The Human element can
document tells us so well, what the people of that time were like.
27. Dürer. The Four Horsemen of the Apocalypse.
causes and effects. At characteristic moments, at the turning-points
of epochs, characteristic phenomena emerge, in the most varied spheres
or Soul of the Higher Feelings to that of the Spiritual Soul, phenomena
appear in all domains of life, revealing how men felt when the impulses
Soul involved the development of those relationships with the purely
physical plane into which men had to enter during the fifth post-Atlantean
plane. Naturally, this brought in its train all the phenomena of reaction
with the phenomenon of Death. In many different spheres — as we
near to men. Death as a great mystery — the Mystery of Death —
drew near to men at the very time when their Souls had to prepare to
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moment divined that something was living in the Greeks, in intimate unison
or fundamental forms, in which is expressed the spiritual Law and Essence
the plant in this way: A single fundamental organ, whose basic form he
in its living forces and mobility underlies the forms and movements
in the forms of the Physical Body, while in the movements of the latter
men copied what they saw before them with their eyes, what they had
witness in our time things that are little noticed yet — movements
developed, who is the underlying ideal of the extremer movements in
— was in movement. Hence, too, as a creative artist, in all that
the expression of what he felt within him — the movement of the
post-Atlantean age. In an elementary way, Goethe was striving towards
life and movement of the etheric body. By this means the Greek could find
proceeds from a true feeling for the ethereal in movement.
is moved — or represented in movement — it means something for the whole
the living etheric movement within.
certain restfulness or repose pervades the older works. Movement itself
for a more dramatic quality, holding fast the moment of time in the
progressive movement. Thus there is more of movement in the later works.
2. Dying Warrior. Eastern Pediment. Temple of Aegina.
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than fragmentary. It can never present anything complete in itself;
make this paradoxical statement: on the physical plane the same forces
have insight a feather contains something tremendous: it contains the
is also the case that in the lion's head the development of the
only happy when he has swallowed it. He is ravenous for nourishment,
than it causes other animals. He is greedy for nourishment but he is
not bent on being a fastidious gourmet! Enjoyment of the taste is not
enjoyment to the lion when he draws in the breath-stream with deep
blood-circulation, does the lion live in his own element. He lives
body, in the expression of the eyes, in every movement. Take an
lifts her head. But it is not only in the movement of the lifting of
process of digestion. Seen astrally, something immensely beautiful
something of an immense spirituality.
one-sided way, the physical embodiment of a certain astrality, we find
though naturally metamorphosed, tremendously transformed.
special element is the air which circulates around them, and the
animals which have their special element below the surface of the
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human nervous system, then thoughts arise — momentary thoughts,
the eagle-sphere; and therewith we have indicated that element in the
But what lives in the lion's gaze lives also in the other elements of
account, and in like manner with each of the other elements. Just in
sound through the world seeking to tempt him with their allurement.
to the allurement of this call. What is meant here, however, is that,
Hinduism, yet, if this allurement were actually so to seize hold of
technical achievement is wonderful in every sphere. But in technology
That is a question of utmost gravity, a question of immense
tends towards the gradual development of these still imperfect,
means of vibrations or oscillations, by means of movements which run a
happening on the earth; so that our planetary system in its movements
on the way to having this terrible element of degeneracy as its goal.
to the allurements of what is spoken by the lion. Then, it is true,
one-sided way in this kind of thinking and mental attitude, then, in
the life of earth and wishes to live in that same element in which the
the animal kingdom, if we can conceive it as an immense and mighty
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human form itself. The essential element in all this is the physical
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
through by spiritual forces (I must mention that the lowest spiritual
external phenomena, and enter into the inner being, it becomes clear
to send enough physical forces of nourishment to the head, so that
existence — this man must acknowledge himself as a tremendous
as a poison, as a really disturbing element, in the totality of the
create something adverse to all his development between death and a
would work incessantly upon the negation of his spiritual development
immense suffering in its entire life, in its whole collective being.
tremendous feeling of tragedy. And only when one surveys wider epochs
of time, when one beholds the development of entire systems, only then
Everything to do with the feathers is worked out with immense care.
already mentioned this holds good for every bird — the
They all have their great, their immense significance in the whole
comprehensive, so fundamental. It is really the most fundamental
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World-Phenomena and World-Being
Earth-metamorphosis; the solid element is called forth by the forces
within it what produces the solid element, the inner moon, actually
it is the cause of the solid-element, the cause which produces
the solid element out of the fluid. We have next the actual
earth-realm, the watery element which appears in manifold ways —
nature of air. Moreover all this is permeated by the element of fire,
element, or better expressed, the working of the forces of weight into
what is becoming solid; we have the fluid element, we have the
element and the Moon-Earth fluidic element.
Earth-Moon-fluid nature. Its element is in the upper regions. And when
what may be called the cosmic embodiment of memory — when we
which is used to make your silk garments — what is present in the
butterfly, under the development of the extraterrestrial cosmos, this
whole development from the germ, through the caterpillar, through the
development under the influence of the sun with the upper planets, the
them — unite ourselves with them in the enjoyment of their juices, and
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reproduce in the earth's environment the luminous Sun-power of the
environment of earth-existence, the direct working of Saturn-activity
in our power of forming mental pictures. Thus in the human head we
of the finest dust. It also derives its nourishment from those earthly
something which it is of fundamental importance to cultivate in
continually restoring spiritualized matter to the environment of the
earth, to the cosmic environment of the earth.
The butterfly, too, flies in the air, but fundamentally it is
the butterfly's element is the light. The bird flies in the air, but
its element is the warmth, the various differentiations of warmth in
of temperature as compared to its outer environment. The bird has its
speaking in an absolute sense when we say that fundamentally the bird
lives only and entirely in the element of warmth, and the butterfly
in the element of light. For the butterfly everything of the nature of
garment, is luggage. We must gain an understanding of what the beings
through the earthly dust-substance being imbued with the element of
inhabitant of the light-ether in an earth environment, and the bird,
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first cast a glance at the development of man himself, and call to
the human head. This human head received its first rudiments at a time
with this rudimentary origin of the human head during the
Saturn-period, the first rudiments of the being of the butterflies
today, until Earth-existence, we must say: At that time the rudiments
which works from within outwards, a being whose development depends
directly at these things, there is something really tremendous to be
now a being came into existence possessed of a further development, an
air-development, an air-metamorphosis, of the head; but to this there
Sun-period there arose the first rudiments of that kingdom of the
representative. So that the first rudiments of these animals go back
gather things together into a general concept. You see what an immense
development proceeds from his head downwards. On the other hand the
did the head develop out of the breast. Thus the development of the
immense difference in evolution as a whole.
further extension downwards. The rudiments of the digestive-system
required for the purpose of nourishment was a breathing apparatus shut
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The Plant-World and the Elemental
surrounded, woven around, by elemental nature spirits. And these
elemental spirits, with an old clairvoyant perception designated as
can look into the soul-nature of these elemental spirits, into this
root-spirits, which bring the mineral element of the earth into flux
completely enfilled with an inner element of spirituality which we can
only compare with the inner element of spirituality in the human eye,
it is an embodiment of universal ideas, of universal spirit. The
threatens them as it does because of the element in which they exist.
They have their home in the earthly-moist element; there they live
really that element within the earth which represents the
of the earth. With the fundamental force of their being they
gnomes and has passed out of the sphere of the moist-earthly element
in the leaves other beings are at work, water-spirits, elemental
spirits of the watery element, to which an earlier instinctive
elemental beings of the water, these undines in their connection with
of the whole cosmos in the airy-moist element, and therefore they are
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provides the instrument for the spirit, the sense-apparatus, is not
half of his earthly environment escapes him. He passes over everything
connected with these elemental beings about which I spoke yesterday.
which live in the fluid element, and have nothing in the way of an
earth-development; creatures which only now, when the earth has
as men often do, this sleepiness would immediately cause its death.
such folk as these. The moment this hindrance is removed, these beings
masked, then, at the moment of falling asleep, he would behold a whole
astral world. For it is a kind of entombment by the gnomes which, seen
This holds good only for the moment of falling asleep. A further
complement to the physical sense-world is supplied by the undines, the
they play in plant-growth — also exist as complementary beings to
themselves forward in an element which is scarcely harder than they
environment of man is filled with a moving sea of living beings, a
element to the being of certain animals, but now in the other
they lack as the bodily complement of their head-organization. They
complement the bird-kingdom in regard to what corresponds to the
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these lectures, the elemental beings of nature. Invisibly and
actual life-element. For them this is no illness; it is simply a
inner sensitivity towards the phenomena connected with the phases of
They follow the changes in the moon-phenomena with such close
universe. They always carry over the firm element of a preceding stage
something like a longing, an immense longing to rise upwards, to soar
own bodily nature the phosphorescence of the water, the element of
nourishment in that the very essence of the undines' longing is to let
the longing to offer themselves as nourishment to the higher beings.
Thus we see how these elemental beings are the intermediaries between
quite differently from how man sees them. As already mentioned, man's
their life-element. Sylphs see in the astrality of the air, which
All this makes us say: Here on earth the elemental nature-spirits live
entertainment to observe a person who is asleep, not the physical body
woven about by elemental beings; and this being surrounded and woven
idea of how these beings of the elemental kingdom characterize
from them. And man experiences these sayings as being of immense, of
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everything was directed towards so bringing together world-phenomena
begins with the lowest forms of the world of phenomena and relates
fingers, when you carry out any kind of external movement, everything
external movements depend enter into the most inward parts of the
into everything connected with the development of the metabolism,
comprised in the system of nerves and senses, which in men of today is
mineral kingdom. We take the mineral element into ourselves through
so on. We assimilate the mineral element.
what they are outside him. I have already mentioned that it is a real
of our blood exceeds the average warmth of its external environment,
this excess of warmth absorbs with satisfaction the mineral element
transformed into warmth-ether. And the moment a person has something
into warmth-ether, at that moment he is ill.
kingdom inasmuch as he develops the plant-element within himself. He
the tendency to become warmth-ether. The plant element continually has
the plant element within himself in its aspect of air. Everything of a
its rudiments implanted in man. The rudiments of the system of nerves
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relation to his environment is very different from what modern ideas
of his environment. No matter whether it is salt or something else
Take from a bone, for instance, a fragment of calcium phosphate. This
At every moment, from the boundary of my skin inwards, I must be able
way; whereas outside man they remain with the elemental nature-beings,
with the elemental spirits. In the case of man this wonderful
elemental spirits may give over their work to the higher hierarchies.
Only look at a spring flower; it is a sigh of longing, the embodiment
another substance, the root element spread itself out and worked
with the earth, this moon element, these moon-forces, contained in the
warmth-etheric element, it was entirely spiritual. It was out of the
the earth relieved of its moon-element than the plant again strove
And when we consume the plant as nourishment we give it the
him he can bring to fulfillment the longing which, outside, the plant
had enjoyment in its material striving towards the light, has brought
suffer the punishment of remaining below. The root has been the slave
remain down below. Hence in what belongs to the root-element of the
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of the ten commandments, how old they are. They are taught as commands
might spring forth from the primary, elementary sources of human
the Ten Commandments? Now from what source does the moral-spiritual
arise, which binds men together in a social way, which knits the
such impulses spring forth with elemental power, they arise from human
fundamentally speaking, in so far as he is a spiritual being, man only
lives with other men to the degree that he develops human
them worthy of attainment. But the fact remains that only by passing
perceive that it is built up out of two elements from the spiritual
misunderstanding and human hatred has become imbedded in men's souls.
longer evokes moral judgment any more than does a plant or a stone.
of human hatred and coldness towards other men which had gained access
to their souls. I mentioned that it is only when one sees the human
impulses through the gate of death, immensely much.
currents which would halt them in their development if they had to
development is not his own concern alone, but is the concern of the
development, must at first burden the beings of the higher hierarchies
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whole development of the external economic life during past
natural-scientific mentality depends on the fact that the Spirit
a mentality which is not accustomed to the contemplation of the
requirement is that the human being should recognize through
cultural achievements of the present time, and of humanity as a
against the spiritual-scientific statement or truth that when the
organization at the moment of waking up, in the same way in which
same thing can be said of the moment in which we fall asleep,
when the soul's content abandons the body. From the moment of
falling asleep to the moment of waking up, we therefore confront
not offer us any instruments enabling us to observe this
growth and development cannot be perceived.
development attains the stage of life, but not that of
From the moment of
falling asleep to the moment of waking up, we pass through the
not play such an important part in the development of humanity if
works of art, but by recognizing the laws of human development
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spiritual-scientific movement and of the way in which we stand within
it. I think that at the present moment it is necessary to
rises, kept on advancing. Throughout the above-mentioned length, of
the fact that this movement, resulting from the explanations
respiration, let us now consider a greater life-element, the next
greatest life-element, namely, the alternating conditions of WAKING
life-element. But let us now consider the alternating states of
in and out. Thus, we have a movement of the etheric, taking place in
circular movement, a return to a point of departure. In that case, we
possibility for our nearest life-element, which takes place in the
within us when our breath goes in and out. Through the movement round
whilst breathing within us, and the earthly element breathes within
documents left by Goethe — everything connected with his
never discover mere statements, as is so frequently the case in other
aperçu for them. But when Goethe advances a statement, which
which he bases his statements, and there is always real experience
we advance a statement.
such a way that at the moment of our birth we are breathed out by
There you have an analogue for a very ancient statement.
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birth and death in the history of mankind's development? How many
on this problem! How immensely significant is the part played by
already existed in a more elemental, physical form during the
the same elemental way in which they struggled with birth and
will send their influences into the world in an immense, gigantic
of electric forces, which will assume quite different dimensions
men. They belong to the Hierarchy of the Angels. During the 4th
progressive Powers. They worked for the establishment of social
they assert these in an Ahrimanic way, to the detriment of social
human beings, not only groups of men, in a very intimate way, so
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Karmic Relationships of the Anthroposophical Movement or,
Esoterische Betrachtungen Karmischer Zusammenhaenge.
Dritter Band. Die Karmischen Zusammenhaenge der
Karmic Relationships of the Anthroposophical Movement or,
Esoterische Betrachtungen Karmischer Zusammenhaenge.
Dritter Band. Die Karmischen Zusammenhaenge der
The attention of readers is called to the fact that fundamental
Anthroposophical Movement, bear this
right into the physical organisation. For Michael-men therefore
(if we may use this term), we must connect the physical phenomena of
Gabriel- or Raphael-men, or the like.
nevertheless it is Michael who brings the karma of men nearest of all
that human beings — I will not say of nervous temperament
who were essentially men of Michael, this penetration of the
felt many things, which other men would have passed by more or less
present age, Ahriman can only have a strong influence upon men when
radical phenomenon is that of a fainting fit, or a diminution of
strength, and he can only make use of thoroughly brave men, men full
Thus the men of Michael are placed into the very midst of the battle
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at our epoch, one is hardly inclined to contradict such a statement.
to a certain extent all men are now specialists. This aspect of the
Art-development of mankind. And precisely for this reason is it
our spiritual movement which are at present so conspicuous.
dreaming, it is found unnecessary for a spiritual movement to express
men's souls, and surrounded them. When Raphael painted Madonnas, there
flowed from things that touched the very inmost hearts of men. In the
world-philosophy. Men have become as theoretic in their thought as
lost that living element in the soul which finds that substantiality
element in colour? We have already pointed out how this element in
colour is fundamentally a flowing, living one, in which we with our
The susceptibility for the living, creative element of colour flows
desire and seize it with a movement of the hand, so in the case of
creative element of colour makes an impression, and it flows into the
the whiteness is the product of his environment and that the polar bear
to pick a rose. The living productive element in his environment works
the blue; that would lead still less to experiencing the element of
movement, if one is not directly made aware that the red disk is
directions. In steeping oneself in this living element of colour, one
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we are in the illimitable red spaces as in a judgment court of God,
of becoming stronger and stronger, not merely that the judgment-seat
does not bring only punishment with it. Thus we experience orange in
the souls of men and instigate them to artistic production. The

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to hit upon certain phenomena of soul life.
of this movement, because the phenomena of which it takes
phenomena.
phenomenon of our time, which compels men to take account of
to the further development of knowledge, and to the influence
of this development of knowledge upon social life.
assortment of quarter-truths.
medical treatment, to speak of a certain scene, a very
Men
lameness with the snake hallucination. When this had
tell this story, and he based his treatment upon this fact. By
improvement in her condition. The patient got rid of the
different character. With Freud's further development of the
immense amount of material has been collected in order to
the moment when she realized her danger from the horses she
engaged to be married, but was in love with two men at the same
taken on “certain dimensions,” let us say, which
the desire for power, power over one's environment, the desire
need only begin “analyzing” hysterical women to
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prejudices lead men to oppose a spiritually scientific
these leaps in the mental processes of modern scholars.
cultural development. And psychoanalysis is not content
— without going into details, but merely mentioning them,
by effective mental activity as we are surrounded by air,
men to do many things which they do not consciously confess to
“love urge” are mentioned, it is because in the
moment that man and his soul enter the subconscious regions
majority of the inmates seem to me to be women — (the
treatment especially to people who had become nervous or
in addition a sanatorium could be equipped for learned men who
must be encountered. I will mention, of all the points therein
This forces us to refute these misstatements in a
statement regarding the sixth culture period. He had
all that he read, as may be shown by his comments. He read
quite perverted thinking, his whole statement. Many of our
that although I have shown how incorrect his statements are,
men imagine they have long since got rid of — belief in
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essentially a disappointment for all. Those who had allowed
about the dead. They expected that the universal elementary world
would be mentioned. They were therefore also disappointed.
aforementioned members of brotherhoods, members of other
such brothers of the left who made the arrangements for the use of
disappointments when he faces the world and its experiences in an
therefore always lead to an impoverishment of concepts; the concepts
however, a fortunate arrangement has been found for human beings
and nature is transmitted to us as an undivided system. At the moment
bringing clarification into nature — the elemental spirits or
In the elementary world we find spirits of earth,
regiment. It is not like that. These various realms — gnomes,
forming a unity of what in the pre-human, momentarily pre-human
I have mentioned in the course of these studies that
darkening are exploited. We have already mentioned what arrangements
something tremendous will be achieved; then this fifth post-Atlantean
arrangement of public affairs. What can be communicated from the
that everyone concerned with public affairs — statesmen and so
At a definite moment in time in the third post-Atlantean
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arouse within you some particularly lofty mental pictures to
shown by the perceptible growth of the theosophical movement that
behind the spiritual scientific movement. That would indeed be very
special treatment of great issues of life that have been obscured in
tons, up to fifty tons could be loaded by a number of workmen. For
materially. They experimented in the ancient way, indeed, they sought
at that time with alchemical experiments to observe the processes
achieve this, manifold arrangements will be necessary.
inappropriate be applied when these problems appear; only elementary
constellation. Think for a moment upon the problem, “How much
not, of course, characterize the aforementioned case; it would never
In the moment in which one penetrates beyond the mysteries I
extent of the longing for it” or “the movement that

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approaching humanity through phenomena such as materialism, nationalism,
for Christianity. But disregarding for the moment this Jewish
culture, which differed so fundamentally from the other forms of
operating, for example, in the movements of the stars and the sun
and development of European civilization and its American offshoot.
the development of individuality, of personality, has been at work,
unable to recognize certain phenomena in life as preparations for
One of the developments in
achievement of which the modern world is so proud. But woe betide if
supported by arguments of equal validity. And if people fail to
when one has to discuss the matter. Documents pile up! The lawyer has
with the documents. Here is one portfolio full of them, there
another. The number of documents grows and grows but as for interest
for everything remains in the documents. These are the little
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to be approaching humanity through phenomena such as materialism,
disregarding for the moment this Jewish culture which
differed so fundamentally from the other forms of
forces operating, for example, in the movements of the stars
these men of old were contained in this wisdom. But a
men, was understood at first by the only means then
it the impulse for the education and development of European
development of individuality, of personality, has been at
men shall find the right vantage-point from which to confront
were men to live on in a state of drowsy unawareness, unable
to recognise certain phenomena in life as preparations for
existence. And the time has now come for individual men to
succeed in preventing the vast majority of men from
vast majority of men were to regard these preparations for
developments in which Ahriman's impulse is clearly evident is
temptings if men were to persist in merely calculating the
of the planets — an achievement of which the modern
men. He would like to keep them so obtuse that they can grasp
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approaching humanity through phenomena such as materialism, nationalism,
establishment of this free spiritual life is essential in order that
the upholding of political rights. The treatment which Russia is
matters of the greatest moment. Human intelligence itself must be
were mentioned in the lecture yesterday must be taken in deep
dimension, be it length or volume. I can measure a line if I
In such measurements, no
qualitative element is entirely lacking. The number three
be taken in all seriousness is that the moment we enter the world
Stuart Mill are fundamentally dreamers. The dreamers are the
way things have developed in the movement represented by the
just as external science becomes ahrimanic, the higher development of
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things objectively, with complete detachment, and in accordance
morgana, and, on the other, the luciferic element within them
us with a strongly luciferic element. What is it that arises in
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to be approaching humanity through phenomena such as materialism,
for we cannot do more at present — to convince men of
greatly furthered if men fail to establish a free and
darkness, and men's interest in it, a burning, raging fire.
The establishment of this free spiritual life is essential in
which he says that men should not allow themselves to be
treatment which Russia is receiving from the Entente has led
men were to discard phrases and recognise that all these
God.” Do men really take these lines in earnest? They
moment. Human intelligence itself must be quickened and
time, because the spiritual capacities of men are
humanity is to be achieved, such things as were mentioned in
be difficult indeed for men to bring themselves to admit that
something with a given dimension, be it length or volume. I
In such measurements, no matter whether of
element is entirely lacking. The number 3 always remains the
moment we enter the world that can be weighed and measured,
things. And so a future must come when men will be able to
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approaching humanity through phenomena such as materialism, nationalism,
from birth until death — lies the element of feeling,
movement of the arm. This process lies entirely in the subconscious
epoch — thinking of it for the moment in the wider sense, as
which at the moment I will not specify. Something else is there as an
invented by a Jules Verne, it would be found with amazement that
phenomena. What we see is in reality the working of will and
the universe. Even the most perfect instrument would not enable the
realization that what you perceive outwardly depends fundamentally
upon yourselves and that — not of course at each moment but in
physical human being I am fundamentally the cause —
moral conduct and achievements of human beings on the earth are the
no mention is made in your books on physics and geology; they contain
not makes no fundamental difference or really alters anything. But
phenomena we seek for the truth.
which they have been handed down they are nothing but the sediment of
underlying realities. The moment it is realized: we have not to ask
going on in humankind — at that moment the real meaning
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to be approaching humanity through phenomena such as materialism,
any rate from birth until death — lies the element of
connected with the process leading to the actual movement of
time. Men think: the mineral kingdom takes its course and
men think and you will find evidence of it in any text-book
our present epoch — thinking of it for the moment in
activities of men were among the contributory causes. —
was the outcome of the deeds of men on the earth.
else which at the moment I will not specify. Something else
upbuilding forces lie in the sphere into which men pass
Jules Verne, it would be found with amazement that nothing of
solar phenomena. What we see is in reality the working of
universe. Even the most perfect instrument would not enable
that what you perceive outwardly depends fundamentally upon
yourselves and that — not of course at each moment but
thinking men cannot fuse the earthly round as such with the
a physical human being I am fundamentally the cause —
happening. — The moral conduct and achievements of
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philistine attitude when mention is made of luciferic beings.
the answer is that human beings received the rudiments of what has
were received through the mediation of Lucifer. The luciferic element
unification, the fundamental tendency of the ahrimanic
constant hold of the concrete, individual reality. The moment you
generalize or unify — at that moment you are nearing luciferic
less allied with the luciferic element which always tends to draw
were simply to draw away from the luciferic element without putting
But the result would be the establishment of Ahriman's kingdom on
anthroposophical movement. He had been wounded in the war and lay for
have to be overcome, but for people of today the fundamental
they so often speak of the need for “upliftment.” By this
of collecting has become the fashion. Countless experiments have been
fundamentally new ideas in all that this modern age has
So too you will find the fundamental principles of modern natural
the life of the soul. Fundamentally, all that science tells us in
mentioned to you, namely, that a zero-point is there at the moments
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to be approaching humanity through phenomena such as materialism,
knowledge, men feel thrown back more and more upon what is
men would have remained ineffectual, childish beings. By our
mention is made of Luciferic beings. Even among
in the hands of wise men who use it for good, whether it is
intention was to convey the wisdom to men in such a way that
The wise men of
earth — the answer is that man received the rudiments
the grip of Lucifer by the wise men of old. — If you
civilised world, men shrink from such truths. The caricatured
The Luciferic element can still be observed in thinking.
towards unification, the fundamental tendency of the
hold of the concrete, individual reality. The moment you
generalise or unify — at that moment you are nearing
Luciferic element which always tends to draw him away from
if man were simply to draw away from the Luciferic element
it will finally lead men to split up to such an extent that
Things could come to the point where individual men would
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we have freed ourselves from the personal element in its narrower
evolution concretely. We have often distinguished the development of
divided into two separate parts, the development of the breast and the
development of the limbs. Let us disregard this latter differentiation
development of the head and, on the other, everything that belongs to
his head is concerned, the element in which the Spirits of Form unfold
Focus your attention upon these two fundamental concepts which we have
must take into account the beings we have often mentioned as
age. Then he carries the death-dealing element in his organism,
namely, the Ahrimanic element. We may say that everything that lives
there exists this tremendous contrast between the liberating tendency
hand the Luciferic, and on the other the Ahrimanic element, and in the
middle the human being who, as the third element, in the state of
Luciferic element, pulling upward; on the other side the scale pan
with the Ahrimanic element, pulling downward. To keep the scales in
existence, namely: the Luciferic element, representing the one scale
of the balance, the Ahrimanic element, representing the other scale of
toward freedom for the achievement of a wholesome cosmic aim, and on
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considerations. It is imperative for a sound development of the
designate as the Luciferic and the Ahrimanic element. But they did not
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 reality, they intermixed the Luciferic with the Divine element.
accustomed, because of the acknowledgment of this duad, to speak, on
the one hand, of the soul element, on the other, of the bodily or
corporeal element, and we have lost the connection between the
thoughts which relate us to the soul-spiritual element and the
thoughts which relate us to the bodily element. Thinking, willing,
the soul element, filled with content. On the other hand, people speak
of the de-spiritualized material element, devoid of soul, and they
material element and are unable to build a bridge from it to the soul.
time spiritual have fallen apart into two elements. Mere theories will
element. We might express it thus: on the one hand, the various creeds
have resorted to pointing to the spiritual element without being in a
position to show how this spiritual element takes hold of the
bodily-corporeal element; on the other hand, a soulless knowledge, a
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and refers to everything I have just mentioned.
men of earlier periods spoke about subjects like the air in the way
a moment and consider those beings which we always have called, in the
Luciferic beings down into the sphere of men, into the fourth sphere
of men. Through this the impulse of intelligence arose in human
you direct your attention to the impersonal element of present-day
internal diseases. Scientific-medical development must strive to build
its knowledge upon this Luciferic element. To give this impulse
Ahriman's constant endeavor to insert the personal element into the
the personal element is concealed in our desire-nature, our human
moment of death. Instead of permitting ourselves to be permeated by
the personal element is introduced into our wishing, into our willing.
and the Ahrimanic element. The Luciferic-Ahrimanic element delivers us
development has passed beyond the middle point of Earth evolution.
known to geology, as I have frequently mentioned, that as we walk over
upward trend will arise in our bodily development. We must take hold
consciousness at every moment of waking life constitutes the Michaelic
continuous progressive development. You know that it was not possible
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for through such an arrangement we arrive at a certain structure in
which are the fundamental causes for our cosmic order were adopted
content of the Mysteries was lost and the merely formal element, the
mere thought element of the ancient Mysteries was retained. We may
mental image is what enters our consciousness. We dream our feelings,
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possible, at a comparatively early moment, to bring so much order into
the most varied fragments of thought arrange themselves and occur in a
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moment we have completely acquired imaginative cognition, these
the one just mentioned, there surges up the world of will which is
this is a purely Luciferic element. I have described it to you
the Luciferic element in us.
mathematics — this is the purely Ahrimanic element, which arises
from below through our human nature. It is the Ahrimanic element.
our head are correct; but this is a gift of the Luciferic element. And
element is in the middle. It consists of seemingly illogical,
conception, since we have begun to introduce this Ahrimanic element
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is the moment when we have to become conscious of certain things, and
documents reach back. This is not the case. Human beings, even the
natural-scientifically orientated thinking which might be mentioned,
on criminal law every time with the following remarks: Gentlemen, I
argumentation is somewhat simple, but it points to the difficulty that
which I have mentioned frequently. Modern thinkers believe that they
eighth Œcumencial council of Constantinople when the
thought of considering omnipotence as a fundamental quality of the
Wisdom was considered the fundamental attribute of the Divine Being. The concept of Omnipotence only gradually penetrated the idea of the Divine Being, from the fourth century onward. It continued to develop. The concept of personality was abandoned and the predicate was transmitted to the mere order of nature, which is conceived of more and more mechanically. And the modern concept of the necessity of nature, the omnipotence of nature, is nothing but the result of the evolution of the concept of God from the fourth to the sixteenth century. Only, the qualities of personality were abandoned and that which constituted the concept of God was taken over into the structure of thinking about nature.
oppose such statements vigorously. Just as many philosophers believe
eighth Œcumenical Council of Constantinople in 869, — just
elements into his true being during the subsequent evolutionary stages
Moon men, the Angeloi, we developed in a pre-state of the
Jupiter men exist already now just as we existed upon the
beings make themselves felt which exist in the environment of mankind.
element of which ordinary consciousness thus remains unconscious
development of present-day humanity.
men; they took possession of the obscured, veiled consciousness of
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nature herself for the soul element, for the spiritual element, whose
experience of the various moments of time. The strong emphasis on
itself through this element of light and darkness constituted for him
reflection is preserved for us in the Old Testament. There something
as Providence, in his own movements and in the movements of the tree.
enters me and again leaves me. Thus the same divine element was sensed
under the after-effects of the culture in which a twofold element is
beings of elemental nature of whom I have spoken yesterday,
your eyes — and you can make similar experiments with every one
it contains the soul element which, three millennia ago, was breathed
process, permeated by the soul element in a similar way we have
merely sense perceptions, but also the spiritual element. It must
stated at the beginning of the Old Testament: “And God breathed
at the same time, have the subjective-objective element for which
as the objective and the subjective element once crossed in the
to recognize the pure phenomenon, which he called the primal
phenomenon, by arranging the phenomena which work upon man in the
serve in the arranging of the phenomena. Goethe did not strive for the
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establishments which manifest most prominently the ideas of
our anthroposophical spiritual movement. Even though one sets
anthroposophy has when it is implemented in this way.
able to watch the development of the different classes. I
many ways the essential element in a class.
the results of our anthroposophically oriented movement of
fundamentals of anthroposophy. It is an island, however,
achievement. Yet does anyone have even a slight understanding
government are bringing their children to the Waldorf School
combination of all the color, sound and warmth elements and
the first place, only an external phenomenon. Yet this idea
an apparition, a phenomenon that arises and then disappears
grasped or touched, it is no longer a phenomenon to the same
phenomenal realities of the rainbow.
comprises merely a world of phenomena, modified perhaps in
phenomena nevertheless. Regardless of how far we direct our
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nature. I also mentioned that in this abstract age certain
phenomena that can be perceived with the senses or
phenomena, for example, even the most complex ones, must be
primary concern is with the external phenomenon of people
is precisely this insight that men are vehemently rebelling
prosperous development in the future, because instinct must
group mentality causes men today to congregate under the
certain party, a socialist, a liberal party, a women's
movement, or a party of a spiritualistic nature, and so on.
If I were to enumerate just a small segment of all the
they do not wish to know. Just because men do not know
belonging to a women's rights group knows that he follows
subconscious elements into fully conscious intentions, into
lost. More and more, men had to forgo their knowledge of the
history, the more we find that men instinctively interpreted
recognized by groups of men, the greatest part of his
superstition by those whose mentality is on par with those
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the nature of the metallic element; you arrive at what is, in
come upon a sense which is usually no longer mentioned, at
we are at rest or in movement. We don't only observe whether
forth. This happens through the sense of movement.
movement, sense of balance, and the senses of touch and
arrangement of the senses which is familiar to most of
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transformed into the sensory element. Schematically, one
the world of imaginative, inspired and intuitive elements,
senses, the life sense, the sense of movement, of balance, of
touch, balance, movement and life. In everyday life, we do
movement is expressed in what takes place in us when, through
sense of movement. When it is radiated into the soul, this
free soul element. The fact that you experience yourself as a
free soul is due to the effects of the sense of movement. It
of balance streams into the soul, the soul element is already
hardness and softness, is the element streaming outward. What
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our anthroposophical movement has entered a state that
placed within our movement, we must not lose sight of the
complicated organism, and from all the various phenomena that
immensely incisive and drastic. Again, things go on that
movement with general world affairs it is above all else our
movement. I have often mentioned this. The present time makes
represents in reference to our movement. This responsibility
and, above all, to base our observations on the judgment we
of enabling each individual person to form a judgment on the
like to present something that will supplement what I said
view on a widely accepted fundamental concept — even
metamorphosed, but that fundamentally the same substance is
this kind. One of these I have often mentioned as a typical
the tremendous weight of this false authority, mankind lacks
world or the accomplishments of science; those who believe
every sentence, of every word. I have to mention this because
requirements. Remember how the problem, the riddle of human
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progressive opinion concerning the emancipation of women. I
us today in forming a judgment.
from these “true and false” judgments to
mention the periods that preceded these cultural epochs,
form a judgment. Logic was not the determining factor.
he made judgments. In the manner in which he formed opinions
be designated as a mental deficiency. The view that the
external world is not a “phenomenon” in Goethe's
Such a view will be called mentally defective, not wrong,
that the soul-spiritual element is much more perfect than
mention the soul they have no idea what soul and spirit
element of the child's head works on the physical head. What
divine element, that genius turns into excessive
takes the world of phenomena to be a real, material world, or
suppositions, the judgments of right and wrong received a
special expression in Scholasticism, judgments that were like
making judgments is concerned. When I say that a person makes
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phenomena and that it is a sign of the prejudices of our age
phenomena. Certainly, here and there, a certain perception
world of phenomena, of appearances, not one even of merely
external phenomena, one seeks for material realities, for
reality standing behind the world of phenomena, is just as if
phenomenon. This search for material reality in regard to the
as the sense world is a world of phenomena, and we may not
behind this world of phenomena? The material atoms are not
world of sense phenomena, of sensory appearances, we have the
world of spiritual phenomena when we turn from our senses
realities, they are spiritual phenomena. Now, if we descend
spiritual phenomenon, especially when one penetrates more and
particular do not like to hear mentioned. There we become
acquainted with the essentially material element of our
phenomena when it lights up into consciousness.
spiritual element is found which, out of itself, brings forth
There, we only discover the material element of our own
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understand one another, that an element common to all men is
present. This common element, however, can only develop when
developments that exist among the different members of
Eastern, this common element, which comes to light
a Viennese paper or one from Berlin. The element determining
the individual regions. The fundamental coloring of what has
sentiment, the conceptual form, expressed in a newspaper from
into his thoughts as an enlivening element. I shall
is merely a phenomenon. It is only there to enable the human
coined by a man a century ago out of the innermost sentiments
mention him in newspaper articles, they only perceive the
element utterly foreign to these people.
that it is possible to discover the fundamental nuance of
establishment of kingdoms, the social structure of the
remarkable development in the East led to? It has led the
fundamental disposition of the soul does not change; it
soul's most recent development. It must be of special
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by their nature to develop that element which makes its
pertaining primarily to the spiritual development in mankind,
achievements of the Vedas, the greatness of the Bhagavad
roots and sap, in man through his nourishment. Thus, one
regulated, systematic movement. What did he do by thus
advancement. What did he accomplish? What happened in this
which occurs when the element derived from the metabolism
statement which I pointed out to you yesterday: “The
metabolic system. One remains unconscious of the element in
governmental element in the social organization. He forms it
between a person and his environment. Yet he, in turn, also
duty.” But one does not reach the fulfillment of ideas
living movement of ideas.” Yet one limits oneself only
the earthly soul. It also has a theory of government.
most spiritual way, men like Hegel and Fichte have described
the very element that has no counterpart in the spiritual
discipline. Then, if one values a certain inner development,
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with a feeling for the tremendous change and transformation
development of his particular spiritual character in middle
sluggish mentality, Hegel attended the University of
the acquaintance of the much more mentally mobile and quick,
transposed the melancholic sentiments of ancient Greece into
Phenomenology of the Spirit.
from the dimmest impressions of the world to that mental
Phenomenology of the Spirit
environment in which he happened to find himself. Thus, one
come across passages testifying to Fichte's tremendous
Phenomenology of the Spirit,
phenomenology of consciousness.
Phenomenology of the Spirit,
thought experience but one of the divine cosmic element in
that they are of the same element by which the universal
physically speaking, the Luciferic force is that element in
complexity in its development in the course of time, and one
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had to mention here that the science of initiation is
during recent centuries in the development of
all, actual earthly substance, the element, in fact, that
come from that other region of the spirit. Thus, the moment
can be absolutely no improvement in the development of
movements that emerge today and forge a new creed and
today in order to launch into movements that introduce
apparent improvements in the world is far short of what has
deformed by the confessions. It is lamentable to see how all
sorts of scholastic or women's movements, fabricated out of
a person has grown up in a movement, in some party, he
fruitful things can only be accomplished if these movements
And when men engage in politics in it, for example, in
the tapestry of the sense world. When women's movements
more detail in the next lecture — it is an element that
we may realize what mission men's social life on earth has
in regard to the most minute achievements of humanity, man is
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region that is our actual environment is a different one; it
molds this organism and permeates it with movement. This
only such an awareness could overcome the egoistic elements
elements are to a large extent founded entirely on egoism. In
surface of human development by the civilization of the last
This attainment
unconsciously from the moment we fall asleep until we awaken;
fashioned for us out of this environment; that is to say,
narrowly defined life of the mind is harmful. The element
spirit has to arise from this chaos. Mental life must emerge
organism arises the element that can constitute the life of
life. Here we are dealing with the youngest developments. In
developments, those that are the bearers of the human will.
everything is based on the development of the individuality.
of the development of groups of people. And in the matter of
development.
spheres of thinking and forming judgments. One has to
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of human civilization. It has already been mentioned that
documents which are proof of the Orient's essential nature,
ancient spiritual life in the decadent phenomena.
like a cosmic magistrate, adjudicates upon good and evil men.
in the Roman legalistic element.
central regions, we are dealing primarily with the element
accomplishments of the East, if we consider the special
central regions. There, we come to the development of the
completely conscious element only appears in the Western
themselves. The conscious element is still instinctive in the
across something quite strange. One might actually recommend
subject, say, the former embodiment of the earth, the Moon
embodiment. A variety of facts are set forth. Someone reads
additional facts not mentioned earlier. The things that such
form emerges here consciously but in quite an elementary way.
being we list the following: The element of imitation from
fourteenth year, the element of authority; the one of
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undergone fundamental changes in the course of time and will
organism is connected with the human environment, just as man
natural environment through his individual members.
man. It stands as a unique phenomenon within the natural
environment, we are unable to find anything that could be
defining what lives in man's social environment, we discover
agreement and reciprocal understanding, is the realm that
illuminated by the mutual agreement between people, and it
has since evaporated, enters into an agreement with an as yet
comparison, with regard to the settlement of rights, the
judgments or decisions be formulated by individuals in
Deeds and accomplishments then must spring from associations,
impressions arise when man's environment reacts in turn on
certain relationship to his environment, adopts something
from his environment insofar as it is the cultural sphere. If
environment will, likewise, be noticeable. However, this is
strong influence from the spiritual environment. All the
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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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comprehend a number of things that have to be mentioned in
with our environment, with the other realms of existence. We
the cultural development of mankind in art, religion and
union with our fellowmen. All that springs from this, all
that men do through the transmutation of their ether body,
extraordinary importance and relevance of the present moment
we know, mankind achieved a certain development of the ether
development of the astral body during the Egypto-Chaldean
time, and a development of the intellectual soul in the
of the next cultural epoch — the unfoldment of the
this development of the spirit-self must of necessity proceed
through various earth lives. When we speak of the men of the
turned finally through the Latin Roman element into something
fundamentally only an obsolete legacy of the ancient Orient.
It is the flower of the earth. It is nonsense when men of
moment; he himself is quite detached from the matter at hand.
far removed the human element has come from what really
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development of mankind also lie in the spiritual world.
is that in the present moment of time, humanity's condition
left to men's decisions today.
kind of development. Perhaps when he reaches the age of
upon his faculty of judgment twenty-five years ago. At age
mature judgment of a man of fifty.
at any given moment of this life; by assuming the standpoint
development will gradually lead the single human being toward
underestimate the whole tempo of modern spiritual development
tremendous amount of the spirituality that once existed.
social structures were inaugurated and implemented by certain
judgments by pursuing thoughts in their wise heads on how to
come up with the best social arrangements, or by following
the belief arises again that some reform movement should be
according to the judgments acquired by mere natural
present receive news such as this, how government officials
of the fact that the most important and fundamental events
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in such a way as to appeal to the will of men. We now live in
development it is no longer possible to wait passively for
observing the individual phenomena of social life and the
life of nature, but today, certain phenomena of social life
whole language, will undergo the same development in
development which in their case we can clearly survey.
adopt in regard to natural phenomena. They contain objective
reconstruction, we speak from the above-mentioned viewpoint.
This is what must be mentioned in reference to human soul
language. When such a phenomenon is clearly understood, it
development. Indeed, from this transformation of our language
specific treatment of a language, of the meaning of words in
approaching the sixth condition of development. These
into that environment of life which is definitely of a
element lacking images only unites with the ego. It is
fundamental characteristics, and there are many broadly based
movements that oppose an education whose concern it would be
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holds in one both the elemental powers of nature and that which
(through the elemental nature-forces) simultaneously possesses a
treatment of speech. In any artistic representation such as this
representations, phenomena and images that are realized through
their temperaments. They differ so that one personality is wholly
out of the element of recitation and declamation rather than out of
and elemental kind of way.
Vertrauen suchendem Menschensinn.
Ich will eratmen mir
LUNA: Ich will erwärmen Seelenstoff
Der suchenden Menschenseele
Soll strömen Freudesinn;
Soll strömen Festigkeit.
Die Welt erwarmenden,
Den Menschenkindern
mortal men.
pluck each swelling moment, ripe
created under the tremendous artistic influence exerted on him by
element of plasticity which infiltrates Goethe’s poetry
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this art of recitation must use its instrument – the human
the fundamental absence, in our present age, of any earnest feeling
anyone who can see into these things, is a document of the very
different, resounds to us from a certain period in the development
instrument of speech – though, as we shall see later, this
movement when he declaims or recites poetry – this, too, must
poetry. We hope to show you how fundamentally different the effect
‘Willkommen, Herr Oluf, was eilst von
the pictorial element, we have the art of declamation; while the
element.
kommen,
Zu schöpfen kommen Weiber an,
tell Court-huntsmen, that the King will ride,
human organization when this serves as the instrument for poetry
waren Menschen wohlgesonnen.
Stammen diese Wunderkisten –
Und sie liessen einen kommen,
Maler, einen frommen.
Loose to the wind their airy garments flew,
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pronounce a word, it is as though the elements which live in song
were compressed from spatiality into something two-dimensional yet
through its intensive force, the two-dimensional plane still gives
seize on those elements, through which the arts of declamation and
element, where pitch, and even tone-colour, and that which produces
harmony, etc., is laid aside, yet the element of differentiation
mere word, where the element of differentiation in the actual
body, and through the breathing-rhythm, into the movements of the
presses, so to speak, against the organs of mental representation,
observation to mental representation that should manifest itself in
not linked with the representational element, but with that of
element is brought to expression and mediated through the word,
where we find such a folk-disposition, a dramatic element sounds
Here you will see how the dramatic element arises in the epic
Hoch zu Flammen entbrannte die mächtige Lohe
Ungeheures Gerüst, zusammenstürzend,
Flammen
Schmückete Land und Meer, dass der Flammen
‘So wird kommen der Tag, da
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abstract, and, as we have often said, the more modern development of
bring man back again to a concrete view of the world, in agreement
What such men as Hegel and Schopenhauer, who are after all great and
experience, in imagination, in connection with the thought-element of
the head. Thus the thought-element (See Diagram 1) viewed objectively, is
seen as light, or better, experienced as light. Being thinking men, we
because as thinking men, it is ourselves. You cannot see that which
see the thought-element as light. So that in speaking of the whole
development. Seen from outside, it has light. In the Universe we have
become, for the most part, men of thought. And in dying the world
particularly proud when they can put natural phenomena into terms of
moment when the fruit is about to develop, but is not yet there, when
will-element which we carry in our bodies. And we experience
will-element from outside, as we look at thought? Let us take the will
darkness, in the elements of material will.
development, of development into the future.
bloom, he had after all the element that has come down from the past
I mention this last only to call your attention to the fact that a
matter-will; and the concrete element in it is built up in the most

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arisen in man like foam-bubbles of psychic development will have no
light-phenomena, that we therefore see in the outer world everything
and say: as we now go through the world as thinking men, these also
in external phenomena. There will then be beings who look out into the
why? Because men acted in a certain way on earth. For what we see now
and its phenomena: we will then analyze them, being inwardly as cold
Let us start from a phenomenon we all experience every day. We know
that the phenomenon of sleeping and waking means that man is released
perception of it doesn't alter the fact. What is for the moment
notice how he lives in weight. But it is so. The fundamental
But it is a super-sensible primeval phenomenon. Asleep, the soul lives
consciousness. Think of the moment of waking: what is it? When
moral element is present.
at the conception of the moral element in its reality. Today it is so
experience according to dimension, weight and number, whereas in fact
educated laymen, there were many with pretensions to learning to
the task of purging our mental atmosphere from those mists of

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the inwardly heard sound- and word-movement of the poem, would
familiar above all with the instrument itself and with its
instrument and its medium. And likewise the reciter must understand
the art of handling speech. His instrument is bound up much more
closely with his own being than are the external instruments of the
musician, and in deploying his particular instrument he will also
just as necessary to begin with the fundamentals as in the art of
called Imagination weaves and lives in an element quite other than
If I may refer for a moment to
practice unless we fathom the fundamental differences presented in
the elementary stages of the art.
unfolded in the movement of sound. In the lyric, we find inwardness
are learning how to handle the materials and elements of speech, we
might be tempted to commence by introducing an element of feeling,
further development will be disclosed to him: he will discover how
speech-movement. Afterwards, his attention can be drawn to any
the poem and adjust the instrument of speech and only then return
consonantal element this peculiar imitation within us of the
outside world, we shall be led artistically from these elementary
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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
must be adjudged correct for the development of the human organism as
of extensive use in the treatment of various chronic and acute conditions,
is the point at which the didactic-pedagogical element in eurythmy flows
importance in respect to its hygienic-therapeutic element. Apart from
for the moment, and extending downwards
forces of the aforementioned part of the posterior head with the attached
certain, in a way rudimentary, but who is in his dispositions, in his
beginnings nevertheless at a certain stage of development.
down into the breast, is in such inner movement, that this movement
Our larynx eurythmizes; and we have then the assignment to turn around
respiratory system. It is by means of the transformation of the movement
that a state of balance is reached and stasis is developed out of elements
in movement, reciprocally conditioning each other in motion, that thinking
not claiming that through logic one's development will tend more towards
syllables and their movement, into the movement of the sounds and into
a distinct eurythmy intimately connected with the normal development of
possible sorts of occasions arise for this very complicated arrangement,
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intend to discuss matters related to the vowel element in eurythmy.
two statements are valid: vowels, more expression, revelation of the
movements which the tongue, the lips and the palate perform, the consonants
to a degree connected with movements of the body — the movement of
has been loosened, however, in the course of man's development. Speech
was removed more to the interior and the possibilities of movement,
of expression through movement, ceased. Today in normal life we speak
largely without accompanying our speech with the corresponding movements.
as movements and thus bring the body into movement again. Now we must
realize that when we pronounce vowels we omit the movement and make
the vowel inward, that previously joined in the outward movement to
We take the movement away. Thus we restore to the vowel in outer
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
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 feels the movement made or the position taken up. That is what
movement somewhat lower, returns again, and does it with both (arms)
always returning (to the rest position; the ed.). When these movements
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forms which consonants take in eurythmic movement. In what has been
developed as the form involved in consonantal movement consideration
certain practices within language as well. In the development of the
consonantal element in eurythmy, particularly in reference to the
completely in order to grasp the spiritual element in the things outside
and show us first of all the movement for “H”. Now please
disregard this H-movement altogether and Mrs. Baumann will demonstrate
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
into consideration, one can carry on from here to form a mental picture
extended to other languages. The moment one says not “ef”
but “fi”, in that moment it is a different matter; in that
moment one attempts to embrace the
to one element which flowed into the formation of the consonants. If
then we should consider a second element which I believe people pay less
than the third element which we will come to in a moment. In order to
find the movement for it deviates greatly to begin with from what takes
of which I am thinking at the moment — the eurythmic element must
it in movement. In certain instances one must go over to the exactly
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consonantal eurythmic movements the case is that, although the rhythmic
details. We will now go through the most important consonantal movements
a complicated leg movement which is very similar to the movements of
of the movements that are connected with the eurythmic consonants have
activity — movement such as we have just made work back on the
kidneys, you should have such movements carried out. Precisely the
movements which we have just done, B and P, are those which work
try to make a D. Now attempt to make the same movement with the legs:
the T for us; here the corresponding movement will be a hop forwards
the speech organism — which takes up the movement in the course
in the case of G, as well as of K and of Q we have a movement which
which thus promotes the movement of the intestine itself. The difference
this movement one has something which one can have those children do who
headaches, since this movement
this movement in particular will have a most important effect.
the same. Here we have a movement which should be practised when one
whatever reason — here is the movement to be performed.
of course, entirely possible to combine the movements in the most varied
manners; one will find in giving treatment that one will have to combine
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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
when one makes the eurythmic movement corresponding to a judgment, here
through judging eurythmically. Mrs. Baumann will show us the movement
and negation is precisely that which can be called a judgment; when one
confirms or negates something one has to do with the nature of judgment
in its essence. When you give such a confirmation or negation, the movement
fleeting, a thought which has gained wings and gone over into movement.
When a judgment is fixed eurythmically — as a confirmation or
negation — then it is a thought which rides on the movement. And
because the thought rides on the movement one projects in fact on the
the thought rides on the movement one takes a part more thoroughly into
oneself than otherwise. That is to say, one makes a movement through
which one becomes more awake than one otherwise is. Such movements are
actually movements that awaken. However, because one does not wake up
Now imagine you make this movement repeatedly, one after another: sympathy,
It is a sort of falling asleep. The other movement (confirmation and
out slowly. It is indeed a movement which brings forth the imagination
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thought and of mental representation are alive. What he perceives
outwardly is the activity of mental representation clothed in an
the etheric body takes up those movements which it carries out —
movements of the etheric body are awakened to a greater degree. These
movements of the etheric body can be observed. Thus in the listener
one has a person demonstrating in a heightened manner the movements
for you, ether movements of the human being in sleep. It isn't at all
movements of the human being when listening and has in fact here the
heightened movements of the etheric body in sleep. One studies these
movements and has them carried out by the physical body. That is to
say one allows the physical body to glide into all those etheric movements
apparent as well. The result is that by means of the physical movement
first instance as curative eurythmy; nevertheless, in the moment a person
form a mental picture of how this eurythmy affects the plastic qualities
as an implement and carries out what corresponds within, then what is
what corresponds to the outward movement.
characterized is correct when someone speaks and the movements for
differentiated movements have been performed all of which prove to be
movements within the etheric body having primarily to do with what lies
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perception. If this development continues, if it goes further in this
being conscious of them, reveal themselves in the phenomena of growth,
in the plastic phenomena of growth. If we ascend to inspiration, we come
and shapes him, lives on the other hand in the movements for the
a direct indication for the eurythmic treatment.
you can employ eurythmy. Although the phenomena are somewhat camouflaged
such cases, particularly if one complements it medicinally.
and the movements that are carried out are in continuous opposition
to the luminous movements within. In particular, there appears an entire
certain consonantal movements. One has a picture of the excretory process
this phenomenon leads extraordinarily deep into the mysteries of existence,
when eurythmy is done outwardly. And in the moment when what is concealed
carried out outwardly in movements in the person doing eurythmy as well.
rational breathing exercises, as a reinforcement of the eurythmic
at the moment. We have no real possibility of dealing with a number
the movement possible, as it should now be inaugurated in the medical
any way in an unjustified manner in the therapy. I have already mentioned
to the person, what the welfare of the movement may entail; that the
welfare of the movement is dependent in each individual instance upon
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through the well-known prismatic experiment, and we look into, or try
certain undulatory movements of the very finest substance, known as
inward experiment, so that we may have before us not only the
greenness. Let us suppose we have this greenness before our mental
We are not copying Nature in this experiment, but placing something
significant application in imagination, we must be able to experiment
body is not itself green. The element which gives the plant its
green. Life is there, but he becomes green. We speak of green men; we
which does not feel in its element. We know, too, that what we have
In this circle we can indicate certain fundamental colours, Black,

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cannot of course paint that at the moment, but imagine these
two of the colours we have, black and white, we must instill movement
movement and from that fact arises this colour of which we are
continual wave movement of black and white, with red rays through it.
movement, and let them be penetrated or illuminated by a new colour,
Philistine, one can think of such an arrangement — a room with
We shall see a case in a moment, where yellow consents to be bounded,
palest in the middle. Then blue is in its element. By this it is
concentrating; that is red's nature. So you see there is a fundamental
tends to evaporate; red is quiet — it is movement come to
green, blue, indigo, violet. One does not mention the reciprocal
really not be represented at all except in a state of movement. White
movement; something of the fixed stars. And in red, yellow and blue we
shadow-giving, the image-producing element in them.
ourselves to see not only peach-colour, but the movement in it; if we

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The Phenomenon of Colour in Material Nature
this phenomenon, at any rate for the purpose of outward appearance. We
is to be understood really only in movement. So that green is the most
colour-matter, and with something that is really a fluid element. And
statements of
phenomenon is of the greatest effect on earth? What heavenly body is
moon-nature (I will only just mention the subject today) as well as
element by which we can understand how colour is attached to an object,
him to comprehend the element necessary for painting nature in
for a moment what is tolerable and what is intolerable. You agree,
his mental make-up the idea, that a kind of illumination underlies
of the colour itself, as after all later human development demands, we
generally speaking an inartistic element has been introduced into
the earth's development, you will find that those universal bodies
lifeless mineral. And so we are brought — I am only mentioning it
inside of substances, that element of the otherwise fluctuating
thus the origin of those heavy elements in the earth's composition
from the elements which have left the earth for the planets. And these
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Mental Life of Man
movements are intimately and organically connected with
can, as it were, look back, through a corresponding development
Reincarnation as a Phenomenon of Metamorphosis,
Knowledge of the Higher Worlds and Its Attainment
greatly strengthened. I am repeating here certain statements
environment, and through which we also examine our inner
world. Behind the phenomena of the senses there is a spiritual
cartilage-formation or ossification of the abdomen where,
the metabolism, the movement of the limbs, and these forces are
arise mainly abnormal phenomena which are usually called
temperamental tendencies in the broadest sense, but by a detour
over-excitement of the human being, inner excitement
system are being prepared already the temperamental
agility of the astral body and ego, and the heart's movement is
only the reflex of these activities. The movement of the blood
movement caused by these forces. The heart is in fact only the
organ that manifests the movement of the blood, the heart
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a similar way the profoundest element of the human being cannot be
the forces of death. Not for a single moment throughout our life is
now to the soul element, in a higher sense the second element of
towards ahrimanic soul elements, we discard anything that might fill
sleep, a view of the luciferic and the ahrimanic elements.
surging of the luciferic and ahrimanic elements in the different
with the external world. It is obvious that the ahrimanic element is
ahrimanic judgement, an intellectualistic interpretation. If we want
element in their striving for balance. And in more recent times human
beings have to resist the ahrimanic element in their striving for
the luciferic element; in modern times they maintain their
uprightness by combating the ahrimanic element. In an external,
So-and-so said something which was in perfect agreement with
Anthroposophy. We are not concerned with an outward agreement in
example of how strangely certain statements, which are perfectly
statement when he felt threatened by the approach of social democracy.
symptoms of historical development in the present and on into the

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discern these fundamental aspects of life, it is simply not noticed
discover that the essential element in these western civilizations
founded on those fundamental forces of man's being which can be most
is another essential element as well. What has been revealed in the
fruit, if only they can come to a fundamental understanding of
vague presentiments could be achieved in this respect. On the other
development into the future can only be rightly understood when the
immensely earnestly. But this very earnestness has caused the
more perfect. Without this movement towards perfection human life
present, and that is a fundamental, clear distinction in the feelings
simply mention that you can find prose passages today which read: Ah!
expressed in the archetypal symbol of what the three wise men, the
pursue these hints — for that is all they are for the moment

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of development to be the culture epoch of ancient India. In my book
religious element of ancient Indian culture included what we today
relative movements. When those people looked up to the starry heavens
they saw in the external constellations and movements of the stars
movements of the stars. The constellations and movements of the stars
certain way to pay more attention to the movements of the stars and
and the movements of the stars. At the same time, the inner activity
and the starry movements. Their new achievement was thus a
statement, that since the beginning of the fifth post-Atlantean
historical development. It is a statement of something positive
elementary beginnings of this progress. Since the final third of the
towards the first concrete statements that come from the spiritual
times even the starry constellations and starry movements were no
mentioned yesterday. It is also capable of throwing light on
the same time there is in the west an elemental strength capable of
unfolding new impulses for development.
then, we have the symbol of the spiralling movement of humanity's
scale, too, we have to see this spiralling movement. Today I consider
that we have arrived at it in a perfectly elementary manner by way of

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should like to mention that, before the Mystery of Golgotha, people
Mysteries. That is why the course of scientific development is
Ages until well into the fifteenth century. Any mention of ‘the
Christ no longer influences only man's soul element, that is, his
inducement of a state of fear. What was the significance of the
accompaniment of certain preparations before it was drunk by the
through development in the realm of soul and spirit. Nowadays a clear
make the spirit and soul element of the pupil — as it was
element stops short before it (red). The brain is so constituted that
the human being's inner spirit and soul element cannot pass through
and soul element. Instead, external perceptions can enter and make
receiving into his brain what was his spiritual and soul element
red). In our blood, in our muscles down below, the element of spirit
and soul, the eternal element, is absorbed. But because of this it
As a result, the element of spirit and soul was not absorbed by the
freed. So now the spirit and soul element was in the brain because
absorbing it. Thus the element of spirit and soul came to be
element of spirit and soul. In ordinary life the human being was
moment at which knowledge was to enter. So his element of spirit and
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another is possible in man's development is, at the same time, a
extricating his soul and spirit element from his physical body,
discuss briefly. A statement such as this shows that the element of
as a result of which the spiritual element which is usually held off
pupil became aware of his soul and spirit element and knew that this
element in the way it usually does with regard to its expression in
the element of soul and spirit, and on the other hand the element of
picture of the element of soul and spirit within him. But this
spirit element as a result of the processes described, the pupil
thought element.
the same time strove towards the attainment of a higher life.
intellectual element. One thing that shows this especially is the
is this intellectual element which is so much a part of the human
result of the draught of forgetfulness, the element of spirit and
Mysteries the element of spirit and soul then rose up through the
faculties are as they are because the element of soul and spirit is
were far less intellectual. Their soul and spirit element was not
with sharp edges, clear contours. Yet, even though the element of
with their soul and spirit element.
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element of spirit and soul prepares for physical incarnation by
the physical organism, right at the moment of conception, a
tremendous transformation takes place, and that another tremendous
all we must be clear that the thought element leads a shadowy
and mental pictures of the human being during earthly life are no
description of one element of our soul before birth, or before
element of his being when he is in the super-sensible world. The other
element of feeling which can only be compared with what is
the fundamental aspect of the cosmos is something that has now become
kind of timidity, comparable with fear, towards the element in which
the feeling of fear and also the spiritual element which is
start with the spiritual element which lives in the cosmos and then
dies on earth, so a corpse also remains when the element of spirit
the corpse of the physical human being dissolves into the elements of
earth, so the element of spirit and soul dissolves in the spiritual
corpse of our spirit and soul element in our world of physical
living element which enters into man from his pre-earthly life comes
do with nature. Everything by which you spread into your environment
in a feeling way (see chart) is an element which represents a living
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brings down something which fills his element of soul and spirit,
metamorphosed into a thought element, but that it also sends into
of our spirit and soul element. Nature is seen as nothing more than a
That is why, as times moved nearer to our own, all elemental beings
living element that comes over from the life of spirit and soul, when
you how the ideas of the Old Testament, which I partly described
Alexandria interprets the whole of the Old Testament as an allegory.
This means that he wants to make the whole Old Testament, which is
transformed the whole of the Old Testament into thought images,
led to the Old Testament, looked back into life before birth, or
before conception, and out of what was seen there the Old Testament
important events stand side by side: The period of the Old Testament
Golgotha. He makes allegories of straw out of the Old Testament. And
an immense question. There stands the human being and, in the
the heathen stream which was fundamentally a nature wisdom. All
natural creatures were seen to be inhabited by elemental spirits,
elemental spirits in all creatures in the old way, continued to play
Jewish stream of the Old Testament. This stream possesses no nature
to nature. For the Old Testament there is no nature, but only
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statement that the force of thoughts is actually the corpse of our
those stages of his development during which he submerged himself in
element. But, as I said yesterday, this Christian element is not
tacked this Christianizing element on to the end of
tremendous amount of prejudice, in thought, in feeling and in will,
tremendous question to which the human being himself provides the
the watery element. All the solid parts of our brain are embedded in
here is the transition from the earthly element (blue) to the watery
element. We can say that the human being of nerves and senses lives
in the earthy-watery element. And in accordance with this, our brain
elements.
airy element (yellow). In the lungs you can see the watery element
making contact with the airy element. The rhythmic life is
anintermingling of the watery with the airy element, of water with
watery-airy element.
the airy element to the warmth element, in the fiery element (red,
next diagram). It is a constant dissolving of the airy element in the
warmth, the fiery element, which then seeps through the whole human
movements is a reorganization of the airy, gaseous element up into
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history, even today. There is no awareness of the tremendous change
tremendous transformation on the civilized world. Yet, a century
beings, behind the sense-perceptible objects of their environment.
sense-perceptible phenomena and not in accordance with what can be
merely thought about sense-perceptible phenomena.
of the most interesting phenomena of recent cultural evolution that
Faust is one of the most interesting phenomena of recent cultural
later development he does not seem to have been much influenced by
commentators are constantly concerned with what they consider to be a
any sense of all the various commentaries. We are talking about a
against all this you have in the figure of Weislingen the new element
evolved, a development which led eventually to the later situation in
way in which intellectualism developed in his own environment made
spiritually embraced the political element of what was expressed in
way as the French Revolution denies the political element. Goethe turns
and Schiller a tremendous revolution occurred in the concept of man
would have to draw the element in question like a cloud floating

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development in the eleventh, twelfth, thirteenth centuries was no
namely the Fragment which appeared
Fragment has no Prologue in Heaven, but begins with the scene
Fragment, and also the parts which Goethe omitted, we find that here
Schiller's encouragement inspired him to change Faust's solitary
showed you yesterday how the luciferic and ahrimanic elements
element simply in the character traits of Karl Moor and Franz Moor.
perfectly realistic element. But when he has completed the plays of
He is experimenting. He tries to shape the dramatic action in accordance
too, can experiment with this drama. Take out everything to do with
ideas about freedom. I mentioned yesterday that in France the
creativity and aesthetic enjoyment. Goethe, though, had a feeling for
and had perforce to make use of the instrument of a physical body,
Goethe felt impelled, at a most important moment,
Goethe, the statement that thinking, feeling and will work together
From all men deeply hidden!
‘The lofty might of Science, still from all men deeply hidden!
kitchen. Commentaries on these things always distort matters. We fail
might reply: Well, the lofty might of science, still from all men
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that tremendous change, which entered into the whole soul
intellectual element of the soul and he also had an inkling of the
— we might also, in the wider environment, come up against the
Karl Moor something which echoes the luciferic element that is also
full harmony with his social environment.
form of the human personality, the element of madness. Then, in the
contemporary western social environment, which he shows to be a time
way satisfied with his environment; but they are dissatisfied with
experimentally — in
Whatever we are, spiritually, up to the moment when earthly life
spiritual element into what they are trying to depict. It is
must strive for — a new achievement of the spiritual world
crucial it was for the whole of Parzival's development that he first
From all men deeply hidden!
— it is a special element in our soul.
with the movement of the chopper. As a result, the connection with
connected with the spirit. So we may say: That tremendous change
different phenomena point to the magnititude of the change.
took the spiritual element into account, for instance, in that they
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great world-wide movement of the end of the eighteenth century.
provide for every single requirement of man's spirit, soul and body.
requirements cannot be satisfied by the earthly world.
fundamental character of the French Revolution itself was the
endeavour to found a social environment which would be an expression
be an expression of the intellectual element. The endeavour to create
requirement: Everything on earth is to be arranged in such a way as
upward movement was indeed immediately attempted as a reaction to the
achievement of freedom in the world can only come about when the
and artistic enjoyment. The human being dwells within artistic experience,
instance — let me be really down to earth for a moment —
activity, for active involvement in life. It seemed to me that the
Goethe's creative work, the achievement of human freedom through
treatment of illnesses. But someone who has made the effort to
Healing always requires assistance from the element of spirit and
physical plane are everywhere steeped in the element of spirit and
organism you need the element of soul and spirit. The whole process
the fundamental impulse which tells us that eurythmy is a language,
development, then they acquire a delicate sense for the living truth,
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which stems from the elements of sound and tone. It is especially
fitting that at this moment I can add the subject of man's
element. The further we go back into prehistoric times, the more
already far removed from the pure singing element and has instead
immersed itself in the prose element and the intellectual element, we
have in speech essentially two elements: the elements of consonants
elements of consonants and vowels. The element of consonants is
it is really a musical instrument. Indeed, you can comprehend
standard musical instruments, a violin or some other instrument, by
looking at them fundamentally from the viewpoint of the consonants,
reminiscent of musical instruments, and the totality and harmony of
vowel element is the soul playing on this musical instrument. When
you observe the consonant and vowel element of speech, you actually
of the human bodily instrument. If we examine the speech of
the breathing process unites with the movements taking place along
[“innerviert,” makes inward] the instrument that
added to producing the tone, as in the case of singing, the element
prosaic speech into the poetic and artistic element of the rhythmic
toward the body, which serves as the musical instrument only by
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bodies he is conscious of this world, which, as his environment, is
physical-etheric environment. One therefore must speak of a
physical-etheric environment or world in which man exists during this
Just as the physical world is our environment when we are awake, so
The basic elements for it are described in my book,
direction of our physical-etheric environment, we perceive the three,
phenomena.
eyes see and what ears hear, the manifold world phenomena engaged in
with fundamental changes in human souls. I said that this super-sensible
century, which is mentioned so as to pinpoint something definite in
the historical development of humanity.
age. For this reason, the soul element also stood in a different
element as something that occurs around or within him. The moment he
perceives the musical element he feels transported out of his body
through the world, revealed themselves in sevenths. The statement, “I
the third appeared in the musical element — both major and
minor thirds — the musical element submerged itself, as it
He brings the musical element close to his corporeality. He
as an earthly sense phenomenon must be taken along, as it were, when
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descent from the Spiritual as far as the rudimentary basis of the
mid-point of its development. From this you will realise that the
crumbling away. The mineral element was active in the earthly realm in
human physical body had reached a degree of decline where the men who
imbued again with the necessary forces of life and freshness. Men were
in the ego and the astral body in those men who through the requisite
actually signifies that at this moment Christ's disciples were able to
what would have come about for men had the Mystery of Golgotha not
have then befallen, namely, that the physical bodies of men would have
etheric bodies of men would have followed their own urge towards the
and that numbers of men had become clairvoyant to the degree to which
the disciples became clairvoyant at this moment. These men would have
etheric-earthly element in man is being drawn away into the sun.’
But now, by carrying to its fulfilment the Mystery of Golgotha, Christ
significance does not depend upon what men believe about it. An
the physical body, no matter what men believe or do not believe about
it. The Mystery of Golgotha was enacted for the sake of all men,
made possible for men to find on the earth bodies in which they can
is, however, fundamentally as beings of spirit-and-soul that men will
produced its effect in the waking life of men who had no knowledge of
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civilization has developed in a way describable in outer documents,
now prevalent settled into men's souls. Or approximately the same ideas.
They still operate, though at times in a detrimental way — for
feel estranged from the cosmos, and see the stars and their movements,
were, if I may use the expression, elementary-cosmic. Man did not need
active force in movement, as wind is the active force in moving trees,
movements, to the reciprocal action of sun and moon; and what came to
garment the earth dons in order to shut itself off from the cosmos and
it he felt the elementary beings which carry the force of plant-seeds
feelings and sensations he followed this event. The attachment to the
all that gave existence, movement and thought to his ego. He said: What
being, so in the ancient Persian time the astral element experienced
the connection, it was no longer seen in elemental consciousness. The
element.
felt tremendous joy that he had been allotted such a body and, after
to Greek tragedy, to the epics of Homer, in their human element, insofar
Homer's description of Hector or of Achilles. Feel what immense importance
Romans this joy subsided. Everything became settled; men began to grasp
in addition to the stars, the involvement of his personality in order
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foster, in every possible way, the artistic element.
is of course connected with modern man's aforementioned aversion
enter his soul, inevitably, as an elemental impulse of soul, if
the artistic element flourished have had a definite relation to the
our own age has an immense talent for philistinism.
primary. Though such an attitude is not, perhaps, because of embarrassment,
hears the statement: “To build artistically is too expensive.”
my physical environment will become manifest; this environment will
do not belong to the physical earthly environment. We bring them with us
environment. Of course, when I use modern words in this connection they
problem of means was a fundamental concern; when (for this is
element into the human element. All of which points up the fact that
order to escape from earthly regions? How pass through the plant element
erecting burial vaults, monuments, mausoleums, which embodied in their
was one of the fundamental impulses behind the development of ancient
measurements and proportions in the complicated architectural forms
past cultural elements can be understood only in connection with the
The answer was ecclesiastical architecture, the artistic element in
with a physical environment, grew into space. To him the physical body
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materialism, the artistic element; and how Anthroposophy feels about
with its environment through the physical body, and to experience spatial
understand architecture's artistic element we must consider the soul's
space-needs after it has left the three-dimensional body and
three-dimensional world.
element in costuming represents something else; and I have described
the joy of primitive people in their garments, and their sense —
earthly-naturalistic element, how, in every detail of his form and in its
in the evolution of mankind the development of spatial perspective on
elemental. Fortunately it can be provided. For that purpose I suggest
cannot inhere in dead substances because colors are mental; they exist
these colored sheets I carry out certain movements. First I cover the
movements. You immediately remember that, contrary to my present use
colored phenomenon of three weeks ago, forget all about the white sheets
Only, the jewel is not dependent on this moment's soul-phantasy; it
constructed out of the green color of the spiritual world. The moment
created this substance through a purely spiritual green. The moment
the plane falsifies; what must be acquired is a sense for the movement
in a materialistic manner, a fourth dimension. But the fourth dimension
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man draws closer to the spiritual element in thought, feeling and will.
must be called not only to the dangers mentioned, but also to the fact
should consider the tremendous seriousness of cognition. Also the abyss
man is merely the highest pinnacle of natural phenomena, there would
evident at that moment of world-evolution when human beings were faced
their struggles will corroborate this statement. Much that is pertinent,
His Italian journey was fulfilment of his longing. In Germany, that
through shaping, through an appropriate treatment. Thus Goethe the artist
distilled from natural forms and human actions an element which, although
the divine-spiritual, I must, by my treatment, lift them to a level where
nothing to anybody, to flee to an environment in which he could master
to artistic form was a tremendous struggle which required the help of
as his first sketch which would have remained a fragment. Take the second
remained a fragment, he could not complete it; the project was too vast
world. In his immediate environment Ludwig Tieck felt the breath of
into Germany; and as a personality he illustrates how Goethe's tremendous
of cognition, through which, of necessity, men must pass. Tieck shows
own personality and, on the other, to fall prey to elementals, gods
of the elements. Hence overtones of gripping power in Tieck's works;
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SHOULD like to supplement last week's lectures on art. Often I had
study the spiritual development of mankind in those ancient times through
faculties, seeing the fixed stars and movements of the planets, considered
environment. We need only remind ourselves how the ancient Egyptians
The other arts existed, to be sure, but in only a rudimentary state
to express what appears in star-constellations and star-movements; far
a head resembling the firmament; how thought represents a spiritual
firmament, a celestial vault; how thought is inherent throughout the
thought-movement he felt the after-image of some star-movement, in every
and constellations of the stars in the nightly firmament. The laws and
penetrate its soil in the solid, liquid and aeroform elements, then
from these elements will impulses penetrate into the human being, just
impulses from planetary movements.
from zodiacal constellations the twelve consonants, and from the movements
with cosmic movement and experience.
elements not contained in prose; to a background which, in every true
poet singing; it was the soul which has communion with cosmic movements
Odysseus, Idomeneus, Menelaus; sing of how events appear, not from the
an end. The artistic element comes from treating the medium in such
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opposite just as objectively, we would have to speak of concealment, of
objectively of the beautiful, we take hold of it as a spiritual element
as a divine-spiritual element bestowed upon earthly substances only
in them the spirit-soul element manifests directly.
words, the thing painted is merely an inducement. For example, we never
of the painter. Seizing what passes in a moment, he relates it to the
holding fast to a transitory moment are light and darkness, the whole
otherwise than in a red garment and blue cloak, because only so is the
Mother of God placed rightly into earthly life; the red garment depicting
all the emotions of the earthly, the blue cloak the soul element which
element as something living; only if he creates what is to be formed
on the plane out of this element. For to understand color is to understand
lived in the element of color
in the colors how these men are anchored to the earth; colors which
which fetters the watching ones to earth. In the color-treatment of
no further in the treatment of light; we must halt. For we have reached
what is indicated by light, rather than contour. The moment we insist
subject to earthly gravity; something else has entered: the element
is an abstract, philosophical statement having nothing to do with art.
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Dimension, Number and Weight
dimension and number.
colour-phenomena: there are oscillating movements which make an
things of dimension, number and weight are not there at all, at any
rate not according to earthly dimension, number and weight. When we
state of his development man is not capable of perceiving the
And there is something there similar to a measurement. You get it, for
too, should become yellow. Thus are measurements made in this case.
dimension, number and weight, but of an opposite kind.
arrangement of sleep. Without it we should have no concept of truth,
temperament that they do not notice this jump, is so little
free movement and life, whereas when one gives oneself up to freedom,
dimension just ceases, and things begin to become less heavy, but as
fails to reach that element in man which weaves and lives when he is
Movement, for example, is not in the least explained. He lies the
succeeded in defining the outer world according to dimension, number
dimension, number and weight in earthly things. They were not so
prayer, one would have to have known how to handle gold. The treatment
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consciousness of the people who erected these ancient monuments. He
agricultural practices and acquired a deep knowledge of the elemental
Their wisdom was an unconscious memory of the Sun and Moon elements in
Cromlechs and dolmens: instruments whereby the physical effects of the
elemental beings (Jötuns.) Weather-processes and Earth-knowledge.
element of the cosmos into account, we must speak of a Sun population,
among Earth men. These are the Beings who passed over into the figures
who were once the founders of the primordial wisdom among Earth men.
great exertion through the development once again of Imagination,
religious requirements, so far as one can speak of religious
requirements at that time. They were the authorities for the social
the Sun and Moon elements existing in the Earth before the Sun and
the Sun. When we look at the single dolmens we find that they are
really instruments whereby the outer physical effects of the Sun were
of the Sun element, how these permeate the Earth, and how they are
inner qualities of the Sun element so far as he needed the wisdom that
when men could not look at the calendar to see when it was right to
soil. In those ages men did not look at a book in order to get
Reading the cosmic book in this way, men were therefore concerned with
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element into the consciousness gives one an idea of the inner life of
And we have to imagine the consciousness-element of the Cherubim as a
completely purified element in the consciousness, full of light, so
element of the Thrones as bearing up the world in grace.
did in actual fact exist. When one spoke of the element of warmth one
element of warmth, the Beings of the Second Hierarchy were seen in the
element of light. The Saturnian element is dark, but warm, and within
This is the case because the entry of the Second Hierarchy represents an inward illumination, which is connected with a densification of warmth. Air comes forth from the pure warmth-element, and in the revelation of the light we have the entry of the Second Hierarchy.
air as a cosmic phenomenon when you say it consists of oxygen and
The further stages of development are now conducted by the sons of the
into the luminous element with its shadow of air, introduced by the
Second Hierarchy, another element resembling our desire, our urge to
entered and found an element of light, or rather, a place of light. In
Observe, you have here something as it were historically documented to
element was lost — that the First Hierarchy was responsible for
present, and this colour works as a reality in the airy element, not
Reality; then the fluid, watery element arises from out of the real
colour element. As air is the shadow of light, in cosmic thought, so
water is the reflection, the creation of the element of colour in the
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with the fundamental fact of the three ‘bodies’ at work
instruments through which it is able to live and express itself in the
these three instrumental forms — if I may call them so — the
kingdom — all these are to be found in the environment of man here
what takes place in the cosmic environment. But when we come to
these heavenly bodies are fundamentally of the same nature as the
is external to man. The moment, however, we really take hold of Man as
relationships between the several instrumental members of man's nature,
movement within it, and so on. These, it is true, are different in the
cosmic Ether. Nevertheless the cosmic Ether is fundamentally of like
environment we have the cosmic Ether — the cosmic Ether which is
body. In the cosmic environment too there is Astrality. Where are we to
when you are looking at a small fragment of Ether, you see nothing with
empty nothingness to you. But when you regard the etheric environment as
men spin out the most elaborate theories to explain how the rays of
is also present the astral element of the Cosmos. In the blue sky the
In this way, an immense,
we do not find revealed in the cosmic environment. Why is this? We shall
perceive that the Etheric which we have here in the cosmic environment
if we consider this earthly world together with its cosmic environment,
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Der Mensch und sein Verhaeltnis zur Geistwelt im Wandel der Zeiten. The
which I have mentioned cannot deceive us about this. But this
sciences. He has a penetrating judgment on the whole historical
something which men of today almost never have, a sound eye for
the phenomena of decline in the civilizations of the present
day. There is a fundamental difference between Spengler and
decline and who try all kinds of arrangements for
forces, the inner will-forces, to spur men to work upward
not only present but can be proved like a phenomenon in
then you see that an upward movement nowhere appears in what
the majority of men recognize in the outer world. If you regard
where an upward movement could appear, where another center of
phenomenon like this appears, there springs up in the
ignored by men, if it were suppressed, if it could play no role
in the further development of mankind — what would be the
observer and therefore he finds no moment of continuation and
but that creates nothing which can transform a documented
that the decline will come, but no upward movement can
different epochs in the only way in which, fundamentally, one
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Der Mensch und sein Verhaeltnis zur Geistwelt im Wandel der Zeiten. The
intensively the elemental phenomena of decay and decline in our
analysis of these phenomena.
of development of individual power, which will replace
striving, and which depends entirely upon the development of
one who understands this begins to realize that the moment we
development of human freedom, but instead employs it in
mystical element.
judgment. In this way he tries to represent thinking
conceptions or mental pictures. Spengler has something to say
also about conceptions, or mental pictures (Vorstellen);
“This impoverishment of the sense-faculties involves at
movement. The waking state contains only tensions —
animal element; but there could be broth without these blobs of
well — of the role played by the mineral element in the
animal-element — and therefore the human as well —
“How,” these (the animal and human elements) are
this is all desire for the fulfilment of a destiny and a
order mentally to reverse what is thought of in the human sense
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themselves in the Anthroposophical Movement; for Oswald
moment when a thinker masters the special form of present-day
moment he senses their actual sterility and
in general — because it is fundamentally devoid of
that the so-called men of action, those people who have
intended to be, men of action. So that we have only to look
the so-called men of action of that time were the instruments
ancient times made the human being of that time unfree. Men's
spiritual substance, under whose influence men acted.
order that men might become free, this pouring of
which still worked through men in the Middle Ages.
came modern times. The thoughts of men lost their divine,
everywhere on the earth there were elemental beings still
elemental beings, which were in all natural phenomena and
for certain elemental beings. For when people went through all
elemental beings entered the situation, and when the
people were not thinking about the mass, the elementals began
were in many ways adapted. The same kind of elemental
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A RECENT series of lectures and discussions with workmen
Knowledge of the Higher Worlds and Its Attainment
We cannot say that this judgment is wrong. The battle which
and forces will pour over civilization in tremendous, elemental
constitutes men's spiritual properties — rights, customs,
But what a tremendous difference! What does the Oriental think
large segment of Europe and America.
see here a great contrast. This makes deep inroads into men's
Fundamentally speaking, everything that is said about the
itself in this terrible fighting has arisen with elemental
surface as elemental forces. The anti-social element at present
to the phenomena of nature surrounding them every day. They do
find this fundamental difference between West and East. There
next few years. At the moment this manifests in outer symptoms
European, because the Indian has behind him a soul development
This social question is an accompanying phenomenon of the
upon men.
since the middle of the fifteenth century and rob men of their
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the leading characteristics of historical development right up
One who looks more closely into what lives socially among men
abstract in Romanism. I have mentioned this here before. The
Today the situation is such that many men no longer consider
difficulty begins. It begins because the concepts we as men
development. Think of a seed in the earth; it is destined by
the seed is meant for; it is a lateral development. If we ask,
doesn't the seed contain those chemical elements we need for
strives for the primal phenomena. That is to say, he strives
body. Men still believe today that they should only employ
runs industrialism, as I mentioned yesterday. Its chief
will be a significant impact on social life when modern men
Oriental's statements there is clearly expressed that this
contains has no significance beyond earth development. The
nature. So long as men received the spirit simultaneously with
spirit. Since in the modern age men have only retained concepts
politics, which gradually has turned governments into machines.
Last Judgment. He says that many such Last Judgment pictures
at such a picture as Michelangelo's Last Judgment without being
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possible after men began to think consciously in a
social action. Without this mood of soul among men social life
hold sway among men are not insignificant if they wish to
men, even when they are barely grown up, are very clever,
concepts, deem themselves clever. Men are very peculiar in
Well, I understand such a judgment. I understand it especially
not comprehend. It is characteristic of modern men in their
whose soul has been permeated by the discernment that springs
have to be a dominating element. What men say today about labor
organism, therefore, an incitement to labor will be needed
for inducing men to want to work, so that it becomes natural
inspired concepts. In future, men will never be warmed through
souls; permeate them in such a way that men will have joy and
which men can exist.
Capital will find its rightful place when men will acknowledge
brought into being by men themselves; that they be willing to
It will never be possible to arouse in men the understanding
proper thing. Parliaments decide about civil rights (I am
majority decisions of parliaments today are inspired. The
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in order that men might seek it out of their own impulse, their
this materialistic period and the development of culture of the
at present many shattered natures. At important moments we
This concept is detrimental, most of all for the educator. It
approaching it from a larger point of view, as a phenomenon of
we ask about the interest men take in the question of the
death. If men of the present age would practice more
environment. We will confront the growing child with completely
is a tremendous deepening of life if we adopt such a point of
love. This is one of the elements which must be taken up in
dimensions. In short, the three members of the human organism,
is not a totality but a fragment; and metabolic man is much
Knowledge of the Higher Worlds and Its Attainment,
movements.
quiet. The moment he begins to walk you notice that it is the
life-giving element of the chest-man, the walking. What remains
merely confront him, but only when you see him grow. If men
see, a spiritual element can enter into the externalities of
life, but this does not occur unless men change their attitude.
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so far, especially in the development of intelligence. Now let
time that human intelligence approaches its development toward
possible, if men exert their intelligence and do not bear
This is one of the reasons initiates called themselves men of
development of intelligence. In Egypt and Chaldea, it was good;
development of intelligence. It is not in vain that precisely
another element will be added by taking in what can be gained
confront a deep secret of Christian-esoteric development. If
Look at the difference between men who lived before the Mystery
concept of God if we observe nature in her phenomena, if we
must find in ourselves by advancing beyond the phenomena in
aware that in our age men acquire the aptitude for evil
precisely because they approach a higher development of their
so-called cultural phenomena of our age. Nor should one doubt
that modern men have to arouse themselves to a real
and is in a declining development.
concepts and movements of the present time. Here there is much
into existence of the so-called “gun-women.” This
is a special class of people, women of the East-European
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permeated by the plant element; they were not so completely
men carry a corpse in our body. The ancient Egyptian carried as
their chemical experiments the moment will come when they will
moment will never come. On the chemico-physical path one will
on genuine fundamentals, call themselves Egyptian lodges. That
stated yesterday, brought men into connection with the cosmos.
intelligence follows the path I mentioned yesterday. We must,
path of development, so that in the fifth post-Atlantean period
know the plant element.
post-Atlantean period in its elementary beginnings. In his
world view at the present time. I have described how men today
Here I come to a point where men today must become ever more
in our age the egotistic element was chiefly developed. The ego
questions of destiny, is the most striking phenomenon.
the clever, ever increasing egotism that constricts men's
interests. We may have whatever fine democracies where men meet
in parliaments, but concern for the fate of man-kind does not
parliaments do not feel the urgency to know mankind's destiny.
parliaments and men's proposals.
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the phenomena of the world, but also when we wish to fix our
attention on the phenomena of human life itself. And at present
at the moment when the human form has become a corpse, when the
communities as burial places, we find the corpses of men, for
earthly and look at other phenomena which are also lifeless, at
metamorphosis takes place in these lifeless elements. Let us
the human being participates in the same element as the plant.
their actual fundamental forces within the realm of the
insignificant moment.
causes of animal movement and animal sensation. For all that
phenomena which appear in the animal — the phenomena of
sensation, of movement the human being with this modern
movement or as sensation.”
chaos. The albumen is not the most complicated body, but rather
capable of sensation and movement. We must go back to a time
and movement the causal world does not lie in simultaneousness
— he must go back, as I have described it, to his moment
sensation and the ability of movement. These do not come out of
cause of the faculty of sensation or movement. We must begin to
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virtue of its being a part of the human organism. The moment it
the lifeless element only after we have laid aside our body,
to this lifeless element. The discarded bodily form alone
becomes similar to this element.
into the mineral; that is, the element which holds our form
can be shown by experiment, by taking a pair of scales —
water and the solid element swims within it like the fish in
apart, and the elements in us which actually are subject to the
dear friends, if this freedom and independence of movement in
mineral kingdom, we would not be free beings. For the moment we
environment than our eyes, our ears, than everything that
instruments we possess for purposes of research fine enough, we
plant kingdom. For the moment we attain imaginative knowledge
second element which lives in our karma depends upon the fact
It is an association through which the chief element of our
actually living in the unconscious. Right up to the moment when
phenomenon takes place, an earthquake, or a volcanic eruption,
step, every movement of the soul, everything in us may be
serve as the basis for general world advancement, this
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become so similar that the immense difference which exists be-
world. Out of this every-day consciousness, men speak of the
with this earthly existence. Out of this, countless arguments
extends beyond the earthly and watery elements.”
arguments about concepts. There can, therefore, be no
grants him fulfilment of much of which there is too little in
the spiritual existing in our environment. The spiritual
today, have performed the tremendous tasks which were actually
at times, in certain states of mania, possess an immense
build than men of today. For, as you know, it does not always
are the theorists, but there are also the practical men. If
fundamental fact of the free human being — a self-evident
suppose, for a moment, that you now resolve to build yourself a
your fellow men. In the house you are free to get up early or
alone the other element which lies beyond, be it air or
foolishness of the resolve and the punishment we suffer
into karma without being in agreement with it. If things result
science, because he is then quite in agreement with his karma
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comprehensive aspects in the development of karma, in order to
human being does something for his fellow-men that is sustained
him and accompanies the deeds which advance his fellow-men,
fellow-men, has warming significance. A human being who has
toward his fellow-men from the one who is permitted to go
not being a matter of indifference to his fellow-men. What the
fellow-men. Here we may imagine every conceivable degree. One
fellow-men. Or — I am omitting the intermediate
fellow-men or even against sub-human creatures, all this vents
just consider for a moment, my dear friends — in order to
our soul is, in the first place, a kind of mental
true in every respect that the moment is now at hand in the
rediscovered somewhere in the child's environment. Gradually,
And we shall then bring into the children's development that
is an actual fact that the continued life of men on earth takes
regard to all the inner accompanying phenomena of the soul when
of course, easy enough for anyone to ridicule the statement
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complications and entanglements in which he finds himself
being's karmic situation for any given moment of time or as a
modern civilization thinks fundamentally quite falsely.
moment in life when the entire human being — as an
wish to indicate in outline the really fundamental facts, we
obviously an example of monumental stupidity, an example
the insanity of the above statement, the Theory of Relativity
holds good, although it is applied today only to movement,
present the Theory of Relativity is applied only to movement,
what ancient world conceptions said. This is the fundamental
bring about in the human being the unfoldment of what he has
distinguish the judgment which people have here on earth about
life from the judgment they have about it outside the earthly
again depends on the judgment which will be yours when you no
a different judgment.” The judgments a human being has in
moment, therefore, that we come to an all-inclusive opinion out
wholesale statements are without exception no longer valid, for
a man carries in his subconscious nature. As earth men, we are
environment. The first body is, actually, only a model. That
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dividing men into head, chest organs, and limb organs. But this
moment, then another, then a third, then a fourth, and then
feeling infinitely richer than our mental pictures of it, which
thought of its fulfilment, what occurs in your organism, all
back to the moment when you awoke from sleep the last time.
us to distinguish what we have as momentary visualization by
through the world, constantly forming visualizations, mental
a thing or event, form a visualization, a mental picture of it;
little as possible, but carried on vehement outer
movements accompanying their speech (arm movements) again
exactly; that could be done, but for the moment we do not need
were dependent upon having the mental images sink down into
fact is like this: At the present moment, let us say, I see
not visualize at all at this moment, but that goes down into
moment you descend into the nearest sub-conscious region, the
organism, if we enter our movement organism, then in this
this statement. But behind what we thus describe as the law of
feel their necessity lies with men on earth whose creators they
Without me, God could not a moment live at most.
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kosmische Vorgeschichte der Menschheit.
conclusions about human life itself. I will first mention certain
perceptions only, it has recourse to abstract judgments and concepts.
earlier studies this autumn I mentioned that if we look at these
of uprightness that intervenes in our physical development is of the
are also the forces of cosmic movement, cosmic
could give himself up to the quiet development proper to his original
element of super-consciousness, our consciousness would appear quite
on his physical development. At the present juncture in man's earthly
tending to diminish the interest we take in our fellow-men. Were we
fellow-men far beyond the usual measure. The Luciferic element in our
Luciferic element within us.
beings. Anyone who starts out with the idea that all men must be
pure fantasy. This notion of regarding all men as equal is sheer
Ahrimanic element, on the other hand, exerts its influence
subconscious, works upon man's subconscious, conjures judgments out
his fellow-men. The man possessed by Ahriman would like to have as
many men as possible in his power and then to proceed — if he
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Atlantean age the Ahrimanic development was there instead, where I
manifest as a Luciferic element of their
character. But fundamentally it was at its
have received from the very lips of the Gods. But men were threatened
look back to the period of Greek spiritual development that
something which in ancient days gave men the capacity to gain some
however, was mediated by way of Lucifer, and men worked upon it with
The result would have been that men would have no longer been able to
the Mystery of Golgotha men were given from spiritual heights, which
grasping themselves as persons. The Christ Impulse brought men the
is extraordinarily difficult for human beings to conceive how men of
people refuse to believe is how entirely different for men of old was
moonlight lovers still stroll and sentimentally dream; in the
moonlight, the men of old had, but much more intensely, when on
fluctuation of the balance between Ahriman and Lucifer men should not
heights and has united His destiny with that of men. What does this
mean? When before the Mystery of Golgotha men looked into the world
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concerned, men are intended to accustom themselves to
according to his development as an earthly being, is never able,
men who had been contemporaries of it and, from the spiritual world, from
naturally I should have to give the whole treatment a different form
— choose some other writer of the Church, Clement of
mentioned — Tertullian. With regard to the personality of
fieriness of spirit. Into his style of treatment
he brings temperament, brings movement; he brings feeling
it is really significant when he makes such a statement as: You have
turning to the ways of Rome he said: Do men pray when they
is true, you claim them to be malefactors, whereas men should be
If we men contemplate this crucifixion, because it is shameful we are
men, not fame — this is Tertullian's meaning.
impossible.” As a natural phenomenon it is impossible
Mystery of Golgotha has nothing to do with natural phenomena. Were
anything to be counted as a natural phenomenon, it would not be
can be no natural phenomenon and must, therefore, be impossible
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passed through a decisive moment in the fifteenth century, when the fifth
the development of the Consciousness Soul,
that we are living in the epoch of the development of the
development of consciousness that mankind is going through. Quite
development of the Consciousness Soul, we must above all try to
special importance for its development.
working in the general life of men, even when they believe themselves
achievements and of the scientific kind of thinking that goes with it.
the statement — our ancestors believed in ghosts, but we
age passes judgment on our stupid ancestors who believed in ghosts
behind. The statement that our forebears believed in ghosts is in
as I mentioned recently in the case of the great Tertullian. This is
indeed so. But there is a still earlier epoch when men also talked of
spiritual world existing behind them. Thus for a long period men had
formed an image of the spiritual world. But then men more or less
said that the men of old developed their consciousness in such a way that
they brought to development just those forces that were bestowed upon
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said that men are in the course of an evolution predetermined for
men are intended to enter upon the development of what we call
Soul. Painful events, joyful events, events that put men to the test
task drawing men on in this epoch. In simple terms we might say that
men — what would then have come about? We can never know the
at the time. It is just because men take things so materially and
men would have gone through a quite different point in their
evolution; that through certain geniuses who would have arisen, men
wisdom would have had a tremendous significance, for if men —
would have been received prematurely that men through their own exertions
can acquire only in the course of a long, long time. And men would have
this had happened. Men would have acquired an unripe knowledge out of
People would have become extraordinarily perfected as men of the
This is what is referred to in such vehement terms in the Apocalypse,
mentioned the number 666, which gives many scholars so much trouble
prior date, after which men could receive what has flowed into their
the destiny of Christ Jesus. What I mentioned yesterday is drawn
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movement of the scales and of the beam, but the pivot itself is
Fundamentally,
important knowledge, that men in the future will have concerning
to give men through revelation, received on an Ahrimanic path, that
the efforts of men themselves. The year 666 was still in the age of
the Intellectual or Mind Soul, when men could not by their own
hundred and thirty-three years after 333, the wish was to give men
at the time of the Mystery of Golgotha, there was a wish to force men
brought to mankind — over everything that men had been able to
extinguishing of that which men could acquire in their own epoch.
out of the Sentient Soul, so that men should not be left without
is satisfying to men, more than is permissible for their normal
development — but what is provided to meet a striving towards
mention this word and we shall understand what is involved. For this
was looked on as a garment meant to be decorative. A certain glamour
Greek garment. And a strong distinction would be felt — if
whom there was no stutterer, but men who well understood how to
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legitimate way, the elements left over from ancient times in
our social structure, elements that permeate it destructively
husbandmen, soldiers, and teachers must be superseded by the
husbandmen, soldiers and teachers, when we say that we must
elements integrated in these relationships. There will not be
actual movement of events. Here my point of departure must be
the statement that the first necessity in developing the
therefore, that such revolutionary movements as we now have
the social movement, which is spreading over the whole world,
that, the moment their conduct may have social consequences,
elementary fact is utterly ignored by people even today. I
men belonging to varied professions and classes, and I know
Indeed, if we pay attention only to the social environment
nearest to us, we shall reach no clear judgment as to what is
clear judgment only when — and I must once more employ
this expression — we form our judgment about things
But this statement implies at the same time that it will not
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When you consider the fundamental basis of
himself an understanding of the fact that the tremendous need
men seek in their effort to satisfy their needs in the realm
practical men as the saying goes, and conducted their lives
element permeating the world.
men. This will take on such a character that thoughts will
powers of judgment that enable us to see into the great
penetrate into things with a sound power of judgment.
in the social movement cannot come about in any other way
in another human being. A social structure is something men
mind. The unsound element in the present epoch, which has
acquire a sound sense for certain phenomena.
governments have been conducted and are being conducted
according to fundamental principles that were really out of
during recent centuries. An essential element that has
the results of natural events and elemental occurrences. It
observed like a phenomenon of nature that has the tendency to
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speaking of an inevitable historical phenomenon, and not for
movements. This force is more or less clearly expressed, but
though nonetheless fundamental in these movements. This
especially the fundamental illusion that it is possible to
progresses with a wave movement. The best that you may be
right way. What men are instinctively striving for is
absolutely inherent in the fundamental character of our fifth
preceding third, the Egypto-Chaldean. Men of today, in their
fulfillment as a reflection in the social order of what they
vaguely sense in this epoch as the ideal for humanity. Men
theocratic social arrangement in which everything pertaining
have mentioned to you, that is, firstly, a spiritual sphere,
the development of humanity shall really be understood
elimination of the fragmentary letter form, and thus also
Luciferic and Ahrimanic Elements In Our Contemporary
to this lady simply because she is not a unique phenomenon.
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in regard to the characteristic phenomena of the present time
suited to the requirements of our times without a more
apart from a conscious knowledge of the requirement that man
time a social and an antisocial being is a fundamental
requirement for a social knowledge of humanity. A person may
men. Yet it is characteristic of human nature at the same
the human being that is tremendously significant. Through the
relationship between man and man. The moment you turn your
— a social being. The moment you awake, you begin to
men. In the waking state the other person, as he confronts
however, that has a special and fundamental connection with
willing to become something is an element kept in the
impulses. Men are in this respect differentiated individually
social elements in his nature without in a certain way
social element, he strengthens his thinking consciousness,
mastering the antisocial element in order to reach the
their moodiness but also of all kinds of ailments if they
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use of his consciousness, and thus at the development of his
the point of view of a trinity, in which one element
the other side, must become the essential element in the
antisocially in its development, will the spirit self work
exerts its influence. This spiritually social element that is
disturbing movements of what is to come during the sixth
instincts will play a tremendous role, and they can be
maintains that human morality is only the development of the
will gain the social element. This shines amid the chaos of
supplemented by two other facts. When the socializing process
becomes manifest as an elemental impulse as a demand within
such an elemental manner as hitherto. In other words, during
explained yesterday the peculiar phenomena of sleep in
a cultural element in the evolution of humanity. We touch
undertake to explain this. This was the Old Testament
cultural element, which was permeated in an especially
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cause men to stand on their own feet. They will be overcome
comes especially to expression in the development of the
to the revolutionary movement. As things have been brought to
revolutionary thinking by those men who are conceived,
according to Trotsky's terminology, to be men of
understanding. They are men who, by all sorts of
world view tends primarily to the judgment that nothing
dependent upon a definite class of men, thus constituting a
board of laymen will interject itself into the whole
point is that this governing board of laymen is a special
are laymen, who could merely act as overseers over those who
purposes fundamental to the leadership of the
to reality. This illusory element is based upon the abstract
revolutionary movement to be brought about by the proletariat
accounting department in our own hands.” This is not
surprising, because the whole movement has taken its rise in
this movement has originated with the proletariat of modern
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historical movement — something which no other movement than
some historical comments, in order to draw attention to certain
conception of life which was in essentials based on the achievements
essentially different. Today I will only mention one example. At the
whole movement was handled by Rome, how in the
religious worship, Rome made an official pronouncement that it was a
There are in existence speeches of Rumelin whom I mentioned
of men. Of course we do not need to advocate the peculiar form of
judgments arose on many points to do with religion, and we should
recall these judgments today. The thoughts of thousands of people at
development, so consistent in its various branches and trends, that
nonsense, a direct outrage on all reason and on the most elementary
That is why today so many men embrace Catholicism, because they
fulfillment of what men were seeking in the time now past, in the
powerful movement which, at the time this Encyclical “Pascendi
a large number of the Catholic clergy seeds of development of the
to rejoin his regiment at a certain time does not take from him his
his regiment at a certain time, and who can travel either on foot or
his regiment. I am not making polemics, I am simply citing a
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reality which is bound to develop parallel with the establishment of
was to have posted up in Reinach the announcement of Saturday’s
will deny that the enforcement of such an oath strengthens the
with the establishment of a planned society.”
elementary schools have put into the souls of men, comes out through
elementary schools. To grasp this seeming contradiction demands
courage, and because men do not want to have this courage, they go to
civilization far more than men think. The monarchies, even if they
Catholic institutions. For the fourth epoch it was necessary that men
best counters it with foolish arguments such as those of Eucken.
the earlier traditional development of the Catholic Church. In what
then in former times consisted definition by an Ecumenical Council?
Within the Catholic Church a fundamental condition for the definition
Ecumenical Council was already the opinion of the whole Catholic
Conception; consequently, one of the fundamental principles of the
suppression of the Jesuit Order by Clement XIV, the Jesuits had, of
Jesuit Order in 1773 by Clement XIV and its reinstatement by Pius VII
after Pius VII had in 1814 withdrawn the decree of Clement XIV, these
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creation of social arrangements really adapted to the consciousness
but Aristotle vehemently defended the theory that every time a human
today recognize its echo in the idea of eternal punishment in hell.
pronouncements which I could quote by the dozen. Again and again it
forward with immense pride against what is, of course, far less easy
without men having to do anything themselves. All this points to the
absorb certain elements into its inmost life of soul, then you will
Ecumenical Council in Constantinople in the year 869 has always taken
friends, that the development of the western churches consists really
You see, fundamentally, all institutions are built on external
clever arguments, the more laws are made until finally no one knows
its way through the world, it has relatively few dogmas; but men must
laws, so do Churchmen create more and more dogmas, until finally
on doing so for a long while, had not the secular governments come to
judgment from the depths of his own soul. In the Middle Ages that was
principle of modern development is to foster the individual
seeking to emerge as individual consciousness in the souls of men. It
for thereby one succeeds in preventing men from developing in the way
is to subdue consciousness by deliberately telling men lies, and that
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moment the fluid man comes into consideration, we must
fundamentally speaking. It is dependent upon planetary
moment we are concerned with what is in circulation, whether
moment you pass on to the differentiation of the warmth and
organic fragments that are falling into dust the earth goes
formic acid with the dust safeguards the development of the
a very simple phenomena. Fig trees grow in the South. There
interesting discussion took place with workmen at the
disorder. This actually happens. One of the workmen who has
interconnection is due to the fact that there is tremendous

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nothing fundamentally in common with the forces working in
the physical world. For the moment a human being passes
earthly environment. In other words, the ego organization is
physical body. Nourishment of the physical body consists in
bringing into it substances from the earthly environment.
organization and the process of nourishment, therefore, are
is fresh reinforcement, so that this activity only begins to
organism is identifiable with the process of nourishment. We
Physical organism = Nourishment
of nourishment. In every single organ there is a working
organism. The astral organism has at every moment the
the reinforcement from the foodstuffs taken from the external
no development of consciousness without this perpetual
consists of the process of nourishment, of the building,
moment of ‘becoming’— the same process
first, of the process of nourishment. This process of
nourishment is all the time destroying the substances as they
nourishment and by the ego organization, the ego organization
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his processes of growth and nourishment is the human being
arrangement of the breathing process, of
especially true also of the movement we make together with
the earth. We only share in the movement with the rest of the
body, not with the brain. The movement is quashed, so far as
is momentarily in movement is, in reality, at rest, than to
force of movement. In essentials, however, the movement is
The arrangement of the ribs is only half cosmic for here the
or head. To begin with, this statement is not quite accurate,
see two men sitting together on a bench. At three o'clock in
the afternoon I pass the bench again and the two men are
tell me nothing, because it may be that one of the men had
medicaments. It is possible to do this.
development of the teeth. But the process of the development
organism. This organism, so far as its development is
treatment to antimony, you get the familiar “antimony
form. Physical reality is subject to the element of time, and
as a medicament, you must understand what antimony is outside
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establishment of the Medical Section here at Dornach.
study, with definite preliminary requirements — a study
with the environment of the human being. The astral body is
knowing, and the moment you begin, my dear friends, to
digested medical knowledge—in that moment you make
environment.
the astral body. This element is present externally, in the
sleep, you pass, in your astral body, into the environment
environment, that knowledge becomes experience during sleep,
fragmentary and chaotic if there cannot arise during every
environment, is able to say “Yes” to what the
therapy hardly mattered at all, especially treatment of
make this statement, but Virchow, who had a great reputation
in the medical world last century. I know eminent men today,
soil and have a certain characteristic temperament. They have
the ‘compliment!’ But suppose a stranger comes
were three or four very learned men. But the work of this
learned men. Their wisdom came from the schools, but his
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are fundamentally similar, it will not be possible to give
result of the whole course of lectures. Fundamentally, the
association with Dornach? The true development of the impulse
development of our work is the foundation of everything,
twenty years now within the Anthroposophical movement, it has
is no path at all! Esoteric development is not to be
repeated statement that it is a matter of overcoming
movement. This change must also take place in the individual
stamens, seed. The seed develops in the ovary, and then
To speak of a spiral arrangement of the leaves is considered
this spiral arrangement is connected with the cosmos. So far
influence of the cosmic environment. The cosmic environment,
one of the elements of antiquity is concerned, everyone can
know that he experiences it. This element is warmth, warmth
fundamental element something that could actually be
element of warmth, of fire, because here it is easiest to
earth — the earthy element is, for the human head,
you as the earthy element; also think away the fluid and the
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For reasons I will not now mention, I will
amount of astonishment may have been caused when it was said
phenomena, and courage behind all that is of the nature of
or the watery element which confronts us in the physical
This element
do in the external environment. The moment we come to the
there are vascular organs within it — in that moment
centuries, when men had not only tradition but also actual
illusionary character, but men had instinctive imaginations.
fluid man shoots into the muscular system. The fundamental
Try to find out by an experiment how much weight of pressure
impossible. The moment we come to the muscles, the principles
moment you come to the watery element you have to do with
mental pictures here must all become mobile, must be
felt, experienced. All inspiration has, fundamentally,
nourishment, breathing, etc., that none of these organ forms
movement, such as can be observed in wind. But the air that
just as the musical element is at the basis of the Chladnic
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a clear mental picture of what you feel about your illness,
elemental body: the solid, fluid, aeriform, and warmth
elements. Although I do not say that it will invariably help,
precarious element when magnetic healing becomes a
where medicaments are used. When you give medicaments you
problematic, having a humanitarian, social element in it,
means of medicaments which proceed from the physical body and
of the physical environment. A person whose life is such that
said, for example: Sapphire works upon a certain temperament,
upon a choleric temperament, but really only in an individual
movement towards something. If, for example, you say,
“to have a sudden rapid movement
(zucken),” that is a movement. But if you say
verzücken, that is the tendency, the movement
towards a sudden rapid movement. If you say verwesen
(to decay), this means a movement towards Wesen,
of seven years ago, he can arrive at a more fundamental
it is true, closely connected with the development of a human
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with the movement at the Goetheanum is to be continued in any
cannot heal in opposition to karma. The fundamental attitude
skull-covering is membered into the Saturn movement. In the
by means of some medicament derived from silver. But if you
come to the demonic element of which I already had to speak.
etheric elements — it belongs to the light. The human
take your medical life in tremendous earnestness. You must
in a kind of pale bluish-red light. And in that moment I know
you will experience, but fundamentally and basically, the
this tremendous contrast, and then you separate your soul and
The men of
that is within that body. In the instrument that is your body
you must see the temple of God. It is of tremendous
the so-called mental illnesses arise. Just think of it
course, going to make any dilettante statements about
attunement for facing the world in the true and right way. If
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difficulties, we take the opposite path of development from
take the opposite to a superficial path of development. It is
then make matters that can really promote the development of
can still be observed today, namely the menses. It is obvious
phases of the moon are coincident with menstruation. This
Menstruation takes its own independent course. Here is one
example of separation. The other that I will mention is not
Equally it cannot be a question of the menses being regulated
menses have become a process of the world of nature. Today it
into movement before you absorb the meditation, for you think
whole physical body. This must be taken as a fundamental
the most external symptom of all, merely, a fragment of what
of hereditary development. He has received a body that is the
comes from hereditary development; the two elements fight
is membered into his being. Therefore the element of greatest
from separate streams of development which take their course
a degree that in the single fragments it no longer had the
tendency to be governed, in the single fragment, by its own
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personal development. One should try to find the link from
urge to be able to heal is the true accompaniment, and one is
esoteric methods of development demand infinitely more than
spoken. And you will find, too, the moments and hours when
as it exists within the general Anthroposophical movement,
Anthroposophical movement, that inner work must be done. Now
people within the Anthroposophical movement who have definite
Anthroposophical movement. I place myself entirely at the
at which he stands he must find his development, find it in
will be tremendous. You must realize, secondly, that the
to a question, because this fundamental attitude of modern
things. I would like to mention something told to me by a
fundamentally to do with healing as such as therefore burdens
The moment
physical—the moment you pass on to the etheric body,
significance because the moment you come to the etheric body
Inasmuch as the human being is organized for movement, for
himself has no fundamental belief in what he is lecturing
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Du empfindest Menschengestaltung.
of man for the purposes of treatment, we must be absolutely
And thou wilt experience man's ensoulment.
Du erlebest Menschenbeseelung.
all that lives and weave in the element of air around us. The
element in the surroundings of the earth and this enables us
Du erfassest Menschendurchgeistung.
forces which are sucked, with tremendous strength, into the
earth. The Saturn forces are sucked with tremendous strength
always be there. The development of our organism not only
that we are not old men at the age of thirty. If we want to
the individual personal element — where he is concerned
development. All astrological statements are to this effect.
genius or strives to transcend the human element, when his
They remain correct because men have lost the knowledge of
what tremendous consequences these things have in the realm
merely heeds it as an external commandment.
rudiment in the physical body of what otherwise lies entirely
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another direction, things that were mentioned yesterday.
with what is now happening in the Anthroposophical movement,
(766–809). Many of the wise men of those days —
world as an objective fact and the receptive faculties of men
have been based on utter unenlightenment and
been understood at all is that, to begin with, four men were
the being of man. There were two men at that court: Harun al
man, the initiate, was reborn in the soul of Amos Comenius
(1592–1670). Comenius' life was one of aspiration
medicine, are re-embodiments of ancient conceptions from
understand the human being from a fundamental, cosmic point
phenomenon in its own particular form. And now, what I have
led back to the element of warmth. Saturn is working in the
The Saturn element works on its own — in fever. We
in the phenomenon of fever, the cosmos is working in by way
order. We must see the principle of measure in the phenomena
the other elements. In fever, the spirit of man asserts
element of warmth condensed to air on the one side, but, on
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the structure of spirit and soul are fundamentally different
human being throws tremendous light upon knowledge of man as
strongly from outside, where the spiritual element —
because, in plants and animals, they are the element of
experiments that are made by spiritualists in connection with
so-called mental diseases are due to the spirit and soul
physical and etheric structure. All so-called mental
becoming spiritual. Mental illnesses are due to the astral
intermediate stages. This fundamental principle also comes to
expression in the temperament. When the astral body and ego
organization have a vehement tendency (not as in insanity but
temperament. When the astral body and ego organization have
etheric body, we have to do with the choleric temperament.
The phlegmatic and sanguine temperaments lie in between. In
the phlegmatic temperament the astral body and ego
etheric body In the sanguine temperament, the vital principle
temperaments.
fundamental indications.
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skullcap is rudimentary. The third stage is to indent the
contours, whereas the fluidic element is always battling
point, namely, from the plastic element. Now, you have
Dr. Wegman and I are publishing appears (Fundamentals of
What is the movement of juices in the stomach? It is
movement of juices has become rigidified, you have the
ascend to the astral, aeriform element, by experiencing the
the spatial element must disappear into the plastic element,
the plastic element into the musical element and the musical
element into what has meaning.

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further development of subjects we are studying. We have been
the human being, only those elements which can be pictured as
the airy elements pass into and out of the human being, but
than that of the environment is regarded as a state or
can observe a regular up-and-down oscillatory movement caused
elements, the fluid element, as I have shown by the example
of the cerebral fluid, and the airy element, are not regarded
reality they regard the solid element as the only organizing
be strictly demarcated from the environment. Whatever is
fluid in any area of space adjoins the fluid element in the
environment. Although the fluid element as such is present in
a definite demarcation between the fluid element within and
the fluid element outside the human organism, as in the case
organism and the fluid element in the external world must
The air within us at a certain moment was outside us a moment
and giving out the airy element all the time. We can really
this warmth, what stirs it into movement, makes it into an
mental concepts. This process works upon the fluid
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consciousness known to us in waking life from the moment of
waking to the moment of falling asleep. We perceive the
an enhancement of warmth in the warmth organism. Not only is
instruments. Moral ideals, then, have a stimulating,
us. It is of course inwardly in movement, in fluctuation, but
is the moral element.
understand the course of the world's development only if we
rarefied physical element, as for example in warmth. Then it
principles, mathematical-mechanical principles. The rudiments

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world interpenetrate, flow into each other. Mentally we can
everything that is of the nature of will, the element of
environment, something that we ourselves have experienced.
elaborate them inwardly, how we arrive at judgments
fulfillment of what self-knowledge demands of us it is highly
activity the element of will which streams through our
thoughts when we form judgments, draw conclusions and the
word by dint of an effort of will; an element of instinct
such is not a reality of the immediate moment. The life
reality, is not understood! Men such as Kant had a dim
consciousness we live in an element by means of which we
these three elements must come to life again, but in an
entirely different form—these three elements to which
the element issuing from our metabolic processes; we permeate
it with the real element of the will. There we have within us
unfolded through freedom must find an element in which to
human being, who stands before us as the supreme achievement
degree of spiritual-scientific development. For here, to
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ANTHROPOSOPHY AS WHAT MEN LONG FOR TODAY
Society and the bearers of the Movement, we ought not to act each day
on the assumption that the Anthroposophical Movement has just begun.
fundamental note of every presentation of it.
have revived. In their subconscious life the men and women of today
receives the human body through one element or another (it makes little
happens to the physical instrument with which man does all things between
belong? This sounds in men's hearts today. It is a comprehensive question;
and if men are not satisfied with what the sciences give them, it is
It is not a matter of bringing men something unknown to their own souls.
spiritually — light around him; the moment he looks back upon
his life in the physical world, which is his instrument between birth and
human civilisation has advanced and men have learnt to think intensively,
men's hearts today, and divides the civilised world into two classes.
mentioned. It presents itself when man looks at himself from outside,
of my soul, I find nothing but these pictures (or mental presentations).
pictures the inner being of things does not enter. With my mental pictures
being — his thoughts, mental images, sensations, feelings and
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his physical body to the elements of the external, physical world; and
from her. Thus, when we commence with man's organs of assimilation, we
it takes in. (We shall see that it really destroys, but for the moment
mental presentations [Vorstellungen], whereby we perceive the world, to
thoughts passively acquired, one falls asleep. The moment one ceases
men, animals and plants have etheric bodies, while minerals have not. The
no ‘picture.’ But the moment I merely lift this piece of
moment I radiate into this ether anything that proceeds from this third
the present. Fundamentally speaking, the whole time-evolution is still
the phenomena in the outer world and in man.
and their transformation within the human organism. Albumens (proteins),
for men. Then experiments were made.
go back twenty years, we find that experiments showed man to require
not want to speak now of infectious diseases, but will just mention
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last. One need only develop a little understanding of what men once
world by light, is an etheric phenomenon. Thus, no matter how far we
there is in the whole of our environment on the earth or in the cosmos
from a study of the documents, that Spiritual Science, Anthroposophy,
through the instrumentality of his brain, what confronts him as wisdom.
Now this brain, as his instrument of understanding, has only evolved
beings were once companions of men. They were the great, original teachers
configuration, support for this statement.
Anthroposophy we learn to think in accordance with Nature. This men
For instance, men know
who inhabit the moon remain. It is these who form the permanent element
being — not only the indefinite feelings of love, to mention these
past experiences undergone as men; in this we see our inner moon-existence.
see the sun-element. We see how past and future are weaving together
— or, at least, had not formed such a judgment of one another as
that I had to arrive finally at a definite point.) Then the moment comes,
temperament and character, they feel sympathy or antipathy for one another,
by these two people up to the moment of meeting. At this point the action
is an aesthetic judgment, or an intellectual one. But there is another
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in a quite elementary way. We shall then see that impulses from the
yourselves at any moment.
than destroy it. The moment man has become a corpse within the physical
world and has been handed over to the elements in any form, there is
it is dependent on bodily development; being dreamlike in a little child
increase in clarity and awareness goes hand in hand with the development
is not all we can say about it. It contains an element man must value
— depends on this. I refer to the moral element.
to obey them. The conflict and settlement must therefore take place
until emotions, impulses, instincts, passions, outbursts of temperament,
etc., are subordinated to the settlement, reached entirely within the
The moment we become truly conscious of our human dignity and feel we
disturbing element that, as long as there has been human evolution at
all, has led men to strive beyond the life immediately visible, really
us — the moral element.
only be ascribed to a fundamental insincerity of our civilisation that
of moral adjustments when you sleep?
in Bergsonism today. But every sleep refutes this. For, from the moment
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his belief is justified. He investigates the elements or the salts, acids
i.e. as an inner musical element, a whirling, weaving life, an inner
etheric finds tremendous scope for acting upwards. The weight acts
— to begin with — by breathing, whereby the airy element
body is, of course, self-contained at any given moment; the etheric
given moment. This is a unity. Hence you could only draw or paint the
to be quicker than the pictures. The momentary configuration that you
at some definite moment is only an abstraction; the concrete reality
physical men walk about. But it is nothing spiritual — only fine
from that to which one is accustomed, then, for such moments of inspired
absorbed into the elements. Your innermost being of that time has become
physical body through which he lives at each moment in the present
in the warmth element the ego proper. (The ego of the present incarnation
the next incarnation. Here the moral element flows from one earth life
we can regard as the earthly elements — the solid, liquid, gaseous
and warmth elements — is permeated everywhere by what can be
present; the present moment is, at the same time, a real eternity.

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that relation to our earthly and cosmic environments which is mediated
the astral body in all the activities of the airy element in man.
body within the airy element is breathing; and we know from ordinary
a vitalising, but a devitalising element. Physically speaking, we take
with this aspect at the moment; it is the fact of ordinary experience
the devitalising element.
a man is able to feel, as it were, in an element of spiritual music,
owing to the element I breathe in. I cannot owe it to the element I
heeded the inhaled air which is the vitalising element while you and
the dependence of these thoughts upon their physical instrument —
on which we stand, the world which surrounds us as our earthly environment
the airy element in motion. This process is the furthest extension of
life contains fragments of what we have experienced, and these
representing it schematically — you have man's environment (yellow);
environment (red); in the other it comes from within. The latter is
is continually going on beneath the mental presentation, beneath our
the outer world. The thought is always in the present moment. Even
mere process of mental presentation. What we remember is really the
only some few fragments are received into our thoughts. This world is
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moment just as we cannot paint a flash of lightning, but only its
momentary appearance, for all this takes its course in time. Still, if
we only arrest a single moment we obtain a mighty picture.
the most varied forms. It is inwardly and outwardly immense. If, now,
picture, it does not merely come before us for one moment. We must seize
it into the present moment. Altogether, presence of mind is required
But if we seek to grasp still deeper phenomena of life, the riddles
with his life in memory. I have mentioned the case of an acquaintance
ticket and travelled further. He did this for a long time. He commenced

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moment we will neglect the difference between the two kinds of dreams
to men. It has to tell the truth, not please. On the other hand, it
has today. It will not be empty and insipid, but will contain elements
to a perception of his development from earthly life to earthly life.
you draw forth from within you in the form of thoughts or mental
it were, to a single moment at a time. Indeed, it is really as follows:
know — and re-observe at any moment — that man reviews this
and is his natural life-element. On passing through the gate of death
men simply do not believe today that human actions have any value or
great, though often tragical enrichment of life; we feel this unavoidable
incurring debts to the future after death, leads to an immense deepening
is immensely deepened when we become aware of our growing indebtedness
as a good element for the future; whereas all that encounters their
antipathies will be rejected, for we feel it would be an evil element
Society I want to present a systematic statement of what Anthroposophy

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they refer, you will say that they exist as mere thoughts or mental
Moreover, when we survey from a given moment our life since our last
see that the sums of memories we bear within us is really a fragment.
We have forgotten so much in the course of life; but there are moments,
us again. These are especially such moments in which a man comes near
but a fragment of all we receive; in the course of life we take in much
But we now enter a totally different element. We have realised that
The moment
among human and non-human spirits, and this environment of spiritual
Above all, it is no mere ideal judgment of ourselves that we feel, but
by the law, or by the judge, or by other men who despise you for it.
of spiritual beings, however, we do not merely meet the ideal judgment
that man has sufficient inducement to return again to earthly life.
before the spiritual universe which clothes us in its garments when we

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kosmische Vorgeschichte der Menschheit.
conclusions about human life itself. I will first mention certain
perceptions only, it has recourse to abstract judgments and concepts.
earlier studies this autumn I mentioned that if we look at these
of uprightness that intervenes in our physical development is of the
are also the forces of cosmic movement, cosmic
could give himself up to the quiet development proper to his original
element of super-consciousness, our consciousness would appear quite
on his physical development. At the present juncture in man's earthly
tending to diminish the interest we take in our fellow-men. Were we
fellow-men far beyond the usual measure. The Luciferic element in our
Luciferic element within us.
beings. Anyone who starts out with the idea that all men must be
pure fantasy. This notion of regarding all men as equal is sheer
Ahrimanic element, on the other hand, exerts its influence
subconscious, works upon man's subconscious, conjures judgments out
his fellow-men. The man possessed by Ahriman would like to have as
many men as possible in his power and then to proceed — if he
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Atlantean age the Ahrimanic development was there instead, where I
manifest as a Luciferic element of their
character. But fundamentally it was at its
have received from the very lips of the Gods. But men were threatened
look back to the period of Greek spiritual development that
something which in ancient days gave men the capacity to gain some
however, was mediated by way of Lucifer, and men worked upon it with
The result would have been that men would have no longer been able to
the Mystery of Golgotha men were given from spiritual heights, which
grasping themselves as persons. The Christ Impulse brought men the
is extraordinarily difficult for human beings to conceive how men of
people refuse to believe is how entirely different for men of old was
moonlight lovers still stroll and sentimentally dream; in the
moonlight, the men of old had, but much more intensely, when on
fluctuation of the balance between Ahriman and Lucifer men should not
heights and has united His destiny with that of men. What does this
mean? When before the Mystery of Golgotha men looked into the world
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concerned, men are intended to accustom themselves to
according to his development as an earthly being, is never able,
men who had been contemporaries of it and, from the spiritual world, from
naturally I should have to give the whole treatment a different form
— choose some other writer of the Church, Clement of
mentioned — Tertullian. With regard to the personality of
fieriness of spirit. Into his style of treatment
he brings temperament, brings movement; he brings feeling
it is really significant when he makes such a statement as: You have
turning to the ways of Rome he said: Do men pray when they
is true, you claim them to be malefactors, whereas men should be
If we men contemplate this crucifixion, because it is shameful we are
men, not fame — this is Tertullian's meaning.
impossible.” As a natural phenomenon it is impossible
Mystery of Golgotha has nothing to do with natural phenomena. Were
anything to be counted as a natural phenomenon, it would not be
can be no natural phenomenon and must, therefore, be impossible
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passed through a decisive moment in the fifteenth century, when the fifth
the development of the Consciousness Soul,
that we are living in the epoch of the development of the
development of consciousness that mankind is going through. Quite
development of the Consciousness Soul, we must above all try to
special importance for its development.
working in the general life of men, even when they believe themselves
achievements and of the scientific kind of thinking that goes with it.
the statement — our ancestors believed in ghosts, but we
age passes judgment on our stupid ancestors who believed in ghosts
behind. The statement that our forebears believed in ghosts is in
as I mentioned recently in the case of the great Tertullian. This is
indeed so. But there is a still earlier epoch when men also talked of
spiritual world existing behind them. Thus for a long period men had
formed an image of the spiritual world. But then men more or less
said that the men of old developed their consciousness in such a way that
they brought to development just those forces that were bestowed upon
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said that men are in the course of an evolution predetermined for
men are intended to enter upon the development of what we call
Soul. Painful events, joyful events, events that put men to the test
task drawing men on in this epoch. In simple terms we might say that
men — what would then have come about? We can never know the
at the time. It is just because men take things so materially and
men would have gone through a quite different point in their
evolution; that through certain geniuses who would have arisen, men
wisdom would have had a tremendous significance, for if men —
would have been received prematurely that men through their own exertions
can acquire only in the course of a long, long time. And men would have
this had happened. Men would have acquired an unripe knowledge out of
People would have become extraordinarily perfected as men of the
This is what is referred to in such vehement terms in the Apocalypse,
mentioned the number 666, which gives many scholars so much trouble
prior date, after which men could receive what has flowed into their
the destiny of Christ Jesus. What I mentioned yesterday is drawn
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movement of the scales and of the beam, but the pivot itself is
Fundamentally,
important knowledge, that men in the future will have concerning
to give men through revelation, received on an Ahrimanic path, that
the efforts of men themselves. The year 666 was still in the age of
the Intellectual or Mind Soul, when men could not by their own
hundred and thirty-three years after 333, the wish was to give men
at the time of the Mystery of Golgotha, there was a wish to force men
brought to mankind — over everything that men had been able to
extinguishing of that which men could acquire in their own epoch.
out of the Sentient Soul, so that men should not be left without
is satisfying to men, more than is permissible for their normal
development — but what is provided to meet a striving towards
mention this word and we shall understand what is involved. For this
was looked on as a garment meant to be decorative. A certain glamour
Greek garment. And a strong distinction would be felt — if
whom there was no stutterer, but men who well understood how to
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Menschen in die Gegenwart
was gegenwärtig vorgeht in Menschengemütern, was
Menschheitsentwickelung, kann ich wiederum einige Tage hier an
sie abgeben kann die Kraft, die heutige Tragik der Menschheit
kommen, was der gegenwärtigen Menschheit Kraft geben kann,
weiter den Lebenspfad als ganze Menschheit zu gehen. Die
herzunehmen sind aus dem äußerlichen menschlichen
großer Teil der Menschheit sich zu der Überzeugung
von Menschen wirklich durchgedrungen ist.
die Menschen heute in weitesten Kreisen beschäftigt,
worüber aber doch ernstlich nachzusinnen den Menschen vor
gelähmt ist bei einem großen Teil der Menschheit, das
genommen werden vom Gesichtspunkte geistiger Erkenntnis.
lange dauernder Kampf der Menschheit überhaupt, Viele
überhaupt von einer menschlichen Geschichte
Menschheit auszufechten hat. All dasjenige, was selbst durch
das Christentum an Impulsen und Kräften in die Menschheit
eingeflossen ist, das wird in gewaltigen, elementaren
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Menschen in die Gegenwart
Charakter die Menschheitsentwickelung gerade seit der Mitte des
15. Jahrhunderts angenommen hat, Schließlich hängt ja
daß seit der Mitte des 15, Jahrhunderts in der Menschheit
der Antrieb lebt, sich als einzelmenschliche
Menschheit in früheren Epochen unserer nachatlantischen
Menschheitsentwickelung. Will man den großen Umschwung
dasjenige, was mit dem Rechte zusammenhängt, das ist ein
diejenigen, die den Boden für sich in Anspruch nahmen, die
die sozialen Menschheitszusammenhänge, wie es sich ergab
Erobererbevölkerung. Natürlich ist die Menschheit der
selbstverständlich, daß es Menschen zweier Sorten
gab, daß es Menschen gab, die gewissermaßen den
Merkur anzubeten, und Menschen, die den Zeus anzubeten hatten.
Diese zwei Menschenklassen waren streng voneinander geschieden.
Zusammenstoßen eines eroberten und eines Eroberervolkes.
sozialen Gegenwart unter den Menschen lebt, der wird eben
Schule, namentlich das Gymnasium, bildet alles, was zum
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Menschen in die Gegenwart
Zusammenwirken und Zusammenarbeiten der Menschen entnommen. Es
Klarheit zu kommen. Das war nicht möglich, seit die
Menschen begonnen haben, bewußt volkswirtschaftlich zu
davon sein, daß die Menschen ihre gegenseitigen sozialen
Bezug auf dasjenige, was sozial von Mensch zu Mensch spielte.
Seit dieser Zeit aber mußten die Menschen, weil ja die
soziale menschliche Zusammenleben. Es beginnt das mit der
Zeit, aus dem Grunde, weil die Menschen, je mehr sie herauf
liefen mechanisch von selbst dahin; die Menschen folgten ihnen
Praxis. So genommen, wie sie ist, diese sozialistische Theorie,
der Menschheit angekommen. Und Sie werden es eigentlich leicht
auf der Beziehung von Mensch zu Mensch, daß zugrunde
liegen muß dem, was die Menschen anstreben, wenn sie
zusammengehörigen sozialen Gebieten. Ohne diese Stimmung
zwischen den Menschen kann das soziale Leben nicht wirklich
durchströmt. Wie zum Beispiel den menschlichen und den
Hier kommen wir auf dasjenige Kapitel, welches dem
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Menschen in die Gegenwart
hauptsächlichstes Moment gerade die Erziehungsfrage. Und
Menschheitsentwickelung ging hindurch in dieser Zeit die Welle
Kulturepochen der Menschheit bekannt war, der aber damals
gegangen wurde von der Menschheit mehr oder weniger instinktiv,
unbewußt, der verloren worden ist, damit die Menschheit
Übergang, durch den die Menschheit durchgehen mußte
Menschheit, Läßt man den Charakter dieser
Anspruch genommen worden ist von dieser materialistischen Welle
bei denjenigen Menschen, die heute glauben, besonders gut in
aufzuwerfen: Was wird aus dem Menschen, wenn er nur durch einen
Anschauungsunterricht durchgeht? Wenn der Mensch nur durch
Verbindung der ganzen menschlichen Wesenheit mit der
an den Menschen der Gegenwart erleben. Wie viele Menschen der
Menschen der Gegenwart wissen in reiferen Jahren nicht aus
alles hängt zusammen mit den Mängeln unseres
Erziehungswesens und namentlich mit den Mängeln der
Geisteswissenschaft kommen kann an Erkenntnissen über die
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Menschen in die Gegenwart
die Grundlagen unseres menschlichen Lebens. Sie haben ja aus
Begriffe, die der gegenwärtige Mensch gewohnt ist, zu
wenn wir im Leben weiterkommen wollen als Menschheit. Ein
Betracht kommenden Tatsachen die Betrachtung desjenigen, was
wir unter den menschlichen Seelenkräften die Intelligenz
nennen. Sie wissen ja, der Mensch der Gegenwart ist auf seine
Wenn der Mensch der Gegenwart zurücksieht auf frühere
Zeitepochen, sieht, wie die Menschen in früheren
dasjenige, was der Mensch der Gegenwart glaubt jetzt richtig zu
die Menschen früherer Entwickelungsepochen das durch
dann nennt der Mensch der Gegenwart diese frühere Geistes-
menschlichen Intelligenz gewidmet sein, möge ins Auge
fassen diese Seelenkraft, auf die der Mensch der Gegenwart ganz
Form, auch gehabt die Menschen früherer
sogenannten Intelligenz für den Menschen der Gegenwart
Wie sah die Intelligenz der Menschen früherer
Menschheit von früheren Zeiten bis in unsere Zeiten herein
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Menschen in die Gegenwart
des menschlichen Intellektes, der menschlichen Intelligenz
sagen, praktisch bewußt sein: Wenn der Mensch vor Ihnen
steht, so ist dieser Mensch eben durchaus dasjenige Wesen, von
der menschlichen Wesenheit jedes Mal vor uns haben, wenn
sozusagen der Mensch vor uns steht, das bewirkt, daß
für das gewöhnliche heutige menschliche Anschauen man
eigentlich nicht weiß, was man mit dem Menschen vor sich
wenn wir einen menschlichen Leichnam vor uns haben, so haben
wir in Wahrheit den physischen Leib des Menschen vor uns. Wenn
Sie den Leichnam sehen, dann haben Sie den physischen Menschen,
vermeinen als den physischen Leib des Menschen aufzufassen,
Dieses Bewußtsein von der wahren Natur der menschlichen
gegenwärtigen Entwickelungszyklus der Menschheit und schon
nachatlantische Zeitraum beginnt, dann würde man kommen,
Erdenperiode. Ja, da waren die menschlichen Leiber anders
beschaffen, als sie heute beschaffen sind. Das, was menschliche
nicht so beschaffen, wie der heutige menschliche Leib ist. Sie
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Gentlemen, I should like in these three days to speak on
philosophic movement of the Middle Ages. As this side of the
this philosophic movement, much underrated to-day, has arisen.
those men of the Middle Ages, of which the history of
heaven and earth, to men, to history, etc., a Church which, we
you see, ladies and gentlemen, if you will excuse the personal
often mentioned, even in public addresses, what happened to me
that though there were a good many pupils in agreement with me,
the leaders of the proletarian movement at the turn of the
gentlemen, because it was impossible for me at the time to take
we study objectively the development of Augustine, we find that
destiny led him to become acquainted with the phenomenon of
course of development in Augustine from Neoplatonism to
the old heathenism at the same time as the Old Testament and
think, — that it actually sees spiritual phenomena,
phenomena in the same way as it would speak of moral phenomena
or happenings within the development of human beings. And thus
impulses in the development of mankind; and that it speaks of
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development of the West, which found its expression ultimately
in the Schoolmen, not only is a part played by what we can
abstract concepts, and in a development of abstract thoughts,
but rather that behind it all, there stands a real development
Schoolmen, is an entirely organic process in the development of
could of the period of human development between the ages of
conscious condition of man. And again — I mentioned it
which raises it from the entanglements of the flesh to the
not through a wise divine judgment, that some are condemned to
is a case not of a divine pre-judgment, but of a divine
development of the spirit within the Christian movement. And
gentlemen, more in respect of this time of the high
than we would have to consider a similar phenomenon, for
only mention it now — this means that from this
flowering of logical judgment; we might say the highest
Ladies and gentlemen, one can quarrel as one will about this or
to idea, from judgment to judgment, from conclusion to
age to the age of the Schoolmen from the threads of concepts
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governed the dispositions of men in a social aspect? How does
problem — the relationship of men to sensory and
trend of human development in the philosophical sphere. We see
it were all the psychic element, the vegetative-psychic and the
with the human-psychic-spiritual element*. Scotus can imagine
further the development of Western thought. Individuals stand
a spiritual, indivisible, elemental point. If we exclude
use thought as its instrument, and to this extent is only the
of the Nominalism of the Schoolmen, which only Albertus and
spiritual content through the development of thought itself..
and by experiment, which is, after all, only a more spiritual
lives only in human subjectivity, which men attribute to things
primarily the most important sign of this development?
truths as handed down by the Church to men who could no longer
raise themselves through individual development to this wisdom
Sacraments, etc. — which lie on the further side of human
Kantians like Volkelt, Cohen, etc. — one could mention a
This, ladies and gentlemen, is a consequence of Scholasticism,
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Die Bruecke zwischen der Wellgeistigkeit und dem physischen im Menschen.
perceive this divine element that weaves and works within it In this
the same time aware of what places us as men within this world
amongst men in the course of human evolution does it first become
For many men of the early Christian centuries it was a
desire, to form a judgment as to the course of development in the
appears before the soul in modern human development. We may seek ever
all depth and inwardness of feeling and it comforts those who are men
which in modern times has led men away from the Christ mystery to the
growth of plants, animals and men. Jahve is that God who can never,
intermixture of course of a spiritual element which is not
the differentiation of men into classes, nations and races. And if it
the ancient name — the powers to which men do worship when they
other in bloody wars — each at certain moments calling upon the
nothing of culture but were quite simple men both in intellect and
heart And then it was also announced to the wise men from the East,
deeply significant is this double contrasted announcement of Christ
shall be peace among men on earth who can be of good will.”
this revelation came to the wise men of the East, to the Magi, the
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time that, no matter how great and grand the achievements of the
peoples in the various nations, all these achievements constituted in
today toward the acknowledgment of this relationship between the
has often been mentioned here, calls the sun God's monument, and in
outwardly visible stars and their movements are images of the
world's order cannot be found in their movements.
luciferic element rules in this world-picture, just as the
typhonic-ahrimanic element ruled in the Egyptian world-picture. Just
sunshine and in the light of the stars, in the movements of the
to the wise men from the East This was the twofold working of the
the new Isis which go to make the great firmament of the heavens.
repudiating the statement that it contains all the colours, which in
monuments of the spiritual powers that surge through space. We look
it sheds an inner peace into the hearts of men. We should understand
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individual, very outstanding men like the three Magi from the East
on the other side it was only possible for men particularly sensitive
to inner things like the shepherds — men of the people —
knowledge through which men had once been related to the universe.
actual present, that men give very clear expression to that form of
to the starry heavens was such that men did not regard the stars in
these men of olden times spoke of the stars as if they were living
olden times men did not merely see points or surfaces of light but
our system were ensouled by living beings. Men beheld the spiritual
with one and the same faculty of knowledge that men of old
him as it appears to humanity today. For the men of much earlier
world seen by men of old, the spiritual withdrew — withdrew
the darker colours arose, what the men of old experienced in the
to read from the environment the secrets of the starry worlds. The
olden times men possessed a deep, inner faculty for perceiving what
elemental beings: one kind from chalk soil, other kinds from granite
perception were still so rich in individual men at that time that the
magical vision still possessed by the wise men from the East was
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simple shepherds and on the other to the Magi from the East, men who
times in men of piety of heart. I said that these powers were the
still existed in their final phase among exceptional men, both
naive, instinctive visions, what is happening in the world of men.
being. Modern men, especially those living at the present time, no
connection is, however, in many ways deceptive, for the men of olden
with the territory where they appeared in men. Just as the animal
earth and especially of the animal world. In those olden days men had
fellow-men the abstract feeling that it is today when we pass them by
happenings in the world of men as they expressed themselves in the
of perception that is idolised in natural science where men are only
mighty event, and in the vision of the wise men from the East whose
filled with the perceptions of Inspiration. Thereby men will find the
philosopher Locke who has had such an influence upon the development
necessity of evolution. The corresponding phenomenon in ancient
knowledge, but with the instinctive faculties of men in those times.
for understanding machines. Men were obliged to pass through this
development of the spirit — of the spirit which is supremely
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inner senses related to will: the sense of balance, the sense of movement,
Menschen in ihrer Beziehung zu Imagination, Inspiration und
something quite other than the development of consciousness of our own
the superficial way in which soul-phenomena are studied to-day that no
psychological treatment of the senses is one of the weakest chapters
the sense of movement. This is the perception of whether we are at
rest or in movement. We must experience this within ourselves, just as
course, one cannot apply external experiment to one's ideas upon these
medium is the air in movement, takes us straight into the outer world.
comes in. For there are men — this is especially true as regards
thoughts of the other men at all, but perceive them in the same way
is in a high degree a subjective one. Now all men, of course, have in
the present time the fact that men do not know how to build a bridge
sense of movement, the sense of life and the sense of touch, we come
movement conveys to us is the state of movement in which we ourselves
we perceive our own movement, our own balance, in a decidedly
subjective manner, this movement and this balance are nevertheless
physical world a man in movement is exactly the same thing to observe
of movement is only there in order that what is taking place in the
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inner senses related to will: the sense of balance, the sense of movement,
century, human progress has consisted predominantly in the development
Æcumenical Council of 869, which raised to the status of dogma
established. The Schoolmen in particular were steeped in it. And when
now they were forming their judgments from experience. But they were
humanity believes that it forms an unprejudiced judgment, whereas the
judgment it utters is nothing but the result of an historical event.
One comes to a really sound judgment — and then not without
the fourth century, will form his judgments about the relations of man
men of that time thought. To try to understand Plato or Heraclitus or
because men have not reckoned with the fact that the moment we go back
know, because the Church took care to destroy all documents that might
But the Gnosis was an essential element in the spiritual life of the
centuries that I have just mentioned, To-day, of course, we cannot go
important element in European development.
things had come to the point when men no longer knew what to make of
to a formula. The argument as to whether the Son is of the same nature
been lost. The argument takes its course no longer with ideas, but
vanished, and only the intellectual element remained; but now this
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inner senses related to will: the sense of balance, the sense of movement,
other hand a capacity less noticeable, because men give themselves to
phenomenon of death.
series of phenomena and then transferred arbitrarily to another
memory develops in the course of the development of the individual.
what he experiences in his environment through sense-perception,
faculty of memory arises more out of the child's inward development,
constituted, whether the formation of his blood, the nourishment of
one will find a connection clearly indicated between the phenomena of
evolution that most men, civilised men at any rate, bring mathematical
inward phenomenon, but confine yourself to what is external, you might
brain, and proved that fundamentally this structure was the expression
Thus both men could find a point of contact in the sketch. Why? Simply
human rhythmic system; it is still in full movement, it has its
configuration in movement. And will, which is connected above all with
much head-men, we shall understand a great deal, but remember little
head, in the early stages of its development, becomes more like the
concepts of course are translated into the sphere of the mental life,
force which, after having been the source of the phenomena of growth
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of the materialistic epoch upon the development of the souls
of men. Spiritual backgrounds of the Youth Movement.
individual himself passes into obscurity between the moments
ordinary course is of fundamental significance for his whole
development, forces which in their full strength and true
ego and astral body could be observed from the moment of
going to sleep to the moment of waking, two biographies of
The statement
actual fact that the element of soul we instil into our words
the moment of going to sleep until the moment of waking. We
human environment. The life of feeling, willing and thinking
other people in the environment and heard by the child
his environment. This state of things is already less
environment, whereas until his seventh year he is concerned
what echoes in the souls of men during the hours of sleep.
of life. A tormenting condition of misunderstanding, of a
echoes of the speech emanating from his human environment. If
materialism causes this environment to repudiate the
strong spiritual influence upon the souls of men —
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Italian journey; its purpose and effects. Establishment
in the child a spiritual element is always at work; it is an
While he is elaborating and developing these two instruments
super-sensible world consists of the three so-called elemental
elemental kingdoms, the world of beings who are at a level of
nature. These beings of the elemental kingdoms indwell as it
beings of the elemental kingdoms.
with the elemental kingdoms. Just as in the waking state in
three elemental kingdoms stream into him. This is the scene
of his existence. Within these three elemental kingdoms he is
elemental world weaves and floats in freedom; flowing
elemental kingdoms bears the colours hither and thither in
in the elemental world remains unconscious or subconscious in
the elemental world, the surrounding elemental kingdoms. But
from this elemental world man looks upward and he beholds not
sleep to that of waking, man is in the elemental world,
lecture-course already mentioned. And from this elemental
world he looks out into the expanse of the super-elemental
experienced the elemental world with intensity, together with
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physical and etheric environment, things which happen in
etheric environment, a physical and etheric world inhabited
world which is just as much our environment when we sleep as
the physical world is our environment when we are awake. You
will find the elementary facts in the descriptions given, for
towards our physical and etheric environment, we perceive the
feelings and sentiments as they were before the 4th century
for a moment to the experiences undergone by the Beings of
so-called enlightenment. We should learn nothing about things
of men. Anyone who believes that thoughts are to be found
only in men's heads is a victim of the same prejudice,
men's heads as it is to say: If I quench my thirst with water
shape of natural phenomena.
immense cosmic importance. The Exousiai, the Spirits of Form,
world one also has to mention the super-sensible fact that the
development of mankind.
the point in human evolution when men's outlook into the
post-Atlantean age. Because of this the soul element was
bodies the moment musical perception began. We would live
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cosmic thoughts so that men were obliged unconsciously to
those currents of thought which sway whole groups of men.
side, send impulses into men. And again we see a different
manifold movements again from West to East; the other stream
truth tremendously interesting. If we consider the Greeks,
We see how men
earnest men who have travelled from West to East, allows the
the whole movement. So that here (above) we have Archai at
and abnormal Archai-Beings who have a strong influence on men
men an emotional relationship to their language, that
in man's relationship to language. What holds men together
is quite possible to characterize the historical life of men
spiritual Beings of the higher Hierarchies, tremendous light
elementary way but nevertheless belongs to the normal
— which Schiller amended only slightly, particularly
spite of this, however, men are free beings,
elements takes place continually in the struggles involved.
dimension reached by these forces in the Thirty Years' War
earthly terms — with each other, just as men do on
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Human beings are led to the development of
more or less supplementary to my little book,
event, we may say: it consists in giving men in the course of
see, in our own age, how men strive to free themselves from
undergoing normal development.
times men did not unfold their thoughts as they have to do
perceived the thoughts. But in still earlier ages, when men
Men did not work out their thoughts; they received them. It
development of a world of thoughts only when this world of
commandments that were unconditionally binding and made a man
from bondage by commandments which exclude freedom, to action
from instincts and impulses within him. In those days men
men were seeking primarily for the origin of the world, but
reason that we men have all passed through a number of lives
Exousiai to bring the thoughts from outside, men had not
thoughts, in order to instil them into men from outside. Man
foundation is laid for the solution of that immensely
of soul. And although men do not realize it in full clarity
inevitably lead them to suffer on account of this immensely
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above-mentioned epoch; previously to that, thinking had been
essence was then cast off and today, as men of the Fifth
ordinary-level consciousness as modern men makes it so easy
following: In earlier epochs of evolution men perceived an
active germinal force everywhere in their environment,
thinking. Man thinks, then, in an element quite other than
men today no longer have the remotest concept of what
go on at the same jog-trot. But a time will come when men
will have to be clear about the fundamental fact that because
development from his forty-second year onwards. And so the
twenty-eighth year when the period of the development of the
There was a time when men's thoughts were truly alive. They
of being connected with his whole environment; he felt
that is working in upon us are we free men.
men were to pay real attention to the knowledge they glean
the living world of his environment. As, however, nothing
comes to him from his environment and he has to rely only on
are modern men materialists? They are materialists because
with their dead thinking, men make this life itself into
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development leading to abstract, that is to say, to dead
developed, was already dawning. These men, however, had a
expression but also from his gestures and movements, his
whole appearance as a human being. In those olden days men
like carving someone with knives ... so these men would
would seem to indicate a definite norm of measurement : the
to be attentive to what was revealed in their environment.
phlegmatic temperament, and so on. In that epoch, divining
from his attitude of soul; from his movements and gestures,
social classification of men according to their physiognomies
evolution, for a certain instinct prompted men to accept such
as the caste system was a kind of schematic arrangement of
days men did not feel outraged if they were ranked here or
distant times of the post-Atlantean era men not only spoke of
And so men not
as it had been in earlier times. Now men no longer looked
nothing resembling intellectual reasoning but men had the
the natural environment if no connection can be felt between
human life and meteorological phenomena. In the ancient
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recall once again those things I mentioned at the end yesterday
Just think for a moment — let us properly state the facts
have to reckon with this influence. But one sees, as I mentioned
and it is indeed an outstanding phenomenon that, with the decisiveness
barbarism. It is a significant phenomenon that by the same means,
restricted to belles lettres or the Sunday supplements,
appears with the heavy equipment of professional expertise and,
phenomenon, that the paradoxes interweave in our time, and that
because, fundamentally, the spiritual element makes absolutely no
impression any more upon men of the present.
regarding the one and the same phenomenon I have said now this,
confessions speak? Fundamentally it only speaks to the refined
However, for what is the actual eternal element in man, and about
eternal element in the human soul, as we do also have the word
mentioned here several weeks ago we must not take too lightly. I
conception or birth, this soul-spiritual element builds up a
complete imprint of the soul-spiritual element. Everything that
thinks with the soul-spiritual element, then the bodily physical
element is a faithful imprint of it. However, if one is a mature
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evermore similar to the element of matter, how he in fact climbs
down into this matter element, so that in the end it is no longer
bit by bit, through the denial of the soul-spiritual element, the
actual losing of this soul-spiritual element occurs. I said that
have his soul-spiritual element saved. This however, is not the
the material element that he cuts himself off from the
soul-spiritual element, that he sinks himself into the Ahrimanic
actually intended development when man follows the normal
progressive element, that is, when he joins himself to everything
environment perceives only the sense world. And when he looks
thoughts are actually an element alien to reality, they are
fundamentally is only a world of images which basically has no
element that increasingly becomes a mere image element. One can
in the course of development, just as the oyster separates from
upon the past of the spiritual element, and upon what has
remained as a leftover from the past of the spiritual element,
humanity — creating spiritual divine beings. Elemental
development of the 19th century, felt most deeply how what
development is Phillip Mainlaender, who through the overburdening
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Naturwissenschaft / Die menschliche und die tierische Organisation /
organische Naturwissenschaft zusammenfassen. Dann sollte der Tag
aber — das war schon angekündigt — in den Räumen der Singakademie
anderen in den Räumen der Berliner Universität; jeden Abend einen
namentlich durch die Formulierungen, welche die einzelnen
lebensfeindlicher Mechanistik zu wahrer Phänomenologie». Es wird
daß man durch Anthroposophie dazu kommen wird, eine Phänomenologie
das Programm vom Montag zusammengefaßt: «Wege anthroposophischer
Menschenerkenntnis in Biologie und Medizin», und ebenso positiv das
Ausgangspunkt nehmen von den gegebenen wissenschaftlichen
lebensfeindlicher Mechanistik zu wahrer Phänomenologie», so haben
Sie hier sogar schon in dem Worte «Phänomenologie» eine ganz
dem Worte: «Menschenerkenntnis» vom Montag auf etwas durchaus
Freitags-Veranstaltung gegipfelt hat, und der im Grunde genommen —
Mechanistik zu wahrer Phänomenologie. — Da handelt es sich also
dessen, was in den Phänomenen, in den Erscheinungen vorliegt,
kommen soll, wie diese Erscheinungen selber für sich sprechen
Menschenerkenntnis bauen müsse, daß man also notwendig hat, nicht
auszugehen hätte, den Menschen kennenzulernen, und daß man vom
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for the moment to fix our minds on our opponents. Rather it is
and the movement of his own blood. The Greek could still grasp
a mood of soul which only exists in fragments of the external
external documents, does not realise this anymore. But one
countrymen now find joy for their work?” One can
the destruction of those external monuments was part of the
different. I have often mentioned a sentence which is quite
correct: — The ancient Wise Men, and even the people of
humanity was shown with tremendous power in the form of
— “You modern men are sleeping through everything.
right. We wake up from our moment of waking until we go to
has limits of knowledge, he cannot enter into the phenomena,
immense pleasure a dreamer has when he dreams something which
noticed yourselves the tremendous joy of a superstitious
and they all have this tremendous joy. In our present
case of Mendaleff, who even calculated elements out of his
that place and to mention a few properties. Here we have the
fulfilment of a vision by the same methods as when a sleeper
waking. Such a moment must occur as sometimes in a dream when
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Zusammenhange Mit Welt- und Erdenwickelung.
at the heart of all the passing phenomena before me in Nature
mental pictures, at the other the life of will impulses and in
When we observe our mental life we have to admit, if we are
movement follows immediately and we see it. Two mental
which mental pictures express. As regards will we know quite
concretely that it is connected with reality. But unlike mental
mental pictures, and color also the will impulses. Our feelings
partake of the lucid clarity of mental pictures on the one hand
will impulses. We see, let us say, a rose; we form a mental
consciousness. But that they are connected with the mental
were, the mental picture. When we have a clear mental picture
of the rose we also have a clear mental picture of what pleases
us. The clarity of our mental pictures communicates
action. Our mental picture of a deed may tell us that it ought
mental life from the way they participate in the dark
i.e., forming concepts and mental pictures — as feeling and
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Taking the lungs as an example I showed that the moment we rise
earlier or its later stages, reveals only a momentary stage of
Attainment — reveals the lung in a state of
We realize that what we ordinarily observe is a momentarily
the reality. However, the moment the ascent is made from
lot of movements with our arms. According to
materialistic critics a dreadful lot of movement is carried out
is done by the movements in eurythmy, you no longer see the
arms and hands, all you see are their movements. All the
individual movements are all there, and because they all merge
fact, most of the movements done by human beings are done
with the arms. All the movements, their curves and forms become
visible, whereas all movements become visible. And it is the
same with the legs. I said yesterday that the movements man
When someone chops wood, he makes continuous movements.
we experience a different environment. I mentioned
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consciousness we experience thinking — i.e., forming mental
and, unlike mental pictures, we cannot relate them so
consciousness is the movement of our limbs or the event taking
knowledge of man if we use discernment when comparing
moment he wakes up man does not experience such a tissue of
now lives in his soul as mental pictures. In this relationship
then form mental pictures and we know that we do so, for these
mental pictures are under our control. As long as they
penetrated by mental pictures present in the astral body.
movement of the astral body follows the same path as the air
air when we sleep; when we are awake then the movements of the
red and carries out its movements, in fact, carries out its
between his breathing and the movements of all the bodily
along this thrusting movement towards the etheric part of the
the movement of the cerebral fluid with the movement of
We also have a continuous interplay of warmth; the movement of
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Title: Human Soul/Evolution: Lecture IV: The Human Soul in Relation to Moon and Stars
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us look for a moment at man in relation to his
environment, bearing in mind what was said in the first
been mentioned in regard to our will impulses: the fact that we
first have the thought, the mental picture that we want to lift
into the organism, we have the phenomenon of the lifted
thought, up to the moment when the arm movement is
of things then continues within him; i.e., he forms mental
that he retains mental pictures of the things he has observed.
The mental pictures are saturated with feelings which,
and its Attainment. The first to be attained is imaginative
world we discover elemental beings and also beings of the
asleep when one mentions thoughts that have no concern for
universal; it contains no soul element, it is spiritual.
Soul comes into it when it meets the instinctive element within
instrument with which to attack the lion and defend himself,
soul because in one way or another the soul element always rays
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we must for the moment be satisfied. Today I shall try, by
he reads or one of the Sunday supplements, he is learning, in
fundamental feeling for this difference. If there were, then
played by the cinema and similar phenomena in the decline of
simply on the basis of a statement without the slightest
it is of immense importance for judging our present
hypothesis about the phenomena of nature. On the
contrary, we remain in our phenomenalism, as it must be
termed, strictly within the phenomena themselves — that is,
phenomena to explain themselves, in the Goethean sense.
We do not think into them all kinds of atom-bombardment or
what the phenomena themselves reveal.
into the phenomena. It has arisen with the natural- scientific
technology we actually create the phenomena ourselves.
True, something is left out of account in the phenomena, in
In other words, there is always an element which is not
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have often discussed the development of the human being during
everything that goes on in his environment. Later in life,
the young child's environment, not even in thoughts and
environment, he now begins to grasp what he is told. Authority
teeth onwards. Not until puberty does real power of judgment
judgment. Only then can one assume the child's judgment to
mentioned that only up to the time when the change of teeth
physical embodiment, we see him as a being of soul and spirit
one can make use only of ideas and mental pictures relating to
man, at the moment when he is uniting himself with the physical
development, while the human being grows together more
embryonic development and continues to do so but is still
learning to speak and form mental pictures which are retained
back. Rather does one see how the movements which the child now
makes — no longer kicking, but reasonable movements
forty-five practically all movements have left their traces in
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paths by which in very remote times men acquired supersensible
Worlds and its Attainment and other writings is
previous occasions I have mentioned that, from the masses of
kingdoms of nature, the men of those times beheld spirit and
intellectual outlook declares that these men of old, through
or blue and hear C sharp or G, so those men of old beheld
is not independent, but an integral part of the organism. Men
and all surrounding nature. He felt the elements of nature
attainment of higher worlds that was suitable and right only
our senses and nervous system as instruments of thinking. The
also experienced a soul element in his thinking within the
human soul, immersed in the phenomena of nature, partakes of
from one mental picture into another.
environment is not only connected with nerves and senses: a
world. The moment thinking really becomes free of the bodily
functions, the moment it has torn itself away from breathing
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have often mentioned that a new stream of spirituality is now
intellectual development — which began in the first third
was the development of reason through the investigation of
external nature and the development of technology.
greatest intellectual achievements have been attained in recent
intellectual accomplishments. Yet the practice of
because intelligence was originally a natural endowment which
the four elements of earth, water, air and fire, then it makes
elementary spirituality. Today's
rediscover the elemental beings contained in everything of a
elemental begins, dwelling in solid earth, is cleverness,
Thus, in the solid earth element live spiritual beings of an
elementary kind who are very much more clever than human
elemental beings dwelling in the fluid element — i.e., in
elemental beings of air have developed to a high degree what
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forming concepts and mental pictures. We are often
wisdom of the Orient. Today everything originating in mental
which included a rudimentary cultivation of mental
activity. In the Orient no appeal was made to mental effort and
exertion was made to form one's own mental pictures of
have often mentioned the fact that people nowadays imagine that
documents, then he thinks that though the people were not as
the instance I mentioned earlier of how the physical
intensely connected with the external world that the moment he
the political environment in which he grows up, the
determined by such environmental factors as family, politics,
race is always in the process of development; it must advance
what is the origin of this particular development? I said that
cause a muscle to carry out a movement. When present-day man
has a mental picture of lifting his arm
no awareness of how his mental life affects his organism. This
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Title: Philosophy, Cosmology and Religion: Lecture I: The Three Steps of Anthroposophy
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spirit of real modern life, which results from the development
experimentation. If this is done, the fact is overlooked that
Therefore, more detailed discussions of what I will but mention
appears to a mathematician, or the content of his experiment
appears to the experimenter. This work that must be applied by
attainment of knowledge is the essential point in spiritual
supersensible phenomena.
order that the attainments of natural science may be crowned
spiritual. We strive for an artistic element here, which in a
does the knowledge we seek. A religious, a social element
that men experienced. It was not a specialized science. It was
developed fundamentally out of the substance of
or experiment.
being should be engaged in the development of philosophy, and
Just think a moment. If a man were to love a woman, or a woman
sense observation, or through experiments developed in the
is then put together by the intellect. But these achievements
environment. Since man wishes to feel, to know himself as a
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Knowledge of the Higher Worlds and Its Attainment,
Here I shall only mention in principle that it
and experiments of natural science.
that man works himself up to the development of imaginative
of soul while fully awake, then the moment finally comes
rhythmic processes. We see the cosmos in its fundamental,
knowledge, further development of the meditative life, of
form of soul exercises based on a special development of the
this development of the will, the better it is for experiencing
men want to acquire once more through their own efforts a
observations and experimentations, has been attained only
men of earlier ages drew their knowledge in every domain of
etheric and astral elements in his nature and with his ego
mention later, possess a kind of clairvoyance. That is not the
the instrument of the physical body. This characterizes
element that is not its very own. But man, nevertheless
fundamentally an activity taking place solely in the
and the attainment of real freedom. Just as I have described
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know at every moment that our soul activity remains
unconscious, or perhaps physical elements had played into
this etheric thinking one moment — which is experienced
entirely real — and in the next moment, as this thinking
childhood up to the present moment as a unity, as a tableau in
of development. This, however, is not the same as what usually
development, thinking, and so on. Man now surveys
everything that evolves inwardly and represents the development
present moment.
I should like to make this paradoxical statement: Only he is a
mentioned already — it must become capable of
element of the sun to its physical counterpart, the
spiritual moon element to the physical moon element, and so on,
etheric phenomena. In inspiration he feels not only such
today is fundamentally already decadent.
a quite different constitution. Elements out of his physical
I have mentioned, and they will be further described in more
instinctively perceive in their environment as spiritual
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physical organism of man owes to hereditary development,
some fundamental principles. I may perhaps refer here to the
with it. He arrives at the soul-spiritual element in his
soul-spiritual element as something eternal, as the
moment, when one is strong enough to do this, one lives in a
looks back into the development of the soul in the
thinking or mental picturing that we have in ordinary
into the corpse-like element of soul. Living thought was
were living elements within spiritual activities. What we have
this ordinary thinking is fundamentally remote from
is fundamentally to bring dying thoughts to life again.
that is, the actual soul element behind the will, is related to
in the moment of death, it goes forth into the spiritual
over sense perceptions as a corpse-like element. On the
of ideas to fulfillment, this perception of the real, eternal
depends on the acknowledgment by our present spiritual culture
nature from observation and experiment, and from this they put
of inspiration and intuition that element in man in which the
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unconscious. When this unconscious realm is mentioned, it
development of man's inner being, the rich experiences of
ordinary consciousness the phenomena of sleep appear as
object cannot at first be distinguished. No separate phenomena
real — is, I might say, a fragmentation of this inner
the development of this relationship, but in such a way that
the soul experiences it as its inner life, the movements of the
movements of our solar system pulse through our breathing and
bodies — the planetary movements do not work directly.
at any time with other people. Man's development through
Having retraced the above-mentioned stages in backward sequence
phenomenon of sleep is to be comprehended fully, intuitive
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say that the cosmic human germ is immense, and gradually
in active soul-spiritual labor on the development of this
(which is our own being), whose development consists in being
environment, which is at the same time his own being, as an
the moon forces always represent the element that prepares man
existence, then, in the moment when he passes from sharing in
religious and cosmological endowments of the human soul. Every
along as endowments. The sequences of day and night cause
that moment there occurs what I may call the loss of his
the etheric element into these pictures from all directions of
cosmic ether man now draws etheric elements into his cosmic
remaining points that can be mentioned will be added in the
subjective element that the moon forces have brought about in
upon the baby's development, using the undifferentiated,
during which the uniting process mentioned gradually
sculpturing element.
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lies something immensely important and substantial.
entering earthly life. Men of this ancient time knew of this
in the manner in which it existed for men of a later time. I
remained with him as his endowment. But in fact, it ceased.
say: The Sun Being, He who formerly bestowed grace upon men by
Being Who, by giving men the vision of the after-image of the
the event signified, to give back to men on earth — but
embodiment in the man Jesus — these vestiges
I have just indicated as the development, the unfolding of ego
fundamentally there is a great difference between even
recognized by mankind, even by learned men — that Jesus
Thus, for these centuries, the Church's development could not
Concerning everything, however, that those men, who knew
spiritual perception, men again can recognize the Christ,
development.
has already been mentioned that through the lighting-up of ego
relationship to if of faith and acknowledgement, if one
natural development. He must deepen himself inwardly and
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certain presence of mind to experience this moment with full
course of his own life from birth to the present moment in the
mentioned that they are not the memories a person also has in
moments when you are within this imaginative thinking. The
perceive what confronts you at the present moment and you think
in the present moment that merely points to the past. Hence,
moment a person experiences his life's course in imaginative
must be produced in the present moment, it must arise
mention something personal here. I have perhaps spoken already
of questions without considering at all that in the next moment
At the moment, however, when active thinking sets in through
various stages of life. It is therefore of immense importance
the visionary's predicament in life. For, whoever has achieved
consciousness. He therefore can also form a judgement about a
precise antidote for all uncontrollable, visionary elements.
and characterized with the greatest discernment, for this
in pre-earthly life but disappears as a soul-spiritual element
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movements. He would feel how the after-images of these
planetary movements stream through his breathing and
planetary movements. And if he could experience his
nothing of the impulses that come from the movements of
starry world and has acquired from the planetary movements.
three soul elements — etheric and astral organizations
their activity from the moment of waking up until the moment of
is not conscious of the planetary movements and the world
the outer world into the physical inner being; the phenomena of
movements and the constellations of the fixed stars in order to
sleep must intervene at the moment when the physical
imaginative consciousness how this element of
While an element of what the human being has experienced in his
natural phenomena. Out of a certain impulse that arises from
unwise. Moral evaluation, moral judgement joins in with
in our actions as the conscious judgement of thinking.
astral-spiritual element that is similar in form to what it was
old Indian Yogi, judgement as to what was morally natural and
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being of man in this will element. There is, nevertheless, a
perhaps a supplementary impulse or maybe a fairly vivid wish.
certain inducement, an element that corresponds to the
on this level, it only comes to an assessment. But something
something additional arises in the willing-soul. The judgement,
days that in the moment when man passes through the gate of
soul elements represented inwardly as thinking, feeling and
only mention this as an example that is close at hand. These
anthroposophical movement. It becomes a reality in the Waldorf
permeated by hidden soul-spiritual elements. In a
organism, or that supplements are found for what the body
science must be supplemented and expanded by what can result
only through external experimentation. Inspiration,
merely experimental, empirical therapy, it is possible to
have already assumed practical form within our movement. We do
methods of treatment are permeated by what spiritual
it is medicine that tries to rely only on physical phenomena. I
to point out how it is supplemented by what arises out of a
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statements about the aura and thought-forms, some of those who
experiment. There would have to be an experiment where a number
seers' statements all tallied with each other, then they could
argument. Any thinker schooled in modern natural, science must
an experiment according to the methods of natural science, as
eliminated by such an experiment. For this experiment is
the various seers. If the experiment could be arranged in this
in thinking and feeling; standards and judgments otherwise
and has impeccable judgment! He does not admit that there is
anything to change in his power of judgment. Needless to say he
different kind of perception and judgment of the world must
thinking, the ordinary judgments applied to the physical world.
reasonable human being. Although a new kind of judgment, of
world, healthy judgment as regards the events and beings of the
think, we create for ourselves mental pictures of the things
spiritual property. We learn, through our mental pictures, to
organism becomes more skilful. This is a kind of supplementary
achievement. It is the same with spiritual activities. If, as a
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fantasy in connection with memories and the other element that
picture, every movement in it. Then the picture as such, as an
From this point onwards, a great deal of discouragement may be
in store for seership. It may quite well happen that the moment
sufficiently digested, the moment comes when we know: Now I am
Men drew pictures which still had a resemblance to what they
of development by our Rosicrucian methods or the atavistic,
becomes a truth the moment we enter the spiritual world in the
moment we have sunk down into them, knowing that now we have
them, in that moment we are seized with the feeling of
moment I stand at a definite point — A.
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mental activity, not only is he within the physical object
clairvoyant sees a part. They are always in the environment and
at this moment, too, we can answer the question as to why we
the true sense of the world. — The moment genuine
this most solemn moment which is described by occultists as
On Initiation, Eternity and the Passing Moment.
as our thoughts, our mental images. Outside, they are the real,
and mental images. If we carried them in their full reality
should at each moment stand before the danger of death.
underlying our thoughts and mental pictures. If you have any
endurance to make progress in occult development through
Again, there may come a moment when we know: ‘You have now
out of something with much stronger reality. At the moment of
higher Hierarchies, to whose environment we belong just as here
we belong to the environment of the physical beings around us.
next stage depends upon the development of something I
then we develop loving interest in the world and its phenomena.
When the loving devotion to the world and its phenomena
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with me!’ So far as the time element is concerned I can seek
imperfect instrument which can only let the Cosmic Word sound
our own achievement, our thinking, feeling and willing. The
etheric body as a garment, so long have we instruments for
stage of development in Devachan, in the ‘Spirit-Land,’ the
advertisement's sake — I have already said enough about
his life-principle, but it is at the same time an instrument of
spiritual world. And the physical body also is an instrument of
development into the higher worlds, is somewhat similar to what
tremendous significance in the fact that inside it complicated
splendid achievement — so it is said — to have been
eyes of God is foolishness in the eyes of men. And so perhaps
of men’ which may be ‘wisdom in the eyes of God.’
the time being we have only rudimentary organs which at present
inner men is only slightly developed externally in the second
of the elemental world as your head now grasps the processes of
this reading we prepare for the inner mobility and movement of
must find its way into the further development of history.
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Christi. Der Mensch in seinem Zusammenhang mit dem Kosmos. Band IX.
Der Mensch als Erdenwesen und Himmelswesen,
moment of falling asleep to that of waking.
I have just mentioned can be quite clear to our ordinary
accompaniment of an inwardly experienced conception. The fact
the necessary natural phenomena are we able, out of such
This ceases the moment we rise to Imaginative knowledge and
about the body is its never-ending movement. Our body is in a
that the life of the body also shows movement; breathing is a
movement, circulation is a movement. In relation to how a man
this as merely a stage on the way to movement. Compared with
the delicate, subtle movements of the human physical body
any freedom of movement in our thoughts, in the combining of
moments when this is so, there is nothing mineralised in that
the organism, where all is alive and from which at that moment
to it. So that we can say: The material phenomenon that
positive standpoints of individual men are warranted, but not
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Das Verhältnis Der Sternenwelt zum Menschen und des Menschen zur Sternenwelt.
Die geistige Kommunion der Menschheit.
El título del volumen en la Edición Completa del Centenario que contiene el
Das Verhältnis Der Sternenwelt zum Menschen und des Menschen zur Sternenwelt.
Die geistige Kommunion der Menschheit.
El título del volumen en la Edición Completa del Centenario que contiene el
zum Menschen und des Menschen zur Sternenwelt. Die geistige Kommunion der
Menschheit.
pertenece intrínsecamente al invierno. Surgió a partir de concepciones del
mundo espiritual que tenían que ver principalmente con el vínculo establecido
el hecho de que eran eminentemente Misterios de Verano, relacionados con la
dicho a menudo que lo que los hombres de esos tiempos antiguos retenían del
tener pensamientos, debe exigirse internamente, debe elaborar sus ideas a
firmemente en el conocimiento. Tampoco se hacía ninguna distinción entre lo que
fue realmente el último sobreviviente de los que no tenían este punto de vista.
distinción entre lo artístico y lo científico, no aparece hasta relativamente
realidad fueron los líderes en estos Misterios que poco a poco comenzaron a
desarrollo de una sabiduría compuesta de pensamientos. Pero eran plenamente
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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 best impulses in this movement for the future of mankind for which they are so necessary. In
to free what our movement wills from the subjective interests of individual men.
illusions. A great deal is preached about selflessness and universal love between men; this is
Movement.
movement of ours. Meeting thus again, we need to reflect upon how earnestly we can believe that
action, within a spiritual movement such as ours. We shall certainly not insist egoistically that
neglecting his own spiritual substance. We should be able to recognise ourselves as men who are
In the soul of modern men there is indeed very much
prevailing in our spiritual movement the following may be said on one hand: Yes indeed, the
from which the greater part of mankind is suffering. This terrible confusion among men comes
life. On the one hand, men are immersed in a genuine longing for spirituality, for strong
among men in the remnants of what is old, rotten, in their so called cultural life.
reason to be pleased in the agreement shown with what was said by the critic of a Munich
particularly facetious since inner resentment made itself felt against what could not be
the moment we had a “ good press” I should think there must be something wrong,
thought is already a spiritual life. It is because men give so little heed to their life of
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with his physical environment. Towards his physical perceptible environment physical man is
It is not so where what can be called the men of
pulsating in the inner depths of man's soul-and-spirit — of all the movements and currents
cosmic environment, I should have perhaps to do it in this way. I should, first of all, have to
necessary. I shall only paint man's immediate environment. Thus it is now what we may understand
blue is only the edge of the environment. Imagine this like a surging blue sea filling space.
Thus, if we pass from the cosmic environment to
What is presented to the view in this figure shows how man is placed into his environment of
famous statement that in his seventieth year he
actually speak of it, when we cannot say what it is. For the moment we were to begin describing
slow movement as the expression of man's relation to the universe. The currents of the universe
man's relation to the spirit and soul environment and to himself, namely, to that bit he takes in
out of the spirit-soul environment as his subconscious, and what I have had to sketch as the red
world. But there is a limit here too (see left of diagram 2); within men himself there is a
all that is concealed, entirely concealed, from men by just this dam.
to see but men should not look upon. Beneath recollection, beneath what causes recollection,
that we are unable to approach what is of soul-and-spirit in our environment with our abstract
spiritual element. Everything here (yellow) is what might be called finely woven light. Were I
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mentioned the name here of a remarkable man of the present day — Otto Weininger
(Das Rätsel des Mensch
knowledge of the spirit. In his development man is striving towards a condition where more will
life in Asia that tells of it. Fundamentally it is Asiatic culture as a whole. This it is that
moment than the spirit out of which he spoke, the spirit of the oriental today, which can be
Europeans in the spirit of the spirit of their civilisation men of the East are really almost
And we also have this other phenomenon — that
begin to oe Americans at the moment when they sever the links binding their souls to what
and reckoned pretty exactly, how many millions more men would have to be apportioned to the earth
if all the work produced by machines were to be produced by men. The earth would have to have
500,000,000 more men. It can indeed be said that the earth today has not so many men if they are
has 500,000,000 more men; machines do duty as labour-power.
weighs men down, weighs them down and deprives them of the possibility to bring about the aim of
far as possible from the understanding of Christ. And the endeavor in cultural development that
atavistic clairvoyance men perceived Christ in the cosmos. The Christ was something that could be
century we men have been losing the possibility of seeing into the universe. What then would men
In the historic moment of time when man was no
means for making these things known, and for removing the scales from men's eyes! For this reason
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several things were mentioned which, particularly at the present
development, the much-debated question mentioned to begin with was whether the outstanding and
leading individual personalities are the principal driving forces in this development or whether
from real knowledge. This is one fact which, in a certain sense, I should like to mention as
should like to mention for its importance is the following. At the beginning of the nineteenth
Ideas as such are abstractions, as I mentioned here yesterday
when, from a spiritual-scientific standpoint, we look more deeply into the historical development
come to us which, precisely for a discerning judgement of the situation of modern humanity, will
I have often mentioned
historical development there are times when what has real being and essence
phenomena only if one has the possibility to penetrate more deeply from one's awareness of these
phenomena into the depths of historical development.
particular phenomenon, which must only be properly evaluated, it was possible to become aware of
points to a way of looking at history like this, a way which looks to significant moments, such a
of humanity's development, is indeed significant. Around this year there was a kind of learned
theological argument between the man who was a sort of court philosopher of the Frankish realm,
he had inherited, had wanted to reach a discerning judgement of the principles of Christianity
stream which then became the determining one for the development of the Roman Catholic Church of
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increasingly stronger and all the phenomena of life — of life in the broadest sense —
will take place in the sign of this development of the individuality. This, however, means that
that, in humanity as a whole, the individual element of the human being will take on greater
way, 'we are individuals': it is rather a matter of the whole development of humanity taking such
a course that the individual human element can work into it.
evolution. And the human being who, through the development of his individuality is being
Europe and the West. And we want now to turn to a phenomenon that can already show us externally
Strike movement are significant precisely as a characteristic of what is taking shape in this
only seems so, for such settlements would not be real; very significant effects will issue from
Bolshevism has a strong religious element which, however, is completely materialistic. It works
against these impulses which move through the development of humanity there is a great deal that
has no understanding at all of the foment of deeper forces in the whole of our present
development.
differentiation — a differentiation into the Western economic element, the Central European
political-legal one, and the religious element — the spiritual element in the East which
takes on a religious character but is actually the momentum of a decadent spirituality that still
East since Peter the Great, there is, fundamentally, always the spiritual tendency of Byzantium,
that is spiritual Byzantine religiosity, and so on. The individual phenomena of history become
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imaginations, put into practice in present cultural development what these beings introduce. If
the appearance of religious movements. And the momentum of Bolshevism in the East, for example,
Russian people, as a religious movement. The impetus of this social movement in the East lies not
most of all — the dialectical element, the element of political-legal-militaristic
of the older development of humanity, but I should like to draw your attention to a few things.
The characteristic phenomenon of Western development, of development in the more southerly
And here we find a singular phenomenon. We find
that Germanic peoples force their way into the Roman element and that something then arises there
Roman element. Rome as such, the Roman human being, went under. But what remained of the Roman
essentially Germanic blood overlain by the Roman language-element. It can only really be
direction of perceiving, feeling and willing, is descended from what, as the Germanic element,
element that when it comes up against a foreign language element — and there is always a
foreign language as though, if I may put it so, into a garment of civilization. What lives in the
West of Europe as the Latin race has, fundamentally, nothing in it of Latin blood. But it, has
of the Latin, of the Roman, element to assert itself beyond the purely human in the course of
world evolution. This is why the concept of one's will and testament first arose in Rome —
concept of the will and testament. Thus, too, the continuance of the language worked an beyond
the continuance of the human element in the people.
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of aesthetic enjoyment and aesthetic creation, in which the human being can come to true
which, in the West, expressed itself tumultuously as a large political movement orientated
is filled with underlinings and marginal comments knows how Goethe had really studied
not picture the human being so simply, or present human development so simply, and thus he wrote
of the modern development of humanity which is of essential importance — because Schiller
human element and the social life, did simply present itself in such pictures. But he was allowed
which he would have come completely into a fantastic red. Thus he adds that element which is
revolutionary government but that he did not take the matter very seriously.
development, these two soul-constitutions, which I have characterized for you, stand side by
modern people, in the culture of ancient Greece. Goethe also strove towards this Greek element.
In Greece one can see how the social element is presented in myth — that is, also in
development.
life which wish to be put into effect from the spiritual world — to the spiritual element
in the social organism, the Golden King; to the political element in the social organism, the
Silver King; and to the economic element, the Bronze, the Copper, King.
intellect must evolve. We could not come to the development of the consciousness-soul in the
element in relation to the destruction, the excretion, of the economic
life. The working together of the spiritual limb of the social organism with the economic element
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We know that a new age in the development of
eleventh, twelfth, thirteenth and fourteenth centuries of European development, it is possible to
development of humanity, to compare the longing for knowledge which holds sway today with the
from the fact that it is just in this time that we find the particular development and
attained. People experienced it as knowing when, from the phenomena of nature, from the being of
nature, they sensed, they perceived, how spiritual elemental beings worked in the individual
phenomena of nature; how the divine spiritual being as a whole worked through the totality of
phenomena of nature; when gods spoke through the appearance and movements of the stars. This is
The moment humanity renounced perception of the
it will not be the phenomena of nature that will speak directly — for nature, as such,
then be able to relate again to the phenomena of nature. Thus one can say: In ancient times the
knowledge of their culture, perceived a spiritual element in all the manifestations of nature;
that the divine-spiritual spoke through nature, whether through the lower elemental beings in
individual things and phenomena or in the whole of nature, as the all-encompassing
ancient times in which the oriental rose to the attainment of wisdom, what was of particular
took its course there and was shone through with wisdom — everything, fundamentally,
necessary now for humanity to also take a closer look at this dialectical-legal element. For the
economic element, which from the West has conquered the world with the aid of technology, is
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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
of an intellectual development. This was particularly so in the Romans. And one can therefore say
of the soul there arose in St Paul, through a particular enlightenment which came to him at a
Golgotha gained through clairvoyance. But then there spread out over humanity's development the
the dialectical-legal, development of the human soul. In the midst of everything that occurred
the offices of the State and united in their person the political and ecclesiastical elements.
ecclesiastical element, and that which tried more or less to free itself from it, produced
look at the immense difference that exists between the whole social structure of the Middle Ages,
wise men of the Mysteries, by the priests, to be placed before humanity as individuals who could
through legal justification, by formal, legal right. Men must now command, since the gods no
dialectical-legal Roman element also bore in its bosom, as it were, its other side. It bore the
to light through the most diverse historical phenomena, through such people as Wyclif,
Those men who still made their appearance as
of the oriental clairvoyance. Jesuitism took up only the intellectual-dialectic element and
wanted to speak only of the man Jesus. But as this whole development took its course it gave rise
untruth. This humanity has absolutely no inkling that, fundamentally, it lives under the
to understand this on the basis of the development of European humanity. One must, for example,
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European development, of modern civilisation generally, will inevitably be bound up with the
sleeping soul, there is a very disagreeable awakening in store. I do not say — I mentioned
fundamental change. This also has been taken into account far too little because people
their usual habits of thought they would soon see what an immense gulf there really is between
conservative element in human evolution today. It is the belief in the authority of popular
last decades, ideas which have become familiar through nineteenth-century scientific development
a stimulus for the right kind of development — then out of this materialistic mood, out of
evolution. But actually it takes into consideration only that element of man that is animal. It
animal-element in man appears in a modified form, the extent to which the animal-nature in man
properly conducted elementary education. The children will come out of properly conducted
elementary school in such a way that they will already have the feeling: 'We have a science which
as, I should say, a fundamental social demand. Side by side with the inability of the science of
earlier times of human world-view development.
instead, to bring it about that the social structure corresponds only with what men are as
Czechs, Slovaks, Magyars, Frenchmen, Englishmen, Poles and so on, then one forgets all
re-embodiment of three preceding conditions and how we have to look forward to three subsequent
embodiments so that our earth, schematically, is in a midway state.
one day live when the earth has passed over, through a certain cosmic development, into its next
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phenomena. No doubt the following question has often arisen before your
the significance of the destructive processes which I have mentioned.
previously. Suppose that we are born at a certain moment and go through
it, as it were, everything that constitutes our environment during the life
ancestors. Everything is passed on; yet the fundamental character which is
be found of the fundamental character of the environment in which one lived
destruction of what was once the fundamental character of the
environment.
incarnations have been destroyed, the moment comes when we re-enter earthly
Earth. And what creates our consciousness at the moment of death, when we
moment of death, at this beholding of destruction; this beholding of the
what suits him and who simply lives for the moment, is not strongly
in order to make amends, in order now really to live with the conditions
have lived quite intensely and in the fundamental character of any one
particular. Let us suppose that we become familiar with a movement such as
the present spiritual-scientific movement, at this time when it is not in
environment. The spiritual-scientific movement is in this case not
of which we will that it should enter the spiritual development of earthly
the tendency to care for their further development and to develop over into
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the then highest developed men, turn into impulses for the human
therein; we can put it this way: that we are earth men, but that we in
previously we have to do with evolutions or developments that
post-Atlantean age man begins his development as earth man, his true,
active development. Hence, we find that the first three cultural
as a direct instrument of perception. Upon the Moon he could build up
conclusion: If the development which the earth itself has so far
Spiritual Science can be used by the Archangeloi in the development of
the dreamer in man, the Moon man, will dream in a tremendously more
to continue his Jupiterean Spiritual development. His possession in the
philosophical temperaments: What is the ultimate aim of mankind? We
knowledge into a pure mental and soul content.
most complicated manner. Think for a moment that this atom must evolve
not alike. These human beings differ fundamentally, and that is the
the error which mixes up phenomena that have a very different value and
phenomenon than that of men. When one considers death in the animal and
absorb the fundamentals of Spiritual Science, however uncomfortable
lectures I mentioned something relative to the idea — which must
might say — out of the primeval elements. That, indeed, is
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must be added if the spiritual scientific-movement is really to
You remember the pronouncement of the
announced that now men had eaten of the Tree of the Knowledge of Good
protected, as it were, from being partaken of by men who had already
pronouncement: we will bring to mind what we have long known: i.e.,
been enacted without any of the men on earth having understood or
remained unknown to men, that no single person would have been able
— that is to say, of its knowledge. Now, men
means of the knowledge which men had before the Mystery of Golgotha.
been given out, but there has also arisen a New Testament theology,
in its various branches. This New Testament theology, as is only
men still had the remains of ancient clairvoyance; primeval
in ancient times, which could be given to men because they still had
world-conception had taken refuge in Rome. This Roman element was no
element in which Christianity was stirring as a new impulse. We see
Augustine first accepts all the elements of the old withered
efforts, that so struggles, that in the Roman-Latin element overflows
of what men have eaten in Paradise. It is a part of the Tree of the
when the old clairvoyant perceptions could still speak to men, how
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on the other, the life-element which at a certain time must unite
— immense in its consequences —
of the different one-sided elements in world-existence in order to
it can happen that, without any special development having been
particularly in specially clear and aware moments of waking up, can
come before his soul that at the moment of waking he, as soul-being,
element in which they felt themselves to be actually cleverer than
they were when awake. The majority of men must on awaking have said
far more etheric element than the life of the physical world is from
completely forgotten in the moment of waking.
weaving in such an element as he cannot fully take with him into the
utterance which says: Because men have learnt to know or to
the world and its phenomena is a knowledge that has entered through
temptation, that our everyday knowledge is the fulfilment of our
methodical development to know something of what really goes on in
that weaving and living in an etheric element, then we become aware
moment that man was punished by being forbidden to eat of the Tree of
in the fine etheric element that I have indicated, is something of
possession of it, it comes about that something predestined for men
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following cause. European life at the moment of passing over from
every moment of his waking life — does not feel
the life element of thought, in this continuous shaping process of
doing, it comes into a dying element, into a network of abstract,
hence, on the one hand, the Luciferic element originated in the fact
host of Luciferic beings who then in their further development
the inner life element that is connected with the Sun, they want to
formative living element with it, but can only grasp the external.
things and not grasping the inner living element. It was apportioned
of Luciferic element. Hence they retained more the consciousness that
acquaintance with that Luciferic element I have just characterised,
the living element of thinking about the external. What they get hold
if Greece had not influenced the world. If we base our judgment
found an abstract philosophy, but to collect a group of men who talk
no world-concept (we have only discussions) but men who converse, in
this element of making thought human into the external form and
living element of man from the thought-element of the cosmos and then
universe all that he could discover of the living element of the
And now picture the immense, the
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our form. On the other hand we have an element of will and feeling
earnestly you will understand that something of immense significance
the moment we now pass over to thinking, we look back to the Old
earthly men.
actually lies behind this? What lies behind it is the fact that men
which is inanimate has once been alive. Men must find the transition
died,’ men must really grasp the fact that all inanimate
already fled. This is of infinite importance. Men do not realise that
When men
Sun-existence. He held back in order to bring to us the Sun-element
phenomena was reserved for Christ Jesus, this held back. This was in
extraordinarily central phenomenon of earthly evolution must, however
Christ to assert that there could be a re-embodiment of Christ at the
re-embodiment of Christ Jesus. [
Lucifer we should really only be organised as Earthly men, to use our
historical development, and he had grown up within this region with
which can benefit all men; he has no lust of domination; but let us
phenomenon leads up to much that has happened in a terribly
development of spiritism in the second half of the 19th
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completely opposite: men makes researches into what their senses see;
able or not able to prove something with the instruments of the world
immense amount of value for the worlds in which man dwells; but they
however, we have our mental concepts in time and space
in a quite high, in a quite exact sense. For as incarnated men we
pointed out here in one connection that rudiments were already
developments, he would still have to overcome the next step, which
consists fundamentally in the fact that the whole evolution (origin
of Saturn, of the Sun, further development to Moon, separation of the
that we as earth men could develop this special configuration of the
Sun-existence. Although the first rudiments of our sense-organs had
rudiments on Saturn were blind and unperceiving sense-organs. The
anything. With this development of the senses develops for the first
from the development of the senses; these two things run parallel.
Not only that fairy tales — the most elementary
for once ... nowadays men no longer grasp this thoroughly ... but
possess something, is connected with the whole development of the
things. Yes, in a certain moment years ago, I felt that experience
‘This man (I will not mention his name) knows the
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and the Earth as far as its development has progressed. We have
stressed that the first rudiments of the sense-organs were present in
germ of the sense-organs arose as a purely physical rudiment, for the
development of the human sense-organs advances by the incorporation
therefore, to undertake one's self-development from this standpoint,
man was right who lately asserted that, through his enhancement of
egotism in a spiritual scientific movement, it was to be proved as a
fact that there are people in spiritual scientific movements who
fundamental truth.
the Sun. The thought nature, as we men can grasp it, comes from the
We men as physically incarnated beings
forth movements, activities in the etheric body. The thoughts
dissolve, as it were, and movement appears in the etheric body. It is
body and produces movement. Let us suppose that someone says,
body and calls forth movements, inner movements there, at first only
body is now so that ... now just imagine for a moment: here this
movement gets more and more active, and hence the etheric substance
movement in the ether-substance, and the etheric substance calls
hollow spaces: and these hollow spaces are actually, fundamentally,
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text is entitled: Perspektiven der Menschheitsentwicklung. From a
Perspektiven der Menschheitsentwicklung.
moment of reading he must, out of the depths
into the 9th century. The mental process, the whole life of
fundamental change occurred in the 4th century of our era. From
the middle of the 4th century onwards, the thinking of men
mental life sprang far more from a kind of inspiration than
later on when, with increasing consciousness, men began to work
that man forms judgments and draws conclusions as a human being
the 4th century of our era. It never occurred to men in those
4th century and in men like John Scotus Erigena it flashed up
conceptions of the thought and outlook of men in those early
Gospel carefully, we find a statement that has been overlooked
a fundamental change came about in the 4th century. In the early
try to understand the attitude of men living in the first
early centuries, even among men who were by no means learned
Christ. What did such a mystery really signify to these men?
everywhere that veneration was paid to the element flowing down
still held sway, down to the very latest generation. Men
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proletarian masses. In the course of recent historical developments, the
imbued with the higher elements of spiritual life, but this spiritual
times that essentially replaced the old pictorial element with what is
educational development by means of literature, by means of the written
development of the consciousness soul, human beings became more and more
personality. By virtue of this development of the human personality,
as they are called. Basically, of the earth element the dead see only
not see the green plant forms that we see, only a certain movement, the
express the soul element in the form, so that the external form does not
— we were talking about artistic monuments
hardly come to any other judgment than in asking themselves,
(1751-80) [identified with the rationalism of the Enlightenment],
development of humanity speaks in clear terms of the various
the feeling, this other thought complements our own.
that leads to receptivity for revelations that, as I mentioned here a
elementary matters. It is available for the human soul. One need only
up from the depths of the human soul today, the social element has to be
one's one concerns. The moment we do not merely occupy

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Geistige und Soziale Wandlungen in der Menschheitsenticklungen.
phenomenon recently, and discussed by those who are more or less
conscious of its relationship to the total phenomena of the present
evolutionary epoch if we know where the phenomena which surround us,
I only need to mention one item of
present-day phenomena in order to characterize the public's ability
him unfit to govern, that there are doubts about his judgment.) The
public's capacity for judgment, as it zips around the world today, is
what the fundamentals are.
has led for example to the Protestant mentality. But the essential
looked up to, just as the Protestant mentality looks up to its God or
As I mentioned, a subspecies was found in
unbelievable, but it is so. We can learn from Assyrian documents how
mentioned, when the ruler and his paladins appeared as God's envoys,
With the advancement of
more towards the priestly. But where this phenomenon of God's
the more secular element.
in the year 1000. The anointment, and therefore the power, was
ancient times in the Orient men lived on the physical earth who were
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Geistige und Soziale Wandlungen in der Menschheitsenticklungen.
development of a new spiritual life will be possible. In order to
But a moment will come, a moment which is
very important. At the moment when it is recognized that we are
moment we will recognize the inanity of the human being who merely
moment of realization must come when we can no longer defend all that
That moment of truth must dawn.
Human evolution can not advance further without this moment of truth.
at present we must be immersed in the element of the platitude.
Consider for a moment that the various
fundamental character of the Wilhelmian age is Gustav Noske [Minister
of War]. The fundamental character of what had been developing for
illustrating historical phenomena with abstract concepts, but of
This phenomenon is particularly
fermentation side by side: the external, exoteric platitudes of
parliaments and congresses. Then you have the use of symbols in the
contain spiritual elements. And in the secret societies which possess
accepted in most lodges, only lords and others who are amenable to
social order men are all brothers. They are not brothers. In the
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as an automatism, so to speak. In the history of human development
in which the people's mentality considered the ruler to be a god and
only political institution worth mentioning was the phenomenon of
During the second stage what we call today parliament for example was
in preparation; for a parliament only makes sense when it is possible
idealism, not to mention materialism — for they are practically
The State, Elements of Historical and Practical Politics.
incentive for achievement of complete national unity was brought
which is common to the second stage of human development. Perhaps you
about what is alive, we form such judgments as “The tree is
creative element, the force which acts and lives. The transformation
or ordinary judgments. We try to create images, to present things
has only a limited meaning, for judgments given from the spiritual
their instrument. It would go too far in this lecture to describe in
the imperialism of the soul as the means of mundane anointment. They
is still not understood that in the second stage the statesmen of the
development. Whereas during the oldest, the first stage the Church
people's hearts. But this degree of human development has not yet
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importance of this moment by indicating the seriousness with
which our movement — which is daily being endangered and
fear in all kinds of pseudo-logical arguments by which he tries
will hear, my dear friends, from this or that side arguments
the world's phenomena with passive thinking. Man is too lazy
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This earnestness should not be expressed as sentimentality.
with mere game-playing, it is not sentimentality, false piety
and it is our feeling that acts as an instrument of world karma
development of knowledge. Through constant review of our own
In thinking: one seeks the path which all men seek. In feeling:
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through normal spiritual training, but due to elementary
When you sit down on a chair - at the moment you don't fall on
the moment when the human being enters the spiritual world, he
undoing, not to your advancement.
Consider for a moment what I just said. You see, memory is
the moment one's volition, which wants to proceed to previous
grasp this threefold element within us, that we firmly direct
breathing, blood circulation and the movement of the members
force of nature, as you are to the movement of your limbs, also
movement of the lungs; you reach them, however, by learning to
stress], it corresponds to the correct etheric movement in the
third element we must plunge into is willing. And the Guardian
attention to the trochaic element here [the first verse], the
and spondee rhythms. At the moment, we are able to move on from
the intellectual meaning to commitment to the rhythm, from that
moment it is possible to leave the physical world and really
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must be taken seriously is that in the moment that we accept
so in real life. At the moment when something derived from the
movement of the cosmos, in that human thoughts weave into human
wave movement: from below to above. Therefore, the mantric
words' movements and that our souls enter into that movement.
development, but also to look afar in the distance at our own
also learn how gods in garments of light circle round the
garment of the gods. And the gods wander over the earth in
shining garments. And what we experience from the light becomes
belongs to the godly beings in shining garments moving over the
really feels how the gods in shining garments move around the
with the gods who move around the earth in shining garments, we
us in shining garments. And we hear these two mantric verses
always go back to the previous elements - not only in respect
We feel how the gods approach in shining garments. Here we are
caused a great misfortune. I mention this here because I wish
the moment when someone does not want to be a representative of
the anthroposophical movement in the right way, the School must
movement which have brought so much mischief into the movement.
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earthly conditions. At the moment when the person approaches
to the heavenly. So that in the moment that man stands before
Well, you see, at the moment when one enters the esoteric, a
of the earthly element. We have a relationship of the human
element lie deep beneath what people experience.
breathing process contains the air element, in which we
Above the element of air we have the quality of warmth.
above the element of warmth we have the essence of light:
That man lives and moves in the element of air is obvious from
That the element of warmth is extremely essential to man is
the moment when a person takes the leap in his life which
have often pointed out how in every moment of our lives, also
The air is outside, the same air which is inside me a moment
become one with the whole life and being of the element of air
the moment we enter the spiritual region this is no longer the
flows out into the environment upon exhaling.
environment which encircles the earth, so are we also one with
are ourselves within the element of warmth - we become more
Thus warmth ceases to be a merely natural element, for we feel
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the world of the elements.
the watery element. Although it is true that man's life on
watery element in fine solution in the air which surrounds him,
watery element.
man also lives in the air element through which he
the moment when we observe these elements we cannot speak of
extent, related to the elements. We live in earth, we live in
us now lay out this elemental world before us, a world which is
elements in the same measure. In fact, the human being only
lives in a completely intimate relationship with the element of
man is relatively distant from the watery elements - among the
the watery element is very closely connected to human life. [A
element, is affected by it. Notice how the watery element plays
watery element. The liquid elements dissolved in his
environment are of great importance for him, but none more
element merges in a certain sense with the outer world's watery
element. And with this easy transition from our own watery
element to the outer world's watery element we feel our
from our watery element to dry outer air. Dry air lets us feel
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anthroposophical movement which was renewed here during the
anthroposophical movement insofar as it streams through the
the difference is between the anthroposophical movement before
representatives of the anthroposophical movement. In this
the anthroposophical movement. The relationship must be
spirit will have to be utilized in the management of the
School. Otherwise the anthroposophical movement cannot advance
founded by men, but in fact by the will of the world's
destructive in an occult movement. There must be no illusions
most dangerous, the worst movements. And, they add, if the
reestablishment of the Holy Roman Empire is not successful, and
most dangerous movements of the present, and they are the
anthroposophical movement and the movement for Religious
can see from this that anthroposophy - the movement for
movement, that means that it is taken very seriously indeed.
What is important is whether a movement is founded from the
which is the first experience towards the attainment of real
instruments of his physical body. And through the instruments
through the attainment of higher knowledge leaving the physical
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say a few introductory words about the School's arrangements.
Christmas Conference at the Goetheanum a new element has
entered into the anthroposophical movement. Especially the
of this new element. I have often indicated this, but I know
emphasized that the anthroposophical movement and the
anthroposophical movement represented the inflow of spiritual
the spiritual world. This anthroposophical movement exists not
character. The investment of the Vorstand was thus an esoteric
thus founded thrive. So, the anthroposophical movement and the
used, the agreement of the Vorstand at the Goetheanum is first
agreement. It is important that in future the Vorstand at the
movement.
Step by step we will try to make arrangements so that those who
Something else to be mentioned is that the School must be
anthroposophical movement.
esoteric activity within the anthroposophical movement.
esoteric work under conditions other than those just mentioned
mention them today because so many anthroposophical friends are
When we look up at what the planets reveal by their movements,
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sensation of being integrated in the movement of the circling
by their movements - so that having felt ourselves to be at
in movement through the cosmos itself. And thirdly, if we then
we can read in the stars, what we can feel in the movements of
everything that happens in its environment as though its whole
the moment when the child stands on its feet and begins to move
about is when its movements become susceptible to the earth's
forces and it must find its own equilibrium, at that moment the
the blackboard each element is placed after the corresponding
man, see yourself in the kingdom of elements.
Elements:
to our souls. For this we must not concentrate on the elements,
over to the universe, but rather by grasping the elements in
the specified way, by the movement of the planets, by the
bodily force; how at the moment we are body-free in our
movements of the planets, that is, for the spiritual beings who
sky into movement; just as feeling likewise does for the
fix the moment as the stars [Ger. fixed stars] are fixed in
when I accompany the earth's movement in thought, but can bring
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development — the true path to knowledge — the
meditative exercises, mental exertions meant to affect the
development.
moment it grasps anthroposophy honestly, it does so
plants in our environment to the extent that we feel them
truly aware of how this earthly environment is related to us,
its physical elements? We must deeply feel our relationship to
our physical environment starting from such a personal enigma.
starting point for true esoteric development.
to what surrounds us in the physical environment.
beings. In a novel we read of the deeds of men. When we look at
earth's darkness. We must sense how a moment of extinguishing
in spirit, the moment in which our etheric body was formed; and
that what the gods say is not mere information as is what men
current incarnation. In this moment of sleep I am transported
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environmental conditions the person's destiny places him.
For the moment we will not dispute what the astronomers say
three elements of his being, through the
man always sends his I into the three individual elements and
the individual elements.
the blackboard]: What unfolds without as the shining element
the background the directing archangeloi. This element of
it is the expression of the deepest cosmic laws, the movement
feel movement. And this movement is an image of the movement
Jupiter, Venus, Saturn. But a representative of this movement
so also the movements of the whole planetary system —
circulation, in everything which is movement in our
from all sides of the cosmos, also what the movements of the
from within us, if we take as inducement what resounds
the activity of the gods in the planets' movements, which is
However, when we come to the third element of man —
is my environment; it is there and I see and touch it. But
Menschen-Geistes-Strahlung
Als Menschen-Wesenheit.
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makes known to us the admonishments if we wish to enter the
that we should listen to the admonishment of the being from the
experienced the admonishments resounding from the three lower
We must feel the world's weaving movement continued in the
The admonishments of the Guardian of the threshold always
three – forceful admonishments from the cosmos:
attitude. We must seek this mental attitude above all. For
and elements of the meditation. If we can do this so that
if we cannot simultaneously evoke the appropriate mental
And we therefore should achieve the inner mental attitude
O Mensch, erkenne dich selbst!
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back of the head, through which we approach the movement and
the arrows] – and the will which governs movement
movement during sleep – and then also during
because the movement becomes conscious through the physical
movement when we are sleeping. They are the Thrones, beings
into your limbs' movements, speaks:
is – in respect to our moral-psychological comportment
into your limbs' movements, speaks:
into your limbs' movements, speaks:
is it about the limbs' active movement. I described it as a
into your limbs' movements, speaks:
moment, my dear sisters and brothers, that we are meditants.
ourselves to be meditants, and when there are moments when we
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the scope of this environment.
consciously perceiving his environment when we are sleeping
with men; beyond we associate with disembodied souls and with
Knowledge of the Higher Worlds and its Attainment,
on the solid earthly elements. The ground is beneath our
feet, it is our support. Around us is the watery element,
In ordinary life this watery element cannot support us, but
We breathe the air. The airy or gaseous element is all around
element.
The moment we leave the physical body — also with the first
push, my dear friends — this separation of the elements
these four elements have ceased to exist. The earth is no
separate element in the blood vessels, but our blood becomes
one with the all-pervading watery element of the universe.
the four elements: in earth, water, air, fire.
But the Guardian of the Threshold adds a second admonishment:
paralyzed, he more or less becomes an instrument of
Documents alone do not speak the truth, because of the thirty
or forty men in Europe who directly participated in the
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hearts and souls into the phenomena and beings and events of
of the Guardian of the Threshold's admonishment, whose words
earth-element.
water-element. The Guardian of the Threshold's admonishment
also refers to this water-element, which is also the
blood-element.
air-element, in regard to what we take in through warmth,
with each of the elements, so that we may feel ourselves to
with the spiritual element – but also so that we know
self-unfoldment.
moments we give ourselves over to the spirit. And Ahriman
can really make the spiritual element our own.
salt in us in which the mineral element exists, and which
process. We look at the immense variety of animals and say:
touches us as men in the form of three hierarchies, just as
the elements – at first earth, water and air; fire will
Guardian speaks about the earth, water and air elements,
This is what replaces the earth-element in the
force: the liquid element in us. Again we image that we are
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stream can enter the anthroposophical movement, which today
any way infringed upon. It is a free agreement between the
However, a moment comes as you look around at the expanse of
encounter him he sends us his grand admonishments. And the
admonishments are contained in the mantric verses which until
feel becoming lighter, and we feel that the elements —
of the elements, is indeed another world.
ourselves in relation to the four elements. He tells us how
these four elements change for us. He then asks
essence of the elements: earth, water, air.
But warmth, which is also an element, pervades
everything: in the solid earth element, which supports us, is
warmth; in the element of water, which forms us as humans,
grow, warmth is also present; and in the element of air, by
element. We must immerse ourselves in it as the all-pervading
element: Yes, we feel so close to it.
We feel far from the solid earth element, though
from the water element. The air element maintains a more
intimate relation to us. When the air element does not fill
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other, about the element of warmth, which penetrates everything
and reveals itself to be a moral element on the other side of the
They judge the acts of men
imagination, something tremendously majestic which the person,
moment when it becomes light enough for perception there in the
these beings into the elements with which to create new worlds;
closed our spirit-eyes and we saw nothing for a moment, despite
having been in a bright spiritual space a moment before. Words
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and give names to what is fundamentally Nothing, that it is the
moment: Below in earthly life we perceived the impression made on
through the teachings of Christ men should protect themselves
…” (Und immer mehr wird die Zeit kommen…) which
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is something which is active at every moment, mobile, alert,
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what flows within the anthroposophical spiritual movement. One
necessary for the anthroposophical movement to spiritually
admonishment resounds to him which is contained in the words
phenomena and instead seeking an abstractly chaotic path; but
That is the Guardian of the Threshold's first admonishment, the
earnest admonishment that tells us that our surroundings are
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movement must be based on reality from now on. And this
statement begins with the permission as a real fact, not as a
get outside and thereby become ineffective. It is a fundamental
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shows us the path forward, which leads to ennoblement in
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must to do so under the conditions which I will mention at the
around us the elements earth, water, air, fire are spread, and
composed of these elements — is at one with these
elements.
of being at one with this object, because at the moment you
standing on the earth, on the element earth. You are standing
here because the earth's main property is the element of
element. You could be standing above on a mountain, or on a
That earthly forces are our support, that the earthly element
finger: it is the element of water, of fluid. For everything
physical science — is born from the fluid element. Solid
rise to the sensation of the element of water. Out in the world
formed in us by the fluid element. Just as we feel the earth as
are formed as human beings out of the fluid element. It creates
element, from out of the element of water. Just as we
our organs, that the water element forms us as human beings.
coherence of our existence. Just as the water element shapes
us, so do does the air element care for us. The Guardian of the
the Guardian leads us farther on to the warmth element. We feel
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your thoughts in the earthly environment you may fly around
dreaming within the earthly environment. You must reserve the
to be a man among men when you cross back to the ordinary world
You climb down to the earthly element
We must, if we wish to enter into the essential element of the
earth, that means in the spiritual element of the earth; we
earth-element. We have already heard about treading the
elements from the Guardian of the Threshold.
fluid element, in the world of the water-beings, that we should
how we sleep dreaming in this water element, which is our
to recognize the lameness of our Self.
Thirdly, when we feel ourselves to be in the air element with
our willing — first in the earth-element with thinking,
then in the water-element with feeling, then with willing in
the air-element — then we will feel in this air-element
are grasping the air-element in inner images. And our own soul
breathe in the air-element, how ossified will we seem. But just
the air-element with our memory, we feel sclerotic and
You live with the water-element
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fundamental exhortation to the human being, which resound to
must be clear to us that in the moment — and we have come
moment an important change takes place in the human being, that
moment how the forces of heredity are in us when we are born,
the cosmic force can be considered in the movement of the limbs.
be followed in this School for spiritual development:
Then the moment comes when the Guardian of the Threshold's
now let us again consider — for all real development
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flows through all the work within the anthroposophical movement
anthroposophical movement.
which I have often mentioned here in members' lectures.
anthroposophical movement's formation of this Esoteric School
it is because of this that the anthroposophical movement will
for what really flows through the anthroposophical movement,
must be agreed upon. In no other way could esoteric development
only need to mention a few things to show how little the
anthroposophical movement is still grasped with complete
the moment when those within the anthroposophical movement are
been in effect within the anthroposophical movement, have been
mention this so that you can see how little arbitrariness is
movement. For only then will this School be what it should be
for the anthroposophical movement. But when something is done
anthroposophical movement - well, I don't mean to say that
mention this; I could just as well mention another example,
and thus the least harmful. If I had mentioned other examples,
spirit-soul. The earthly environment is over there now. He
— the enhancement relative to cosmic thought's
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