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Title: Lecture: The Alphabet
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extent that their nature is set forth in Anthroposophy, and of what crisis
is speech that elevates Man above the other kingdoms of nature.
the Hebrew equivalent, represents something of the nature of a wrapping, a
the spheres. In so far as it is of a vowel nature it echoes in the
consonant nature.
know his true nature, then his physical body actually ceases to be in
his own nature, in the way he learned about it in the Mysteries, then

Title: Lecture: Soul and Spirit in the Human Physical Constitution
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understanding of man's being and nature.
in the very nature of things water cannot become an organism, is bound
that which in reality reflects the inner bodily nature — without

Title: Lecture: The Moral as the Source of World-Creative Power
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penetrating study of human nature is able to build a bridge between
members of man's nature which we are accustomed to regard as such,
himself connected with his bodily nature. As an Ego he would feel no
the physical body, these higher members of our human nature are filled
evolve about the external world, about Nature in her finished array,
insight into Nature on the one side and Spirit on the other.
and the physical nature of the man are identical. This, of course,

Title: Lecture: The Path to Freedom and Love and their Significance in World Events
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will operates in us. It is not the case in human nature, nor is
what thus takes place. In everything that is of the nature of will,
nature of thought, will is present. It is essential to be quite clear
from outside, but its very life is of the nature of will. By
letting what is of the nature of will radiate into our thoughts. And
Let us now consider the other pole of man's nature, where the thoughts
his will-nature, with thoughts; deeds are performed in love. Such
bring thoughts into the will-nature, when we overcome the element of
thinking, which is, however, really of the nature of will? —

Title: Lecture: Search for the New Isis, the Divine Sophia: The Quest for the Isis-Sophia
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in nature. And with a certain understanding of this link between nature and
It thereby expresses the eternal, not the transitory nature of this event.

Title: Evil and the Future of Man
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the bodily nature of man in a far distant epoch. How they did so, you
Only now are they finding their way into his soul-nature. For the
Universe, when to begin with they instil themselves into the nature of
reminiscence of outer physical life and thence receives its signature,
through the picture-nature of man to his spiritual archetype. And this
is to cultivate this understanding of his picture-nature, and thus to
nature of our time — we touch upon public issues in respect of which

Title: Lecture: The Human Heart
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nature of ideas. The child begins to take as his guideline what we say
closely into the nature and constitution of this body.
At its circumference it manifests something in the nature of stars,
nature and the moon nature.

Title: Lecture: The Invisible Man Within Us
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the physical nature that surrounds the human being in his earthly
like the external processes of earthly nature and fall to pieces. In
it would begin to break down as it does in outer nature and would
concerning poisons that occur in nature, for example the poison in
that is formed in outer nature similarly to the way in which our
activity, and finally a physical activity. In nature such an activity
nature. Atropine, the poison of the deadly nightshade, can thus be
with a proper knowledge of outer nature. We must come to know what
knowledge of nature. The knowledge of nature is abstracted, is driven
known about the human being's relationship to surrounding nature.

Title: Lecture: Outlooks for the Future
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enlarge our horizon in regard to the true nature of man and to make us see
out to us the true nature of the evolutionary processes in which the human
forms in accordance with man's inner nature. In the case of an evil-minded

Title: Lecture: Self Knowledge and the Christ Experience
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eggs, and so on. We can follow the course of nature, follow the stages of
Life of nature. But as humanity developed further, those instincts, which
cycle of nature but these instincts have more or less died away, and
instinctive co-existence with nature. In his case it was more ensouled than
importantly, they learned to know the so-called three kingdoms of nature
realms of nature. Through concepts and ideas we learn to know mineral,
could then see, as it were, into the inner realms of nature. From the
of the soul. I can only describe the nature of the crisis by saying that when
he learned to look at the nature of the mineral as it was spread before him
the nature of man itself baffled him in his attempt. He was able to attain
ancient times could say: ‘Man does not reveal his true nature here on
the other realms of nature. His home is elsewhere than on the earth. His
nature of man they would have needed intellectual capacities themselves.

Title: Lecture: Social Understanding Through Spiritual Scientific Knowledge
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nature of man's development is entirely different in the three different
similar, though, can be said about the forces of man's normal nature,
man's nature as it appears in ordinary life. Only there it is not so obvious.
of the nature of will, is subsensible.
to be taught; it must be man's own nature every time that determines
although certain forces appear to be of a spiritual-soul nature, they also
come to expression in our bodily nature. For the capacity is terribly

Title: Lecture: Spiritual Emptiness and Social Life
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the spirit, without a notion of its real nature, are the theosophists
In the nature of things, Hermann Grimm was one of those who
experience how in his study of nature the spirit remains dumb, silent,
man than for communicating truths about nature. Only a naive mind
the concepts of natural science, all its notions of laws of nature,
are investigating the laws of nature, no trace of the spirit is
with a number of scientific laws and ideas concerning nature — but he
soul in the scientific lore of nature, in the abstract, unspiritual
concepts commonly employed. Men must have insight into the nature of

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
But when we think of man's spiritual nature we cannot conceive that
forms of art or of nature, or in sympathies and antipathies connected
If you ask: What is the nature of the forces which make compensation
seers, something of which they said: Of its essential nature it is not
it was certainly present. To understand the Greek nature we must
source of Love. Eros — the sun-nature within the human being
the ocean-depths of the soul that man bears the sun-nature today. It
in sacred ritual and cult, they revealed to the people the true nature
that locality which, by its very nature, will bring it into complete
shadows of a purely external knowledge of nature. Thus the task of the
nature-knowledge in the best sense — only then will an important

Title: Lecture: Truth Beauty and Goodness
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sublime nature and lofty goal of all human endeavour. In epochs
evolution a part of human nature has, indeed, been lost. All these
Such goodness can lead the soul into the qualities, nature and
these forces are of such a nature that they actually instill into the
nature, when, to begin with, as he lives in his physical body, he is

Title: The Individuality of Elias, John, Raphael, Novalis
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into colour and form the very nature and being of Christianity itself —

Title: Lecture: Exoteric and Esoteric Christianity
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extent that their nature is set forth in Anthroposophy, and of what crisis
higher soul-spiritual nature. I have already explained this before.
was at the most one dealing with the special nature of metamorphosis
spirit and soul continues. They thought about the nature of this
gods, we would never have learnt anything concerning the nature of
which is so full of disputes concerning the nature of Christianity in

Title: Lecture: The Origin of Speech and Language
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were a part of the workers' daily concerns. Nature with its mineral,
experiment; all we need to do is pay attention to how nature
becomes ill in any way, we discover that nature herself arranged such
nature that pulled up these mountains. In some places the forces were

Title: Lecture: The Sense-Organs and Aesthetic Experience
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hand and the physical bodily nature on the other, without becoming
impulse of reason and the impulse that comes from nature. Through a

Title: Lecture: A Turning-Point in Modern History
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coming from physical nature; this Schiller calls the influence of
natural necessity. It includes everything produced by the sense-nature
practise it as a law of his own nature. The necessity of the senses he
consideration is given today to this threefold nature of man, and so
corresponds to the middle element in man, his rhythmic nature. Third,

Title: Lecture: Elemental Beings and Human Destinies
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FOR a true understanding of the nature of the human being we have to
attracted to us by reason of our nature, work at the shaping of our
the subconscious parts of our nature in spiritual spheres. In
Up to that time one's teaching about nature should be entirely of the
kind where the description of nature and her processes is connected
life. Only at the ninth year may one begin to describe nature in a
of taking note of external nature in a more objective way. Earlier, he
unites whatever he sees in nature with his own being. Now the
nature, if in childhood he has not learned to pray. Prayer turns into
nature of Christianity. His book is page for page a description of the
but they refer paramountly to inner processes of human nature, for

Title: Lecture: Man, Offspring of the World of Stars
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whole nature and being. The Greek was right when he felt that the Sun
deeper feeling for Nature. The experience is not nearly as vivid as it
by virtue of their own inherent nature. They work here as Earth
understand the being of man by investigating the nature of the Earth
forces of a super-earthly nature.
were entirely earthly in their nature. But in the minerals, too,

Title: Lecture: The Three Stages of Sleep
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concepts. The laws of nature are dead once they have been
human nature, and we can understand this when we consider the
nature of a crystal would be there. In the second state of
manifestations of the Gods in nature. During sleep we enter
within the nature of man to pass through death, thereafter to
has unlawfully assumed the god-nature. Just as in the Christian
mortality of human nature. We have the polar antithesis of

Title: Lecture: Spiritual Wisdom in the Early Christian Centuries
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evolution of man. The nature of this Being, how He had worked before
Naturally one could not have spoken to such men of outer Nature in the
sense in which we speak of Nature to-day. In their schools they spoke
of a spiritual world, and Nature — generally regarded nowadays as
human being to a lifeless nature. But Iamblichus would have
the dogma of the One Divine Nature or of the Two Divine Natures
every phenomenon of Nature. Julian the Apostate had heard from pupils
priests might determine the nature of the demon possessing him. And
In very creatures of nature they see the Divine-Spiritual. This is
Nature, in animal and in plant. Let no man be so sinful as to believe

Title: Lecture: The Recovery of the Living Source of Speech
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relationship to external Nature was pre-eminently one of will, we
him from this or that fact in Nature, summoning him to defend
Read the descriptions I have given in my books of the nature of
man, while he stands right within the decaying processes of Nature,

Title: Lecture: Gnostic Doctrines and Supersensible Influences in Europe
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whose nature a much more highly spiritual mode of knowledge is
conception of Nature. When men spoke in Greece of the Fauns and
nature of these beings, we can also follow the processes of

Title: Lecture I: Ancient Myths
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acquainted with the nature of that thinking which underlies the mode
mind the nature of the thinking employed in the myths, how deeply, or
of the Osiris-nature of such Gods as primarily give judgment after
Salt. Could man — this was known to the investigator of nature
has sunk down deep into the nature of man was a more living one in
younger process which has also entered deep down into human nature
see, even superficial ideas can indicate to us that certain nature
processes of nature. Mythology was therefore at the same time a sort

Title: Lecture II: Ancient Myths
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more inward-lying forces of human nature are connected with what come
with the macrocosm for what lay in his nature, in the deeper strata

Title: Lecture III: Ancient Myths
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pervading Nature, as later on man is related between birth and death
catastrophe that is to come — like a catastrophe of nature.
archetypal forces working in nature and in man. If the Egyptian was
nature all about him.
such a nature that perhaps it can only be related today in a most
but she did not know its nature, she knew nothing of the being of
were elemental spirits of nature, could receive it from nature
scientific nature — still it was of paper. And she now had two
the new humanity about the nature of the new humanity, in so far as
must not now be as if something arises through the forces of nature
connection with all that I have said about the actual nature of

Title: Lecture IV: Ancient Myths
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human nature which take their direction from other constellations
forces of his thorax he is sensitive to all that goes on in nature
thorax, as it were, what was the nature of the other. He felt how the
perceived the inner nature through a process that one experienced
cosmos and what is to be found there of the Gemini nature — on
the one hand to the Light-nature, on the other hand to the
Darkness nature; the Twins-nature, this is connected with the
connected with man's head-nature. So that Mars, who at the same time
head-nature. In the fourth post-Atlantean epoch, which begins in the
that estrangement from reality which today is the signature of the
nature-researchers and other learned men proclaim him today a great

Title: Lecture V: Ancient Myths
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through our nature, our physical forces. We have stated that in the
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
speak, our physical nature hands over nothing more, and through our
themselves from the spirit what is no longer given by nature. I
hand of its own freewill what nature no longer provides. We dare not
it is not true in respect of the full nature of man's life. Yet, we
are born; in fact, if we examine its true nature, it is old then and
ancient times nature itself brought it in its course, in modern times
the deepest needs of our age. For the nature of our age is such that

Title: Lecture VI: Ancient Myths
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for a right understanding of something of this nature. The point is,
itself shows this twofold nature: our head develops quickly, the rest
human being also of a twofold nature. One quickly acquires the
also ‘The Inner Nature of Man and Life between Death and
time: linked with it will be a complete transforming of the nature of
is all of such a nature that one only remembers what one has learnt,
day that it has a twofold nature, a head-nature and a heart-nature,
living experience, then man will know his twofold nature, he will
— and we understand that as soon as we look at the true nature

Title: Lecture VII: Ancient Myths
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just described. Thus we come into our bodily nature with what I have
physical out of the spirit, burying our spirit nature in the head, in
members of human nature enter into a real correspondence, when
patience to call on the rejuvenating forces in human nature. That is
human nature. For what is necessary for the present age does not lie
about nature is far more spiritual than what was formerly known. What

Title: Lecture: The Dual Form of Cognition During the Middle Ages and the Development of Knowledge in Modern Times
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possesses a logical structure through his own nature. Thus we may say
were, on the other hand. permeated by the idea that Nature could be
other sphere, which contained a knowledge of Nature, to the extent in
Nature which existed up to that time, was an old traditional
this: their intellect was grappling with Nature, it was seeking
to gain a knowledge of Nature.
Nature? In order to grasp this, we should not follow preconceived
knowledge of Nature were fundamentally a continuation of what the
the modern conception of Nature has risen out of Scholasticism,
this modern science of Nature, are, however, the very offspring of

Title: Lecture: The Remedy for Our Diseased Civilisation
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been gained in regard to a knowledge of Nature, and nothing had been
knowledge of Nature. Something has thus arisen, which acquires a
for he had a poetical nature, an artistic nature and had published
nature existing within his sentient and volitive parts; he grows
outside, or through which we learn to know the laws of Nature and to

Title: Lecture: Goethe and the Evolution of Consciousness
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that in order really to know something about the nature of man, quite
of appeal to what lives in Nature, saying something more enduring and
convey. Goethe appeals to the revelations of Nature rather than to
of Nature.
into a closer union with Nature, in whose arms he first of all seeks
Nature herself proceeds, and of which I am on the track.” —
environment enfilled with ideas much closer to Nature than those
Nature flashes up within him.
until we realise the fundamental nature of the change that had
the attitude of the Greeks to Nature, to the World, to Man.
study of external Nature since about the middle of the fifteenth
The Greek did not enter into what we call ‘inorganic Nature’
in the way we do to-day. The very nature of his soul made this
unceasingly in the life of Nature. Their attention was turned not to
Greeks and our own, the nature of the human soul before, say, the
earlier times the life of soul was of a nature of which certain men,
of the sound, or the nature of the sound, but the rhythm,
Nature something higher than he can perceive through the medium of
the nature of an entirely different life of soul in an age when
filled with Imaginative instinct, prone by its very nature to
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Title: Lecture: Salt, Mercury, Sulphur
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A Living Knowledge of Nature, the Fall of the Intellect into Sin,
Lebendiges Naturerkennen, Intellektueller Suendenfall
A Living Knowledge of Nature, the Fall of the Intellect into Sin,
Lebendiges Naturerkennen, Intellektueller Suendenfall
universe of space and the nature of the spatial universe itself.
into human nature which had survived from ancient clairvoyant
sleep, but there he only arrives at pictures of nature other than
human nature. These pictures, if they are regarded as Bacon regarded
the external aspect of human nature before us. If they are inwardly
real knowledge of nature. Thus Bacon too, at the turn of the
to him was the vista of the outer world, of outer nature, of that
When man to-day speaks of himself, of his soul-nature, he gives voice
concrete reality. Outer nature lay there perceptible to the senses,
comprehensible to human reason. In this outer nature man learnt to
man from what he had been able to observe in nature. That is to say,
be outside man and in seeking thus to understand human nature by way
reflections of processes in outer nature. At the time of Bacon there
spirit-and-soul penetrates into the bodily nature, and traditions
study the bodily nature of man, we have to do with processes
nature but at the same time he tastes them, so that a
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Title: Lecture: Some Conditions for Understanding Supersensible Experiences
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whereby he can act upon and transform external nature.”
human nature actually takes shape are nowhere contained in what man
He will pulsate, as it were, through the manifestations of nature;
to understand matters of a super-sensible nature.
of this nature must be understood. ... For in wrestling to acquire
happiness or have something in the nature of a new religion! This
kingdoms of nature, is behind the ego that is an image only. We must

Title: Lecture: The Relation of the Movement for Religious Renewal to the Anthroposophical Movement
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the nature of the ancient Mysteries knows that within these
a knowledge of the spiritual nature of the world. A pictorial
followed by the third stage, that of the revelation of the nature of
fulfill its real nature when it feels itself as the kernel of the
nature of the anthroposophical spirituality, must live and move in it
understand it grasp its essential nature and do not think that it is
feet. For everything of the nature of cult and ritual is finally

Title: Lecture: Concerning the Origin and Nature of the Finnish Nation
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Concerning the Origin and Nature of the Finnish Nation
ORIGIN AND NATURE OF THE FINNISH NATION.
threefold nature and in which the three members of the soul appear
“threefold-ness”, and so that this threefold nature of
contains a clear consciousness of the soul’s threefold nature.
the Finnish nation and inspire the threefold nature of the soul.
out of the various elements of Nature. In “Kalevala”,
this Being, forged, as it were, out of all the atoms of Nature, the
its own nature. If we study the Finnish nation, we shall find that it
obliterates the consciousness of the soul’s threefold nature.
nature, striving after the unity of the Ego. At this still primitive
human being his Ego-nature.
the Ego-nature rays into a nation such as the old Finnish nation,
something more spiritual than the Ego-nature and more strongly
nature, temperament, character and soul, is related with everything
spiritual being, so that man’s earthly nature may obtain
[of] the spirituality of Nature in such a way that the sentient soul,
from out Nature by a force resembling Wainamoinen; it streams towards
me like a being of Nature and endows me with the force of the
Nature, almost through a kind of neck, if a being that has, as it
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Title: Lecture: Perceiving and Remembering
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light-essence; pray Him to restrain the opposing Powers of Ahrimanic nature,
teaching than through their whole nature, imbue the children's souls with

Title: Perception of the Nature of Thought
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Perception of the Nature of Thought
of the Nature of Thought
namely, the first rudiments of our physical bodily nature. What we
we seek therefore for forces having something of the nature-forces of
nature contains in the first place in the main no forces which
sheath of the maternal body was the whole nature during the Old Moon
in so far as they have a sheath-nature, but whole types of natural
line is really the hidden part of human nature. If we wish to study
Entelechy, what he gives as the members of the human soul nature —
develops thought of such a nature that one can grasp it in merely
nature, in soul-life, but only the spirit that exists in the form of
about abstract being by means of logic, thoughts of nature, thoughts
nature.

Title: Lecture: The Spiritual Individualities of the Planets
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physical nature is only the external, the most external, revelation
outer and its inner nature, the Moon in our universe presents itself
peoples of a remote past — to men whose nature was quite
different from human nature as it is today.
nature of animals; these forces also sustain the animal element in
man and are connected with his sexual nature in its physical aspect.
So the lower nature of man is a product of what radiates from the
The nature of Saturn is such that he receives many diverse impulses
some quality in human nature enables him to make a man loquacious, he
external universe, she would lose her virginal nature. She is deeply
not interested in things of a physical, material nature as such, but
Nor can we grasp anything essential about the nature of the Sun as
the nature of the Sun only when we know something of its nature of

Title: Lecture: The Elemental World and the Future of Mankind
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investigation of external nature and the development of technology.
more of the spiritual in all nature, but able to perceive it.
— in all the kingdoms of nature, in every star, in every
spirit-soul nature was able to experience on the waves of the
gain insight into that spiritual foundation of nature which external
earthen nature has as its foundation an elemental spirituality.
contained in everything of a solid earthy nature. The outstanding
is assumed to have slid down into deeper regions of human nature and

Title: Lecture: A Picture of Earth-Evolution in the Future
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lectures I have given recently on the nature of
universe. If we ask: What is man in his true nature? — then
connection with the being of man, and with the kingdoms of Nature around him,
constitution adapted for existence upon the earth. By his very nature he was a
nature has become more spiritual, but with his spiritual faculties he thinks
millennium the bodily nature will be capable of development only until the 14th
understand the real nature and being of man. The mineral world is the only
grasp the real nature of plant or animal, and least of all that of the human
mineral nature of plant, animal and man. Materialists revel in such thoughts
nature, the crudely material nature in the minerals, plants and animals, nay
conclusion of my lectures on the nature of colours, when I said that the
real nature of colour go hand-in-hand with a perception of the world illumined
by Spiritual Science. We have seen how the nature of colour can be understood,
themselves with the nature of man's being. But in this way it is only possible
science as it is today is capable of grasping only the mineral nature, whether
really artistic conception of the world. For the world of Nature itself creates
as an artist. And until we realise that Nature is a world of creative art which
and are told that in this way they are acquiring knowledge of the nature of man
understood of the nature of man by such methods derives from an attitude of
when he really understands the nature of the concrete realities connected with
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Title: Lecture: The Spiritual Communion of Mankind
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mirror reality, through the very nature of the Imaginations of the
art the Greeks proceeded by the same laws by which Nature herself
he could point to his own heart, and say: Now I understand the nature
something about the nature of the Sun. Thus through the heart we
learn to know the nature of the Sun; that is to say, we proceed from
of all men learnt to know the nature of the Sun and then they
understood the nature of the human heart. In the modern age we learn
light in his nature is born out of the darkness prevailing in him.

Title: Lecture: Technology and Art: Their Bearing on Modern Culture
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direct connection with Nature by life in cities and towns. And it is
procedure. Although it is understandable that weaker natures would
discover its real nature, they come out with a great deal of
men were not capable of studying Nature in a way that could have led
to an actual science of Nature; this has been done for the first time
freed themselves from the old way of observing Nature and now they
through knowledge of the laws of Nature, science has also succeeded
Nature. (This word, ‘unprecedented’, is very popular.)
know the laws of Nature and are able, with the aid of these laws, to
Nature and upon life. So they fill modern life with products of the
science and the mastery of Nature and her forces are therefore
Nature, but also the meaning they receive when the Cosmos is viewed
in its totality — in its manifestation as Nature and in its
Nature's coherence. Quarries are broken up and the stones carried
destruction, the demolition, of Nature as a coherent whole. At the
second stage, what has thus been extracted from Nature and shattered
know that when Nature is demolished — the mineral world first
Nature. We shall be less concerned with this point to-day. The
important thing is that we drive out of Nature the elemental spirits,
coherence of Nature is maintained. Elemental spiritual beings are
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Title: Lecture: The Inexpressible Name, Spirits of Space and Time.
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consciousness of man's true nature. Things were not always as
were, so to speak, far more similar to the plant nature, whereas the
true nature of the Archangel cannot come to us if we only move in

Title: Lecture: The Coming Experience of Christ
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saw that none of these has anything to say about the real nature of
man is modified; the extent to which the animal nature of man differs
science, the more we learn of nature, the less we understand of
what his real nature is. While on the one hand we have more and more
inability of science to give man any light upon his own nature.
nature as man, and to fashion the social structure in such a way that
this human nature will thrive in it, and when, instead we try to
nature. He will have to say to himself: “It is true that I
into states of consciousness which are really of such a nature that
being growing in his inner nature beyond what he can be as earthly
nature as a cosmic being? All that I can establish on earth, all that

Title: Lecture: Modern and Ancient Spiritual Exercises
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sounds and so on. We seek for laws of nature prevailing in the
kingdoms of nature, the men of those times beheld spirit and soul. They
We little understand the nature of man, especially
weather, were dream-creations woven into nature by fantasy. This was by no
surrounding nature. He felt the elements of nature within himself. Today
this feeling of being at one with nature is lost. In its place man has
exercises were good and suitable for the nature of humanity in ancient times;
world surrounded by nature. He felt carried back in memory to the time
soul, immersed in the phenomena of nature, partakes of every secret, steeping
nature. Meditation today is to begin always with an experience in thought,
ancient times in the nature of memory, whereas at the present time a
his spirit-soul nature drew out of his organism.
the soul-spiritual from the bodily nature. The first discovery, when such
is of an objective nature, and it is as if one had to fight one's way

Title: Lecture: The Meaning of Easter: St. Paul and the Christ Impulse
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the nature of the event that befell him at
knowledge of the nature of the super-sensible world, and entirely fails to
spiritual nature such as Herman Grimm must needs think of the

Title: Lecture: The Universe
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nature.
secondary nature. Man's primary occupations are:
nature. For a goat with a fish tail does not exist. But
complicated and modified, they placed man into nature. And

Title: Lecture: The Templars
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varied impulses of a positive and negative nature are introduced into the
intercourse and communion between soul and soul of such a nature that the one
of our human nature we have carried in us since the Saturn time, the Sun time

Title: The Year as a Symbol of the Great Cosmic Year
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night our lower nature wakes, while with our higher nature we sleep,
while it is outwardly unfolding its physical nature — it is
What is the nature of the mineral consciousness of the
nature of this mineral consciousness, this consciousness of the great

Title: On the Duty of Clear, Sound Thinking
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nature and the world. Therefore he says: In the firm hope that the
authority on man and nature:
nature and on man; words to which Faust replies, — for it is
the great authority on nature and on man.)
nature.’
ourselves to consider without prejudice the method and nature of
nature without the opposition that would arise if at least it were

Title: Lecture: Evil and the Power of Thought
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intrinsic nature — in the secret orders and secret societies of
nature is based: upon being able to throw back matter into chaos, to
your inner nature, below the powers of memory, you bear within you
to the investigation of external nature we shall not be able to

Title: Lecture: The Seeds of Future Worlds
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call the laws of nature. But with ordinary consciousness we never get
with thought, for the laws of nature can be apprehended in
up the laws of nature I am bound eventually to apply them to the
some creature of nature. Then out of this being of nature, that is
external nature, we only built up abstract laws. We come, in other
recognise in man only the laws of nature. But in this centre of
destruction of which I have been speaking the laws of nature are
Within man matter is annihilated, and so are all the laws of nature.
Material life, together with all the laws of nature, is thrown back
into chaos; and out of the chaos a new nature is able to arise,
us of external nature. We can compare it only with a communication
setting and the rising world. We must feel how there is in nature a
perpetual dying. Nature wears, so to speak, a deathlike hue. But over
against this there is also in nature a continual glow of new
hue visible to the senses; yet if we open our hearts to nature, it
into nature and see the colours, all the colours of the spectrum, from
nature, we are looking in a certain sense at the spread-out colours
nature, only what is “setting” and passing away. In
the cosmos: the moon-nature directed towards pulverising and
scattering, and the quickening, life-giving nature of the sun.
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Christ spoke after the Resurrection. What was the nature of the
understand this, we must think of the nature of the human soul as
an ending. At most they enquired about the nature of the change
the bodily nature, then Ahriman must begin to abandon hope. Once
the nature of death. The Gods had perforce to send a Divine Being
might learn the nature of death. The deed which the Gods were

Title: Lecture: Realism and Nominalism
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A Living Knowledge of Nature, the Fall of the Intellect into
Lebendiges Naturerkennen, Intellektueller Suendenfall
in Nature; the last trace of this was lost with scholastic Realism.
which men still had an insight into the true nature of such things through
Nature was characterized in such a way that people said — the
divine creative Father-principle lives in Nature, and Christ is the
still looks at Nature spiritually (for he brings the spirit with him
at birth) can only find the Father-principle in Nature. But since the
instead to grasp this Son in his own nature, then we must not
remain such as you were through birth, and see Nature merely through
your eyes and your other senses and then consider Nature with your
observing what we ought to see in Nature. But we find the Christ,
of man on earth. When Anthroposophy studies Nature it calls the

Title: Lecture: Fundamentals of the Science of Initiation
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ideas pertaining to the knowledge of Nature, and explaining this or
that thing in Nature, we also speak of ethical ideas, ethical ideals.
of these two streams: on the one hand, the knowledge of Nature, and
one hand, by the knowledge of Nature, and on the other hand, by
that he has to say about natural science, or the knowledge of Nature.
Nature?
contained both a knowledge of Nature, and an ethical knowledge. This
instance, of such a kind that men could read the laws of Nature in
their knowledge of Nature. Their spiritual wisdom also contained
were by Nature a prosaic, matter-of-fact nation — even denied
choose between the evidence of the senses in Nature and Aristotle's
Nature!” This is not an anecdote, but a true occurrence. After
knowledge of Nature.
If the knowledge of Nature
be able to produce moral impulses out of its own nature. A new
knowledge of Nature. This super-sensible knowledge will then contain
knowledge of Nature, a cosmic knowledge, an anthropogenesis and
admit that we obtain on the one hand, a knowledge of Nature, and on
the other hand, super-sensible knowledge. This knowledge of Nature is,
give themselves up wholly to the external knowledge of Nature,
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Title: Lecture: Cosmogony, Freedom, Altruism
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himself, in his own deepest nature, akin to the sun and moon
nature, that is, to all intents and purposes,
to nurse the instincts of altruism in human nature. And yet,
nature, and no possibility, for the moment, of realising it
paths, yet it lies in the Anglo-American nature to seek for

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before us only that which belongs to the outermost nature of
Latini now beheld the laws and principles of Nature's working
in the forms of Imagination. All Nature's laws — the
living and creative essence of Nature herself — came
abstractly of the Laws of Nature; they would on no account
totality of Nature's laws. Brunetto Latini, however, saw it
Nature, like a Word that held sway throughout this Nature,
manifold Nature-spirits, and Beings who belong to the
Nature. Initiates of old describe her living and creative
Nature — as the counsellor of nous, of the

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nature, the other earthly. The cosmic nature works in such a
ways, determine the nature of the face and of the back of the
conditioned. We have therefore a cosmic nature influenced by
the earthly and an earthly nature cosmically influenced. Were
a conditioning effect upon him. Imagine man's earthly nature
nature within us but it works in us. As a basic influence it
nature of man's task on Earth unless we perceive the
his limb-system only the earthly nature developed through his
art. Then in art there will not be merely external nature as

Title: Lecture: Hygiene - a Social Problem
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the purely intellectualistic nature of the different conceptions is
“profession,” the inner nature of which he is not able to
undemocratic nature of this “trust in authority”
pass muster with those who really know the nature of materialism and
bodily nature and his nature of soul and Spirit, between physical
abstract tittle-tattle about a soul independent of the bodily nature
material processes is infinite, both outside in Nature and within the
science is bound, by its very nature, to speak. If as men and women
whole being of man. Such illumination is cast on the nature of
the influence of some disease, all that Nature reveals to us in the
relate his organisation to the various substances of Nature
nature, Spiritual Science is able to work upon and develop what is
thought to be of a physical nature and are to be found within the
nature — I refer to the domain of education. Without a
that by its very nature Spiritual Science has a living, vital
“spiritual” or “psychical” nature, because,
profession, and the laity who understand the nature of the

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The Inner Nature of Music and the Experience of Tone: Lecture IV.
gait and posture. This faculty is only incorporated in man's nature
have in speech something essential to our nature here on earth. And
him in external nature — is an image of the spiritual. Now when
his whole nature — body, soul and spirit — not only
their pure, original nature; eleven are quite distinct, only the
soul provides the vowel nature. Thus when you embody in speech the
through its consonantal nature shapes and forms the vowel
nature of the rhythmic breathing process. The poet of to-day still
vowel nature — the soul — strikes its chords.
we find in it everywhere the longing for the vowel nature, that is to
soul-nature, manifesting itself through the vowels, strikes upon the
consonantal nature, which is plastically shaped and formed in
moulded outwardly by the nature of the consonants, the sound is
soul-nature. Behind Aries maybe, is Saturn, a vowel element of soul.
sound dwells on earth in the element of air, so it is with the nature
man speaks, he makes use of his whole body. The consonant nature
liberate the consonant nature that permeates the human being for so
instrument in song — if we take the vowel nature out of the
Consonant-nature out of the human being, and there arises Form, which
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A Living Knowledge of Nature, the Fall of the Intellect into Sin,
Lebendiges Naturerkennen, Intellektueller Suendenfall und Spirituelle
A Living Knowledge of Nature, the Fall of the Intellect into Sin,
Lebendiges Naturerkennen, Intellektueller Suendenfall und
that time to imagine, at least abstractly, the spiritual in Nature.
spheres of Nature. So long as man remained within the light, within
of Nature.
forces of Nature, he would be looked upon as a complete fool! But if
power of vision, you will realize that electricity in Nature is not
merely a current but that electricity in Nature is, at the same time,
at the same time the moral element in Nature. Modern physicists have
sure, moral impulses, impulses of Nature, but these impulses are
true conception of evil in the order of Nature, if we do not realize
but when we electrify matter, Nature is conceived as something evil.
explanation of Nature set out along a path that really unites it with
we listen to a modern physicist blandly explaining that Nature
consists of electrons, we merely listen to him explaining that Nature
Nature in this form, we raise Evil to the rank of the ruling
that the electric element in Nature is endowed with morality in the
of Nature, so that, later on, they take on real shape, become a real
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understand, in a true and profound way, the nature of the Christ
passed from the nature of angel to the “Son nature”; he
shown as a child, whereas the deep- natured mystics looked for the
human nature, but we do not yet posses the Luciferic element. In
be innkeepers. The innkeeper nature is widespread in the world today;
“I perceive something of a spiritual nature.), there will
distinguish between the nature of an innkeeper and a shepherd; after
least in a small way, the innkeeper's nature within ourselves,
of their nature that is not derived from earthly experience — if
the world — those who have kept their shepherd nature — will
distinguish the innkeeper's nature from that of the shepherd,
nature is today.

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understanding when we speak of the physical bodily nature of man on
the soul-and-spirit works upon the bodily nature. But in the first
in our senses — i.e., in the bodily nature — are also processes
consider the nature of the will. To begin with, straightforward
experiences which every man can have in his own nature, and from
the other — our human nature, body and soul together, would not
perceive the peculiar nature of his world of Feeling.
inner nature and essence. An idea that remains at rest will not
spatial ideas — however diluted — of the soul's nature. But

Title: Lecture: Thinking and Willing as Two Poles of the Human Soul-Life
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of a spiritual nature, which are similar to those thought-forces in
nature. By the term “Nature” I am now including
colours of nature, and so on. (I have drawn an eye as a symbol of all
never remains the same for a moment. The present is of such a nature
nature? The present is similar to a dream, except for the fact that
quite impossible. If thoughts, — and the laws of Nature must

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verrichten in bezug auf alles, was Naturerscheinungen sind, denn die

Title: Fall/Darkness: Lecture 1: The Driving Force Behind Europe's War
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enquire into the essential nature of our will and intent. In

Title: Fall/Darkness: Lecture 2: Humanity's Struggle for Morality
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tremendous advances made as the laws of nature have been
provided by nature, even if they do have the same
these different aspects of human nature belong to entirely
of the secrets of human nature. We say, then, that when we
an effort. They want to take human nature as it presents
beyond time, and that human nature cannot be explained if we
deepen insight into nature in its spiritual aspect to a point
where deeper knowledge of the laws of nature also discovers
scheme which lies behind the world of nature if one is to
find the spirit in nature. Then one will also find the
only give you the surface of nature and the surface of social
life. Johann Valentin Andreae looked deep down to find nature
reality — there you have a peep-hole on nature on the
at some of the laws of nature at a surface level and will
left to nature. In the past, human beings naturally remained
an inner quest to look for the elements nature is unable to
of tradition but only what comes by nature, without undue

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the particular nature of their life of instincts and drives,
physical nature makes sure this corruption does not go too
imposed by physical nature; they cannot get very far with
their instincts and have to obey the laws of nature. When we
physical nature, nor by social and traditional prejudices. We
evening that the sun had just come up, nature would soon
nature come to the fore. The potential dangers must be
true nature of the interest that formerly made them travel
Then the world will realize the infamous nature of the things

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nature which are hidden from the sight of weak humanity
essential nature of these elemental spirits of birth and
their physical nature and their souls could make their bodies
depending on their inner nature. Please call this to mind again.
with inner nature, certain elemental spirits were serving the
have any illusions concerning the radical nature of this.
industry and commerce. But by its very nature such a

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The nature of the human constitution was totally different in
insight into the world of the spirit. The changing nature of
become substantial. And human nature has become more inward.
inner nature; they do not gain the power to know themselves;
even properly understand human nature. Think of the seemingly
right. Knowledge of human nature at the time of St Augustine
want to be inspired by anything of a spiritual nature. This
expression in our physical nature, this will inevitably take
nature, for philistines always like to stick to the norm.
regard to the individual nature of others. Individuals differ
about the true nature of things, they are sliding more and

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today, we must consider something of the nature of the human
thoughts unless we first consider the true nature of the
you, but do not be frightened by the grotesque nature of this
all, if it really was not in your nature to get up and you
would only get up on reflection, against your nature, out of
be purely elemental by nature. In the head, everything would
cosmic hierarchies. If you visualize the essential nature of
idea of the true nature of the human being. Apart from the
nature. This image of the gods has been debased in human
become their lower nature. Please, do not forget that this is
an important secret of human nature. Our lower nature, which
our higher nature. This is the contradictory element in human
nature. Rightly understood, it will solve countless riddles
constantly emerging from the cosmos into his lower nature.
the lower nature and used in the past, symbols that today are
nature of man.
fact, is the luciferic element in our higher nature. Thus
past. Even the nature of clairvoyance is such that the
nature of human beings here on earth and also to that of the
essential nature still extended into it. People were aware of
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quality of his true nature, quite independent of our own
the innermost nature of the materialistic human beings of the
knew full well the nature of this ahrimanic spirit. To some
today and closely bound up with human nature. As I have
the world must come to see the true nature of the spirit in
nature had this quality: Innocents who were utterly convinced
nature should come up, its origins are not in the divine
element which can be perceived in human nature.
know human nature and the different ways in which it comes to

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without reality. We have to come to the true nature of things
what we intend to create on this hill. The nature of the
we are going to show the true nature of the completely
be presented in accord with their true nature. The State

Title: Fall/Darkness: Lecture 9: The Battle between Michael and 'The Dragon'
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enquire into the nature of the ahrimanic powers which entered
laws of nature. Anyone who does not accept them is called an
the anthroposophical movement on the destiny and true nature

Title: Fall/Darkness: Lecture 10: The Influence of the Backward Angels
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great perspectives of a social nature, which went far beyond

Title: Fall/Darkness: Lecture 11: Recognizing the Inner Human Being
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these considerations that human soul nature will essentially
said that human soul nature will become more inward we must
down into the hidden depths of human nature. And then the
people we see do not show their true nature in what we see on
They are etheric and spiritual by nature and have a real,
future. To teach children abstract notions of nature and the
laws of nature which people need to know will become an
laws of nature and able to establish harmony between what was
given to them in a living, vital form and the laws of nature.
abstract laws of nature. These are a few thoughts I wanted to
Germanic human nature presents itself in a very profound way

Title: Fall/Darkness: Lecture 12: The Spirits of Light and the Spirits of Darkness
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relationship as the signature for the way affairs were
nature taken back into the spiritual world. Humanity must
only part of my essential nature is united with the earth,
and rebirth with the whole of my essential nature.’ A

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question must arise as to the actual nature of the battle

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nature of it all is such that if one does not want to be
complex nature of these things, which can only be discovered
people must be introduced to the life of nature when still
whose approach to nature is entirely superficial. These would

Title: Lecture: Fall and Redemption
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A Living Knowledge of Nature, the Fall of the Intellect into Sin,
Lebendiges Naturerkennen, Intellektueller Suendenfall
sinless, incapable of sinning, like a mere creature of nature, he now
outer physical nature with it. Through mere intellect one can
concepts that they formed for themselves about nature, so that the
anything of a divine spiritual nature. Man's consciousness of sin had
nature, then we will also find the human being again.
speaks of the limits of our ability to know nature. I indicated how
sought in utter simplicity. Such naive natures — and they also
regard themselves as naive natures — are often the most proud
limits, in fact, to what we can know about nature, and that we cannot
unrespectable size. For, it simply lies in human nature for pride to
that intelligence holds sway in nature. And if you really study
nature, you can find this intelligence holding sway everywhere. And
nature, and secondly, it is only like a little bit of water that one
from nature. Intelligence is everywhere in nature; everything,
to truly keep our eye on the facts of nature. But facts are left out
nature, the Anthroposophical Society has thoroughly worked its
for Religious Renewal, when it follows its essential nature,

Title: Lecture: Man's Fall and Redemption
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A Living Knowledge of Nature, the Fall of the Intellect into Sin,
Lebendiges Naturerkennen, Intellektueller Suendenfall
limitations of our knowledge of Nature, really arises from the view
quite clearly the nature of the consciousness of our
the outer kingdoms of Nature, and to grasp human life with the methods
of thinking gained through the usual way of looking at Nature. To-day
observes Nature and thinks, is an unprejudiced conception. All kinds of
the observation of the outer phenomena of Nature. The process of
that a modern man's thoughts on Nature are really corpses, all our thoughts
on the kingdoms of Nature are dead thoughts. The life of these
thoughts that we form to-day on the kingdoms of Nature and on the
dead only as long as we apply it to Nature outside: as soon as we
speak of a lifeless thinking. Were they to speak of the true nature
something of the true nature of thinking only if he really advances
Darwinism arose in 1858, with its exterior theories on Nature's
from all the kingdoms of Nature, as the result of a habit of thinking
pre-earthly life, and a science of Nature arose which considered man
those who still possessed some feeling for the true nature of man were
farewell to the Bible and turns to Nature — consisted in this,
that man might approach a knowledge of Nature under the sign of man's
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manner; — no longer as normal forces of human nature
nature.
in human nature. To-day (I am not merely referring to
human nature. I refer to the following fact. The thoughts
environment to-day. For by their nature, such thoughts and
however, meet in human nature; they fertilise one another in
human nature, and lead to Ahrimanic formations in our time,
special logos — all that arises from human nature into

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own inner nature, and moreover, out of a comparatively lower
part of his nature. Man is exceedingly proud of his brain,
research into Nature. Goethe comes hack to this point again
according to their own nature, as pure phenomena; he wanted
recognise the latter in their virgin nature; It is none other
the intellect from mingling with the outer sensual nature, to

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sending the saps and fluids throughout man's nature, were
twofold nature; and this was well known to those Wise Men of
Star-Mysteries, or Easter Mysteries. Man is a twofold nature:
nature. With our head we go quicker than with the rest of our
Nature and History and Politics and Economics. But you can

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Greece life consisted in a childlike joy over the nature of
nature. But these gods vanished from their sight. The Orientals

Title: Lecture: Man and Cosmos
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Knowledge of Nature, the Fall of the Intellect into Sin, the Spiritual
Naturerkennen, Intellektueller Suendenfall und Spirituelle
A Living Knowledge of Nature, the Fall of the
Lebendiges Naturerkennen, Intellektueller Suendenfall
members of human nature interpenetrate in a way which cannot at
pertaining to the inner nature of minerals, which works its way
nature is also connected with the metals in the earth. In
human nature, in every detail connected with it, we shall

Title: Lecture: Human Freedom and Its Connection with the Mystery of Golgotha
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— the higher beings of the kingdoms of Nature: plants,
external Nature as an illusion, history began to lose its meaning
Nature may be
Nature, particularly in Goethe's meaning, if we give up

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being disturbed by the fact that in approaching Nature with his
lifeless thoughts, Nature itself, with its living changing
mere existence. From the manifold impressions of Nature filling
his spirituality from every single creature in Nature. As already
Nature becomes an inwardly living comprehension. But there can be
defamation. The nature of such an opposition shows how well the

Title: Lecture: The Golden Legend and a German Christmas Play
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in his inner being within his earthly nature. Spiritual Science makes
man-nature which Adam acquired after the fall. The tree of knowledge
learnt to recognise as the principles of human nature? Now we all
know that the highest member of human nature is the Ego. We learn to
nature. We ask a man we meet how old he is, and he gives as his age
Adam-nature, of which he left an imprint in the grave when he died in
his child-nature to him. This was no easy task, but in the very way
proceeded from some mysterious influence or anything of that nature;
forms, yet it lay in human nature to evolve this holy regard for the
child-nature, which is connected with what entered into the
the union with the child-nature, that pure and noble childlike
the nature of man that which allowed him to perceive the
development between birth and death, and can feel the child-nature in
age, he retained more than most people of the child-nature. There is
more of the child-nature in such men than in others. Men like these,
men who retain more of their child-nature, keep their youth and do
Christmas Mystery appeals to the child-nature within us. It points us

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members we have come to know as the members of human nature? We know
to begin with that the highest member of human nature is the
bodily nature. When we meet a person we ask him, “How old are
on earth because of his Adam nature, you could say, of which he
human nature to develop this holy view toward the nature of the
like their bodily natures. Instead we must look at what they are now
nature that which permits the human being to look up into the

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The Functioning of Spirit in Nature and in Man - The Being of Bees,
The Functioning of Spirit in Nature and in Man –
NATURE OF BUTTERFLIES.
Nature — as a rule people do so rather without thinking —
the moment we begin to reflect about the things of Nature, so much
of spiritual activity to be found in Nature. Now today I am going to
moisture. Nature comes to the rescue. Such things do not always dawn on
human understanding. Nature indeed is far cleverer than man. The egg,
way to observe things in Nature. First, quite a significant idea is
connection between all things in outer Nature. The butterfly you see is
nature the caterpillar cannot thrive in just earth and water (in other
over the whole world of Nature, it would be light. It is only my body
from outside. The whole world of nature is responsible for the lion's
mixing and blending all the colours correctly. You see Nature is forever
tail. You can see this in Nature — this is a tadpole and that a
We have viewed the world as it is and have observed Nature! What does
the scientist do? Generally speaking he takes scant notice of Nature
taken out into the world of nature where it would be of little use, but
happens to the egg after he has dissected it. Nature no longer acts, but
— which in regard to Nature's activities are mere folly —
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nature of human life is due. In describing certain human
discover in human nature what it is that really works in Karmic
and blood, from the hidden animal nature, and rising from the

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bodily nature between birth and the age of fourteen to
that which was there in the depths of her nature? Then, they

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from below, just as the kingdoms of Nature descend from above.
something. An empty space cannot really be created; Nature has

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the various kingdoms of nature within it. This is the milieu in
sees nature sprouting and budding; he sees how the plants grow and
nature-beings who spend the winter there. Then, when spring comes,
the interweaving activities, the flow and ebb, of nature — only
nature unfolds, how the elemental spirits fly and whirl in a pattern
can enter into the life of nature only in the season of growth
fading and dying-off of nature when autumn begins.
waning of nature, just as we do in nature's growing time, we can do
away of nature in our own inner being. For if a man becomes more
sensitive to the secret workings of nature, and thus participates
actively in nature's germinating and fruiting, it follows that
this only in the form it takes in nature; if he were to come only to
a nature-consciousness concerning the secrets of autumn and winter,
to a nature-consciousness. On the contrary, he must then devote
himself to self-consciousness. In the time when external nature is
dying, he must oppose nature-consciousness with the force of
of Anthroposophy, a man enters thus into the enjoyment of nature, the
consciousness of nature, but then also awakes in himself an autumnal
overcoming of nature-consciousness by self-consciousness when autumn
Festival. If that is done, if nature-knowledge is true, spiritual
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everything of a spiritual nature which it had allowed to stream out
Earth. It is then that the Earth unfolds its own nature in the
deepest sense; the nature that makes it truly Earth.
nature for the general activity of quicksilver, leading quite
seed-production is nature's cookery; it approaches the sulphur-process.
seed-nature is continually showering down on the Earth, so that from
the whole nature of the Earth signifies when we look at it not from
Earth-creature, because it had been ordained by nature, by the world,
great instinctive knowledge of nature and the spirit which
self-consciousness out of nature-consciousness, nothing will do but
bring before us everything that can work from nature into our souls

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wholly Earth, with a concentrated Earth-nature. In high summer
particular to hope for from the realm of outer nature, because they
they will be able to spread their dragon-nature through nature at
is near, a truly clairvoyant observer of nature can witness a
of these illusions. He consumes the nature-products which flourish in
outer nature these hopes are shattered, but the Ahrimanic beings long
beings, we find they are of etheric nature. And it is impossible for
They are of a purely astral nature. Through everything that
to permeate their astral nature with the etheric, and to call forth
that part of man, his etheric nature, which is not dependent on
nature of man, could carry on their own existence.
beings, on the other hand, could absorb the etheric nature of man,
Luciferic beings accomplished their work in freeing man from nature,
nature and of the etheric guise they threaten to assume
Nature-forces and the direction they strive to take in spring and on
healing forces that reside in everything of a salt-like nature.
products and beings of nature, we learn to recognise their
Nature-spirits there arises the higher life of the spirit, as this

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up with the being of Nature. From spring onwards into summer, Nature
man with his whole being is woven into this mood of Nature. We can
Nature-consciousness. During spring, if he has the perception and
over the being of Nature, and a kind of Nature-consciousness arises
in him. Then, since in autumn Nature dies away and thus bears death
time of Michaelmas — means for Nature, must experience in
Nature-consciousness, a strengthening of his self-consciousness must
occur. But in the glow of summer, just because a Nature-consciousness
with Nature, but, if he has the right feeling and perception for it,
objective spirituality comes towards him from out of Nature's
Nature. Only in outward appearance is Nature the sprouting, budding
kind of sleeping Nature-life is given form. But in this sleeping
Nature, if only man has the perception for it, the spiritual which
animates and weaves through everything in Nature is revealed.
it is that if we follow Nature in high
can be discerned. It is as though Nature wishes to present her
weaving of Nature. As to how Gabriel — to use the old name
impulses. For whereas we habitually look at the realms of Nature and
formed in the normal course of Nature.
healing nature, of the healing cosmos. In a similar way, at St.

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nature is different as soon as it enters a human being. No process
nature. A flame that burns externally is dead fire; that which
souls the midsummer working of Uriel through nature into man —
for his activity works into the forces of nature — we must
nature, have the effect of making us citizens of the cosmos. For they
our heads. Thus Uriel works in nature at midsummer, and during the
nature, but as a spiritual being. And just as we can follow the
the forces of nature in spring, as I have described. I had to show
working in the springtime forces of nature as Uriel does in
autumn when Raphael came again. Until then this nature-memory in the
course of nature; he is not excluded from the way the world
Archangel Beings who, in conjunction with the forces of nature,
permeate and animate the bodily nature, the soul and the spirit in

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gravity of the particles of chalk, and things of that nature, and would
clairvoyance, we no longer grasp a part of human nature, but
our human nature of pythic or prophetic clairvoyance, and because of this

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the gravity of the particles of chalk, and things of that nature,
part of human nature, we grasp the whole man. And fundamentally, it
thereby given some part of our human nature to pythic or prophetic

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mankind, and everything of a hindering nature In the
to the subjective nature of man, and generalise it over the
condition from which subjective nature in an older epoch, and
nature, there would be nothing born on the Earth, were it not
kingdoms of nature and man, is dependent on the activity of the
various kingdoms of nature. That is a deception, a Maya. It was
Nature, and whatever occurred in us would occur of necessity.
is the deceptive nature of our age to which all fantasy still
sensible phenomena of Nature super-sensible Spiritual beings
the external ordering of Nature. But we have no concepts by
means of which we can come behind this external Nature to
everything of a deeper nature, — all that could lead one

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help us to become more intimately conscious of the nature and
he was in nature from the Greek, and how still more different
have generated the Earth with its kingdoms of Nature, the Earth
nature of memory was connected with the setting up of signs and
experience of this nature is in reality a relic of the epoch of

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contained in the three kingdoms of nature, he had around him
the mere objects and processes of Nature, but where the ancient
Oriental felt the whole of Nature penetrated with the elemental
soul-nature. Such was the knowledge the Oriental of old had,
processes of Nature in this way, in their connection with
Everything outside in the kingdoms of Nature was transformed in
through a special endowment of Nature, experienced also the
further degree of consciousness. Of what nature was this? The
the same indication as to the essential nature of the initiate
heaven and understand by that their own land, the Nature that
entered deeply into Nature, into all natural existence. But now
whole of Nature, in the form in which we see it to-day, could
trials, had been initiated into the view of Nature, which
outside in Nature, nor to death in man, could the Greek adapt

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following nature. He knows that with the process of
the substances of the external kingdoms of Nature.
soul-and-spirit nature from his physical and etheric nature, he
conceive of his physical-etheric nature. Until this is clearly
dual nature, — that he has on the one hand the
spirit-and-soul nature into which the Gods descend, and on the
something of an insight into the nature of immortality did
evidence of the duality in man's nature. The one —
the descent of the Ego into the physical and etheric nature in
Everything of a spiritual or cultural nature that men received
everything that is of a plant-like nature. At first it was in
nature was communicated to them in the Mystery of Ephesus under

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us first form an idea of the nature of such an initiation, that
new knowledge. First of all, the real nature of human
of the Nature Spirits, and above, the presence of the Angels,
Nature that still contain the manifestations of the elemental
described — the entry of the Nature-elemental kingdoms,
of the Spiritual into the Physical in Nature, — were

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following nature.
these Mysteries — the Spirit of Nature was actually
the whole of Nature. Here we have something in the relation of
man to Nature, that was still living and present in the time
of Nature. This connection they perceived in the following way.
of the elementary spirits in Nature, and the working of the
of our nature, through the air that gives rise to the breathing
secrete, as it were, inwardly something plant-like in nature,
them their woody nature; the tree-nature in the world of plants
comes from the Earth. But the whole plant-nature as such has
relationship with everything of a plant-nature.
is connected with it. It was a sublime conception of Nature
conception of Nature and of Spirit in Nature. Later there were
of Nature and of Spirit in Nature. The Greek Mysteries are
That is the important change in the nature of the Mysteries
nature. The plant world, so it taught him, is yours; the Earth
adapted to the nature and character of the Greek. It was the
powers in specially gifted natures. The splendour and the
Knowledge of Nature in Asia, even as far as India. His early
Knowledge of Nature that he had received from Aristotle,
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into which only the highest part of our nature can find
beholding them in the several kingdoms of Nature. He was able,
point is that we should recognise for each period the nature of
observation of Nature, on an investigation of Nature with the
realm of Nature to tradition, written or oral, in the realm of
Alexander, the Nature knowledge of Aristotle was carried over
into Asia; a pure knowledge of Nature was spread abroad. Not in
brought it about that a true understanding of Nature was
parts that this knowledge of Nature and insight into the Being
of Nature were brought, by means of the expeditions of
nature of the changes in the human being himself in the
Nature knowledge carried over into Asia by the expeditions of
Nature that persisted so remarkably among simple country folk,

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human being with the deeper impulses and forces of Nature, or
rather of the Spirit that is in Nature. To-day, when we speak
real substance of man's nature to these material abstractions
similarly, if we would understand the nature and being of man,
working in all the kingdoms of Nature work in the human being;
kingdoms of Nature. In modern times however there is no longer
or less degree, and instinctively gifted natures were able
the human being to the Nature that he finds around him.
human being and those that are found in Nature. When we set out
to consider the various substances in man's physical nature,
Nature but are not at any rate quickly apparent in the human
inevitably from what they knew of the nature of man and of the
nature of the Universe. They knew that we can only come to a
whole of Nature, with all her impulses, with all the substances
when we meet with something outside in Nature that cannot be
thought a student of Nature of the 9th, 10th or 11th century.
occur to him to go any farther. The earlier student of Nature
student of Nature was fully aware of the very great importance
This was the kind of thought in which a student of Nature
entering deeply into the inner qualities of Nature, of
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descriptions of Nature, of relationships that can be observed
in Nature on Earth, and led from these up to the spiritual
their whole nature and being into close connection with what is
God was applied to all beings of a super-sensible nature,
nature originated and by Whom he was launched into the stream
Nature and in her smallest manifestations, and Whom we discover
passed through the gate of Death, the earthly nature strives as
where you may be able to bring your own spiritual nature into
physical nature with soul and spirit. The hard bones, the
bring my soul nature, but only into the element of warmth.
possible for the human soul to link its own nature on to the
bade man know himself in his cosmic nature, know himself as a

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into and control the natural world and Nature itself. In

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closely into the nature of man in the period between going to sleep
nature of sleep; we must remember that it is just in the sleeping
have external nature around him, but would immediately feel in
psychic nature, we can feel ourselves to be free persons.
into our psychic, Spiritual nature, inspiring it, therefore
Spirits of Time, pulsate in our nature, filling it with their
the world of external nature one phenomenon is linked on to
illegally, as we night say, absorb our Spiritual, Psychic nature.
bound up with external nature, together with the Beings of
not see directly but only dimly into the external, sensible nature.
external nature which he perceived with his senses. At that time he
phenomena of nature, and expressed this in his interpretation of
external nature. He had no Natural Science such as we have to-day,
but he considered the phenomena of nature as brought about by this
Nature. It is an important fact, that this change took place in the
the ordering of Nature which consists contains no ideals, which of
one can never think that through what goes on in Nature, any ideal,
a mere external Ordering of Nature. But with the consciousness
able to enter into Nature, into the ordering of natural phenomena.
For that reason the Ordering of Nature and his own ideals appear to
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in himself and in nature both what we call growth and what we
himself or in nature, he perceives building up —
inner Nature builds up.
be built up again by the unconscious forces of nature in our
destroys what mere nature creates in the human organism; and
something in nature. We cannot build a house if we do not go
nature, we build up into our artistic creations. Strictly
miniature and imperceptibly in manes physical nature. We
physical world without destroying nature, so we cannot become
of sharing in the life of the whole course of nature and that
disinclination to look at the whole of nature, the tendency
together with nature that they are able to feel the decaying
the mysterious laws of nature. Today there is no longer any
nature is witness to this We live with the Christ, and feel
of dying Nature: IN CHRISTO MORIMUR, But by going forward

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results from spiritual science if the soul and spirit-nature
this part of the spirit-soul nature of man which is, or can
attained by raising the spirit-soul nature of the organ of
clairvoyance with reference to their intuitive nature.
tinge of colour to the shadowy nature of his experiences. And
physical nature; for spirit lies at the basis of everything
digest correctly, you live with your spiritual-psychic nature
way the spiritual nature standing behind human processes. But
spiritual beings, beings who merely express the nature of

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to the very nature of our modern culture. It may be asked how
sharing directly in everything that connects human nature with
individuality of the innate endowments and nature of Goethe.
living out of his own nature, free of everything that binds a
whether or not the servant sensed something of Goethe's nature,
similar nature was discussed. It cannot really be said that
was to investigate how various laws of nature conform to one
all the kingdoms of nature up to God. He then did this in a
grasped everything that was then known of the facts of nature
Herder to all that belongs to the life of nature and history,
had been passed on to him as the laws of nature while he was
by man, and into the relation between human nature and
universal nature. Earlier in Frankfurt he had become acquainted
what his own nature really was. Goethe's way of being
peculiar nature. When we read this autobiography, we see how,
result was that, for the most deeply endowed natures, a
of nature, the peaceful life of animals and plants.
between nature and human life. Letters written to beloved
return to nature in genuine Rousseau fashion. Raw chestnuts —
really a philosopher of nature who is quite familiar with its
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nature and has always behind his artistic fantasy the
stand to make of them an altar to the great God of Nature? He
to the great God of Nature. How impressive and beautiful is
in the phenomena of nature even in this boy of six or seven!
observe a remarkable harmony between his nature and
from this. There comes about in Goethe's complex nature a
a rebellion against what was in his environment. His nature,
functioning of his nature. I told you that he took the
has formed forcefully out of his own nature; Karl Moor is an
inner nature and the external world. Just as he does not alter
nature.
had wrenched his inner nature out of the corporeal connection,
reveals to us in a real sense that nature and the work of the
nature of man of day and night in the cosmos. It is natural, of
entirely different mood in spite of the fact that his nature
view of nature — I may say since 1879-80, and intensively
conception of nature, which contemporary scientists and
perfect in his views of nature in this incarnation. Many things
that are implicit in his view of nature have not yet even been
of nature something that points toward remote horizons. It is, however,
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significant out of their inner nature, as he did especially
nature. As I expressed it yesterday, he is put on a sort of
a personality as Goethe's, the lower nature, which we generally
the whole story. Their inner nature is something quite
did not know what their inner natures were going through as

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else. Man's inner nature must obviously acquire the color of
conclusion from what has been said since the nature of the
excluded that has no relation to human nature, and by this it
requirements of human nature. They would increasingly disregard

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properly investigate what really works in man's nature in the

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correctly put himself into the nature of those phenomena that
Vischer was as true a Swabian by nature as might be found in
have to characterize in a loving way the nature of the school

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taking on the nature of China. As you can deduce from the
in the subconscious parts of her nature, would be politically
nature, confirms what Mill and Herzen already had sensed. He is
life. Ku Hung Ming represents the Chinese nature, the life of
brilliant from the standpoint of the Chinese nature, but is it

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life. This means that we must learn to compare the nature of
have begun to think of how it may be possible to assist nature
nature. I did not have such a stock to live on. No pious

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expressed confession but the inclination of the feeling nature
egoism is of a social nature.
nature. Human beings do stand at least in a sort of
on the physical plane, when it is of such a nature as to
to rise above the egoistic limitation within our human nature.
could really not be produced; that nature had a certain horror

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the essential nature of things. Thus we face the highly
nature of the most ancient ancestral cults was such that men
nature, from without. He had to come into touch with human
every human being something supramundane in his nature comes to
feeling nature; only then shall we attain to its full truth.
for and attachment to his lower nature that Lucifer is not able
to remove the higher nature from it. Every time Lucifer
nature, they would have followed Lucifer. This is one of the
actually implanted in human nature so that it might have, as it
lower nature because this force, from the spiritual point of
being to his lower nature. Rather than tearing the souls out of
the lower nature and thereby preventing its concomitant
of his lower nature in full consciousness and would have sunk
nature of which man was not conscious and which he did not
flowed into his lower nature as a divine element. Especially
to represent the Jahve God as the god of the mere lower nature,
implanted in the lower nature.
the lower nature. Thus did those cosmic powers who desired to
placing the opponent of Lucifer in the lower nature of man was
subconscious, or unconscious, nature what strove against
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nature there was united what was of a soul nature called by
this in accordance with nature, to experience it as a matter
the disconnected and chaotic nature of our culture. We have,
descended and united Himself with human nature — with the
it with the mystery of nature. For you see what we have
the study of nature, the study of the world, cosmology, the
the bridge between the knowledge of nature, that is, the
give you diagrammatically something of a preparatory nature
hardest part of human nature. Its prototype has just nothing

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separation between the three members of man's nature is not
away from the purely diagrammatic away too, from what nature
physical nature, we should have to show him thus: Head part
this third part of man's nature, the extremities-man.) Thus
nature. This middle, thorax consciousness sometimes pushes up
as you separate the life of nature from that of the spirit,

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nature, man between his birth and his death. I have drawn
nature, that it is more — or it is less, however we can
space; but there is a certain member of man's nature, of the
the nature of what I have been trying to picture, namely
of an auric nature, something really perceptible. There is
that lived deeply in the Roman nature as concepts of rights,
true nature. (In Das Reich I have referred to this
nature, namely, the Movement for Ethical Culture. At that

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for the very reason that all that is of the nature of Art
regarded as anything in the nature of dancing; it is a new
Our Eurhythmy, besides being of the nature of Art, is a kind

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what are usually understood as the connections of nature are
part in the present concept of nature.
speaks of the connections of nature, it is, as a rule, merely
the mineral connections in nature to which one refers. To
nature.
was of such a nature that it was one and the same, uniform,
an idea of the special nature of the Russian culture, if we
nature. Not even so much likeness still remains between the
products of nature with the instruments transmitted from the
in which economic use is made of what is derived from nature
such as Bergson, anything of this nature remains for the
nature.
thoroughly despises the European and American nature, because
within thee of an attractive or insinuating nature, but
expression of human nature. He wrote his Aesthetic letters,
same laws which nature herself follows, laws which Goethe
life of Nature. Now that is an Aesthetic view of the world,
connections, noting how in nature things stand side by side,
must say that humanity shares in the occurrences of nature,

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Man and Nature
Man and Nature
Intellect in Man and Nature Bereft of the Gods
impossible, but we will assume hypothetically a Nature
divested of the human being. In this Nature that is
what we must bring home to ourselves. In this Nature that is
Past. When we look at Nature we are looking at
man who felt most deeply of all that the Nature surrounding
connection with external Nature, you may ask: Where then, are
external Nature as it is to-day, and then a future lying
will be nothing left of all that now lives in external Nature
The Nature by which man is now surrounded will pass away, and
Nature — “will pass away but my words will not pass
Nature, for intellectual concepts are dead and by their means
he can unfold an admirable understanding of dead Nature. But
shall never understand the essential nature of the heart we
whatever to penetrate into the inner being and inner nature
Spiritual Beings whose nature in some way resembles the
nature of man. From these Beings the Divine pours its
highest kingdom of Nature are the point from which the Divine
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mantrams of such a cultic nature: The force with which they return is

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nature of anthroposophical wisdom. They can still keep reiterating that
inasmuch as the structure and nature of his head differs essentially
from the structure and nature of the rest of his organism. The head
the subject of the nature of cognition, of knowledge, of truth, of wisdom.
mysterious connection that exists between the nature of a concept or
to make investigations into the nature of a grain of wheat. He would
nourishment.’ He would, in other words, be investigating the nature
to find out something about the real nature of wheat by investigating
why the nature of the grain is as it is, by studying the process of
is an entirely secondary consideration so far as the real nature of
and find that here we have in Nature something that is of value as a
the inner nature of the Good and the function of certain inner parts
Nature herself will help
of outer Nature. The knowledge we thus acquire passes over into a different

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to the other side of our being. Our lower nature is awake
during the night, when our higher nature is asleep, and this is

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body — the physical born from the mineral parts of human nature

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up into his own organism what we call substances from nature, from the
as it is outside in nature, maybe just made ready in some way. Besides
the food. We can at most take up the inorganic nature so that it presents
in its inner nature right into the effective forces of the astral body,
has to know the higher members of human nature. It is impossible to
entire nature of man. The anatomy and physiology of man really changes
nature. Even God did not despise the creation of lower matter —
Heinrich”, where we see that healings of a moral nature are still
does not fructify the high spiritual nature of the spleen. But this
something which can really approach therapeutically the nature of man.

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there in nature, it will stay basically the same inside the human organism.
himself was luminous in the earlier light age, in the future nature

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its relationship to nature. The gestures of nature no longer
relation to the whole of nature must be gained so that man
can feel once more his identity with all nature.

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of people on earth, really out of knowledge of human nature,
nature. We must learn to penetrate through the abstract
perception of nature to a concrete perception of nature. Our
yesterday, by a healthy paganism. Nature must again become
nature. Certainly men still have a feeling for nature, they
like being with nature, they are able to appreciate nature
heights of experiencing the inward life of nature, so that
nature speaks to them as one man speaks to another. This is
the details that connect them with nature. Today we can say
we can think in the abstract out of the nature of things: but
whole of nature as today the animals instinctively possess.
there is veneration and penetration of nature that there will

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notion of, that is, a particular faculty of seeing into the nature of
a concept, the nature of an idea, and so on. To put it briefly, these
of course, according to the nature of the being. The spine is above
and the animal nature. At all events man roes through the experience
this unconscious appearance of animal nature hold man back from going
of nature, when its organisation is looked at in relation to the ordering
of nature, what exactly is the animal? You see when the old Moon evolution
animal in the form of its organisation? Nature becomes sick and the
sickness of nature is the animal, especially the higher animal. In the
animal organisation there holds sway the sickness of nature, the sickness
nature, not so much the lower animals but those that are higher. But this

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things of a disconcerting nature will proceed from what is contained
is indeed the view that in everything spread out in Nature, spread out
way, nature herself is to be looked upon as direct revelation of the
has no wish to separate outer nature from the divine spiritual but would
nature. Whoever can think in accordance with reality will be unable
individual beings of the hierarchies with nature, is concerned.
nature ceases. This he admits.
drop in the ocean of the divine, therefore having itself a divine nature,
nature an the water of the ocean as a whole—should this be understood
gaze upon nature as she is presented to him by modern science. But the

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of such a nature that they can throw light, it may be said, from another
to look for a new relation to external nature since the old means to
only by manifestations of the being of nature, and the being of his
of Nature. But now, when one presses on to knowledge, when one trains
plant nature where their inner organisation is concerned, and having
position of man where his relation to nature around him is concerned.
In the same way as the plant-animal is unable to enter external nature,
nature which can be put thoughts. Goethe never looked for laws of nature,
the whole of mankind, man has on the one side the robust, crude nature
may say. Those prophetic natures like the Hebrew prophets to whom such
prophetic natures but in the time of the Greeks men still had their
up to the nineteenth century, the other nature, man's breast nature
during the Greco-Latin period. The breast nature was inured to this,
thoughts dictated by nature, for what they like best is merely to make
about their nature, about what they are and their character. By bringing
saying, the venerable nature is certainly not to be disparaged, which,
has to judge the world in a certain way, the world of nature as well

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much also could be said of a similar nature to what can still be said
to as the thinking about nature and natural phenomena. It is on this
is revealed every time there is real deep observation of nature, namely.
that the spiritual holds sway behind all-phenomena of nature, all facts
of nature. This lack of interest in the spirit is particularly noticeable
nature are concerned we actually go to sleep in the presence of another
to nature at night, something is sent to sleep in us by the presence
superphysical nature. (cf. Z-234)
child which obviously springs from the very sources of nature—try
himself is of a divine spiritual nature, and shall learn not to recognise
divine spiritual nature, in the recognition that what goes around on
fellow our inmost human nature there is never any possibility for our
speaks of human nature being fundamentally evil. And how widespread
nature in its actual depths is evil: In the civilised world of Europe
and its American sister country it is said that if human nature is not
is by nature good. Here is a mighty difference which would play a much
the conviction that man is by nature good, or the European holds that
human nature is fundamentally weighed down by evil—from the standpoint
in the depths of the inner nature.
something, for example, in the nature of uncertainty may enter the soul.

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be found in nature. Pagan religion is at the same time essentially the
perception of nature. In the heathen the contemplation of nature is
man arises out of the becoming and the weaving of the phenomena of nature,
evolving, with what is there in nature and what is coming into existence
through nature. Then, to crown what he is able to gain by his perception
of nature, the heathen seeks to grasp as it were with his soul what
is living in this nature as divine and spiritual. We see this in those
ancient times by the way which man out of his own bodily nature becomes
the contemplation, of nature to the crowning point of her edifice—the
perception of the divine spiritual within nature.
human race. For however hard it is sought to recognise from nature the
Nature. The God Jahve, Jehovah, waves and weaves through the life of
the events of nature into which man also is interwoven on earth, then
there is no doubt it becomes impossible to bring the events of nature
this impossibility of reconciling what happens in nature with the impulse
in the course of nature, the just can suffer, can be brought to misery,
and how in contradiction with what nature brings, the just man has to
nature, from the cosmos, shows us what difficulty exists between the
by being so polarically opposed to the outlook on nature prominent in
to the Jahve impulse, a being having a part in human nature as this
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the Mystery of Golgotha, we find on close scrutiny that the bodily nature
of man was more spiritual than it is today. And it was this bodily nature
of the spiritual had sunk to its lowest degree in man's bodily nature.
clearly if we look at the nature of the old Mysteries. What purpose
this instinctive nature would never have been able to find their way
experiences of soul, the man's nature really became so transformed that
a man's nature could no longer be straightway transformed in this manner
to the understanding which can be employed quite well where nature is
nature. And it is only honourable to admit that the farther men progress
directed to external nature. We can put it like this—anyone only
to Nature, must in honesty gradually come to own that he does not understand
but absorbed into the Latin nature, still there in the language and
and the various natures of those sections of the people looked upon
understood there, will have to be grasped. Something of the nature of
of the German nature just because he is so entirely without national
pagan altar to Nature, then the man Goethe was most strongly influenced
to which nature herself proceeds. He goes on his own path, his own individual,
to Nature just recited to you by Frau Dr. Steiner—compare
“Nature! we are surrounded and enveloped by her, unable to step
is Nature . . . Everything is her life; and death is merely her ingenious
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representation of that which is of a spiritual nature, was lacking in
the real nature of man than does modern science, which does not even
no suspicion. It may be said that in nature there are organic forms.
forms in nature, structural forms which in a sense are a symbolical
expression of the organic forms of nature. But nothing of that kind
has been done. There is no direct prototype in nature of structural
forms here. And if a man seeks for such in nature, it only shows that
to find organic structural forms quite independently of nature. But
if they result from a real living structural thought, bear the nature
of the organic. What then is the nature of the organic? Well, take as
from nature. And if these forms remind anyone of this, that or the other,
been made, just as it is in nature itself, to cause one motive to proceed
persons of artistic natures who happened to come among us were often
form constructed from out of that which is organically creative in nature

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is in accordance with the nature of evolution. Evolution proceeds from
that VT identify ourselves with the real principle of evolution in nature
of evolution in the world and in nature, then you get an inner vision
in an artistic manner out of its own nature that when the most complicated
form); that is if you are really immersed in that which in nature is
Then you would get a development which is really modelled from nature
really is in nature. You see how we are led in this way to something
what is seen outwardly, that is actually to in nature. Man has no appendix
of forms demands, we grow into the creative principle of nature herself.
nature, and here, dear friend; you can see how necessary it is in order
to know nature not only in intellectual ideas but to grasp her forms
in the way that science till now has done to get at nature with ideas
and conceptions of an intellectual kind one will never grasp nature
in her fullness of evolution. One will, only grasp nature in her fullness
are otherwise intellectual ideas and so-called natural laws, for nature
Building the principle that lives and works creatively in nature can
marvellous thing about this is that through the harmony between nature
in nature certain realities are born in progressive metamorphosis which
in the same way as nature herself creates. Next picture. Here you see
and a small one. It would he against the laws of nature. In order to
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nature of colour. For a greater part of that which is living, which
from nature. But to break adrift from nature means to identify oneself
in its whole nature, portrays the shining-in of the spiritual world
drying-up a principle of he appeared for instance in his full nature.

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spiritual world through its dealings with nature but no
Nature and all her holy rounds to scan;
order to penetrate into the secrets of nature. And through
into nature in order to reach her spirit, Wagner thinks only
the hidden forces of nature in order to experience them, and
himself into the living and weaving of the spirit in nature,
magical and mystical wisdom about nature. There are two
complete renewal of his nature, the removal of evil,
nature”
from nature men strove to stimulate the body, that is, to
endeavour, but through the medium of nature herself, applied
of that kind; they belong to it, along to its nature and
controlled nature has to be regained only through spiritual
but the capacity to control nature, and from that to give man
for this reason, men had to keep the handling of nature
nature, did not consist merely of concepts, ideas and
over nature, exclusively to the service of the social order.
their nature-influences, have been made into a kind of
through inner moral forces alone. Thus, nature becomes veiled
a way back into the secrets of nature. At the same time it
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nature.
of an airy nature in the world, though not what is solid. Of
nature too, for nature is saturated with fluid. All that is
surprised that here, through nature herself, through nothing
out, and what I might call a kind of Nature-initiation, that
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those more philosophically constituted natures sought to
perception of the living in spiritual and all nature and in
unimaginative, unobservant nature, from which, often, he
of nature, and now take into himself the physical body unites
traversing the rounds of nature Helen becomes, externally on
one hand they have a purely mechanical knowledge of nature
have an insight into the concrete nature of animals. For, man
despises concepts of this nature; it will have nothing to do
with them. Where knowledge of nature is concerned this leads
natures, but they are the idealists of a materialistic age,
as regards knowledge of nature the capacity to understand her

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“Faust”; this scene, however, is of such a nature
that nature, about the exercises for gaining admittance into
to remark upon this to show you how today the real nature of
nature of the astrologer's art is brought home to us. That is

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Scientifically he will have to solve the nature and essence
derived as it is from the very nature of human evolution
would only be able to enter fully into the very nature of
characteristic of the Ahrimanic nature of commerce in the
seized by apoplexy, he is paralysed. His soul-nature has

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so-called “course of Nature,” as Birth and
quite different mastery over the forces of Nature, the
more make clear to ourselves, what was the nature of the
able to understand what is the nature of their efforts in our
beings: “Avoid these rebel natures! Avoid the Ahrimanic,
the bonds of blood, but one who by the very laws of Nature
very laws of Nature, forces of Nature. Then they will learn

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actually belong to man's nature, but which is, so to say, for
different light upon the nature of man than a man can gain
surrounding us in the kingdoms of nature can combine to form
been watching, with ever increasing admiration, the nature
offered by the rest of nature, in order at length in your
mind to put together man out of the sum-total of nature's
of man as made up of the various ingredients of nature
knowledge of the kingdoms of nature. And that is actually the
nature, to cosmic existence, be quickened so that it may, in
nearer nature — such as the Greek age. It, was Goethe's
any real knowledge could be acquired of the nature of man in
spiritual nature, something of the essence of the elemental
part played by fire in nature's economy. This is what the
firm? What was it that took hold of man? The Sphinx-nature!
nature of the Sphinx.
nature he will be better able to characterise all that man
physical nature on earth, the pygmies and the dactyls are

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as man by nature reaches. Those who believe that what is
possible to put more into his human nature that can't be
a complete human being, how to widen human nature. But Goethe
Mysteries, where something of man's nature could be known, if
which, in their nature, the ants, the comets, and also the
like the comets, for example, really belonged by nature to a
give him the opportunity to enrich human nature through his
subconscious forces in man. They work in man's nature and
relation to Nature out of his subconscious, that never comes
the lower nature of man, and is to be awakened in
implanted into human nature by those members of the higher
nature was not yet awakened to full consciousness, as it is
develop the impulse for goodness out of his own nature. For
arose as human nature on ancient Saturn, Sun and Moon, and
can develop out of his own nature. This is if he has
man may develop goodness out of his own nature with all
those in nature that cannot fit into the physical

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individual way, in which Goethe looked upon nature. You know
explanation of nature? bince the eighties of the last century
primal phenomenon in inanimate nature when we consider how he
nature — never to seek for theories or hypotheses.
conception of nature.
that he was trying to do where inanimate nature is concerned.
is nature herself while creating; that is, she does not hold
in their forms that change as they do in nature. But then,
their essential nature. One can indeed put this in a paradox.
that, for the phenomena of external nature, he did not
theories and hypotheses what nature herself offers, we may
think about nature in the way that is possible during human
that do not arise from pure nature and from the simple
observation of nature; all these theories and hypotheses make
sound nature turned against the destruction of the forms
sound nature and of how he, as microcosm, was in harmony with
we look at nature in its purely natural aspect, as did
regarding the primal phenomena thus, is of such a nature that
theories the purity of its outlook on nature by influencing
abstract that with them external nature cannot be man
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own nature by merely acquiring knowledge received through the
nature that a human being could be intellectually put
concerning the nature of man. He was by no means one of those
nature of the sojourn of soul and spirit outside the body.
developed atavistic clairvoyance, man contemplated nature
and so on. That is how the nature of man should first be
confusion by most fearful volcanic storms. The nature-demons
true nature when we regard him as a being enclosed within his
whole of nature's becoming; the connection of man's becoming
with the becoming of nature was involved when, later, the
abstract nature is, regarded inwardly, much worse than any
It was Thales, the old philosopher of nature, whom
existence. And if we then say: The whole of nature is
outside in nature where the minerals and plants make manifest
active of the forces of nature — then we are speaking of
nature.
nature — how one form develops out of another. Now
accordance with the same forces as does nature, in her
the forces creating in nature; he creates his forms, and all

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natured minds. Now let us bring again before our souls just
external nature, the physical understanding was able to put
that the problem of human nature con only be solved by a
him, all that surrounds him of a soul and spirit nature.
are conceptions of nature transformed by fantasy. These
to what, in the spiritual connection of nature, is the other
worked so intensively out of Goethe's very nature —
lives in the whole of external nature. All that contributes
pulsing through every process of nature. But we have to be
which we participate in external nature, in the experiences
initiation — how in nature conception and birth are
Outside in nature the Greek perceived in another form what is
shell-chariot is the generating force in external nature
nature. Even before he brought Homunculus into contact with
that is demonic, the elemental beings of a spiritual nature,
works of art, worked in accordance with the laws nature
beautifully expresses it in this book, nature becomes
artistic conception of nature — seen from the other
generative force of nature in so far as it shows itself
— the generative force of nature with which
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by nature subject in the life between birth and death. And it
a man cannot arrive at knowledge of his own nature. As human
arrive at our own human nature, cannot with our thinking
and fall, and no one finds what is hidden in nature who does
knowledge of nature and a merely abstract mysticism.
nature, remote from all reality,a path that leads to

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is turning his attention with loving interest to outer Nature,

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recently raised the question of whether something of a medical nature
nothing of a medical nature. In the main it contains, first, the
outer nature. Second, the process that is active in the realm of a
have seen how doctoring, healing, by its very nature leads from the

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nature can be understood with the methods of knowledge that are
medicine and theology a real insight into human nature. One must be

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pathological tendencies of human nature and the stream of initiation;
Nature herself.
human nature when one learns to know it with all its complications.
the opposing forces. Therefore you can study human nature and you
nature they are causally conditioned in all respects.
nature of human beings from the viewpoint of materialism, you do not
them from the point of view of nature or from the point of view of
either in balance or not in balance between spirit and nature.
knowledge of human nature. The problem of freedom in connection with

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inner astrality and ego nature, which in turn makes the etheric body
further. But someone who really studies the nature of humanity will
that is working? In reality, whatever has to do with an ego nature.
beings who have something to do with an ego nature, above all, beings
purely in the realm of soul, its nature depending upon the
depths of human nature. During the first seven years these soul
behind, but they are now of an astral nature, and they are now
understand the real nature of the human being.
capacity which is determined neither by nature nor by the world. Here
her inner nature from developing complete freedom of soul and is too

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which a person rests in outer nature, that is, in the hidden forces
of nature. They can no longer manifest as a human being. They live
“rest in Nature.” It has to do with the various paranoid
way to see into the nature of the human being.

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the materialistic world conception has turned into nature worship
possibilities, with their knowledge of nature and spirit, to pursue

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physical-chemical processes of outer nature, that is, of nature
nature and a spiritual nature, and do not have just a physical
if one works separately from the spirit on one side and from nature

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distinction between the kingdoms of nature on the earth. A person
desire nature — they want to capture and draw down the sun
restore it to order again, we must search in outer nature for a
that an individual is by nature continually

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the nature of illness.
our search in inorganic nature around us for medicinal remedies for
spirit in nature, the spirit that is in the mineral and plant
spirit that is in the mineral and in the plant. In its nature
nature was experienced in the opposite condition by the
reverse process of nature. But now suppose the person is outside the
experiences of the spiritual aspect of external nature. Suppose the
elemental life of nature comes into dreams, the person experiences
physician's task to inquire into the nature of humanity from a

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their very nature they themselves are creative. One must re-create if
human and the animal. The essential nature of the human physical body
25,920 years: in that span of time the nature of our physical body is
alternation is within the element of time; and for so-called nature,
winter nature, works in the building up of our head, of our
nerve-sense organization. Everything of a summer nature, everything
nerve-sense system will be healed by the spirit in outer nature, so
of nature that led to mere experimentation. We must find the way back
one is getting further and further away from the true nature of the

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gods who are unfolding their activity below the level of nature.
have learned to know the nature of human illnesses. For that leads to
nature, subnature, supernature. Visionary life, through the
say nature, subnature, supernature, illness, visionary life, then I
nature; then above, it leads to a circle; below, it leads to a
sense to subnature. How are we to think about the Father God with
nature they stand within the sphere of the earth. In waking condition
they stand on a level with nature.
what lies there on the bed. Nature has progressed from Moon existence
essential to us means that nature preserves in the sleeping human
being a nature that is now below, a nature that only existed during
the Saturn and Sun periods. That is subnature. That lies at the
Humans fall during sleep into subnature, and from this fall illnesses
the realm of the Father God, we enter subnature, the realm of the
go out from nature in two directions, in the direction of subnature
to the Father, and in the direction of supernature to the Spirit.
worlds. He is the one who permeates the world of nature, the one who
between subnature and supernature. Subnature is always kept in
balance by the normal course of sleeping and waking. Supernature is
sleep to balance what is experienced in subnature, then there is
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recently raised the question of whether something of a medical nature
nothing of a medical nature. In the main it contains, first, the
outer nature. Second, the process that is active in the realm of a
have seen how doctoring, healing, by its very nature leads from the

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nature can be understood with the methods of knowledge that are
medicine and theology a real insight into human nature. One must be

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pathological tendencies of human nature and the stream of initiation;
Nature herself.
human nature when one learns to know it with all its complications.
the opposing forces. Therefore you can study human nature and you
nature they are causally conditioned in all respects.
nature of human beings from the viewpoint of materialism, you do not
them from the point of view of nature or from the point of view of
either in balance or not in balance between spirit and nature.
knowledge of human nature. The problem of freedom in connection with

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inner astrality and ego nature, which in turn makes the etheric body
further. But someone who really studies the nature of humanity will
that is working? In reality, whatever has to do with an ego nature.
beings who have something to do with an ego nature, above all, beings
purely in the realm of soul, its nature depending upon the
depths of human nature. During the first seven years these soul
behind, but they are now of an astral nature, and they are now
understand the real nature of the human being.
capacity which is determined neither by nature nor by the world. Here
her inner nature from developing complete freedom of soul and is too

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which a person rests in outer nature, that is, in the hidden forces
of nature. They can no longer manifest as a human being. They live
“rest in Nature.” It has to do with the various paranoid
way to see into the nature of the human being.

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the materialistic world conception has turned into nature worship
possibilities, with their knowledge of nature and spirit, to pursue

Title: Broken Vessels: Lecture 7
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physical-chemical processes of outer nature, that is, of nature
nature and a spiritual nature, and do not have just a physical
if one works separately from the spirit on one side and from nature

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distinction between the kingdoms of nature on the earth. A person
desire nature — they want to capture and draw down the sun
restore it to order again, we must search in outer nature for a
that an individual is by nature continually

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the nature of illness.
our search in inorganic nature around us for medicinal remedies for
spirit in nature, the spirit that is in the mineral and plant
spirit that is in the mineral and in the plant. In its nature
nature was experienced in the opposite condition by the
reverse process of nature. But now suppose the person is outside the
experiences of the spiritual aspect of external nature. Suppose the
elemental life of nature comes into dreams, the person experiences
physician's task to inquire into the nature of humanity from a

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their very nature they themselves are creative. One must re-create if
human and the animal. The essential nature of the human physical body
25,920 years: in that span of time the nature of our physical body is
alternation is within the element of time; and for so-called nature,
winter nature, works in the building up of our head, of our
nerve-sense organization. Everything of a summer nature, everything
nerve-sense system will be healed by the spirit in outer nature, so
of nature that led to mere experimentation. We must find the way back
one is getting further and further away from the true nature of the

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gods who are unfolding their activity below the level of nature.
have learned to know the nature of human illnesses. For that leads to
nature, subnature, supernature. Visionary life, through the
say nature, subnature, supernature, illness, visionary life, then I
nature; then above, it leads to a circle; below, it leads to a
sense to subnature. How are we to think about the Father God with
nature they stand within the sphere of the earth. In waking condition
they stand on a level with nature.
what lies there on the bed. Nature has progressed from Moon existence
essential to us means that nature preserves in the sleeping human
being a nature that is now below, a nature that only existed during
the Saturn and Sun periods. That is subnature. That lies at the
Humans fall during sleep into subnature, and from this fall illnesses
the realm of the Father God, we enter subnature, the realm of the
go out from nature in two directions, in the direction of subnature
to the Father, and in the direction of supernature to the Spirit.
worlds. He is the one who permeates the world of nature, the one who
between subnature and supernature. Subnature is always kept in
balance by the normal course of sleeping and waking. Supernature is
sleep to balance what is experienced in subnature, then there is
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was thus well equipped to judge of the nature of the event that befell
materialism. Even theology has no longer any knowledge of the nature
pointed out what a fine spiritual nature such as Herman Grimm must

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it came about so gradually. When men looked out at nature in olden
from the unity of nature and spirit.
was conscious of the eternal nature of his own being, because he knew
This being so, it was necessary that man's consciousness of his nature

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think, get the upper hand of his transient, mortal nature — at
Who could no longer be comprehended in His spiritual nature but in His
bodily nature only. And the greater the emphasis that was laid on the
— of the real nature of the Being of Christ.
man will not be satisfied with investigating the laws of nature only,
or the laws of history which are akin to those of nature, but will
inner freedom, and of the real nature of the will which bears
him through and beyond the gate of death, but which in its true nature
betoken the resurrection of the spiritual nature. The purpose of the

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mission it is to direct and govern the phenomena of Nature. Such
symbol of all waking life — not only in Nature, but also in the
nature of a revelation. He must wait — and this is easy for him
cosmic in their nature, and those which are cosmic and spiritual. The
of will which are altogether spiritual in their nature. The sunlight
though it may be, in which all that is of the nature of will upon the
similar in their nature to the forces of will in the earth. The
apply to the whole realm of nature truths which first come to us as
cooking-salt, we find the cube again in nature herself, and here we
nature. But I ask you: — What does the average man of today know

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dissolution of his physical body is of the nature of will and thus
the nature of spirit-and-soul.
sun is only the symbol for that sun-nature towards which the human
for the Moon-nature which in streams of thoughts pours continually
What was the nature of these latter questions that were sent out into
In this way, happenings and processes in nature, and also those in
significance of the Sun-forces is that they draw man's will-nature
to that of the Venus-forces, they discovered that the nature of the
forces in the metal copper is the same as the nature of those of the
innermost essence of man's nature. We speak of a “sour” or a
human being gives expression to his nature as a whole depends upon the

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speak of him from the inner aspect, we speak of his nature of
place only on the physical foundations of the bodily nature. Such
one “manhood,” one human nature.
world — and only one human nature. When from our life between
their manifoldness but all are embraced in one single human nature.
the Sun-nature on the one side and to the Moon-nature on the other,
but also to the natures of the several planets. This was all
in which man is related to the Venus-nature, to the Mercury-nature,
possess between death and a new birth, the real nature of man's life
The essential nature of the life of instinct which wells up in man
Saturn-nature from the viewpoint of the Earth, we gain an idea of the
implant instincts into man's nature.
definitely of the nature of soul than are his instincts, namely, his
still entirely of an animal nature, in inclinations an element of soul
instincts from the whole organism is of the nature of Saturn; what
wells up in the form of inclinations, sympathies, is of the nature of
is bound up with the organism, is of the nature of Mars.
from forces in the cosmos. Leaving aside the Sun-nature for the
sagacity — these forces pertain to the Mercury-nature in the
The Venus-nature has been amply described in traditions and manifests
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ultimately with man's will-nature; and we cannot understand the
spatial coincidence, but with apprehending the nature of the
its organic life and its nature of soul-and-spirit.
everything of a slate-nature is spread all over the earth is connected
To account for the nature of the slaty element in the earth is
with the structural nature of the plant-world, how the lime-formation
is connected with the structural nature of the animal-world.
comprehensive knowledge that combines nature-knowledge and spiritual
Now it is always interesting when observing anything in nature or in
known about carbon? That it is to be found in nature as coal, as
when we understand the true nature of things; but they also have their
meant when it was said that lead is to be found everywhere in nature.

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only at the immediate present. The actual nature of scientific
Cusanus, on the other hand, was by nature disposed to be active in
what surrounds us in the kingdom of nature. But these concepts grow
surrounding man in nature; how it then tries to raise itself above
seeking the deepest nature of my own being. I am in nothingness when
search for the “I,” although all the kingdoms of nature

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this, we can describe the basic nature of successive time periods.
A third aspect was external nature with all that today is called the
spirit was likewise recognized in what we call nature today, the
thing or form of nature, they beheld an image of the spirit, because
they were still capable of seeing the spirit, a fragment of nature.
Inasmuch as all other phenomena of nature were images of the spirit,
or between nature and spirit; because one knew: Spirit is in man in
contract was felt between man and surrounding nature because one bore
every body in external nature. Hence, an inner kinship was
experienced between one's own body and those in outer nature,
and nature was not felt to be different from oneself. Man felt
external nature out of what lives in our memory, ancient man could
nature, he beheld the same image of spirit. No contrast existed
between man himself and nature, and there was none between soul and
Not only the human body, but in all of nature, too, forces had to be
pictured everywhere. Whereas formerly, nature in all its aspects had
spirit. This, however, implied that nature began to be something more
there arose the contrast between body and soul, man and nature. Now
as well from nature, something that also had not been the case in the
Nature
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to dominate the so-called phenomena of nature, arose in this form
out is then found to fit the phenomena of nature. But why this is so
nature — one experienced as mathematics through one's own
corporeal nature the mathematical images of what one had experienced
with one's own divine nature. The bodies of external nature
feeling himself within the nature of the gravitational force, man
be seen as arising inevitably out of human nature and evolution. In
glorifies the modern view of nature, glorifies Copernicanism. One must have
the way Giordano Bruno describes the modern conception of nature. Why
phenomena of nature with abstract mathematical thinking. Hence, as a
Their nature is such that we experience them simply through our
common human nature and must take them as they come. A successor of
spatial phenomena and processes of nature with abstract mathematics.
Newton's physics we meet for the first time ideas of nature
were conceptions of nature so torn away from man as they are in
nature.
a sort of brain or sense organ of God. Newton had torn nature asunder into
Goethe's nature. Goethe always had the feeling that man has to
was by nature Newton's adversary.
phenomena. It was evident to him that when nature is utterly severed
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something out there in the world that is somehow of a corporeal nature
pushed into one's own human nature, since no other place could
there. There was no connection with external nature, because it was
interminably. The basic nature of man's relation to cognition
events in nature. Without a coastline, as it were, the inner land of
concerning the nature of matter; whether it should be thought of as
inorganic nature, and they view even the organic in inorganic terms.
nature of the animate requires that I conceive of it
continuistically, whereas the nature of the inanimate requires that I
the arbitrary nature of the human mind. On the contrary, it
one recognizes the animate in nature in continual form and the
get back to our own nature and comprehend ourselves as living beings.

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the nature of physical corporeality.
To a certain extent science investigates man's inner nature,
qualities cannot be found in this inner nature. Therefore it has no
we want to discover the nature of geometry and space, if we want to
whereas, in accordance with their reality, their true nature, they
if we wish to comprehend the true nature of sound, for example, we
that if we want to acquaint ourselves with the true nature of sound,
consider the totality of human nature, the true being of man.
qualities in this unknown human nature; and they did not find the
world. The thinkers no longer understand human nature. They did not
abstract relationships in inorganic nature. It could not develop an
essential nature. Goethe's approach out of instinctive
theories of animal and man do not penetrate the true nature of man.
essential nature of man. We were not really aware of the extent to
that, instead of dealing with the true nature of man, they are
real nature, recognizing only what might make him into a
about nature, all understanding was gradually lost. This is what
from it the true nature of man, discarding it and retaining what this
nature, just as chemist needs deoxygenized hydrogen and therefore has

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scientific world conception to grasp the nature of man, we can say
nature. When he observed the fall of a stone, for example, in
external nature (an event physically separated from him) he
life of man. Man experienced them in unison with nature. But with the
Man's idea about nature began to change radically; not just the
be observed in nature.
through separation of nature's phenomena from man's
existence along with this separation of certain processes of nature
Looking at what lived in external nature and
see these if we look at nature. But, looking inward and focusing on
what is pictured as the inner nature of chemical processes is

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processes of nature.
modern conceptions about nature. They were ideas of quite a different
realm of nature were grasped in concepts and ideas that today are
Naturae (Concerning the Division of Nature) by John Scotus Erigena
Erigena on the division of nature, where even the term nature
element. He sensed that the basis of the external process in nature
something that is mere description of an external nature and its
In those ages when men felt external nature in their physical and
corresponds in outer nature to the processes in his physical body. It
breathing they were related to both outer and inner nature, hence
world with physics and chemistry; whereas he squeezed external nature
and came to grasp external nature only with his concepts of physics
developed conceptions from which he eliminated outer nature and came
to experience only so much of nature as remained in his concepts. In
broken with everything that was formerly known of human nature., On
start from the movements of man's fluids, his fluid nature. But
Holbach's Systeme de la nature,
with the ideas that prevailed at that time in outer nature. The whole
his own nature, he applied to himself what was well suited for a
speaking, so robust that they can grasp outer nature. Unfortunately,
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the nature of the case that the subject of a lecture course like this
function merely as a science that observes outer nature. During the
have as science of external nature what was once inner experience,
while our science of man's inner nature is what was once
human nature, in his physical body. This experience, after the great
our attitude toward nature, the idea prevails that what is observed
then we have something that lies in the nature of the body. We assert
property of it, something that belongs to its nature. You can
when we say: The nature of what is out there in space is of no
physical aspect is the sole object of our study of nature. You must
outer nature a remnant of life, it will observe what is dead I
what is dead. Therefore, our physics is dead by its nature.
at nature with the eyes of modern mechanics and physics, we must
Nature was not always like this. It was different at one time. If I
modern mechanics and physics lead you to view nature in this way, you
will see that nature is now a corpse so far as physics is concerned.
has reached the point of observing what is corpse-like in nature.
one time, the processes of nature were totally different. Today, we
nature, we study only the phenomenon in psychology and pneumatology.
reached by outer nature — because they even surpass this final
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nature of man. On the other hand the astral nature can be comprehended
as a member of the Cosmos, for this enters the physical nature at
nature, the cause of his existence between birth and death, but also
astral nature. Through such an experience man felt himself to be in a
nature of the ‘Ego’, and this power has been lost to modern
in respect of his physical nature. He must be recognized

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by their very nature their real content, but in waking dreams, which
of the true nature of the Ego, which in reality is sunk into
where the processes of Nature can be copied without man himself
contributing anything to these pictures. We attain a copy of Nature,
nature-knowledge and his own moral freedom.

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and etheric human nature.
through a higher inspiration a picture of the psychic-spiritual nature
the idea of the true nature of this imaginative presentation; for in
life has gone out of it. If we understand the nature of the corpse, we
physical man. The external forces of Nature, to which the corpse is
the spiritual, psychic world into his life on earth. The nature of
completely see the nature of earthly will. This is recognized in a
nature of the soul only indirectly. It can examine the nature of human
of this condition, from the nature of which we can realize that it is
dissolution of the body, because its nature shows itself, even during
true nature of the human soul.
physical Cosmology, built up on the nature-knowledge of the physical

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form an outer world for his psycho-spiritual nature. They remain there
nature acts upon man, revealing itself from the outside. But with this
memory. This explains in some measure the nature of philosophy which

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If one does not realize in one's own physical nature how something
understanding with one's whole nature and being what observation has
pre-earthly soul-nature as an echo of what he had gone through. On the
to the physical nature of man, death became a disturbing problem for
leads to an aspect of Christ's nature within the spiritual world.
way what had thus been given him in primæval time by nature, through

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before had indeed lain hidden in one's own nature, but had not surged
knowledge for something of a visionary nature. It tends, on the
And thus the soul is faced with its own eternal nature. In the
being — man. It sees how the spiritual centre of man's nature

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nature were also experienced during the state of sleep. But this
by its own nature on earth be so light that its antithesis which will

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organism of the will the true nature of the Ego. While something
physical and etheric event. This will-part is by its own nature
supernaturally-derived knowledge of the human nature complete in its
physical, etheric and astral organism, as well as to the nature of the
Therefore man strives through this spiritual-psychic being or nature
spiritual-psychic nature through the gates of death into the

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mankind, and everything of a hindering nature in the
to the subjective nature of man, and generalise it over the
condition from which subjective nature in an older epoch, and
nature, there would be nothing born on the Earth, were it not
kingdoms of nature and man, is dependent on the activity of the
various kingdoms of nature. That is a deception, a maya. It was
simply be woven into an ordering of Nature, and whatever
is the deceptive nature of our age to which all fantasy still
sensible phenomena of Nature supersensible Spiritual beings
the external ordering of Nature. But we have no concepts by
means of which we can come behind this external Nature to that
everything of a deeper nature, — all that could lead one

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the nature of man in the period between going to sleep and
into the nature of sleep, we must remember that it is just in
may use that expression, he would not have external nature
nature wean feel ourselves to be free persons.
psychic, Spiritual nature, inspiring it, therefore we rea11y
in our nature, filling it with their Intuition, therefore we
in the world of external nature one phenomenon is linked on to
say, absorb our Spiritual, Psychic nature. They permeate
external nature, together with the Beings of the third
into the external, sensible nature. Modern man, in the delusion
third Hierarchy were bound up with the external nature which he
Beings of the third Hierarchy with the phenomena of nature, and
placed the Beings of the third Hierarchy in external nature. He
considered the phenomena of nature as brought about by this or
phenomena of nature. It is an important fact, that this change
ordering of Nature which consists contains no ideals, which of
that one can never think that through what goes on in Nature,
something else than a mere external Ordering of Nature. But
— so, that the ideals are able to enter into Nature, into
of Nature and his own ideals appear to him side by side, but he
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spread. But by its very nature Christianity was not intended to be a
realisation of the nature of man's own soul-being was intimately
nature in the person of Jesus of Nazareth.
longer possible. The possibility of understanding the real nature of
illumined the discussions that were held on the nature of this
in which the two natures — the Divine and the Human — had been
human nature in its primal purity when he celebrates the Festival of
the difference in nature between the Father God and the Son God. And
defined feeling of the difference in the nature of the Son God on the
Nature Who had ensouled a human being in a way that had never before
Nature, by the Christ, imparts meaning and purpose to the whole of
death in human nature — then he confronted the very deepest
becomes visible and is known in its spiritual nature. Such knowledge
knowledge of the nature of Christ. We need a new understanding of the

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depending upon their nature. Thus, our study will only lead to full
understanding of the German nature and am able only to understand the
own nature of what is so deeply characteristic of Greece. The Romans
not steeped in a profound realization of the directly cosmic nature of
and Rome infected everything, grafting its own nature onto European

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the faculty to see the world of external nature without the
in, and holds sway throughout, nature. The intentions of humanity that
phenomenon of nature. On the one hand, men will have to direct their
down into the bodily nature. This life of imagination, which does not
belong in the bodily nature but should develop freely, hovering in and
deepest interest. The kind of understanding men have of the nature and
examples of various kinds of understanding of His nature and being

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nature of indications. Moreover, there is a further reason, which is
surging and welling up in his own subsensory nature. At best, it
experience its inner meaning, they then learned the nature of the
displayed much more of a soul nature. Quetzalcoatl also never appeared
— an external condition when compared with the inner soul nature.
inner nature by meeting other people with full interest. But this

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it, just as one can only get to know nature when one knows in its true
sentences. What we call the laws of nature can be compared with
seen. When we have learned to do so, both the facts of nature and
Nature, it is said, knows no leaps. In reality, however, we see how
whose foundations already exist in man's general nature, did not
Now, what is the nature of these special faculties that evolved in man
What is the nature of this dead element? It is not human beings, that
nature during the last three or four centuries. All that is necessary

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When we picture the nature of the Greco-Roman epoch, it appears to us
that had constituted the essential nature of Atlantean culture should
received into his nature such a joy in the life of earth and of the
full knowledge of the nature of the Atlantean impulses and was able to
nature of the Western world. As I have said, this impulse in the
Europeans of the wealth of external nature in America gave an intense
mortify the bodily nature, which flood the body with death, as it
bodily nature is shunned. This was to satisfy the aims of Lucifer.

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equally in his conception of nature and in his imaginative world,
procedures of the vilest nature; that they did not conduct the
impulse for everything of a spiritually scientific nature lies in

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individualistic nature since the old customs, ceremonies and rituals
spiritual force. Everything of an ecclesiastical nature was preserved,
nature of thinking in astronomical fields, that wonderfully effective
outer nature so that they might not be merged in the external events
nature. This deepening of our inner faculties that must be striven for

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get away from it. If we can develop memories of such a nature that
was at that time; or anything of a like nature which may bring the
experience the warmth of the dawn as something of a prophetic nature,
life of nature, and he thus gains the impression that there is
something behind the existence of nature, that the light with which
He feels that he is bound with his entire human nature to this earth.
nature of man. I shall not be bringing the right spirit into this
nature of the Seraphim.

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The Activity of the Soul-Nature in Physical Man
and in Nature
we seek to continue the study of the soul-nature to which we devoted
the soul-nature in physical man in reference to those things which we
lecture, gesture. In observing gesture and its nature we have
with the physical bodily nature which man as an individual being
fellowman, and also through intercourse with external nature. From
the habits acquired through observing the lower kingdoms of nature,
develop him towards a psychic and spiritual nature, which should now
Ahrimanic beings their point of attack on the nature of man. The
nature into which the ego cannot enter very satisfactorily. It is
everything in himself independently of external nature. He was thus
made to drive back into his inner nature all the forces which human
nature can develop, and not to bring them out.
becomes clear that man is brought under the influence of nature
are incorporated into the phenomena of external nature. When we study
into nature. If we observe phenomena of nature such as the rising
Luciferic beings unite themselves with nature. But the approach of
the human soul and spirit to nature through heredity and adaptation
when we look at man's nature we find in it the Luciferic and the
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Inner Life of Nature, through Imagination and Will
We have seen how memory, everything in the nature of
nature. We can therefore say: All that lives as astral body in these
nature there are only material atoms. Not with material atoms do our
the phenomena of nature, with the spiritually active forces. It is
memories dives down into the inner being of nature, and you are
nature.” You may go for a walk and see by the wayside yellow
for nature to have with the rose-bush not only an external
is far more united than he realizes with the outer world of nature,
case that the spiritual inner part of nature takes into itself of our
is not taken up from the child into the inner part of nature will be
inherited that is of a bodily nature. The first teeth are entirely
inherited; everything of a material nature which we have within us in
which he carries in sleep into the inner being of nature. If one then
also with forces in the inner being of nature. If we have been
friendly and kind nature is inclined, as soon as this kindliness has
during our sleep into its own being. Nature takes up our memories
the nature-beings.
Man is so intimately connected with external nature that
significance to external nature, as is also the way in which he
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inner nature of these rocks reveals itself as permeable to
metallic nature generally. Here we penetrate under the surface of the
Metals have something of an independent nature in them, they can be
the forces of nature, for instance, to, fire or similar natural

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which was of an exceedingly fine fluid nature, of a consistency
halfway between our present air and water. It was of a fluid nature,
oxygen, but there is a substance of a higher nature. As I have said,
Anyone who has looked round a little on nature knows quite well that
today rises in mist and falls as rain was of a chalk nature which
from thee. Thou hast also cast off the animal nature. In the form of
animal nature should become a separate product from thyself. But in
preparation for the earthly nature of man.
still of a psychic and spiritual nature, sinking itself in the ether.
much finer, more psychic nature. Then humanity came down again. You
from him, and which then became the other kingdoms of nature. They
which is of a metallic nature in the earth. For when one is united
indications of bones in the animal nature of the earth; how in this

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ennobled and elevated his own human nature, in that he felt it as a
by ennobling and elevating his human nature, in that he had been able
drops again as rain. The chalk was of a fluid nature. As it ascended
answered with that which it had taken up as the sense nature of the

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that he should get to understand the nature of this riddle — on
the one hand that he should understand the nature of this riddle, and

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firstly, the nature of these statues and secondly, through what
a nature that things which have power, because of their inner nature,
self-possession and feeling of kinship in his innermost human nature,
rightly symbolized in outer nature in snow and ice, unless Initiation
freezing and frozen nature. Annihilation exists here everywhere. Out
of this annihilation first of all something like nature-dreams are
born. And nature-dreams contain the germs for the World future. But
has struggled through to explanations concerning external nature and
concerning himself; he has become closely related to external nature
experienced, when external nature showed itself in summer landscape,

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HAVE related to you different things concerning the nature of the
insight into Nature dying and continually being re-born, because of
a mineral was of a hard horny nature. It has such a structure that
This element is really nothing but Nature-goodness, for I feel
Nature-goodness (thus he might have spoken) for from all around
goodness. It is goodness, but a Nature-goodness which is all around
me. But this Nature-goodness is not only goodness, it is creative
nature-existence as Summer landscape, if he came into this condition,
the nature-soul experiences as earth-man with ordinary consciousness.
perhaps by his commonplace nature, but by such experiences we mean
from the spiritual deepening of the inner nature of man, from the

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world in spirit, while the other investigated the mysteries of nature
and that which rules in nature, especially the forces and beings
and side by side with this, a conception of nature which was capable
external substances of nature in his being while certain other
substances of nature he does not carry in his being; this was
substances which we can also find in outer nature, but does not, for
earth, for that belongs to the Mars nature, that which thou now seest
Look around at the metallic nature in the earth today.
from the earth. The metal-nature streamed in from the cosmos, and
which is in reality the nature-processes of the earth.
products of nature, he finds everything dead, there is nothing but a
doing with nature really anything else in our science than what the
Thus in our science and physics we cut into living nature.

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connection with the secrets of nature underlies the Aristotelian
whose teaching led men away from the secrets of nature, whereas
authentic way about nature, people did not understand by the word
“nature” that which our modern natural scientists
into the world of nature in the very widest sense of the words. This
could be done, because, at that time men sought the spirit in nature;
This Mystery-instruction taught men to regard nature in
connected with a complete transformation of human nature; with an
to bring about this transformation of man's nature by causing to work
exhorted to feel himself intensely as man in his relation to nature
instruction. The connection with nature was not made by saying: “Here
which is of the nature of warm air. Man felt this contrast
the same time connected with a knowledge of nature; only the disciple
approaches nature, he could, through the deeper experience of its
lead-grayness. Saturn nature revealed itself.
gradually to comprehend the nature of the sun; he felt the
intention that thereby one should learn to know the true nature of
an extraordinary amount through study of the manifold nature of man
nature on man;
The relationship between the manifold nature of man and
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directly with the life of nature, with the spirit of nature. These
spiritual as well as an individual personal nature, the Mysteries of
say that as in the world of external nature the different regions of
nature was seen directly as the body of divine spiritual beings, who
revealed themselves in the whole of nature. Today we can go out into
of a soul-spiritual nature in their perception of the whole cosmos
processes of nature, and the great Gods, who expressed the beings of
You see it is not only the processes and being of nature
morality and nature flowed together in unity; and that was just the
consciousness directly: “Nature is spirit; spirit is nature.”
we describe the plant when we seek to know the nature of the seed. We
cannot recognise a seed, we cannot get to know the nature of a seed,
living nature of your own humanity.”

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nature of the Mysteries. That is the time which in the evolution of
different relation to the secrets of nature and of the spirit, to
consider any phenomenon, any event in nature by itself, isolated. He
regarded every event in nature as the expression of a God, a God who
nature in which each single thing, each single occurrence, was a
knowledge of what is divine in nature gradually withdraws from
cognition of the events and phenomena of nature and whereas, in olden
times, the things and processes of nature were revelations of the
processes of nature are simply pictures; no longer manifestations,
extent the processes of nature are images of the divine. I should
that natural events and processes of nature are pictures of the
take place in great nature? For concerning this process, which I have
the life and activity of nature this transforming process is also
nature was regarded as the work of the divine, whether the divine in
man or the divine in the great world of nature, the following demand
on the other into the investigation of the great world of nature.
spirits of nature in the processes of nature, so that he could have
intercourse with them; so that the spirits of nature could tell him
was intercourse with the spirits of nature. This it is necessary to
of the great world of nature, this medieval investigator would have
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you the nature of the Mysteries at any rate from one point of view,
not of such a nature that man looked up to the planets and saw the
in man or in nature; then, just as gold is obstinate in the face of
and so on, and thinks that they are all substances of a like nature.
his soul nature to this light he learnt to know what Intelligences
could only get as far as the spirits of nature; and while these
things of nature, they could only do so when they had prepared
experiments, the spirits of nature could speak to them. Let us
make various experiments. When I direct my questionings to Nature
nature spirits with their revelations.”
nature spirits appeared to the Rosicrucian investigator who was
merely to the nature spirits, but to the higher Cosmic Intelligences,
the Spirits of Nature, the spirits behind the elements, when certain
observations of nature were made, or certain experiments performed —
of Nature, then certain Spirits of Nature came around them and told
pain to the investigators when the Spirits of Nature spoke to him of
say: “These Spirits of Nature tell of a still earlier age, now
Nature was really of a dubious nature. While on the one hand they
could come to the Spirits of Nature, to the spirits of the air, water
humanity not only stood in connection with the Spirits of Nature, but
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to nature that underlies our modern view of natural events.
nature. And yet how is one process related to the other? It is precisely the
In contrasting clearly and plainly these two processes of nature — the
nature, it is possible, you could say, to begin at any corner. Let us take an
unknown depths and to insert itself into the ordinary course of nature,
which the organizing force of nature appears within the organism,
considerations and to immerse himself in a real study of nature itself,
of the soul life, a remarkable saying. “To know nature,” he says,
“means to create nature.” Indeed, if what is expressed in this
that creative nature follows. The empirical view states quite simply that
unrealizable nature of this demand exceeding human capacity, which
unable to pursue the creation of nature directly with our knowing, we are
highly gifted man that “to know nature means to create nature”
— by putting together the unrealizable nature of this demand with what
sentence stands as: “To know nature means to create nature,” which we
destroy the spirit.” If we are unable to create nature, so we are also
create nature in knowing it and those that are unable to destroy the spirit
consciousness into a relationship of the human being to nature. We will

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entire practical conception of the nature of the healthy and sick
which show a kind of daring. He simply said, “To know nature means to
create nature.” Generally what is first noticed when a genius comes
the physical body, of creating anything out of nature simply by
knowing nature. Obviously in technology there is continuous creation,
composition of the forces of nature, nature in turn is given the
“To know nature means to create nature,” and this sentence would be,
When we consider outer nature in relation to the finished processes of
nature, we can say nothing more than that “To know nature means at
most to recreate nature in thoughts.” Therefore what we call our
thoughts bring us no further than recreating nature since they lack
nature; we see it creating within our own organism. Thus if a child
nature but rather about what goes on within him, if the child were
able to look within to his inner nature and penetrate nature there, he
would say, “To know this nature means to create this nature.” The
Schelling as I have indicated? It is true, isn't it, that the nature
penetrated. Just as the sentence, “To know nature means to create
nature,” points us to the first age of childhood, and actually to life
the same way that outer nature is taken up, then that individual would
wishes to know the nature of melancholia or hypochondria driven to the
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of the nature of the human being that has been presented here
today: this is the view of the threefold nature of the human organism.
On the one hand we have to do with a threefold nature of the soul
This threefold nature of the soul being, however, corresponds very
If we thus wish to encompass the entire nature of the human being, we
being to the observation of all nature, if one is able to grasp all
nature in a spiritual scientific sense. If you look at the
first elements that are to be studied about the nature of the plant in
bodily nature, this penetration expressing itself within the body,
taking place outside in nature and at what takes place within the
outside in nature and what is active within the human being. In other
looking together at the outer workings of nature and the workings of

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nature of medicine so that a kind of social influence can emanate from
of the nature of medicine, the more effectively will medicine be able
organization of human nature, we can see in the phenomenon I have just
attempting not only to penetrate what goes on in human nature but at
the same time to penetrate what goes on in outer nature. Processes
take place in outer nature which, if penetrated in the right way, can
substances. Because outer nature — the plant nature, for example —
as the one behind which nature reveals its
that are normally anchored in phosphorus outside in nature are active
similar to the one that takes place outside in nature in the
in the human being is also present outside in the rest of nature,
nature for you to be able to see what actually lies at the basis of
human being with outer, inorganic nature becomes transparent. What I
that broadening one's knowledge about all of human nature leads into
You can see that if the nature of medicine is illuminated in this way
place within the human being and the process in outer nature; one
actually active in human nature. Now I would like to present something
nature, out of the cosmos, in such a way that there is a predominance
extraterrestrial element into general human nature. What draws the
right way at nature in the cases where nature reveals her manifest
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like an event of Nature. In Germany, it is true, the medieval
economics? It is this: Nature provides the products, and the animal as
which is visible as light. That which reaches down into Nature would
two regions, of which the one leads downward into Nature and the other

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course. They are: Nature, human Labour and Capital. It is true that we
three: that which comes from Nature, that which is achieved by human
Capital. But if we take Nature, Labour and Capital simply side by side
witness. Some say that all Value is inherent in Nature and that no
comparatively simple to form concepts of the phenomena of Nature
in Nature — more fluctuating, less capable of being grasped with
now consider, three things contribute: Nature, human Labour and
Here, you see at once, Nature is the basis of economy. True, even the
such cases Nature is taken just as she is, and the single creature,
Consider the animal economy once more. There we may say: Nature alone
Nature — the same starting-point of “Nature Value.”
moment a man no longer uses the Nature-products for himself, but
becomes, in relation to Nature, “human Labour.” Here we
thus: Human Labour is expended on the products of Nature, and we have
before us in economic circulation Nature-products transformed by human
long as the Nature-product is untouched, at the place where it is
found in Nature, it has no other value than it has, for instance, for
Nature-product into the process of economic circulation, the
Nature-product so transformed begins to have economic value. We may
economic value, seen from this one aspect, is a Nature-product
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theoretical nature) we ascertain that in a given place, in a given
It arises in this way. Here we have Nature on the one side.
Nature, and this is one point at which values are created. On the
then it will be to his interest that the products of Nature should
Nature, it will be to his interest that the other kind of products
interest either in Nature or Spirituality or Capital. When is it so in
interests of those producers who are on the side of Nature, nor of

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Let us begin today with Nature. In the first place, human Labour must
set to work on Nature, transforming Nature's products. The product of
Nature thus receives the stamp of human Labour; as transformed by
to Nature, we come with the further evolution of the economic life to
of their Labour — to a place where some particular Nature-product
this work upon Nature; they' must walk there. But now someone
in this: Where human Labour hitherto was determined only by Nature, it
which man has with Nature when he works upon her, is always loosened.
elaboration of Nature, all that we have to do with is the
Nature-products which, being transformed by human Labour, acquire an
workers from one place to another) — an emancipation from Nature
if I may put it so, we still see Nature shining through human
nevertheless the Nature-product still shines through the human Labour.
the Spirit emancipates itself from Nature, is lifted away from
Nature, until at length we have the capitalist, to whom the relation
of the Labour which he organises to Nature may be a matter of complete
becoming emancipated from the Nature-foundation. Here, then, you
have the emancipation of Capital from the Nature-foundation of
Spirit is narrowly bound to a certain kind of Labour, Nature will
it of the nature of the Labour. Look at a miner, for example; in him
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working upon Nature, so that from the mere raw Nature-product —
Nature-product transformed by human Labour. At the next stage, Labour
may say: Nature goes under in human Labour (see
We have therefore this stream from Nature into Labour. Nature goes under in
into Nature. But you must first call to your aid another idea if you
the present. First the elaboration of Nature by human Labour, then the
application of Labour to Nature; values arise through the application
particular products of Nature; but we can never understand rarity as a
from Nature through
Capital returns to Nature and simply unites with Nature in the form of
land, that is to say, with Nature), then the economic process will
not to preserve itself in Nature but rather to vanish into Nature. How
then can Capital vanish into Nature? So long as it is at all possible
to unite Capital with Nature — that is to say, so long as you can
make Nature in its original unelaborated condition more and more
is possible, Capital cannot vanish into Nature; on the contrary, it
penetrates into Nature and maintains itself there. Thus in all
unite with Nature, we shall find a congestion of Capital in Nature,
at Nature (see the diagram). If on the other hand we unite it with the
Capital vanishes. As it reaches Nature at this point, it will not
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Nature, Labour, Capital — that is, Capital endued with value by
“Nature transformed by Labour.” For such commodities I
interest on Nature-property right up to 100% by transmitting as much
Nature-property as possible in the shape of free gifts to those who
Capital away from Nature — we can attain by the life and system

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nature of separate economic problems. In this respect our present
agriculture of a social organism forms of its own nature a single
the values accruing to those goods in the production of which Nature
Economics, but we saw that the mere enumeration of Nature, Capital and
valuing of Nature-products does not come about through purely economic
There is Nature, but value only arises through Nature elaborated, that
is to say, it only arises when Nature moves in the direction of human
tendency arises to return again to Nature. This, as we saw, can be
seen, gives rise to elaborated Nature, organised or articulated
at this point “Spirit” — which gives us Nature,
elaborated Nature (Nature transformed by Labour) — when it does
from a Nature-product which has been elaborated for consumption. It is
a Nature-product taken in charge by the Spirit — a Nature-product
are, as it were, Nature grasped by the Spirit. Nature can be
Just as Nature is here received by the Spirit, so can the means of
And if this movement be now continued, so that Nature (albeit another
portion of Nature) from time to time receives what has been produced
once taken over by the process of Nature. Either it is eaten, in which
case it is taken up very decidedly by Nature; or it is used or
fact that it returns to Nature.

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we spoke of Nature, Elaborated Nature, and Labour divided and

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is that human nature does not tend so much to the use of force. We

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that which happens when Nature is transformed and elaborated into an
Nature-product, as such, comes into economic circulation by being
Now the point is: If we have any kind of elaborated Nature or divided
consists of nature-products (plant or animal) which have died and have

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nature of the evolution of economic life upon the Earth. It
are quite clearly perceptible, but which cannot in the nature of
Labour the Nature-products which subsequently serve for human
the products we receive from Nature. This may be done in many
created by the elaboration of Nature, where the productive process

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statements on the nature of money. For instance, you will find a list
You see, we must not only be clear on this, that Nature as such only
once more with Nature-products, Nature-products which are just
where the Nature-process begins. There can be no economic difficulty
It is necessary above all to grasp the essential nature of money.

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can become, how many factors converge in the nature of value and how
We saw how Nature, to acquire an economic value, must be transformed
Labour. There is the Nature-product. In an economic organisation based
on division of Labour, the Nature-product has, properly speaking, no
Values arise by the joining together of the material of Nature, if we
Labour upon the Nature-element. For the Labour changes the
Nature-element. It cannot be a merely additive function. It will be
said; we see the economic value arise where the Nature-product is
the Nature-product by human Labour — is direct work on the land.
“Nature times Labour” as the value which comes up from the
compare Nature with the Spirit, for we shall find no point of
“Nature times Labour,” in the other we must call it
that is in any way related to Nature, to the soil, the land; while the
valuation, valuing what comes from Nature on the one hand and from the
Nature. All that is done of physical Labour helps to create values.
very nature of the case, as between the production from the land on
find the amoebae crawling about free in external Nature and do we not
The different historical stages even in Nature live side by side to

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showed yesterday, that which is gained from Nature to begin with, and
united with an object of Nature.” In a certain sense, we can
Nature. But in the economic process there is also the contrary stream,
those which are mainly based on the elaboration of Nature, i.e., on
united with Nature,” or another item — B — will
Nature-product united with human Labour: “Potato”
signifies a Nature-product united with human Labour. And then we can
production, including Nature herself. At a given time it is quite a
whatsoever kind — eventually takes us back to Nature. There is no
other possibility. The farmer works upon Nature directly. One who
provides, shall we say, clothing, works not directly upon Nature, but
ultimately his work goes back to Nature. His Labour will contain an
connection with Nature. Everything, right up to the most complicated
of spiritual services, eventually goes back to Nature — to Labour
traced back in the long run to bodily work upon Nature. The process
begins from Nature; values are created there by the application of
still as close to Nature as possible — which have to be
upon Nature for themselves. Say that the village economy consists of
Nature.” For we shall then have this result: Say there is
one in every moment will then have his connection with Nature, even in
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within all realms of nature, but this disappeared and was replaced by the
aspect and nature. It will be necessary first of all to say
have the power to bring forth something of the nature of Saturn, to
add through their own nature and being a new Element, an Element that
of the nature of a sheath. Thus only after the Moon existence and
today, in a number of pictures, the nature and manner of thinking in

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within all realms of nature, but this disappeared and was replaced by the
the Mysteries of ancient times were of such a nature and character
the spiritual world; but it seems to him as though the nature of man
Nevertheless, he feels that in Nature one has something that is the
the objects of Nature are in their deeper meaning, when one observes
how the processes of Nature take their course, one cannot but
your ears: look with your eyes on the things of Nature, hear with
your ears what goes on in Nature; the Spiritual reveals itself
not let the spirit of Nature through. And the teacher said: But there
entered into the evolution of time and became Man. What Nature cannot
really comprehend it, I cannot connect what is out there in Nature
relation with one another. And so, since I do not understand Nature,
since Nature reveals nothing to me, neither do I understand the
in the world today, will not be able to understand either Nature or
understanding in such a way that you may behold in Nature and in
are willing, I will lead you away out of the Nature of your earthly
and Nature better. And the teacher and the pupil discussed together
it were far away from the Earth, became wholly given up to Nature and
the manner of Nature's existence.
works of Nature and discover behind them the works of the Gods.
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within all realms of nature, but this disappeared and was replaced by the
experience of Nature (though not with Nature on the Earth's
nature of prayer, done in common by them all, had developed a
external bodily nature, wonderfully lovely and beautiful, they
nature. Revelations came frequently to men from the spiritual world
from sources which in their real quality and nature remain hidden.
whatever came into being of a truly spiritual nature, was an echo of
nature, there also one finds the God; but then one learns to know how
of the eighteenth century, the nature of the Divine and the nature of

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within all realms of nature, but this disappeared and was replaced by the
knowledge man possessed of Nature and of how the spiritual world
works in Nature, is still present in the eleventh, twelfth and
carries his whole being and nature within him. And such a personality
really in his nature be a far more comprehensive being —
examples; in his true nature Man must be a great and comprehensive

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within all realms of nature, but this disappeared and was replaced by the
recently made its appearance, is the external observation of Nature,
observation of Nature nor with the mere sequence of abstract logical
rather instinctive nature.
arrived at when these symbols are rediscovered in the nature and
the inner nature, of the bones. Therewith they were able to

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within all realms of nature, but this disappeared and was replaced by the
Nature. But in the course of time this knowledge faded and grew
reflected. Now men could find ideas about Nature, the Copernican
themselves acquainted with all that could be discovered about Nature
epoch. All Nature: all the elements — solid, liquid, airy, and
tablet of Nature is fully inscribed; it was quite fully inscribed by
the Nature around us.
enhanced consciousness. Then, with the knowledge of Nature which we
acquire, we can dive into the higher world; and the Nature-knowledge
into a spiritual world the knowledge of Nature here attained, or
physical nature — is such that we feel Michael constantly
independently of the purely hereditary nature, can be carried up

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Nature. But in the course of time this knowledge faded and grew
all was reflected. Now men could find ideas about Nature; the
about Nature in this epoch. They received it into themselves and
To-day I shall only go back to the ancient Persian epoch. All Nature:
tablet of Nature is fully inscribed; it was quite fully inscribed by
out of the Nature around us.
consciousness. Then, with the knowledge of Nature which we acquire,
we can press into the higher world; and the Nature-knowledge we have
spiritual world the knowledge of Nature here attained, or again, the
physical nature — is such that we feel Michael constantly
independently of the purely hereditary nature, can be carried up

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reawakening of Nature — with the springing of life that grows
the year as our Easter, was a kind of Resurrection festival of Nature
— the coming forth again of what was asleep in Nature throughout
soon come to envelop, or drought to lay waste, the Earth. Nature is
you see around you in all Nature. Man also has to die. For him, too,
all the things of Nature. Nevertheless, just when Nature is laid waste
and bare, when all things in Nature are on the way to death, you also
so radically the transitory nature of all earthly things, the dying
that overcomes all Nature in the Autumn, overcomes man too, nay even
coincided with the dying and the death in Nature, while on the other
human being shall turn his gaze to the death of Nature, in order to
could be undergone in the entire human nature by Christ Jesus upon
souls. They knew the nature of the Christ because they had raised
be enacted in this way. For in the course of time, human nature had
Nature reveals her transitoriness and appears as a dying existence,
from the transitoriness of Nature to the eternity of the Spirit. Man
does not die in Nature, but springs forth again in Nature. He needs to
outer Nature — the force of the seed which was laid into the
Nature. Man needs the support of external Nature, of the external
Resurrection in Nature. He needs to see how the plants spring out of
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according to the whole nature of his physical and etheric bodies. It
Nature — if the liberating forces of the Sun, the impulses that
of Nature — the forces of which we speak almost exclusively in
about it? We are led to see the things of Nature, to describe them and
to Nature through the very ordering of present-day civilisation. For
he already knew the kingdoms of Nature — he knew them in their
knowledge of Nature. And when a man had learned this Nature —
universe; one learns to know its spiritual nature. This was the first
The knowledge of Nature holds good not only on the Earth. Man already
Nature must be pre-earthly knowledge, remembered, recognised; and that
within my bodily nature — that I can transform myself, that I

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man, inasmuch as man himself, in his full nature, is connected with
to Earth to unite with the physical bodily nature that is given to him
from the higher members of man's nature, from the Ego and the astral
nature and from the Moon behold the Sun. But a certain remembrance of
process of the Mysteries. Nature, they said, is fading and dying away,
Nature is laid waste. It is like the gradual death of man as to his
physical life. But whereas when we look at Nature we see only the
must now behold apart from what takes place in outer Nature, for we
Nature herself is overcome by the Spiritual; the spiritual works in
Spiritual. Just when Nature is springing and ascending, man was to
remember his descent into the Physical; and again when Nature is

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suffocated, in other words, a process of nature would have caused his
In our present time an earlier knowledge of nature must
be superseded by a new knowledge of nature. I have told you something
about this earlier knowledge of nature. Just think what kind of
nature existed, man was not a free being; he was only at the
is to make progress. In other words: we must understand the nature of
nature of things will ever and again be urged. I should like you to
too, that which would ruin a feebler nature may be rich in blessing
digests at once; so too, that which would ruin a feebler nature may
because it does not lie in our nature to attack. And it must be taken
was already out of his mind, discovered the true nature of his art;
transitory nature of the one incarnation. If we think of an extreme

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very nature share in the wrestling for knowledge that characterises
put forward by the idealist philosophers and nature-philosophers at
body was still malleable, pliant, flexible, was of such a nature that

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curriculum to any really objective recognition of the nature of
should seek that knowledge of human nature which can afford a real
nature of disease; not as indispensable for the present interpretation
and easily understood, regardless of the fact that nature and the
conception of the nature of the human being. And from the lack of such
processes, which are after all quite normal processes of nature, but
parallelogram are of a terrestrial nature, while the other set of
non-terrestrial nature. If one not only compares the particular bones
unique and not to be found in the other kingdoms of nature. Forces
extra-human nature. Our task will be to follow up systematically this
nature, which works into earthly mechanics and dynamics. In metabolism
lies in the nature of man. Thus we may also find the way back to what
human nature and the methods that may lead to a certain therapy. I
so-called objective rules and laws of nature. The aim must be set
also be a process of nature, and those “normal” processes which again
are nothing else than nature processes. This primary problem of how

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attempt to elucidate the nature of man by observing certain Polarities
what is the common belief about the nature of the human heart? It is
the signature of hysteria. It has been driven into the physical
however, I am referring to the specific nature of tuberculosis. And it
nature of disease. Let us take the most frequent symptoms of an
In Nature there are only rhythmical

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that may be derived from a deeper study of human nature regarding the
be external only. The nature of disease must be recognised to such a
the medical man must pass Nature's examination. But it cannot be
attempts made to unravel the curative processes from Nature herself.
which Nature herself gives counsel. But these examples are more or
another; whereas a genuine study of Nature would be a study of normal
Nature, in order to gather from them some conception of the healing
Nature in a normal way, if diseased processes are normally present in
Nature. So we are confronted with this: Are there processes of disease
in Nature itself, so that we can pass Nature's examination and thus
soul and spirt nature into parallel processes which are then supposed
to protest against this kind of nature study in my book
obvious explanation. But an insight into the nature of man forbids us
processes of nature. In these matters one cannot take the simplest
external world of nature — and the human organism. Undoubtedly the
nature; a connection of which we wish to avail ourselves, whether
healing? We must form a view of the exact nature of this interaction
nature of this connection between man and the external process.
lectures, and the activities of external nature, especially in
human body is actually extremely rare. So the very nature of the
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discover about the connection between man and that external nature
external nature, but has not been given anything like due attention,
to the events of external nature, especially in the plant world.
Please give your consideration to this: in external nature (let us
surrounded with organic structures whose essential nature consists of
external nature are found. You will thereby reach a more fundamental
nature by weighing him — to take a symbolic example for all
operative in external nature, which reach their final manifestations
vegetable world that surrounds us in external nature, we are entranced
vegetation in external nature, must be counteracted in man, and that
this concentration on the nature of bacilli has nothing whatever to
us, but working in the rest of Nature's order. The external natural
flora what the flora out in nature still retain.
nature of man with remedies from the vegetable world, without
of animal life in external nature, we can get no right concept of the
the common, ponderable processes of external nature within himself,
man's nervous and senses system. This aspect of our nature is far more
whole way in which nature works. For, however paradoxical, it is
hypophysis cerebri, that is to those which are of the nature of the

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of this remedial reaction of man to non-human nature.
from Nature herself, although fanatics have often gone too far and
sort of threefold division to the threefold nature of man. First of
occurs externally in the extra-human nature. Something that man has
between the human organism and external nature. We may conclude that
our human nature has inherent in it an organic need to reverse certain
Here then you have, in external nature, two states which are polar to
external nature. It comprises everything that possesses, to a great
shell, which works behind the saline nature. Such an organic process
indicates the contrast between the plant nature and Man (the animal
nature is fitted, as it were, into the human. And again, there is a
in external nature.

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some degree inherent in external nature; the impulse to saline
nature, in so far as our present subject is concerned? All that is
conceive the whole of external nature as involved in the struggle
relationship between everything of the nature of silver, all that is
above the surface of the earth. And all that is of the nature of
both in our thoughts and in our actions, in nature is actually united
equilibrium between the two. But in nature there are no such absolute
characterised yesterday and today, from the raw materials of nature,
light-bearing substances in nature, in order to get extra-terrestrial
nature and to make available through “potentising” the forces hidden

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a somewhat superficial manner — not to assume that nature has made
whole system of nature.
treatment, or, as it is now termed, Nature-healing, is to be
insight into the nature of, e.g., pneumonia or abdominal typhus, if we
nature of man in all its implications.
important to be able to follow up cases in which nature itself makes
It it were actually found worth while to consider human nature from

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also takes place in extra-human nature.
nature. Man is surrounded — let us choose this one thing to begin
contents of the plant. The essential nature of the plant defends
Now you are fully aware that in nature every process tends to pass
But in nature, all processes merge into others. Consider again the

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between the two senses, smell and taste, how human nature enters into
a closer connection with the occurrences of extra-human nature. We
nature in order to become perceptible to man. In other cases, this
extra-human nature, as being almost wholly situated in the unconscious
nature of man to accept and even try some form of movement, permeated
mucoid (slimy), is mainly due to the nature of the environment.
happenings of external nature.
external nature. The particular internal organic process consists
leading roles in external nature, by dispersing, dividing, and
will term the process of carbon dioxide formation in external nature.
illness, especially if used in the form moulded by nature namely,
nature, with processes yielding carbonic acid.
In this way we build the bridge between what is of metallic nature in
what is of non-metallic, rock-forming nature; just as we combine what
gradually become able to grasp concretely in external nature the
thus not advertising their nature — so to speak — loudly and
substance proclaims its inner nature insistently to taste and smell.
the process of silicon formation in external nature. Consider that
diversity as external nature reveals in the silicates. This is an
essential nature. We shall see tomorrow how this can be done. If we
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relationships between external nature and man may well tend to equip
every human individual with the means to observe nature independently.
the realm of nature; Cichorium intybus, the chicory. From this plant
sense of taste. This bitter extract, which still preserves its nature
divisions of the human organism.” Such are the experiments of Nature
those made by man; for Nature is far richer in its purposes than we
everywhere, that all substances which keep close to the plant nature,
of our human organism. Thus nature gives us, in single examples such
intuition to seek Nature aright.
reservation: the plant is really akin to a part only of the nature of
kingdoms of nature in himself; in addition to the human kingdom, there
evolutionary stages, with all the other kingdoms of nature. Indeed in
the course of evolution, we have, so to speak, put these nature
they do so, not only through their essential nature as plants, but
In order to grasp the nature of the curative process it is most
of outer nature, but in our “centre” — to which our digestion
essentially belongs — we separate ourselves from nature and cut
nature, in which man maintains his individual entity as distinct from
from nature shall be used for human consumption. For were it consumed
in the nature of specific curative treatment, than cooked food. I may
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our time, and because of the nature of our themes. We cannot follow
starting from the nature of vegetable carbon, carbo vegetabilis. We
nature.
nature — or in what I might term the nature that appears extra-human
to man. For what in the whole of nature's immensity is really
work towards a certain point; and in nature everything is based on
mysticism; it is a question of observing nature in its real
sequence, but of quite a different nature. It would be valuable and
kinship of man to extra-human nature.
him to turn to extra-human nature and to study the nature of these
mankind might attain the full human nature, is being re-absorbed into
as universal laws of nature, but are in absolute opposition to the
in extra-human nature. And concurrently we find the way in which to
on the human organism. All alkaline substances (of the nature of lye)
distinct interaction between all that is of the nature of lye and all
read the human processes from the activities of Nature. I have
leads us a step further into the relationship between external nature
ebullient living outgrowths of carcinomatous nature, if this

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nature so many diverse ingredients capable of acting favourably
must say to ourselves: here in external nature is something just
atmosphere is of such a nature as to furnish the ratio for the
indeed that we must admit: animal albumen is of such a nature in its
nature contains in these four substances the same formative forces as
of external nature, impinges directly upon our human constitution.
the involuntary elements in our nature — i.e., those which seem to be
mention that by its very nature it is not adapted to act beyond the
views on the healing processes of nature contained in them.
a metallic nature introduced into our bodies, has to do with the
wholly in accord with the course of nature to say that a tooth is
life of nature. If we regard only what becomes visible in dissecting
have the whole relationship of salt nature to the earth, as well as

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nature — that it is probable that these two special fields will
There is no need for me to analyse the whole nature of inflammatory
be necessary to simulate through the forces of nature, the removal of
of man becomes subjected to the outer nature inimical to man; the
for the study of the inter-relationships of extra-human nature to man,
incorrect conception of nature. The whole manner in which the
which may be described as follows. Its nature is to oppose all the
contrariety: it claims always special indulgencies from nature as a
If it were not giving too much offense, one might say that nature had
certain insight into the processes of nature themselves. This is why I
masking of the true nature of the case; one fails to recognise an
to recognise certain connections in nature, such knowledge is very

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only surveys a part and a comparatively small part of human nature
cannot better train yourself to divine something of the nature of an
estimate the processes of nature aright, we shall acquire a
inflammatory process were abolished in nature, no living creature
because the inflammatory process is inserted into the whole of nature.
nature, at the right rate of development. If it were abolished no
of nature become interiorised and centralised in man.
connections of nature are then revealed. I suggest that you should try
that early age. We stand here before outlets supplied by nature
the fact that man with his soul and spirit nature penetrates a region

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instincts which link us to the whole of nature? The reply must
uproot the living together of man with the totality of nature. They
concepts — of the nature of man's kinship to the environment.
nature, a cosmic-astral principle. We might express it thus: the plant
the most kinship with all the life tendencies of the vegetable nature,
It is possible to follow the processes of external nature to the point
sulphur process. These two processes sum up the essential nature of a
a certain way into the frame of nature it is doomed to develop
runs by its very nature with equal speed; this must be always borne in
the events in external nature with those inside man will show the way
of course only to comparative repose according to its own nature. The

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soul; so it is a misunderstanding of the whole nature of man, to
organism? All those processes in the organism whose nature involves
is transmuted rather into something of a conceptual nature and a
abstract laws of nature, which always let the student down when he has
way. It is the nature of man that he develops certain forces in early
(which are in many respects opposed to nature, and in no way give man
Their double nature is easily apparent, for if they are tested
double nature and office, but the second of the two is deeply hidden.

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despised nature, and sought to attain to spiritual realms by an
collaborate. We must cease to despise nature, and learn again to
nature, that alone should be an indication for treatment of the lower

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suppression of the plant-nature in mineralisation.
I would thus emphasise the essential nature of plants: it holds the
animalisation. This is what is perpetually at work in external nature.
The following example is of a more complex nature. The whole rhythmic
extra-human nature. If you keep these origins in the background of
external nature that are defensive, i.e., contain defensive powers
nature and in this direction.

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for mankind — most effective forces of nature. And if we investigate
spring from the character of its law. But the very nature of this law
of nature's secrets are accessible to a proper interpretation. Both
helpful — aspects of human nature. Both of these young women came of
in the realm of nature.
Let us now study something in external nature which is among the
creations by which nature framed mankind, and which shows by its
in which it is interwoven with the whole process of nature. Consider,
the nature-process. Yet another quality is even more significant.
inserted into the whole of nature. The characteristics of the smelting
whole process of nature, no other substance reveals its interactions
substance, on the supposition that the forces present in nature are
in antimony is present throughout nature; the antimonising power — if
together their action is not specifically of the nature of mercury,
action: and here, as everywhere in nature, actions meet
plastic and formative in nature is incorporated into the human or the
manifestations in nature as arise from a certain defensive resistance
caused in man by toxic action, are of such a nature that at the right
nature of an urge towards atropa belladonna: but an urge held in leash
forces, something projected into it by their own nature, which fights

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thuya, developed out of the functions of human nature itself. This is
examine external nature according to these constituents, conceiving
Such are the affinities and correspondences illuminating the nature of
nature on the one hand, and the bodily and physical nature on the
conspicuous in acute cases and change their nature if the condition
nature one ascends to the narrowing of the compass of a medicinal
foreground of these twenty lectures. Nature—therapy, since it
with the extra-telluric sphere. And nature-therapy must above all

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to speak more in general about the nature of such children.
nature and content of the disease itself. Similarly, in the case of
penetrating to the essential nature of the illness. It is, however,
nature, another life of soul, a spirit soul, which makes its descent,
soul-and-spirit nature of his has to be endowed, in the region of the
fundamentally of the same nature. We should really speak, therefore,

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nature. If, however, the individuality of the child is weak, it will
These processes, which in Nature are living processes, are gradually
on; the processes — which are, as I said, Nature processes —
direction of a stoppage of Nature processes; matter is continually
factors other than those that arise out of the nature of the case,
nature that descends from the spiritual world, to look with love upon
so, in the nature of the case, since all talk about education

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nature that, for reasons which you will understand as you follow
is of the nature of “air”, with all that is gaseous. You
we bring with us also our will nature, that is distributed over the

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that a faithful study of the nature of so-called illnesses of the
forms of illness in children, that are of an epileptic nature? We
familiar with the fact that in inorganic external Nature, substances
consciousness — to pain. That is the real nature of pain.
only those feelings are not of a depressing nature, which, as soon as
condition that has been described as arising out of the nature of the
nature of the abnormality shows itself to us quite plainly in the
to intimate details of this nature, we shall be able to find, if we

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nature that we can say: There is the ego organisation, there
sphere and the circle, wherever they occur in Nature — indeed,
no purpose; impressions of a particular nature simply disappear into
nature and character of physical substance be discovered.
great deal if we reckon especially with their rhythmic nature, and
repeat a verse that is in the nature of a prayer, even though there
simple nature.
sulphurous nature. If, on the other hand, we give him a diet that is
system; this will stimulate also his whole spiritual nature. Let such

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had to bring his soul-and-spirit nature into a body whose forces are
hand and the bodily-physical nature on the other hand. Suppose we are
body and so become master of their own bodily nature, the important
nature of each particular sound, and be absolutely at home in

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for meat. (The astral body of man is, you know, by its very nature

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comes home to us when studying the riddles of human nature is that
the bodily nature of the child undergoes at birth is concerned, first

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examples. Stories to represent a child's nature. The hydrocephalic
nature should be carefully noted. But let us now consider two kinds
only advice that can be given for a crisis of this nature is on no
inherent nature of the abnormality itself.

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nature of a life-work such as you are undertaking should not allow
understand in a general way the nature of algae injections, but you
and at rest, and the finer side of his nature, which was generally

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of this nature is, you see, present. Starting from it, we should now
with that memberment which arranges the whole nature and being of man
do not concern themselves with problems of this nature. But directly
bones of the skull. In no realm of nature does it get beyond the
the nature of the defects in backward children. And this is what we

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study of the growth and nature of the plant. (And, as we saw,
nature to their soul and spirit?
spiritual — in its own nature and also in its activity and
we have that which in man is of the head nature and
still believed that the animal kingdom inscribes into Nature all
the nature of disease in man was held, for example, by Hegel —
can be thrown upon the nature and character of a particular human

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on the complementary nature of Christmas with Midsummer and Easter with
But now as the Mystery of Golgotha drew near, the whole nature of the
nature of this extraordinary event yielded its secret to them through
same nature. Only it is a reflection, a raying-back force, whereas we
cosmos in the summer, it is also opaque in its inner nature,

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on the complementary nature of Christmas with Midsummer and Easter with
speak to you about how, when the course of Nature is permeated by
nature and what lives in the spirit. We bring together what is
earthly with its deeply concealed winter nature (orange), then
Earth nature begins to wither, when the mood of the grave is spreading
abroad in Earth nature, when the symbol of the grave can appear before
out of themselves to “speak” something into Nature that
“together with” the course of nature. It is not admissible

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on the complementary nature of Christmas with Midsummer and Easter with
animals.” — People experienced along with Nature the gradual
experience with Nature in such a way — when their consciousness
the spiritual in the successive changes of outer nature, in growth and
to dead nature; it considers itself incapable of rising above dead
nature. This is a result of that inspiration which was stimulated by
relation to Nature. We must come to know the connection between this
special inner soul-filled liveliness how Nature herself changes toward
winter; how the plant leaves get their autumn coloring; how all Nature
world in Nature; to feel the kinship of man's spiritual
“being-ness” with Nature's spiritual “being-ness”
when man lives with Nature in this way as autumn approaches and brings
this living-with-Nature to expression in an appropriate festival
pantheistic unity. Man is surrendered to the unity of Nature, and to
monon; he is either a devotee of universal spirit or universal nature;
shall have an inspiration, a Nature/Spirit impulse, to introduce
“three,” and so on. But Nature does not take such a course.
woven together, as is the case with Nature in springtime — which
life: not abstract spirit on one hand and spirit-void nature on the
other, but Nature permeated with spirit, and spirit forming and

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on the complementary nature of Christmas with Midsummer and Easter with
ascribe a somewhat dreamy nature to this old form of consciousness.
just in the sensible workings of Nature, as is the case today, but
aspects of Nature in spring and in autumn. I have pointed to this just
dead nature, in the mineral nature.
example, the sprouting, burgeoning plant-life and plant-nature in
these take on something of the plant nature. Just consider what kind
a general feeling of nature, of which an after-echo is still retained
to plant nature (shaded in drawing). And when air and warmth
the magic saying contained, they were to apply to Nature, and thus
using any kind of pliant substance available in nature. People had an
activities that arose from the impelling force in Nature experienced
element that he drew out of the nature processes of the Earth, there

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on the complementary nature of Christmas with Midsummer and Easter with
cycle of Nature which was formed in ancient times under the influence
cycle of Nature. You may have gathered from yesterday's lecture as
nature. We cannot really say that modern man even feels the
being alone with his bodily and soul nature, or as we would say today,
the world. Men did not expect great secrets of Nature to be revealed
to them at this season. To be sure, such Nature secrets were spoken
side. On the other side, man perceptively felt Nature, I might say, as
luminous Nature as it was during the daytime remained also into the
ruling and weaving of Nature in the summer nights, in the summer
dream by which they were convinced that every phenomenon of Nature was
he is in a certain sense growing out of the spiritual into Nature.
“living-out-from” the spiritual, as a living into Nature.
Nature's year.
together with Nature. For in that period man still stood closer in his
with Nature. His whole thinking took on this character. If we want to
Nature-knowledge (see diagram). Toward autumn man felt that he
of him that he should learn to know Nature. Thus at the autumn equinox
we have, instead of moral impulse, knowledge of Nature, coming
to know Nature.
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which must be harmonized, toned down and modified if human nature is
extended ether-body — which is not suited to the nature of man
but to the Luciferic nature — makes itself felt and takes shape before
Here we have a clue to the nature of the Sphinx. The Sphinx is really
excessive energy is promoted in the blood, the Luciferic nature — the
physical plane, he comes into contact with the Sphinx-nature. At this
had completely understood the nature of Mephistopheles he would not
very nature Mephistopheles-Ahriman lacks the etheric forces necessary
force. The best way to understand this will be to consider the nature
Just as those etheric forces which tend towards the Luciferic nature can
nature can only approach the nervous system — not the blood.
Mephistophelean powers, like a second nature, will attach themselves
The Mephistophelean nature is strengthened by all the prejudices and
the nature of the being who stands at his side. If he does not
understand the nature of this second being, he will be spellbound by
to expression in the child, human nature itself will be impaired owing
very much closer to the wisdom of Nature and the manifestations of
Nature. They approached the wisdom of Nature without theology, and
Nature than is the nerve-process. That is why the Greek had such a
no longer believes that direct intercourse with Nature brings him near
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the nature of man that are prevalent in the materialistic thought of
with his feet. Not the nature of the soil, but the man and the wagon
that are of the nature of soul-and-spirit. And so long as we live in
bring them together — to this fact we owe our Ego-nature as human
Ahrimanic powers — and for other powers too, of like nature with

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and Ahriman play a part. We come a little nearer to the inner nature
inner nature. The etheric body, however, which is in perpetual
philosophers — whether the human soul in its essential nature has
with our etheric body into the sphere of the elementary Nature spirits
think, but the influences also of the Nature spirits; these enter in
and make themselves felt. When a man has met with these Nature spirits
in an abnormal condition that man meets the Nature spirits, namely,
world, therefore also with the whole sphere of the Nature spirits. Let
Nature spirits for whom this very feeling in us is food and
Someone comes to us — it is really a Nature spirit, appearing perhaps
the longing for the physical body and the help that the Nature spirits
You must not imagine that an experience of this nature is the only way
already seen how we may come into relation with the Nature spirits in

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nature has made, that plants and animals and human beings should
also contain carbohydrates, and of such a nature that the human being
The human being still takes his salt and his sugar from nature. He has
is still something of nature in it. But with the fats that man or
animal have in them, there is nothing anymore of nature. They have

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Dr. Steiner: Well, first of all we should establish the exact nature

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nature of social circumstances that they are governed by impulses

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might say, to compensate for something missing in their human nature;
was based on very generalized ideas about the nature of human beings,
Thus on top of their ghostly nature these human spectres were not
otherness, and nature was there.
when they become truly aware of their spiritual nature, what can they

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pointing to the questionable nature of some of the episodes in her
demonstration that there is something in the depths of human nature
anything of a spiritual nature, to attach themselves to her
everything of a true spiritual nature which enters the world in our

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with the bridge to something of a quite different nature: to the
which was not of a spiritual nature has been carried over. If,
aspect of human nature exists as if it is woven out of dreams, if I
because it is spiritual in nature; because it is the echo of their

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within the resultant view of nature.
there is a unity in the way in which they explain nature, and in how
that understanding of nature then ascends to an understanding of the
divine, the many-faceted divinity, which is active in nature.
were nature spirits which guided the various aspects of nature, and
is impossible, above all, to discover the nature of Christ on this
The ancient wisdom which understood nature and spirit as one was
know the nature of the Mystery of Golgotha and was able to judge it
teachers propelled by cultural tendencies of an egoistic nature. From
a kind of sphere of influence — first of a spiritual nature,
thoroughly European nature of
to the thoroughly eastern nature of Blavatsky's

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the nature of contemporary western civilization, and do not recognize
any way forfeiting its essential nature. But neither must it be

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nature are discovered and investigated. These laws of nature, which
nature (yellow). Then there was the human being (light colouring).
nature its substance.
natural science the link between nature and the divine was severed.
The divine was removed from nature, and the reflection of the divine
in nature began to be interpreted as the laws of nature.
For the ancients these laws of nature were divine thoughts. For
natural phenomena which are governed by these laws of nature. We talk
nature.
homeless soul, feels when we talk about nature today. It feels that
those who talk about nature in such a superficial way deserve the
laws of nature, but the latter are remnants from ancient knowledge, a
The laws which were discovered in nature were the individual roses.
Thus our laws of nature are rather like roses without the rose bush:
inkling of this in their hearts, because the laws of nature wither
something about nature which withers the human being. A terrible
as the laws of nature were turned into withering roses, so moral
nature as well as of moral laws. That led to the concept of Intuition
of nature on the one hand and the moral commandments on the other had
yet anthroposophical in nature is being rather too clever. It is as
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been torn away from a direct connection with nature. And we
nature of withdrawing and protecting oneself from the
it is understandable that weaker natures prefer to withdraw
therefore cannot arrive at its true nature, they talk a lot
developing a real observation of nature such as could have
the old way of observing nature and observed it impartially,
knowledge of the laws of nature that natural science came
the forces of nature, and mastering them in an unprecedented
technology is. And the characteristic nature of modern
machines with which he can then work back on nature and life
over nature and its forces.
them through observation of external nature, but also acquire
its entirety, that is, both as nature and as spiritual
nature. We blast out quarries and take the stone away,
interrelationships in nature. And the second stage consists
of taking what we have extracted from nature and putting it
nature, mineral nature to begin with, we know from previous
now. What is important here is that we cast out of nature the
who maintain nature. In all natural existence there are
elemental spiritual beings. When we plunder nature we squeeze
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spatial pictures; but these do not show its essential nature,
what is in us of an astral nature a step lower down into the
Now nothing arises that could truly have a spatial nature,
sevenfold in its nature and that it is an organism of inner
beings, as possessors of an astral body: what is our nature
and what is absolutely real, then even the nature of major

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our inner astral nature as human being. Painting is, as it
were, the outward projection of this inner astral nature of
ours. Just as we experience in our astral nature sorrow or
learning to know the inner nature of the path of
connect me with the realm of nature that surrounds me on the
spiritual nature of the world through spiritual science, we
ahrimanic nature in our building and, as it were, banish it
themselves in the nature of the Saturn condition, then the
people immerse themselves in the nature of the Sun condition,
if they immerse themselves in the nature of the Moon
colour and the nature of chiaroscuro will become apparent,

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you know their true nature, where beings exist that have a
being of man is threefold: a bodily nature, soul and spirit.
For it really is like that. The threefold nature of man,
mankind knew nothing of the threefold nature of man. Everyone
bodily nature that lives on the physical plane, a soul nature
that actually lives in the soul world, and a spiritual nature

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from outside . The need to refer to nature and to a model for
rejection of nature and outer reality. Far from it, for there
respect. They will actually unite their moralspiritual nature
We shall also understand something of how the surface nature of
understand the inner nature of things and to unite it with
nature of things.
to know the inner nature of colour and, as I said before, we
created in which forces of that nature could not be brought

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be in the nature of what he calls science that it has a cold
riddles of nature will be solved, and then he will know how
nature one after the other. And they imagine how boring life
aspects. To approach external nature with our souls thus
filled with anthroposophy, is to find more riddles in nature
tell us the whole of his nature, nor fathom the universal
lifeless nature becomes filled with Lucifer and Ahriman and

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nature simply insist on their being satisfied. That is one
side of human nature. In this respect we say, ‘We do
out of the necessity of his nature. Strange experiments are
moral and immoral nature in the ordinary sense of the word is
something he will feel to be second nature. Particularly what
great deal in human nature, though, which makes it difficult
nature, you only have to observe life in the right way, which
nasty to them arises most often in egoistic natures, whereas
built, has a bodily, a soul and a spiritual nature in a

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to look at the spiritual aspect of nature and recognise
needed to form a skull.The inner unity in nature comes from
was to recognise, it would not express the essential nature
the creative forces in nature, and unless modern industrial
forces in nature. There is hardly anything outside in nature
which have the task of building up our bodily nature we get
ego-astral nature of man with the blood and nerve channels of
cannot happen, because they come from nature. But at least
societies which, by their very nature — otherwise there

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him he can no longer keep his form. Nature forces do not give him
this form; nature forces merely break it apart, they do not make it
Of course, what is outside in nature seems beautiful,
second was of an air-nature.
spiritual-soul nature is born at the same time, and this remains. It
birth. What was the nature of this conception during the ancient Moon
protected from the mineral nature and may only be given the prepared
during his whole life was of a milk nature. Our air today contains
only comes at the moment of birth with the Moon-nature still present
process there is always something of the nature of fever, even in a

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air; then there is a substance of a gaseous nature which plays a
chlorine, a combination of the two. Such things come about in nature.
which there was something of a thorn-like, nature, but also something
they have had to develop something of a lung nature. But the
Reproduction was at that time of a very different nature; it went on
completely preserved in his present corporeal nature the legacy of

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all. It was pushed up by man, perhaps with the help of nature-forces,
nature of the fossils, how these animals and the various plants have
a little of the fly nature with our seventy to seventy-two years! We
So it is, gentlemen! And this is true not only of nature
in one case we have to do with nature, in the other with culture. But

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itself up out of the rest of mighty Nature. It was only when
no cause for regret; it is in the nature of human evolution. It must,
according to the nature of the soil where one lives. You see, China
essential nature of their kingdom and its institutions. Their
it was a kingdom, it partook of the nature of a family.
nothing at all of what later took on the nature of a state. All they
being by the nature of the language and script. Here again it is not
nature of Chinese and Japanese painting.
conscious of inventing rules of a moral or ethical nature; they were
nature of the body is made manifest.
most something of a figurative nature. For the Chinese they signified
within them the spiritual nature of the physical body.

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excellent arrangement nature has made, that plants and animals and
nature that the human being forms starch and sugar in the healthiest
nature. He has to derive the sugar from the potato and the rye and so
on, but there is still something of nature in it. But with the fats
that man or animal have in them, there is nothing anymore of nature.

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establish the exact nature of his earlier arteriosclerosis. Usually

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in nature too, anywhere in the world. You first have things in a
certain human beings to have an ape-like nature in the future, but
to tell; they were in harmony with nature and would speak not in an
forms to good spirits and all that is not nature, all that is
imagination is of a far more spiritual nature in the human soul than

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have you not, of different kingdoms of nature: plants, animals, human
belonging to the different beings of nature are related to the origin
nature. For instance, in a place where people are drinking wine,
part to the influences of Saturn, and so on. And the plant-nature in
The human being has the whole of nature within himself:
mineral, plant, animal, and man. The plant-nature in the human being
plant-nature, also have an odor. So whether something does or does
nature have, but in him it has all become feeble.
perfection than the other creatures of nature because what is
from a child out of his very nature, he will regard that as having
exists in nature by brainwork alone, but by being able to penetrate
into the secrets of nature. Cleverness does not necessarily lead to

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have their influence upon what is of the nature of soul and spirit.
when a medicine is being prepared. So because nature does this far
connected with Nature herself

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beforehand, because something was already happening in nature in

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researches in the 40's of the last century into the nature of the

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of nature.
nature, but nothing of particular interest. The comet was 13,000,000

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gradually built itself up from the rest of great Nature. It was only
no cause for regret; it is in the nature of human evolution. It has,
earth differs according to climate, according to the nature of the
super-sensible worlds found expression in the essential nature
kingdom, it partook as a whole of the nature of a family.
had nothing at all of what later took on the nature of a state. All
spiritual nobility is called into being by the nature of the language
This constitutes the very nature of Chinese and Japanese painting.
rules of a moral or ethical nature, but merely recorded their
such a way that what is of an animal nature in the body is made manifest.
nature. For the Chinese, they signified a reality. When, on getting
actually contemplating within them the spiritual nature of the

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nature, for indeed it is not so. We have, rather, to be clear that
battered in course of time. It is like that, too, outside in nature,
possible for certain human beings to become of an ape-like nature in
were willing to tell; they were in harmony with nature and would
that has no part in nature and is artificially produced, they would
imagination is of a more spiritual nature in the human soul than the

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The Functioning of Spirit in Nature and in Man. The Being of Bees.
background in the nature of the bees, and reserved for the Queen bee

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The Functioning of Spirit in Nature and in Man. The Being of Bees.
of bee-keeping has something of the nature of a riddle. Obviously,
delicately prepared by Nature, and having done so, makes use of it in
in Nature that is without forces. This six-angled, six-surfaced
matter if the larva were to occupy a round one. In Nature it
that Nature bestows much more care on the development of the
important one in the whole household of Nature — namely,
grow into independent beings because Nature encloses them on all
also possible. In Nature everything is wonderfully inter-related. In
Nature the laws which man is unable to penetrate with his ordinary
earth. This is brought about in the wisdom of Nature. If it should
become more numerous. In Nature, every need calls forth the working
take the nectar from the plants Nature does not remain idle, but produces
the bee-colony — of this organism — Nature reveals
Nature which are truly wonderful and of great significance. One
cannot but feel shy of fumbling among these forces of Nature. It is
Nature is everywhere hindered, though notwithstanding these
hindrances Nature works as best she may. Certain of these hindrances
for Nature. For example, he seems actually to be helping Nature when
Nature has elaborated in so wonderful a way. You see bee-keeping has at all

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The Functioning of Spirit in Nature and in Man. The Being of Bees.
article is really concerned with is effects of a chemical nature.
nature.
nature of the bee. But the sexual nature is entirely of a chemical character.
with their whole nature. The remarkable thing here is that in winter the

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The Functioning of Spirit in Nature and in Man. The Being of Bees.
nature.”
Nature often
that Nature works with great wisdom, one
Nature's possibilities, for the plants produce honey and it certainly
— Nature is a bungler, she makes only milk to flow from the
animal-nature in man. In man it is animal. If you take honey, it comes
from the plant world and has a plant nature. If you take silicic acid
— quartz — then this has a mineral-nature; it has quite a
the forces of nature at work here.
leads us very deeply into the great processes of Nature. You see, it is

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The Functioning of Spirit in Nature and in Man. The Being of Bees.
anyone knowing the nature of the cow realises it is quite
nearer to Nature than the cow that is being bred in this fashion. It
to do this in bee-keeping. Thanks to its nature the bee remains united with
external Nature; it helps itself again. And you see, gentlemen, this
to me on a farm, that all in good nature, I was nearly killed when I began
recognised that there is a great difference in whether one allows Nature to
is not aware what it was all like when only Nature herself was at

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The Functioning of Spirit in Nature and in Man. The Being of Bees.
out of the whole nature of the bees, and that it would be well to
with a true understanding of nature. You see, it is not possible to
that are totally foreign to them; bees in their whole organic nature
things through their whole nature may be bound up with definite
I should like to say something quite briefly about the nature of this
gather substances from the storehouse of nature and then transform them
was first prepared in nature, and we find once more an instance of
state of dilution; Nature itself has brought it about in an indirect
gentlemen, nothing has been taken away from Nature, the essence of the
honey remains within Nature. The wasp cannot prepare the honey in the way
honey-substance from Nature, and transform it into honey within itself.
gentlemen, what it signifies that one can in this way look into Nature's
only to assist Nature by seeing that the wasp comes at the right
of nature.
in wax. Nature has herself increased the wax so that the cultivated
Nature has made richer in wax.
of honey production in Nature that has not yet appeared openly, for the
bring out into the open what remains still within Nature in the
so that Nature is herself a bee-keeper. The bees have drawn it forth
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The Functioning of Spirit in Nature and in Man. The Being of Bees.
nature.
the flowers, from flowering plants, and what is of a similar nature
substances. The bee gathers only what is of the nature of the
blossom, or more rarely what is leaf-like in its nature. The only
nature of the blossom (to woody parts and such-like they do not go)
of Nature quite a little cow market in aphis is carried on by the ants.

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The Functioning of Spirit in Nature and in Man. The Being of Bees.
household of Nature, for the more one learns to understand these
realm of Nature.
would then have to say that Nature has given these creatures an
for one must look deeply into the whole household of Nature. It is
came a substance which had an animal-like nature. Our earth was once
nature. From cosmic spaces came the animal nature; from the earth the
throughout nature, You actually cannot find any bark of any tree that
birds feed on them. Throughout the whole of Nature there are these
household of Nature and its splendour. Everywhere things happen that
are willing to let it all rot away, but Nature orders it
would say: when we ants go out into nature and suck that out of the plants
bees, wasps and ants do not only rob Nature, but help to make it possible
for Nature to live and thrive.

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The Functioning of Spirit in Nature and in Man. The Being of Bees.
only oxygen and nitrogen, but that throughout Nature there
bees, wasps and ants. There is, may be, little in Nature which permits us
to look so deeply into Nature herself, as the activities of the insects;
work, what immense intelligence there is in the whole of Nature. Let us
Nature are extremely wisely made, and one must really say that there
human nature. One must make a picture of what is happening in the
this what strange relationships exist in Nature. Outside there, are the
everywhere in Nature and everywhere in the human body, so also is
there oxalic acid everywhere in Nature and in the human body.
liver, spleen or something of this nature. By way of the
of the nature of glycerine. I have then in the intestines oxalic acid
Nature there is intelligence everywhere; it comes through the formic acid.
arises everywhere where sensation, or something of the nature of the
formic acid in himself if he wishes to bring forth something of the nature
What significance has all this for Nature?
following year. Men may not appreciate this, but Nature finds it
quickened by the insects. As men we breathe in formic acid; in Nature
man on the one side and Nature on the other side. In Nature formic acid
Nature. Man is a little world, and between birth and death he is able
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with the nature of its content, that it is inwardly organized

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organize; this grows. It is just in the nature of an organism
implicit in the very nature of both the human being and the
[“Daughters of Nature”],

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nature of the spiritual life, the nature of the
juridical-state life, and the nature of the economic
tendency of nature you have also to approach the tasks which
nature. And this suggestive influence did not only take root in human
the following attitude: it is an absolute necessity of nature that
nature of this view. He among all people is, as it were, predisposed

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spiritual life must have a sort of lyrical nature within you;
nature, reporters write their articles most frequently in

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was in the nature of the Liberal Party, of which the joker,

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By its very nature Spiritual
began to ask questions about the nature of the impulses underlying social
law should be as supreme as in the world of nature and which, secondly,
believed that the spirit would help them to fathom the world of nature;
they believed that nature was in some way directed by the spirit. But
knowledge of nature. Men placed reliance alone upon observation and
of nature, dating from the time preceding the fifteenth century, will
the writings on the subject of nature indicate quite clearly that anyone
who experiments with processes of nature must be filled with a certain
certain Divine Beings. Experiments with the processes of nature must
working with the processes of nature. It was the aim of a man like de
in the world of nature outside the human being. It is, as a matter of
the nature of the laws and forces at work in the human organism, we
know that they are not to be found in outer nature. In outer nature,
the processes of outer nature. Nevertheless, if it is rightly applied,
the knowledge gleaned from a study of external nature enables us to
investigation of nature before the fifteenth century said to himself:
Outer nature lies there before me, but the laws of this outer nature
manifest in outer nature. But the evolution of the human being must
not be subject to the laws and processes of external nature. Man would
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other feature of nature, the phenomena of the cloud-drifts in certain
connection with the surface of his nature, he is within what sounds
first and foremost under the influence of human nature itself. It was
from nature, they no longer participated in the life of nature, and
although they still have forms of thought derived from nature, they
and with the aid of Nominalism next came the conquest of nature.
hermits. Goethe says “He to whom nature begins to unveil her open
art.” Art, says Goethe, is a revelation of nature's secret laws,
upon something which it wants to bring forth of super-earthly nature.
because it has been fructified by thought born out of human nature in
nature from outside — has exhausted itself in natural scientific

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phenomena of nature.
views concerning the man, Jesus, and the nature of Christ, because at
nature by means of the various sciences — mechanics, physics,
With regard to inanimate nature, one strives for the greatest possible
One wants to translate data gathered from nature into clear mathematical
would then be justified in saying: I contemplate nature, and what I
the ideal of the so-called “astronomical explanation of nature,”
realms other than that of inanimate nature. You know that in the course
to explain inorganic nature, Haeckel could nevertheless claim that this
party continually wove a tissue of ideas in order to explain nature,
that one should describe what occurs in nature and forgo any more detailed
[“Grenzen des Naturerkennens”],
by the view that one could explain the broad realms of nature in terms
concepts he formed concerning the realms of nature and external human
simply lay within human nature and the order of the universe that such a
that when contemplating nature we are forced, in thinking systematically,
conceived in observing external nature? If in one's search for explanations
namely tried to explain nature after the fashion of ancient Penelope,
Ah yes, if only we could, if only we could stand before nature entirely
nature, we must permeate it with concepts and ideas. Why must we do
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phenomena of nature.
soul the need to achieve an understanding of nature that will serve
what do I care about anything else? What do I care even about nature?
with nature in such a way that we try not to remain within the natural
confront the world of nature [see illustration], I use my concepts not
within our systematic science of nature as a whole do mathematics, do
is applicable to the external world of nature, and how is it that there
from which we can proceed to investigate the nature of science. Thence

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phenomena of nature.
the essential nature of consciousness. Yesterday we showed already what
with a sleepy soul, if he could not awake in confronting external nature.
gradual acquisition of knowledge about external nature, is actually
activity of the soul different from that whereby we grasp external nature
the nature of mathematics — mathematics taken, of course, in the
the inner nature of that realm; only then does one begin to understand
through soul faculties of a mathematical nature. It was an Inspiration.
inner nature to manifest their activity externally. We shall have to

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phenomena of nature.
that the so-called “inner life” partakes of the nature of
come to grips with its true nature. One must delve into the depths of
nature. The pole of consciousness, on the other hand, was not to be
to external nature, felt a certain anxiety about anything that would
a concrete notion of the nature of sense-free thinking. One must have
a certain chilling effect on human nature — one makes a discovery.
images that then unfold the inner nature of man. Let me indicate the
external nature by means of experiments and conceptual thinking. In
or Imaginations, man's real nature shall elude our grasp. It is not

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phenomena of nature.
is to attain knowledge that can reflect light back into nature and at
especially in women, who have less robust natures than men and who also
question posed by the concrete case before him. With regard to all nature
that can be interpreted in a Goethean manner. Goethe says that nature
nature revealed its open secret, where the striving that exists within

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phenomena of nature.
discussed yesterday. For, you see, there exist two poles in human nature.
Just as in nature everything
in nature is in constant metamorphosis, so it is with everything concerning
nature in images, that makes us clearly aware that we are being led
away from reality, away from a true investigation of nature. This has
nature, that with which he believed himself capable of arriving at insights
enthusiasm for nature, if we employ this faculty to any end but the
emerging from the soul-nature of humanity, just as he saw Inspiration
regarding the realm of nature. Only by allowing all that leads to
that provides insight into the human organism, into the nature of the
two faculties within human nature. On the side of matter is the faculty of

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phenomena of nature.
of an entirely physical nature have to be employed in such cases. And
of devices, of ablutions with cold water and the like. When human nature
that inclined by nature toward a freeing of the soul-spirit from the
only when one knows wherein the essence of human nature actually lies
predisposed by nature to come to a halt at the word. They did not penetrate
one must gain knowledge of the inner nature of Eastern culture. Without
this acquaintance with the inner nature of Eastern culture one can never
regain when he spoke of the deepest urge within him: he to whom nature
by science and observation of nature. An ever-more profound skepticism
It is in this way that genuine knowledge of the inner nature of man
nature of man's senses — a part, therefore, of the inner makeup
nature of the external world, so must the Westerner, leaving aside the
is made toward Imagination, the true nature of man is experienced inwardly,

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phenomena of nature.
and thus resulted, in a sense, from a healthy drive within human nature,
color. And when we surrender ourselves to nature, we do not encounter
to see the true nature of reality with senses that are developed truly
true inner nature with strength of spirit, with the same strength we
The very nature of the thing shows us that we cannot penetrate any deeper.
would reveal the true nature of those hidden forces at which his earlier
of nature. That was the origin of Hegel's natural philosophy. And so
one had Schelling's unfulfilled promise to bring forth nature out of the
philosophy with regard to phenomenology, the true observation of nature.
that through Hegel's natural philosophy revelations about nature would
that is, to the level of nature's secrets ... it was shown that the

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the higher members of human nature, the super-sensible members
we must try to grasp man's essential nature by means of an
the threefold nature of the human being. Today I will at
the way this threefold nature is concentrated spatially
make these thoughts of the threefold nature of the human
the cosmos, at least in the entire nature of our earth,
members of human nature we have to do with arrested processes
environment, to a process that exists already in nature and
outside my skin, according to its nature, comes to be inside

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nature in order to direct our attention today from this
within human nature there is no purely physical activity.
oranized so that it is an imprint of the etheric nature.
light because, studied in its essential nature, it is a
substance manifests its true nature when it unfolds its

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human nature which is ultimately responsible for the
complex of symptoms. On the other hand, nature —
help that she provides in this realm. Nature herself groups
human being provides the domain for studying the nature of
nature, as they are, but we cook them or prepare them in some
earth for human use; in this way we induce nature herself to
nature groups together, in the moment of falling asleep and
nature tries to indicate at such moments. We will then see

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remedy from the outer kingdoms of nature?” This is a

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description of the nature of the remedies we have arrived at
there is something of an infantile nature at work in the
Signatures” was based on an instinctive, inner

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nature of the remedies we have proposed, and we will continue
This is a polar opposition within human nature, and we cannot
outer nature is the metabolic-limb system. If something is
dilution by their very nature, for they always rise toward

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root nature is still present very strongly. Thus we cannot
effect on the astral nature in the digestive realm of the
fact that such relationships prevail between the root-nature
nature, and these forces once they have entered the human
realize, when we come to the leaf, that nature herself
when we make use of seeds. Seeds by their very nature are
nature.
made much more effective, for nature herself, and the forces
active in nature, are allowed to do some of the work of

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of lead we have a force of nature that is extraordinarily
excitation of these ego-imprinting forces in human nature.
will hardly doubt that it has been drawn by nature herself.
this picture sketched by nature herself.
metallic element with our interpretations of nature in an
nature — from this viewpoint. There we find what I have
movement of radiations. Among the metals or metallic nature,
side. You must oppose what has entered from outer nature with

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supplement eurythmy exercises for present human nature, which

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configuration, artistic nature and spiritual essence of our
spirit through a study of Rembrandt and the peculiar nature

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penetrate into those forces which hold sway in human nature
soul-nature of man.
further ecpected that the Ego-nature will produce forms of
Ego-nature, gnarled, knotty forms must be expected, forms
consider the relation between the Ego-nature in the soul and
shows itself inwardly in human nature between the Ego and the
life. The nature of the relation between the Ego and the
come to terms. (Try to form an idea of the nature of the
Post-Atlantean nature which stands entirely and solely upon
they stand there as if created by Nature herself. We find
nature of beings and things which are then described from the
rooted in the nature of the Ego appears in a characteristic
been made to put aside everything of a personal nature, and

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an who understands his own nature would have to rebel against
of the Middle-European nature was necessarily an outcome of
would still be an expression of the nature of the man of
entirely surrendered their folk-nature, but it has not
surrendering their German element to the general nature of
own nature as man.
not! There is something in the Russian nature that is like a
actually existing there. In the German nature we find a state
find, the bridge leading to its own true nature, to find
this nature can be said in the sense in which an occultist

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something of the nature of a cupola arching over him. What
conditioned in his will- nature and to which his will gives
nature of his will, when he allows the impulses of the gods
nature.
feel the nature of the several European cultures, and a great
we are trying to describe the secrets of manes nature, do we
own nature, willing, feeling and thinking are mysteriously
Feeling-sphere of human nature; if in what arches over the
convinced that the real progress of 0f human nature will

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relation to the Real — or, as is often said, to Nature.
Nature does not work with lines only, but has far richer
his lines than Nature is able to bring to expression in
nothing more than a substitute for what Nature can achieve.
can never produce anything that surpasses Nature; we cannot
even equal Nature. Whatever we aim at in this respect must
with the far richer means at her disposal, Nature is able to
Nature at all, or at most can be captured only momentarily.
whole magic of Nature to expression — perhaps the early
Nature and does not originate from the configuration of the
us as qualities of the beings in outer Nature. When our
the colours that are attached to the objects of Nature. If we
another is one that is never found in Nature, if a being with
colour which it could never have in Nature, one must feel in
will not be as they are in Nature, but far rather as they are

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disconcert us, for it lies in the nature of things that
of nature. The artistic representation of the elements of
outer nature only entered into art later on. When men no
forms of art can no more arise from an imitation of nature
than music can be created by an imitation of nature. Even in
nature. My discovery of these connections in regard to the
Spirits who work in nature, create according to these forces;
nature is expressing the same things as we are expressing
nature, but of the expression of what is there as pure
that harmonises with its own nature. The whole building is
something living in the depths of human nature behind the
nature out of instinct — for he has made the principle
reproduce nature by pure imitation. It really was enough to
nature herself. The artists were wasting their time in their
efforts to imitate, for nature has it all in a much higher
nature it would be much easier to understand than this

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The spirits of nature have given us the larynx and we make
basic nature of the Greek art of building we shall realise
the Gods of nature. And now let us pass on to the forms of
them, we are creating in the same way as nature created the
speak of the real nature of painting we shall understand the
of colour as the speech of the soul of nature, of
receive it, the sacred nature of their task and something of
thus spring up in the world. Let us realise the living nature

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no longer the nature of equality as in the case of the
penetrate into the depths of nature they appear before the
very being — the dual nature of man. When the curtain
how the spiritual form of nature and the higher spiritual
vertical position. It is an achievement of man's nature
questions relating to the living soul of nature in connection

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of nature than the ordinary intellect of man can
of nature which without art would never be revealed. Here
that art is this manifestation of higher laws of nature about
structure. It is part of nature that the expedient and the
nature, that every animal has an astral body and that soul
by way of the soul nature, something that in turn streams out
merely contemplating the colours of nature we must try to
real nature of the spirit of human evolution.

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relationship of this or that artist to nature, or to other
that artist look on nature — are problems of philosophy
manifestation of secret laws of nature without which they
regard to the universe are inartistic in their very nature
scenes in nature like that of a rosy dawn worked upon man as
into the spiritual flow of the powers of of nature —
that is to say of the spiritual powers behind nature —
it deeply symptomatic of the whole nature of the present age
elements. Art has observed and studied nature long enough,
has tried long enough to solve all the riddles of nature and
penetration into nature. What lives in the elements is,
problems like that of the nature and being of colour, for in
the soul of nature and of the whole cosmos and we partake of
still more deeply into the nature of the world of colour and
that is the unity of the whole nature of man — the

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with the nature of its content, that it is inwardly organized

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organize; this grows. It is just in the nature of an organism
implicit in the very nature of both the human being and the
Nature”], we have indeed poetic works not at all in the

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nature of the spiritual life, the nature of the
juridical-state life, and the nature of the economic
tendency of nature you have also to approach the tasks which

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spiritual life must have a sort of lyrical nature within you;
nature, reporters write their articles most frequently in

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was in the nature of the Liberal Party, of which the joker,

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the nature of eurythmy, for our friends know about this from

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upon them, but only an open-minded human nature.”

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nature comprised the totality of spirit, soul and body. Thus

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majority. But those who understand the nature of the human

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upon them, but only an open-minded human nature. Research

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prevented. Only by strictly emphasising the public nature of

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people can be found who are capable through their very nature
the soul in its true nature. Beyond this it will fall to us

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something of the nature of the Mysteries said, in essence:
mankind that the human being in his inmost nature has come
majesty and in the minutest appearances of outer nature,
and through the earth it retains this form of its own nature.

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spiritual impulses which then enter into the world of nature

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certainty concerning things in nature round about him. He saw his
poetic fantasy to endow nature with a living spiritual element, is an
spiritual beings in the same way they beheld the world of nature and
laws governing the physical world of nature, the laws of consonance
themselves to represent anything of a spiritual nature in the awkward
of sorts, an echo of the divine that ruled in nature. Tragedies were
into nature. A thought was therefore earthly proof of the gods'
everyday living. But when we quicken our inquiry into man and nature
nature the object of his study or contemplated human beings moving
phenomena. The Greeks beheld nature in a way that enabled them to
feel the presence of the spirit in it. Their contemplation of nature
friends, people have indeed learned an enormous amount about nature.
nature leads, as I have often stated from this platform, to insight
nature. One gets a preview of the future, when man will bring to new
suitably deeper study of nature, one's total outlook on it becomes
saw nature as a fully matured being from which the glory of the
nature in this light. If we survey everything we have come to know
and feel about nature's creations as a result of making use of our
many excellent devices and instruments, we see nature rather as
Nowadays we regard plants as something that nature has to bring to
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rather on feeling and is religious by nature, this experience of the
obviously only be answered by studying the nature of community
an earthly situation that aptly illustrates the nature of the cultus.
external nature is, of course, also an image of something spiritual,
nature permeate ordinary physical forces. A super-sensible event takes
carried away by anything in the nature of a proclamation of religious
chaotic, tumultuous nature, which will affect every phase of life and
by nature but by the human beings with whom we are karmically

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nature of anthroposophy is such as to bring this about in fullest

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of the world. Secondly Hegel had his philosophy of nature, but
nature for him was nothing other than an idea, not even an idea
out-of-itself. So also nature is an idea, but the idea in a
it was all about “the will of nature”. So one can
only mighty nature substances are involved and act creatively;
delightful treatise “Regarding the Will in Nature”
where everything which exists and lives in nature is taken from
nature.
deal with what is dead when we consider nature's laws. However

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nature of all these influences that are exercised from the
nature of this urge for cruelty, of these impulses to do
scarecrow. They are not of this nature at all, for

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of karma is inscribed in the nature of the man. Karma
from the physical nature of human beings who have died.
this period. We cannot really understand the nature of the

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imagined. It is a tendency in human nature which may very
of expressing with our instruments its own inner nature and
the inner nature, a certain adaptability to the most varied
nature, to speak of ourselves, to speak of what we could be
life, as a coming forth of the soul and spirit nature of
nature, and a feeling-impulse of a will-nature. These we
all human activity of an artistic nature there must lie as
way it is also the case with nature. In nature it is a
matter of really living within the activities of nature.
colours. Now outer nature is furnished with light and
By the nature of the Word
has died so recently. The nature of this soul can best be
philosophical natures who will always have to be led to
philosophical natures know all too well in their deep

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The Bridge between Morality and Nature
Bridge between Morality and Nature
the law of nature and the order of the moral world. We have
a bridge between nature's laws and the moral order in the
with these polarized opposites in nature and, let's say, the
spiritual or even the moral world laws. Nature is undeniably a
dependent upon the laws of nature in relation to his or her
extracted from purely nature's laws, to sense oneself as
standing in the world order, not just rising out of nature.
bodily nature, and that the soul-spiritual could be regarded as
soul-spiritual nature. It is pointed out how with advanced age,
bodily nature. It is pointed out how the human being can imbibe
function of the physical bodily nature. Yes, those researchers
nature are ever more pushed to the background; that the
the laws of nature and therefore could remain with old
nature and on the other side some kind of real moral spiritual
world order. Just as the order of nature was once regarded in
understand how the physical bodily nature can again be
soul-spiritual is transformed in the physical bodily nature,
that the physical bodily nature again is transformed back into
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between what can be called the order of nature and the moral
reflected in events of nature. When single historic examiners
great blossoming of the oriental culture of nature, but it was
nature observation in an attitude of secluded, often sectarian
which only considers outer laws of nature, who direct people
into everyday life that which will become the future signature

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of which, through its own nature, through its entire being,
nature. It is so, to take only one example, that folly
indeed, the secret lies in the creative combination of nature

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things you will feel how little people today know about the nature of
of music (as, for instance, the simple chordal nature of the major and

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so well that they become second nature. Just as the musician has to
further in the course of the next few days) must become second nature
(because of the nature of the body and its relation to the environment)

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eurythmy therapy. Only it is necessary to penetrate into the nature
are demanded if we are to describe the inartistic nature of our modern
I now introduce something in the nature of an exercise; I have to do
we make some differentiation between the right-left, as nature does

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nature. But external nature can only be laid hold of by speech when
an element is introduced into speech which is really foreign. For nature
this that it is perfectly obvious that what comes from nature does not
is a creation of the human being. And if we examine the inner nature
force in the human being, and imitating nature is an aberration of the
to turn into nature in some way, instead of remaining human. We always
turn into a piece of nature when we are ill. Now we are human beings
of salt) [31] which is not a transformation of some process of nature.
we lead the part of the body in question away from nature and back into
the human realm. When we let someone do tone eurvthmy because nature
have nothing of nature about them. The musical element belongs only
to man, not to nature. [32]

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human being, you show, as it were, your spirit and soul nature. And
destroys that which is musical. Nature too is unmusical, and it is not
from nature that we are able to derive that which is musical.
its own nature.
developed a view towards outer nature, but has not developed that which
means of making your inner bodily nature flexible, inwardly supple,
be left to. nature. When we come to the human being, we have to enter

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could furnish proof of its unmusical nature, it has laid hold of a drastic
a nature that we have to acquire a consciousness of them above all.
we are to get at its nature, we must not look at it as an interpreter
Anyone who really understands the nature of dreams does not take the
the possibility of looking for the essential nature of eurythmic movement

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the nature of the human organization, from the possibilities of movement
of the nature of major streams out from the will, that is, a streaming

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in so far as it is wrought out of the inner nature of the human being,
You will always feel something of the nature of pathos present in the
where, in some way or other, the essential nature of the musical element
from anything of the nature of mime. Mime can have no place in tone
eurythmy, and anything in the nature of dance is only permissible at
by its very nature, eurythmy will oblige people to return more and more
owing to the very nature of eurythmy. You will discover that several

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the nature spirits. He also relates his penetrating insights into the

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the nature spirits. He also relates his penetrating insights into the
with, questions about necessity in outer nature, questions about the
frequently discussed subject of chance, both in nature and in human
fact that we can come to know the essential nature of certain things
exclusively in what external, sense-perceptible nature has brought forth.
and a more general structuring. But it lies in the nature of the

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the nature spirits. He also relates his penetrating insights into the
of this kind occurring in the relatively great expanse of nature and
similar facts in outer nature that brought about this recognition of
reflection on the nature of historical evolution voiced by Mauthner
behind nature, and finally that underlying everything that happens as
it would be even less bearable for natures aware of “productive
Now if we penetrate fully into the nature
Now let us ask, “What is the nature

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the nature spirits. He also relates his penetrating insights into the
evidence of the true nature of combustion was considered a most significant
our soul nature must be accompanied by a profounder grasp of concepts
an exponent of the view that necessity is inherent in the nature of things,
it back to bitter experiences of a subjective nature suffered in childhood.
the nature of necessity in us is of the past and is merely bringing

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the nature spirits. He also relates his penetrating insights into the
concepts of a demanding nature. They are what disciplines our souls and
discussed. A few especially mediumistic natures even carried things
to studies of a kind that more “mystically” oriented natures

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the nature spirits. He also relates his penetrating insights into the
sleeping and waking and related matters. I spoke of how the whole nature
all of external earthly nature. These gnomes, who belong to the external
same character, the same inner nature as the thought-forms described.
the laws that govern nature are to be found within the natural world
nature, something quite strange, namely, that we are becoming part of
it is suspended in the water. This principle obtains throughout nature,
us. And if we study the brain in the brain fluid and study the nature
rhythm that constituted human physical nature on the moon. And our whole
has spread out over that nature as an outer covering. Hidden beneath

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the nature spirits. He also relates his penetrating insights into the
the nature of the impulses that come from this etheric body find support
that between death and rebirth wisdom of a materialistic nature that

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the nature spirits. He also relates his penetrating insights into the
the totally different nature of the spiritual world.
us after death with a continuous ego-consciousness in the nature of
for much that causes our movement problems of this or that nature.

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Well, this was the first shock when the nature of the human
nature, science has, at the same time, alienated human beings
else our attention is directed to other realms of nature, to
those applied to inorganic nature. Nevertheless — at
physical nature reflects the soul and spiritual nature seems to
insight into human nature is called for, insight based on a
on the nature of the entire universe.
human nature as it really is. In a certain sense this failure
to penetrate human nature has already crept into modern-day
example, that teachers can penetrate human nature so deeply
alienation from real human nature.
nature that surround us, now transfers the knowledge gained to
thinking about outer nature now becomes the key to
nature. Current research shows such courage only when observing
external nature, but shrinks from applying the same methods in
When characterizing these phenomena that occur in nature,
cognitive powers used to study outer nature, but modern science
their time, from the universal nature of human feelings and
from human nature itself. If I had my way, I would give
if our understanding can penetrate the very nature of the human

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nature of the growing human being, bearing in mind the later
this, one's knowledge of human nature must be capable of
soul life a stronger connection with what is of the nature of
for it lies in the child's nature to learn to think only
quality of mirroring, or reflecting, outer nature and its
nature and its processes. Thus all of the child's first
thinking is aimed at creating images of outer nature and its
animal forms, how to grasp the nature of the upper chest organs
This is how some people would explain the nature of the human
Spirit, soul, and body — spirit, soul, and nature —

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one look at human nature is enough to discover reasons for this
to the realm of language has an artistic nature. Language
but has a completely pictorial character. True to nature, such
according to their nature, must remain characteristically
treated with an understanding of human nature. We will hear
of human nature. It will open one's eyes to the incisive
own nature, children, having gone through the change of teeth,
will-nature of the ancient people who used them, whereas the
how should this be done without countering human nature? We
which has a rhythmical nature, in order to work back again
polarities in human nature. The nerve-sense system on the one

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human nature, it can become extraordinarily difficult to
at school is attuned to human nature. If you know how to form
to the mutual interaction between the soul-spiritual nature and
find this unity between what has physical nature and what has
moral nature. This is what you have to remember when working
depend largely on our soul nature. When we pronounce letters,
whole — you will find the way back to the true nature of
are a way of expressing and revealing a person's inner nature.
outer nature. You can confirm this for yourselves if you go
true nature of hair. And because it seems almost too obvious,
nature. Even in demonstrations everything depends on the choice
A blossom, taken by itself, is a falsehood in nature. In order
young students gradually from the divine-spiritual in nature,
to recognize, through a pictorial contemplation of nature, how
divine-spiritual weaving in nature and in history, a new stage
nature. In my lectures I have used the comparison of the river
harmony with the child's nature. Thus we neither wish nor
results from insight into human nature were to now declare that

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a will nature.
will tolerate only an approach to external nature and to the
they learn about — even if it is part of inorganic nature
inclination to look so intimately at human nature. Otherwise
nature of the etheric has a quality all its own. During the
nature of the human being, and that it contradicts the truth.
considers the true nature of the human being; pedagogical
human nature would never tell a child, “You cannot yet
in the child's nature between the change of teeth and puberty.
does represent a complete about-face of children's nature
nature of children tests the teacher as never before. They want
When this view of education has become second nature, one will
problem, we must try to avoid harming human nature when

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of reaching the child's true nature — one must learn to
know the child's true nature according to what has been shown
gratitude may arise in us whenever we look at nature. It may be
nature's phenomena. And if we only act properly in front of the
least some degree of appreciation for the universal nature of
this time of life. At that age one can see how love of nature
leading up to the twelfth year — love of nature awakens
Before this stage, the child's relationship to nature is
that belongs to the fairyworld of nature, a love that has to be
realities in nature awakens only later. At this point we are
can finally take hold of the bodily nature in the right and
human nature. If you want to introduce changes by external

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the child's own nature. This represents one side of what has
that are alien to its nature. They may appear within some
nature. There is nothing one can do about it, because if
relationship to the nature of the growing human being; they are
nature, we are simply led to introduce the children — or
against human nature if we did not include bookbinding and
right attitude, and this is what really matters. The nature and
in matters of a more cognitive nature.
inability to understand the true nature of matter. Knowledge of

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everything of a rhythmic nature in the human being, is mainly
(and yet, true to the nature of the human organism) are the
nature.
— similar to the way we see outer nature. Just compare
easily reproach nature for being tremendously wasteful.
natures of the choleric, melancholic, sanguine, and phlegmatic
understand human nature cannot assess how important certain

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intellectually thought out, nor are they excessive by nature.
anthroposophy must, by its very nature, find practical

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The Nature of Color
THE NATURE OF COLOR
to look at nature but to think out all sorts of artificial
bull-nature. He is not of course directly excited through red,
Goethe's nature was not one to believe
nderstand nature without coming to Goethe's
simply on nature in a natural
is merely devised, does not rest on nature at

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of such a nature will be white. That is the snow in winter. It
of such a nature that he throws back all
But consider how they have not the nature
warmth. They have not the right nature for taking up so much
result? Their nature is organized to take up as much as
under, they die from their own nature which gets too little
element of their nature is their desire-life. They can no

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actually breathe this in. In every process of nature there's
nature were like human processes, by personifying and
clarifying, now the child may be educated about nature in a
Stories of nature, even in their most elementary forms, should
in the last centuries between nature observation and the moral
nature which only works with the necessity, as I've often
of nature observation creates a worldly structure, builds
what lives in the observation of nature. This is why people
outer nature is described, what a person may feel, how the one
influences the other. Our present day nature observation, as it
establish and view the world through the view of nature, will a
materialism only became external nature's concepts — but
only the outer nature concept, where a human being no longer
nature. Thus it is interesting if we can read what the English
good-natured impotent forms it assumes. The battle which is

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was the nature of the human soul in the ages of antiquity? We look back
of space, but this is to me the reflected proof of the threefold nature
origin similar to that for the threefold nature of God through space.
that it is largely the unscientific nature of modern science, so-called,
— for the living nature of time. They did not speak of a line

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Place in your whole nature in youth. That is the one stream.
nature he is not merely in the realm of time which has just been
nature that runs its course in time, so will man know nothing of this
fight against hierarchies of a different nature. You could not have
takes place at the foundation of human nature. Because it is gruesome
the Group. And wherever we look; whether in the life of nature or in
nature as soon as it comes out of the state of equilibrium. We must

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the human being is of a double nature, as we have explained, that in
part of human nature that is the bearer of the conscious life. To begin
in man's conscious head-nature lives materialism; in his subconscious
nature, which goes through a metamorphosis after we have passed through
us say, lower nature of man is the bearer of the unconscious soul-life
that the lower nature of man becomes increasingly spiritual. You must
really enters your mode of living, and the lower nature gets increasingly
The lower nature, however,
in the head, in man's upper nature, there are only materialistic ideas
and sympathies, this upper nature is unable to work on man's lower nature,
and in consequence of this deprivation, the lower nature is exposed
lower nature when it becomes so spiritual under the influence of materialism,
into the lower nature. The paradoxical truth appears before our soul
purely idealistic ideas have again the consequence that the lower nature
in man's lower nature, purely clerical concepts built on tradition without
growth of materialism in man's lower nature. Speaking crudely, one might
say that the type of this increasing materialism of the lower nature
manes lower nature has no nourishment if the head harbours none but
such a culture is pre-eminently exposed not to their own head-nature
on the fact that true reality is of a totally different nature from
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Title: How Can Mankind Find Christ Again?: Lecture 2: The Entrance of Christianity into the Course of Earth Evolution
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a divine nature loses its luster, nevertheless we have seen for some
among the deeper natures of humanity a consciousness of the actual existence
there. In a certain sense we can only understand the nature of Solomon's
nature of Solomon's Temple and the nature of Christianity present
say to himself: When I walk through the world and see external nature,
when it was believed that something of the true nature of things might
death can reveal the true nature of this world, that reality must be

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sense, to offer upon the altar of Christ what nature has bestowed upon
his receiving at least one thought that alters his nature a little,
man's true nature — not when we insist in an absolute sense that
The possibility of receiving wisdom from nature simply through being
from our own organism, from what is bestowed upon us by nature. If the
then we might just as well die. For from the course of nature, from
the elemental occurrences of nature, we can gain nothing more for our
from the forces of nature, he cannot properly develop the impulse, the
that the Greeks developed was of a different nature. When the Greeks
fashion, through the scientific observation of nature. You can study
the study of nature began at the very time when concepts vanished. Observation
of nature entered the life of that time, but there were no concepts
both for the budding observation of nature and for the revelations of

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Today it is not easy to speak of the general nature of the Mysteries,
one tries to discover the true nature of the world by external means,
perceived spiritual realities within the phenomena of nature. They perceived
of nature. Nevertheless, although they spoke generally of the manifestation
of elemental spirits in nature, they had a deep knowledge that these
that a conception of nature could give no explanation of the being of
with the whole of nature spread out in the world; therefore, if a man
nature and could be discovered by human means, secrets that could not
to say about external nature as it presents itself, is such that it
look up from external nature that he saw around him on earth to the
just as he is born out of the kingdoms of nature on earth, something
that he had discarded in his transition from Moon-nature to Earth-nature.
from the kingdoms of earthly nature, but also something coming from
into his entire human entity. A man discovered the nature of the starry
gained without man's whole nature being profoundly affected. (I
of nature here on earth. He began to feel himself as belonging to the
nature. Whether they admit it or not, the people of our time really
the higher members of man's nature. I do not say that the enlightened
into the ordinary world of nature—it is also, of course, outside
laws of nature to the forms of nature, to nature formation. Hence, he
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even all ideas (not the single laws of nature, but the forms of the
laws of nature) are, fundamentally, inherited concepts. The experiments
in the nature of visions, everything that depends upon involuntary imaginations,
there is life when the nature of the opposition is experienced, when

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nature from higher, supersensible points of view people troubled themselves
belief in immortality, in the divine nature, and so on, was attached
where more of the universal nature of man is revealed.
forward (in accordance with present possibilities) into the inner nature
of nature — not a subjective study or anything of the kind —
a long period — you can see that if we want to present the nature
to what is working in the depths of human nature.

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should dwell on the transitory nature of time. For this need we may
our mind's eye the transitory nature of time and of events in time,
and etheric bodily nature that was given to us as a kind of vehicle
in mind. Events in nature take place comparatively quickly; we go more
through in a single year. In other words, external nature, as revealed
we had exactly the same speed as everything in outer nature that is
life. We would no longer be able to distinguish ourselves from nature.
For in reality we are distinguished from nature through the fact of
Otherwise we would take it for granted that we belonged to nature. And
parallel the speed of events in external nature, we could never become
we could learn from nature if we did not go through life seven times
more slowly than nature herself. Upon arriving at our fiftieth year
forward with the same speed as external nature, there would be no distinction
between our soul-spiritual character and the course of outer nature.
We would consider ourselves part of outer nature and experience everything
the world than does external nature.
from nature and are therefore able to become ill. Nor do we realize
clay. Nature let them fall into decay and leveled them to the ground,

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of human nature that at first people will be averse to recognizing any
Poincare, Avenarius or Mach, conceive of nature in such a way that they
never arrive at reality, where nature is actually at work: they only
reach a specter of nature. This relates to what I said here a few days
easy or comfortable matter. It is not of such a nature that one could
world they would like to be given something of the nature of a festive
escape it. They would like to objectify their intelligent nature, to

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evil nature of your behavior is your refusal to accept any criticism
to take our signatures as an assurance of our unconditional and constant

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fully taking their pathological nature into account, we allow them to
the fundamental nature of our movement to lead people further, if possible,
confidence of a personal nature in myself. Try to think about this and
it is the nature of things to remain incomplete. My method, however,
not in what actually happened, you understand, but in its nature and
I have mentioned is intimately related to the whole character and nature

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Its subject was the nature of evil. In that lecture, I explained
transferred to the physical plane. For what is the nature of this force?

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materialistic discussions on the nature of life itself, we can find
What is the nature of a
the whole nature and essence of our Society.
a spade, and also that it belongs to the very nature of our Society
nature, our own physical body, we know that we have to be physically
nature of an esoteric society, however, that foolishness occurs every

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essential nature of these Mars beings as the Angeloi had. He was unable
use the means suggested by the very nature of things themselves to draw
place, will by its very nature lead you to the right thoughts and keep

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of its very nature and the influence it allowed me to exert, to bringing
nature of his relationship to Miss Sprengel. We could add to these three
that the majority of these islands are sexual in nature. The psychoanalyst's

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the nature of these Mars beings even though they concealed all their
It seems he was not completely able to extricate his spiritual nature
forces involved in what are now the lowest drives in human nature, and
and to understand it from the inside, out of the inner nature of the

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to be something in human nature that produces the emotions these crazy,
of love, a miracle takes place in defiance of all the laws of nature:

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a sign of arbitrary emotions belonging to subjective human nature.
to take our physical nature as it is now and assume that if we imagine
the world of the perception of physical human nature on Saturn. For
of structures corresponding to physical human nature during the Saturn
our physical Sun nature with our present-day physical organs of perception.
as the level required for comprehending human physical nature during
Sun nature at a somewhat lower level. We can call this
the world of the perception of physical human nature on the Sun.
human nature as it evolved during the Moon period, a still less elevated
our physical Moon nature. Let us call this third stage in the relationship
the world of the perception of physical human nature on the Moon.
we come to our physical nature during the Earth stage of evolution.
of physical human nature on Earth.
at length how what we recognize as human physical nature at the Moon
extent that we are speaking of our present-day physical nature, is a
Moon-like in nature, something more hidden that is Sun-like in nature,
and something still more deeply hidden that is Saturn-like in nature.
perceptible body and are nobler and more spiritual in nature than the
In assessing the nature
nature is in a process of descent. Therefore, when we look at human
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more instinctive part of human nature.
depends upon the soil and ground, upon other foundations of Nature This
foundation of Nature must exist. It cannot be saddled on to the state.
Nature produces. This leads us to a threefold structure, for
Nature. And the course of human development itself, must supply to the

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same way in which processes of Nature take their course under the influence

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to indicate this inner moral side of human nature, if we wish to indicate

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phenomena of Nature, a science which is, as it were, devoid of morality,
relating to Nature and those relating to the moral order of the world.
of the causality which can be found in Nature, and it aims to bring
of Nature. Do you find in the words or writings of modern men, belonging
in the hierarchical order of Nature, I could not exist without the soil

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ninety-nine signatures; if another ninety-nine of the Germans of the
a realm but omitted to set it the tasks arising from the essential nature
busy in Germany obtaining signatures for the Appeal. And in Austria
telegram from Vienna: “By midday 11th, 73 signatures, more certain
tomorrow”. And on the following day: “Total 93 signatures”.
That could be announced from Vienna, and more signatures were reported
be to find among them a number of signatures of well-known personalities
several signatures have already been obtained. We have always to consider
much astonished when a well-known personality, whose signature one of
them. They were, however, of a nature to make one see that men today

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on reality, is brought into line with what the nature of the social
a first brief indication of how the threefold membering of the nature
economic life. Thus, simply through knowledge of the nature of man we
is necessarily full of prejudices; that is the nature of present-day
opposed to human nature and the very reverse of what lies at the basis of

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nature of the social organism. You will have realised how radically
nominated and decorated by something in the nature of a monarchy. The
social order, that is in accordance with Nature, each out of his own
understanding the threef0ld nature of the social organism, which enters

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nature, as such, represents in the external world, because from the
have to use force on the object. Objects of nature do not allow of this,
to imitate nature, the model takes on an expression as if he had catalepsy.
must be used, not to irritate nature, but to reproduce how it appears

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justification of the threefold nature of the healthy social organism.
that can be brought into the concept ‘commodity’. The nature
in such a case and this would arise out of its very nature by those

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nature is no longer recognised. The social demands made today are the

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incapable of directing our thought to what is living in nature, and
urged from the side of the proletariat against the oppressive nature
to become aware that to understand in its concrete nature anything living,
its opposite to arise. It is the same in what is living in nature as

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creatively in nature, the ideas that do not come to reflection in man
in which these ideas existed before nature arose and before man was
evolved on the foundation of nature. Thus Hegel tried to represent ideas
point — nature. Here too, I might give you certain opinions as
is, God before the creation, to nature. Probably, however, you would
thinking. According to Hegel, logic contains the idea in itself; nature
as nature is also idea, actually nothing but what is contained in logic,
being. Then Hegel examines nature in its pure mechanism to the point
everywhere, as far as nature is an open book to man, to point to ideas
a sort of catalogue of all the concepts and ideas incorporated in nature,
before the creation of the world., then apart in nature, and in the
II Nature: Idea in its external being
that mankind and nature have produced in the way of ideas. He now feels
carries over this inner triad, sought by Hegel for logic, nature and
of you in yourself is body, nature — the idea outside itself is
become two-legged, as you appear outwardly in the order of nature. The
again even in our outward view of him? This means not taking man's nature
in his own envelope, man who stands at the highest point in nature,
in my looking upon the whole of nature, upon every visible thing, as

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world with his view of Nature, how everywhere behind his
knowledge of the truth in the phenomena of Nature? And do we
altar to the great God of Nature? On this altar, composed of
many different objects of Nature, he fixes a fumigating candle
which he offers to the great God of Nature. How sublimely
of Nature. Here we see how this trait, which must surely have
nature and the events of his time. In accordance with the
any means. Only in Goethe's complex nature there was also a
what is around him. But Goethe's nature is spread over many
the etheric body is that part of our supersensible nature which
simultaneously with the physical. In a nature such as
in which Goethe's nature works. As I said: he takes the
of his own nature. Goethe requires the action of life upon him,
nature.
‘Wagner’-natures think that they can easily transpose
Nature and the activity of the Spirit are one in human
during those years, in accordance with his individual nature;
belongs! It is the reflection in human nature of day and
with Goethe's conception of Nature, and intensely so since
the impulse given by Goethe to the conception of Nature —
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receive with open mind these complications of his nature.
physical-organic nature of man. He is placed, as I showed in
nature of a man like Goethe would come into play with unusual
man's lower nature, and in this case the forces have withdrawn

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relation at all to human nature will be excluded, and a quite
that accord with the true human nature. Increasingly, they

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However, just as there are laws of nature which are valid
understanding of the inner nature of what ancient
acquire very profound knowledge of the inner nature of sound,

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expressing his inner nature with a single sound. The only thing

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upon as the writer of the letter is in line with the nature of
Mystery. For it was in keeping with the nature of the Mystery
However, if the essential and eternal natures of those people

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finds out what human nature is if one contemplates something
in the phenomena. We see nature in a rather stable way today
nature at all. We walk through the countryside, and we see
forms in nature.

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the closed nature of three, the open nature of four, and the
other things in nature. Just suppose that it would occur to
Nature to have a different arrangement in the rainbow, —
as the course of nature is in it, the candidate for initiation
duty to think inwardly in numbers, just as Nature thinks in
nature of things, and this helped them to see the way things
event in nature like the ice age or flood was. This separation
course, this will also be connected with events in nature, but

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about how the divine ego lives in human nature arose from a
understand the Mystery of Golgotha and the nature of Christ. He
nature contained in Christ? Should one look upon the Christ as
knows nothing about nature and which is a different order than
nature is the realm of the Spirit.
of effects of nature which are also spiritual effects, for
spiritual activities are present in all activities of nature.
have two kingdoms the kingdom of nature or the kingdom of the
of the kingdom of nature and into the kingdom of the Spirit by
spirit which is entirely free of nature. Thereby he becomes a
Harnack's book about the nature of Christianity. One can put
for transubstantiation must be placed in the series of nature
processes, that is, in the spiritual part of nature
of a working of the spirit through the laws of nature. This is
who raises the kingdom of nature to the kingdom of the spirit
shouldn't look for in the wide order of nature, although it is
order, a spiritual order besides the order of nature, since 666
into nature. The results of the previous earth life
lawfulness there which is not a nature lawfulness at all,
nature, is no Father force, — it is a force of the Spirit

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outwardly. They will be intensive, strong natures outwardly

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Christ and his real nature.
nature of what was laid down an eternally long time ago, as it
beyond the Father-nature principle. According to its form, all
nature and the spirit in nature and one could be satisfied with
directly through the spirit and not through nature. In ancient
times initiates always chose the detour, through nature. New
with the spiritual nature of the world through what has flowed
follows: Nature is one way to get into the spiritual world, and
Say: “Nature is great,” — they meant what one
knew about nature in antiquity — “but what is
apocalypticers is just as great or greater.” For nature
were. And one will describe this north pole from the nature of

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between the Father God who underlies all facts of nature,
including the ones which work into human nature, the Son God
cosmic order which is far away from nature and foreign to
nature. This is how sharply contoured the three persons of the
form. What is the nature of a king or the nature of a lord? If

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into through their human nature before our souls. Everything
impulse, and it's not a matter of a weak nature working, as in
laws of nature is becoming unexplainable. This will be the
taking place in accordance with the laws of nature. It will

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Even though this ego only entered man's inner nature much
given to him from the cosmos made him feel that his nature had
everything that gave him his spiritual and soul nature
concern himself again with that draconic beast in human nature

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These human beings display the nature and essence of human

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nature, so that one can say that the spirit comes from spirit

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of spiritual observations, one can say: Nature's processes take
that occur over the years and we see greater events in nature
previous incarnation and one then looks out into nature again
nature as a straight line. For instance, one has the years 343,
continually renewed from above, as nature dies into this whole,
everything in nature that is around you in your present
nature are something permanent. But this is really nonsense. In
changes including the laws of nature. That is why today's
the most abstract laws of nature as permanent ones.
laws of nature.
an observation of events in nature and we have placed it in
takes place outside in nature and not just a parallelism.
much greater effect upon events in nature than they do today.
nature and man's soul and spirit run side by side, only applies
greater influence upon events in nature at the beginning and
nature that brought about the Atlantean catastrophe.
later events in nature. One of these is the Russian revolution,
in nature that we can only look upon as a transformation of

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the earth as a unity. He connects man's real nature with both
number of things that the Apocalypticer knew about the nature
things. So let's take a look at the nature of comets in
view is united with an observation of nature. The basic
nature.
seventies. Here you have events in nature that are really
be nature events. You will only arrive at a real insight into

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presented — through the inner nature of the thing
nature disappears. In other words, the physical sense world
work of the gods. If one looks at nature in an inner, spiritual
what one could call nature in the widest sense of the word.
colors in nature we have our colorful earth before us.
sees nature around one in the physical world it is really all
these beings. The real nature of the Kyriotetes, Dynamis and

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practical. Even good natured people who want evolution to

Title: History of Art: Lecture 10: Disputa and The School of Athens of Raphael
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external existence.” There was the awareness: Looking at nature,
live for a long time. And that stands completely under the signature:
attempts by means of using spiritless laws of nature to construct for
visualizing nature merely as speaking to the senses.
relationship between space, and nature and the supersensible and sense
for the time,the relationship between the spiritual world and nature.
the human past and the relation to nature in the present. As grotesque
exist for those older groups. Nature was a kind of continuation downward
And nature was only a golf, a space, which the divine world sent down,
through what moves in nature caused by the living deeds of those who
But then he ought to be careful not to interpret the whole of nature
through this. If one wants to receive a concept of nature — so
he found reason for that, if one wants to receive a concept of nature,
Holy Trinity. You are just excluding that which truly is in nature,
kind of science, a science of the outer nature of Man, a science which
deals only with the outer nature of Man, a knowing about things only
according to nature, But you must enclose Man, no matter how intelligent,
If Man seeks a picture of nature out of his own thinking, then he finds
out of himself nothing but a picture of abstract nature, such as the
copernican world view gives. It will not be a picture of concrete nature.
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of a totally different nature up to the time of Charlemagne. But if
of their original nature what in fact had been pushed back towards the
East, what had been held back. The nature of the West-Europeans,
the soul-nature of the people of West-Europe was directed towards something
with all of this, just to see how little observation of nature is present,
for that which wanted to come out of the “folk-nature”,
There lived the tribes which, according to their nature, strove for
of nature. The Master from Cologne was still hovering in a supersensible
of his own feeling. Stephan Lochner is already an imitator of nature.
not see the slightest desire to look at nature. Here you find a person,
out of his soul, but the way that nature itself does characterize. He
the nature of sleeping. Compare that with what you can remember of the

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who is already spiritualized by nature. Both things stream together. And
to show especially how here the manner of working grows out of the nature
nature of the material, how in the relief-art of ivory-carving in the
which exists in nature), as well as the magic of precious stones, (that
is below nature. And while the cross of the South connected with the
way, of the spiritualized nature, by the taking of the Greek ability

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be expressed in signatures — as you see in this picture on the
of by the soul nature that belongs to the cosmos, by that soul nature
characteristics of the cosmic soul nature are expressed. We find
where the human soul nature opposes the cosmic soul nature. Perhaps

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concrete Spiritual guiding beings in Nature and History, as we
processes of our own human nature, and which we have in common
with the animal and plant-nature, these are connected only
Nature which are outside us in cosmic space, and which are also
the fluids. Outside in nature we see the circulation of Fluids
of Nature as we have them, with the exception of the
that of Jehovah. Then, however, the mineral nature began to
was for humanity at the time when the mineral Nature became
on the mineral nature. And so, if we wish chiefly to consider
Moon-influence on man, that is the, Jehovah-nature in man.
Opposed to the Jehovah-nature is man's acute thinking; but that
evolution of man, when the mineral nature became predominant in
feeling one turns to that Being Who has the Christ Nature. One
Nature, for then we have a Spiritless Science, and intellectual
spirit-nature under the leadership of Jehovah. Then, as it
asleep within it, there again the Jehovah Nature rules. In the
whole assimilatory system of man, the Jehovah Nature rules,
understanding, then the Sun-nature, — which is not a
Jehovah-nature, expresses itself, and we can only permeate that
fluid-nature, which lives in our breathing in our warmth
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A Living Knowledge of Nature, the Fall of the Intellect into Sin,
Lebendiges Naturerkennen, Intellektueller Suendenfall und Spirituelle
A Living Knowledge of Nature, the Fall of the Intellect into Sin,
Lebendiges Naturerkennen, Intellektueller Suendenfall und Spirituelle
of his nature is inserted in its own special way into the
four members of human nature permeating each other; they are
a nature as to be unable to perceive imaginations. And so man
know at once that his nature is connected with the metallity of
not even know himself in his real nature, but only the dead
which streams up from the metallic nature of the earth
whole of one's nature, then one will as Anthroposophist be a

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— in its fundamental structure, in its inner nature —
essential nature in the time after Augustine, Augustine himself
to investigate nature in the manner of Gregor Mendel, whose

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mineral nature. A different kind of perception must be used for
right way we can say that in the mineral kingdom nature is outwardly
visible all around us, while in the plant kingdom physical nature has
physical nature are still at work in the plant kingdom; but they have
become invisible while a higher nature has become visible
— a higher nature that is inwardly mobile all the time,
nature. And we are wrong if we say that the physical body of the
etheric nature of the entire human being — was expressed in

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nature, the human being becomes a slave, unfree. Schiller
views nature as if it were a living being, as if nature had spirit
and soul within it — in other words, if he raises nature to a
reason right down into nature. He must, as it were, regard nature as
synthesizing; and as he creates in this way he removes from nature
confronts nature passively is under the sway of the necessity
implicit in nature, of instincts, natural desires, and urges. If he
combine the two, nature and logic, then the necessity implicit in
sense world and the sense world of nature yields something of its
sensuality of material nature while leading the sensuality of
material nature up to the spirit, and the creation through images,

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spiritual nature is flowing into the human being out of the cosmos.
nature when we die on the earth, so too, there remains a corpse left
such that his nature has changed in the course of his development on
nature of human beings in general is such that the Father indeed
within itself physical nature. One might also say that the
plant corrupts physical nature. The animal then corrupts the physical
himself all the forces of the other beings of nature and, as it were,
higher nature.
possible by the mysteries, the human soul nature was rescued —
so now the bodily nature of the human being has been saved through
being who is even actively working on their bodily nature. And then

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are active in lower forces of nature which work in the same way
yourself from the animal and lion nature and as a result, have

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simultaneously with the spirit into nature's wisdom, making the
spirit prevalent within the wisdom of nature so that right into

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say: ‘When a human being is aware of his ego nature then he

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impression if one is able to go into the special nature of this
of the evil is silenced in the human nature also not if the
works its way up from the depths of human nature which is not a
which just emerges from the nature of humanity. One has to
the summaries, the essences of ideal nature from sense
ninth century. He wrote a book about the division of nature

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Nature of Thomism
the bottom of the souls, if we want to speak of the nature of
If we consider the realms of nature with
the realms of nature. Then, however, we have to understand the
sphere of thinking, of the ratio. This is the nature of the
Today I wanted to characterise the nature of Thomism generally
logic nature of Thomism had an impact on all that
enormous natural history of Albert. This logical nature
What was, actually, the nature of Thomism
nature of the things to a certain degree. However, then the

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something of the nature of the outside world.
nature did not yet exist. There one did not have to deal with
On the Borders of the Knowledge of Nature
volte-face. What manifests as nature can be penetrated as the
spiritual one that behind the veil of nature no material atoms
the views of nature of our time. However, for that an
effect of the work of the ideal in our human nature. There we
put the question of the nature of wheat.

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the order of nature. But, as for everything else, —

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in the nature of undigested experience that he may have lived

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more or less of the nature only of a dream. The things for the
that too was part of human nature! — when people turned
on the nature of will in men, had to be met, then, by
spirits amongst the things and the pro-cesses of nature.

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nature into theology. In all the heathen religions there is
world, ‘Forces of nature,’ forces of the abstract kind, such as
nature’ were not what people had in those days. They had live
the various phenomenon of nature; beings to whom one could
mankind; yet, on the other hand, man's nature simply demands
to proceed from scientific knowledge to the nature of the
approach the nature of the Christ, it has scattered it to dust,
of Golgotha, beheld the world of Nature and Spirit, so
a nature that one can draw a wheel as a straight line —,

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and with it the life-conditions inherent in the nature of the

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thing itself. The moment anything whatever in the nature of a
was, in the nature of things, obliged, as you see, to speak of

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works. For with the scientific conception of nature which
order of Nature in the earth-world.
called ‘laws of nature’.
Well, these ‘laws of nature’, which Goethe found, too, in his
‘laws of nature’ have a certain peculiarity, directly it comes
of nature, — is himself excluded from the World, —
the action of Divine Spirit in the world of Nature. And Man,
across the link that joined the world of Nature to the world of
Nature. And in the world of Nature the reflections of Divine
of Nature’.
the people of old, these Laws of Nature were the
phenomena of Nature, which of course are themselves contained
under the laws of Nature: — law of gravitation, law of
souls, in all the talk of the present day about Nature: they
feel, with these people who talk about Nature, that one might
and never know it’.1 People talk of laws of Nature,
but these laws of Nature are what has been left behind
old had something else beside these laws of Nature, something,
namely, that made these laws of Nature possible.
this is just what happened with the science of nature. A
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Nature, although it glows to us as grand and powerful in tone
grandeur and greatness and power of nature. And the question
greatness and the sublimity of nature is, at first, spiritual
earthly civilization, and are implanted in his nature by that
course say that. We must first comprehend the nature and the

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lower nature. And here works most strongly what I previously
and what he is therefore capable of. Man's lower nature appears
force of nature, as you are to the movement of your limbs, also

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in us, what we ascribe to lower human nature, and which also

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nature. And we feel a deep chasm between our human nature and
the expansive nature around us.
when we look within ourselves, concerning an external nature
nature. We must stop saying to ourselves: Out there is nature,
external objects take on something foreign to their nature.
of the abyss which exists between himself and nature: something
age: Nature must appear as divine, and the human must be a
magical being. What does it mean, that nature must be able to
Nature must be able to appear as divine. The way it appears to
nature. It only appears to lack divinity. At most in dreams do
we see a relationship between nature and the inner life of man.
content to certain dreams. Dreams pull nature into the
must see how the awakened consciousness presents nature.
in nature, my dear friends, we have a relationship of the human
when he is approaching the spiritual - related to nature.
own nature and we live and act in it. Cold is foreign to us and
and recognize the spiritual nature of warmth - and we feel it
Threshold: nature, which was previously quietly outside us and
speak to us morally. Nature appears in the sun as a tempter.
aware of the true nature of thinking. Therefore we should

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gets to know the world by observing the kingdoms of nature
of nature in the outside world. But as you know, my dear
friends, behind the kingdoms of nature we have what is called
them as we speak of the other beings of the nature-kingdoms,
toward the kingdoms of nature when we feel that we belong to
because we stand alone and the kingdoms of nature are beyond
its true elemental nature, does not make us human, it makes us
the danger exists that we sink into animal nature. And when we
have a dream-like nature, as I have often explained, our
will feel the vegetative nature of the life of feeling. And
aware of his relationship to the kingdoms of nature. Therefore,
animal nature, he seems like some kind of animal - at least in
kingdoms of nature if he wishes to be knowledgeable. How he
How he must be aware of his own plant nature and therewith the
his own mineral nature, his own stone nature, by virtue of his
kinship with the air-element, and therewith the nature of the
That has been the nature of all Mystery Schools, that in them
world. It must also remain the nature of the Mystery Schools.
nature and intentions of this spiritual school.

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made with my signature. I'm not going to do that - despite it
world, in the kingdoms of nature, see the colors and the
star, cloud on cloud, creatures of the kingdoms of nature which
feel this threefold nature above all when we observe

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here we have a most important secret of human nature.

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deepest nature, akin to the sun and moon and world of stars.
economics or the world of nature, that is, to all intents and
managed to nurse the instincts of altruism in human nature. And
instinct for altruism in men's inward nature, yet no
nature to seek for it. Again, a third, the search for a

Title: Cosmogony/Freedom/Altruism: Lecture II: A Different Way of Thinking is Needed to Rescue European Civilization
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of its own proper nature, European civilisation has only
most terrible gulf between what in man's nature must be felt

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— powers of a supersensible nature. But the true
from a belief in the divine nature of the intelligence to a
spiritual nature and has nothing to do with man's bodily
bound up with the bodily nature. And there will be other
man back to that conception of his intellectual nature which is
Intellectual nature as something divinely spiritual.
as relates to their human nature, in the fact that they were
times to see men who in their inward natures are far superior,
nature. The only thing we have to look to Is just what, to use
— that nothing of a scientific nature, no sort of

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nature of the Graeco-Roman epoch, which as we know, was a copy
Atlantean civilisation something of the nature of forces comes
(verstand) but that was of quite a different nature from our
affinity of different forces of Nature which were regarded as
modifications of one particular force of Nature. This tendency
enter the world because the investigations of Nature, because
nature which forced a Darwinistic view on humanity. So, it is
ideal of the `two children' system. It was said: Since nature
an observation of Nature, but from a theory. It was not an
observation of Nature based on Knowledge which gave Darwin his
Nature, and so the Darwinians said: All beings live immersed in
the I9th century to strip off everything of a spiritual nature
principle of the survival of the fittest. Nature can then go on
work against the course of Nature if one attempts to
of a mediumistic nature, was intended to incorporate the

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from Nature in a way, a secret way, one absolutely strange to
Greeks experienced the whole world of nature in a different way
the stimulus of beings who excite the lower nature of man. They
direct their attention to the impulses of the lower nature, and
poured an Indian element of this nature, after she had been
nature very well; the judgement of an atavistic man may be far
his lower nature. One has to keep in mind that man is in
overcome them. One must will to overcome the forces of nature
whose lower nature is

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Science of Nature; and as regards this external Science, we
the outer world, but as regards our moral nature, humanity
because from our knowledge of nature (which is but a
that in our entire human nature, not merely in our thinking but
in our entire nature, even as far as our external body, lives
that we are called upon to incorporate into the life of nature,
re-appear as the Laws of Nature.
from indefinite Nature-forces, and permeated with moral ideals
nature science devoid of spirit. Anthroposophy will give a
spirit-filled Science of nature, a science able to animate man,
nature, will then transform itself in man in the same way as do
cognition from surrounding Nature. Anyone who thinks he can
In ancient times there existed no concept of nature which was
spoken of nature there, may mock at the childishness, the
phenomena of nature without spirit. Indeed, we regard it as the
That which we take up out of nature without spirit, can however
most profound sense. It was read by human beings from nature
to-day, because of his modern nature, although at one time it
dogmas, we have our external Science of Nature, in a state of
nature of all the conflict of ideas in the world rests on this
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nature. It must be considered, and clearly seen that we have
demand for freedom lives in the subconscious nature of man.
things that worry me are of quite a different nature, and as

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reveals itself in its inner nature, in its Spiritual being. We
kingdoms of nature, or man himself, or the Hierarchies next to
are other Beings, who seek to develop their nature at the wrong
Luciferic nature of the Cosmos. That which shines down to us,
Luciferic nature of the Cosmos. It is that which is as it now
incarnations. He wants to make man of such a nature in this
written about the things in Nature in the 12th, 13th centuries,

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starry world, then reveals itself in its nature, in its
nature at the wrong time, inopportunely. These are the
nature of the Cosmos. That which shines down to us, which
nature of the Cosmos. It is that which is as it now is
He wants to make man of such a nature in this incarnation
things in Nature in the 12th centuries, but they do not read

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the soul was created at birth by a God whose nature was also
pig. When pigs are free in nature, they are covered with hair,
and of the nature of the human being cannot be a good

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with the nature of those animals that are mainly under their
gives us the three members of human nature: Eagle — head;
brings a healing element into the lower nature of man. Luke,

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because they sense that the eye expresses the whole nature of a

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nature in himself. If a person were born with a dog-like

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nature. As a matter of fact, carbon exists in a great many
like coal exists in nature. It is certainly not elegant or
everywhere in nature. Whenever we move, multitudes of

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instead unhealthy for him. I even describe the nature of such a

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It has assumed something of the plodding nature of a technical age.
Greek lay the nature of the Epic &mdash the Epic was uttered by
rhythmically ebbing to and fro in human nature itself, — that
very oldest, coming from the super-nature of the inspired spiritual

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from the principles of nature and works up to that stage where even
experimenting with the forces of nature, and the Spirit is not
comfort what this modern view of nature transmits; we have to carry
into the new knowledge of nature an entirely new knowledge of the

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completely destroyed in its essence. Our human, nature is based
in the last century for acquiring knowledge on nature outside,

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nature that they attracted, so to speak Divine Spiritual
dear friends, we have to pre-suppose something of this nature
every single Science we want to bring out the individual nature
will extinguish all dogma and bring out the individual nature
world-relationships have for a long time been of such a nature
marks of a Group-nature, but that if simply a phantom-image.
about nature or about another man makes him competent to judge
quite another nature. There are things which must be treated

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therapeutics and health, but phenomena from all the kingdoms of nature
his reckoning must ascend from nature to spirit, and matters

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therapeutics and health, but phenomena from all the kingdoms of nature
inherent in their physical nature, and there is no need to

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therapeutics and health, but phenomena from all the kingdoms of nature
penetrate his skin. This is a mystery of human nature: a
good-natured, they might say, “Well, we don't have the

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therapeutics and health, but phenomena from all the kingdoms of nature
processes of nature. Perhaps this American will meet the same
recognize in nature. People who have only brooded over nature
materialistically about nature, because that is what he is to
speaks idealistically about nature, he does so because he is an
nature, as we say, to a certain degree. You can see from this
the beaver builds outwardly. By nature, he builds everything in
same is also true in nature. There are forces in nature that

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therapeutics and health, but phenomena from all the kingdoms of nature

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therapeutics and health, but phenomena from all the kingdoms of nature

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therapeutics and health, but phenomena from all the kingdoms of nature
be found in nature: spring, summer, fall, winter. One:
nature, and we actually act as comets do. We have iron in our

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therapeutics and health, but phenomena from all the kingdoms of nature
you know, the feminine and masculine natures differ greatly
from one another. The feminine nature contains more of the
nature is more susceptible to outer influences, because it is
more fluid. The masculine nature is less open to outer
nature with the administration of less silver, whereas more
silver must be prescribed for the masculine nature, because
strong soul natures. Gradually, however, they wanted to
see, this is how nature is related to everything that takes

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therapeutics and health, but phenomena from all the kingdoms of nature

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begin with we may observe the so-called lifeless Nature, which
the rest of lifeless Nature from the outset.
become equal to lifeless Nature. Henceforth we must seek the causes
outer lifeless Nature it is quite different. Observe even
find as lifeless Nature all around us. The latter contains a
the human body as to its lifeless nature, after the soul has laid it
aside, with the lifeless world of Nature outside of man.
to relate it to the rest of lifeless Nature. When on the other hand
plant-nature which we can trace in man himself), there we have
we find the causes for plant-nature. There too we shall look in vain
have become different. What influences the specifically animal nature
lifeless condition side by side with external lifeless Nature. And we
when in further progress from mineral nature to plant and animal, we
seeking the causes for plant-nature, we must go out into the wide
more then, we may say: To deal with the plant-nature and with the
etheric nature in man, we must go to the very limits of the ether.
But if we wish to explain the animal nature, and the astral in man,
the corpse. The corpse has become lifeless. External lifeless Nature
the great question arises: How is lifeless Nature related to the

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we see the far-spread lifeless universe of Nature, crystalline and
mineral nature come to him via the senses. We see the mineral, we
but think how little of the actual mineral nature comes into relation
receives of mineral nature through his senses, purely as
kingdom; such is the nature of the mineral. That which sustains the
our nature-karma, that of our karma which depends upon the way our
to say, and so it is with all animal nature. Just as the
region where the earth-nature is such that the elephant can have its
plant-nature of the earth, so may we say at this point: The
virtue of our nature, happy or miserable, as the case may be.
inherited the characteristic by a mere lifeless causality of Nature.
to do, in my essential nature, with the water that is dripping from
Laws of Nature. Yet where are the Laws of Nature that have power to
life from outer facts of Nature and yet they happen with inner
necessity with which any event of Nature takes place — be it an
according as you form the inner nature of your body in the life
constitution, our own internal human nature is subject to the Third
Nature, in the kingdom in which he is free.

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observations of Nature, he arrives at the idea that everything is
my nature. It is there of its own accord, and I am powerless against
causality of their own nature. But its a rule, they do not remain
certainly are not impaired by limitations of human nature. For them
look back on it, you see the nature of the things which you yourself
necessity goes on outside this realm, like any process of Nature.
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generally ascribe it to his physical nature. Not so the men who
out the truth, the inner nature of the fact. Thus you may ask: Why
who, in the nature of the case, cannot be your contemporary. In a

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to encounter him according to his nature. Moreover, it depends on the
certain inner factors in his nature. Let us observe, for once, what
faculty, out of his own nature to build his physical body. Therefore

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nature between the mental picture of the intention and the mental

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had a passionately independent nature and would say just what he
Here, too, you find Nature and her processes described in a way that
times was calm and composed, let loose his volcanic nature in full
vent to his volcanic nature.

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volcanic nature which on rare occasions, such as the one I related to

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corporeality, all that comes to expression in the bodily nature of
innermost nature of karmic connections if we do not pay attention —
spiritual powers of nature. The attitude of these men to the
participation in the life and forces of nature vibrates and pulsates
out of the clouds, and behind this nature-gesture of the thunder
just as these men felt the Spiritual in the workings of nature and
nature, and can never be raised into consciousness. Of clairvoyant
nature of will in the head, works especially into the limbs in
conceives the manifestations of the Divine in nature as something
can, I think, throw a great deal of light upon the nature of human

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Laplace, Darwin, Bacon, and many other spirits of like nature were

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give a great stimulus to the practical study of the nature and

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that wants to develop and unfold in accordance with its own nature. I
reincarnation only if one looks at manifestations of human nature
in his moral and spiritual nature. He is there. A man, however, who
the underlying elements in human nature which count in the spiritual
his spiritual nature to expression when he uttered the famous saying,
right-angled nature of his peculiar constructive talent. It was most

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calling it the wrecker and destroyer of the true being and nature of
developed in him, on the one hand, a liking for the Germanic nature

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peculiar relationship between the four members of his nature. Truly
a definite relationship of the four members of his nature —

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nature is only a part — gives as it were one picture of the
world only: and to limit study of the world to this realm of nature
approach must be to study nature in her full extent, but in such a
this way at nature and at history.
kind of double nature, we see how his soul-and-spirit easily
separates from the physical. Because he has this double nature, the
nature of the man.
it takes its course in nature as well as in
that was formerly suppressed. May a recognition of the true nature of

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whole of man's nature, enabling him to find his bearings in
individualities who in spite of their different natures belonged
nature which expressed itself only in his heart and feelings, was
into the constitution and nature of the human body; hence, when he

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considerable time — men saw in nature around them the outer,
nature. True, the Greek saw nature in a rather different aspect, for
nature.
gazed constantly at nature, but this gives our soul a certain
configuration. As it gazes at nature, the soul realises inwardly that
out into nature. It is more or less the same as if a man in physical
nature, the perceptive faculty in his life of soul deteriorates. He
which befalls the senses when they merely gaze out into nature. And
nature his gaze is really no more than a stare, going on into
rescuing it from the pull of nature. There you have one feature of
of the nature of cult and ritual, not the external rites only but
created and inspired by a real understanding of man's nature

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the nature of man to remain quite unknown to him, he would have to
me in a certain way. This treatment can be of such a nature that only
Nature.
life in which his soul-nature is chiefly expressed. Still more
into more and more detailed considerations of the nature of karma as

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previous earthly life. Thus the non-head nature — if I may coin
product of the non-head nature of the preceding earthly life. This
nature of things, move about a great deal. Human beings who lead an
man that he is bearing in his being and nature his past earthly life.
system is of a super-sensible nature. So that in studying the
connections in relation to the moral and spiritual nature of

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the outside world, upon the very processes of nature. It was a kind
Teachers were on the earth, even inorganic processes of nature could
different, far deeper and more penetrating knowledge of nature than
a spiritual nature; when they were, when they were essentially

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nature, exercise a very real influence upon man. This influence makes
nature surrounding him in earthly existence, he is related in a very
same instinctive basis as the influences of the kingdoms of nature.
above the life of nature; but man lives his life within the realm of
nature, and the spiritual life itself is an accessory. But if the
nature or from history, or about what other people have said to us
inner worth, its intrinsic nature, and it is therefore impossible for
cannot proceed from the earthly but only from the Sun-nature.
What is earthly in man is only an image. Man bears the Sun-nature
which they speak that they stand within the realm of nature. Their
resemble the workings of nature, but are stronger, of greater

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understand the real nature of karma, it is of paramount importance to
three kingdoms of nature within him — in a higher form. In a
within him these external kingdoms of nature, so does he bear within
sequences of processes in the three kingdoms of nature as well as
of soul-and-spirit. The mineral nature, the plant nature, the animal
nature in man can be understood in the light of the processes
operating in the three kingdoms of nature in space. Equally, we must
animal nature predominates, at the end of earthly life the mineral
nature, and in the intervening period the plant
nature.
the lower nature of the metabolic-limb system undermined what had
with his whole nature, right down into the metabolic-limb system.

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more, they make a man combative, warlike by nature. This warlike
associated with Saturn are Beings who by their very nature take no
imagery into the spiritual and you have the key to the nature of the

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understand the real nature of karmic connections we must, in the
understanding these things that we can come to know the nature of the
world of Beings, dazed by the multiplicity of our nature, for we are
that brings with it hard and heavy tests for human nature. If a man

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phenomena of world-existence, even of the phenomena of nature.
external nature is displayed before us in the form in which we behold

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you in the course of recent lectures, that the phenomena of nature
alone to the immediate facts presented by the world of nature,
larger or smaller groups of men at one epoch and the facts of nature
at another. There are occasions when we can observe events in nature
connection with these elemental events in nature.
nature.
man's conceptions and feelings are of quite a different nature,
world, the everyday happenings of nature proceed with an ordered
we live among the three kingdoms of nature — the mineral, the
of nature, to work upon us. And let us remind ourselves that this
corpse of a living human being; so, in relation to nature, we say:
nature of the spiritual world for which we are to look behind the

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aspects, which in the nature of things must closely concern the whole
emotions, of an element in human nature working entirely in a
rejected by a large portion of humanity to-day. The essential nature
elemental nature like those mentioned in the last lecture, when
catastrophe of nature or one that is the outcome of
the difference between such an event in elemental nature and an event
shall be lived out to the full. Now upheavals in nature —
takes effect in the earth when elemental catastrophes of nature occur
nature-catastrophes occur.
such catastrophes of nature befall.
nature-catastrophes.
agency of elemental nature: the sudden sweeping away of a process
therefore, this is how things are in the case of nature-catastrophes.
nature-catastrophes.
nature-catastrophe evokes in a man whom it befalls a vivid,
a fatal nature-catastrophe.
case of a nature-catastrophe the intellectual qualities
of nature and of civilisation it is, in the last resort, light that
an event of elemental nature, Initiation-Science may, nay must, put

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Nature, (while he accepts Revelation as Revelation and does

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with the essential nature of the deeds of Ahriman. We need

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we may be studying, — be it Nature, or the more

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nature of man connected with one another? And lo, there
super-sensible nature, belong to the Anthroposophical

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The nature of the
waking life man looked out upon Nature differently. He saw
it was. Thus everywhere in outer Nature man still perceived
of the aura in external Nature. My etheric body goes to its
seen hovering over the things and processes of Nature, the
saw the outer world of Nature differently owing to the
world of Nature in his waking life, he felt this world of
Nature as the essential domain of the Father God. All the
all the processes of Nature and the whole realm of Nature,
For indeed, his perception of Nature, inasmuch as he beheld
the words: It is the innocence of Nature's being. Yes, my
in truth: the innocence in the kingdom of Nature. He spoke
Nature.
higher level the innocence of Nature and to preserve it;
guiltlessness of Nature. Wherever such Christians lived as
desire-nature about the animals, — lo, this is the
The Spirit in the world of Nature. Again when they spoke to

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attitude to Nature on the one hand and to things spiritual
speak of Nature, have a dead abstraction — empty of
the realms of mineral and plant-nature and to all that
all Nature.
speak of abstract laws of Nature, they spoke of the
all external Nature.
the Goddess about the mineral and plant and animal natures,
learned to know from her the nature of the four Elements:
with Nature — Nature filled with divine forces,
Christ, and describing still how when great Nature has

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Nature, the mineral, plant and animal kingdoms in the
Nature, beginning with man and coming down to the animal
real Law of Nature in the 16th, 17th, and 18th, and in a

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fantasies. Above all, he sees what he sees in outer Nature,
is, in its true nature.
It was the reading in the Book of Nature. But men have
Nature. Hence God in His Compassion has given them in the
longer able to read in the Book of Nature. And in the way
Book of Nature.
Book of Nature. The great Book of Nature will be opened
again. Men will read once more in the Book of Nature.
spiritually, in the Book of Nature — to find the
spiritual background of Nature, God having given His
reading, but in the Book of Nature. The blundering,
of the Book of Nature. I think even this expression,
‘the Book of Nature,’ is to be found at the end

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enter strongly into the physical bodily nature of man.
spiritual, thence into the soul-nature, and thence again
into the bodily nature of man. Now in the karmic
is meant. Such indeed is the peculiar nature of the Michael

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external, bodily nature. All those who have grown into the
and firmly established in the physical bodily nature. In
soul-and-spirit from the physical bodily nature as in times
strongly in the bodily nature of a human being, — if
the bodily nature is taken hold of by the Spirit to such an

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inner nature — of soul-faculty and soul-condition
nature. It works in such a way that they think, think
nature of the impulses we are confronting when we stand
nature. But we shall not only preserve them, we shall make

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nature thoughts represent the most spiritual element in modern man, the
develops in his own soul. Investigation of nature has gone outwards, has
finds that it has been demolished by some force of nature or by the hand
give us an experience of the inmost nature of these lights, connected
physical-etheric sun-nature ... he will then be able to say that the

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after all only appears in its true nature when we consider how it passes
— I mean, the Castle of the Dwarf King Laurin. The daemonic nature
feeling of the nature-daemons and of other spiritual agencies in
nature.

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features of a man as to the nature of his former life on earth. It is
above all make use in a later incarnation of that external bodily nature
vivid and direct impression of how the sun works in its own nature in
nature, living and weaving in the spiritual life and movement of the
surface of the ocean. He saw what lived in the light nature of the sun,
nature than that which afterwards came to take its place. It is

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conception of Nature, altogether different from that abstract conception
of Nature which was afterwards made so much of, which knows only natural
refer received something spiritual from Nature into the human soul. So
that in all Nature, not only abstract, dead, conceptual natural laws
how man himself in his outer bodily nature partakes in the life and
at the foundation of Nature. The ego and astral body are with the
them how in the outer phenomena of Nature as they appear to men in
movement and activity of physical sense Nature and who on the other hand
We to-day have a conception of Nature woven out of abstract thought,
containing nothing that is alive. But in that old conception of nature
they still contemplated Nature as men had once contemplated the very
respect to your bodily nature you consist of the Elements in which the
extended from the bodily into the soul nature in such a way as to
was the doctrine of Nature in that time, taught with enthusiasm in
down to history, a teaching about Nature was given such as I have here
then he met the Goddess Natura who built up the kingdoms of Nature in
nature of which I will only indicate by saying: he uttered words in
external Nature.

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nature-beings, and not in the conception of void and abstract natural
Nature. All this was cultivated there — no longer, it is
communication of dead thoughts about dead laws of Nature. And they could
Her writings, too, are of this nature. They
account the higher members of man's nature when considering disease and

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essence and nature they feel themselves attracted by the School of
as Tycho Brahe. Through Schelling's bodily nature little could

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the star really contains is of a spiritual nature, or, if physical it
our Earth is not what we have in the kingdoms of Nature, and not even

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of his Mazarini nature. All the peculiar qualities with which he came to

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spite of this it is so difficult to carry into the bodily nature of the
both of Nature and of the Universe.
Arts and Nature that works behind them, matter-of-fact as they appear to
conceived as real living Being, even as Nature herself was described as
activity. Moreover, as I have explained in these lectures, Nature in her
contained in the Seven Liberal Arts, and in the conception of Nature
which he possessed was connected altogether with the feminine nature. I
out through narrow slits into the sunshine of nature, while in his soul,
nature? Yet accordingly there comes over him a kind of antipathy
the old conceptions of spiritual life in all Nature which was so
that shines forth in Nature is the manifestation of morality. He who
of elemental Nature which seem almost like an attempt to caricature the

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constituted as he is in his bodily nature and by education, cannot
the Spirit no less than downward into Nature. And if we would understand
was also a certain difficulty for his nature to receive Christianity,
and who carried into the Mid-European nature very, very much of
of Platonism into the Mid-European nature. This in truth it was only

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In my last lectures I have been dealing with the nature of
hardly have real insight into the nature and activity of
being, to experience the nature of this thinking in its
own nature. When we eat pickled cabbage
proceeds according to the nature of
begins to understand what the nature of this life in the
He studies the laws of nature. Through observation or
experiment he establishes them. These laws of nature
nature, he begins to be arrogant. And he now
nature must prevail there, because their validity is
nature.
nature becomes less and less the further you get away from the
nature are concerned, he will disagree. However, with regard to
equally to the laws of nature. The
back. The laws of nature, however, then
nature, such thoughts are, figuratively speaking, neatly
visible beings and processes of nature. But what comes back to
nature are formulated. What is coming back
in and governs the formulation of the laws of nature diminishes
periphery of a given sphere. There the laws of nature have
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Title: Spiritual Development: Lecture II: The Physical World and the Moral-Spiritual Impulses
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drawn from the phenomena of nature must inescapably lead. Thus
must contain the element of unreality. In external nature he
And finally, looking at the third kingdom of nature, the
physical-material nature and find that with part of his being
nature shows him that nowhere in the laws of nature as such can
of nature bat in which hydrogen and oxygen
which nature and spirit face each other as if separated by an
has a resemblance to the material; where the laws of nature
world where nothing in the nature of material substance exists
in the surrounding world of nature, where the spirit does not
wherever something higher, something in the nature of
do so because it is not of the nature of present existence but
nature, the duality of spirit and matter. Here man himself is

Title: Spiritual Development: Lecture III: Man's Faculty of Cognition in the Etheric World
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surrounded by the three kingdoms of nature besides his own. But
four parts of man's nature can disclose their true
the nature of man's being. We have here, on a

Title: Things Past and Present: Lecture I
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nature of Friedrich Lienhard who in a certain sense has been
European German nature so as to bring to effectiveness the
description of nature, lyric nature, but put in a very
speech with nature. Also there is something of the nature of
natural way and shows its spirit in nature existence. Now,
beings in relationship to nature continues itself with such a
nature.
way in which they carry the elementary nature right into the
and that which is related to the German nature, has with it
nature experiences; and with such things one can detect
lyrically united with the nature which is around the Alsacian
nature which weaves itself in the form of his poems much of
in a certain way is a kind of nature pantheism and a kind of
person, but with someone of a more hysterical nature.
nature evolution of the present, that present which will not
world. Both of them come out of the lower instinctive nature
nature arose, all the brooding in the inner human being, that

Title: Things Past and Present: Lecture II: Deeper Secrets of Man's Soul-Spiritual Nature
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spiritual nature of man. You know that we speak in the first
something of a super-sensible nature. Furthermore, we speak of
the next member of human nature as the so-called astral body.
spiritual nature of that which we designate as the etheric
into man's physical body in so far as his physical nature is
of nature in order to make man healthy, that before the

Title: Things Past and Present: Lecture III: A Fragment from the Jewish Haggada, Blavatsky
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dreaminess, it almost has something of a dreamy nature in it,
that which in Middle Europe leads to a logical nature and
roots in the Russian nature which came out of her ether body,
separation between the French nature and the British nature.
dose of Central European nature in her. She had an
independent nature and very soon became aware of what lived

Title: Things Past and Present: Lecture IV: Secrets of Freemasonry
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something of a definite nature exists in such ceremonial
nature, elemental beings in plants, animals and minerals.
lead these people to gestures of that nature and also more
So you see that one can experience much of a curious nature
experience something of a special nature. Things which are

Title: Things Past and Present: Lecture V: Comenius and the Temple of PanSophia
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so-called elementary world at the basis of this nature, world
spread out around us which lies at the basis of the nature
and the elementary beings who weave and live in the nature
development of his physical nature, was excluded from a
felt something in architecture of a divine nature in these
the 17th century, there were sensitive natures who knew: The
know that modern science says that nature makes no jumps, but

Title: Things Past and Present: Lecture VI: Death and Resurrection
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important and is of a non-earthly nature. And that person
our astral nature would not be the same if, shall we say, we
thought habits of a materialistic nature? A person can

Title: Things Past and Present: Lecture VII: Man's Four Members
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nature at that time today has hardened itself. However, man
the rest of the kingdoms of nature. Indeed, as you look down

Title: Things Past and Present: Lecture VIII: Thomas More and His Utopia
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apparent contradiction of the whole nature of Thomas

Title: Things Past and Present: Lecture IX: Celtic Symbols and Cult, Jesuit State in Paraguay
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nature is quite strange to present day man. Why is that? Man
which as nature surrounded him. Even if he did not speak of
forces, forces of a spiritual etheric nature. The essential
of a spiritual etheric nature is eliminated. Only when one
only given to us by the external sense nature.
upon our soul nature. Everything also is not permissible
one member of the human nature, upon that member which in our
human beings that this is something of a scientific nature
development of our present corporeal nature. Nevertheless at
lead all this back to human nature. You have no means to know

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which is more of a conceptual nature, but on the other hand
nature is there, everything has its definite deep
physical nature is concerned, man has torn himself loose from
one aspect of his nature; he has another aspect through which
just think about the true nature of laughing and weeping. You
because he was dealing with something of a holy nature. There
was something of a holy nature in the letters; this applied

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nature of this world and seeks the eternal within the time

Title: Memory and Habit: Lecture I
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nature in the spiritual world. Memory is a metamorphosis of the
necessary for understanding the very different nature of the world
insight into the nature of our physical existence.
nature, we always have to do with a Luciferic activity. You
method of assisting memory is wholly of an Ahrimanic nature. Again, I do
play, instinctively rather than consciously realising the nature of

Title: Memory and Habit: Lecture III
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build up a knowledge of the nature of the Ahrimanic and Luciferic
organs — is of a Luciferic nature.
spiritual world can be perceived in its true nature. Unless we

Title: Lecture: Riddle of Humanity: Lecture One: Greetings to the Builders Working on the Goetheanum. Otto Weininger, a Decadent Genius. Distorted Pictures of Imaginative Knowledge.
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the more these life-obscuring clouds arise. It is about human nature,
often indefinable aspects of human nature.
with much M in their nature can load upon themselves? What, indeed, is
the extent that his plant nature gains the upper hand. Paradoxical!
resembles a dog. All the rest of nature, you see, is condensed in the
Everything that is spread out before us in nature is contained in man
many people about who possess similar natures. Contemporary humanity
includes many individuals with natures similar to Weininger's. It is
transitional nature of our times, an interesting example. It is

Title: Lecture: Riddle of Humanity: Lecture Two: Two Spheres of Existence in Nature and in Man: the Realm of Regularity and the Realm of Irregularity. The Ancient Hebrews' Jubilee year as the Expression of Formative Powers of the Soul. The Christ Incarnation.
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Two spheres of existence in nature and in man the realm of regularity
autumn. And the realm of nature presents us with many other things in
But there is another realm of nature, one which cannot be experienced
You see here two distinct realms of nature, one that manifests
call nature as a whole. I would like to describe the overall
impression that nature makes on us at a given instant as a mixture of
two spheres of nature expressed in some human form, one which exhibits
from the way they are expressed out there in nature. Nevertheless,
that twofold division of nature into order and irregularity should
The contrast in human nature between the regularity of normal thinking
and the lack of it in dreams is really of this nature. A person is
deeply into nature. It begins to appear to us as it has appeared to
‘What, then, is this part of nature that is not regulated by the
nature that does not proceed regularly or in accordance with rules?
What is this nature of rain, of hail, of storms, of thunder, of
always answered, ‘Here nature appears as a somnambulist!’
manifestations, we find nature as a somnambulist, a somnambulistic
consciousness of earthly nature. That is a profound truth.

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The duality of human nature — the heavenly and the earthly
become aware of the fundamentally dual nature of the human being. We
certain other, deeper regions of human nature, regions which in a
nature. That is most easily imagined if you consider the skeleton.
pictorial expression of the dual nature of a human being, for the head
light. In that, something of an unquestionably earthly nature is
earthly nature, perhaps, but earthly all the same. Yesterday, in the
understand the nature of either mankind or of the world as long as one
represented it. Understanding the substantial nature of the material
precisely because he does not understand the substantial nature of
sense in which human nature is dual, and how this is outwardly
nature and to the universe, but that it makes no difference to nature
or to the universe that such a thing is added to it. Nature could just
with our ideas. They are an addition. So why should nature not be
nature fashioned man so that thinking is not even included among his
cosmic aspects of human nature.
human being has a dual nature. But not only does man have a dual
nature; in addition to that, his external shape also carries both past
deep, deep into the nature and origins of world existence and human

Title: Lecture: Riddle of Humanity: Lecture Four: Human Organism, Results of Prenatal Formative Powers. Dual Nature of Man. Powers behind the Existence of the Body as Expressed Pictorally by the Body and as Expressed in a Draughtsmanlike Fashion by the Head.
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nature of man. The powers behind the existence of the body as
three-foldness of human nature and knowledge, aesthetics and morality.
with a dual nature. Because humanity has this dual nature, it is

Title: Lecture: Riddle of Humanity: Lecture Five: How a Person Grows into the Three Spiritual Realms of Wisdom, Beauty and Goodness. How These Shine Down into the Spiritual Part of Man.
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of nature — the mineral, plant and animal kingdoms — flow
things are connected with human nature, but please note that it is
once it has been taken hold of by the moral nature of the Earth. Moral

Title: Lecture: Riddle of Humanity: Lecture Six: The Transformation of the Physical Body into the Head of the Next Incarnation. The Cosmic Significance of Human Knowledge.
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much about the complicated nature of the human being; but the time is
essentially dual nature, and of how his external body already reveals
this dual nature. The body divides into two parts which are built
between the nature of a concept and the thing that the concept
nature of a grain of wheat. As he sets about it, he says: ‘I will
proceeds to seek for the nature of the grain of wheat in its
discovering something essential about the nature of a grain of wheat
corresponds to the nature of a grain of wheat to be as it is, must
secondary matter. It has nothing to do with the inner nature of a
nature provides something good for human nourishment. But that has
nothing to do with the inner nature of a grain of wheat, or with the
its nature quite a complicated one. And it is only in dreams such as
inner nature of wheat. We can go on to ask: What are the further
Here nature gives you an opportunity to build a concept that must be
substances in nature was explained as the work of mysterious spirits
It is similar when we go about acquiring knowledge of external nature
being separated from their own original nature. Something similar
developed in a way that runs totally contrary to the nature of ideas

Title: Lecture: Riddle of Humanity: Lecture Eight: How Twelvefoldness, Sevenfoldness, Fourfoldness, and Threefoldness are Mirrored. Pathological Experiences of the Soul. Thinking Backward as a Preparation for Spiritual Experience.
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significant spiritual beings whose nature is reflected within us
what, as lower nature, is present in man. These spiritual counterparts
in the example from inorganic nature, only intensified to the point of

Title: Lecture: Riddle of Humanity: Lecture Nine: Enlivening the Sense Processes and Ensouling the Life Processes. Aesthetic Enjoyment and Aesthetic Creativity. Logic and the Sense for Reality.
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soul-spiritual nature is related to our physical, bodily nature. In
between the necessities of reason and the necessities of nature. He
the necessity of nature approach one another.

Title: Lecture: Riddle of Humanity: Lecture Ten: Loss of the Ability to Orient Oneself in Reality and the Helplessness of Modern Scientific Driteria in a Materialistic Age.
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of nature. Why should men need to establish natural laws if all they
establishing laws and arriving at the laws of nature? To this Ernst
and hold them together in our thought. What we call a law of nature is
believe that they could read in the book of nature and explain how
the truth of judgements and to make discoveries about the nature of
unprejudiced observation of the hierarchy of the realms of nature. He

Title: Lecture: Riddle of Humanity: Lecture Thirteen: Allocation of the Whole Human Form to the Cosmos. Technical Discoveries and the Human Physical Organization. Collisions between Thinking that Accords with Reality and Thinking that is in Opposition to Reality.
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whole nature and spirit of evolution, there must have been a time,
heavens will reveal their own nature is just an empty phrase.
to the unconscious nature of the sexual process in earlier times. It

Title: Lecture: Riddle of Humanity: Lecture Fourteen: Metamorphoses of the Twelve Sense Zones through Luciferic and Ahrimanic Influences.
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thinking — or thought. Nor, because of the nature of the thinking
We have the power to express all the movements of our inner nature
language of nature and for perceiving how certain elemental beings
original form, the nature of which I have just indicated, it would not
in the fundamental nature of the human being are due to influences

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For our soul-spiritual nature is physically expressed by the colour of
more seek a wisdom that enters into the nature of things. Once people

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but that these are no more than certain forces of nature.
that they were in touch simply with higher forces of nature.
of nature and nothing more. They were to get the idea that just
seances people would take it that higher nature-forces were at
thorough materialist if he treats the whole of nature as spirit
which is closely related to the forces of nature. I must
accordance with its own nature. This reality goes through

Title: Wrong and Right Use: Lecture 2: Secret Brotherhoods-2, -or- Wrong and Right Use of Esoteric Knowledge-2, -or- Individual Spirit Beings and the Undivided Foundation of the World-Part 2
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realms of nature that lie around us come into being in a very
remarkable way. In all that we call nature, the nature we
blessing for mankind. We can lay hold of nature with ideas that
us normally to experience only as much of nature as is in
accord with that principle. Behind the tapestry of nature there
only as much of nature as can pass through its sieve.
Everything contradictory is strained out, and nature is
bear on the interpretation of nature — the facts
souls, which can also act on nature — then we are no
longer able to speak of a monistic system applicable to nature.
esoteric legend which indicated the nature of Ireland within

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machines. Forces in human nature that are still unknown will be
longer be able to discern the soul-element in outer Nature and
duality in human nature — the duality which in our epoch
animal nature. A human being is really a centaur in a certain
sense: his humanity rests on his lower animal nature in its
elemental forces which belong to nature on their own account,

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would be entirely a process of Nature, in which we would not
great extent with the lower qualities of human nature.
“lower nature” is connected with the higher
nerve-interruptions is connected with the Moon nature, we
nature, takes his place in social life, and it is not

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ourselves somewhat, from a certain aspect, in human nature
with the animal world that we begin to bring our human nature
to the animal nature in the world of the dead, if you look
nature in the human being is primarily, even in the most
nature, having great joy in what happens without the
we call the laws of nature, according to which we then form
erect round about us according to the laws of nature is
relationships of a direct or indirect nature begin in what I
describe as a necessity of Nature. It consists therein, that

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dead, which is of such a nature that, when he comes in
beings, through their nature, are separated from the
art than to copy, from the model, what Nature forms outside?
of the animalic (he must raise his animal nature into the
thus in Nature.
Nature is contained in all existence. Above all, there is a
elementary tree begins; but in Nature, a being belonging to
are, in reality, dead. This is not possible in Nature. If

Title: Historical Necessity: Lecture 4: The Rhythmical Relationship of Man with the Universe
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But the centaur's animal nature — please connect this
emphasized again and again that human nature contains enigmas
mirrored A and in the mirrored B. Investigate nature
things that lie at the foundation of human nature —
that part of human nature that can perceive reality and has
intimately connected with the taming of our centaur-nature.
This centaur-nature is contained in us in such a way that it

Title: Historical Necessity: Lecture 5: The Members of Man's Being and the Periods of His Life
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nature, and we wish to know and judge everything imaginable
roughly in man what we may call his physical nature, or his
nature and being of this ego? The usual waking consciousness
that the true ego of man is of a will-like nature. What man
Nature. And our world of thoughts gives us only that which is
in us and corresponds to our own nature between birth and
death. That which is our eternal nature remains in the world
we possess this four-fold nature — the physical body,
nature.
with nature can be conveyed even to the most educated people;

Title: Historical Necessity: Lecture 6: New Spiritual Impulses in History
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human nature, you will gain an insight, not only with your
gaze will fall on certain phenomena in Nature that reveal
the wide ocean, but in the whole of Nature. Consider how many
not consider Nature with theoretical prejudices, especially
considers Nature in an unprejudiced way will find that there
are countless things in Nature which must be designated, in
something that you can see outside in physical Nature. If the
Nature, but in the way in which spiritual things correspond
to things in Nature. Many considerations have shown us that
qualities to be found in Nature — they are the exact
imaginations. What is kept back in the processes of Nature
grains of wheat or rye, from everything else in Nature which
human nature. Think of what we discussed yesterday.
Nature, so do wonders lie in spiritual events. No human being
becomes as intense in human nature as it should become it

Title: Historical Necessity: Lecture 7: The Inadequacy of Natural Science for the Knowledge of the Life of the Soul
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understand the nature of man in its connection with the
human nature through a certain necessity. Certainly, a
necessity underlies man's nature; but this necessity ceases
what really underlies man's nature it will be necessary to
Ego of man, the Ego which indeed belongs to the will-nature
nature and really remains present as Akashic Record, for it

Title: Symptom 2 Reality: Lecture I: The Birth of the Consciousness Soul
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akin to the elemental forces of nature. These two aspects
sees in nature. Imagine you are looking at the world of
nature ... You see the colours, you hear the sounds —
Such is the situation in nature, but in history it is not
genuine impressions of nature. All the historical twaddle
most powerful impulse of this nature. We can, of course,
product of nature. As member of a national group man creates
these peoples it is given facts, facts of nature which
phenomenon of this nature emerges on the surface it meets

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must trade, exchange goods and produce what nature does not
is surrounded by nature and lives in communion with nature
indifferent to nature, and their relationship to nature is
everything. Now an insoluble problem of this nature

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symptomatic nature. This can be deferred until next week when
paid no attention to those of a spiritual nature. If we ask
with the laws of nature. And we must study this impulse as
unable to derive anything in the nature of a decisive impulse
is a vast difference between the observation of nature and
Observation of nature — with different nuances — was
common to all epochs. But when man observes nature he becomes
one with nature and shares in the life of nature. But,
strangely enough, this communion with nature blunts the
nature and at the same time know or cognize in the sense in
communion with nature one must be prepared in a certain sense
to surrender one's consciousness to nature. And that is why
the observation of nature cannot fathom its secrets, because
when man observes nature his consciousness is somewhat dimmed
and the secrets of nature escape him. In order to apprehend
the secrets of nature he must be alive to the
nature but by intellection or human intelligence; it is
nature and is centred in man. ‘We murder to
dissect’— our knowledge of nature is derived from
nature only becomes ripe for technical exploitation when it
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Title: Symptom 2 Reality: Lecture IV: The Historical Significance of the Scientific Mode of Thinking
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history it is not easy to show the true nature of the
is impossible to believe that, by their very nature, the most
to develop anything in the nature of positive ideas.
nature.
divorced from living nature. He is entirely engaged in
example, or other fine sentiments of alike nature. But all
the nature of these ideas. And if you take the trouble, you
abstract nature), and the ‘lofty human ideals’, as they were
with living nature. He who is able to follow with true
nature, namely, the study of pathological conditions in man.
meaningless! Now people do not say this, because nature in
sphere of external nature. In the sphere of history, however,

Title: Symptom 2 Reality: Lecture V: The Supersensible Element in the Study of History
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of human nature we touch upon here. There is ample evidence
nature of the locomotive. It would be equally mistaken to say
possession of man's corporeal nature in earlier times —
understand the nature of these forces of evil we must not
it reveals its true nature, where it acts as it must of
all kinds of secondary effects, but art by its very nature
artistic forms in painting and sculpture, or of the nature of
picture-nature. In the epoch of the Consciousness Soul
the spiritual archetype of man through his picture-nature. In
an inner sympathy and understanding of a different nature
his picture-nature, when we can approach him with the
time — problems of the nature of evil which threaten to

Title: Symptom 2 Reality: Lecture VI: Brief Reflections on the Publication of the New Edition of 'The Philosophy of Freedom'
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important impulses of a far-reaching nature if it had not
nature will it be possible to arrive at a philosophy of
related to human action as the laws of nature are related
symptomatic nature that I have undergone in my present

Title: Symptom 2 Reality: Lecture VII: Incidental Reflections on the Occasion of the New Edition of 'Goethes Weltanschauung'
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second nature, something, however, that was uprooted from its
phenomenon. When we enquire into the nature of this isolated
nature.’ The so-called Goethe scholars, the literary
is firmly anchored in his conception of nature.
from the intuitive perception of nature to art. In studying
between perception of nature and artistic activity, between
Goethe when he observes nature as an artist, but sees it on
creation in nature at a higher level.
but imbued with the wisdom that informs nature. For Goethe
the soul of man is the stage on which the spirit of nature
rigorous observation of nature. In spite of all university
The really important question is the nature of the

Title: Symptom 2 Reality: Lecture VIII: Religious Impulses of the Fifth Post-Atlantean Epoch
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between the divine and spiritual nature of Christ and the
human and physical nature of Jesus. This was the central
consider it as by nature diametrically opposed to Jesuitism.

Title: Symptom 2 Reality: Lecture IX: The Relation Between the Deeper European Impulses and Those of the Present Day
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nature of the civilized world. In order to understand this we
nature and substance as the Father from all eternity. This
of the same nature and substance as the Father.
Father, different in substance and nature, the perfect
doctrine of Athanasius which was foreign to their nature, for
Teutonic peoples was originally of a different nature. These
showed little interest in the relationship between nature and
mankind. They imagined man as insulated from nature. They
no interest in the way in which man is related to nature, how
man is an integral part of nature. Whilst in the East, for
profoundly the relation between man and nature, that man is
to some extent a product of nature, as I showed in the case
understanding for the relationship between human nature and
cosmic nature. He had a strong sense for a common way of
nature. Nature was to some extent excluded from the social
a survival of a conception that linked nature and man, it was
an insight into the nature of Aufklärung which was
Spirit. It is in the nature of this people to give to the
Russian nature, especially its piety, must have found the
deeply rooted in human nature, a movement that is steadily

Title: Fundamental Social: Lecture 1: The Transforming of Instinctive into Conscious Impulses
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begin consciously to raise the question: What is the nature
it what you will, the Divine Order or the order of Nature,
Nature. In effect, it is only an apparent prosperity that is
Nature generally, came to the conclusion that one ought to
Nature-basis of existence. While the Mercantilists were more
point. I will but indicate their nature. He recommends
because it is a tendency of nature for the population to
Nature-basis of his economic life? In more recent times there
and many others — not only to study the nature of the
“What was the nature of the economic life in the second
concerned as to the nature of the social structure, and in
evolution where, through counter-instincts in his nature, he
all the sources of egoism that are there in human nature.

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— What is the nature of the forces in Eastern Humanity;
what is the nature of the forces in Western Humanity; and
what is the nature in the Humanity living the midst between
the two? What is the nature in each case of the forces
symptoms and from the inner occult standpoint, the nature of
study him if we bear in mind the threefold man, whose nature
this can only be the case when one knows the threefold nature
need only develop the better aspects of their nature, then
employer. This lies in the nature of the case, it is like a
law of Nature. People only fail to see it, and hence they are

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Nature-study of today, but with inner spiritual, scientific
something in our human nature — all our progress even
bodily nature. In ordinary life man is only aware of death
connected with the death of something in our nature. Now this
human nature — a creative principle which must now take
They try to gain knowledge of Nature. Well, as you know, it
inwardness of human nature. This deepened inwardness will
and stronger become the forces which play in human nature on
Wisdom. How the Spiritual revealed itself in external Nature
then applied to Man. In great and all-embracing Nature they
out into external Nature and beheld all that is brought about
inherent in human nature that men invariably rebel at first
is natural but a science of Nature, which has to be achieved

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external order of Nature? To learn to behold the Divine just
order of Nature. Those who have no deeper understanding for
been undertaken on the path of Nature. Only so can the path
of Nature be saved from its aberration into a purely
kingdoms of Nature. Life will remain unintelligible to men,
slipping away from us. The outer bodily nature, as I said
which our bodily nature is connected; no, we must rise into
members of human nature the Western peoples are called
especially to develop the abdominal nature, the Middle
peoples the heart-nature and the Eastern peoples the head
nature. Nowadays, such things are nearly always treated as
true nature of things. Today, in many spheres of life, they
Now by nature the West is not predestined to pass from the

Title: Mysteries of Light: Lecture I: The Dualism in the Life of the Present Time
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nature of these demands. For what connection is there between these
above nature, but as being at the same time valid natural science.
true contrast: namely, the devil, that in human nature which resists
nature can lie expressed only by the picture of equilibrium, —
him in accordance with his nature, as striving for balance between
abstract views about them. The others speak of a nature devoid of
not even capable of entering into our knowledge of nature or our
to gear into the machinery of nature. We have not the strength in our
spiritual views to develop a knowledge about nature itself. The fact
penetrate any of the real worlds of nature that lie before us. But we
spiritual creative activity in nature itself, when nature causes one
one came forth from the preceding — just as in nature itself
principle of evolution in nature. For if you consider the human eye,
this fashioning dwell the same forces which underlie nature as the
spirit of nature. A spirit is sought which is actually creative, a
the creative activity of the spirit in nature itself.
is continually being said that nature and life make no leaps. A man
development; leaps never!” Well, nature is continually making
the stamen, and to the pistil. Nature makes frequent leaps when it

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of the present it is very essential to comprehend that their nature
Goetheanum Building; but you have also the nature of the connection
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man's subjective nature, but rather with what is being
overcome everything of a merely sectarian nature, still rampant even
external nature was left as the object of real knowledge, of free
nature, since the science of the soul was monopolized and the science
before conception. And the will-nature in man is something
Thinking and willing in human nature are fundamentally different.
which must be grasped: that in thinking something of the nature of an
have grasped the essential nature of thinking; but when we do grasp
this essential nature of thinking, we must say at the same time: This
the other force of human nature is always developed more in one
the conception of nature; and the other, which comes from the
On the one hand, man worships nature in a pagan fashion; and on the
other — without finding a proper basis in nature, except that
nature: it is merely the continuation of ancient paganism; we have a
do as I recommended in connection with Harnack's Nature of
and with external nature, is the continuation of something which

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nature, to the blood, and to the bodily organization. This was true
of the very nature of the Mysteries, but they were able also to
Catholic jurisprudence in what is called the law of nature. Just
science of nature, the law of nature — the legal element is
still there! The expression “law of nature” has no
nature, which deals only with the primordial phenomenon, the
nature; and in Central Europe there already exists the first

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knowledge of our true, archetypal human nature — and with it
Only a true knowledge of our human nature and the spiritual forces
of Nature. In accordance with this necessity we see everything in
Nature under the law of Cause and Effect. And we ask also, when man
in which he applies himself to investigating the nature of simple
reckons with something that is founded to some extent in the nature of
being above must be of one nature and Mercury being below of another.
stomach because it is below, this line. The inner nature of the organ
Similarly the inner nature of Mars is qualified by its position

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knowledge of our true, archetypal human nature — and with it
Only a true knowledge of our human nature and the spiritual forces

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knowledge of our true, archetypal human nature — and with it
Only a true knowledge of our human nature and the spiritual forces
is wanted. What we have to do is to grasp in its spiritual nature all
form, one realises how these directions differ in nature and kind from
respect on the cycle of Nature. The cycle of waking and sleeping, in
its measure of time, seems to resemble the cycle of Nature; but there
between waking and sleeping, and Nature alternates between day and
today has almost entirely broken away from the course of outer Nature.
experience an absolute demand of Nature that they should fall asleep.
the course of Nature, but that nevertheless in his periodicity he
and sleeping we still distinctly show the course of Nature in picture,
picture of the course of Nature such as is still expressed in the
course of Nature arises in us; for this is not in our control like
something appears belonging to Nature and yet not following the larger
course of Nature, something which Man has for his own. And yet it is
then we would learn to understand the nature of the qualities in the
the Sun is a hollow space of such a nature that anything brought to it
— Nature, Morality and Religion — by means of

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knowledge of our true, archetypal human nature — and with it
Only a true knowledge of our human nature and the spiritual forces
The fundamental nature and construction of the Universe cannot be
relation to his Will nature, in relation to all that exists in the
and the dreams reveal through their very nature how Man steps across.
‘sucking’ nature. Ether is sucking, absorbing. Matter

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knowledge of our true, archetypal human nature — and with it
Only a true knowledge of our human nature and the spiritual forces
compelled to draw attention to the fact that we must not study Nature
without Man, without keeping in mind the relation of Nature to Man.
understanding of the nature of Man.
we judge the real being of what lies behind nature's phenomena.
Our next question must be: What is the nature of this relation? To
nature of Man. We find in the first place his complete form or
And now consider, if we understand the form of Man in all its nature

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knowledge of our true, archetypal human nature — and with it
Only a true knowledge of our human nature and the spiritual forces
nature of his peripheric form; and here you can find, if you examine
derivable from Man's nature; for as already pointed out, with the
lunar motion. Were we to study the phenomena of Nature more deeply, we
man with macrocosmic nature.
What really is the nature of the process which we observe in the daily
are independent of the necessity ruling in our nature. It is when we
‘necessity of Nature’, but only that has place which is
intimately connected with our moral nature and moral actions. Within
the Zodiac we are unable to evolve our moral nature; but in so far as

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knowledge of our true, archetypal human nature — and with it
Only a true knowledge of our human nature and the spiritual forces
understanding of his nature is out of the question.
in this domain of nature, to examine Goethe's investigations in
You will remember that in order to gain a true insight into the nature
these experiences according to their nature. In a medical school, when
knew that he conformed to its motions; he knew also the nature of that

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knowledge of our true, archetypal human nature — and with it
Only a true knowledge of our human nature and the spiritual forces
he related to his soul-nature in the same way as he related the
and back nature of the human being, even as the connection between the

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knowledge of our true, archetypal human nature — and with it
Only a true knowledge of our human nature and the spiritual forces
of how the conception of the nature of Man leads to the conception of
regards all that belongs to the limb-nature — which is continued
We must realise at this point that really to comprehend human nature,
the limb-nature into the interior of man. All the processes that are
limb nature, directed inwards. So that in speaking of the will-nature
or metabolic-nature, we do not mean only the outer limbs, but the
this, intimately connected as it is with the will-nature, man is
thought of as between the nature of the Moon and this region of the
will-metabolic nature is in a constant state of sleep — is most
unconsciousness that which is really the sleep-nature of the limb-man.
sleep. In respect to this process, man's own nature sends back to him
The nature of our lower man turns one side away, as it were, and only
have an absolute inner parallel between the Moon-nature and the whole
them to realise these inner relations between human nature and the
nature, we can also feel the real relationship between the hands and
counterpart, the feeling nature. Quite naturally we try to support our
of our arms and hands. We endeavour to project our emotional nature
how the nature of the arms clearly indicates their connection not only
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knowledge of our true, archetypal human nature — and with it
Only a true knowledge of our human nature and the spiritual forces
Thought-nature of the head with Will-forces. Thus we can say, in
As you see, human nature is complicated; and if one does not wish to
today! One does not arrive at the real nature of Man. The essential
nature of Man will only be revealed when Spiritual Science is allowed
instance, be adaptation to the human limb-nature. Something must lift
for the comprehension of human nature is only calculated to explain
speaks of a headless man, it does not understand his true nature at
even Kepler — than the whole nature of Man can be understood from
Jehovah. This points to two movements, two currents in human nature.
These two currents also exist in extra-earthly nature — only

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knowledge of our true, archetypal human nature — and with it
Only a true knowledge of our human nature and the spiritual forces
it? It suddenly becomes of the nature of the plant. Its life is
plant-nature springs up and puts forth leaf in man, so to say, from

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knowledge of our true, archetypal human nature — and with it
Only a true knowledge of our human nature and the spiritual forces
something of the nature of the world or of the nature of Man when we
nature is Astro-physics, the theory that sets out to study the
into Nature, and they take trouble to keep the spiritual as far
nature, and to have an epoch from 747 BC. to AD. 1413 so running its
and they are of such nature that we may say: If we start from the
thought or feeling to the earlier years. The whole nature of dreams is
development of a heathen nature — natural science is still
heathen — and a human development of a Christian nature.

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knowledge of our true, archetypal human nature — and with it
Only a true knowledge of our human nature and the spiritual forces
physical nature. He is a reality as a being of soul and spirit, a
our physical nature.
organisation, comes, through our bodily nature, also into connection
The essential nature of man and his connection with the Cosmos was not
nature of their being, how it is organised into the Cosmos, and that

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knowledge of our true, archetypal human nature — and with it
Only a true knowledge of our human nature and the spiritual forces
The Nature of Christianity,
do picture the whole of Nature in a way that is in accordance with the
wished to have its nature explained. Julius Robert Mayer, who came
nature alone from all that was for him merely secondary effect.
Nature-Principle; all that has taken place through Christianity, for
Assuming that human life is 72 years (unless events of Nature
on the one hand, the events in Nature, as reasoned by Julius Robert
Earth, we have to do with an Event of a totally different nature from

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knowledge of our true, archetypal human nature — and with it
Only a true knowledge of our human nature and the spiritual forces
all his nature of the Universe as a whole. It is specially important
Trinity: The Nature of God the Father, God the Son — that is,
Universal God underlying all nature. If the Christ-Concept has been
To comprehend this, Nature and Spirit must of course be studied with
Let us however here recall the true nature of the Sun. Again and again

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knowledge of our true, archetypal human nature — and with it
Only a true knowledge of our human nature and the spiritual forces
mere product of nature. Attempts have been made to discover the
on the heat within him. In speaking of man's bodily nature pure
of Nature, conversion of forces prevails. In man alone matter
The nature and work of the Father-God however, was such that what He
grasped when one understands the nature of sense-free thinking.
law with what we can know of nature, and conversely, of permeating
nature-knowledge with moral law — is bound up with Spiritual
nature, for in Heat we have already the transition from Space to Time;
human nature — for one might certainly go to meet death as a
the Christ-Substance, the Christ-Nature is. Let us try to find that

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mass is nevertheless the bodily nature of certain spiritual
displayed in its inner being, its spirit-nature. There we have
to do with the inner nature of what is outer nature for our
nature, just as man exists, as the nearer hierarchies
exist other beings, who, as it were, unfold their nature at the
it is the manifestation of the Luciferic nature of the world.
manifestation of the Luciferic nature of the world, it appears
soul-nature of the earth, and a common bodily-nature of the
collective being with a common soul-nature. That is what the
their nature and implant in them the inclination in a definite
fact, that can also bring about something of a terrible nature.
soul-nature, but of becoming over-individualised. Men would
— for life in material nature is indeed only musing and
was written about Nature in the twelfth, thirteenth centuries

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inclination to the Luciferic nature on the one hand, and to the
Man examines nature, and the greatest progress has been made by
of nature, but has in a certain sense been cast out of human
one could not gain knowledge of nature, for example, without at
one came to a pure concept of nature, freed from everything
pertaining to man. This concept of nature had then to be the
the corpse of nature.
form it, just as nature breaks up the human being when it makes
mechanism we have the corpses of nature's existence. But man is
not born from this corpse of nature of which our mechanical
gradually produced as technics. He is born out of the nature
this nature we have added in modern technics another nature, a
corpse of nature, After the geological strata of the earth have
of living nature. We work in the dead part of nature inasmuch
nature of modern science. He no longer knows anything of himself,
find the impulses of his nature and his actions within himself,
bodily nature. One must learn to know the rhythmic system and
your head, but it does not grip your whole nature. Your whole
cosmos, if they penetrate not only the physical nature of the
nature of these connections can be discovered throughout our
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world of physical nature; he stands in a spiritual world as
the Elohim. Really and truly, just as we live in outer nature
nature as the Angels or Archangels or Archaic They are actually
of the same nature as the Elohim, the Spirits of Form, but have
who work on the head-nature. Even in the time of Plato you find

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Nature and History, as we have done over and over again in the
animal and plant-nature, these are all connected only
When we look at all those kingdoms of nature which are outside
the fluids. Outside in nature we see the circulation of fluids,
that the Jehovah rulership embraced the realms of Nature as we
mineral nature began to make itself felt, from the founding of
mineral nature became so important to him that he should
on his mineral nature. And so, if we wish chiefly to consider
the more fantastic or imaginative nature, everything which can
his Jehovah-nature. Opposed to the Jehovah-nature is man's
evolution of man when the mineral nature became predominant in
Christ Nature. One may say a thousand times over: “We
investigate facts of nature, for then we have a spirit-less
clearly perceive around us a spiritual nature, under the
asleep within it — there again the Jehovah nature rules.
In the whole metabolism of man, the Jehovah nature rules. As
understanding, then the Sun-nature — which is not a
Jehovah-nature — expresses itself. We can only permeate
mineral nature but of a fluid nature, consisting in the
his earthly nature between birth and death and does not look to
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forces of a will nature in the life of humanity as a whole? If
differentiate between the laws of nature and that which in us
comprehends these laws of nature, and this latter we call our
the laws of nature by his intelligence, but Nature herself had
intelligence, Nature herself gave herself laws. There outside
within us and there, outside, are the laws of nature. The sum
intellect within us, and there, without, the laws of nature
intellectual nature, something pertaining to human
development of human nature, namely, that science should be
something of an intellectual nature with his head, is just as
the Earth's evolution. The feeling nature of nan is not
seized by the feeling nature of man, are the Luciferic spirits.
loss of the soul-nature altogether. This impersonal science is
the murderer of the human soul and spirit nature. It dries men
other is the human desire-nature, which is connected with the
will in man. What is connected with man's will-nature can again
take two directions. The one path is for this will-nature to
a will-nature, by way of desires not unfolded to love, and
of a more universal nature arises through that which is
In many respects, one can see their automatic nature, but there
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confluence of these physical forces; his soul nature is
physical nature of the human being, and it is this, the
extensive examination of man's physical nature, that must
soul-spiritual nature. It is not surprising that people who
as firmly as the force of nature firmly builds up the bone
penetrate more deeply into the development of nature as well

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The nature of imagination; essence of reflective thinking; objective
admit to errors in the events of nature — something
threefold nature of the human organism.
metabolism in nature. The instant this outer metabolism is
ready-made, as it were, by virtue of its own nature, then

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in the word is identical with the one that, having created nature in the
worlds prior to uniting with the corporeal nature that arises
the soul activity within outer nature; and inasmuch as they
the physical-corporeal nature. In former times, this was an
objective happening in nature outside. Here, I come to an
nature of this Gnosis. In regard to its sources, our
idea of how far one can penetrate into the nature of such a
once possessed in the undifferentiated nature of word,
creating nature in this becoming silent.
division of nature, but it is something that basically had

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fact that human beings by nature belong not only to the earth
that is of a more astral nature has a sort of
bear not only the affairs of nature but also the forces of
between what we might call a teaching of nature, namely
According to this commonly held view the nature of the human
Freemasons; they have similar thoughts about the nature of
this bull-like nature with something still higher. They must
out that the nature of the Mystery of Golgotha should not be
the Councils, whether the divine and the human nature in
Christ Jesus was two natures or one, and other such things.

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Transition in the fourth century A.D. Nature of Greek culture, its
nature, human beings were to raise themselves above all that
scientists speak of the laws of nature. Although this is an
it and that their soul nature was becoming ensnared in the
nature.
nature and the cosmos, should be firmly anchored in the inner
forces of human earthly nature, the West was capable only of
was regarded as the extract of the nature and being of man.
knowledge about the physical nature of the human being,

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Golgotha. Insofar as its specific nature was concerned,
phenomena of the cosmos and nature. This not withstanding, in
a link between the super-sensible aspect of their own nature
his physical nature; he sensed his ego by means of his
northern people who due to their nature and in concentrating
development but merely the experience of soul nature in

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life and nature of Christianity cannot be grasped any longer even by
human nature, with his thinking, feeling, and willing,
by means of which Nietzsche plunged as if intoxicated into nature
intoxicated plunge into nature. He endeavored to experience
this intoxicated plunge into nature in his life by traveling
in the modern age. This drunken plunge into nature underlies
deepest aspects of human nature but that basically always
able to study quite a bit concerning the Christian nature of
Out of their innermost human nature, poets and artists of the

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same age. And in the same way the nature of numbers was
cosmos, that he counts through his very nature. He is
for language to gain some insight into the nature of numbers

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did penetrate deeply into the nature of the world's
Christian church stream, we see that the nature of the
birth, the nature of Christ Jesus, the death, the
soul-spiritual standpoint? We have to focus on human nature,
they knew the nature of the Spirit of the Heights. This Soma
its own nature, without its relationship to the cosmos. You
behold what dwells in the nature of numbers, namely, the

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world's essential nature. As an example we need only indicate
worlds. When this inner soul-spiritual nature of the ego is
just this, namely, that people cannot understand the nature

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shadow nature of the intellect. People in the civilized world
matured, but insofar as its own nature is concerned, it no
content, substance, for the shadow nature of rational
nature of the elements colliding with each other at that
the nature of the events through which somebody like
in the world. It was, however, the peculiar nature of Central

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streams, and the element that originated from human nature.
deprived the intellect of its spiritual nature. He made use

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Goethe definitely possessed something of a Greek nature. He
shadowy nature of our inner intellectual activity, of the
nature of the intellect. The sun's rays were to the Greeks
affinity for nature. The basis of such an experience has
influence in the lower, metabolic nature of man. In drawing
being by virtue of their own nature. Here, they are active as
nature.
nature. We can do that only when we develop to the point of

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rise to a new kingdom of nature between mineral and plant in the form of
his "Hymn to Nature;" Nietzsche's picture of the valley of death.
I have just given on the nature of color and the lecture last
approach the true nature of man only if we consider the human
about the nature of the human being, we must at length learn
to the human being and the surrounding kingdoms of nature
human being, as we know, has brought his nature with him from
Saturn, Sun, and Moon nature. Now, while he evolved as a
a mineral nature appeared only during earth evolution. Hence,
multicolored nature developed within the earth, the human
organization and nature of body and soul.
millennium, a time will come when their bodily nature will be
nature of plant and animal, least of all that of the human
nature of color can be taken hold of, how the artistic
comprehension of the world. For nature around us creates
artistically. Unless it is understood that nature around us
nature. No, they comprehend nothing but what has been
power of vision that recognizes, even in nature herself,
nature as the artist. He was not yet capable of seeing the
1780, he wrote “Nature” his hymn in prose:
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hierarchies, spirit doctrine of nature and man, eschatology; no
of a certain problematic nature within Western civilization,
were of a subtle nature.
the human being and his nature only if he is considered as an
contrast to other texts of a similar nature from the first
to die so that the intellect in its shadowy nature could be
on the divisions of nature that has come down to posterity in
a mineral nature
Erigena about the divisions of nature. The world is
the angel nature.
nature. Once, people employed the intellect in order to

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Early Christian knowledge concerning the nature of Father forces and
soul-spiritual nature. The rule of this deity was seen in the
through nature, through what the human being saw in the
God. He saw a world of ideals behind nature; he saw certain
forces in nature. He also saw the rule of the Father God in
nature spirits. This was a particularly vivid conception in
nature spirits who rule in any number of things in the outer
nature spirits, they actually believed in a kingdom of the
Father God that included the domain of nature. They believed
beings, these various nature deities, do work together in
nature, but first of all they crept into the things of the
originate from these nature spirits nor from the Father God
not originate from the Father God nor from the nature
that could not be attained from the whole of nature in the
nature; now they have been let loose, flit about invisibly,
nature's phenomena. This search for the Logos in the spirit
spirit based on nature; it is a matter of realizing that we
his book about the divisions of nature is so great and
is nature, the earth is declining. I have often called
to, though not based on facts of nature but on the moral
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we will consider from this standpoint how the study of nature
nature, particularly human nature in connection with health
with nature quite differently from the way we think of it
death, for they looked beyond this soul nature to a quite
Hippocrates held that the soul-spiritual nature of man
of studying the soul-spirit nature and the effect of its
human nature. As the first stage of instruction, they must
Greeks viewed as the soul-spiritual nature. In a manner of

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nature.
certain understanding of nature and the human being has been

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way grasped the inherent nature of hallucination.
bodily nature. What appears as hallucination hovers and
nature is due only to the fact that the original element out
way, we look into the bodily nature and see the connection of
this bodily nature with the whole cosmos.
the various forms of outer nature — let us remain at
forms in nature, however, and we find that a certain
bodily nature, spiritualizing it. What persists of this force
In yourselves, in your bodily nature, you have a mirroring

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through the paternal nature. This is an extremely significant
(The Inner Nature of Man,

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human life and nature will be able to stand clearly before
penetrate into the real nature of the outer world? This outer
nature of reality is concealed. There is, as it were, a veil
there, and only behind this veil is the nature of reality to
is able really to penetrate the nature of the lungs, liver,
permits oneself to consider once the whole human nature,
rooted in the nature of occult development itself. You thus
sketch for you how human nature relates to the possession of
receive clear insight into the progressively Ahrimanic nature

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without any understanding of its innermost nature — in
human nature is based: upon being able to throw back matter
last few centuries to the investigation of outer nature, we

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laws that we then call the laws of nature. With ordinary
thought, for the laws of nature are apprehended in thoughts
If one follows the laws of nature to the stage at which one
perception, quite similar to a creature of nature. Out of
such a creature of nature, which is basically in a kind of
nature, one built up only abstract laws. One comes, in other
recognize in the inner being of man only the laws of nature.
spoken here, the laws of nature are united with the moral
inner being matter, and with it all the laws of nature, is
nature, is thrown back into chaos, and out of the chaos a new
nature is able to arise, saturated with the moral impulses we
outer nature. We can compare it only with what another human
One must feel how there is in nature a perpetual dying.
Nature is colored, so to speak, by this death. In contrast to
this, however, there is also in nature a continual unfolding,
a continual coming to birth. This does not color nature in a
way visible to the senses; yet if we approach nature with
into nature and see the colors, all the colors of the
we look at nature, we are looking in a certain sense at the
only the perishing, the corpse-like part of nature, which is
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we experience as a thought-weaving of an objective nature
the same region, as it were, of our human nature: the
described, it is grasped not merely as being of the nature of
Thinking loses its picture-nature and abstractness, it loses
oneself. The picture-nature ceases to be merely pictorial;
bodily nature. Just as in thinking we feel that we penetrate
nature of thinking and feeling he can also come to a
however, this I really appears, and it is of the nature of

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must suppose are between the four members of human nature,
as such have no physical, bodily nature but that live
in the plant world is of essentially the same nature as what
side of the surface of the mineral in mineral nature and that
the ranks of the realms of nature but who stand above the
bodily nature. We weave in the ether life. Our mental images
It has indeed formed a relationship with our human nature.
Our thoughts have a strong relationship to our human nature.
remains beyond death. Whatever is of a will nature desires to
become man, whereas whatever is of a thought nature and must
stream of nature that is formed through the line of heredity
the nature of the hierarchy that stands at, the third stage
are then in our feeling nature interwoven with beings
thus reaches downward into the three realms of nature and
human nature what can live in freedom. Below us and above us
down into nature and wish to view the human being in his
recognize what man is within nature. Now we become aware
actual spirituality and what is experienced below in nature

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hand we have found what is of the nature of will, and we
could say that this will nature develops between the astral
entirely of a will nature. During the life between birth and
What remains behind of a will nature passes over into future
things objectively, one cannot clarify to oneself the nature,
takes place in us, what goes on in our human nature, is
instincts, our desires, to the so-called lower human nature

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comprehended in the realm of mineral nature, and the mineral
nature in the plant, animal, and human realms, and would then
time to think of what lives in nature as being at the same
between what is of a moral and what is of a mineral nature.
incorporate the moral into the mineral nature. I have often
Kant-Laplace theory up to the mineral nature of modern
of such a nature — as it may well be when man is living
the cosmos and what as plant-like nature is imparted to the
his plant nature, which means with that which is placed in
something higher than the laws of nature. There too we may
us that which is our animal nature. What is our animal
nature? Our animal nature is above all what gives us our
animal nature is given its direction, if I may express it in
penetrate the soul element in its objective nature, so we
particulars, just as we do of nature. Then there will arise a

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consciousness that is more plant-like in nature; it is not
nature — which is only an outstanding example — each
peculiarity of Goethe's nature? For one thing, Goethe
however; he is quite different. His nature is such that its

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the particular nature of these higher beings, we shall be
nature, only when permeated by human soul and spirit. The
forces working outside in earthly, physical nature destroy
nature of an inner picture, and we can grasp it if we develop
inner picture-nature of this physical body. What we behold
there as the inner picture-nature offers resistance to the
picture-nature does not succumb to the earthly processes.
This inner picture-nature can at least endure, and when the
call a realm of nature of the future, which does not yet
exist at all — a realm of nature of the future. There
will arise a future realm of nature out of what today is only
seed of a future realm, a future realm of nature.
nature — a plant-animal, an animal-plant realm. What we
something that in its essential nature bursts through its
nature are loosened from him. The physical body loosens
animal nature that exists today to a stage above, where the
mysterious way man's inner nature is revealed by his
inner nature — whether he is good or bad — will
unveil themselves to us according to the nature of their
the essential nature of these bodies as seeds and consider
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you that if we seriously wish to bring the spiritual nature
those members of his human nature in which the I is certainly
evolutions or about the spiritual, soul, and bodily nature of

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thought content in its true nature is something much more
matter appears to us when we study our human nature while
appearance of the senses. Of our actual nature as awake,
perceived of nature's green, insofar as he really has
experienced this green nature with human participation, not
how this materialistic thinking sees nature as being all there is
only the appearance of nature in the form in which it
entirely healthy nature-appreciation of Goethe could suffice

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— the higher beings of the realms of nature, plants,
of appearance, perceiving outer nature, therefore, as
Nature may be
experiences nature between birth and death. History becomes
develop a satisfactory knowledge of nature, particularly in

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have been in keeping with the nature of the Greeks to receive the Moon
hearing; life of a very special kind is present here. The head-nature

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nature; he is entirely ignorant of the real substance of the thoughts
are by nature turbulent and passionate. When Ibsen brought out a work
only mirror-images and he is quite unconscious of their real nature and
now, someone attains to a knowledge of the Spirit, what is the nature

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nature, with the kingdoms of the animals, the plants and the minerals.
spirit had departed, he could receive enlightenment about nature around
knowledge about these kingdoms of nature came to man from the Spirits
nature, on the kingdoms of the plants, animals and minerals, from the
enlightenment about nature, about the animal, plant and mineral
Moon-Beings were able to communicate secrets of nature to the human
receive enlightenment about nature; a science of nature is beyond our
nature only after their death. They live in the midst of nature here,
but they cannot use the body in order to form concepts about nature.
about nature.
only in the future, namely, a science of nature. And there is no other
of an epoch when men were to form their concepts of outer nature from
outer nature herself and moreover when they would be capable of doing
and the capacity to form thoughts and ideas about external nature
of outer nature without knowledge of himself and of his own form. When
the Egyptians set out to acquire a knowledge of nature, they were able
dead in order that a science of nature might be imparted to them. The
Earth-Spirits. Think of the wonderful understanding of nature possessed
from the Nature-Spirits. And there were many others — more
to the Nature-Spirits did not always result in the voicing of spiritual
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us to understand its real nature, for the head in itself does not
whom the first science of nature was imparted. What the pupil of Yoga
this really mean? What does it mean to understand the nature of acts
true rite, is different from an act of a purely technical nature. An
devices, man comes into contact with the physical nature-forces of the
within it the different processes of nature and plant life. Machines

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been produced by any play of nature, by any combination of
nature-forces. A corpse is quite obviously a remainder, a residue.
nature has, it is true, the power to destroy the form of the human
ancient East and how they tried to comprehend outer nature in living,
only able to evoke in certain priestly natures here and there, those
no understanding of the nature of the living thinking which once
why it is applied only to what is dead in nature, to the mineral
autumn. But suppose a plant exists in such conditions of nature that it
placed in such conditions of nature that it has no time to form a root,
the Galileo and the Copernicus of the science of organic nature, and
nature, namely, clarification of the concept of nature to enable it to
for the science of organic nature with his living concept of
metamorphosis can, if desired, be applied to the whole of nature. When
this idea of metamorphosis because, owing to his artistic nature,
make his concepts mobile. Pedants insist, however, that nature cannot
necessary, they say, for the understanding of nature. Yes, but what if
nature herself is an artist ... presuming this, the whole of natural
“rapture-monger” by artists, so, if nature herself were to
perhaps, for nature creates as an artist. One cannot order nature to
Nature must be comprehended as she actually is.
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nature of the etheric cosmos.
question as to the nature of the etheric organism, the etheric body
which now arose concerning the nature and content of the etheric world
particularly the etheric nature of man, the etheric body of man.
nature, with the animals, plants and minerals, the machines and the
experience the inner nature and working of their own etheric
the nature of the peoples of Middle and Western Europe, and from this
this difference: in the Roman Catholic Church it is more of the nature
etheric nature of the human being, and to establish a system of dogma

Title: Man/World of Stars: Lecture I: The Spirit-Seed of Man's Physical Organism
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change the world when we communicate with it out of our spiritual nature,
full consciousness, our inner nature is revealed to us as if it
that they are our inner nature, just as here on Earth we say
that the lung or heart belong to our inner physical nature.
is what is now our inner nature. We fashion what is then
directed to three manifestations of human nature to which
I mean the three manifestations of human nature by virtue of
our inherent nature, but within the spiritual world between
the Universe and reveal its essential nature, enter into us
human being not in an a-moral way as do the phenomena of Nature
inkling whatever that as well as having a physical nature he

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change the world when we communicate with it out of our spiritual nature,
may now ask: Are these two unconscious sides of human nature
in upon the Earth and everything that lives in man's nature is
nature if we describe it in barren physical words; we must
of the Sun takes place in order to carry our heart-nature, our
feeling-nature, farther out into the cosmic worlds.
will-nature cannot be carried in this way out into the Cosmos,
The relation of our will to our nature as human beings is not
to human nature itself in order to see how what works in man's
After death we are the product of our moral nature on Earth.
nature of his life will be when he passes through the gate of

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change the world when we communicate with it out of our spiritual nature,
it — into a moral automaton of such a nature that in his
nature. But these battles are now beginning to send their waves

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change the world when we communicate with it out of our spiritual nature,
with the beings of the three kingdoms of Nature. Basically
of the three kingdoms of Nature — to the mineral or the
communion with the beings of the three kingdoms of Nature. What
environment, is also related to these three kingdoms of Nature.
Nature.
entities belonging to the three kingdoms of Nature, we feel
development, to the strengthening of his own nature.
the validity of science dealing with the world of Nature, the
Nature which are supposed to take their course in man as
Nature, the kingdoms of earthly existence had come into being,
the world of Nature is a reality here in the life between birth
everything lying in the deeper foundations of our human nature

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change the world when we communicate with it out of our spiritual nature,
his will-nature, in so far as he is meant to bring the
forms in Nature, crystal forms, for example, arise. The
who fashion and shape forms in Nature in the way described in
everywhere, that is present just as the Nature-kingdoms are
escape into human heads, and whereas outside in Nature they are
they are an abnormal species of Nature-spirits, who are,
in nature. But these beings too are very hard to discover as
human form or forms of Nature and so forth are portrayed in
beings too belong to the elemental Nature-kingdoms, and we must
It is in this warmth that these beings develop; their nature
inherent nature is similar to what I have described in the book
Their form is not the same but their nature is similar. It
slip into the inmost recesses of man's nature. If one then
being seen; they flee first and foremost into the inmost nature
through their Luciferic and Ahrimanic natures. Thus there are
have an analogy in Nature when you carry manure to the fields
in Nature except that the dung, the manure, is also perceptible
the three kingdoms of Nature on the Earth; picture all the
in Nature.
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Title: Man/World of Stars: Lecture VI: Spiritualization of Knowledge of Space. The Mission of Michael
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change the world when we communicate with it out of our spiritual nature,
nature of the divine-spiritual Beings to whom he feels himself
kingdoms of Nature upon Earth, but to know it in such a way
substances and of Nature-processes; we can peruse writings
the Nature-processes to become manifest and where the
Nature.
spiritual knowledge that is related to this Nature-knowledge,
held of Nature and of their own social life. And then —
akin to his own nature in what the alchemist was doing. If a
is just an event like any other event in Nature, except that it
is directed by human intelligence. But all happenings in Nature

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change the world when we communicate with it out of our spiritual nature,
are rooted in a spiritual world. In its real nature the

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change the world when we communicate with it out of our spiritual nature,
mirror reality, through the very nature of the Imaginations of
art the Greeks proceeded by the same laws by which Nature
nature of the human heart, for the Sun has revealed it to me!
us something about the nature of the Sun. Thus through the
heart we learn to know the nature of the Sun; that is to say,
other way about: first of all, men learnt to know the nature of
the Sun and then they understood the nature of the human heart.
nature is born out of the darkness prevailing in himself.

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change the world when we communicate with it out of our spiritual nature,
The Mysteries of Man's Nature and the Course of the Year.
in Nature. The Initiations bestowed by the Year-God consisted
that takes place in Nature at the time when the Earth is
Initiation-Science was to unveil the mysteries of human nature
able to penetrate into the inner nature of Man. And when
of our souls, out of our own human nature, the
Springtime of the world, which reveals outer physical nature in
Nature — which in the course of the last few centuries

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change the world when we communicate with it out of our spiritual nature,
Nature as well as of the inner life of soul and spirit, lies
everywhere in evidence in external Nature, to whatever
modern scientific thinker, the Nature-forces do everything;
of Nature, so in those ancient times he felt himself subject to
— world-evolution as the course of Nature on the one side
course of Nature is usually studied in an extremely restricted
observation of the course of Nature and of world-evolution is
emphasized that unless the world itself, unless Nature herself
perceiving in Nature outside something similar to what can be
nature.
sum-total of the forces and laws of Nature that are at work
is to avoid having to surrounding Nature the very abstract
and dying of outer Nature.
Nature-necessity. And in our own earthly lives we human beings
follow this Nature-necessity. If our lives followed it
Now it is certainly true that those forces of Nature which come
own bodies in Nature-necessity.
We must have in mind where the Nature-forces are revealed in
be found in external Nature in the mineral and plant kingdoms
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change the world when we communicate with it out of our spiritual nature,
another to gain knowledge of the nature of the ancient
of the spiritual nature of the world. A pictorial knowledge of
of the nature of the world in religious cult or ritual, a
Society can only fulfill its real nature when it feels itself
essential nature of the anthroposophical spirituality, must
if those who wish to understand it grasp its essential nature
the nature of cult and ritual is finally bound to dissolve away

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change the world when we communicate with it out of our spiritual nature,
Nature around us group themselves into a sort of time-organism
facts in Nature.
the essential difference between this Nature-cycle and its
bound to misunderstand the essential nature of man. For in man,
is true that man bears surrounding Nature in himself, but its
actually brings the activities of Nature to a state of rest.
nature as soul-and spirit substance, become active and busy
conceive the nature of material occurrences, which it therefore
real state of things in man. Man is a part of Nature, but since
cancel one another and it is as though he were a part of Nature
the soul and spirit of man, unaffected by the working of Nature
mere application of the external laws of Nature, which are
now that we have set before us the true nature of man, let us
were, a piece of Nature, in such a manner that the
examine this piece of Nature in man with the eyes of Spiritual
external Nature in the right way. For all natural laws and
energies affecting external vegetable and mineral Nature
so does all external Nature that is vegetable or mineral point
external Nature are really directed to the dying element in
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Title: Esoteric Studies: Easter: Lecture I: The Mysteries of Adonis, -or- The Evolution of Our Festivals from the Ancient Mysteries
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festivals bearing on the re-awakening of Nature, on the life
celebration of the resurrection of Nature, of the re-awakening of
what, as Nature, had been asleep throughout the winter time. But here
whose outer form — the nature of the rites — strongly
experience that which in man partly resembles the dying in Nature.
of man: you are shown this divine being going the way of all Nature.
But when Nature becomes barren and passes into death, that is the
Nature, the drastic autumnal representation of the transience of
the idea — that death, which envelops all Nature in the fall,
its first half, with dying, with the death of Nature; and on the
contemplate the dying of Nature in order to become aware of how
Christ in the Sun, could no longer be enacted: the nature of man
precisely where Nature presents herself as ephemeral, as dying
Nature.
the spirit by the impermanence of Nature. Man begins to depend upon
matter, upon those elements of Nature that do not die — the
impermanence of Nature. The imagination now needs the aid of outer
Nature, outer resurrection. Men want to see the plants sprouting from
Nature's resurrection is needed to celebrate the resurrection
for the ephemeral in Nature was to be aroused.
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Title: Esoteric Studies: Easter: Lecture II: Moon-Birth and Sun-Birth
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imposed by destiny but by Nature.
Nature — about the only ones mentioned in our philosophies
observe the phenomena of Nature, to describe them, and so on. But
kingdoms of Nature from their spiritual aspect before descending to
when the candidate had learned to study Nature in the light of what
factors concerned in the Earth life. Knowledge of Nature has
that a genuine science of Nature must consist in recalling prenatal
neophyte learned the nature of man as it was when he not only entered
get to know the spiritual nature of the stars. Then the neophyte
active within my bodily nature as a free inner being, can transmute
that in the nature and form of Easter we see something that must be

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has become a very different one, and the nature of this task comes
was really of such a nature as to make the mystic one with the
turn pointed to a Mystery act that evoked the thought: Nature falls
physical dying of man; but while in Nature only the perishable is
observed spiritually, disregarding the course of Nature, as the
spring Mysteries made it clear that Nature is conquered by the
their descent from the spiritual world. Precisely where Nature begins
where Nature disintegrates, man was to contemplate his ascent, his

Title: Esoteric Studies: Easter: Lecture IV: Decline of the Mystery System and the Rise of Freedom, I-A-O is Man, Aristotle's Categories
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nature that has permeated the world and developed through mankind
light-ether body. He was sound in light. That is the nature of cosmic
the nature of this creative power that went forth from the

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nature's reawakening in the new life burgeoning forth
resurrection of nature, the reawakening of what, as nature, had
drought. Nature is dying. And as it dies all around you, you
nature. Human beings die as well. Each of us has his autumn.
too goes the way of all nature. Yet, precisely when nature
place amid autumn's withering, when all of nature seemed to
by nature in the fall must also overtake human beings, overtake
decay of nature, and in their second half with the opposite,
was to contemplate the dying of nature in order to recognize
their inner nature they arise anew in the spiritual world. The
being, Christ Jesus, carried down into bodily nature the
undergo on Golgotha in the entirety of his human nature
him, they were cognizant of his true nature. From the events on
performed. Over time human nature had changed. Evolution had
hearts that precisely where nature presents itself as
outer nature was dying, that is, during the fall.
spiritual immortality by underscoring nature's transience.
enduring elements of nature, for their understanding of
permanence in contrast to the impermanence of nature. Help from
nature, in the form of an outwardly visible resurrection, was
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Title: Easter Festival: Lecture II: Moon-Birth and Sun-Birth
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whole physical and etheric nature, the spiritual sun forces
fate, but merely that of nature.
nature, which seem to be the sole topic in modern philosophy,
observe the phenomena of nature, to describe them, and so on.
with the kingdoms of nature from their spiritual aspect before
The knowledge of nature taught in the Mysteries was
earth. Knowledge of nature, on the other hand, transcends such
nature must consist of recalling pre-earthly knowledge;
literally live in the universe and know the spiritual nature of
elaborate tomorrow, that people see in Easter's nature and form

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as a whole, this secret was related to human nature. It
must be understood that with respect to our whole nature we are
humanity's inner nature in the same way that earthly foodstuffs
are related to our physical nature. The secret of the moon
to an understanding of the nature of death. I said that the
following words: “Nature is falling into decay,
physical being. However, even as we look at nature,
affected by what happens in nature. After death it rises
realized that nature is overcome by the spirit.
earth. In other words, precisely when nature was on the rise,
while when nature fell into decay, they were to reflect upon

Title: Festival of Easter: Lecture 1: The Mysteries of Adonis, -or- The Evolution of Our Festivals from the Ancient Mysteries
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festival that was associated with the re-awakening of Nature
resurrection-festival of Nature, a re-awakening of the objects
of Nature, which had slumbered, if I may so express it, during
inner meaning and nature, is comparable with the heathen
snow. Nature is dying. But when all around you dies, you must
you see in surrounding Nature. Man also dies, Autumn comes to
Nature is most desolate and dreary, when death is near, you
in earthly existence he only experiences things of a nature
overtakes everything in Nature, it also overwhelms Adonis, the
accorded with dying Nature, but the other half with its
It was intended that man should look upon dying Nature so as to
part of his human nature what the ancient Initiate of the
uncertainty as to the nature of Christ. They knew well that
nature had in the course of time become different. The ancient
where the transitory quality of external Nature is revealed
— at the moment when the life of Nature is seen to be
as it does death to the outward things of Nature, is the time
the mind, by way of the fleeting things of Nature, to the
in Nature but springs again, the germinating power of
force of the human soul. Man has need of the support of Nature,
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his emotions and the nature of his physical-etheric body
Nature-forces, almost the only ones we do speak of when
soul and spirit nature that he considers his development to be
that he knew nothing at all of human nature
therefore, as he had no self-consciousness of human nature, he
led to observe the things of Nature, to describe them, and so
kingdoms of Nature; he knew them from their spiritual side
was thus imparted as knowledge of Nature was a
And anyone who had learnt the teaching regarding Nature as a
universe. Here he learnt to know his spiritual nature. This was
earth. Knowledge of Nature was not only of value on earth; man
had already acquired knowledge of Nature before he came
and learns the spiritual nature of the stars
resurrection of his soul and spirit-nature out of the physical
can be active as a free being within my bodily nature, that I
in which a man looks into the nature of men; according

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man, an undivided soul- and spirit-nature comes to expression,
single undivided soul- and spirit-nature but of a
whole realm of Nature, provide him with the means of
its physical-etheric and its psychic-spiritual nature, only
and with his soul- and spirit-nature had entered the
proceed from the higher members of human nature, from the ego
Moon-nature
for the living connection between man and the spiritual nature
it was said: Nature now becomes barren, withers and dies; this
when looking at Nature, sees only that which works
something that, disregarding what takes place in Nature, can be
made clear to men that Nature is conquered by the spirit; that
from what was spiritual. Therefore, when Nature first began to
life; and when Nature was in decline, then he had to think of

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ether-nature, though perhaps in letters that are not
sentimental, but in accordance with its whole nature it must be

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example, in the nature-knowledge which was in existence until
and seventeenth centuries. This nature-knowledge was very
nature-knowledge able to some extent still to rely, not upon
within him something that is of the nature of spirit and
in the nature of attempts in the world of men. The maturity
hidden laws of nature, hidden laws of elemental nature. But
instructive. To understand the nature of this compromise we

Title: Occult Movement: Lecture Two: Mediumistic Methods
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female organism is adapted by nature to preserve atavistic
through the peculiar nature of her organism was able to draw
left-wing. But she was fundamentally honest by nature and
nature a certain trait that is particularly common in those
of achieving something of a political nature in America by
at the same time Spirit and Nature. The one is: I exhibit
the laws of nature which are active in Reality. Or, I show
shows me conformity to law as it is active in nature; the
all natural science is to ascend from nature to
into nature herself the more the veils vanish, phenomena
nature would be that by virtue of which nature as a whole
unconscious products of nature are only nature's
nature is, however, an unripe intelligence, hence in its
but without consciousness. Nature only reaches her highest
nature first completely returns into herself, and by which
it becomes manifest that she, nature, is originally
Philosophic Enquiries into the Nature of Human Freedom
utterances we make about nature. When we say, ‘a body
said that to explain nature is to create nature, he
reflective study of nature is a repetition of her creation,
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of nature, and so forth. Not until he had cast out all spirit
think out an atomistic world—nature herself most
nerve-endings. Nature herself nowhere obliges us to assume
says: Analyse the phenomena of nature and you find the atomic
Analyse the phenomena of nature — for this results in

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when the study of nature was carried to a further stage.
The Inner Nature of Man and Life Between Death and a new Birth.
could happen that certain entirely materialistic natures had
teaching about the nature of Jehovah. In this way, what she
anything of this nature knows, if he belongs to the left,
through. That which is not mineral — the Moon-nature,
the Sun-nature — is only occultly present
materiality were taken away from the Moon. The whole nature

Title: Occult Movement: Lecture Five: The Eighth Sphere
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and what constitutes the essential nature of Earth-evolution
present in the Eighth Sphere. The essential nature of the
Spirits of Form had achieved everything that their own nature
do so is indicative of their essential nature. Thus as Sphere
in the physical nature of man.
nature — that is the Jahve-principle. The
Jahve-principle unfolds its greatest activity where nature is
working as nature; it is there that Jahve has outpoured in
freedom, the mineral nature had to be incorporated into him;
must be regarded as resulting from the nature of the subject

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direction which led to a defamation of the whole nature of
of the earlier path. It is an actual fact that human nature
sub-stream develops in human nature. The connection with the
“Now why should not God and Nature be a living
our age. Human nature is changing in such a way that it will
nature of our Movement, must be based upon making the

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the nature of things, therefore, when one had resolved that
The Inner Nature of Man and Life Between Death and a new Birth.
by outer nature. We see outer nature as a veil covering what
behind nature, the representatives of the religious
penetrating behind nature, and, on the other, why do the
do not wish the spiritual world behind nature to come into

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concealing the spiritual behind nature, so have the
behind nature; and it is obstructed from the side of the
reasons it is actually dangerous simply to point from nature
of nature—to what lies behind nature. And because of
upon him as if they were phenomena of nature. If he wished to
of nature — would have helped to make a man cunning and
that human nature is intrinsically constituted to view such
of phenomena of nature, the moral aspect does not come into
Spiritual behind Nature. But natural science with its
behind outer nature. It is necessary to present many things
human nature if a man penetrates behind the veil of the
phenomena of outer nature. But there are also certain dangers
of outer nature but try to pierce through the veil of the
which lie behind outer nature. From the example I gave you in
lie behind nature? This can be answered very simply. —
of nature.
something of the spiritual in nature are not willing to bring
knowledge which lead him behind nature, which enable him to
nature?
behind nature, he comes into actual contact with those
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encounters when he breaks through the veil of nature, he will
destructive forces in his own human nature. Intellect in
effects on human nature! When a man is living in illusion he
presented by nature — nature-maya. Reaching its zenith
in the nineteenth century, this nature-maya gradually emerged
reality — otherwise nature-maya will assert itself as
duality, as you see. Nature-maya continues, but underneath it
that when man breaks through the veil of nature and
penetrates into the world lying behind nature, he encounters
earthly nature, so that if, through weakness, he allies
behind the veil of nature are highly intelligent. I have
manifestations of nature, but the essential substantiality of
of man's lower nature. Sensuous urges in man
constitutes man's lower nature to their own higher
nature, and with their higher forces work through man's
without debasing his own nature, without greatly enhancing
In our own human nature there are lower urges and impulses.
within our nature. Our progress in Spiritual Science depends
covering the secrets behind nature. The veil represents
it, it is maya, just as external nature is maya. The true
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Title: Occult Movement: Lecture Ten: Human Consciousness between Objective and Subjective Reality
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of nature through which, to begin with, our consciousness
nature of our consciousness is such that when we look
phenomena of nature on the one side, with the objective
the sense-organs, the world of nature presents itself; when
nature, and on the other side the world of soul causes the
on yonder side of the veil of nature lies the Ahrimanic world
world. If he pierces only a little behind the veil of nature,
of man's lower nature. Ahriman's perpetual
of nature, and on the other, behind the veil of the world of
indicated whereby men may penetrate behind nature and behind
that he had an element of madness in his nature. Socrates,
yesterday that when man breaks through the veil of nature, he
intellect is required than hitherto. The nature of Spiritual
of a nature whereby false occultism and false mysticism are
given are of such a nature that if they now work in souls, a
— the science of what lies behind nature — must,
eternal nature of the soul within them. They want people to
shed upon nature safeguards them when they break through its
those who are not afraid to pierce the veil of nature, to
nature when we portray the forces of nature in the forms of

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aware that when they looked out into nature, lit by the sun's
secret of the nature of the Trinity in their midst: as the
under the signature: My kingdom is of this world and this
nature, construct the unfolding of the world. Let us imagine
against representing nature at present as a purely sense
him between space, nature and the supersensible and sensible
and nature. In olden times, still up to the 9th
for these ancient folk. Nature was at the same time a
“divinely written comment” and nature was like a
through nature as deeds of the dead was no longer present when
taken not to want an interpretation of nature in its totality
as an outcome. To come to an idea of nature — this Julius
Julius said: Leave away nature and the old Eons, only depict
external science regarding the outer nature of people, a
endless perspective in nature, but include the people, whether
side the reality existing in the breadth of nature and on the
from within their own souls. Then you may not paint nature but
space and imagine nature not with obvious senses but permeated
oneself. If one searches within for an image of nature then
nothing other than an abstract image of nature will be found,
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Title: History of Art: Lecture XI: Fourth and Fifth Post-Atlantean Epochs, Medieval Art in the Middle, West, and South of Europe
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out of original elementary nature, this was being pushed back,
stopped in the East. The nature of the western European soul
and observe in all of them how little nature observation is
strived out of their folk nature towards individualism, mostly
looked for representation in nature to find forms which express
of nature. This is in fact realism: realism rising. We can
desire to look at nature. Here, (399) you find an artist who
manner as if nature itself is characterised in the soul. He
nature of those sleeping. Compare this with what you can

Title: History of Art: Lecture XII: Greek and Early Christian Art, Symbolic Signs, the Mystery of Gold
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nature. There were of course actually an infinite number of
leaf, how it didn't grow as a copy of nature but came out of
Hellenic presentation, then already presented out of nature by
sought in sub-nature. Besides the mysteries which speaks about
which spoke about other riddles regarding sub-nature. This
sub-nature one discovers in quite particular products when one
it artistically. If one goes however into sub-nature, into the
in particular it is formed as it appears in nature — and then
a magic from below in nature that should be loosened and spread
ornamental, linking the magic of the symbols to the sub-nature.
the naturalistic depiction of spiritualised nature taking the
signs, and the magic of sub-nature, of gold and gems.
tools, but that which was to be unearthed from the sub nature

Title: History of Art: Lecture XIII: The Changes in the Conception of Christ During a Certain Period of Time
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depiction as a signature which you can see in this slide of the
thoughts to the physical nature of a person in the majority of
his creative images, he relinquished the individual nature of
attention — he looked at the physical nature of mankind as if
into a soul nature which was found in Romanism. Imagine how
individual expression into the soul nature.

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entitled Grenzen der Naturerkenntnis, which had immediately preceded them.
“Grenzen der Naturerkenntnis,”
knowledge of Nature should have given some indication at least
knowledge of Nature, at the boundary of matter and at the
speak, adapted by nature for Inspiration. And in order to
physical nature were used in such circumstances. And when you
When human nature is understood in the way made possible by
of antiquity men of the East were predisposed by nature to live
civilisation has gradually lost all understanding of the nature
Knowledge must be gained of the essence and inner nature of
within him in the words: He to whom Nature begins to unveil her
by then are fitted by nature for a different epoch can find in
centuries from the science and observation of Nature.
fact that the Western soul is predisposed by nature to take a
knowledge of the inner nature of man is acquired. The obscure
that of describing the essential nature of man's senses
towards Imagination and the true nature of man becomes an inner

Title: Golden Blade, 1962: Lecture 2: Paths to the Spirit in East and West
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entitled Grenzen der Naturerkenntnis, which had immediately preceded them.
colour. And when we thus surrender ourselves to nature, we do
It is indeed less agreeable to see the true nature of
is to penetrate the true mysteries of man's inner nature with
reveal clearly the true nature of man's being. This in turn
transparency as man's essential inward being. The very nature
the true nature of balance and movement, and of the
reveal the true nature of those hidden forces at which his
thinking to the observation of nature. That was the origin of
nature in spiritual terms was never fulfilled, and we got
nature, and the ideas contained in Hegel's natural philosophy.
natural philosophy revelations about nature would emerge from
to an understanding of nature's secrets. This line of Western

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which he can ennoble or debase his own nature, his own personality.
painting and arts of this nature. The Jews have a flair for
of sculpture. The Jews have always been, and are by nature, a musical
— True, something in the nature of history appears when the

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the autumn it was said: Lo, nature is dying; the trees lose their
between man and nature. Nature is about to consolidate her life; she
will lie dead through the whole winter. But in contrast to nature,
man lives on after death in the spiritual world. When nature sheds
time to make man conscious: You are different from nature, inasmuch
world; they had eyes only for nature, concerned themselves only with
nature. And so they said: It is not possible to celebrate
of man had been lost, the resurrection of nature continued to be
resurrection in nature. This early festival, therefore, was known to
men will see life and being in the whole of nature. Much of what is
said about nature to-day is nonsense. People see a plant, tear it out
Festival and with the spectacle of newly awakening nature before us,

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of nature. We see the life of Christ Jesus unfolding from the birth
and in the whole of nature!
He is influenced by all the happenings of external nature.
people to-day to happenings in nature is really remarkable and is due to the
nature has an influence upon the conscious life of man. But upon his
down to the ground floor. The laws of nature must be taken into
that time was accompanied by anguish in the world of nature. The anguish
in human hearts and the anguish in nature were simultaneous. Just as
connection between happenings in nature and the life of Christ. And
account only of the spiritual law of nature. — If a Jew were
recognised spiritual beings in all the phenomena of nature — a
spiritual beings are actually present in nature and anyone who denies their
existence denies reality. To deny that there are spiritual beings in nature
nature-spirits; but there is a power within him that is mightier than
anything wrought by these nature-spirits. This is the basis of the
in the phenomena of nature. They acknowledged the one God, Jahve or
living in all the phenomena of nature; God the Son, working in man's
reason the Jews are by nature adapted to assimilate what is
how the myriad nature-spirits work. The abstract, Jehovah-influence
account of the diverse nature-spirits, can recognise the forces of
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Title: Cosmic Workings: Lecture I
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nature, as we know, attends to many things. You see it with the
how remarkable these connections are. I have said that nature

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Earth Mysteries and Healing Forces in Human Nature
plant nature, when the whole earth was a kind of plant.
FORCES IN HUMAN NATURE
that when one understands nature, one also really understands what are
healing forces in human nature. But one must have a real feeling for the
nature, and later an animal nature. We should be able to follow from
we must know nature in this way and then it can give us remedies. For
nature. People invent catchwords to-day as they no longer have real
certain sense, through a real knowledge of what exists in nature, we

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nature needs substance. And if spirit is prevented from making use of
nature. If you were to make a tiny perforation in the brain and let
from the outset be of such a nature that a great deal of work
science must go hand in hand with a true knowledge of nature. That is
nature, not only when men pray or converse on the subject of Holy
Writ. The Spiritual is an active power in nature. If man prevents the

Title: Cosmic Workings: Lecture IV
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the colours of the rainbow. Nature creates these colours in the
to adjust ourselves properly to nature because we always secrete rather
right divisibility of iron. We only really get to know the nature of

Title: Cosmic Workings: Lecture V
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Things balance themselves out in nature: every being has something
this way you can understand the form of plants from the nature of the
understand the whole of Nature. It is useless merely to understand

Title: Cosmic Workings: Lecture VI
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— but in nature too. At one time the effect of the arsenic is
solution of arsenic. Real insight into the nature of man — that
you see, man imitates what nature is doing
for the plant-nature always predominates; but the astral forces take
that in nature there are not only useful but also injurious
nature in order that the whole economy of nature may go forward in
indispensable. Formic acid is being sent out into nature all the time
being produces his formic acid himself, but nature needs the ants who
How does nature work upon the “I”? How does nature work upon
the astral body? How does nature work upon the ether body? It is
precisely by understanding super-sensible nature that we

Title: Gegenwärtiges Geistesleben und Erziehung: Zweiter Vortrag
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das Kind. Wir respektieren in dieser Naturentwickelung

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der Blumen, was in allen Naturerscheinungen lag. Da rollte das

Title: Gegenwärtiges Geistesleben und Erziehung: Siebenter Vortrag
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demjenigen, was die Naturerkenntnisse bieten, dann ersinnt man

Title: Gegenwärtiges Geistesleben und Erziehung: Achter Vortrag
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Naturerkennen zu dem Geist-Erkennen führt, entsprach zu
zweifeln begann, was die äußere Naturerkenntnis sagen

Title: Apokalypse: Vortrag VI
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bloß ein so äußerliches Naturereignis sein, wie
mit Naturereignissen, aber die Naturereignisse werden mehr

Title: Apokalypse: Vortrag VIII
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intensive starke Naturen sein mit wütigen Zügen,

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Heiden haben das Wort Gottes in den Naturerscheinungen gelesen.

Title: Apokalypse: Vortrag XIII
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fühlende Naturen haben die Zeit von den Kreuzzügen

Title: Apokalypse: Vortrag XV
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Gang. Wir sehen, wie kleinere Naturereignisse sich abspielen in
Naturereignisse sich abspielen in Erdbeben,
zwischen den zwei Reihen, den Naturereignissen und den
haben hingewiesen auf eine Naturerscheinung, die wir erfassen
aus dem Anschauen der Naturereignisse, wir haben sie in die
die Naturereignisse durch das, was im Menschen vorgeht. Deshalb
Naturerscheinungen erfüllte.
Naturerscheinungen sich erfüllen. Da wird es nur eines
Naturerscheinungen, die wir gar nicht anders zu deuten

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sehen, daß tatsächliche Naturereignisse gemeint sind
haben Sie Naturereignisse, die eigentlich Geist-Ereignisse
Naturereignisse zu sein. Und nur, wenn Sie so die Welt
durchschauen, daß alle Naturereignisse Geist-Ereignisse
von Naturereignissen haben, dann werden Sie zu einer wirklichen

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ist, das selbst in einer Naturerscheinung besteht. Man kann

Title: History of Art: Lecture I: Cimabue, Giotto, and Other Italian Masters
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men, it could be no question of copying Nature directly in any
sense, or of painting true to Nature, or following this or that
Nature. Everything on Earth became his brother and his sister; he
the individual in Nature and in Man. It is no mere chance that
fervent life of soul his sympathy with all the growth of Nature
long been working at his Hymn to Nature — the great and
devotion of his soul, in sympathy with Nature, is gathered up so
all earthly Nature finds expression most of all in this beautiful
Nature.
Art. Then the attention of man was turned to the world of Nature
— Nature experienced by the soul of man. We have seen how
of the human countenance and of the things of Nature — but
everything depended on an answer to the question: How does Nature
reveal the Spirit? How does Nature impress on the external
features of men the signature of their experience in this event?
Nature, brought to a high level of expression. Here in this other
one stream which seeks to conquer Nature through the Spirit, and
see another stream which seeks to conquer Nature from the aspect
to conquer Nature. First we see the Spirit endeavouring to master
into man's grasp of outer Nature. Then, in such artists as Fra
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Title: History of Art: Lecture II: Leonardo, Michelangelo and Raphael
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in a world that was their very own, and they saw Nature herself in the
world of the senses which contained mankind. Even their view of Nature
Nature. I showed you last time, how Francis of Assisi was among the
first who sought to perceive Nature through a deep life of feeling.
this feeling of Nature, a conscious understanding of Nature. Because
An understanding of Nature as against a feeling for Nature: this is
creation of Nature's forces. For Leonardo was truly a man who sought
to understand Nature. He tried in an even wider sense to understand
the forces of Nature as they play their part in human life. He was no
nature, though possessing the characteristics of the Renaissance in
with the soul-nature of the Medici. But presently he had to realise
man and Nature. In Raphael it is a native quality, and he continues
understanding of Nature which I sought to characterise just now.
that owing to her virgin nature the Madonna never assumed the features of
I would call the mediumistic nature of the unconsciousness of madness,
the peculiar nature of that Middle-Eastern part of Italy. In spite of
his youth, he created out of his own inmost nature and progressed
he was a self-contained nature. Consider, moreover, how neither Leonardo
— he unfolded a human nature which remained for ever young. He

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specifically Southern nature. The difference is not easy to
well-measured Form that is appropriate to human nature, but in the
Spain, the true nature of the impulses that they contain. For these
human nature before the movement and mobility expressing the
into the nature of these forms. Take any of these miniatures in the
spiritual being that underlies all Nature is revealed.
nature, all this entered into the flower of the Northern impulse.
Nature, not of the individual).
earthly realm and reaching up to Heaven. Hence the peculiar nature
conceptions of Nature, seeking to unite with bold intelligence
Nature with the elemental. In this interplay of elemental with
earthly Nature the man of Middle Europe lived with a special
the Southern Art, is color driven outward from the inner nature of
Nature. He brings this element into all that he absorbs from
follow up uhat brings the human nature into direct connection with

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superhuman and typical; the superhuman and generic nature
the generic nature of the soul in its superhuman and divine
world, this living with the group-soul nature — with all that
soul. And if he is to dedicate himself to the group-nature, his
akin to the nature of the soul.

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any nature like the Italian. He fertilised his imagination simply and
solely out of the Netherlands nature that surrounded him. He made no
reproduce what Nature puts before him.
Of such a nature is the

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of the Southern nature — speaks of his devotion to nation or people
beyond himself, seeking to kill his lower nature, but by experiencing
Pole). It reveals a wonderful observation of Nature and a strong sense of
within the landscape of open Nature.
becomes more and more able to find, in the direct reproduction of Nature,

Title: History of Art: Lecture VII: Representations of the Nativity
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out of the spiritual beings that are bound up with the life of Nature.
therefore, with the life of Nature — is naturally best portrayed

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in the Physical. Thus even if we take the pure picture of Nature —
way, the theme places itself at once in a great context of Nature. Again
of four years, something of the nature of a cosmic principle works in
nature below expressed what man has cast aside from himself, but it is
the Threefold being of Man. This threefold nature of man emerges
shows how the artist combines a clear vision of Nature with an absolute
significantly in another artist, who already seeks for truth of Nature,
works we have a true artistic impulse, born out of the very nature of
certain other truths of Nature is very strained; Imagine you were in this
the sacred History, this stream in Art could not, in the nature of the
absorbed, as though by an inner kinship with the spiritual nature of
gifts of the German nature came forth in the realms of Art. They did

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saying, when he felt in Italy the echo of the nature of Greek Art. I
the same laws by which Nature herself proceeds — and he himself
found that the manifold forms of Nature can be referred to certain typical
on which Nature works. In so doing, he was, indeed, steering straight
to portray what he himself experienced in his own nature. All this,
Nevertheless, in this very age there murst arise a new view of Nature, for
True, there are weighty obstacles, as yet, to such a view of Nature.
way, than in all essentials as an offshoot of the ape-nature.
ancient Greece in its proper nature — its characteristics entirely
Nature, they follow the forms of Nature more faithfully, more humanly
that was typical of Greek Art was already given. The stamp, the signature,
intuition was necessary to penetrate into the nature of Greek Art through
Nature. But while he becomes a real naturalist, he derived his technique

Title: Man/Symphony: Lecture I: Man as Microcosm
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and nature. The first three lectures show us man's inner relationship
gives a unique and intimate description of the elemental nature spirits
man himself is placed in this harmony of nature - in the symphony of
really understand nature, really penetrate into the cosmos, we must
about through the fact that the bird developed its head-nature
head-nature was what lies in its plumage. This plumage was given to
the birds by the Moon and the Earth, whereas the rest of its nature
perception into the nature of the sun's working, we understand why the
comprehension of nature which contains the spiritual within it, when
the Macrocosm, into Great Nature, when you so regard the eagle that
nature, there is hardly anything more moving than to feel the inner
head-nature is such that breathing is held in balance with the rhythm
because it lies in his nature that hunger causes him much more pain
flesh, into the bodily nature of the cow as she lies on the ground
bring my understanding to bear on the nature and being of the cow) all
actually born out of the whole of nature, that he bears the whole of
nature within himself as I have shown, that he bears the bird-kingdom,
head seeks for what accords with its nature: it must direct its gaze
secrets of nature, the gaze must be turned to something of the nature
in his soul-nature, too, man is an image of the thoughts which weave
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Title: Man/Symphony: Lecture II: The Sun in Relation to the Outer Planets
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and nature. The first three lectures show us man's inner relationship
gives a unique and intimate description of the elemental nature spirits
man himself is placed in this harmony of nature - in the symphony of
Having considered in the lecture yesterday the nature of the animals
when we place man into the universe in accordance with his true nature
human nature, the metabolic system, the head system, and the breast
that we have the lion-nature in man.
super-earthly. It is indeed the case that man's nature is organized in
the eagle his eagle nature, what gives him his plumage, what hovers
around him as astrality. It is the eagle nature itself which becomes
Learn to know my nature!
lion-nature, where, through the mingling of sun and air, they bring
blood-circulation which constitutes the nature of the lion. What thus
vibrates through the air, from the nature of the lion, what wills to
Learn to know my nature!
natures on earth organized in such a way that they are particularly
Learn to know my nature!
nature forces work in their lifeless form. And the important factors
in bringing these lifeless nature forces into play so absolutely and
according to the nature of the machine in question; but everything
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and nature. The first three lectures show us man's inner relationship
gives a unique and intimate description of the elemental nature spirits
man himself is placed in this harmony of nature - in the symphony of
as to be adapted to the beings of the kingdoms of nature, up to the
nature. What they have is spiritual substance. When we look upon what
the human being when we regard the so-called lower part of his nature
head-nature into his whole organism, so that the head — which is
by spiritual forces — the head also projects its entire nature
dynamics, that is to say what is of the nature of forces.
into this apportioning of what is of the nature of substance and of
nature and see how — though man must burden himself with the debt
matter of the eagle nature flies into the universe in order to unite
nature more thoroughly than any other animal in the absolute sense.
She actually brings animal-nature — this animal egoism, this
expression of animal nature as such, that she is as thoroughly as
Everything to do with the cow is of such a nature that the forces of
should — if we recognize his true nature — have to despair
contradicts her earthly nature, because it is entirely cosmic; and one

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and nature. The first three lectures show us man's inner relationship
gives a unique and intimate description of the elemental nature spirits
man himself is placed in this harmony of nature - in the symphony of
that was of a Sun-nature, which at that time still comprised the earth
kingdoms of nature which we know today did not then exist, how the
myself, of the nature of horn, so that the solid constituents freed
nature of air. Moreover all this is permeated by the element of fire,
between what is above, what is of the nature of Saturn, and what is
below, what is of the nature of Earth-Moon-watery condition.
connection with what is above, with what is of the nature of the
Earth-Moon-fluid nature. Its element is in the upper regions. And when
the butterfly to be in its very nature a creation of light and air.
butterfly-nature cannot indeed be understood by one who seeks for it
The forces active in the nature of the butterfly, must be sought
sun-nature becoming transformed into what was of the nature of
the nature of the chrysalis. And finally the butterfly develops in the
expression to a great secret of nature:
nature of the blossoming plant, which, as the butterfly, has been
and beings of nature.
there radiates towards it from the cosmos what is of the nature of the

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and nature. The first three lectures show us man's inner relationship
gives a unique and intimate description of the elemental nature spirits
man himself is placed in this harmony of nature - in the symphony of
nature of several beings and in the first place of the butterfly. In
my description of this butterfly nature, as contrasted with that of
if we wish to understand the butterfly in its true nature, we must in
physical. Moreover in man's lower nature spiritual substance is
nuances of butterfly-nature reflect all this in a wonderful way: and
picture it as something in the nature of a kindled inorganic flame
given over to what is of the nature of the sun; the bird's egg comes
content of our bones is concerned, of what is of the nature of marrow;
a bird consists of air. And what is of the nature of marrow in us for
in the element of light. For the butterfly everything of the nature of
the real nature of the bird in no way accords with what is to be seen
this also is connected with the warmth-ether — is bird-nature,
eagle-nature, in us. The bird is the flying thought. But the bat is
outside the other creations of nature as dreams are outside ordinary
are very susceptible to what is of a material nature, for instance,
human nature when man allows his instincts to be imbued with these
ordinary observer of nature, what flies through the world also has no

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and nature. The first three lectures show us man's inner relationship
gives a unique and intimate description of the elemental nature spirits
man himself is placed in this harmony of nature - in the symphony of
the nature of the other insects, but to begin with let us strictly
to an ever greater degree he became a being manifesting a soul-nature,
encloses within himself, what is of the nature of the upper cosmos,
of the human head; I wish to know the true nature of the forces which
streams inwards from outside. To learn to know the nature of man
butterfly came to be outside in nature. This is the great lesson
was of the nature of air, undulating, scintillating with light, all he
Rightly viewed in regard to human nature, what does the snake
still preserved their nature of light and warmth, and are really only
thinking away everything of an earthly nature which has alighted upon
the bird a being of warm air, taking account also of the nature of its
everything of the nature of earth-substance, it would be able, as
head-formation, is connected with what is of the nature of warmth and
physical nature, the fish feels the water as something foreign to it.
digests, that the outer cosmos, outer nature, forms snakes, toads,
excuse me, but there is nothing ugly in nature, everything must be
nature of, let us say, the human large intestine with its power of
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Title: Man/Symphony: Lecture VII: Gnomes, Undines, Sylphs, and Salamanders and their Relations to Ethers and Plants
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and nature. The first three lectures show us man's inner relationship
gives a unique and intimate description of the elemental nature spirits
man himself is placed in this harmony of nature - in the symphony of
Nature-Spirits
vision (for this he must have) sees how the root-nature is everywhere
surrounded, woven around, by elemental nature spirits. And these
can look into the soul-nature of these elemental spirits, into this
in the human ear. For these root-spirits are in their spirit-nature
abstract ideas about some kind of mechanical laws of nature, but to
their knowledge is actually of a similar nature to that of man. They
plants up with them. It accords with the nature of the gnomes in
actually out of the force of their own original nature that the gnomes
These undine beings differ in their inner nature from the gnomes. They
sensitive way they recoil from everything in the nature of a fish; for
a watery nature. For their whole endeavour lies in preserving
element. Thus it is in the element which is of the nature of air and
because the subconscious in man divines something of a special nature

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and nature. The first three lectures show us man's inner relationship
gives a unique and intimate description of the elemental nature spirits
man himself is placed in this harmony of nature - in the symphony of
Yesterday I spoke to you about the other side of nature-existence,
are there, just as are the other beings of nature for ordinary vision.
direction. The gnomes and undines add what is of the nature of the
completing element to the fleeting nature of the butterflies. A
not from the human bodily nature, but from the sphere of the
fire-beings — that is, from the Saturn-nature which has been
undines what is of a parasitic nature strives upwards from the earth
the whole structure of nature, but also for its fading and decay.
said that Brahma is intimately related to all that is of the nature of
the fire-beings, and the sylphs; Vishnu with all that is of the nature
of sylphs and undines; Shiva with all that is of the nature of undines
must be sought today as lying behind the secrets of nature.
belongs to them as their super-sensible nature when, with insight and

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and nature. The first three lectures show us man's inner relationship
gives a unique and intimate description of the elemental nature spirits
man himself is placed in this harmony of nature - in the symphony of
these lectures, the elemental beings of nature. Invisibly and
into their own bodily nature. They become like them, they themselves
own bodily nature the phosphorescence of the water, the element of
is a continual upstreaming of these undines, whose inner nature is
All this makes us say: Here on earth the elemental nature-spirits live
own nature, somewhat in this way:
negative in its nature, but pithy and positive sayings also proceed
nature, you see how it leads us into the creative divine forces, into

Title: Man/Symphony: Lecture X: The Origin of the Different Systems of Man: Metabolism, Rhythmic, Nerve
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and nature. The first three lectures show us man's inner relationship
gives a unique and intimate description of the elemental nature spirits
man himself is placed in this harmony of nature - in the symphony of
human nature, are a part of this Saturn-evolution.
nature. Every such mineral substance must be so far worked upon within
contains what is of a mineral nature; this, however, continually has
plant nature which enters man, or whatever he himself develops as
plant-nature within him pass over into the form of air, he becomes
ill. Everything of animal-nature which man takes in or develops within
watery form. Man may not have what is of an animal nature within him,
his nature as a being who walks upright, having within him the
into actual form. If anything of animal or plant nature invades the
carbon becomes the benefactor, so to speak, of human nature. This
ill. No digestive process in human nature may be carried to its
processes would be if we were to question their inner nature. We are
of the rhythmic processes, the true nature of therapy must be
development of man's spiritual nature — if you do not take your
nothing other than applying to the central nature of the human being
departure, otherwise one does not learn to know the real nature of
out into nature in order to see what nature accomplishes in the way of
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and nature. The first three lectures show us man's inner relationship
gives a unique and intimate description of the elemental nature spirits
man himself is placed in this harmony of nature - in the symphony of
nature which enters into the human organism must be so far
carried upwards within him until it becomes of the nature of fire. And
what is of the nature of fire has the disposition to take up into
is in no way the calcium phosphate which you find outside in nature,
One only gains insight into the nature of man when one knows that
substance — whether its nature is already lifeless as when we eat
way; whereas outside man they remain with the elemental nature-beings,
than such a turnip-root; it is the representative of root-nature.
direct towards the spiritual! Spiritual desire-nature, desire-nature
external nature. Nothing more poetical can be imagined than the
one says: The downward thrust of the plant's root-nature spread out
earth-body itself, fettered plant-nature to the earthly. And what was
predisposition in the nature of the root.
now the blossom-nature arose. So that the departure of the moon was a
memory of evolution. It bears in its root-nature the process of
in nature, the striving back not only to the light-spaces, but to the
expresses in its blossoms. Spread abroad in nature we see the
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Title: Man/Symphony: Lecture XII: Convention and Morals, Bones and Hatred
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and nature. The first three lectures show us man's inner relationship
gives a unique and intimate description of the elemental nature spirits
man himself is placed in this harmony of nature - in the symphony of
When we realize that everything of external nature is transformed
of external nature and returning them almost unchanged, then we will
essential soul-nature.
said that the one is simply nature and that the other is something
radically different from nature. But when we are clear about the fact
nature. Through the whole manner of his education modern civilization
inner nature; they induced moral impulses. Moral impulses exist, but
nature which could be compared to what once arose as the Decalogue,
to what the physical-bodily nature of man is: blood, nerves, muscles,
physical-bodily nature of man and perceived it to be the counter-image
down into the bodily nature, for the very purpose that we may be
vanquish what comes from the bodily nature.
bodily nature. He lays his physical-bodily nature aside. The impulses
natural forces, as mere forces of nature.
nature. Yet that is only the smallest part of what moves in unison
For it is man's whole moral nature which moves; his destiny moves with
his physical structure, but which is now produced by his inner nature,
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understand his own super-sensible nature. But there are many
vegetable world springs up, the uplifting world of Nature filling
winter Nature takes them back into her bosom, so that their
— only when Nature begins to fade and to decay would he
confronts us in the WHOLE NATURE OF THE HUMAN BEING.
a requirement of human nature that when we enter the summer time
life. It grows like a force of Nature. In ordinary life our moral
of Nature, such as thunder or lightning! This increased self-love
Nature, an elemental force. The soul development leading to
within the soul like a force of Nature that fetters the soul. The
this is nothing but Nature, Nature, and Nature, or that when he
“Nature, nothing but ‘Nature’,” he would

Title: Lecture: Man's Position in the Cosmic Whole, the Platonic World-Year
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apply them. And if you were to continue studying the nature of the
Thus you may reach a real Being, the true nature of a
particularly favours all that pertains to the Russian nature.

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of the different forces of Nature, the impulses that lead to evil

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into the physical bodily nature of man. Michael, on the other hand,
soul-nature, and thence again into the bodily nature of man. Now in
age is meant. Such indeed is the peculiar nature of the Michael

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Steiner's insights into the nature of color, painting and artistic
studied the special attitude of this or that artist to Nature or to
which this or that artist regards Nature today is an exercise in
secret laws of Nature, which, without this revelation, would for ever
time clings to the most superficial, most abstract laws of Nature, to
drama of nature as the red of dawn was such that it impressed the man
spiritual waters of Nature's forces, what is, the spiritual forces
that lie behind Nature. We must make it again possible not merely
proceed onwards to a living experience of the real nature of colour.
manner. It is impossible to steep oneself in the living nature of
bottom of elemental life; it has studied Nature long enough, and tried
long enough to solve all kinds of enigmas in Nature, and to reproduce
Nature. But that which lives in the elements, that is still dead for
outer world in such a way as to miss its nature and its nerve. When
form, and share the cosmic life. Colour is the soul of nature and of
time further into the nature of colour and of painting.
our direction, is the unifying principle in the whole nature of man,
man's nature.
our direction, is the unifying principle in the whole nature of man,
man's nature.

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Steiner's insights into the nature of color, painting and artistic
refer to Nature and to the model for outward observation has become
any one-sided rejection of Nature and outward reality. Far from it,
it will unite its moral-spiritual nature with the results of
inner nature of things. And if it is a yellow surface, and we do the
So one learns to know the inner nature of colour, and as I said, we can

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that was not in the outside world and is of a soul nature. This
function of an irrational nature. ...”
function of an irrational nature, which has nothing to do with

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in connection, by its very nature, with the spiritual plane as

Title: Reappearance/Christ: Lecture XI: Individual Spirit Beings and the Undivided Foundation of the World: Part 2
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true nature of the second coming of Christ is His appearance to human
What man has before him as a realm of nature
together in all that man calls nature and includes in natural science
on the one hand and nature worship, aesthetics of nature, etc., on
through the wisdom-filled guidance of the world: man can grasp nature
being as experience from nature through sense perception. Behind the
tapestry of nature lies something quite different, which is
however, when man perceives nature. What man calls nature is
sifted. When we perceive through our senses, nature is, as it were,
and nature is transmitted to us as an undivided system. At the moment
bringing clarification into nature — the elemental spirits or
influences upon human souls that could also be regulated by nature —
one is no longer in a position to speak about nature as an undivided

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true nature of the second coming of Christ is His appearance to human
earthly evolution. The welding together of the human nature with the
mechanical nature will be a problem of great significance for the
undiscovered forces within human nature will be discovered, forces
observation of nature but would have to become more dependent on
about something very significant of a group-egotistical nature in
the twofold nature of the human being. This twofold nature of the
being, the lower animal nature. Man is to a certain extent really a
centaur; he contains this lower, bestial, astral nature. His humanity
of the twofold nature within the human being there is also a dualism
forces that are part of nature should be applied. One will have to

Title: Influences of Lucifer/Ahriman: Lecture One: The Incarnation of Lucifer in Asia in the Third Millenium B.C.
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external nature, including the external human constitution. Just
of words separating people from the real nature of things in the
the spiritual into their human nature, they drive straight into the

Title: Lucifer and Ahriman: Lecture I: The Incarnation of Lucifer in Asia in the Third Millenium B.C.
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sciences are of value only for apprehending external nature,
from the real nature of things in the world. And this they do
human nature, they drive straight into the Luciferic stream

Title: Influences of Lucifer/Ahriman: Lecture Two: The Advance Preparation of Ahriman for His Future Incarnation
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insight into the nature and evolution of humanity, we must be
knowledge and deep penetration into the nature of things is
because they do not know that the Greeks looked out into nature with
our inner nature becomes luciferic if we give ourselves up to
already inherent in their nature. The luciferic tendency shows itself
nature, that is to say, by trying to avoid all illusions about our
approach their own inner nature with ahrimanic cold-bloodedness and
dispassion. Their inner nature is still fiery enough even when cooled

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insight into the nature and evolution of man, we must be
penetration into the nature of things is thoroughly
know that the Greeks looked out into nature with different
higher development of a man's inner nature becomes Luciferic
inherent in his nature. The Luciferic tendency shows itself
Ahrimanic nature, that is to say, by trying to avoid all
his own inner nature with Ahrimanic cold-bloodedness and
dispassion. His inner nature is still fiery enough even when

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understand the nature of the human being we must be constantly
matter. Nevertheless in one aspect, everything of the nature of human
certain forces of nature. It is therefore quite correct to speak of
and the forces of nature.
power over the forces of nature than they later possessed and
mineral nature — such as these vapors arising out of the earth
the forces working in these kingdoms of nature, but to a large
being and the mineral, plant, and animal kingdoms of nature today is
lie, then you must look into the inner, organic nature of the human
of human nature were not there — the pole of the up-building
at the stars is not of the same nature as what you perceive on the
What we do is determined by impulses of a moral nature.
pass in the round of external nature. Indeed the dilemma of modern
what takes place in the external manifestations of nature can be
remains separate and apart from the course of nature. Nearly
human life, are part and parcel of the course of nature. According to
of nature, indeed pleasantly inexorable for materialistic thinkers.
to perceive that what happens externally in the course of nature is
Nature does not, in truth, counteract our freedom, for as human
beings we ourselves fashion the nature immediately surrounding us. It
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Title: Lucifer and Ahriman: Lecture V: The Human as a Being of Will
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To understand the nature of man we must be constantly mindful
aspect, everything of the nature of will in man bears a great
of nature. It is therefore quite correct to speak of an inner
the forces of nature.
far greater power over the forces of nature than they later
example of effects of a purely mineral nature — such as
in these kingdoms of nature, but to a large proportion of
and animal kingdoms of nature to-day is such that his will is
inner, organic nature of man himself. Strange as this will
nature were not there — the pole of the upbuilding
is not of the same nature as what you perceive on the earth
by impulses of a moral nature.
and what comes to pass in the round of external nature.
of nature can be traced only to similar manifestations, as
the course of nature. Nearly everything that is discussed
nature. According to modern preconceptions there is something
inexorable in the play of nature, indeed pleasantly
externally in the course of nature is not dependent upon
composed of free human beings. Nature does not, in
ourselves fashion the nature immediately surrounding us. It
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Title: Influences of Lucifer/Ahriman: Lecture Four: The Luciferic Origin of Ancient Wisdom, Ahrimanization...
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inherent in their own nature, evolution would have taken quite a
God-created nature of the human being has followed in the wake of
And because this is so, through their own inherent nature, people are
nature of knowledge from denominational religion and to insist

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the earth with the qualities inherent in his own nature,
counteracted by the fact that the God-created nature of man
through his own inherent nature man is less allied with the
is to exclude everything of the nature of knowledge from

Title: Lecture: Mission of Michael: Lecture I: The Power and Mission of Michael
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organically driven into phantasms. The bones may spread their nature
the concept of the threefold nature of the human organism or the human

Title: Lecture: Mission of Michael: Lecture II: The Michael revelation.
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way that the attempt is made to explain their nature externally. The
falling asleep to awakening and also in that part of his nature which
Luciferic nature into the human head formation. “And he cast his
nature in the organism apart from the head.

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of coercive nature. You cannot make the intelligence of mankind your
Christ impulse, through its very nature, will become the same for
head. And here we touch a well-known secret of human nature, a secret
our fantasies become realities is connected with our human nature, and
of vitality through its very nature. Into these forces of vitality the
desire-nature which underlies the willing; and through the fact that
the personal element is concealed in our desire-nature, our human
nature on this path.
human nature, and I have shown you by Milton's Paradise Lost,
regard to the mineral nature. Let us deal at once with the most
this is only an activity of the human being, an effect of his nature.
in his being the signature of mineral nature, of external physical
nature. The outer mineral is heavy. But that which gives us, for

Title: Lecture: Mission of Michael: Lecture IV: The Culture of the Mysteries and the Michael Impulse.
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used for the comprehension of the real nature of the Mystery of
in order to see what was the nature of this human primeval
which is gradually derived from the nature processes in the way the
nature. To be sure, since the appearance of Greek thinking the
transformation of mankind indicates by its very nature that human
nature of this special experience which will suggest to human beings
nature said something entirely different, as if outer nature demanded
and what external nature says, they have been ridiculed. Hegel, for
thoughts about nature — and not all of Hegel's thoughts are
nature; but just look at this or that process in nature: it does not
agree with your ideas. Then Hegel answered: Too bad for nature!
nature were really to correspond to this thinking, she would have to
become accustomed to that which nature teaches. Most people who find
nature observation they really bear two souls within themselves, two
really forces me to form a picture about nature. But this does not
coincide with nature herself. Then, as I become more familiar with
life, I also acquire in the course of time what nature herself
which works in us, to be sure, but whose nature we do not recognize in
observation of nature and the truths that are found in the sciences,
to understand external nature.
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Title: Lecture: Mission of Michael: Lecture V: The Michael Deed and the Michael Influence as Counter-pole of the Ahrimanic Influence
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nature and human freedom. The natural-scientific thinking
the human being as a member of the rest of nature, the latter being
the necessity of nature be reconciled with freedom? It shows, in other
omnipotence of the necessity of nature. One does not express it in
The matter is similar in regard to the necessity of nature. During 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.
which then became the leading upper current: the nature necessity.
prepared in the form of a sub-current of nature-necessity must
This is a problem, terrifying in its nature. If we investigate it
forth, one will not gain an insight into that nature which, according
to Goethe's prose Hymn to Nature, comprises man. For nature, as
with a conception of nature which, to be sure, for the time being only
own nature and being. Therefore they show something in their
It is very necessary today that we recognize the nature of the
is dangerous today to cling to mere nature necessity, to that kind of
fatalism which is expressed in nature necessity. For education,
based upon nature necessity, upon the omnipotence of nature
we clearly elaborate the Ahrimanic element and know the nature of the

Title: Lecture: Mission of Michael: Lecture VI: The Ancient Yoga Culture and the New Yoga Will.
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nature herself for the soul element, for the spiritual element, whose
time about that which we call today the order of nature, he would not
have understood a word of it. An order of nature in our sense did not
the spiritual as well as the nature powers. For him, there existed no
will and the necessity of nature did not exist for him. Everything was
inkling of a certain necessity of nature enters human thoughts. But
this necessity of nature is still far removed from that which we call
today the mechanical or even the vital order of nature; at that time,
Providence. Providence and nature events are still one. Man knew that
he was, however, conceived of as unitary, the God in nature, the God
nature and Providence that is inside in man meet one another.
am a being of nature outside and at the same time I am myself.
This line represents, on the one hand, the existence of nature
outside-inside, of nature existence and human existence. Man begins to
feel the contrast between himself and nature. And if I am again to
What man has in common with nature remains outside his consciousness.
We have, through our head organization, an incomplete nature
beings of elemental nature of whom I have spoken yesterday,
grasping, in a sensitive way, the peculiar nature of the sense process
imparted to us that of like nature to that which was imparted to human
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Title: Social Forms: Lecture I: The Waldorf School, Spiritual Science, Outer World, Inner World
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a procedure that stifles the very nature of schools
good as they should be considering the nature of our
to anything of a spiritual nature. When talking about
still on the level of the nature of ordinary knowledge but
parties. Human beings are unaware of the actual nature of

Title: Social Forms: Lecture II: Materialism, Party Line
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nature. I also mentioned that in this abstract age certain
nature, having its reality in the spiritual world. It only
with the nature of the programs, because he first has to
movement, or a party of a spiritualistic nature, and so on.
the nature of their activities here on the physical plane is
on the nature of folk souls which I gave in Kristiania in 1910,
functions. We must shed this abstract nature if the recent
village community. Only a person who understands the nature

Title: Social Forms: Lecture III: Man's Twelve Senses in Relation to Imagination, Inspiration, Intuition
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sense of sight. First, we will consider its nature in an
nature is an inner quality of bodies. You strike a metal
the inner nature of things. If you go to the other side, you
nature to where the external corporeality becomes more
the nature of the metallic element; you arrive at what is, in
organs that are as much of a physical nature as are those
nature through sound.
inner being, for inspirations belong more to the inner nature
we now penetrate into our inner nature through the inner
nature
particular nature of these experiences. The mysticism, even

Title: Social Forms: Lecture IV: World Events, Initiation Knowledge and the Impulse toward Freedom
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be of a nature that can be represented before the whole
last Sunday about the nature of the human sense organism.
concerning the union of the divine and the human natures in
one who understands the nature of present initiation can
nature, something that is not permissible today. Thus,
ideological questions. It is connected with the basic nature
man's lower nature — the word leads to
corporeal man. But whether we study the facts of nature
it, we have what may be called the soul-spiritual nature of
sides of human nature, we are obliged to say: What is looked
nor his soul-spiritual nature. We cannot recognize the
physical corporeal nature of man. You can discover the
physical bodily nature. We cannot look into it, for if we
psychology; this is the true nature of memory. Only when
given a picture of nature today which is then extended to
the more we descend into man's individual nature, the more we
the nature of material elements in order to guide us in this
specific task of true spiritualism to unveil the nature of

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Ahrimanic nature. The events of the last few years can only
depths of human nature adds its voice to it.
nature that they can be established with absolute
nature. We cannot advance without that. All talk about

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Inner Nature of Man and the Life Between Death and a New Birth,

Title: Social Forms: Lecture VII: Trends of Souls in People of the East, West, and Middle of Europe
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Forgetting its very nature, the East has allowed itself to be
birth, before conception. In the very beginning, the nature
comprehends matter. For how can materialism fathom the nature
though nature did not exist at all. Duty, for example, and
there to a philosophy of nature, develops his doctrine of the
very nature develops in the various regions.

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by their nature to develop that element which makes its
the three members of human nature came to special expression
special nature of the ancient Indian, this — instead of
nature, namely, the rhythmic system. This is why he did his
— ignorant of the true nature of both — mixed
nature. It has a psychology, however, that deals only with
nature of the Oriental to live in his metabolic system. It is
the Central European's nature to live in the rhythmic system.
It is Western man's nature to live in the nerves-and-senses
inherent dispositions of human nature, how can we do that? We
the nature of the ancient Orient, later that of the Middle
understanding the nature of the life of rights, of the state.
By understanding the Western nature, we gain a comprehension

Title: Social Forms: Lecture IX: Hegel
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the Luciferic and the Ahrimanic nature. Physiologically,
nature of the human being if one cannot place it in the

Title: Social Forms: Lecture X: The Tapestry of the Senses, Memory, and the Spiritual World, -or- Spiritual-Cosmic Tasks of Man
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the region lying, as it were, behind nature in a
spirit-nature world. One could also say that it is the world
soul nature, he speaks of thoughts, feelings and will
this inner nature, which remains quite undefined to him, he
take the phenomena of nature for what they are —

Title: Social Forms: Lecture XI: Man as a Mediator of the Spiritual Beings of the Cosmos
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into man's whole nature of feeling and perception, then he
nature of the forces that work chiefly in the human head and
anything of this nature that is to be given to humanity must
particularly those of an economic nature? We must engage in
tremendous scorn for anything of a group nature in the world.

Title: Social Forms: Lecture XII: The Members of the Human Being and their Relationship with the Social Organism
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documents which are proof of the Orient's essential nature,
himself that if we observe nature — he naturally looks
nonexistent in nature, for there can be no freedom —
yet cannot be found in nature.
rebels against all that prevails in nature. Something
therefore ensues here that is not yet found in nature. Now
the social life and rebel against nature herself. He looks in
nature cannot establish this social community; in nature, the
they are forces of nature, rebel against the natural forces
three kingdoms of nature. By working on his whole being, he
reform movement of a radical nature. It really only contains

Title: Social Forms: Lecture XIII: The Interrelationship between the Human and the Social Organism
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to the kingdoms of nature surrounding us. With our astral
being represents today, in the direction of nature, we find
kingdoms of nature on the one side; on the other side, we are
nature. Keep in mind that it is present in reality when it
even the reality of nature. It is important to realize that
point where we apprehend nature with abstract concepts. We
were, from this knowledge of nature that he develops, is
nature at another, albeit distant, future time. With the help
order of nature of another time.
this innermost principle of human nature that the economic
issues forth from these domains into the life of nature; and
life of nature itself. For civilization will not only pass

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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of animal, plant or mineral nature prepared for us at the
able objectively to enter upon the nature of the actual
the avowal of the transitory nature of matter, are considered

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mature were initiated into the nature of that which was sent
science for an illumination of the life of nature as well as
are indeed serious and of such a nature that they induce us

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life of nature, but today, certain phenomena of social life
causality of nature holds sway in the sphere of life,
evolutionary conditions are not of such a nature that a clear
spiritual and soul nature.
supposed to learn about the nature and processes of the
can only grasp its essence, especially the nature of the
this comprehension of man's nature, arrives at the point of
are laid down by a government which by its very nature stands

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depicts his full nature, where he demonstrates himself a
to nature. These other representations have a visual character
holds in one both the elemental powers of nature and that which
(through the elemental nature-forces) simultaneously possesses a
the midst of ethically-acting forces of nature:
and through her feeling of these ethically-acting forces of nature,
something which represents an all-awareness of nature, so to speak,
already nature.
fiery nature’s might
their natures’ light
hymn “To Nature”: that powerful nature-poem which
begins “Nature, we are surrounded by her ...”, and
picture of nature which, with its unusual rhythm, moves along so
the north. Here, through the influence of external nature itself,
the poetic line he experiences when something of the nature of
dealing with an art that is more in the nature of declamation, an

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ideas about the real nature of poetry, there is also a certain lack
of clarity as to the nature of the art of recitation. As to how
for the true nature of poetry. There is no doubt that poetry stands
profounder depths of human nature, something which takes hold of
you what must live in declamation when something more of the nature
those depths of human nature from which earnestness, or tragedy,

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certain guidelines in our presentation of the real nature of the
nature of recitation so extraordinarily difficult to grasp. Here
in the very nature of poetry that, in one case, a poem is
Deeply founded in the nature of poetry is the
into our will-nature, mainly bound up as it is with exhalation, all
form to the epic, have a grasp of man’s inner nature to which
that part of man’s nature with which the Nordic races were
there is laid into the innermost nature of the words that inhaled
bring out once more the real nature of alliteration. Of course it
sublime and exalted nature. If we try, when reciting such noble

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one-sided to consider, like Schopenhauer, that Nature has a basis of
nature, which leans more towards the side of thought. Hegel's
nature, had their external pleasure when beauty shone in the dying
addresses: If man dives down mystically into his will-nature, then
introspection, they would discover the true material nature of man's
you dive down into the will-nature, you will find the true nature of
atoms. You find the true nature of matter by diving down mystically
past; darkness leads into the future. Light is nature in terms of
thought, darkness is nature in terms of will. Hegel leaned toward
grow out of the peach-blossom. He turns from light-nature to light.
What stirs him, viz., what develops from the light-nature of the bloom
fruit, is as a matter of act the double nature of the world. To see
the world properly you must see it in its double nature, for only then
blossom, you are really living on the past. You look at nature in
The greenness of Nature is that which, as it were, has not yet
philosophy of Nature such as Goethe's is at the same time a spiritual
philosophy. In approaching Goethe, the researcher of Nature, we may
material nature; if we get so far as to be able to regard the
passionate natures as Schopenhauer. In short, we penetrate from the

Title: Colour: Part Two: The Connection of the Natural with the Moral-Psychical. Living in Light and Weight.
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Steiner's insights into the nature of color, painting and artistic
connection there is, on the one hand, in the Kingdom of Nature with
that which pertains to Nature. On this point modern humanity faces a
outlook on nature, such a view can never build a bridge between the
contains not only what is psychic, and nature contains not only what
is natural. We get here a philosophy in which nature is the result of
world as we do now, and they will say: Nature shines round about us;
earth. We stand here now and survey Nature. We can stand like dry,
past in which beings have worked to form our surrounding Nature as it
for a man to say: There is a kind of compensation, for Nature itself
into physical things. Does the man who looks at Nature spiritually
Nature itself, spiritually seen, lies the justification of the moral

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imitation of external, physical nature, this only shows that we
Nature;
nature, must form a synthesis whenever a prose-poem is to be

Title: Curative Eurythmy: Lecture 2
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of the outward form-nature of things. However, one can actually only
with people who are greedy, in whom the animal nature comes particularly
ego. And the “A” counteracts the animal nature in man.

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to the nature of consonantal articulation. This you will find conveyed
that make him greedy, which organize him according to animal nature:
the A in fact lies nearest to the animal nature in man, and in a certain
with entirely out of the animal nature. And when we tend towards A with
volitional nature
principle of movement of the limbs, how the limb-nature extends into

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interesting letter is the H, which actually has the most vowel nature

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confirms or negates something one has to do with the nature of judgment
nature and which has the effect of warming the circulation. It is something

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the case that they must listen to much of a consonantal nature. The

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as we progress to that which is of soul-spiritual nature in man, to
nature is growing uncontrolledly? It means that the plastic
of particularly mystical nature as mystically profound drawings and
of an abnormal nature which is reflected by the human being as beauty
the direction that the continually progressing human nature has taken,

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Steiner's insights into the nature of color, painting and artistic
for the knowledge of the objective nature of the world of colour — a
the nature of colour and its quality in the objective sense. At the
oft-repeated utterance: “The man to whom Nature begins to reveal
with the nature of colour. In ordinary life colour is dealt with
coloured, according to the impressions received through the nature of
world of colour. In order to arrive at the objective nature of colour we
we may hope to fathom its real nature.
penetrate into the nature of colour, we must experience something in
We are not copying Nature in this experiment, but placing something
to seek as the nature of colour. Let us take a very characteristic
penetrate into the objective nature of colour — as a rule the
subjective nature alone is sought.
the plant, but in reality it cannot be the essential nature of the
body it would be a mineral. In its mineral nature the plant manifests
the essential nature of the plant, and on the other the greenness,
special nature of the plant-image.
endeavour to arrive at its essential nature. As a rule we see this
He expresses himself by pouring his soul-nature into his form in the
in whom the psychic nature is withdrawn somewhat and does not ensoul
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The Luminous and Pictorial Nature of Colours
Steiner's insights into the nature of color, painting and artistic
The Luminous and Pictorial Nature of Colours
We tried yesterday to understand the nature of colour from a certain
search also for their natures. We shall not search for them through
which will strike you if you observe life: green you have in nature;
I have here pointed out to you from the nature of things a certain
and blue. Now we shall be able to go a step further towards the nature
own nature green always allows us to make it with definite limits.
we note that as a result of its own nature, colour has a inner
this point of view. Let us take yellow, the whole inner nature of
inner nature. It wants to radiate. Let us take blue on the
as such, because of its own nature, does not permit a smooth surface.
Blue by its inner nature demands the exact opposite of yellow. It
blue. Then it shows itself in its very own nature.
it yields itself to the nature of colour.
help itself, it is its nature to disappear. Green outlines itself,
that is it nature. But peach-colour does not demand to be
We saw that yellow wants, of its own nature, to get paler and paler
concentrating; that is red's nature. So you see there is a fundamental
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The Phenomenon of Colour in Material Nature
Steiner's insights into the nature of color, painting and artistic
The Phenomenon of Colour in Material Nature
We have differentiated colours in that out of their own nature we have
called the luminous nature of colours which we meet in blue, yellow and
the nature of colour to the plane of painting, we must be interested in
this coloured appearance of material nature. Now since in recent times
produce that in plant-nature which sunlight as it were metamorphoses,
moon-nature (I will only just mention the subject today) as well as
nature of colours. It is, you see, something peculiar. If you go back
external nature, in so far as it consists of plant-life. You can of
was not so usual to observe nature and that therefore one did not
which an abstract nature acquires more and more power over human
him to comprehend the element necessary for painting nature in
will-nature of colour-luster. The old painters do not always take into
not make this distinction between image and luster in the nature of
colours; they grasp what is luster in colour-nature. They grasp what is
turned everything in the nature of colours into image, then you cannot
that is, of nature clothed in vegetation.
seeks to achieve must also be sought in the nature of colours itself.
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When we concentrate upon the whole soul nature we must not say:
which it can then follow the path through the paternal nature.
Inner Nature of Man,

Title: Old/New Methods: Lecture One: Ahrimanic and Luciferic, Human Body, Soul, Spirit
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look instead to the world of nature, to which, of course, they also
belong. During the course of recent centuries the world of nature has
existence. The world of nature, with its laws which are indifferent
Human beings have to look up from the world of nature to the world of
ideals can flow into the laws of nature and how necessity can be made
When we begin to comprehend the world in its true nature we feel as
to lead towards solidified, sclerotic, mineral states. The nature of
luciferic forces are at work; that in the rhythmical nature of the
nature — just as today we speak without superstition or
up to the abstract knowledge of inorganic nature that we have
nature. Real knowledge of the human being can only come about if we
nature, and ascend to the meaningful concepts of luciferic and
lifeless nature. Also, when we imbue our soul with moral issues, the

Title: Old/New Methods: Lecture Two: East, Weat, and Center, -or- Asiatic Spiritual Life
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in the very nature of human beings these days to notice only the
suited to gaining a knowledge of nature as it appears to our senses,
spiritual realm. A progression can be made from the laws of nature to
a recognition of the spiritual beings within nature. These beings of
nature are divine and spiritual. And if Christianity is to be

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retained but given an abstract nature — which in reality ought
tradition. People of a nature capable of being creatively religious
they summarize in the laws of nature, they now seek to grasp out of
creative natures, for the Mystery of Golgotha falls in the fourth
to the very roots of their nature. Anthroposophy is capable of

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himself to be the lord of the etheric and astral natures of human
rightfully ruled the bodily nature of man before the Mystery of
Golgotha, but since then this sovereignty over the bodily nature of
physical bodily nature, or rather whatever is expressed by this
physical bodily nature, namely, everything to do with the intellect
in every aspect of human nature. This is what entered into mankind
such a being everywhere, in external nature and in the inner being of
its manifestation both in external nature and in the inner being of
external nature. You will find there two contrasts, but what matters
will have discovered the ahrimanic tendency in external nature.
hand, shows something luciferic at work in their nature. Out of all

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declaration about the intrinsic nature of the human being. It can be
I described how in the ancient Mysteries the bodily nature of man was
treated so that it became able to free its soul nature in both
of spirit and soul to unite with the physical, bodily nature of man.
in the right way. This is a feeling about the nature of the human
called up out of the profoundest foundations of human nature,
nature of the body can be overcome so that it becomes transparent for

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do with nature. Everything by which you spread into your environment
The heathen culture had a strong awareness of the nature of living
of the different kingdoms of nature, this culture saw everywhere the
permeate nature. The ancient Greeks felt that they stood in life
the laws of nature. Destiny descended on human beings within this
Greek outlook like a force of nature. This feeling was characteristic
Greeks. The heathen world saw spirit in all of nature. There was no
specific knowledge of nature in the sense of the natural science we
have today, but there was an all-embracing knowledge of nature. Where
people saw nature, they spoke of the spirit. This was a science of
nature which was, at the same time, a science of the spirit. The
looked on man from the outside as a being of nature. They could do
Filling all nature with soul in this way, the ancient heathen was
of this. The Old Testament knew nature neither in the way we know it
from nature. In contrast, the Old Testament element developed

Title: Old/New Methods: Lecture Nine: The Threefold Human, Reincarnation, Heathens, Jews, Christians, Calderon
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with the whole of nature. The abstract knowledge we strive for today
nature, for all the creatures of nature. Such strong sympathy in
then the spirit departs from nature, because thoughts are the corpse
of our spirit and soul element. Nature is seen as nothing more than a
disappeared from what human beings saw in nature.
different kingdoms of nature, are external manifestations which pose
the heathen stream which was fundamentally a nature wisdom. All
heathen stream — a nature wisdom, a nature Sophia — saw
the spirit everywhere in nature and could therefore also look at man
as a natural creature who was filled with spirit, just as all nature
natural laws weave through nature. We may sometimes recoil from what
feeling that the Greeks sensed not only the abstract laws of nature,
intimate relationship between the spiritual existence of nature and
destiny, rules within man, just as the laws of nature rule the
Jewish stream of the Old Testament. This stream possesses no nature
wisdom. As regards nature, it merely looks at what is physically
to nature. For the Old Testament there is no nature, but only
human nature. Like a human ruler, Jahve himself is in all the
expression in nature, to what can only be thought. But behind the
thought in the Old Testament there is still the living nature of
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arise out of the old ideas of a nature filled with soul and, on the
connection with the world to which the eternal nature of man belongs.
the essence of nature. He increasingly sought the spirit in nature,
secrets of nature were depicted artistically out of the Greek world
view, he believed he would discover the spirituality of nature.
‘Prologue in Heaven’, using ancient ideas about nature,
ideas of the spirit in nature, in order to raise the question of
of thought which enters human nature at birth and conception as the
our intellect teaches us about external nature. You must understand
that if you study external nature, and then study your head in the
same way as you would external nature, you are then studying
something which simply does not belong to external nature as it now
not possibly arise out of the forces of nature which exist. So the

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see that the special nature of this seeking and striving, as it
nature, had its roots in the fourth post-Atlantean period. Over

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given over to the dictates of nature.
dictates of reason and the dictates of nature, and he calls the
— the dictates of nature — raising them up to an extent
The dictates of reason take a step down, the dictates of nature take
that at the same time his sensual nature also desires what is
the infinitely abundant, rich content of human nature. He could not
by nature, but also because of his whole attitude, was incapable of
dictates of reason and the dictates of nature but as twenty different
signifying the rich nature of the being of man. We must take note of
with which a strong and healthy human nature confronts the one who

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are following the dictates of nature and are unfree. He then came to
nature, as Schiller puts it. Living in the artistic realm, the human
the dictates of nature.
the realm of nature. So long as two abstract concepts, nature and
soul. All the processes of nature find expression not only in what
pointed out that the impossible nature of this eurythmy performance

Title: Lecture: Inner Nature of Music: Lecture IV
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The Inner Nature of Music and the Experience of Tone
This spiritual scientific study is full of insights into the nature of
bears within himself but everything surrounding him in outer nature

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The Inner Nature of Music and the Experience of Tone
This spiritual scientific study is full of insights into the nature of
or four, realms of nature, namely, the mineral, plant, animal, and
because otherwise the soul qualities of human nature will simply

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the power, the impulse of Christ unites itself with the etheric nature
nature of man as well as for his bodily nature, can impress itself
such that the connection of their spirit-and-soul nature with Christ
spirit-and-soul nature, the Christ Impulse must also be able to
the sun; and on the other, that man's spirit-and-soul nature, his ego
of the physical-etheric nature of man by Christ.
Golgotha complete provision was made for the physical-etheric nature
Christ Impulse into his nature of spirit-and-soul, into his ego and
inner nature of spirit-and-soul, his ego and astral body, with the
dissolution after death betokens union with the sun-nature streaming

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in general mankind is regarded as having always had the same soul nature.
Greece like modern events, we do not penetrate into the real soul-nature
speak so. Only its starlike nature makes it possible for the ego
the earth, man must turn his soul-nature to what lives in the earth.
ego, nor the course of the year in his astral nature, he did experience
nature. Indeed in all art we have gradually lost the experience of the
being. Presentday man is completely uncertain in regard to the nature of
by reference to the nature of thought and the cerebellum, to explain
ignorant of the nature of our own organism, do not know what to do with

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today, as is customary, one sees man as the highest product of nature,
man, as the highest product of nature, would have to content himself
create something transcending nature.
being, one has to be dissatisfied with what nature offers. For, if
satisfied, one could never inject into nature something which surpasses
we can see a transcending of nature as anything but dishonesty
if they did? They would have to demand that people imitate nature; nothing
imitation of nature, he would have said something like this: “Why
consume my corporeal part. Only on a corpse do the laws of nature take
We eat, and the foods entering our organism are products of nature,
human beings think it is the laws of nature that are active in the roast
has reached the stomach, intestines, blood; they see the laws of nature
and animals, so the divine-spiritual natures of Apollo, of Zeus, of
Athena, were thought to be incapable of unfolding amid external nature
through its inherent nature, desires to unfold in all directions; and

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of the astral nature of man as it existed before he entered earthly
In nature
is similar when we see in nature, for instance, a green precious stone.
plant colors in the right way when they stimulate us to see in nature
By their very nature, feelings are bound within two dimensions. That is
nature. Studying the secrets of music, we can discover what the Greeks,
soul-spirit nature. The discovery by anthroposophical vision of the
mysteries of this nature will have a fructifying effect, not just on
understood naturalism's strange attempt to imitate nature right down to
stimulating breath, merging our souls with outer nature, as symbol of
of the earth with his middle nature, his feeling nature.
(Rudolf Steiner's Lectures Concerning the Nature of Color.)

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nature which was imaged forth from worlds quite different from the one
four centuries, now, while marvelous relationships in nature were traced
they can reflect, out of their own natures, that same divine-spiritual.
I need not become unfaithful to nature — this Goethe felt —
just purify seceded nature by artistic fashioning; then it will express
matter? Demonic powers which approach man, nature spirits which lay
he describes how Shakespeare, as a thoroughly poetic nature, enters
to nature's own laws, which I am now tracing.” Clearly, he believed
enabled them to create higher works of nature, images of divine-spiritual

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that he was the first who had dared to stop sinning against nature;

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beautiful shines; brings its inner nature to the surface. It is the
it out of the same recesses of our nature.
the spiritual which proclaims its nature in the midst of unpleasantness.
metals revealed their inner natures in their colors, therefore gave
that however well one imitates her, nature is still the essential thing;
nature is still more beautiful, more vital; it needs no copy. A real
heavy matter opposing its innermost nature. Palette colors are alien
that which is fit. What is the inner nature of the fit? Here is manifest
with the outer world, he encounters something of the nature of daimons.
lies that part of human nature which is connected with karma. And just

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Steiner's insights into the nature of color, painting and artistic
sympathy or antipathy. It feels as it were, the plant's nature
its real physical nature is the part that can be weighed or counted,
Such spiritual beings also permeate all the realms of nature.
in all these beings of nature's realms. And when on awakening he
insomnia, because his nature is not suited to it. But things are so
physical world beautiful; it is half a necessity of nature; it is as
But as regards human nature we must be clear: if we want to have the

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beings in nature. Their perception of the spiritual being of the Sun
the Moon. The Druid's science of Nature was a Moon-science. Giant
worked in a far-reaching sense as Nature-forces in man; and what man
physical nature of the light of the Sun was warded off, a dark space
the power of seeing through the stones to observe the spiritual nature
the wisdom had still the character of a Nature-force — for the
In the shadow of the Sun the spiritual Sun-nature worked into him
priest stood before his place of ritual, observing this Sun-nature,
had left it. Such was the Nature-lore he gained under the influence of
Nature, especially when in the sky at night-time the stars stood over
a result he had his science of Nature. Our science of Nature is an
science — feel the forces of Nature. He felt them in all their
wider. His science of Nature being a Moon-science, the Druid priest
he looked into the root-nature of a plant beneath the soil, where the
beneficially in the root-nature, expanded into giants, they became the
frost and other destructive forces of the frost-nature. These were the
whereas in the root-nature the same forces worked bounteously and
their right limits in the kingdoms of Nature. The chosen places where
— the working together of the water and the airy nature, the
knowledge from his science of Moon-nature. But with all this the whole
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The Hierarchies and the Nature of the Rainbow
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The Hierarchies and the Nature of the Rainbow
the Cherubim radiate their own luminous nature from it. The Seraphim
real nature is only the neutral surface on generally regards it?
something in the nature of an outer wrapping. It is thus that life
with the elements of Nature. People are no longer interested that

Title: Lecture VI: The WHITSUNTIDE Festival: Its place in the study of Karma
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these heavenly bodies are fundamentally of the same nature as the
relationships between the several instrumental members of man's nature,
nature with what we find in the human etheric body. In the same way we
of extraordinary importance, something which in its true nature is quite
of the same nature as the etheric in man. In man we also have the astral
“starry” body, seeing that it is of like nature with that
which appears to him in its Etheric nature, shining so majestically, and
the Physical and the nature of the Spirit-Self. Only the Etheric and
threefold nature of the one half of the year. We have the Christmas

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those who do not grasp the nature of the impulses of
inner nature of what is working in social, political, and
Such is the nature of initiation-wisdom. But how can we expect
is the nature of the things which you encounter wherever the

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everything of a declining nature exactly because all his
today to lifeless, inorganic, mineral nature. Perhaps some of
issue. In surveying inorganic nature, the matter of concern is
grasp by means of it only lifeless, inorganic nature; but that,
thinking, as it holds sway in lifeless nature, can later rise
with the machine, with that which has given the very signature
hand is foreign to man's nature, yet is on the other precisely
the ground up. Till then nature had given service; now it is
nature, whose waterpower has already been harnessed in
emotions, it must seem that at that time nature reeled. In
conceives the very nature of the unliving as lacking any
nature and character of present-day cognition — which is
when someone who knows nothing of the real nature of the
bears in itself the plant-nature in the same form we today bear
the mineral nature. It is characteristic of Oswald Spengler,
is nature that gives in sleep. Such is the thinking of one of
sleep-nature of the plant has even some highly
of a cosmic nature, as dwell in peoples, parties, armies,

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just as nature-forces; whereas the modern thought-images no
a plantlike nature, he really brings forth in a living state:

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to the phenomena of nature surrounding them every day. They do
have spoken to you about the special nature of this natural
will have to say: Certainly we can grasp the external nature of
thinking about nature; that is, thinking fashioned after the
impulses from the nature of the higher hierarchies. There we
insight into the relationships existing in human nature, their
of a soul-spirit nature originates in the one and only reality,

Title: Education as a Social Problem: Lecture II: The Social Structure in Ancient Greece and Rome
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soul-nature of the Greek was chiefly determined by the fact
spirituality of ancient Greece. We cannot grasp the soul-nature
nature and led to the formation of the social order in Rome
laws of nature, upon sense perception and the thoughts
convinced, justifiably so, that a view of nature acquired in
this way can only lead to a ghost-like image of nature. A
picture of the world formed by a student of nature is a specter
why has our human nature so developed that we have these
nature to become a plant. But we take many seeds and grind them
nature of the grain of wheat or rye to nourish us but to bring
forth new grain. Likewise, it does not lie in our nature to
from those concepts if we enter into their nature properly.
This is the basis of Goethe's concept of nature. He does not
want to express the laws of nature by means of concepts; he
conceptual ability cannot be applied to external nature. We
we may reach with this pure thinking our spiritual nature as it
we might remain with pure nature and not speculate about it. We
nature. When the wasp builds its house this natural activity
perception of nature but enters into the spiritual behind
nature. So long as men received the spirit simultaneously with
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imagine that something of a soul-spiritual nature streams
us the faculty of seeing in nature not the ghost-like things of
order of nature by the divine world order. If there were no
for it. So it is with all of nature. What natural science
offers is a ghost. We can comprehend nature only if we know
resemble the form of a celestial body. The whole of nature is

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at present many shattered natures. At important moments we
spiritual science as knowledge of man's true nature. The
nature of man. In the course of the last three or four
necessary that only the egotist in human nature speak when the
nature. We had to link this question to one's immediate

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intelligence for modern man, we must ask: What was the nature
nature of the spiritual powers in which you live here on earth,
concept of God if we observe nature in her phenomena, if we
nature that we can only come near it if, in the course of
nature. If, living in the world, we do not find the concept of
By reflecting upon our having been born out of nature and its

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true nature. You do not visualize yourself properly if you
consciousness of the true nature of man's being becomes more
were akin to plant nature, whereas the present-day physical
his body something of a plant-like nature. The result was that
it. It is in the nature of our time that we have to retrace the
into the nature of man and the world. Because this is so it
plant-like nature. Should there be a relapse into that state in
nature of the Angel, but to the Archangel, and to the Spirit of

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begin by looking at the so-called lifeless nature which,
lifeless nature only now comes into existence for the
regarding his corpse, like lifeless nature about him. That
soon, however, as we behold this special nature of the human
lifeless external nature this is quite a different matter. And,
surroundings as lifeless nature. This lifeless nature fashions
soul has laid it aside, to extra-human lifeless nature.
we wish to investigate plant nature, we cannot comprehend it,
Thus, what he has carried within him of an etheric nature
into the rest of lifeless nature becomes difficult for us. But,
into the nature of man, we see that, when the human being has
plant nature, — we shall also seek there in vain for the
be found. If I wish to explain the nature of a blossom, then I
explain the blossom's nature from the nature of the ether
which is plantlike from the nature of the ether cosmos, but I
upon the actual animal nature, but the constellation of the
lifelessness alongside lifeless outer nature in respect
nature.
wish to seek the causes of plant nature, we must then go out
space when we wish to explain the animal and the astral nature
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non-crystalline mineral nature and world. As human beings we
together has nothing in common with mineral nature. From this
nature itself.
senses. Our other relationships to the mineral nature are
nature enters into relationship with us during earth life. The
things which we take in with our food are of a mineral nature,
has no direct influence on his inner nature. He moves about
such a nature that they are enclosed in the mineral kingdom.
Hierarchy, does the karma of our inner nature — if I may
upon the plant nature of the earth, so may we again say that
nature? A hundredfold, a thousandfold are the animal
lifeless nature-cause, but it depends upon whether I have had
event, I have very little to do in my own nature with the water
Everything takes place as though subject to the laws of nature.
But where would the laws of nature ever have the power to
contradict all nature laws and everything that we construct in
accordance with the outer laws of nature. I have repeatedly
calculate for human life out of the external facts of nature.
the laws of nature. It is not possible to say anything but the
or whatever it may be, a minor or a major event in nature, with
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in a spiritual nature. And in this life between death and a new
nature that it extended up into the life between death and a
of the processes of nature, he arrives at the idea that
system is just a nature system, conjuring thoughts out of
just a part of my nature. It is there of its own accord, and I
they refer to the immutable causation of their own nature. But,
limitations of human nature. If we rise to the beings of the
limitations of human nature, we must, indeed, seek a higher
place outside, like a process of nature. He has nothing that
feels different from what his own nature inspires in him. Nor

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in asking: Whence come the individual members of human nature
place between his own nature and the nature of the souls with
of which he usually seeks in his physical nature in accordance
inner nature of the facts. And thus, we may ask ourself —

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original nature of the human being; we must gain real insight
deeper nature is concerned, descends from spiritual worlds into
a man carries in his subconscious nature. As earth men, we are
far wiser in the subconscious than in the conscious nature. It
our own human nature, the one that belongs to us. If, at some
its roots in the inner nature, appears in regard to the

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human being's essential nature, that human nature which
second member of the essential nature of the human being is all

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life of nature, in the natural order, everyone to-day recognises
nature — the animal, plant and mineral kingdoms. As soon as we
lower members of man's nature (let us call them that) as they
same nature as all the forces that bestow on earthly man his form. It
so, when these members of man's nature are observed without the
nature there are certain spiritual
does not strive after this consciousness through nature but by going
beyond nature (we go beyond nature when, for example, we acquire
to follow our original nature, in accordance with the evolutionary
nature produces a certain lack of interest in other people. And if we
endless amount. And a genuine interest in the real nature of man has
in us, if it prevents us from being tolerant towards human nature in
individual man in accordance with his nature and spirit, then we
in man's nature, often subtle impulses, the Ahrimanic fortes mingle.
readily make his presence known; he sets his nature to work in man's
parts of man's nature, in his subconscious; he strives to reach his
the nature of man. In the course of human thought what a vast number
of man, are of a Luciferic nature; dreams of world power derived from
healthy social impulses, is of an Ahrimanic nature. The man of whom
to ask: Of what nature are such forces as the Ahrimanic and Luciferic
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the higher Hierarchies who belong to man's original nature, and also
hand, the Greek nature is highly susceptible to the forces of
it had adapted itself to the nature of man. Whereas in earlier times
concepts, and thereby was adapted to the human nature of that time.
thoroughly abstract nature of the Romans. We have now to ask: What
only about nature, not about himself. And he would gradually have
of it; they had to receive something of a spiritual nature, and at
only in himself? Luciferic natures take very little interest in their
of the nature of spirit, but that to believe in the spirit is heresy.

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by their nature be of the kind that cannot be substantiated through
written out of the primal nature and being of man, but with the
in the kingdom of nature. It is just on this account that He has been
are of a spiritual nature.
nature only when we omit death, and omit also inherited
Under the guidance of nature itself this faculty is driven to
truth, it would have to separate off from nature a picture of human
of nature. Inherited characteristics and death have no place in
nature.
with nature. The Semitic peoples looked upon inherited
nature, seeing it as the direct working of Jahve — for as long,
little success — sought to grasp something in the nature of man
the phenomena of nature, and it was thought to be a natural
among the phenomena of nature was so potent that it led irresistibly
of nature that this great evil originated — the placing of
death, to something of a supersensible nature that opposes death. And
serves to understand nature; for by introducing birth and death into
and the comprehension of nature. And what is the consequence?
world; but it is an error to identify ourselves with physical nature
whereas they are not. Only by refusing to believe in a nature that
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world that interests people but the world of nature. The ability of
modern men to form conceptions about nature makes them feel
have in our outlook on nature.
we form conceptions about nature. But when we take this whole world
of conceptions about nature and test it, test it without
nature. There are, as people say, limits to our knowledge of nature.
This natural science is meant to treat of nature; it is meant in a
certain sense to bring home nature to modern consciousness in a
which to-day are formed about nature in the most learned way, we
facts of nature. For what modern men conceive as natural science is
related to nature as a ghost is related to reality. It was indeed
ghosts — not conceptions of nature but only of ghosts of
nature. And as our forefathers were preceded by their own remote
through them. If we are deceived by the ghostly nature of natural
ghostly conceptions we are still able to perceive nature, for nature
arise, will not ask the spirit, they will only ask nature: What is the
nature of man? What kind of driving forces are there in human nature?
how in these days men are willing only to question nature — and
of nature they can know only its ghost. Hence the reality becomes
I have led you to see how it is that men form ghostly conceptions of nature,
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were trying to describe in accordance with its inner nature an extraordinarily
its essential nature forms the greatest imaginable contrast to all
I explained to you how the knowledge of nature — of which modern man
nature, but only its ghost. What men know of nature is not the truth;
it is a ghost, and related to the reality of nature in the same way
the ghostly nature of their knowledge, nor are they aware that what
really striving for in, let us say, his knowledge of nature, and how
pursues a ghostly knowledge, for he forms conceptions about nature
ghostly knowledge of nature and why is he so proud and overbearing
the ghost of nature, we feel impelled to press on to the true reality
behind the ghost; then we want to have nature in her reality. We
it then has conceptions about real nature. It goes on to invent all
found courage enough to say: “You want a concept of nature, not
the ghost of nature? Then you must press on to the reality.”
in nature — but then we find Ahriman. And our knowledge of the
first, the nature of birth and death. We have said a good deal about
Father Rhine. And this is no less true of our own bodily nature. This
bodily nature of ours is a continuously running stream: a destroying
the whole truth about nature; it gives only a ghost. There is no
nature's ghost and not of nature's reality. But we have to get
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above all of a twofold nature. First, there was the wish to preserve
nature, though not in rhetoric, and the Roman rhetoricians, among
True Nature of the Second Coming.
healthy enough by nature to be shielded from stepping over into
to see in the whole of nature herself something sacramental —
to see all nature as an expression of the divine-spiritual World-Order.
forms. To see in forms the signature of the Divine in the world, but
of the world through the great and powerful phenomena of nature. I
all the phenomena of nature, and these will thereby reveal to men
contemplation of nature in this light there will spring a feeling for
the divine element in nature, if we draw upon the power of Christ in
our knowledge of nature, then we shall carry into the rules of
to look upon nature around us as permeated by Christ, if we are
mankind; and this must be recognised in the very nature of its

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nature must be understood.
future is of such a nature as to supersede, in a just and
In the very nature of things, these classes will completely
free in its own nature. Likewise, there will not be a
nature as man.
as this is possible for each person, with the real nature of
be, as his nature demands, a human being.
to the form of consciousness that is in its nature
happening in our time is of such a nature as to compel men in
nature of human thought. Christianity is really only at its
relates himself to his normal nature as the ordinary man
grasped in its special nature by means of the kind of
of nature. This condition came about through the fact that
into the nineteenth century. Human nature came under the
dethroned, human nature came under the influence of beings
one God in nature was transmuted, because of the influence of
nature as such.

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observed like a phenomenon of nature that has the tendency to
providence only in external nature, crass atheistic natural
inherited through the laws of nature. Money that we inherit

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human being was still entirely in his inner nature; man was
then still a being of wholly inner nature. He did not then
in connection with ignorance of the nature of a social order,
in a wholly elemental manner out of the nature of man. The
nature. They will evolve out of the nature of man in the same
evolve in human nature, I must make intelligible to you in
natures to obtain access for earthly incarnation. This
the earth through the nature of man himself, this special
to consider the nature of such a plan of strategy. Every

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nature in this actual point of time within the fifth
men. Yet it is characteristic of human nature at the same
the depth to which the antisocial is rooted in human nature.
deficiencies in human nature that have made themselves
nature of man belongs among the causes of illness. Thus it
will be easily intelligible to you that the social nature of
human nature is. A person cannot heal himself by means of the
social elements in his nature without in a certain way
to his antisocial nature. The state of illness depends, much
more than is supposed, upon the antisocial nature of man,
aroused in their nature and they begin in some way to be
intimate details of his nature. If we do not do so we shall
when he loves. Love as such, as it inheres in the nature of
very nature of things, a father will love his own son more
simply the nature of life. It alternates between ebb and
nature. These are things that are of enormous importance for
maximum degree and through the very nature of man. Through
the intimate elements in the nature of man, and to learn this
human nature in such a way that we learn how social and
when we conceive him only with regard to his animal nature;
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characteristic, the whole nature, of this epoch. We are
integration of the consciousness soul into human nature has
to emerge out of the innermost nature of man, a reaction
the need of socializing is that the innermost nature of man,
like a reaction to what streams forth from the inner nature
essential nature when the light of the spirit self shall dawn
a nature that is distributed over the whole animal kingdom.
He is the conqueror of the animal nature; he bears the animal
nature within him.
of the animal nature. This is the truth. Thus, if we wish to
insight into the spiritual nature of the world lying behind
the sensible nature. Socializing without a science of the
life of sleep. It was upon this inner knowledge of the nature
the nature of human breathing. We acquire an understanding of
spiritual entities to come in contact with human nature and
social union, the lower entities coming close to human nature
essential nature, a revelation adapted to the Jewish people,
with him as the physical and the etheric nature becomes ill
sort of prophetic nature will develop as the third element,
the innermost nature of man, striving toward realization, is
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careful account of the complicated nature of man. We must
way that you will succeed in understanding the real nature of
inevitably clings to everything of an instinctive nature.
the nature of English or American politics. The nuance, which
character. Because of their special nature, they must rest
they are able to please. The French nature is loved in the
world to the extent that it pleases. The English nature does
present time fall to the share of the English nature, Because
person; in the innermost nature of his soul he must not
Threshold those forces living in the depths of human nature.
destructive forces that cause death in nature — and
true form, as it dwells in us and also in outside nature.
the fact that ahrimanic powers live in external nature around
external nature. You can come into contact with the
manifestation of such powers as enter into external nature in
seething in accordance with its picture nature whereas the
to its intellectualizing nature. In the last analysis, there
non-political nature, and because the German is faced by
which their spiritual nature acts antipathetically upon the
characteristic, the most fundamental nature of the Slavic
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spiritual in the world, to explain the world of nature around him by
by side with nature and the ordinary world, which has as its content
to do with the laws of nature that we demonstrate so one-sidedly, and
longer have to do with an iron necessity of nature but with a cosmic
world of nature, but which makes use of those human powers of
ordering of nature. And so, whereas this mood came over modern
for in its essential nature the Catholic Church is capable of the
of spiritual initiative or anything of that nature. Then he goes on:

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then said concerning the Anti-Modernist Oath. I described its nature
another and to nature, is doomed to natural decay through the
human beings concerning their relations to one another and to nature,
concerning their relations to one another and to nature, is doomed to
deny it. But we are very lenient towards everything of the nature of
humanity will have to recognize the threefold nature of the social

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egotism in human nature. Churches, as cultivators of the deepest
psycho-spiritual nature of man. The Church laid down in that Council
For thereby the true nature of man and also his real relationship to
nature can have nothing to do with the material world; he must
live in the higher world! But even these profound natures as well as

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why the bridge between the physical nature and the life of
in the human organism is a process of nature. Illness is,
however, also a process of nature. Where does a healthy
nature there are substances and activities of substances
nature around man on the earth, we must cultivate a different
external nature, quite without being noticed, is going on all
not only to understand the nature of the organs with definite
contours but also the nature of the fluids, the fluid process
certain processes outside in nature which are occasioned by
the metamorphosis of two nature processes. The one is spread
out, so to say, over nature, when the bee fetches the nectar
must study such processes of nature for they are the
their observation does not extend to nature processes such as
processes in nature and then we shall unfold a real knowledge
inner understanding of nature is required and a comprehensive
wasp's sting and the laying of an egg. A sense for nature is
required in all these things. And this sense for nature is
nature. There is a dreadful illusion here. What is the aim of
nature to be able, with your own inner activity, to modify
inner nature. This is not done in the ordinary way. As a
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external nature, you will realize at once that the body
you die, external nature destroys your physical body
conceptions that are applicable to external nature. In the
nature of man. But although they are investigated and known,

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the two preceding lectures about the nature of the human
laws of nature are then evolved according to which people try
In its essential nature, it has nothing to do with the forces
of an earthly nature but only from the in-working cosmos. I
we want to know how substances outside in nature can work
doctrine of signatures. This Doctrine of Signatures was
about the ‘Signature’, as it was called in olden
delicate processes in nature if you want to understand how a

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have a science of nature that has found its way even into
nature. Medical science in the real sense demands something
processes which exist outside in nature. The lead and mercury
processes are processes in external nature which the human
important is to unfold a quite different perception of nature
intercourse with nature which leads to a real medical
knowledge when we can love nature, in all her details. To
look at fragments of nature under the microscope is not to
love her. We must love nature. We must all be able to expand
one who merely regards nature as something that is there
of nature again and again if we desire a living and not a
medical knowledge from the nature of the human being and from
substance) which underlies this aromatic nature, is to be
medicine, this element was known as the sulfuric nature of
the plants. If we contemplate the sulfuric nature of the
should evolve a delicate perception of this leaf nature of
the scent can draw life from this leaf nature. And streaming
essential nature these drops of dew are a reflection of the
drop formation is at the basis of the leaf nature in the
such an insight into the nature of the plants that you
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nature to the spiritual forces behind her.
real experience, the nature of what was once called the
as a quality of nature. We experience warmth, for we feel
characteristic of ancient study of nature that it took as its
inner emotion or shock. I look at the root nature of the
plant, I acquire the capacity to relate this root nature to
built up and how knowledge of nature becomes a real wisdom.
able to penetrate the other substances of nature, you must
outer nature as air — this is courage. Courage is air.
formation which has weight, and this is the nature of
aeriform nature of the human being is circulating, then you
will recognize, in the activity of man's aeriform nature,
learn from the study of many phenomena in outer nature, what
fluid nature has a centrifugal and centripetal movement in
observation of what exists outside in nature, you will find
one thing, there will be the problem of karma. In the nature

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phenomena, and courage behind all that is of the nature of
warmth nature in man. We have spoken of the conception we
namely, something that is of the nature of feeling.
sense that is of the nature of thought, and the other organs
definite outlines and contours, an activity of the nature of
activity that is of the nature of thought.
the solid nature of the bony structure with the fluid nature
grasp the nature of the fluid man and understand how this
nature of the muscles can only be grasped by imagination. Why
of the air, has something of the nature of music about it,
initiation we have grasped the nature of this wonderful
that is external to us. Warmth is of the nature of the soul.
In the same way, the fluid nature in man is not what the

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course, necessitates a few words about the nature of the
not possess it at all. There are people who are, by nature,
from the spiritual, is the soul nature of the human being.
physician of a purely personal nature or are they affected by
shall do more clearly still tomorrow is of such a nature that
the lecture yesterday, I said that out of the very nature of
healing effect in some organ that is of the nature of a
nature of inspiration; that is the real knowledge; it is not
imaginative is of such a nature that you actually feel this
nature and of the being of man, knowledge of the cosmos as
understand the nature of illness we must say to ourselves:

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emphasized, above all, that in the very nature of things, one
nature of the illness. By so adjusting your soul that you can
nature of the illness is revealed, then, gradually, when you

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is certainly of such a nature that what happens in the human
menses have become a process of the world of nature. Today it
to know the nature of the lead and the silver, realizing that
nature that is already emancipated, not with the cosmos. This
physical embryo, therefore, we must say: Physical nature in
therefore, the cosmic forces were working upon man's nature;
is both earthly and of the nature of sun and moon; later on,
in accordance with their own nature, and resistance is put up
the foodstuffs. Unfinished forms of human nature have there
get pedantry out of a man who is pedantic by nature. You may

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getting to know the nature of man, his conditions of disease
nature of man is necessary in many different fields of human
point is a knowledge of the nature of the human being. In
other domains, too, there must be knowledge of the nature of
man if we have an eye to realities. Knowledge of the nature
knowledge of the real nature of man is not sought for in many
result will be of such a nature that it is not in line with
the healthy evolution of human nature. Knowledge of healing
him some idea about the nature of the foodstuffs: so it is
real nature of the human being.

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abstractly in the so-called Doctrine of Signatures. You will
they passed thoughtlessly by the essentials of human nature.
being and his nature. They regarded the body as an instrument
urge between death and rebirth to fathom the nature of the

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inner nature of the human being himself could not help
rebelling. The inner nature of man was not in harmony with
Moon, because in our general experience of nature we can no
laws of man's nature, and two questions will occur to
bodily nature. The individuality, instead of passing over

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times quite a different idea prevailed of man's nature.
a gift from above is spiritual, of the nature of spirit and
cosmic astrality which transcends the plant nature proper. By
sound. This gives us an impression of the astral nature of
look very intimately into the whole nature and being of man
formerly men looked at nature in order to see how the human
being is built up out of the forces and processes of nature.
nature processes as specializations, one-sided processes of
how youth began to deify nature when the Youth Movement of
know nature before we came down into the physical world. But
then, nature had a different appearance. When a young human

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take the connections in nature in a comprehensive way —

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a better understanding of the human being and nature.
insists that in the very nature of things water cannot become
conception of its nature, and constitution. Passing from the
reflects the inner bodily nature—without the

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study of human nature is able to build a bridge between the
bodily nature. As an Ego we would feel no connection with our
our human nature are filled with all the impressions we have
we evolve about the external world, about Nature in her
problem except spiritual-scientific insight into Nature on
physical nature of the human being are identical. This, of

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It is not the case in human nature, nor is it ever so, that
everything that is of the nature of will, the element of
thought is contained; and in everything that is of the nature
outside, but its very life is of the nature of will. By
nature of will radiate into our thoughts. And because, as
consider the other pole of man's nature, where the thoughts
will-nature, with thoughts; deeds are performed in love. Such
when we bring thoughts into the will-nature, when we overcome
into pure thinking, which is, however, really of the nature

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the purpose and nature of Anthroposophy from numerous perspectives. Most
important, Steiner tried to reveal the esoteric nature of Anthroposophy
of our human condition, especially our inner nature. He encourages the
experiences, inner and outer; and he sees external nature with all the
that Nature receives into herself all the human soul perceives of physical,
earthly existence. When man has passed through the gate of death, Nature
difference whether through burial or cremation). And what does Nature
practised, we deepen this impression made by a study of what Nature
birth and death. We then turn to Nature, to whom we owe all our knowledge
and insight, and say: Nature, who produces from her womb the most wonderful
realm of Nature related to what man, as part of her, carries with him
For man, Nature with her laws is the destroyer. Here, on the one hand,
on the other hand, is Nature with her stones, plants, animals, clouds,
earth. Yet this Realm of Nature cannot suffer the human form within
within Nature; he cannot, as a human being, contact this world.
the substances of Nature and transform them? Who am I? This is the second
Nature which man represents to himself through them. He develops sensations
the same with every single thing of external Nature in relation to the
the whole of Nature is reflected. Yet he has only fleeting pictures
one hand, man remains outside Nature. This becomes clear to him at the
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the purpose and nature of Anthroposophy from numerous perspectives. Most
important, Steiner tried to reveal the esoteric nature of Anthroposophy
of our human condition, especially our inner nature. He encourages the
these destroy it. The action of external Nature upon the human physical
Nature can only destroy.
between the human physical body and Nature. In the first place, the
substances of external nature, or, at least, needs to take them in.
nature, as the external world; it transforms what it takes in, and then
human organism that is, at first, similar to external nature and, on
we can say nothing at all about the relation of man to external nature.
We might put it this way: Though external physical nature does destroy
‘get even’ with Nature. He dissolves everything he receives
find no relationship to external nature, for this is destroyed by them.
relation to the form man bears into physical life, Nature is a destroyer;
in regard to what man casts off, Nature receives what the human organism
unlike itself and to resemble external Nature very much. It does this
of the different kingdoms of Nature. They are, today, just what they
of Nature has only gradually become what it is. And when we look at
present physical Nature. In other words: If you think of a beginning
we look at external Nature today and see that it was once something
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the purpose and nature of Anthroposophy from numerous perspectives. Most
important, Steiner tried to reveal the esoteric nature of Anthroposophy
of our human condition, especially our inner nature. He encourages the
human nature.
Anthroposophy we learn to think in accordance with Nature. This men
there is no sense in merely speaking of abstract laws of Nature. These
only arrive at laws of nature by calculations. They are good for technical
of Nature, as calculated by astronomers for the heavens, are like insurance
speaking, actual events have nothing at all to do with the laws of Nature.

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the purpose and nature of Anthroposophy from numerous perspectives. Most
important, Steiner tried to reveal the esoteric nature of Anthroposophy
of our human condition, especially our inner nature. He encourages the
from the side of Nature, and from the side of inner experience.
external Nature, on receiving it, has not the power to do anything else
forces of Nature which you can make the subject of any scientific study
us to say: We look at Nature around us in so far it is intelligible.
indeed, for we have discovered so many laws of Nature. This talk of
that all these laws of Nature are, by their mode of operation, only
Nature which destroy man.
deduce moral laws from Nature however far we may explore it. They have
different from the world of Nature.
bodily being, but it belongs to Nature that can only destroy it; and,
is certainly not a product of Nature, which has only the power to destroy
Nature which can, however, only destroy it.
in the very least influence an external process of nature by our
of nature; I feel inwardly, but very dimly, the tensions of my muscles,
supports us, and the various kingdoms of Nature provide the substances
it needs. We know that we are connected with terrestrial Nature in this
various kingdoms of Nature. But with strengthened thinking I begin to
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the purpose and nature of Anthroposophy from numerous perspectives. Most
important, Steiner tried to reveal the esoteric nature of Anthroposophy
of our human condition, especially our inner nature. He encourages the
Nature, but is subject to destruction. Thus we can say that, in the
entering space, beings of a psycho-spiritual nature just as man, in
the presence of the higher worlds in external Nature. In the case of
the warmth of our nature, with all our inwardness of heart and mind;
human nature.
It cannot be found by merely studying the present world of Nature and
if you study the present world of Nature, you may say: Well, there outside
is Nature; man takes in its substances and builds up his organism —
Nature, being compounded of certain of its substances. Good! But you
accordance with them! How, I would ask, can a portion of Nature do
Nature and from spiritual to physical Nature again. We cannot understand
i.e. what is of like nature with the ego. In this way we see the
physical, bodily nature. For spiritual perception the past is continually

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the purpose and nature of Anthroposophy from numerous perspectives. Most
important, Steiner tried to reveal the esoteric nature of Anthroposophy
of our human condition, especially our inner nature. He encourages the
a corpse. It is then taken over by external, earthly Nature and destroyed.
this in no other way. We recognise its essential nature, inasmuch as
process, just as we perceive external processes of Nature during earthly
a two-fold way: on the one hand, in regard to external Nature which,
O Nature, canst only destroy my physical body.

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the purpose and nature of Anthroposophy from numerous perspectives. Most
important, Steiner tried to reveal the esoteric nature of Anthroposophy
of our human condition, especially our inner nature. He encourages the
that the pictures derive their whole character chiefly from the nature
will-nature. On the other hand, a man who dreams his life almost as
secrets of human nature. If you study a man as he acts in life and learn
what lives and weaves in human nature, so distort it all. From what
way, we can perceive and understand so much of the essential nature

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the purpose and nature of Anthroposophy from numerous perspectives. Most
important, Steiner tried to reveal the esoteric nature of Anthroposophy
of our human condition, especially our inner nature. He encourages the
to the other kingdoms of Nature, has another side. Let us assume that
to judge him. He is above the other kingdoms of Nature.
the inferior kingdoms of Nature, but kingdoms of the spiritual world

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the purpose and nature of Anthroposophy from numerous perspectives. Most
important, Steiner tried to reveal the esoteric nature of Anthroposophy
of our human condition, especially our inner nature. He encourages the
something in the external realm of Nature — let us say, with a
the ordinary kingdoms of external Nature — mineral, plant and
external kingdoms of Nature, so now, with spiritual beings of different

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life of nature, in the natural order, everyone to-day recognises
nature — the animal, plant and mineral kingdoms. As soon as we
lower members of man's nature (let us call them that) as they
same nature as all the forces that bestow on earthly man his form. It
so, when these members of man's nature are observed without the
nature there are certain spiritual
does not strive after this consciousness through nature but by going
beyond nature (we go beyond nature when, for example, we acquire
to follow our original nature, in accordance with the evolutionary
nature produces a certain lack of interest in other people. And if we
endless amount. And a genuine interest in the real nature of man has
in us, if it prevents us from being tolerant towards human nature in
individual man in accordance with his nature and spirit, then we
in man's nature, often subtle impulses, the Ahrimanic fortes mingle.
readily make his presence known; he sets his nature to work in man's
parts of man's nature, in his subconscious; he strives to reach his
the nature of man. In the course of human thought what a vast number
of man, are of a Luciferic nature; dreams of world power derived from
healthy social impulses, is of an Ahrimanic nature. The man of whom
to ask: Of what nature are such forces as the Ahrimanic and Luciferic
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the higher Hierarchies who belong to man's original nature, and also
hand, the Greek nature is highly susceptible to the forces of
it had adapted itself to the nature of man. Whereas in earlier times
concepts, and thereby was adapted to the human nature of that time.
thoroughly abstract nature of the Romans. We have now to ask: What
only about nature, not about himself. And he would gradually have
of it; they had to receive something of a spiritual nature, and at
only in himself? Luciferic natures take very little interest in their
of the nature of spirit, but that to believe in the spirit is heresy.

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by their nature be of the kind that cannot be substantiated through
written out of the primal nature and being of man, but with the
in the kingdom of nature. It is just on this account that He has been
are of a spiritual nature.
nature only when we omit death, and omit also inherited
Under the guidance of nature itself this faculty is driven to
truth, it would have to separate off from nature a picture of human
of nature. Inherited characteristics and death have no place in
nature.
with nature. The Semitic peoples looked upon inherited
nature, seeing it as the direct working of Jahve — for as long,
little success — sought to grasp something in the nature of man
the phenomena of nature, and it was thought to be a natural
among the phenomena of nature was so potent that it led irresistibly
of nature that this great evil originated — the placing of
death, to something of a super-sensible nature that opposes death. And
serves to understand nature; for by introducing birth and death into
and the comprehension of nature. And what is the consequence?
world; but it is an error to identify ourselves with physical nature
whereas they are not. Only by refusing to believe in a nature that
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world that interests people but the world of nature. The ability of
modern men to form conceptions about nature makes them feel
have in our outlook on nature.
we form conceptions about nature. But when we take this whole world
of conceptions about nature and test it, test it without
nature. There are, as people say, limits to our knowledge of nature.
This natural science is meant to treat of nature; it is meant in a
certain sense to bring home nature to modern consciousness in a
which to-day are formed about nature in the most learned way, we
facts of nature. For what modern men conceive as natural science is
related to nature as a ghost is related to reality. It was indeed
ghosts — not conceptions of nature but only of ghosts of
nature. And as our forefathers were preceded by their own remote
through them. If we are deceived by the ghostly nature of natural
ghostly conceptions we are still able to perceive nature, for nature
arise, will not ask the spirit, they will only ask nature: What is the
nature of man? What kind of driving forces are there in human nature?
how in these days men are willing only to question nature — and
of nature they can know only its ghost. Hence the reality becomes
I have led you to see how it is that men form ghostly conceptions of nature,
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were trying to describe in accordance with its inner nature an extraordinarily
its essential nature forms the greatest imaginable contrast to all
I explained to you how the knowledge of nature — of which modern man
nature, but only its ghost. What men know of nature is not the truth;
it is a ghost, and related to the reality of nature in the same way
the ghostly nature of their knowledge, nor are they aware that what
really striving for in, let us say, his knowledge of nature, and how
pursues a ghostly knowledge, for he forms conceptions about nature
ghostly knowledge of nature and why is he so proud and overbearing
the ghost of nature, we feel impelled to press on to the true reality
behind the ghost; then we want to have nature in her reality. We
it then has conceptions about real nature. It goes on to invent all
found courage enough to say: “You want a concept of nature, not
the ghost of nature? Then you must press on to the reality.”
in nature — but then we find Ahriman. And our knowledge of the
first, the nature of birth and death. We have said a good deal about
Father Rhine. And this is no less true of our own bodily nature. This
bodily nature of ours is a continuously running stream: a destroying
the whole truth about nature; it gives only a ghost. There is no
nature's ghost and not of nature's reality. But we have to get
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above all of a twofold nature. First, there was the wish to preserve
nature, though not in rhetoric, and the Roman rhetoricians, among
True Nature of the Second Coming.
healthy enough by nature to be shielded from stepping over into
to see in the whole of nature herself something sacramental —
to see all nature as an expression of the divine-spiritual World-Order.
forms. To see in forms the signature of the Divine in the world, but
of the world through the great and powerful phenomena of nature. I
all the phenomena of nature, and these will thereby reveal to men
contemplation of nature in this light there will spring a feeling for
the divine element in nature, if we draw upon the power of Christ in
our knowledge of nature, then we shall carry into the rules of
to look upon nature around us as permeated by Christ, if we are
mankind; and this must be recognised in the very nature of its

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Naturerscheinungen nachdenken, die sie unmittelbar im Alltag

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problematische Naturen sind, Woher kommt das? Das kommt davon,

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Gegenwart sind eigentlich problematische Naturen. Wie viele
in der Gegenwart viele gebrochene Naturen, und uns selber kommt

Title: Thomas Aquinas: Lecture I: Thomas and Augustine
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to take note that to-day's address is more in the nature of an
introduction, that we shall deal to-morrow with the real nature
the soul if we can understand in detail the particular nature
nature of what man can recognize as truth, supporting him,
good? How can you explain the pricks of evil in human nature
springs from the deepest depths of human nature, which is not
nature of man, and takes place in human life, namely,
look up to, something which was fundamental to human nature. He
nature of things in us were mistaken, for we are not
Thales to Hamerling was, I may well say, good-nature incarnate.
nature from the observation of the senses, Plotinus said
finally brought him to say: “The nature of the world
which Plotinus sought at first in the nature of the idea-world
book on the divisions and classification of Nature in which we
spiritual which is free from material nature, but which, again,
to “being?” How so the nature of the

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nature. In the same way out of the depth of the whole great
the nature of what I have described to you as Augustinism. One
all those things their perfections, their nature; he must
important presentation of human nature which is derived from a
Plotinus considers human nature with its physical and psychic
nature something which brings together into a unity the
what I called the general logical nature of Albertinism and
Thomism. And this logical nature consisted in this: with our
to a certain point into the spiritual nature of things, but

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outer world and take upon itself something of its nature. And
yet been directed to external nature. At that time there was no
Nature-Knowledge and soon afterwards on the seven
nature, space and time, as well as universal ideas. He says:
thought upward to the spiritual world. What we see as Nature
the veil of Nature there are in truth not material atoms, but
the basis of this knowledge-theory of the nature of reality, of this
nature of the principle of growth. Certainly one can become a
strengthens us, and has something to do with our nature, just
eat it must not affect the explanation of the nature of plant
ideas in our human nature. Here we come to the reality of that
in the same way as the problem of the nature of wheat would be
revelation-content of Nature. Here we cannot rest on dogma.

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We see nature around us, and we see also that man enters
into his physical existence through the forces of this same nature.
regard nature if we only pay attention to its external physical
aware of our origin from nature in the true sense of the word when we
we perceive the Father principle of nature. All that permeates nature
nature as the origin of all ‘becoming,’ then we are at
remains something inexplicable as regards the nature of man as long
forces of nature, the second time reborn through the forces of Christ
man's origin through the forces of nature and which is connected with
perception of external nature. This perception of external nature
For just as truly as that which reveals itself in the deepest nature
deepen our external perception of nature through what the heart can
develop as spiritual perception of nature. We must learn once again
the result of all our observation of nature, words that proclaim
will.” The time must come when our observation of nature sets
observation of nature must be irradiated by such life so that the
whole of nature utters what was uttered by the Angel: “The
as we must, once more, listen outwards into nature and hear the
Angels singing as it were from external nature, so must we be able
astronomy, a solution of the world riddle, out of the inner nature of
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Title: Search for the New Isis: Lecture II: The Quest for Isis-Sophia
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sphere of man's evolution and what takes place in nature, and a
certain understanding of this link between life in nature and
the eternal, not the transitory nature of this event — that
world-picture; he only allows the laws of nature, the necessary and

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transformed into our modern knowledge of nature; what he had seen
view of nature; and out of what the Magi from the East brought to
mysteries of the souls of men and of the nature of the animals were
narrated in the New Testament when we try to fathom the nature

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closely connected with the forces of nature, they were united in
highlands, if we want really to understand the nature of these
inner nature was not reached. Only the sheath around man was there.

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Here we see how something of a moral nature is the outcome of a quite
completely into our bodily nature. These senses we perceive altogether
cannot approach the real nature of processes if one thus pursues
nature in it, for it originates from that in us wherein we ourselves
organ of so specific a nature, but this does not justify us in

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higher nature, within which we have responsibility, to that other
to a formula. The argument as to whether the Son is of the same nature
and being as the Father, or of a different nature and being, is
more to the observation of external nature, until in the nineteenth
of the Anglo-American nature, of western culture.
laws. All that exists of a more traditional nature, and belongs to
upper man) has, as regards its real nature, faded away into belief.
Those people have never made themselves acquainted with the nature of
they are now applied to the observation of external nature, and it can

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THIS cleft in human nature of which I have been speaking also finds
as belonging by their very nature to the life of both soul and body.
nature itself. To do this one needs an opportunity of watching how the
he was describing something of a soul-nature —
of recognising these very subtle differences in human nature.
the Goetheanum last autumn. [* Grenzen der Naturerkenntnis,
appears to us as of a soul-spiritual nature, and on the other hand,
up with the bodily nature, and which on the other hand we can grasp,
moral constitution of his soul and the causality of nature is not a
nature. It seems as if we are powerless, as if we must feel ourselves
in human nature. The man who has little idea of how deeply such a
inmost nature is a misfortune. Confronted by the conflict between
an actual process in human nature. We are not here merely in order,
outer nature. We men really dissolve natural causality within

Title: Driving Force: Lecture I
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deeply hidden in the bodily nature there are also corporeal
sleeping soul tries by its very nature to establish

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to the abstract forces of Nature — which are the only
material life, we call the kingdoms of Nature. We speak of
the three kingdoms of Nature — mineral, plant and
body he is connected with the physical forces of Nature.
the three visible kingdoms of nature and their forces. When
nature. These beings of the elemental kingdoms indwell as it
nature.
the physical world man takes from the kingdoms of nature the
the kingdoms of nature around him but also gazes out into the
which Nature creates and of which I am on the track. ...’
own through the outwardly visible nature-forces in the three
relationship to the three kingdoms of nature. Sleeping man,
to say upon his animal nature, and then he sometimes becomes
heart and mind that in the nature outside in which we live as
substances of nature. Men worked in their laboratories
come to the help of a nature-process in man, so that a
human nature today is in many respects much too weak-spirited

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and awakening, only the nature of this world is quite
it were submerged itself in man's inner nature, so that in
body. He interweaves musical and bodily nature. That is why
enter human consciousness, for otherwise man's soul-nature

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only, because they are by nature super-sensible, he is not
persists in nature-knowledge and can be observed in the
they could already have been Archai. That is the nature of
nature of man is very strongly affected by the incursion of
himself to the nature-forces. With the activities of his soul

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to the contemplation of external Nature and just as we
child must first develop his physical nature, must first lay
nature of man.
existence on Earth, and of the manifestations of nature on
nature-order, that this natureorder also plays into man's own
see on the one hand the system of cosmic laws of nature to
is urged, in his capacity as a being arising out of nature,
everything of the nature of soul and Spirit will have become
way as processes of Nature are there; they must therefore
Nature.
nature but out of the blood, out of what comes from the
circumstances but in this way he gets to know its nature
real nature of a camel? The individual who has made
nature of a camel he can still gather the important points
nature revolts against this attitude — thank God, we
things, but the child's nature revolts against it; youth

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The loss of nature-bestowed, living
real nature of human thinking. In the present age, since the
have no aptitude for understanding the living nature of the
hope somehow to grasp the nature of life too, merely by
question arises: If we want to understand Nature, if we want
understands the real nature of the senses the remarkable fact
fully with man's nature when his thinking was full of life?
in touch with the living nature of the sense-world. When he
could also grasp the essential nature of the world of the
perceive for yourselves that Nature everywhere tends to

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persisting in us as a residue of the living nature of the
nature in general. At that time, if anyone had come to them
nature — to such an Indian it would have seemed highly
come to understand human nature as it was in the second
impulses of this nature lie at the very roots of the
Earth-element only. However, the nature of man himself is
nature there is science; but philosophy must extend to the

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Man and Nature, or, Man's Inner Being and the Earth's Future.
something — but our entire human nature has to turn to

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Promotes Materialism, and the second is, Man and Nature, or, Man's Inner
hypothetically - thus we imagine that that is nature without the
human being. Here, in this entire nature, without the human
understood! In this nature devoid of humans the gods do not
it is in the past. In that we look out upon the nature, we look
surrounds man as nature is the remainder of a divine spiritual
hypothetical outer nature, you can now ask yourself: indeed,
entire outer nature, and then imagine a future of several
outside circle is nature, and the smaller one within it is man,
then, in the future nature will be shattered and disbursed (shown
surroundings, the nature itself.
the dead nature with the dead concepts in a remarkable way. But
beings who constitute the highest kingdom of nature there, is the
us is transitory outer nature, for it today represents only a

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Naturerkenntnis für den Gott, denn der Gott sei eben das

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series entitled, Living Knowledge of Nature, the Fall of the Intellect into Sin,
the Spiritual Resurrection, published in German as, Lebendiges Naturerkennen,
Living Knowledge of Nature, the Fall of the Intellect into Sin, the Spiritual Resurrection,
Lebendiges Naturerkennen, Intellektueller Suendenfall und Spirituelle Suendenerhebung.
how Man himself was lost for human nature, for human
for a knowledge of man's nature, but that it was impossible for
alienation of man's nature — any talk or an alienation of
man's nature — ceased to have any sense, because the
cosmos. The Greek had no idea of that concept of nature which
came about later, that concept of nature which finally
culminated in the seizing of the mechanism of nature. One might
distinction between the rising and falling of water in Nature
incorrect: — “Nature, — or one may say, the
nature. You are asleep, we were awake.” That is what he
with reference to the grasping of his own human nature, man of
himself again in his human nature.
the secrets of nature, he must limit himself.” But
nature.”
knowledge of human nature. And our present humanity can find

Title: Human Soul/Evolution: Lecture I: The Human Soul in Relation to World Evolution
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at the heart of all the passing phenomena before me in Nature
yet akin to my innermost self? Is their nature such that they
nature in that it comes into being and again passes away.
convey. We experience their fleeting nature; they enter
processes of nature are external reality.
presented so far, we can say that the nature of our limbs and
the nature of our sense organs are also polar opposites. In the
essential nature of man's senses can perhaps best be recognized
Nature made our eye into an organ of sight as well as an organ
organ. When we experience the lung's etheric nature we must
become sense organs in their higher, etheric nature or even in
their more spiritual astral nature.
senses — when we are in a position to examine the nature
about the nature of man's life of soul and its relation to

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The True Nature of Memory - 1
We have now considered from a certain aspect the nature of
nature — that is, the source of his actions. To enable us
nature. They reveal themselves as objective entities; they
soul's nature.
taking into account his soul nature, then from one
and builds up the bodily nature ever anew, whereas that which
felt shattered right down into his bodily nature. The basic

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The True Nature of Memory - 2
and sleeping. Human nature itself can be divided
nature it is essential that we represent them vividly to
man's physical nature we shall never learn to know the soul. We
must have the goodwill to understand how human nature comes to

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dream-like, well up from our human nature. In short, we also
I say — the more aristocratic part of human nature. But
nature, then his feelings pass through his heart. Rays from the
passions; everything active in man's nature bursts forth
moon has a powerful influence on man's physical nature, the
higher sun has a powerful influence on his soul nature.
his nature. This was indicated in the case of especially
true nature of the human soul, insight is also gained into the
nature of the sun. Man has an impulse towards physical
connected with the spiritual world. Man's soul nature
have tried to describe the nature of the soul in

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every field such objective concepts concerning external nature
and dreamlike, yet far better able to enter into the nature of
external nature, we formulate faithful copies of her. Perhaps
hypothesis about the phenomena of nature. On the
within what nature conveys — and that we allow the
external nature, on the basis of Anthroposophy, it is
world view in recent times. When we utilize nature's laws in
similarly about all nature forces such as heat and light, etc.
turns to nature there is always the possibility of several
could participate. What is of a technical nature is quite
However, something of a very much more fundamental nature lies
witnesses, and experiences only forces of nature and not those
external to his nature.
external nature as something apart from himself and thus
nature. There is no choice but to adapt to this approach;
nature and in them no moral impulses are to be found;
beings. In the laws of nature there is only what applies to
of nature, because through his senses he can reach only natural
going out, when man leaves behind his bodily nature. This first
particular form of contempt for nature and to asceticism
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Title: Human Soul/Evolution: Lecture VI: The Formation of the Etheric and the Astral Heart
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puberty. What the child is told must be of such a nature that
nature of this etheric body. The etheric body which develops
physical actions which are judged according to laws of nature;

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sounds and so on. We seek for laws of nature prevailing in the
kingdoms of nature, the men of those times beheld spirit and
little understand the nature of man, especially that of man in
wind and weather, were dream-creations woven into nature by
and all surrounding nature. He felt the elements of nature
nature is lost. In its place man has acquired a strong feeling
the nature of humanity in ancient times; they have later fallen
world surrounded by nature. He felt carried back in memory to
human soul, immersed in the phenomena of nature, partakes of
thoughts into something of a musical nature. Meditation today
times in the nature of memory, whereas at the present time a
nature drew out of his organism.
nature. The first discovery, when such training of the will is
objective nature, and it is as if one had to fight one's

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external nature and the development of technology.
of the spiritual in all nature, but able to perceive it.
kingdoms of nature, in every star, in every moving cloud, in
identified himself with what his spirit-soul nature was able to
nature which external knowledge does not reach.
everything of a solid, earthen nature has as its foundation an
solid earthy nature. The outstanding characteristic of these
nature and must be psychoanalyzed to be brought up gain to

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Yet things were created of an exalted nature, uplifting to
assume that the physical nature of his body was the same and
life that is derived from his particular nature; but also, his
between falling asleep and waking, but his present nature
system the scene of their activity within his earthly nature.
However, as man does not completely forsake his earthly nature

Title: Philosophy, Cosmology and Religion: Lecture I: The Three Steps of Anthroposophy
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human organism as it is, directs it toward nature, and employs
nature. But the spiritual researcher, just because he is
must be rigorous in developing one's own human nature, so that
spiritual way arises out of the totality of man's nature, as
faculty. It is therefore the nature of this knowledge that it
into a soul-spiritual world. In regard to this astral nature of
his physical and etheric bodies and his astral nature —

Title: Philosophy, Cosmology and Religion: Lecture II: Soul Exercises in Thinking, Feeling, and Willing
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nature with the etheric weaving and pulsing in the cosmos, man
more exact insight into the nature of the human breathing
course of events in nature, you tear the will free from the
recognize a basic fact of human nature: how man, with his true
are included in this reflected nature. What man in his ordinary
etheric and astral elements in his nature and with his ego
something, becomes a reflection of objective nature. Only
objective natural science. Outer occurrences in nature could
own, the substance of the outer occurrences of nature

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etheric world. He feels this because the nature of his own
ideas and concepts. Man senses events of a universal nature in
existence. We also attain a view of the inner nature and form
essential nature of his experience, for it supposes that

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the eternal nature of the human soul's essence. When he has
true nature of the human ego, of spirit man. This latter is
consciousness, grasp the real nature of thinking and the
now I am to make clear how the real nature of man's earthly
man was. When we now make a study of its essential nature, we
living man who produced it. Nature, to which we surrender the
inspired consciousness the essential nature of the
to their living nature, which is to be found nowhere within
its source in something else, which is its true nature. This is
nature that it is cognitive evidence of the state of the human
true nature of our ordinary thinking, we can also, by means of
releasing his own soul-spiritual nature from his physical as
Having thus come to know the true nature of the eternal core of
nature out of itself, I may conclude that its real nature comes
something that in its very nature has withered away. This is
upon such an existence and cannot perceive its nature, it can
concerning the soul's eternal nature must rely only on
these organisms, the soul-spiritual nature of man is not merely
penetrating to the true nature of the soul, you will understand
nature but can encompass the whole being of man, reaching
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nature.
find the order of nature with its own systems of laws but
soul-spiritual and physical-etheric natures are linked is

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possible for man to experience the cosmos in his inner nature,
inner nature. In cosmic experience — as it occurs in
nature a reflection of cosmic beings. Thus, even in the state
physical body exists in man's astral and ego nature. This is
within him. He feels his soul nature spread out far across this
of an inspiring and blissful nature. Truly, nothing small and
himself how this soul nature places itself here in earthly
nature is kindled during the last stage of sleep as I have
nature and is in this respect an etheric cosmos. Out of the

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order to comprehend the actual nature of this Mystery, we
presently. Such a being's inner nature would of course have to
existence and of his own external nature. He realized that
recognize his eternal nature, to recede. But that Being, Who
Jesus and thus the nature of the Mystery of Golgotha. The path
into another world. Something of this nature may exist —
of mankind. In this way, the nature of that cosmology, which I

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nature remains as it was because the ordinary human being
own life's course, he also understands the nature of ordinary
unity of the physical and soul nature at age nine or ten. He
nature by means of such perception. You realize that visionary
When a person is awake, his soul-spiritual nature is within his
once man has succeeded in perceiving the true nature of his own
Through intuition one can now discern the nature of this
nature. We can tell by its nature how it is born to a new
eternal nature of the soul life that was experienced by earth

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its cosmic nature, as it were, since it is only loosely
man's inner nature, which developed along with the physical
processes of nature. We do not distinguish between
“good” or “bad” in nature, everything
nature is a reflection of a cosmic process, and that cosmic
in outer nature — an element which, because of human
neutral inasmuch as nature is a reflection of the cosmos. A
future world will arise out of ours whose nature in its
no longer will have a merely neutral image in nature but
amoral reflection in physical nature, will through the lives of
assumed a human nature in the body of Jesus of Nazareth, and

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The Experience of the Soul's Will Nature
X - The Experience of the Soul's Will Nature
much looser way, the will nature of the soul is connected with
When we examine how the nature of the thinking-soul is
willing-soul, the soul's nature always remains soul-spiritual,
will nature of the soul.
in the will nature of the soul, man longs, as it were, to be
this will nature into depths, into substrata of the human soul
moral-spiritual nature of man takes place in the feeling-soul.
nature, actually build up an inner entity of man — it is
something lasting is contained in this will nature of the
moral-spiritual nature of man, unites with this tendency. Thus,
Now, if we gain insight into the various kingdoms of nature
nature. The connection between medicines and an illness
healing process with the nature of the sickness. In place of a
life appears directly after death in its inner nature in the
burdened with this being. His nature is then composed of what

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this way we can form an idea of the nature of perception and

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his clairvoyance, simply from the nature of his organism. In

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entitled, The inner Nature of Man and Life between Death and a
as its form. And then we can look at external nature around us
investigators face the things of external nature just as if one
This is how ordinary men investigate external nature. But we
the whole of external nature, not in the ordinary way but as
of outer nature. It requires further insight and study not to
eagle-nature, something that is striving upwards into the
external nature. In the soaring eagle I see something
equilibrium by the eagle nature in man. I feel how the bull
nature is also in man, but it does not express itself in the
same way as in the bull itself. The bull nature- is seen to be
a physiognomic expression. So, too, is it with the lion nature
lion in external nature. In this way we can look at the whole
physiognomy of nature is the animal world.
through the physiognomy as such. Again, in external nature we
Thus, we can say: The plant world is the mien of nature. And
as we can call the animal world the physiognomy of nature, the
plant world the mien of nature, so we can now see the forms of
the mineral world as the gestures of nature. And to one who is
diverse gestures of the spiritual Beings behind nature.

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nature. We cannot find the Archai if we remain in the
sign-nature. What is meant by this?
sign-nature. I can do it only very briefly and must leave it to
to the body, as it were from outside, by external Nature. How

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they ran on in us in the way nature works. The conceptual life
would be like something happening outside in nature, taking
the material nature of thinking, of the conceptual faculty; we

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human work, and human feeling consists in this building being able through its objective nature
very nature of the matter, that man has landed himself in the present terrible situation by
impartially. Spiritual Science demands from men actual proof of the concrete nature of every
in educational matters were of a thoroughly luciferic nature. Ambition and vanity were counted on
ahrimanic in human nature. If ever the fruits of these ability tests are to come to anything,

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meant to represent something of a soul and spirit nature as we do of anything that in a
what might be called the one pole of man's spirit-and-soul nature. We get the other pole when we
be a most imperfect, chaotic seething upheaval in man's inner nature — something that
concepts, we should become loveless beings, empty of love, with dry, stony natures. Nothing, in
boundaries of human nature. The boundary towards within, corresponds to the power of memory; what
power of love, and whet lies beyond this zone corresponds to what is of the nature of
soul-and-spirit in the universe. The unconscious part of man's nature lies beyond this zone as
unconscious is on that account very closely connected with the bodily nature of man, with his
closely related to the bodily nature; it permeates the bodily nature. The bodily nature is united

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the of our knowledge of nature.
come when out of the depths of human nature whet I described to you yesterday as something
possession; demonic natures speak, giving out indeed grandiose secrets of the future, secrets
normal in the course of man's evolution between the human soul and that bodily nature that is to
will be found on earth. The culture of the soul will be deepened, what is of a bodily nature will
coarsen. A more inward connection with this bodily nature then is normal is, however, striven for
culture at present there is something of a sleepy nature about the very impulses everywhere

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logical-dialectical-legal one. The Orient had nothing of a logical, dialectical nature and, least
the human being by virtue of having clothed his soul-and-spirit nature with a physical and
the nature of this experience, which arises through the fact that one is submerged with one's
soul-and-spirit nature in a physical body, comes the inner comprehension of the 'I'. This is why
of nature and cannot come to terms with it. Knowledge of
nature, for him, breaks down into subjective views
categories, in his perceptions of time and space, would like to encompass all nature through the
nature.
to fail, for this was not what, by nature, was, endowed to
Grenzen der Naturerkenntnis
(Limits to a Knowledge of Nature

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has taken on fully the nature of a philosophy. What in the West are economic impulses leading to
economic nature; purely economic aspirations can have no success in the Centre because all
nature of Anglo-Saxondom, was the foundation for the world dominion of the Anglo-Saxon. The
the metabolic system of these Western human beings. Of the three members of the human nature they
certain sects are of this nature, and the overwhelming majority of a very widespread sect that
system and in the sensory-nervous system. There are in fact three kinds of beings of this nature
The second kind of spirits of this nature are those
with the elemental nature of the ground of the earth, of the climate and so on, the second kind
West, but this being works into his soul nature; these beings, as it were, appear to him. Whereas

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spiritual life is, in fact, completely decadent. This spiritual life is of such a nature that it
which can only be characterized by saying: Human beings of Germanic nature penetrated into the
grown into what, embodied in the language, has streamed up to it there. For it lay in the nature
long as it is bound together with the human being. This is connected with the whole nature of the
in their true nature we can say: When they were awake there was working in them something of the
find logical dialectics as the first part of his philosophy. His philosophy of nature is merely a
it is all permeated with coquetry, one nevertheless sees how the whole nature of his existence
that of Nature and that of Reason — points clearly to this duality. But one can point to
The nature of what is developing in the West is
worlds into human beings — this he understands well. Through the nature of what is spoken
by nature not the slightest understanding for what one must refer to as the relation of the

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senses, to the world of instincts, of desires, he is given over to his bodily-physical nature and
[the inner nature of]
artistic nature, but in the 1780s and the beginning of the 1790s he was strongly influenced by
human being. If one wishes to look at the richly differentiated inner nature of the human being,
nature,
that we must find through spiritual science concerning the threefold nature of the human being as
from imagination to inspiration, but an inspiration which they attained by means of outer nature.
inspiration, however, that does not call upon outer nature in oracles but which rises to the
become Goetheanists feel how, in the very nature of German Central Europe, this singular working
imbues itself with reality only with great difficulty. It was this semblance-nature of Central
German. And he describes this further as 'Always the same way in our nature to oppose where we
And the illusionary nature of this remark by Herman

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different nature of humanity's interests before this historical turning-point, nor the interests
faculties in his soul which enabled him to achieve a relationship to nature — a
relationship to what was revealed in nature as spirit — and thereby also to achieve a
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
nature. People felt themselves to be in the realm of knowledge when gods spoke through the
phenomena of nature; when gods spoke through the appearance and movements of the stars. This is
spiritual in the manifestations of nature, the concept of knowledge itself also fell more or less
become more and more general. Nature's manifestations spoke to ancient human beings in such a way
every plant. In the way people came to know the manifestations and beings of nature they also
manifestations of nature. For the intellect they are silent. For higher, super-sensible knowledge
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
spiritual appeared to the human being through nature. In our transitional condition we have the
intellect. Nature remains spiritless. The human being will lift himself up to a condition where
he can again truly know; where, indeed, nature will no longer speak to him of divine-spiritual
in turn, be able to relate this to nature.
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
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truth, of the genuine nature, of the Mystery of Golgotha. What St Paul was able to relate out of
where, as I related yesterday, there was still a nature-based economy. Central European
inborn faculties of such a nature that they were able to come to this instinctive perception. Out
dispute it. When the conflict over the nature of the Last Supper arose in the Middle Ages the
whole human nature during the ancient oriental culture. Those who worked out of the Mysteries
-for human life in general that goes over and beyond the immediate elementary affairs of nature

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anything to say about the real nature of man.
animal-element in man appears in a modified form, the extent to which the animal-nature in man
learn of nature, the less we understand of ourselves, the less we understand of the human
feel what his real nature is. While on the one hand we have more and more demands of a practical
being's own nature. Such a discrepancy in human experience would have been quite impossible in
When one no longer strives to fathom one's nature as a human being and to fashion the social
structure in such a way that this human nature can be at home in it; and when one strives,
could easily be added. Thus we see on all sides how man has lost insight into the true nature of
the limitations of natural science and directs his soul's gaze upon its own nature. He will have
nature that, during the period of earth-existence, they cannot emerge fully. These states of
its inner nature, grows beyond what I can be as earthly man. As earthly man I am forced, in a
of course, symbolically — the human being will ask: 'Who can decipher for me my nature as a

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significance for the inner nature of things as eating is for the continuing
they are eaten has nothing at all to do with their inner nature. Just as

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The nature of the
their inner nature, but must be content with the outer fact. Very
significance for the various kingdoms of nature, — for instance,

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took pains to understand Nature around them. And so we can say that
according to the saga, a threefold divine nature flowed into man. It
must be something of a soul-nature that the Gods have laid within
that in the human soul a threefold nature lives, that the Gods have
germinated in their inner soul nature, that filled it through and
was direct experience. This soul nature was destined to be radically
by those who, through their whole nature and being, have not been

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it in direct connection with a consideration of the nature of man. We
inner etheric nature, and founds a Jesus-ology, a science of Jesus;
b) has little interest in the direct connection of man's inner nature

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before we are born and belongs to the forming forces of our nature.
there people have not a genuine consciousness of the living nature of
again, but in their feeling, in their inner nature, they preserved a
inwardly alive. They want to keep it of a Moon-nature, cut off from
is who tells us how the earth has originated, the nature of the human
indicates, how it is connected with the Christ-nature and the
Jahve-nature. It is a continuous revelation of the Christ to allot
thinking: In all that takes place there is something of the nature of
They did not yet feel the deeper nature of these teachings, but what

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connected only with this inner nature.
and willing of ours to our inner nature.
the inner nature — as he calls them: all higher
nature of that which he must undergo during the Earth-evolution? I
conceiving and thinking in the right way with human nature. This they
which live in our inner nature. If he were not to shut us off like
external through our inner nature. That has been destroyed for us
through those Luciferic spirits who have an archangel nature and who
sun-nature into the evolution of mankind. This cosmic Sun-nature came
with the Sun-nature outside the earth realm, and what the cosmos is
here again we encounter a fact of such a nature that it is
breaking in pieces. And so it is with the whole of outer nature.
from the concept of ‘inanimate nature’
to the concept of ‘Nature that has
to grasp this actively, and look upon Nature as a corpse, then we
there, my dear friends, a way open: how the cosmic, the sun-nature
comes again into our whole human race, how again the sun-nature, lost
head&'s inner nature, one might say, is hidden. If
lower nature — disregarding the intellect -solely
instincts that live in his lower nature, for manifesting himself in
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nature; real processes are going on which are dependent on the
soul from his bodily nature, to adapt himself to the new
determines the essential nature of earth existence, that a 'red' is
one really gets the truly living idea that the human soul nature is
Nature. I say 'the tragedy of the world of
nature.’™ We really take from a whole world,
human soul that is really sensitive to nature: that there, in the
background of Nature, lies something which she must continually
submit to; namely, that man contests Nature, who will give all to
And now consider with full human feeling this gainsaying of Nature,
Nature how something is taken away from her. And it is taken away
the thought that he wants to have for himself what Nature wishes to
Nature when she says: Protect myself as I will, world evolution has
been turned away from everything of a sense nature. One could feel
thee) the whole mystery of Nature, who wants to protect herself from
home.’ She, Nature, would like to do with all her objects
shares in the tragedy of Nature.
thou must think of me eternally); he must think of Nature forever,
representative of the whole of Nature — every
Again as the representative of the whole of Nature.
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be sure, the lower sense are more of a chemical nature, but
). This physical nature of the sense-organs can be
happenings, but mixes his nature into them.
the Sun. The thought nature, as we men can grasp it, comes from the

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more of the nature of inspiration, removed altogether from the
teaching founded upon the nature of the Father God. When we
man are of the nature of the forces of the Earth. This is not
colder zones. The bodily nature and the forces working in the
On the Division of Nature. He himself no longer
put it in these words: In Nature, in the created world around
him, man gazed upon the region of the Father God. Behind Nature
in nature; and in the succession of the generations, in the
namely the Nature Spirits. The minds of men during the first
obliged to wage perpetual warfare against the Nature Spirits
distinguish him from the Nature Spirits. What these men of old
combined with the kingdom of Nature. It was from this
Nature Gods are working in Nature but at a certain stage they
Nature Spirits, nor from the Father God who worked creatively
Nature Spirits, but from the Son, from the Logos whom the
knowledge derived by the ancients from Nature, but in the
things of Nature; now they have been released and are whirling
longer be derived from the source of Nature. The question now
is to say, as the Earth is Nature. I have reminded you many
Nature. But the ruins of antiquity are forever with us. They

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what is of an imaginative nature. More and more, people sought
nature builds up the human countenance — making every
emphasizing asymmetry, that is, in containing something of a soul nature
“Is that in accordance with nature, is there something
like that in nature?” And if someone finds that nothing of
the sort exists in nature, he then considers what art portrays as having
In this respect, we cannot keep up with nature, after all. Whatever is
addition to nature. It represents something new placed into this world.
that.” It lies in the nature of the modern human being that

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nature of ancient times is that no distinction was made between the
somewhat disrespectfully, were beings of a divine nature. For it was

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life, fully conscious of the illusionary nature of what was formerly
is necessary to admit. If we do realize all that, then human nature
nature of the times. You know that in the middle of the nineteenth

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threefold nature. It is just those whose favorable economic position

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Nature, although it glows to us as grand and powerful in tone
grandeur and greatness and power of nature. And the question
greatness and the sublimity of nature is, at first, spiritual
earthly civilization, and are implanted in his nature by that
course say that. We must first comprehend the nature and the

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lower nature. And here works most strongly what I previously
and what he is therefore capable of. Man's lower nature appears
force of nature, as you are to the movement of your limbs, also

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in us, what we ascribe to lower human nature, and which also

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nature. And we feel a deep chasm between our human nature and
the expansive nature around us.
when we look within ourselves, concerning an external nature
nature. We must stop saying to ourselves: Out there is nature,
external objects take on something foreign to their nature.
of the abyss which exists between himself and nature: something
age: Nature must appear as divine, and the human must be a
magical being. What does it mean, that nature must be able to
Nature must be able to appear as divine. The way it appears to
nature. It only appears to lack divinity. At most in dreams do
we see a relationship between nature and the inner life of man.
content to certain dreams. Dreams pull nature into the
must see how the awakened consciousness presents nature.
in nature, my dear friends, we have a relationship of the human
when he is approaching the spiritual - related to nature.
own nature and we live and act in it. Cold is foreign to us and
and recognize the spiritual nature of warmth - and we feel it
Threshold: nature, which was previously quietly outside us and
speak to us morally. Nature appears in the sun as a tempter.
aware of the true nature of thinking. Therefore we should

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gets to know the world by observing the kingdoms of nature
of nature in the outside world. But as you know, my dear
friends, behind the kingdoms of nature we have what is called
them as we speak of the other beings of the nature-kingdoms,
toward the kingdoms of nature when we feel that we belong to
because we stand alone and the kingdoms of nature are beyond
its true elemental nature, does not make us human, it makes us
the danger exists that we sink into animal nature. And when we
have a dream-like nature, as I have often explained, our
will feel the vegetative nature of the life of feeling. And
aware of his relationship to the kingdoms of nature. Therefore,
animal nature, he seems like some kind of animal - at least in
kingdoms of nature if he wishes to be knowledgeable. How he
How he must be aware of his own plant nature and therewith the
his own mineral nature, his own stone nature, by virtue of his
kinship with the air-element, and therewith the nature of the
That has been the nature of all Mystery Schools, that in them
world. It must also remain the nature of the Mystery Schools.
nature and intentions of this spiritual school.

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made with my signature. I'm not going to do that - despite it
world, in the kingdoms of nature, see the colors and the
star, cloud on cloud, creatures of the kingdoms of nature which
feel this threefold nature above all when we observe

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here we have a most important secret of human nature.

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school of a completely different nature before she discovered
often been described as the threefold human nature: the
human nature — this I — has a relation to the
the rhythm of breathing which by its very nature reveals that

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It's a question of becoming enlightened concerning the true nature
hierarchies and not with external nature. For what we can call
our I in external nature is only the distant echo of the I. The

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we associate with the beings of the three nature kingdoms and

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kingdoms of nature, much of what is derived from them being
be found in all the kingdoms of nature; that it cannot be
of nature here in the world of the senses.
standing among the three kingdoms of nature. We must also
kingdoms of nature. Just as we must learn to be physical
of nature. We belong to the three kingdoms of nature with our
etheric-physical nature. We belong to the three kingdoms of
three kingdoms of nature and to let them flow through us, to
kingdoms of nature.
three kingdoms of nature. And we learn as truly human to feel
so that we can stand in the realm of nature, but also in the
reality: from the side of nature and from the side of the

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belonging to the kingdoms of nature. We observe the glorious
find there what the inner nature of your being is. So you
nature of warmth resound from the choir-like words of the

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the true nature of the rainbow. All the thoughts thought by

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objectively pays attention to all the beings and events in nature
Something. And we call the Nothings the kingdoms of nature. That

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grows and exists and lives around us in the kingdoms of nature.

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then the third beast — created in its ghostly nature by
Guiding nature of your spirit.

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nature [Scheineswesen] that cannot bear our true Self; but how

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of all the kingdoms of nature and all the kingdoms of spirit to
path to world-knowledge. Thus, all the Beings of nature and of
which show the true nature of his present willing, feeling and
solid consistency — the nature of plants on earth —
Just as in all of nature a balance between light and darkness
behind us the gleaming colorful kingdoms of nature, to which we
wondrous sensory nature, nor is it what leads us to
we must learn to feel that our bodily nature — for it is
everything is of a fluid nature. Our own formative forces are

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enough, from all the kingdoms of nature and the hierarchies of
of nature, what on and from the earth lives and moves, what
look up to the heavenly heights; that to grasp the nature of
an idea of the nature of will we should look to the world's

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him from all the kingdoms of nature and from all the spiritual
being, the world in its true spiritual nature. They resound

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