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Title: Lecture: The Alphabet
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divine spiritual forces living within him. I also referred to how, in
spiritual world of poetry and entered into the prose of life.
external needs, but what the divine spiritual mystery of his being
birth, during his descent out of the divine spiritual world into what
during his descent out of the divine spiritual world. All the single
to speak it was felt how what was experienced in the divine spiritual
experience of Man's connection with the spiritual world in the
the spiritual cosmos. By being born on a particular day of the year we
it really to be hollow from the spiritual point of view.) In the
attempted in anthroposophical Spiritual Science. There is no need to

Title: Lecture: Soul and Spirit in the Human Physical Constitution
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blood by way of the warmth-organism — works as the spiritual
spirituality, our air organism by what may be called cosmic astrality
the cosmic spirituality which on waking we drive out through our Ego,
spirituality. It is the same with the cosmic astrality; we drive it
world, but also of his relation to the cosmic spirituality and to the
only. If we adhere to the principles of spiritual-scientific thinking
the body. It does not go downwards from the spiritual body
That Spiritual Science aims everywhere for wholeness of view, that it

Title: Lecture: The Moral as the Source of World-Creative Power
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remain in the physical but at the same time reach up to the spiritual.
of spiritual-scientific observation.
this tone, this spiritual tone, is not produced in the
by Spiritual Science inspires us to work for the sake of the future.
When we regard Spiritual Science itself as a source of the moral,
moral, and this enthusiasm, born of spiritual-scientific knowledge,
to solve this perplexing, fateful problem except spiritual-scientific
or of the fixed stars, they were speaking of spiritual beings.
physical, psychical and spiritual aspects — if we enquire how
Philosophy of Spiritual Activity
enthusiasm for true and genuine morality, for the spiritual moral
through lack of spirituality — spirituality conceived of here as
ray out a spiritual, sun-like force! This force rays out only to a
reflection of a spiritual reality in physical appearance.
the bitter hatred that is leveled against Spiritual Science, against
what Spiritual Science feels it a duty to bring to mankind at the
vision, not only of the physical but also of the spiritual that is
look only at the physical sun; but there is a spiritual Sun of which
desired that the connection of Christ, the spiritual Sun, with the
spread abroad. — But Spiritual Science is assuredly a matter of

Title: Lecture: The Path to Freedom and Love and their Significance in World Events
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between the moral-spiritual world-order and natural-physical
How, in reality, do we become inwardly more and more spiritual? —
in pursuit of sensations does not make us more spiritual. We become
more spiritual through the inner, will-permeated work we carry out in
spiritual we become. When we take in thoughts from the outer material
thinking becomes what I have called in my Philosophy of Spiritual
Philosophy of Spiritual Activity,
everything that can stream into man from the spiritual world has its
spirituality. Garrulous people, who are always opening their mouths in
the spiritual world. When he passes out of the spiritual world,
arises. Here we have — as if spiritually we could put our very
spiritual-scientific development. For here, to begin with, ordinary
have already indicated in my Philosophy of Spiritual Activity.
to a spiritual-scientific conception of the world, not to any other.
way to this unbiased, spiritual-scientific thinking. For in the
related to a truly progressive, spiritual-scientific development of

Title: Lecture: Search for the New Isis, the Divine Sophia: The Quest for the Isis-Sophia
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place in the moral-spiritual sphere of human evolution and what takes place
movements are images of the divine-spiritual existence of the world.
Spiritual Guidance of the Individual and Humanity) between the third and
center of the view found in the cultic rituals performed by the priests in
order to call up before our minds the spiritual connection between the
sense explained in that book we are permitted to point out a spiritual
being of the sun, the representative of the spiritual sun, is killed by
increasingly come to understand from a spiritual-scientific point of view
spiritual heights, united himself with the man Jesus of Nazareth, and from
the spiritual background of existence. External natural science is
Isis, and her discovery, made possible through the inner force of spiritual
then appear as monuments to the spiritual powers that weave with power
only if we experience in a unique way what is weaving with spiritual power
appear again in his spiritual form during the course of the twentieth
not properly understand what spiritual science is, then we will not be able
greeting which is at the same time an appeal to kindle spiritual science

Title: Evil and the Future of Man
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A part of Steiner's Lectures on Spiritual Essence and its Working,
period of the Spiritual Soul
evolution of mankind during the epoch of the Spiritual Soul, in which
Spiritual Science cannot take things so easily, treating all things in
is this: To endow man with the full faculty of the Spiritual Soul. You
instill, to implant into his evolution the faculty for the Spiritual
Soul. I say once more, the faculty for the Spiritual Soul —
not the Spiritual Soul itself.
the epoch of the Spiritual Soul this can be achieved only in full
of Spiritual Science. He alone thinks in accordance with the times who
founded on Spiritual Science. Only he who realises this, in all its
economics — arising on the basis of an unspiritual science — are
faculty of the Spiritual Soul.
able to evolve the Spiritual Soul, he would not be able to receive, —
pass through the Spiritual Soul if he wishes to absorb in his own way
this may be stated: He who crosses the threshold into the spiritual world
develop the conscious Spiritual Soul, their function is to call forth
in him the inclination to receive the spiritual life. In the great
experience the spiritual life through the conscious Spiritual Soul.
the Spiritual Soul, may break through into the spiritual life. If man
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Title: Lecture: The Human Heart
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Let us consider man in the spiritual world, long before he develops
embryo. What man brings with him from the spiritual world, having

Title: Lecture: The Invisible Man Within Us
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organization of the human being is spiritually prepared during the
preearthly life. In a certain sense it is then sent down as spiritual
existence. This spiritual organization continues to be active
visible. The outwardly visible aspect of this spiritual organization
The spiritual element's
his ego and astral organization — his soul-spiritual
soul-spiritual organization does not push its way into the physical
soul-spiritual cannot properly enter the organism. And because the
body refuses to take up the soul-spiritual, our goal must be to
person refuses to absorb the soul-spiritual. This night organization
a spiritual activity, enters an astral activity, then an etheric
activity, which is a purely spiritual activity. If what I have
the astral and ego activity, i.e., the soul and spiritual
are pushed back and the human being is benumbed by a spiritual
able to tolerate such a spiritual activity perhaps only in future
spiritual content of a substance we have absorbed. This can best be
substances that have drawn the spiritual, the astral, and the etheric
spiritual into everything material. And if anthroposophy really wants
able to pursue the spiritual into the material. As long as we merely
it into mere form), so that through it the spiritual

Title: Lecture: Outlooks for the Future
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From the lectures“Significant Facts Pertaining to the Spiritual Life of the Middle of the XIXth Century”
Significant Facts Pertaining to the Spiritual Life of the Middle of the XIXth Century.
Spiritual science seeks to
in regard to a conception of the world, who now declare: “Spiritual
and other etheric forms as well. These are the things which spiritual
all that we should take up spiritual science, so as to be prepared for
were inspired. We should begin to understand the spiritual world, the
world of spiritual science. The other things will then follow spontaneously.
But if we do not begin with spiritual science, we must face that time
number of those who open their eyes to the spiritual, the greater will
am the instrument through which that spiritual Being can exercise an
influence at the present time!” The spiritual world must more
Undoubtedly the spiritual
thoughts. Particularly the followers of the spiritual-scientific
of spiritual science, our meditative life will enable us to feel eternal,

Title: Lecture: Self Knowledge and the Christ Experience
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from the spiritual being which bore the essence of man. The view then was that
one only became spiritual man with the laying aside of the physical body.
Only after crossing the threshold of death did one become spiritual man

Title: Lecture: Social Understanding Through Spiritual Scientific Knowledge
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aspect of what is presented as idea. The spiritual quality of a world
among these — but the essential quality of a really spiritual world
include the whole of the imperceptible or spiritual realm, we must speak of
spiritual-scientifically that in everything working in the child up till the
chemical tests to do it. But through spiritual science we can know with
put to practical use by spiritual science. Because if you understand them
matter. That is why spiritual science is needed in actual life today,
because spiritual science is not merely for the head but is for the whole of
steer their thoughts in the direction of spiritual science. Different kinds of
thoughts are stimulated with spiritual science than without it.
You will not doubt this fact, for the way spiritual science is received by
that spiritual scientific thoughts are different from thoughts without
spiritual science. It is necessary to develop a totally new way of thinking.
although certain forces appear to be of a spiritual-soul nature, they also
spiritual level. Not until we are capable of bringing down onto a material
level what we think of as being spiritual shall we be able to grasp the

Title: Lecture: Spiritual Emptiness and Social Life
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A part of Steiner's Lectures on Spiritual Essence and its Working,
order, anthroposophical spiritual science is not actuated by any
non-political, a-political. If one desires to be a spiritual scientist
really brilliant spiritual movement which lasted from the time of
spiritual life. At the end of the lecture yesterday I spoke of a
to be understood in the spiritual sense. In telling this story I have
mention of the spiritual was to make a warding-off gesture with his
spiritual evolution of mankind, into art, into matters of universal
of how to think about the spiritual, about the spirit? It is just this
as one learns to apprehend it through anthroposophical spiritual
Goethe himself did not succeed in lifting to the level of spiritual
consciousness in a truly spiritual way what was spiritually alive in Goethe.
felt the need to meet the fundamental requirement of the spiritual
which has no innate disposition towards spirituality. For if men are
inwardly experiencing the spiritualised soul-life of the Greeks are
the sorry effects of a spiritual life shackled in State-imposed
restrictions by cultivating a form of spiritual life fundamentally
alien to them, namely the spiritual life of ancient Greece; this was
spiritual life from the political sphere was provided by the adoption
spiritual emptiness of Middle European life and of modern Europe in
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Title: Lecture: The Sun-Mystery in the Course of Human History
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But when we think of man's spiritual nature we cannot conceive that
this spirituality is active in him only during his waking hours or in
his conscious mental life; the fact is that this spirituality is at
anyone through spiritual training, it is for him as it was for earlier
called spiritual activity. But will, feeling and conceptual activity
life of soul, spiritual activity. Spiritual activity is merely a
new Sun-Mysteries which must be brought to the world by spiritual
the spiritual sense, light streams out from Saturn, Jupiter, Mercury,
This Sun-Mystery was felt to be the greatest spiritual treasure
in sacred ritual and cult, they revealed to the people the true nature
and destiny. But in a spiritual sense it had become known to those
made their way thither. A spiritual reality lay behind these journeys.
until it is redeemed spiritually in the West, released from the dark
existence. Through spiritual-scientific development we must find it
that speak with the tones of the spiritual world — not conferences
permeated by the wisdom of the West, by the spiritual light of the
give us the right feeling for the impulses which spiritual science

Title: Lecture: Truth Beauty and Goodness
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Anthroposophy, or Spiritual Science, is able once again to indicate
the spiritual prototype, the spirit-form of his physical body. The
this thread. In pre-earthly existence a delicate spiritual wool is
early stages of the epoch of the Spiritual Soul
his “spiritual sense of being” in the universe. And this spiritual
For this purely spiritual sense of being that we find existing with
not by virtue of his own spiritual life, but by virtue of some profession
spiritual world. And this is only possible if the bond that links us
If man is to be true in a higher, this means spiritual, sense, he must
in a picture, at least, a new link with pre-earthly spirituality.
The Philosophy of Spiritual Activity.
To be true is to be rightly united with our spiritual past. To sense
spiritual world in the future.
The man who is untruthful denies his spiritual past; the liar severs
the threads between himself and his spiritual past. He who disregards
belies the good renounces his spiritual future; and yet he would like
of the Spiritual Soul. An explanation of the term Spiritual

Title: The Individuality of Elias, John, Raphael, Novalis
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instreaming of the Michael-Power into the spiritual events of man's life on
are no more than the outer sign and symbol of spiritual worlds which look down
worlds, the realm of spiritual evolution, taking with him the power of his
and who are the spiritual Individualities of the great original Leaders of
spiritually with the spiritual origin of the Earth, with that World of Being
spirituality the power that had been his to create what is so infinitely
again in all its spiritual light and glory.
in the spiritual super-sensible worlds all those others — among them also

Title: Lecture: Exoteric and Esoteric Christianity
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anthroposophical spiritual science, that which surpasses the scanty
their teachings to human beings — in a spiritual way, of course
earth from spiritual worlds. This condition, transcending the earthly
communications of the gods in a spiritual way, because they were not
took place spiritually, and where they received what these beings
look back on a divine spiritual wisdom received here on earth by men
from divine-spiritual worlds into a body, and that it would leave
higher soul-spiritual nature. I have already explained this before.
beyond birth, into the spiritual. When they looked at death, the life
of spirit and soul again extended beyond death, into the spiritual;
through inspirations from the spiritual world and did not think about
express it in a soul-spiritual way, the understanding could come only
spirituality. We might express approximately in this way the content
spiritual world this implies that Ahriman was drawn into the
the spiritual truths, whereas the new wisdom was not there. To a
originally as a divine-spiritual revelation given to men in a distant
past, in the spiritual form which I have described. Then, this was
as such, in the spiritual world, and remain hidden behind the veil of

Title: Lecture: The Origin of Speech and Language
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workers asked for an introduction to spiritual science and for the
spiritual work grew out of a course originally held by Dr. Roman Boos
as soon as we begin to observe human spiritual life, for example, the

Title: Lecture: The Sense-Organs and Aesthetic Experience
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many people who like to regard themselves as spiritually minded, when
spiritual world, when we have gone through death.
spiritual world among the beings of the several Hierarchies,
expressed in the form of the spiritual sympathies and antipathies we
spiritual world. It is similar with the other senses; the senses of
Taste, Smell and Sight. And just where the hidden spiritual plays
are so great. Many things that are in a higher spiritual sense
the spiritual world — and acts accordingly with his body. He
real Spiritual Science, the following result is reached. For ordinary
Spiritual Science will have to lead earth-evolution towards the
spiritual world; otherwise, as we have often seen, the downfall of
mankind will come about in the future. On the other hand, Spiritual
inability to find the spiritual, but also an inability to understand
from the spiritual world. We must make a real advance in the
spiritual comprehension of the world.
have to add the spiritual to a thinking that remains in the realm of
spiritual, taken hold of intensively. What does Schiller say? He
reason, he submits to spiritual compulsion.
compulsion, for they are ensouled and spiritualised. A man no longer
spiritualised. Thus rational necessity and natural necessity come
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Title: Lecture: A Turning-Point in Modern History
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necessity, though a spiritual one; under it, he is not free.
seeks to raise up and spiritualise, so that the human being is not
activity of shaping it. He must spiritualise the sense-perceptible by
hut in the same way that the spiritual has an effect. Thus the artist
fuses spiritual and perceptible into one creation. When all that men
sensual necessity is spiritualised by rational necessity — when
reason; Goethe was a man of instinct, but spiritualised instinct. The
from necessity to freedom in his own way. He was the spiritualised man
modern spiritual life.
man's spiritual history than people can realise today. The period
them of a powerful spirituality which humanity has since lost. Anyone
spirituality has not been here. It does not speak directly to
Spiritual Science, which extends our range of vision and can also
best if people would acknowledge that without spiritual knowledge they
spirituality, was present in men, before it finally faded away in the
thought in abstractions, possessed spirituality in his abstract
thinking, and a man who had spiritualised instincts, such as Goethe
it has to be found on the paths of spiritual knowledge; now man has
to find his way through to spirituality in freedom. That is the
spiritual descriptions of the best self-education could be written
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Title: Lecture: Elemental Beings and Human Destinies
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represents the essentially spiritual part of Man, goes together with
spiritual point of view between these three systems when we observe
around him a spiritual atmosphere whereby he comes into contact with
his environment, and can see how spiritual forces are at work in the
the subconscious parts of our nature in spiritual spheres. In
particular, with our rhythmic system we live in the spiritual sphere
comes back in a more spiritual form, whereas in the second or third
and then we shall be able to call on the spiritual worlds around us to
It is our anthroposophical spiritual science which for the first time
spiritual science has entered the field and speaks of the Christ Event
awareness of the presence of an abstract spiritual world that is
into it a consciousness of the actual spiritual world in which we live
that is happening spiritually around us.
anthroposophical spiritual science is brought forward at this present
connection with his spiritual environment. For in earlier times the
within; they must proceed from our connection with the spiritual
through our connection with the spiritual world. It is our strivings
spiritual world; the body dies away beneath us. So will it be one day
is dying away beneath our feet. The spiritual quest we are engaged
something, be it material or spiritual, bears within it. And this
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Title: Lecture: Man, Offspring of the World of Stars
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Consciousness, or Spiritual Soul.
faculty of perceiving and experiencing spirituality in the world
Mysteries, began to feel that their power to perceive the spiritual
spirituality which pervaded the life of the mind in the fourth
Spiritual Science. The Sun which the physicist believes to be a
luminous body of gas out in cosmic space is spiritual through and
Earth, but the Sun is not physical at all. It is spiritual in its
kindled and quickened his Ego. His was still aware of the spirituality
become aware of the spiritual forces indwelling the rays of the Sun in
into which our civilisation has fallen, and bring a new spiritual life

Title: Lecture: The Three Stages of Sleep
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Spiritual Science cannot hand people something which, once
That is not possible with spiritual-scientific truths, the
formulated into concepts, whereas spiritual-scientific truths
spiritual world and there lose consciousness. They pass out of
outside the physical body in the spiritual world, we perceive
threshold leading into the spiritual world. They can live in
of perception in the spiritual world is only one of three
dwell in the spiritual world, as the deeds of the Angeloi,
spiritual beings who guide and direct the world out of the
of spiritual cosmic beings. And this world of the revelation of
spiritual cosmic beings is the second element of sleep, as
spiritual world.
spiritual world. In this third stage of sleep we live with the
essential being of the spiritual world itself. That is, we
the world of manifestation, the revelation of spiritual beings,
we live within the divine spiritual beings themselves.
divine spiritual beings are revealed, or these spiritual beings
Inspiration that everywhere the deeds of divine, spiritual
spiritual beings themselves. This can be expressed by saying
other spiritual beings is still able to raise human beings from
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Title: Lecture: Spiritual Wisdom in the Early Christian Centuries
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Spiritual Wisdom in the Early Christian Centuries
Anthroposophy - A Quarterly Review of Spiritual Science.
A Quarterly Review of Spiritual Science
Spiritual Wisdom in the Early Christian Centuries
had reached its prime, two streams of spiritual life were flowing
communicated afresh. True, the Greeks realised that higher spiritual
knew too that by dint of spiritual training and through Initiation, a
lived within the streams of spiritual life which were wholly exhausted
human souls were treading the path to the spiritual world in other
ideas. The great spiritual picture to which Plato tried to lift the
revelation of the Divine-Spiritual. Aristotle could no longer
penetrate with the same intensity into this spiritual substance.
Plato was able to gaze into higher levels of the spiritual world than
rise to very high levels of spiritual perception. The lives of men
like Ammonius Saccas and his pupil Plotinus were rich in spiritual
experiences and their conceptions of the spiritual world were filled
of a spiritual world, and Nature — generally regarded nowadays as
that spiritual world of which they were conscious.
contains merely the outward expression of the spiritual world. Nor let
arise in time. Rather must we look up to those Powers in the spiritual
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Title: Lecture: The Recovery of the Living Source of Speech
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The Human Soul in its Connection with Godly-Spiritual
The Human Soul in its Connection with Godly-Spiritual Individualities.
the spiritual world whom we are accustomed to assign to the Hierarchy
feeling is present in him that he belongs to a spiritual world and
the evolution of higher spiritual Beings. We need only learn how to
relate particular facts and phenomena to particular higher spiritual
little book, “The Spiritual Guidance of Man and of Mankind,”
live in the spiritual world. To-day we will extend this into a realm
lags behind the philosopher in certain respects; but in spiritual
came right out of the Divine and spiritual stream in which he had
spiritual, it has often been merely traditional. But when the word of
again. We must first be able to observe in the spiritual world. Above
enter also into spiritual life itself.
tends to die away, — just there the spiritual enters in!
was completely lacking in spirituality. It was really so. There you

Title: Lecture: Gnostic Doctrines and Supersensible Influences in Europe
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Quarterly Review of Spiritual Science
spiritual world.
begin with, we will study the character of certain spiritual impulses
evolutionary process. It was said that another, more purely spiritual
whose nature a much more highly spiritual mode of knowledge is
Demiurgos was a Being dwelling in spheres of lofty spirituality, in a
from the Demiurgos and strives again to reach the spiritual world.
was a personification of the spiritual strivings of mankind. The urge
which lives in men to reach the spiritual world again was therefore
of a far more highly spiritual order than Jahve or Jehovah.
realisation that spiritual foundations underlie this physical world
with the spiritual world — which was moreover of far greater
kinship with the spiritual world. Such ideas lived in European
experience of kinship with the spiritual world, with the Pleroma, had
it was man's task and function to activate the spiritual forces
of spiritual aspiration. But as time went on, darkness crept over the
the spiritual world was entirely absent. There you have a picture of
highly spiritual form of knowledge has become corrupt; the life of
the human soul in the spiritual worlds has descended to the material
but an impulse to give an earthly, physical garb to purely spiritual
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Title: Lecture I: Ancient Myths
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spiritual things. The Greek knew how to picture something of Osiris,

Title: Lecture II: Ancient Myths
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to be achieved on the path of Spiritual Science, through spiritual
‘The Spiritual Guidance of Man and Mankind’,
the ruling spiritual beings, as we described yesterday. Men in the
seeing of ideas, a seeing of spiritual realities, a living in
spiritual realities.
years of age had Imaginations — Imaginations of spiritual
nonsense.) In the air spiritual events are taking place around
but spiritual events are taking place. These spiritual events,
lived spiritually in the essences which permeated the larynx and

Title: Lecture III: Ancient Myths
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told you that the divine spiritual Beings who stand at the
essentials standing spiritually before mankind up to the new
directly experience the spiritual in his natural surroundings in
spiritual seclusion was erected a Building which was considered to be
spiritual science, to transform the cow-horns, so that even the paper
every day, then this really means a meeting with spiritual beings,

Title: Lecture IV: Ancient Myths
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bring before your spiritual eyes in showing how one can look towards
immortality, who had consciously grasped the spiritual world. You can
the immortal, the spiritual impulse, and those men who disdain this,
never seek to grasp the spiritual life of the soul cannot lift the
veil of Isis; he however can lift it, who grasps the spiritual life,
specially in this age as shadow-side of the spiritual life, he takes
spiritual world. In particular he can find the way to his true, his
because in a physical sense it is this true copy, in a spiritual
spiritual life, world-knowledge, world-conception. Man is shut off
of making himself spiritual. No age has been so favourable to
spirituality as this fifth epoch. Courage must only be found to drive
reality, to set against them full reality and therewith the spiritual
Thus all that is connected with spirituality for this life
greatest spiritual possibilities. In no age was it granted to men to
the earth into a spiritually free humanity. And at one's disposal are
put questions regarding the outer world. Spiritual Science has

Title: Lecture V: Ancient Myths
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receding further, so that I, if no spiritual impulse grips mankind,
only come from an understanding of the spiritual world. Hence, thinks
enter if fresh knowledge is drawn out of the spiritual world. This he
and we can only do so through spiritual deepening. But, as I said,
for instance, forms the spiritual challenge of the anthroposophical
Spiritual Science. One can see that by various examples: I will bring
just read a lecture of mine on the task of Spiritual Science, [See:
‘The Mission of Spiritual Science and of its Building at
sees that this Spiritual Science has, after all, something very
what he has read in this lecture on the task of Spiritual Science. He
today, and he has seen from this lecture that Spiritual Science is
five years ago sought to attach himself to this Spiritual Science, to
join a group where Spiritual Science was studied, begged moreover at
forbidding picture of Spiritual Science that he found it was not at
the vilest articles on Spiritual Science. After five years the same
attach themselves to anthroposophical Spiritual Science. If they have
be found in anthroposophical Spiritual Science.
kind of spiritual reflection. But it is a one-sided reflection
older. But only our physical body grows older. For from the spiritual
first spiritual member in us continually becomes more vigorous and
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Title: Lecture VI: Ancient Myths
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those who sought for spiritual things. Nor was this inscription on
Now in spiritual
the first place a true apparatus for spiritual activity, for all that
committed to use the head alone as an instrument of our spiritual
spiritual, what is super-sensible and invisible. The head of man as it
confronts us is externally complete. All that is spiritual has formed
The spiritual
death is a kind of accident: but from a spiritual science outlook it
matter of the spiritual world, time relationships are different from
instance an experience of the spiritual investigator through which
through other results of spiritual research. If one makes oneself
through the gate of death, who live in the spiritual world after
spiritual, the true pursuit for the spirit and its existence. There
man's organism, that is to say from the spiritual part of the
materialistic natural science of today will become spirituality.
It will the sooner become spirituality the greater the number of
Spiritual Science rightly understood can bring about these two
in each globe the body of a spiritual being. It would have been
already to Spiritual Science which official astronomy does not yet
know. But it is important that just these things which Spiritual
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Title: Lecture VII: Ancient Myths
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spiritual secrets of the stars. One can even say in a certain sense,
spiritually, the wide universe is our home between death and a new
cosmos, together with the purely spiritual beings who dwell there, we
Spiritual Science. Natural science is very near at many points to a
meeting with spiritual science. I said in other lectures and have
discovery of something that has met with opposition even in spiritual
we mean much more spiritual elements in man than this lowest, almost
physical, for as regards the spiritual part of the remaining
through spiritual science. Thus natural science will discover, as it
deeper. Between the spiritual universe — for the universe is
physical substance, not a chemical element, but actually spiritual,
we come down to earth from the spiritual world, to find a place in a
the spiritual world. This substance, which I have shown coming
spiritual substance continuously, then one knows how to apply it to
the spiritual world.
incarnation. The dead live a spiritual life, and this life is
real being of soul and spirit fairly early finds its spiritual grave
spiritual existence. But inasmuch as we have come down to the
space, in order to form its spiritual element. And whilst our
physical organism falls away from us, our spiritual part with our
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Title: Lecture: The Dual Form of Cognition During the Middle Ages and the Development of Knowledge in Modern Times
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up intellectualism. Intellectualism developed from out a spiritual
super-sensible, spiritual contents. The spiritual contents have dried
evinced that the older form of spirituality had ceased to exist and
intellectual way of grasping the old spiritual contents. These can no
were, a shadow-outline of the old spiritual wisdom. We can see
meaning with the old spiritual wisdom, reaches its climax in the
world-conception which is based on spirituality, so that he finally
The spiritual life of
The spiritual life of
then Thomas Aquinas and Albertus Magnus — the spiritual life of
spiritual development of our modern times, we must penetrate into
spiritual development of the last three or four centuries merely
middle of, the nineteenth century, the evolution of the spiritual
nineteenth century. Those who study modern spiritual science should
Men who have spoken extensively of the spirit and of the spiritual
the spirit and with spiritual life, and then to pass sentence
year 1858 was very trenchant in the more recent spiritual evolution.
spiritual-intellectual manner. Gustav Theodor Fechner's “Introduction
spiritual science, the spiritual science which is orientated
a peculiar structure of spiritual life arose in the second half
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Title: Lecture: The Remedy for Our Diseased Civilisation
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gained in regard to the spiritual world. In regard to the spiritual
and to consider him a little from a spiritual standpoint. Many people
regard to spiritual science.
way through the spiritual culture of the nineteenth century, began to
with spiritual-scientific methods of investigation, merely see
spiritual-scientific knowledge does not throw light upon that
world, which is an image of the spiritual world. We may be
become spiritually inclined, particularly the life of the will.
is interesting to observe, from a spiritual-scientific
with its entirely spiritual inclinations (but the head does not know
this); it reckons with the spiritual and with spiritual worlds. They
writer, who inveighs terribly against everything of a spiritual
spiritualistic and altogether his opponent.
is how things take their course. Idealism and spiritualism exist ...
materialists, the sensualists, are the strongest spiritualists.
spiritualistic world-picture, which the materialists, in particular,
hold of it, and then it is not active in a divine-spiritual sense,
but it is active in an ahrimanic-spiritual sense. It then leads the
arisen in the depths of man's volitive part, where spirituality has
formed the foundation of what has kindled instincts in a spiritual
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Title: Lecture: Goethe and the Evolution of Consciousness
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Quarterly Review of Spiritual Science
views which have to be developed in anthroposophical Spiritual
spiritual or mental attitude to the things of the world. This is very
and spiritually impossible to share in the mental attitude of his
We can, however, go still further back than this. Spiritual Science
light of Spiritual Science. Benedetto Croce was one who spoke in a
anthroposophical Spiritual Science can understand thoroughly what is

Title: Lecture: Salt, Mercury, Sulphur
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the Spiritual Resurrection.
the Spiritual Resurrection.
soul-and-spirit in the spiritual world before he could have come down
the Spiritual within the merely material. He points to this free
has Spiritual Science to say to this? When in the first place we
and listen spiritually to the description which an Initiate would
with the spiritual Beings of the cosmos. Just as here on earth a man
these ancient sages enter into relation with spiritual Beings. And
from these spiritual Beings they learned something else, namely that
spiritual Beings with whom the ancient sages could have real
development, and anthroposophical Spiritual Science tries to be such
— lost together with that union with the spiritual Beings who
to give place to a spiritual perception of external nature, whereby
by free spiritual activity.

Title: Lecture: Some Conditions for Understanding Supersensible Experiences
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One of his lectures on Spiritual Essence and its Working,
Spiritual and Social Transformations in Human Evolution
One of his lectures on Spiritual Essence and its Working,
Spiritual and Social Transformations in Human Evolution
“a path of knowledge, to guide the spiritual in the human being
to the spiritual in the universe”.
spiritual world, from the Beings of the higher Hierarchies, but
become even more spiritual.
present age is, shall I say, rather more essentially spiritual than
amass all kinds of spiritual experiences, but not by the path that is
spiritualistic methods are apt to be valued more highly to-day than
also, to translate what he is able to proclaim out of the spiritual
experiences in the spiritual world.
experiences connected with crossing the Threshold of the spiritual
free spiritual activity. And even in our Elementary Schools to-day
children are educated away from free spiritual activity. The very
methods of teaching hinder the development of free spiritual
have realised that anthroposophical Spiritual Science is endeavouring
spiritual science holding a different view of Christianity. In
anthroposophical Spiritual Science the one and only question is that
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Title: Lecture: The Relation of the Movement for Religious Renewal to the Anthroposophical Movement
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The Spiritual Communion of Mankind.
The Spiritual Communion of Mankind.
The Spiritual Communion of Mankind
Mysteries, knowledge was sought as a revelation of the Spiritual in
a knowledge of the spiritual nature of the world. A pictorial
knowledge of the Spiritual lay at the foundation of all ancient
the world in religious cult or ritual, a revelation through which the
whole man felt himself uplifted to the divine-spiritual ground
devotion to this divine-spiritual principle. And the sacred acts and
spiritual life of the present day must be, once more to gain
Only when anthroposophical Spiritual Science is seen to contain this
will have to take many steps in spiritual development before such an
lived in spiritual worlds, has since united Himself with human life
spiritual life. And it is indeed clear that the religious impulse
only find where anthroposophical Spiritual Science is making its way
of spiritual truths, truths regarding the actual spiritual content of
the world, can be found by men when they become spiritual
researchers. And if men do not become spiritual researchers but
discovered by spiritual researchers can be understood by such persons
important above all is that the spiritual truths now accessible to
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Title: Lecture: Concerning the Origin and Nature of the Finnish Nation
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spiritual character is, at the same time, indicated outwardly, even
something more spiritual than the Ego-nature and more strongly
penetrates more from out the spiritual world. It is not contained in
spiritual being, so that man’s earthly nature may obtain
something that leads him into the spiritual world.
the earth; in that case, a spiritual element that seeks to penetrate
something that is, in itself, spiritual: a Being must be there, a
[of] the spirituality of Nature in such a way that the sentient soul,
spiritual essence of the external physical aspect, we simply take
the more spiritual nations of ancient Finland as Wainamoinen,
itself, when this wonderful epic poem will be spiritualised and
explain the spiritual phenomena of the evolution of the earth. An

Title: Lecture: Perceiving and Remembering
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The Spiritual Union of Humanity through the Christ Impulse.
The Spiritual Union of Humanity through the Christ Impulse.
certain powers that are in the spiritual world and which it recognizes.
Powers in the spiritual world, let me in my physical body be conscious in the
in the spiritual world, might say in longing, in a kind of prayer:
opponents of the new Spiritual Science. Does not this new Spiritual Science
easily come by a certain attitude of soul, which is necessary if spiritual
knowledge. It is not only the knowledge of spiritual truths that is primarily
has to enter into the spiritual development of mankind. It is now sought to
only come from Spiritual Science. Then before all else, it is clear to us
springs from Spiritual Science and frequently ask ourselves what is within
our souls from the whole essence of Spiritual Science and what is to be found

Title: Perception of the Nature of Thought
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Ways of Spiritual Cognition and the Rejuvenation of the
Ways of Spiritual Cognition and the Rejuvenation of the
evolution become entirely spiritual, but leaving its signs behind in
become spiritual to the same degree as the Old Saturn laws. The
Saturn laws have become so spiritual that we can only investigate
already appealing to something entirely spiritual when, from the
Moon laws we find something not so spiritual. But this too has
in the physical body, we have something that is not so spiritual, so
becomes increasingly spiritual. For that which is attached to the
the spiritualising of those parts of the embryonic sheaths which fall
might say, the Saturn part of man, lies in lofty spiritual regions,
for a public still quite unacquainted with Spiritual Science.
let the spiritual structure of these periods work upon one.
spirituality, how a thought-organism, leaving aside the world
men face them eye to eye spiritually Ahriman and Lucifer are harmful
Spiritual Science.
recognised by Spiritual Science. Just reflect that in reality a Being
the spiritual life are coming forward in our time. For here we see
who stands spiritually as much higher than man as a 100 years is
Spiritual Science gives vitality to what is otherwise abstract, and
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Title: Lecture: The Spiritual Individualities of the Planets
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The Spiritual Individualities of the Planets
From the classification Lectures on Spiritual Essence and its
From the classification Lectures on Spiritual Essence and its
SPIRITUAL INDIVIDUALITIES OF THE PLANETS
of the Spiritual behind it. To those who have knowledge of both its
to begin with as a gathering of spiritual Beings living in great
the Moon, is significant above all in its spiritual aspect.
The spiritual Beings peopling this innermost sphere of the Moon are
intellectual effort as grace from the spiritual worlds. And finally
is necessary is to be open to receive the spiritual. And then, to the
he is able to receive from the spiritual present in the universe. To
Jupiter separately in the course of his spiritual development.
spiritual Beings who, in complete seclusion, muse upon what is

Title: Lecture: The Elemental World and the Future of Mankind
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relationship with certain spiritual powers during the earth's future.
insight into the fact that within the physical-soul-spiritual
I have often mentioned that a new stream of spirituality is now ready
spiritual. The most important task for mankind in the era of
spirituality from higher regions of world existence now seeks entry
many doors, as it were, into the earthly world from the spiritual
more of the spiritual in all nature, but able to perceive it.
gain insight into that spiritual foundation of nature which external
earthen nature has as its foundation an elemental spirituality.
Thus, in the solid earth element live spiritual beings of an
squeeze them out as if from a sponge — in a spiritual sense,
on. But elemental spiritual beings are active behind all this, and
the spiritual world, then the result of this dullness on man's part
them to the recognition that a spiritual stream is seeking to enter
mainly from a spiritual vision of the realm of the ethers. In this
realm live spiritual beings who do not strive to separate from one
turn to spiritual knowledge and the insight that what exists up in
The significance of spiritual knowledge for man's earthly destiny
spiritual reality something completely different from what ought to

Title: Lecture: A Picture of Earth-Evolution in the Future
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substance and content of Spiritual Science.” — The Editors.
the Spiritual Beings who guide earthly evolution as to what must happen to man.
outcome of a decision on the part of the Spiritual Beings who guide and direct
intellect is an altogether spiritual faculty in man, its existence is not
altogether devoid of the sense for reality. He lives within a spiritual
element, but is at the same time a materialist. His thoughts — which are spiritual
Thus the second great process or event was that man became more spiritual. But
the spiritual substance once derived from matter no longer ensouls him. His
nature has become more spiritual, but with his spiritual faculties he thinks
being what can now flow to them from spiritual worlds, then they will
is pictured to him. The living wisdom that Spiritual Science is able to impart
in the spiritual world. Whereas in the days of old Atlantis human beings came
connected body of Spiritual Science at all today is due to the circumstance
that Beings from beyond the earth are bringing the messages from the spiritual
centuries more and more Spiritual Beings will be among us — Beings whose
what comes from them: namely, the substance and content of Spiritual Science.
They want to give it to us and they want us to act in the sense of Spiritual
Science. Their desire is that Spiritual Science shall be translated into social
the nineteenth century Spiritual Beings from the cosmos have been coming into
intellect must be quickened to life by the pictures of Spiritual Science. We
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Title: Lecture: The Spiritual Communion of Mankind
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SPIRITUAL COMMUNIONOF MANKIND
arose from conceptions of the spiritual world that had primarily to
humanity were still able to gaze into the spiritual worlds whence the
being in those times could speak and think about the spiritual
men of those olden times beheld of the spiritual-super-sensible world
reality, but of a spiritual world lying hidden behind the physical
world. Thus the spiritual world was revealed to men in pictures.
in connection with the pictures which mirrored for them a spiritual
beings in man's environment are permeated by the divine-spiritual He
also tried to discover the manifestations of this divine-spiritual in
revelation of this spiritual vision presented to them in the form of
to themselves: The spiritual Power indwelling the Sun could hitherto
divine-spiritual-super-sensible reality, and when, understanding what
evolution and together with mankind indwells the earth as a Spiritual
spiritualize, whatever knowledge he acquires about the great world.
spiritual-super-sensible reality in man must take place at a time not
spiritual part of our being. It is a ‘World-Christmas’
that we need, a birth of spiritual life. Then we shall once again
intensity that the light of spiritual insight and spiritual vision

Title: Lecture: Technology and Art: Their Bearing on Modern Culture
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bridge from knowledge yielded by Spiritual Science to a view of life
the spiritual progress of humanity.
coming to us from Spiritual Science should find their place in this
modern life. We must come to feel that Spiritual Science is a
injurious or even destructive effect upon the divine-spiritual
Spiritual Science: during sleep the Ego and astral body are outside
painted in colours suitable for spiritual sensitivity, so that none
life, or to engage in a sort of hothouse cultivation of the spiritual
impulses that come from Spiritual Science and spiritual research, so
spiritual-divine world.
endeavour to master through Spiritual Science, in which the words
spiritual life at one and the same time.
coherence of Nature is maintained. Elemental spiritual beings are
the nature-spirits into the sphere of the spiritual. This is always
materials, we again transfer certain spiritual beings into what is
spirit. In producing it we create a soil for other spiritual beings,
and the spiritual beings we have now enticed into our machinery
finds the forces which unite him with the spiritual realities of the
inner life that man comes into connection with the divine-spiritual
spiritual Hierarchies. This coming together with the spiritual
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Title: Lecture: The Inexpressible Name, Spirits of Space and Time.
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facts, which come to light through spiritual-scientific knowledge.
Spiritual Science.
to you that an initiated spiritual scientist can perceive the human
soul-spiritual existence, with the same longing and the same interest
weaving spiritual life of the soul which manifests itself so
spiritual battle ever waged, a battle which will spread over the
sub-earthly connection with the spiritual worlds so that they reveal,
distinguish cheap writers from men endowed with great spirituality
spiritual culture is permeated by it. We do not read any newspaper
the Roman character of law, the Greek spiritual substance — and
spiritual sphere, for the spiritual substance in education, which has
by a free spiritual striving, independently of the state, and that
sphere, the spiritual science of Anthroposophy must flow into human
our spiritual efforts, in the Goetheanum, are well accepted by you;
of the present, an influence should be exercised on the spiritual

Title: Lecture: The Coming Experience of Christ
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The New Spirituality and the Christ Experience of the
great spiritual battle between East and West, in which the true
And if sufficient preparation has been made, if the aims of spiritual
then that he descended from spiritual heights, that before he entered
spiritual world; he knew that he brought with him from the spiritual
aware theoretically that one has passed through such a spiritual life
from the spiritual world.
those depths in which are anchored spiritual experiences brought from
has it as a result of experiences in the spiritual world; inquiries
poverty man no longer feels himself to be a child of the spiritual
so on, then we are forgetting all spirituality, we are excluding all
spirituality. This is because we are trying to order the world
its denial of everything spiritual, than the emergence of the
spiritual conception of the world is to lie.
man. Let us now consider the spiritual-scientific counterpart of what
know that spiritual science shows how our earth-planet, upon which
the spiritual heights can take cognizance. I cannot entrust myself to
Golgotha, so the spiritual Christ will appear to mankind. He alone
Himself out of remote spiritual depths; He will speak to men
spiritually, as at the time of the Mystery of Golgotha He spoke to
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Title: Lecture: Modern and Ancient Spiritual Exercises
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When we look back to the spiritual strivings of man in a very distant past
perceived spiritual beings even if of a lower kind, in all solid matter,
spiritual and psychical qualities into the world around them. This is
that of man in ancient times, if we believe that the spiritual beings
spiritual beings connected with the water of the river flowing in that
himself guided downstream by something spiritual. That is only an example
spiritual-soul being in a spiritual-soul world.
setting of a spiritual-soul world in which he had been as a spiritual-soul
spiritual universe. In order to read the ancient writings such as the
into its past in the spiritual world and is relating what Krishna and other
spiritual world was sought in ancient times.
This is not the path modern man should seek into the spiritual
down not into the physical qualities of things but into the spiritual
within the spiritual, which lies at the foundation of each single
ourselves with what lives spiritually in the rhythms of the external
remember what he was, within a soul-spiritual environment, before he
methods by which the yogi attained insight into the spiritual world.
a much more spiritual character than the five familiar senses. Through
the spiritual world with the soul organism that had been driven out
unworldliness as an ideal — then he cannot have spiritual experiences.
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Title: Lecture: The Meaning of Easter: St. Paul and the Christ Impulse
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which becomes intelligible to us only when with the help of spiritual
spiritual science; it can be understood only when we are able to look
spiritual science. This understanding came to Paul in order that he might
spiritual being who entered the body of Jesus of Nazareth during the
spiritual. Incredible as it may appear to modern man it is a fact that in
spiritual reality. They did not see merely trees, or merely plants, but
together with the trees, and together with the plants they saw something spiritual.
man beholds the spiritual in the physical things all around him, he
the divine and spiritual when he looks out upon the external world. The
vision of the spiritual, he must exert himself inwardly and draw it forth
the divine and spiritual. The divine and spiritual came to them in
spiritual in all the phenomena of the world of sense. A time had to come
when man must perforce lift himself up to the divine and spiritual by an
be allowed to go on receiving a divine and spiritual reality that came
divine and spiritual kingdom that could be reached only by inward
the same time a sense-vision and a spiritual vision, was fading away and
disappearing, and that another vision of the spiritual was now to dawn
were able to understand it: that the old spiritual vision brings no
spiritual ring than has the mere echo left us in our translation. It
unless people rethink these things in time and turn to spiritual knowledge.
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Title: Lecture: The Universe
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spiritual world into physical existence, the human being,
upon his real, inner soul-spiritual being, as it existed
water and so forth, and this is spiritually justified. But
spiritual world. Just because of this repetition, man must
penetrate into the spiritual world.

Title: Lecture: The Templars
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out how these impulses and forces developed at the dawn of modern spiritual
modern spiritual striving, we will consider, once again, an important
starting point for modern spiritual life, which we have already considered
in Jerusalem and established there a kind of spiritual order. As we have
but will look at it from a spiritual point of view and turn our attention to
practice what they had spiritually resolved. Words are impotent to describe
being is brought into connection with the divine and spiritual. But something
so-called Spiritual Order, an Order which on this very account could
accomplish more for the world than other Spiritual Orders. For when in this
there in the spiritual stream that carried and upholds humanity. These forces
something spiritual is added to the spiritual “effects” of the
outside the body, lived with the spiritual progress of humanity and
addition to the immensely powerful influence that it possessed spiritually
other, spiritual, Mephistophelian-Ahrimanic powers. Under the inspiration of
spiritual streams which flow through the world just as truly as do the
divine-spiritual powers; it must be turned into other paths. To this end it
objective spiritual stream. And this could only be accomplished by means of a
into the spiritual world — they had become acquainted with all the
good divine-spiritual powers. With all the enemies who work out of the lower
spiritual kingdoms and want to bring Man down and lead him into evil, who are
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Title: The Year as a Symbol of the Great Cosmic Year
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The Spiritual Union of Humanity through the Christ Impulse.
The Spiritual Union of Humanity through the Christ Impulse.
like to say regarding the spiritual world has to be hinted at
place before our senses, spiritual events are interwoven. We know
existence spiritual and psychic beings are everywhere active. We are
which our senses perceive — are spiritual activities, and
spiritual life.
Looked at in accordance with Spiritual Science, we
Earth-consciousness. Spiritual Science, however, can instruct as to
of the whole mineral world. This is why it is said in Spiritual
spiritual or consciousness-soul, and through that of the Spirit-Self,
Steiner as the spiritual-soul) is principally developed at the
ourselves through our Spiritual Science, so that there may be men
right way. If the birth of spiritual knowledge within us leads to
message from spiritual worlds approaches, and unveils for us the
spiritual mysteries.
So, from a deeper understanding of our Spiritual
the aims and objects of our spiritual knowledge and with such warmth

Title: On the Duty of Clear, Sound Thinking
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The Spiritual Union of Humanity through the Christ Impulse.
The Spiritual Union of Humanity through the Christ Impulse.
Spiritual Science. They are associated with the knowledge of the road
that it brings in its train, we recognise that Spiritual Science must
understanding of spiritual things may again be established, though of
view of Spiritual Science in regard to this flood of materialism, in
of spiritual life, all the world over — without distinction of
to be found where the life of spiritual culture exists in its finest
Spiritual Science — if they have not the will really to enter
from this side and from that, to the teaching of Spiritual Science,
of the spiritual worlds. People will not believe that this is not
forth out of the spiritual world. It is not to be wondered at that
from the spiritual world, when thought is built up in this way I have
thoughts all that Spiritual Science teaches, that it fails to be
slip-shod thinking of the present day. Spiritual Science should
Of course, as long as we take Spiritual Science in
Even the conceptions of Spiritual Science are affected
then applied to the conceptions of Spiritual Science. Because
what Spiritual Science tells on page a,b,c, are facts of Spiritual
whether in their present attitude to what Spiritual Science teaches
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Title: Lecture: Evil and the Power of Thought
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knowledge of the outer world and of the spiritual facts and beings
to penetrate into the spiritual worlds, they were now enabled to
different spiritual world; not only into his thoughts, but into his
with spiritual scientific investigation that one can draw attention to
happen if men should not be led by Spiritual Science to this awareness?
be attained only in a spiritual way. Outer civilisation will be in
need of spiritual deepening.

Title: Lecture: The Seeds of Future Worlds
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doing acquired a power of vision into a spiritual world which is not
composed of atoms and molecules but of spiritual Beings. This world
the memory-mirror, a spiritual element lives.” One must needs
not willing to recognise this spiritual element. We live in this
universal spiritual element.
virtually in a kind of sleep condition, spiritual inner faculties
gradually develop. If we learn to trace back these emerging spiritual
spiritual way about the world, where before, in our consideration of
the spiritual conflict that was fought out during the earliest
for people have not yet been sufficiently prepared by Spiritual
man used to give instruction concerning a spiritual foundation of the
have really found in ourselves the beginning of spiritual existence.
for one who has insight to see behind the tapestry of the senses a spiritual
world, a world wherein spiritual Beings of higher Hierarchies work
permeated with pure spiritual being, filled through and through with

Title: Lecture: Exoteric and Esoteric Christianity
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Christianity itself, especially in respect of the spiritual
anthroposophical Spiritual Science. We have again to discover how
Divine Beings who descended spiritually to the Earth from the
realm of the higher Hierarchies and who then imparted spiritual
Gods in a spiritual way. Nor did they receive these teachings in
to-day. They entered into living, spiritual communion with Divine
to the sojourn of the human soul in the Divine-Spiritual world
can look back to a Divine-Spiritual wisdom once received by men
from Divine-Spiritual worlds, had entered into physical bodies
death into the spiritual world. Birth and death were of no
unintellectual. Ideas were inspired from the spiritual world, not
understood, intellect can be led back to spirituality. Such,
spiritually by men in very ancient times, and it was then
the spiritual world, facts which lie behind the veil of matter.
through anthroposophical Spiritual Science, namely, the teachings
of free spiritual activity. In the book,
The Philosophy of Spiritual Activity,

Title: Lecture: Realism and Nominalism
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Sin, the Spiritual Resurrection,
The spiritual life of the
philosophers; if we contemplate these two spiritual currents in quite
warmed by what is expressed in these spiritual currents. But these
group-soul “wolf”, living in the spiritual world. This
considered as something spiritual, although this spirituality
powerless in regard to the grasping of the spiritual. For, naturally,
with the divine spiritual creator of the beings. This implies that
modern humanity has lost the capacity of finding something spiritual
spiritual way of looking at things had passed. Nominalism took hold of
divine spiritual being of the Christ. Modern theology lost this
divine spiritual more and more. As I have often said, theologians
Christ himself, in his divine spiritual being, the spiritual
still looks at Nature spiritually (for he brings the spirit with him
Spiritual Science alone enables us to understand the entire process
Spiritual Science wishes to bring these very experiences to conscious
us to find in Christ the divine spiritual, in an independent way.
spiritual being could no longer be grasped, because Nominalism
significance for mankind in the age when spiritual feelings were
the spiritual, that continually rouses the soul. These kinds of
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Title: Lecture: Fundamentals of the Science of Initiation
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Social Questions and their Spiritual Background,
Spiritual Scientific Knowledge and Social Understanding,
“The Philosophy of Spiritual Activity”
on the one hand, spiritual science, and on the other hand, earnestly
with the spiritual reality of things. Something entered the human
possessed a spiritual wisdom which they obtained simultaneously with
their knowledge of Nature. Their spiritual wisdom also contained
natural science there is also a spiritual knowledge; in the form of
pointing to the spiritual world. Just as we obtain positive
have, here, a positive knowledge referring to the spiritual world. In
spread also this kind of positive knowledge concerning the spiritual
higher spiritual conception, not through scientific investigations in
accept a spiritual world-conception. An infallible way of overcoming
spiritualists, if they only proceed far enough.
reaching the positive results of spiritual science, if we find it
boring to enter into the details of spiritual science, and only like
spiritual sphere, this will be the greatest temptation for really
materialists is to ignore the concrete results of spiritual science
entering the spiritual world.
spiritualists; those who disdain to reach a real spiritual knowledge
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Title: Lecture: Cosmogony, Freedom, Altruism
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Social Questions and their Spiritual Background.
civilisations and a spiritual world to which they were no
within the limits of the everyday world, but where spiritual
affairs were transacted under the guidance of spiritual
practical link between us and the spiritual world. How paltry
the forces of the spiritual world! In all his actions he had
Christ, or a spiritual power of some kind, to do what he
that can supply altruistic motive-power but a spiritual
as a member of the spiritual world does he cease to be so
spiritual world. The interest in the spiritual world must be
Cosmogony. Anyone acquainted with the spiritual life of the
materialistic as Anglo-American spiritual life is in the
to what is spiritual in a materialistic fashion — yet
of it. Even the Spiritualist Movement, in its early
founding freedom, ideally, spiritually. Only, Europe must
Those people who are spiritual leaders in Asia (take for
perceive a mathematical order, there a spiritual
The Philosophy of Spiritual Activity
‘The Philosophy of Spiritual Activity’
true, dabbled in this same Asiatic spirit, the spiritual life

Title: Lecture: Brunetto Latini
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Ways of Spiritual Cognition and the Rejuvenation of the Artistic
spiritual life into the physical. Initiation opens out to man
spiritual worlds. That which can then be experienced, more or
less consciously in spiritual worlds, true Art carries down
to perceive the spiritual note that pervades what Dante has
the only document he has brought over from the spiritual
on the path of spiritual science is waiting for the portal of
the spiritual world to be opened to him sooner or later, as
— that the entry to the spiritual world takes place by
degrees. Then we grow slowly into the spiritual world.
starting-point for an entry into the spiritual world.
all the spiritual beings who are living there — the
floating through the universal ocean of spiritual being.
perceived abundant spiritual life; having perceived the seven
things. But it is precisely the characteristic of spiritual
the spiritual world and then return to what the physical
it after having penetrated through the spiritual world. Then
without spiritual cognition. But these things appear in a new
never have reached his peculiar relation to the spiritual
teacher, to educate him into the spiritual world.
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Title: Lecture: The Shaping of the Human Form out of Cosmic and Earthly Forces
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The Bridge between Cosmic Spirituality and the Physical
rebirth, he is repeating spiritually his experiences during
the Venus-man! But this is what actually appears to spiritual
spiritually, indicating the various cosmic relations between
to be spiritualised, imbued with soul. Beyond the Earth,
further by taking on, in soul-spiritual terms, the form of
Moon have by then become spiritual, and must be developed
spiritually between death and rebirth; and that which lies
beyond death has to be spiritualised also — then the
the spiritual world he can become able to bring to expression
the spiritual world his tendency to express in spherical form
they have to be investigated through Spiritual Science.
spiritual-scientific matters. if anyone says: ‘These
things have been told to me by a spiritual investigator, but
learn what Spiritual Science has to say, just as anyone can
difficulty in spreading Spiritual Science lies in this
take the content of Spiritual Science as something on a par
with that of other movements. But with Spiritual Science this
But that won't do where Spiritual Science is concerned; there
another, nibbling here, nibbling there. Spiritual Science
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Title: Lecture: Hygiene - a Social Problem
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Physiological Therapy Based on Spiritual Science.
spiritualistic superstitions of earlier times, or with the
Spiritual Science can help to get rid of the evil of which I have
What Spiritual Science must
but the outer manifestation, the outer revelation of active spiritual
Spiritual Science to observe a human being and say: “There is
spiritual conception of the world to speak like this and then build
We can only be spiritual
of the soul-and-Spirit. We are not spiritual scientists in the true
the direct offspring of Spirit. Spiritual Science is able to place a
Spiritual Science, for we know in very truth that the human being as
all manner of high-sounding theories about a spirituality that is
develop a Spiritual Science which will be able to bring life into
is that we must see in matter a manifestation of the Spiritual. Then
content, and with them a Spiritual Science that may be fruitful for
Spiritual Science we shall inevitably find that the Spirit we see
five fingers and cover the rest of him up, so in Spiritual Science we
difference between the way in which Spiritual Science is able to
the being of man. If, however, you listen to what Spiritual Science
direction, for Spiritual Science as we intend it, has only been in
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Title: Lecture: Speech and Song
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and the Life in Spiritual
spiritual activity — an activity which man performs in unison
it in a sense the spiritual germ of his future physical earthly body
equilibrium in the spiritual worlds. And this, man loses in a certain
neither in the conditions of equilibrium of his spiritual
the spiritual in-breathing or inspiration (which we observe to
song, in the spiritual world.
through and through an image of the spiritual. Everything here
him in external nature — is an image of the spiritual. Now when
spiritual world than in our thinking system. And it is of course the
the time it is shaped out of the spiritual world. This matter can be
understood only by deeper spiritual-scientific research. The
the spiritual world, in the way I have described in my book
receive the direct manifestations of the spiritual world
place of it, a new thing comes forth in the spiritual
we find to be none other than the spiritual counterparts of the
But the spiritual
ascend into the spiritual world. You live your way into a vowel world
spiritual sense. In effect, there is something living in the vowels
— namely the spiritual counterparts of the consonants.
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Title: Lecture: Concerning Electricity
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the Spiritual Resurrection, from Steiner's
Lectures on Spiritual Essence series. This lecture is also known as:
the Spiritual Resurrection, from Steiner's
Lectures on Spiritual Essence series. This lecture is also known as:
that time to imagine, at least abstractly, the spiritual in Nature.
tended towards the spiritual.

Title: Lecture: The Problem of Jesus and Christ in Earlier Times
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The Spiritual Union of Humanity through the Christ Impulse.
thinking, which had a spiritual quality and would have enabled human
spiritual being. But this form of knowledge, as we said, had
course, in the light of a past spiritual wisdom, but these Mysteries
Christ can be understood only as a spiritual being connected with
spiritual and suprasensory impulses. This Christ descends from cosmic
spiritual spheres. They could no longer comprehend how the ancient
could be understood, as a spiritual being, only through spiritual
personality; but in the realm of spiritual knowledge, we are
creation of the earth; he belongs to the spiritual world; he entered
spiritual being and tried to comprehend him in spiritual realms. But
into the spiritual realms, they were able to recognize the Christ and
the spiritual evolution of humanity, something was nurtured as a kind
can be grasped as a spiritual being with the aid of spiritual forces.
spiritual being, with physicality.
is in reality the Christ who appears in this earthly, soul-spiritual
presence of the spiritual world.
spiritual realms. The Christ had already reached the point where he
spiritual, they also spoke of a second stream that belongs to the
Although the whole encompassing fullness of spiritual wisdom had been
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Title: Lecture: On the Dimensions of Space
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physical and bodily. But the spiritual as such is nowhere to be found
well-known spiritualistic aberrations. These aberrations are in reality
itself a kind of spiritual essence, manifests itself in outer forms
spiritualism by proving that when so and so many men are dying and so
start from what anthroposophical spiritual science has to say.
have to be somewhat subtle, but spiritual science cannot really be
— well-meaning for the conception of spiritual things
the Spiritual. We eliminate the dimensions one
into the Spiritual.

Title: Lecture: Thinking and Willing as Two Poles of the Human Soul-Life
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with him when he descends from the spiritual world. He incorporates
into the spiritual world. There, however, they are in the highest degree
death into the spiritual life. The thought-forces which we bring with
of a spiritual nature, which are similar to those thought-forces in
receiving thought-forces coming from the spiritual worlds. Naturally
from thoughts given to him by Spiritual Science, such thinking is
arising out of Spiritual Science is in no sense merely theorising,
before one's eyes, — I am speaking now of spiritual eyes,
able to look into the spiritual world and behold the why and
sign of spirituality when anyone, — I have often spoken
existence. Lucifer, if he could, would spiritualise us, or shall we
solely on an abstract spiritual conception, for such a conception is
same time spiritual. Everywhere we have to do with spirit. And we learn

Title: Fall/Darkness: Lecture 1: The Driving Force Behind Europe's War
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The Spiritual Background of the External World ...
work in spiritual science.
again we must try to see clearly which stream of spiritual
reconcile this with the spiritual scientific finding that
hold of the human race. Failure to see the spiritual reality
arisen because the reality is considered in an unspiritual
people had sought to gain spiritual knowledge and spiritual
decades of the twentieth century. Spiritual awareness simply
earth and never had the opportunity to let spiritual impulses
spiritual impulses. If they had had the opportunity to take
in spiritual thoughts and ideas before they went through the
them and had been deprived of spiritual impulses while on
our physical world lies another, non-physical or spiritual
spiritual truths.

Title: Fall/Darkness: Lecture 2: Humanity's Struggle for Morality
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The Spiritual Background of the External World ...
processes here on the physical plane, or the spiritual
taken up spiritual life in recent decades is small, and the
spiritual life as the only way of freeing future humanity
have just described can bring the influence of the spiritual
deepen insight into nature in its spiritual aspect to a point
up a spiritual impulse in their inner life and push on from
within. People who do not take up anything spiritual remain
to look for inner spiritual impulses we now have a culture
spiritual impulses are needed in civilization. The most
spiritually, then, being very much a representative of the
the present age, a life we should not follow, for spiritual

Title: Fall/Darkness: Lecture 3: The Search for a Perfect World
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The Spiritual Background of the External World ...
sometimes also to those on pseudospiritual science, and
properly understood. If spiritual truths are rightly
By merely listening to spiritual truths they go through a
spiritual truths will first of all activate low instincts,
anthroposophical spiritual science have even the least notion
to this cowardice that anthroposophical spiritual science
a serious and dignified approach to our spiritual-scientific
background of spiritual science is presented in a serious and

Title: Fall/Darkness: Lecture 4: The Elemental Spirits of Birth and Death
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The Spiritual Background of the External World ...
spiritual background to the physical world. If people are not
to the senses. Spiritual entities are involved when a human
without the participation of spiritual entities. This is not

Title: Fall/Darkness: Lecture 5: Changes in Humanity's Spiritual Make-up
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The Spiritual Background of the External World ...
Changes in Humanity's SpiritualMake-up
The spiritual constitution is such today
they still saw spiritual entities through the colours. They
did not merely think spiritual entities, for there made
connected with an environment which had spiritual qualities.
may also call geniuses, see more deeply into the spiritual
of space, but it no longer yields up the spiritual element.
the natural and not from the spiritual world can no longer
want to be inspired by anything of a spiritual nature. This
Well, the actual spiritual element has already separated to
the highest spiritual level in a work of art, quite
which can only come from spiritual knowledge, the body will
A spiritual

Title: Fall/Darkness: Lecture 6: The New Spirituality
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The Spiritual Background of the External World ...
The New Spirituality
beings, the spiritual principle coming from the cosmos, has
outer environment provided much more that was spiritual. This
still had direct perception of spiritual elements in the
sounds, but perceived spiritual elements in colours and
senses perceived more of the spiritual, and at the same time
still sparkled with spiritual qualities. At the same time
external history is enriched by the study of spiritual
into a study of spiritual science. The whole way of thinking,
physical world and exactly the opposite in the spiritual
ass's ears; in the spiritual world, having ass's ears as an
acquainted again with the specific nature of the spiritual
thought up, they must have come from the spiritual world. In
beings had made their elemental spiritual nature sensual. All
in order to make the spiritual
human thoughts and the spiritual influences which come from

Title: Fall/Darkness: Lecture 7: Working from Spiritual Reality
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The Spiritual Background of the External World ...
Working from Spiritual Reality
little bit of spiritual science and who learns what people,
spiritual science, you may be entirely satisfied with the
us and gives spiritual, if not exactly physical, weight to
necessarily correspond to reality, because the spiritual
You must build your bridge between the spiritual and the
the spiritual world was a purely inward one based on
extent the spiritual world still lay open before his mind's
This is the concrete situation as regards the spiritual
post-Atlantean age. He clung to the spiritual connection
spiritual weight, and be aware of the fact that the spirit is
did the spiritual world demand that these people should have
spiritual weight, is perceived. We are now facing the latter
They do not see the true spiritual weight of it. And indeed,
from the awareness gained by knowing what gives spiritual
people who were so firmly connected with the spiritual world
reason why many people fear the spiritual world today as much
we are being unfair to spiritual science. The whole of
spiritual science is open to our understanding. But it is
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Title: Fall/Darkness: Lecture 8: Abstraction and Reality
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The Spiritual Background of the External World ...
must go, and a spiritual approach must be seen to be the
through spiritual science, not the kind of mere satisfaction
And if you are involved in a spiritual movement you must

Title: Fall/Darkness: Lecture 9: The Battle between Michael and 'The Dragon'
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The Spiritual Background of the External World ...
truths of spiritual development come to mind whenever you
the spiritual development of the peoples of Europe and
decades in the spiritual worlds, from the 1840s until the
in the spiritual world. Everything I am referring to at the
powers when they were in the spiritual world. If you think on
as I said, this was in the spiritual world.
powers were active in the spiritual realms and therefore left
spiritual realms they came upon human beings. And if we
spiritual world into human instincts. From the autumn of 1879
to such occurrences in the spiritual world and to the way in
found if one knows the spiritual background. It has to be
is also spiritual; it is merely a different form of
spirituality.
spiritual worlds into the earthly realm when they had lost
therefore would not unite with spiritual progress in human
is sheer foolishness. And then think of a spiritual
spiritual form of existence, but by then the earth will have
spiritual entities and their activities have no part in human
affairs having spiritual causes. Anyone who knows the real
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Title: Fall/Darkness: Lecture 10: The Influence of the Backward Angels
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The Spiritual Background of the External World ...
October) I sketched a diagram to show the spiritual
been in preparation for some time in the spiritual world. I
which began in the 1840s in the spiritual world lying
which fought a decisive battle in the spiritual world between
between the spiritual and the physical worlds are part of the
friends, know of the spiritual situation I have described and
atmosphere of spiritual life. This means, however, that
spiritual life must be encountered as a reality. Today,
have been forced to descend from the spiritual world into the
the spiritual powers. As I said in yesterday's public
aspect would be missing if we considered the spiritual aspect
perform their proper function in the spiritual world that is
the connection with our spiritual research. I have gone to a
spiritual science and the inner attitude which arises from
it, the ahrimanic powers do not do so well. This spiritual
human beings are filled with spiritual wisdom, these are
filled with spiritual wisdom are like a consuming fire and
seriousness we can feel: filled with spiritual wisdom we go

Title: Fall/Darkness: Lecture 11: Recognizing the Inner Human Being
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The Spiritual Background of the External World ...
outside, whilst inwardly it is more spiritual or
spiritualistic. Then a more spiritualistic stream comes to
situation is reversed again: the more spiritual line goes
will be more spiritual. It may well be that people do not
even want to know about this growing spiritual inwardness;
who cannot continue their development in the spiritual world
They are etheric and spiritual by nature and have a real,
insights of a spiritual science in which courage is taken
and in every field, need the stimulus of spiritual science.
stimulus of spiritual science, one will be a dried-up school
it is to bridge the gap between spiritual science in general
spiritual science and the specialist areas.
future from the point of view of spiritual science -to bridge
which streams in from the spiritual world and lets the Spirit

Title: Fall/Darkness: Lecture 12: The Spirits of Light and the Spirits of Darkness
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The Spiritual Background of the External World ...
darkness were cast out of the spiritual realm and down into
means to say that a battle raged for decades in the spiritual
certain spiritual entities, which had been acting like rebels
in the spiritual world during those decades, were vanquished
the physical world and the spiritual world and take as much
give validity again to spiritual events, which can be
perceived with the aid of spiritual science, for only then
spiritual world, that is from heaven to earth, in earlier
scheme of things will only work if higher spiritual entities
have meant that people would have become spiritual very
to those down on earth, were still in the spiritual world.
spiritual bonds between human beings which will take the
of spiritual communion will bring a progressive element into
spiritual worlds. How terrible is the reaction already
phrases signifying that something which in spiritual terms
For he saw the spiritual element in everything. Goethe thus
spiritual impulses if they want to be able to grow younger
head to gain a young soul from the wellsprings of spiritual
Goetheanism, in the theory of metamorphosis and of spiritual
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Title: Fall/Darkness: Lecture 13: The Fallen Spirits' Influence in the World
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The Spiritual Background of the External World ...
spiritual world form the background to these events. I have
place in the spiritual regions of the world between the early
dragon on behalf of the spiritual worlds in 1879. At that
impulses were cast down from the spiritual realm into the
if one turns the inner eye to the spiritual powers which are
which raged in the spiritual regions between the 1840s and
major occurrences in the spiritual world which then continued
events in spiritual regions were reflected here on earth, two
spiritual world during the 1820s and 1830s, when the souls
blood bonds. And so the human souls in the spiritual worlds
not get us anywhere; it needs genuine spiritual observation.
between the physical and the spiritual worlds can be found by
to the relationship between the physical and the spiritual
— was the emergence of spiritualism in the 1840s and
to explore the connections with the spiritual world by using
spiritualism would have spread enormously. For spiritualism
happened in spiritualistic circles partly represented a
significant intrusion of the spiritual world; they certainly
arose from impulses which came from the spiritual world and
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Title: Fall/Darkness: Lecture 14: Into the Future
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The Spiritual Background of the External World ...
the things which have to be said with regard to the spiritual
do reflect spiritual events.
but let me add today that spiritual guidance of earthly
The Spiritual Guidance of Man and of Humanity.
in the spiritual worlds. Much happened on earth as a result.
and in the spiritual realm, hardly touching on human life.
This is how the fact can be presented at the spiritual
the corresponding evolution of the spiritual world. We can
spiritual activities, otherwise they cannot be understood. It
direct observation of the spiritual worlds. Mere theorizing
actual spiritual observation to enable us to observe the
— before 1879 from the spiritual world and since then
darkness which had been cast down from the spiritual world
a social phenomenon traced back to its spiritual foundations.
into human minds by the ancient Mysteries. Spiritual
people enter consciously into the spiritual impulses that are
spiritual powers involved. We may say that the nineteenth
spiritual entities and their designs and purposes.
able to refute a spiritualistic thinker who knows that the
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Title: Lecture: Fall and Redemption
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the Spiritual Resurrection. In German:
civilization is really understood today from the spiritual-scientific
of the divine spiritual powers that guided him.
decision-making ability that is independent of the divine spiritual
replaces the soul-spiritual instincts — which alone were
spiritual powers, to the Yahweh or Jehovah powers, let us say,
in his evolution, man no longer felt that divine spiritual powers
divine spiritual powers. Whereas he would then have remained
spiritual powers. And then there arose in humanity this
my way back again to the divine spiritual powers. What I myself
only by finding my way back again: to the divine spiritual powers.
at best prove that divine spiritual powers exist; but one can
know nothing of these divine spiritual powers; one can only have
faith in these divine spiritual powers. One can have faith in
‘sinful’ meaning separated from the divine spiritual
something about the spiritual world.
divine spiritual worlds.
something about the spiritual one must ascend to revelation, which in
where we must direct our attention! — that spirituality
world. The concepts of the Schoolmen were not as unspiritual as ours
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Title: Lecture: Man's Fall and Redemption
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the Spiritual Resurrection. In German:
that man has no inner strength enabling him to reach the spiritual,
consciousness that is not born of his union with a divine-spiritual
origin, but of his separation from this divine-spiritual origin.
reach the source of origin of all, where everything is spiritual, and
spirit. Gradually man assumed a higher spirituality. The lower
assumed a higher spirituality. Facts show us this.
spiritual sphere.
scientific research must become permeated with spirituality. But this
spirituality cannot reach man as long as the content of space is
spiritual science, for these grasp the human being as he passes from
first decay and become spiritual, in order to change into skull-bones
vertebrae. But spiritual science is needed in order to pursue this
metamorphosis acquires significance only in the light of spiritual

Title: On the Mysteries of Ancient and Modern Times: Lecture 1
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the ingredients that have entered into the spiritual life of
physical world of humanity, into the purely spiritual. Thus
above all, into the Spiritual World, which we find here and
there were any other spiritual Powers here at work, they were
‘Spiritual’ as so much ‘eye-wash’
But these thoughts were contained in the spiritual
spiritual.
I mean, over against the higher spiritual Powers) to keep
Spiritual Science. For in these olden times, the moment a man
Therefore the spiritual counterpart of such knowledge was
spread of spiritual knowledge, — for spiritual
behind the barriers of the Mysteries. To-day, Spiritual

Title: On the Mysteries of Ancient and Modern Times: Lecture 2
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to a spiritual way of seeing things.
spoke of them yesterday, with Spiritual Science such as it must be
spiritual Wisdom in modern time to draw the attention of mankind to the
be gained through anthroposophical Spiritual Science. But
Earth in reality is a mighty spiritual organism. We live not
live within the mighty spiritual organism, Earth. This
spiritual organism has, in a certain sense, an ascending and
events beyond the Earth; it is, as it were, a spiritual, if
ramparts of a spiritual view of the world, — on the
earnestly into Spiritual Science, — into what Spiritual
Yet this is precisely the mission of Spiritual Science: to
of view Spiritual Science is indeed in sharpest opposition to
the ideal of the 19th century. Spiritual Science must
nonsense to the natural-scientific age. Spiritual Science, on
but it will not be prepared to look for those spiritual
brought into flow once more through Spiritual Science. They
must he sought for through Spiritual Science also. And would
spiritual Trinity, must stand behind it, — the
Spiritual Science cannot admit or confess its faith in any
Anthroposophical Spiritual Science takes the Virgin cosmic
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Title: On the Mysteries of Ancient and Modern Times: Lecture 3
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descends through birth from spiritual heights to grow and
The Spiritual Guidance of Mankind,
our anthroposophical Spiritual Science we have begun again to
this domain, Spiritual Science is no less important as an
true Spiritual Science, it can never feed men with mere
Namely, in compensation for this, the Spiritual Science of
“thing” of Spiritual Science is the Spirit itself
as I have made just now. It is essential to Spiritual Science

Title: Lecture: East and West in the Light of the Christmas Idea
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European Spiritual Impulses. It appears in the original German in
Norse and Middle European Spiritual Impulses.
the flame of a young spiritual life based upon a
mechanical-naturalistic foundation. This spiritual life is only
beginning of its development. But from this young spiritual life
exists an ancient life of the spirit, a spiritual life that can
the more spiritual aspects of life a word re-echoes from the East
contained in the primeval wisdom of the Orient. The spiritual
hands, he perceived a divine-spiritual essence.
there was something which announced itself as a soul-spiritual,
physical permeated by the spiritual. The fountain did not only
conveyed a soul-spiritual content. The forest did not only rustle
language of the everlasting Cosmic Word, of a soul-spiritual
spiritual way in which man lived in his surroundings gradually
The soul-spiritual
sphere, to the divine-spiritual which cannot be found on earth.
divine-spiritual life, and this certainty sprang out of
measure in which mankind has lost the spiritual from the
place in the spiritual sphere and the harmonization of the Maya
present misery we strive to transform into a spiritual reality
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Title: Lecture: Man and Cosmos
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Knowledge of Nature, the Fall of the Intellect into Sin, the Spiritual
Intellect into Sin, the Spiritual Resurrection.
the preceding lectures, but which bring results of spiritual
etheric or vital body revealed to spiritual investigation; and
the life-giving, vitalizing forces, or the spiritual.
the spiritual. Logically, its point of issue will have to be
by perceiving that modern spiritual science must endow old
Goetheanism, on the one hand, and spiritual science on the other,
an inkling will be illumined by spiritual science; and also
spiritual science may thus change into something giving us a

Title: Lecture: Human Freedom and Its Connection with the Mystery of Golgotha
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here, from birth to death, and in the spiritual world, from death
spiritual background, spoke through this semblance. He perceived
manifestation of a spiritual world. This spiritual world then
divine spiritual world, but the divine spiritual vanished from
manifest in the spiritual world. Between death and a new birth,
The divine spiritual worlds vanished from the semblance which
spiritual worlds imprison him so that he cannot maintain his
still saw the divine spiritual in the semblance. Bear in mind,
disappearance of divine spiritual life from the illusion of
united with a divine spiritual weaving. History has a meaning. If
spiritual should appear to man in a new way, not in the same way
imagine a spiritual essence in the physical at the beginning and
development out of a divine-spiritual existence, even as the
anthroposophical spiritual science as the cognitive activity. A
which leads us to a spiritual life guaranteed by the Mystery of
he could not yet take in spiritual science.
spiritual science strives for in regard to Christianity.
Spiritual science seeks to explain the Gospels, but it is not
Spiritual Being in the Sun. Even today the Sun is a Spiritual
Spiritual Being manifesting itself only outwardly in the way in
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Title: Lecture: Knowledge Pervaded with the Experience of Love
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without a spiritual-scientific deepening, that when the ancient
grasp without the aid of spiritual science, because modern people
facing the universe appears in the light of a spiritual
we must penetrate into them in a spiritual-scientific way,
stood upon it, I lived in a soul-spiritual world, imaginatively
divine, but that part which came from a spiritual world and
connection with man. The whole external spiritual culture was
of God the Father. Cults and rituals were arranged accordingly,
imagined in a purely spiritual form. Christ, the Son of God, was
the impulse of life, of something that is spiritually living;
rise up to the spirituality in which he is pervaded by ideas, and
able to carry his whole being into the spirituality of the world
spiritual clairvoyance can bring soul warmth and soul light into
“Philosophy of Spiritual Activity,”
Ghost. And this constitutes the difference between the spiritual
his spirituality from every single creature in Nature. As already
mind, only change when the spiritual comprehension of man within
the spiritual sphere, so that I may find Christ through the Holy
the necessity of treading a spiritual path. He needs it in view
spiritual path. And this inner push — recently I spoke of
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Title: Lecture: The Golden Legend and a German Christmas Play
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that Spirit Whom we seek in our spiritual strivings, the Spirit who
aversion are heard murmuring through the spiritual realm and might
heights to the Earth. If we unite this spiritually with that old
in his inner being within his earthly nature. Spiritual Science makes
the spiritual worlds is not the only part of man's being, but that
now ask — and here we touch a significant Mystery of Spiritual
books upon Spiritual Science. Up to that time the Ego worked
creates the super-sensible forces in the spiritual world. After
here touch a certain mystery of Spiritual Science that will become
spiritual world. There the Ego remains; it remains practically in the
is retained in the spiritual world. It must remain there, otherwise
in the spiritual world. Man will have to become conscious of this,
out of the spiritual worlds Christ descended, and in the body of
the spiritual part of us has remained behind. And humanity should be
attempt was made to bring more life into it, but on the spiritual
view. We have said that Haeckel may, even by Spiritual Science, be
a spiritual way for a meaning!
must be the spiritual active in the world; we must be able to unite
ourselves with the spiritual. For man in the sphere of erudition does
expressed and to-day we must visualise spiritually that there is in
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Title: Lecture: The Christmas Thought and the Secret of the Ego
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feeling. Hate and antipathy race through spiritual space and can
this spiritually in connection with the ancient picture of the tree,
spiritual science that it is not just what goes through the portal of
death into the spiritual world that belongs to the being of man;
spiritual science — what is really the situation with the
We know from the most varied spiritual scientific
super-sensible forces in the spiritual world. When we have gone
spiritual science that will become more and more clear as time
those forces we call ours in the spiritual world. The
“I” is retained in the spiritual world. It must be held
in the spiritual world, for otherwise we would never be able to
that we remain with our “I” back in the spiritual world
of the spiritual worlds. In the body of Jesus He prepared for
life, back to our childhood. Our spiritual element has remained
seek in a spiritual way for the earth's meaning, that humanity is
prohibited from looking for a meaning of the earth in a spiritual
however, something spiritual must be active in the world; we must
be able to unite ourselves with the spiritual, It is impossible for
simply, but spiritually we must consider the fact that there is
is not a merely physical process. Something spiritual is also
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Title: Lecture: On the Nature of Butterflies
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points to the presence of the spiritual that our curiosity cannot fail
of spiritual activity to be found in Nature. Now today I am going to
things are only grasped rightly when the spiritual is considered.
This ether-body enables it to take in the spiritual present in air. The
which are entirely spiritual and live in imprisoned light. Imprisoned
light always contains spiritual astral forces, and these create the
moreover have been true had he been too immature to behold spiritual
at work on the creature, but she works in a spiritual way. I have told
spiritual life is being swamped, and the time has now come when we must
continue or spiritual life will be completely swamped. Nature, now

Title: Conferencia: La Comunión Espiritual de la Humanidad
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COMUNIÓN ESPIRITUALDE LA HUMANIDAD
del mundo espiritual que tenían que ver principalmente con el
los mundos espirituales desde donde el ser humano desciende a su cuerpo
podía hablar y pensar de los mundos espirituales, así como un
espiritual-suprasensible se presentaba a ellos en imágenes —
cualquier realidad histórica, sino de un mundo espiritual que
espiritual era revelado a los hombres a través de
reflejaban para ellos una forma espiritual de existencia, pero los
divino-espiritual. Él también trató de descubrir las
manifestaciones de este divino-espiritual en los detalles, por ejemplo,
de tener la revelación de esta visión espiritual que se les
decían a sí mismos: El poder espiritual residente en el Sol
una comunión con la realidad divino-espiritual-suprasensible, y
la humanidad habita en la tierra como un Ser espiritual. En contraste
profundizar hacia el interior, de espiritualizar, cualquier conocimiento
Por lo tanto, debe recibir en su corazón al Ser Espiritual que se
constatación de la realidad espiritual-suprasensible en el hombre
hombres otra vez en el verdadero sentido encontrando la parte espiritual
necesitamos, un nacimiento de vida espiritual. Entonces, vamos a
espiritual y de la visión espiritual debe penetrar la oscuridad del

Title: Lecture: Factors of Karma, Deficiencies in Psychoanalysis
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spiritual-scientific study.
spiritual-scientific world-conception, they can only
unwilling to consider the investigations of Spiritual
understand spiritual science they have no guiding lines for
aware of these facts as derived from spiritual science, we can

Title: Lecture: Matter Incidental to the Question of Destiny
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to approach them by the paths which spiritual science opens out.
Theodor Vischer, descending from the spiritual worlds,
up by a true and vigorous spiritual-scientific movement.
are the very questions to which spiritual science will
On no account must anything really ‘spiritual’
efforts of modern times to enter into the spiritual world.
question. Study spiritual science in the right way, and you
— claiming at the same time to cultivate spiritual

Title: Lecture: Hereditary Impulses and Impulses from Previous Earth Lives
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Spiritual Science in our time must above all possess —
present studies: On the foundations of Spiritual Science, to
intensely through these spiritual studies. For it is the task
of our spiritual-scientific movement not only to provide
see how this spiritual-scientific movement tends to bring near
Spiritual Science. Take now the moment of birth. Before it, we
have a long period of time which man spends in the spiritual
which takes place in the spiritual between death and a new
... When he is in the spiritual world with the Angeloi,
be for Spiritual Science to enter into those circles which have
spiritual life. He, therefore, who knows the laws
understands what was spiritually at work in the first centuries
seventh century A.D. — if he knows these spiritual
were guided by the Divine-spiritual powers. We must approach
to receive the sustaining ideas of Spiritual Science.
that is, the Spirit of Spiritual Science.
that is out of the question. We must see how the spiritual
obedient to the spiritual message of the time,
communicates that part of Spiritual Science which is now
opposition is guided and directed everywhere by spiritual
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Title: Lecture: The Relation of Man to the Hierarchies
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levelled at our Spiritual Science by theologians and others who
are standing on the true ground of Christianity. This Spiritual
Hierarchies, with Beings existing in the spiritual World,
higher than man. For, as you know, we do speak of the spiritual
spiritual Beings between man and the Godhead — Beings who
conception are very prone to say that this science of spiritual
hear this objection hurled at Spiritual Science from very many
spiritual needs of our time. For it is really not the question
through other spiritual Beings; we will rise from our own souls
living in a different spiritual context than the old
quite definite takes place. We do not alter the spiritual facts
by giving ourselves up to fanciful ideas. The spiritual
Matérialisme et Spiritualisme
rising to a knowledge of the spiritual world. On the other hand
of the spiritual Hierarchies, for then one knows that the
to mind how we endeavour in Spiritual Science to counteract
Spiritual Science, but I should have to speak for months if I
Spiritual Science, to develop this earnestness of
an inherited, Divine-spiritual force. When a man spoke, it was
there live in that which men spoke a spiritual power of
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Title: Four Seasons/Archangels: Lecture I: The Michael Imagination
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atmosphere, there lies another world, perceptible by spiritual
kind of spiritual light or astral light, spiritual existence and
spiritual deeds shine out and run their course. And they are in truth
spiritual script. But these signposts have a quite special
astral light. In the spiritual world and in its communications,
and much else, can one discover what the inscription on a spiritual
spiritually in these realms, a remarkable saying. It sounds like a
important spiritual signpost in the astral light. Time and time
inscribed in highly significant spiritual script:
a man who out of present-day spiritual knowledge wrestles his way through
understand their inner spiritual significance on the one hand, and if
spiritually in the sulphurising and meteorising process in man,
soul-spiritual significance especially at Michaelmas. Then a man can
Festival. If that is done, if nature-knowledge is true, spiritual
dangers only if he starts to spiritualise life in this very domain,
if he penetrates through his environment to the spiritual; if he
Spiritual Science, so must you rise from your former idea of iron to
civilisation proves capable of spiritualising

Title: Four Seasons/Archangels: Lecture II: The Christmas Imagination
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autumn draws on, a kind of in-breathing by the Earth, a spiritual
everything of a spiritual nature which it had allowed to stream out
one approaches the matter from a spiritual-scientific point of view,
characteristic of being porous, as it were, to the spiritual. Where
there is a salt-deposit, the spiritual has a clear field of entry. In
an agreeable abode within it. But other spiritual elements, too, are
permeated with spirituality. In winter the Earth does indeed become
spiritual in itself, through the consolidating influence,
also to vivify the spiritualised substance and to lead it over into
spiritualised salt, activates everywhere this tendency towards
into the etheric-spiritual. So in the depths of winter we have on the
living-spiritual is taken away from the Earth. The Sun makes its
tendency is apparent to spiritual vision
influence on her. We can put this in spiritual-scientific terms by
spiritual-psychical-physical, which reveals itself to him in

Title: Four Seasons/Archangels: Lecture III: The Easter Imagination
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throughout with the most diverse spirituality, made up of the
perceive water everywhere; and similarly, if we move spiritually
living, spiritual forms which appear as Imaginations.
— dull in respect of its spiritual qualities. It loses them,
take their way, through a kind of cosmic-spiritual breathing-out into
the cosmos. The limestone's spiritual thinking qualities are dulled,
the elemental beings — who are wholly spiritual, immaterial,
way that they are noticed to-day only by someone who is spiritually
freely into spiritual heights and there he freely creates, for it is
in spiritual heights that freedom can prevail. Then he will create
spiritual wave-activities of the cosmos. And the experience brought
included in the Easter Mystery, the Easter ritual; and by celebrating
Imagination can lead directly to a ritual in the earthly realm, a
ritual embracing things which must be cherished and preserved
and ritual of Easter. Much else can come into them; of this I will

Title: Four Seasons/Archangels: Lecture IV: The St. John Imagination
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festival, we shall need to penetrate much more spiritually into the
have been turning our eyes on the active working of the spiritual in
bring the spiritual to meet him.
objective spirituality comes towards him from out of Nature's
spirituality in the outer world, and this is present everywhere in
Nature, if only man has the perception for it, the spiritual which
summer with deepened spiritual insight and with perceptive eyes, we
beauty which appears spiritually out of the cosmic weaving at
to look with spiritual eyes still more deeply into the blue,
So to spiritual
foundation of active spiritual being. The Heights become Mysteries,

Title: Four Seasons/Archangels: Lecture V: The Working Together of the Four Archangels
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fundamentally it is not understood. Real poets and spiritually
spiritual progress at the present day depends on our being able to
nature, but as a spiritual being. And just as we can follow the
the spiritual hearing of Inspiration, then we have the crowning of
spiritual forces, active in sense-perception and in thinking.
Galen. Thought, perception, the inner spiritual life of man, are a
becomes the material foundation for the spiritual life of man.
is the splendid thing that unites us, if we are cultivating Spiritual

Title: Lecture: Pythic, Prophetic and Spiritual-Scientific Clairvoyance
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Pythic, Prophetic and Spiritual-Scientific Clairvoyance
Pythic, Prophetic and Spiritual-Scientific Clairvoyance (edited),
The Path of Spiritual Knowledge
and Spiritual-Scientific Clairvoyance
we are striving towards, as a new spiritual knowledge, cannot consist
modern spiritual science — yet you still find descriptions of
we come to what we can call: the clairvoyance of spiritual
In this spiritual-scientific
pleasure, but a going-forth into the divinely spiritual forces
of the clairvoyance of spiritual-science. it is being taken up,
of our spiritual scientific stream. How much the earnestness is necessary
to this penetration into our spiritual scientific stream has often been
within this spiritual stream, if as many as possible would resolve to
impulses of soul, which lead to real spiritual scientific clairvoyance.
within our spiritual scientific stream, and thereby given some part of
the pursuit of spiritual science than exists even in the outside world.
which shows us how life is connected with the spiritual scientific view,
and ideas of spiritual science, the results of spiritual investigation,
which lives in spiritual science into your Hearts. For the salvation

Title: Lecture: Pythic, Prophetic and Spiritual-Scientific Clairvoyance
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Pythic, Prophetic and Spiritual-Scientific Clairvoyance
Pythic, Prophetic and Spiritual-Scientific Clairvoyance (original),
The Path of Spiritual Knowledge
and Spiritual-Scientific
and again that what we are striving towards as a new spiritual
with the exactitude and precision of modern spiritual science — you
we come to what we can call the Clairvoyance of Spiritual
In this spiritual scientific clairvoyance, we no longer grasp only a
spiritual forces of the All. It
the principle of the clairvoyance of spiritual science. It is
of our spiritual scientific stream. How much earnestness is
necessary for this penetration into our spiritual scientific stream
spiritual stream, if as many as possible would resolve to ponder in
impulses of soul which lead to real spiritual scientific
of what is imparted within our spiritual scientific stream, and
is cultivated through the pursuit of spiritual science than exists
how life is connected with the spiritual scientific view, and can
this: that you not only place the thoughts and ideas of spiritual
science, the results of spiritual investigation, before your
lives in spiritual science into your hearts. For the salvation of

Title: St. Augustine
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one can also call it the “spiritually-coloured
one knows that in ancient times the Spiritual world was
in ouch a way that men's visions of the Spiritual world were in
Spiritual things, that must not be grasped as a sum of
can. On this rests the true Spiritual evolution of
Spiritual progress of mankind rests finally on the fact that
that there existed a Spiritual life, because they beheld it.
him, though spiritualised, can be filled with Sprouting,
Sun-life. Only we must consider this Sun-life Spiritually, as
which means, only by grasping Spiritual Science with one's
Inner Being, does man come to see the Spiritual Reality
sensible phenomena of Nature super-sensible Spiritual beings
anti-spiritual character. And so Auguste Comte and his teacher
started studying Jacob Boehme, and found in him that Spiritual

Title: Architectural Forms
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of culture there shall break those spiritual impulses which
were experiencing a critical moment in that spiritual
spiritual world.
the other thought, of realising our spiritual movement in the
visible representation of our spiritual movement. But to
creative thing, not merely on a foundation of modern spiritual
modern spiritual life. No ordinary building was to be created
been bound up with contemporary spiritual movements, and
he does not only stand rooted in an earth- spiritual existence
pervades and spiritualises, from above, all that man effects on
architecture. Mediaeval architecture, again, is spiritualised,
impossibility of realising the spiritual life directly in
unspiritual way — but how it is unable to find any sort
expressed in the structure of the spiritual-social life of
antiquated. But we may well believe that our spiritual science
through an inner living process from our spiritual scientific
through spiritual science into humanity. We must therefore make
of our spiritual scientific conception of the world, must
call the spiritual scientific conception of the world. This
significance of this spiritual scientific trend. Of such voices
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Title: World History: Lecture I: Evolution of the Soul and of Memory
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spiritual world. In these lectures, given concurrently with the Christmas
of the ancient mysteries and the spiritual guidance of humanity. This
spiritual insight we go back far enough, we meet with human
Even to-day it is still of no small value for a man's spiritual
memory, which latter finds its completion in the spiritual life

Title: World History: Lecture II: Mysteries of 'Asia'
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spiritual world. In these lectures, given concurrently with the Christmas
of the ancient mysteries and the spiritual guidance of humanity. This
the Cosmos, to the spiritual and the physical in the Cosmic
to be laid hold of, he cannot grasp it: even spiritually, he
this physical realm is the body of a spiritual realm. Around me
is the spiritual world, the lowest spiritual world.
To him oxygen was spirit, it was that spiritual thing which
the atmosphere together with oxygen, was also spiritual; it was
one hand he was, as we now say, resting his body, the spiritual
was weaving within him in a spiritual activity of the external
Thus we see how in that ancient Eastern time the Spiritual
described, a high spiritual conception of things, their
living spiritual Beings moving in the sky, and the sharp line
procession of spiritual Beings hurrying forward over or in
Initiate also saw, with the rest, this spiritual host, but he
will. He is entirely given up to the Divine-spiritual world.
spiritual Beings that were the Pictures of the forest, the
unable to permeate the growing old with full spirituality. I

Title: World History: Lecture III: Asiatic Mysteries of Ephesus, Gilgamesh and Eabani
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spiritual world. In these lectures, given concurrently with the Christmas
of the ancient mysteries and the spiritual guidance of humanity. This
Occult History. Historical Personalities and Events in the Light of Spiritual Science
know that from the standpoint of Spiritual Science we have to
spirit, that which was spiritual and was in a manner connected
the entry of the Divine-spiritual Hierarchies, even as to-day
Hierarchies are themselves spiritual substance that penetrates
spiritual vision.
Spiritual Beings of the higher Hierarchies; for, as I told you
presence of Divine-spiritual Beings and had intercourse with
those Spiritual Powers to whom they always turned when they
sought enlightenment; and it came about that these Spiritual
Something that is really a higher spiritual force, is working
personality spiritually, even after death. Thus when we
spiritual Being who had never incarnated on Earth to work
on Earth as Spiritual Beings, had long ago withdrawn and
cosmic world of those Spiritual Beings Who were the first great
Spiritual Beings in this cosmic colony, Who were once the
man desired to learn something concerning the spiritual world,
insight into the spiritual world. And this he was able to do,
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Title: World History: Lecture IV: Atlantean Wisdom in the Mysteries of Hibernia, Gilgamish and Eabani at Ephesus, Logos Mysteries of Artemis at Ephesus
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spiritual world. In these lectures, given concurrently with the Christmas
of the ancient mysteries and the spiritual guidance of humanity. This
Spiritual Science, one cannot represent things otherwise than
still had an immediate relation to the Divine-Spiritual; when
of what had once been the Divine-Spiritual earthly Reality in
Spiritual from the men around them; for although they cannot be
13th and 14th centuries, who possessed a clear spiritual
in Spring spiritual flower-children come forth from the calices
of the Spiritual into the Physical in Nature, — were
Greeks. No, they were permeated by a real and lofty spiritual

Title: World History: Lecture V: Mysteries of the East, West, and of Ephesus
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spiritual world. In these lectures, given concurrently with the Christmas
of the ancient mysteries and the spiritual guidance of humanity. This
the Spiritual Beings who guide the worlds of the planets, who
spiritual world itself was either seen or felt in the
There appeared in them the shadow-spirits of Divine-Spiritual
with the Macrocosm and with the Divine-Spiritual Beings of the
Divine-Spiritual worlds.
spiritual world was still experienced, though in shadows.
individual and personal spiritual faculties. Step by step we
Divine-Spiritual existence. And then something else appears
the Divine-Spiritual and to set him down in the purely earthly.
real revelation of the Divine-Spiritual was as it were
saviour and deliverer from the spiritual fetters that have
also into Egypt. Everywhere he implanted the spiritual
fallen, resolved to found a spiritual Ephesus that should send
a spiritual Ephesus, reaching out across Asia Minor eastward to
is not really possible to understand the spiritual evolution of
laid for the founding of a spiritual Ephesus; and this
spiritual Ephesus is then pushed back by the new power that is
look in Imaginations. Spiritual vision is needed there. Yes, we
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Title: World History: Lecture VI: Mysteries of the Ancient Near East Enter Europe
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spiritual world. In these lectures, given concurrently with the Christmas
of the ancient mysteries and the spiritual guidance of humanity. This
spiritual. And others after him go further in the same
remind man of the spiritual life. With Rome on the other hand
spiritual world, lives in concepts and ideas, in mere
any knowledge of a living connection with the spiritual world.
speak of a soul-world bordering on the spiritual world, on the
this spiritual oriental world is the civilisation of the West;
able to catch again and again echoes of the spiritual.
humanity had no ideas with which to comprehend spiritually the
who were able to comprehend spiritually, from their connection
a spiritual path. Whilst in Palestine that most majestic and
of a civilisation from which the spiritual is excluded. It
humanity from the spiritual heights. Then began the age that I
his senses to the spiritual revelations that have again been
you must know that great spiritual forces were at work in
by certain spiritual powers from Asia. When he flung the
the spiritual was to be absolutely debarred entry there.
When a modern man reads Plato with true spiritual feeling and
individuals who gave evidence of Aristotelian spiritual
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Title: World History: Lecture VII: The Fifteenth Century and the Transition from Mind-Soul to Spiritual-Soul
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The Fifteenth Century and the Transition from Mind-Soul to Spiritual-Soul
spiritual world. In these lectures, given concurrently with the Christmas
of the ancient mysteries and the spiritual guidance of humanity. This
Spiritual Soul. For we live in an age when the evolution of the
Spiritual Soul is taking place, and it is an age that is
From the spiritual point of view, all this is sheer nonsense.

Title: World History: Lecture VIII: The Burning of the Ephesian Temple and the Goetheanum
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spiritual world. In these lectures, given concurrently with the Christmas
of the ancient mysteries and the spiritual guidance of humanity. This
in Nature on Earth, and led from these up to the spiritual
worlds and the revelations of the spiritual worlds in the
earthly into the distant stellar spaces, wherein the spiritual
this purpose: to lift the human soul into spiritual
olden times the Spiritual Guides of the Universe spoke of the
differentiated. The Divine-Spiritual Beings who are most
Divine-Spiritual Beings can never be jealous. Nevertheless in
further spiritual evolution was only possible if men became
the Jealousy of the Gods pervades the spiritual atmosphere over
ritual at the very time when it was taking place physically
but through spiritual means of communication. Notwithstanding
example, to the Holy Graal, must know how to tread spiritual
spiritual paths that he must tread.
Spiritual paths above all were necessary from the 13th, 14th
connected in their inner life with the spiritual temples which
physical body is not of the Earth, it is of high spirituality.
spiritual powers which are accessible to men, does this
body. Only the divine spiritual Beings can build it up —
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Title: World History: Lecture IX: World History in the Light of Anthroposophy
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spiritual world. In these lectures, given concurrently with the Christmas
of the ancient mysteries and the spiritual guidance of humanity. This
those individuals who are outwardly the spiritual leaders in
happening which summons men to adopt a spirituality different
spirituality.
the spiritual world, not on the Earth. Our striving here is to
develop the strength to follow impulses from the spiritual
opened for the reception of the spiritual impulses which have
spiritual world. And if we are to achieve anything fruitful for
spiritual world.
spiritual world could encounter many personalities during
recent decades, and observing them spiritually experience
way that is possible spiritually and observe these human beings
during their sleep while they are in the spiritual world with
Threshold and was instructed by him how to enter the spiritual
legitimate entry into the spiritual world must include the
endeavours to enter the spiritual world. But notably in the
be admitted into the spiritual world, to be allowed to cross
allowed to enter the spiritual world. You must go back! —
to enter the spiritual world, they would cross the threshold
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Title: Goethe, Comte and Bentham
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because the Hierarchy of the Angels work into our Spiritual,
into our psychic, Spiritual nature, inspiring it, therefore
consciousness on the basis of Spiritual Science. This consciousness
illegally, as we night say, absorb our Spiritual, Psychic nature.
not. We are that Spiritual, psychic being which makes use of the
or the other demon, more or less Divine Spiritual Beings,
thought of these Spiritual Beings as operative in the phenomena of
Spirituality, and is not bound up with his flesh and blood. Of
course, this can only be seen on the path of Spiritual Science, but
Spiritual
fate of Spiritual Science, it has to contradict and refute a
In spite of all that however, a Divine Spiritual
conscious connection with the Divine-Spiritual world of the
Spiritual Beings work into the earthly events and arrange and
Spiritual world there is a sequence of Hierarchies, and down below,
Spiritual Hierarchies, a sequence in the clerical dignitaries. In
Spiritual world.
they must again be won on those paths indicated by Spiritual
Science. All consciousness of the Spiritual basis, of a Spiritual
Ordering of Nature. We must press forward again to a Spiritual
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Title: Whitsuntide in the Course of the Year
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Art and Practical Questions in the Light of Spiritual Science.
Art and Practical Questions in the Light of Spiritual Science.
spiritual world, we must modify in many respects those ideas
at all with our thinking into the spiritual world. It is
actually found everywhere in our study of spiritual science,
the earth itself as spiritual being wakes when towards autumn
previously pointed out that it is due to spiritual initiation
the. dream-like Imagination of the old spiritual vision, then
you have put yourself into relation with the spiritual world
(I say expressly with the spiritual not the physical world)
Angel or an Archangel being of the spiritual world and want
works in the physical body. But when through spiritual
a great spiritual being having the earth as physical
knowledge of spiritual science.
that those who are drawn to spiritual science should acquire
spiritual world after death we should never be able to
of the entire spiritual cosmos.
spiritual life in the physical world, because these ideas
about spiritual life in the physical world begin just where
has deprived itself of the power to see the spiritual, the
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Title: Meditation and Concentration
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Ways of Spiritual Cognition and the Rejuvenation of the Artistic Lifestyle,
Ways of Spiritual Cognition and the Rejuvenation
The Path of Spiritual Knowledge
outlook of spiritual science. I should like to start from
time: that all spiritual-scientific observation is won by
enter into direct union with the spiritual worlds.
with the spiritual worlds is broken in ordinary life and
spiritual worlds, in which we indeed are.
essential that anyone occupying himself with spiritual
science should recognise exactly the value of spiritual
lead man into the spiritual world. We must be clear about
exist in the same way in the spiritual world. I have already
structure of the psycho-spiritual human being. How most
mention that a really earnest spiritual movement can have no
spiritual world, we are really led into a threefold
the threshold of the spiritual world, nothing is left which
feel, as soon as the threshold of the spiritual world is
results from spiritual science if the soul and spirit-nature
the spiritual-scientific point of view has to be so regarded,
the cosmos, as if by a spiritual electric attraction.
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Title: Karma of Vocation: Lecture I
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the connection of the spiritual scientific impulses with
influence that spiritual science must exert on individual,
epoch. In relation to the spiritual interests of humanity, the
life of Goethe as a spiritual phenomenon.
considers the human being in a spiritual scientific way. We
process of evolution and that a spiritual plan of the universe
you in order that we may form a spiritual scientific contact
what was spiritually alive in plants. He wished to hold the
evolutionary phrases of all entities, a unitary spiritual
present before their minds as a spiritually human problem.
through the interplay of spiritual forces in the human soul,
how man evolves spiritually from an everyday soul life to a
and unrealized spiritual treasure — a treasure which manifests
that we often hear are really only spiritual earthworms even
unites with spiritual science, but is by its very nature
already tied to spiritual science.

Title: Karma of Vocation: Lecture II
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reproved; in the sphere of spiritual science there is still
the elevation and spiritual permeation of humanity — have come
course of spiritual life through the decades preceding the time
When we trace the life of Goethe with spiritual scientific
this, as we shall see, would not be entirely accurate in a spiritual
who is able to enter in a spiritual scientific way into Goethe's boyhood
and youth finds in him a spiritual force of life, brought with him
spiritual vitality.
his powerful spiritual vitality, but this also devoured his
spiritual world conception. It was still somewhat chaotic, but
nevertheless a systematic spiritual world conception, and he
spiritually, it becomes possible for us to sense the profound
conceived spiritually. You will note also how Goethe's life was
same standpoint in the spiritual sphere as that occupied by the
impossible to assert that one who is spiritually creative never
possessed by modern man of the Greeks and the spiritual life of
steep themselves in this Greek spiritual life — let us say, in
spiritual meaning.
is deeply permeated with spiritual science arrives in his
In his time there was not as yet a spiritual science, so
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Title: Karma of Vocation: Lecture III
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reflections from another point of departure. In spiritual
more thoroughly with the tools provided by spiritual science.
often makes it necessary in the sphere of spiritual science to
the description we generally give in spiritual science is that
understanding, and it corresponds exactly with the spiritual
spiritual members of our organism.
basis of spiritual scientific investigation.
waking life between his soul-spiritual and his organic-physical
man, for example, is joined to spiritual cosmic relationship in
spiritual environment. Here you arrive at an understanding of
of his spiritual environment. Now, what did Goethe perceive in
and purely spiritual influences. He became aware of what lives
spiritual relationships with the spiritual world. Thus, we may
psychic-spiritual life with the spiritual world. Since we are
obliged to assume that the soul-spiritual is outside the head
experiencing a spiritual symbiosis with the surrounding
spiritual world. In a certain sense, we submerge ourselves in
an inner spiritual world in sleep, but in a surrounding
spiritual world when we awake.
state of being one with the surrounding spiritual world is more
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Title: Karma of Vocation: Lecture IV
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Someone might say that the spiritual scientific reflections
out specified mystery rituals. As a result, certain
spiritual science. Only by learning first to recognize the
spiritual scientist it is not possible to flatter human beings
if the subject is related intimately to their lives. Spiritual
Spiritual science will certainly not be in a position to do
true spiritual science compels us to declare that through the
caught in the treadmill of life and spiritual science cannot
evolution of the world is related to the spiritual, and in what
incarnation of spiritual beings. At present, during this earth
stage, these spiritual beings are, to be sure, still of an
concepts regarding the spiritual worlds, should enter into
there they are in spiritual science talking about many spirits
transformed into reality and people fail to have spiritual
knowledge of the spiritual forces that can be discovered by
spiritual science. In order that this development may occur, it
permeating it. Life in the spiritual scientific movement
complete decadence. To prevent this from happening, spiritual
many today, you know, who say, “This talk about the spiritual
spiritual things, we will then, in a way, have a paradise on
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Title: Karma of Vocation: Lecture V
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it must be replaced by spiritual scientific observation. It is
more comprehensive spiritual scientific conception of the
scientists and their unwillingness to take account of spiritual
spiritual science have no true guidelines for their
has derived it from spiritual science, it can then be observed

Title: Karma of Vocation: Lecture VI
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approach them in ways made possible by spiritual science. For
shall say that the soul of Vischer descended from the spiritual
such concepts, he actually slashes — spiritually, I mean —
spiritual scientific activities.
question of a sort that spiritual science seeks to answer. Such
to the taste of the age. There must be nothing spiritual in it
spiritual world. Berger wrote much during the course of his
Well, that is just the point. When you pursue spiritual science
in this nebulousness, also to cultivate spiritual science,

Title: Karma of Vocation: Lecture VII
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life that is essential to spiritual science in our time. I hope
our present considerations is to attain a spiritual scientific
precisely the mission of our spiritual scientific endeavors not
out from the spiritual scientific view what really lies at the
that the human being lives through in the spiritual world
etc. But while he is in the spiritual world together with
the entrance of spiritual science into those circles connected
explained only on the basis of spiritual life. So a person who
spiritually at work in the first centuries of the Christian
centuries — so that we know the spiritual impulses of that
understanding since they were guided by divine spiritual
the sustaining concepts and ideas of spiritual science, the
this is the attitude of spiritual science.
spiritual evolution of humanity advances from cycle to
the spiritual message for our time and communicates that
portion of spiritual science that can be given publicly
by spiritual powers, which must always be taken into
today opposition is easily raised against the spiritual science
suggestion that such a spiritual science should not be created
summoned in order to render this spiritual science innocuous.
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Title: Karma of Vocation: Lecture VIII
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be broadened through spiritual science to grasp the truth of
no significance for the concerns of the spiritual world, that
spiritual world through his own individuality as a result of
above the assumption of a spiritual-psychic organism in the
characteristics a greater tendency to spirituality, whereas men
according to this statement, spirituality is a weakness of
Materialism and Spiritualism
permeated by those impulses that are at play in spiritual
the spiritual influence received from its forefathers, but that
man, who has taken into himself something from spiritual

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the criticisms that is made against our spiritual science by
is that spiritual science affirms truths regarding a large
the spiritual world. We speak, as you know, of spiritual
declare that this knowledge of the spiritual hierarchies and
may hear this objection raised against spiritual science from
is absolutely no understanding of what the spiritual needs of
spiritual relationship from that of the ancient Greeks or
conceptions, we do not all change the spiritual realities that
Materialism and Spiritualism,
ascend to a knowledge of the spiritual world and hopes to find
God and that is to acknowledge the spiritual hierarchies. We
Just bear in mind how we endeavor by means of spiritual science
best you can. It is asserted from spiritual science and
spiritual science is to develop this seriousness in their view
in it much inherited divine-spiritual power. When the human
in a hall, so did a spiritual power of what they were in common
let your spiritual eye dwell upon this truth, you will be able
beings to whom he spoke; that is, in a spiritual sense, but
this spirituality was real.
is, while the cosmos has descended with its spiritual element
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Title: Karma of Vocation: Lecture X
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spiritual scientific investigation shows it, and we know it was
over from earlier planetary stages in which the spiritual
were no longer able to look up to the spiritual world as they
ancient knowledge of the spiritual world.
as a real perception of the spiritual world, now echoed in the
signifies that it passes over into the spiritual worlds, into
realm of spirituality. But then came the time when the human
to have his soul coalesce with the spiritual world. But through
spiritual. In a certain sense, he must then take Lucifer as his
on earth. Man would have spiritualized himself in an entirely
ascetic way and would have entered into the spiritual luciferic
world in this ascetic spiritualization, leaving behind the
earth into his spiritual kingdom. He had no interest in the
endeavored to spiritualize human beings, they were too strongly
possess this power to hold the moon, then the spiritual
lower nature because this force, from the spiritual point of
spiritualization, a subconscious process was required. Had the
consciously oppose mere spiritualization as this was striven
of death into the spiritual world and entered into relationship
a connection with the higher spiritual beings consciously. This
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Title: Mysteries of the Sun: Lecture I
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soul to look into the secrets of the cosmic, spiritual world.
is of the spirit. And the Spiritual lying at the Sun's basis
of the world. With this central good that is of a spiritual
vanishing of seeing the spiritual outside in the Cosmos, and
connection of Christ with the spiritual Sun has been cut off.
presses on to the reality, and only through spiritual science
constituents of some spiritual existence will also disappear.
they saw them all with the divine spiritual being behind. And
beyond the Venus age. Everything through which the spiritual
the earth, the spiritual being who before the mystery of
cosmic, the spiritual; in Jesus we must see that through
which this cosmic, spiritual being entered historic
time spiritual science, or spiritual science becoming natural
one side, spiritual science on the other. On no account must
is connected with the great spiritual mystery.
For confused chatter about all kinds of spiritual things,
for: we should stand on the firm ground that spiritual
to the spiritual. And what is more, should he not have this
the truths of life are concerned. For penetrating spiritual
spiritual.
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Title: Mysteries of the Sun: Lecture II
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from the standpoint of spiritual science. Nevertheless, we
shown as the red circle A, is connected the spiritual which
circle) This spiritual part of the head is a young spiritual
white, spiritual, is outside the head when you are asleep.
backbone, is bound up with the spiritual, and when you sleep
the spiritual is not so pronouncedly outside; for this breast
soul-spiritual actually disconnects itself in sleep; it
awake (see a in diagram 1) then the spiritual man
be sleeping man (see b diagram 1); the spiritual
his most recent spiritual member, in his physical head, he
little is known of what is connected in a soul-spiritual way
study and exercises of spiritual science, so that certain
being with a soul-spiritual aura just as ordinarily you look at
discussions about whether there are spiritual beings or not,
physical sense but in a spiritual sense in a certain way it
spiritual that would prefer to relegate all great questions
with the great spiritual world. Everything betraying this

Title: Mysteries of the Sun: Lecture III
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resisting it, becoming aware of the spiritual world. To such
time indicated, all conceptions related to spiritual and
soul-Sun again, the spiritual-Sun, still identified by Plato,
of the spiritual-Sun, the Good. But as the physical sun
between death and a new birth, the spiritual sun identified
meaning when we speak of the spiritual-Sun Plato still
spiritually. Were it possible to get near the sun, to reach
head has the power to make room for the spiritual. Now just
is the reality — when man is looked at spiritually from
soul-spiritual being.
soul-spiritual lights up and, from the other side, penetrates
pushing of the soul-spiritual against the physical body, he
infinitely important for spiritual culture, and will in
and legs, but that what is here is spiritual, spiritual
spiritual world does not say: I have hands and feet, he says;
there before the spiritual vision, out there stand the cosmic
conception the whole world dissolve into the spiritual. We
be really spiritual, of knowing that it is only apparent that
spiritual science.
of the spiritual as has been done here today; for then we
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of spiritualised gymnastics. As such, it is used in the

Title: Differentation of Primeval Wisdom into East, Middle, West
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Social Questions and their Spiritual Background,
Social Questions and their Spiritual Background,
indicated by Spiritual Science. That is the other path;
a sense taken back again into a pure Spiritual existence, and
from this pure Spiritual existence, he has descended to
treasure of Spiritual Science which can develop freely, they
unless the impulses of Spiritual Science are spread abroad in
once were essentially Spiritual truths; Asia,, even if in
Spiritual truths.
from the East as Spiritual truths. Human beings living in
very seriously, that unless a Spiritual Scientific impulse
permeated Spiritually, then without any doubt at all the
Spirituality which man must acquire once more.
economically, but also Spiritually is a thought very few
consequences, and the East was still immersed in Spiritual
Then Schiller wrote one might say as a kind of Spiritual
biography, a Spiritual description of Goethe, his letters
Philosophy of Spiritual Activity
Spiritual element from the utilitarian standpoint, etc., etc.
permeation of humanity by a real Spiritual element can alone
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Title: Man and Nature: Intellect in Man and Nature Bereft of the Gods
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of anthroposophical Spiritual Science by emphasising the
tendency to reject spiritual conceptions and occupy himself
spiritual research can contribute to the civilised life of
the Gods — the spiritual Beings — are no longer
something which represents the spiritual Past, we are looking
at a residue of the Spiritual. And that is why religious
divine-spiritual Beings who work creatively in mankind, is
spiritual beings of a lower order, are there, of course; but
the creative spiritual Beings who should live in our
spiritual evolution in the Past.
things. In the spiritual life of the nineteenth century the
man is a residue of divine-spiritual evolution was Philip
the Gods; where are the creative spiritual Beings? If I were
being of man is now the bearer of the Divine-Spiritual. The
Divine-Spiritual, the truly creative principles is
the truth that the Divine-Spiritual — the only truly
order to receive the Christ Impulse, the Divine Spiritual,
the Spirit into our being through Spiritual Science and unite
living substance of Spiritual Science. Abstract
evolution of the earth, he must receive the Spiritual into
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Title: La Piedra Fundamental - Meditación
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al mar del ser espiritual te llevan:
jerarquías espirituales, y está enteramente en alemán, al contrario

Title: The Foundation Stone Meditation
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1924, does not mention the spiritual hierarchies, and is entirely in

Title: Lecture: Human Knowledge and Its Significance for Man and the Cosmos
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was possible in Greece to preserve man's spiritual forces for the purpose
domain of Spiritual Science. It is not a question merely of learning
the teachings of Spiritual Science, nor of making them into a body of
world—at that very moment the Christ came down from the spiritual
can become the means of nourishing higher Spiritual Beings. Our concepts
become food for these higher Spiritual Beings. In other words, we must
and the only possibility of fulfillment will be if Spiritual Science
Spiritual Beings. The decay of a grain of wheat is a very real process.
passes into his service and constitutes his power. Through the Spiritual

Title: Contrasting World-conceptions of East and West
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the spiritual life of the West, we now admire Socrates, and
rich spiritual life existed in the East, even before the time
not the first stages of spiritual life of the East, for these
ancient spiritual life.
instreaming of divine-spiritual powers. Thus it was quite a
— were the field of action used by the divine-spiritual
of human evolution the divine-spiritual beings on earth
divine-spiritual beings directed their activities. When the
divine-spiritual beings.
thoughts, in the form of an inspiration. The divine-spiritual
might be said: At that time, the divine-spiritual beings still
divine-spiritual world and the earthly world. But this was only
part of his soul, the spiritual element of his Ego, were then
divine-spiritual deeds.
Earlier he had experienced these divine-spiritual deeds in
great majority of men, the gods, the spiritual beings, were, so
express this by saying that out of the former purely spiritual
contemplation of divine-spiritual beings a belief in ghosts
divine-spiritual beings is very ancient. The belief in ghosts
wonderful spiritual life of Greece, flowing into Greek art and
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Title: Year's Course as a Symbol for the Great Cosmic Year
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The Spiritual Union of Humanity through the Christ Impulse,
The Spiritual Union of Humanity through the Christ Impulse,
dear friends, many secrets of the spiritual world must first be
know that spiritual processes are interwoven with all the
soul-spiritual essence weaves and works in the mysterious
are therefore convinced that spiritual forces and influences
lifeless object we can see a soul-element, a spiritual
spiritual science we must first look upon it as an independent
earth. But spiritual science teaches us to observe the thoughts
spiritual science we therefore say; Two cycles interpenetrate
the Cosmic New Year. If the birth of spiritual knowledge lives
approach of a messenger from the spiritual world, revealing to
is deeply rooted in the spiritual mysteries.
spiritual science. Let us unfold within our heart that
attitude towards the aims of our spiritual knowledge; these
mysteries pursued, by spiritual Beings who surge and weave

Title: Spiritual Relations in the Configuration of the Human Organism: Lecture I
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Spiritual Relation in the Configuration of the Human Organism
soul-spiritual being in pre-earthly life. The head is formed by plastic
the side of what is called here anthroposophical spiritual science.

Title: Spiritual Relations in the Configuration of the Human Organism: Lecture II
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Spiritual Relation in the Configuration of the Human Organism
It enters fully into the spiritual realm. Only one must be able to stand.
it. Most people cannot take the real spiritual element. Therefore they
activity that is spiritual, but become “spleeny”. In reverse,
enthusiast, one who receives strength from the spiritual world through
does not fructify the high spiritual nature of the spleen. But this

Title: Spiritual Relations in the Configuration of the Human Organism: Lecture III
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Spiritual Relation in the Configuration of the Human Organism
into the spiritual world, ours is indeed the time of an important transition.The
During the epochs in which a spiritual world was still spoken of truthfully
one can acquire as knowledge in our time through spiritual research.
if one deepens more and more the study of spiritual science. You may
say: spiritual science, Anthroposophy — there also I read only

Title: Social Question as a Problem: Lecture I: The Inner Experience of Language
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their spiritual life before birth with what one might call a
spiritual world a kind of meeting takes place between the
souls of those just dead, who are returning to the spiritual
spiritual world men have had before they die act forcibly
feeling of the link with the spiritual world still lingers,
concerned themselves with conceptions of the spiritual world.
who have died having gained ideas of the spiritual world in
and more intensive. Those rising into the spiritual world,
earth with a deep spiritual antipathy to the civilization and
that the desire for a spiritual civilization in the hearts
spiritual life. It is just when we tried to find the verb
literature of spiritual science which I have tried to put
prosecution of spiritual Science the attempt is made, by
spiritually considered, abstract thinking is putting the feet
why speech is more nearly related to spiritual things the
concrete conception in what you would call a spiritual sense.
state gains control of the spiritual life. The more schools,
and spiritual activities have come under state control in the
the spiritual life based on itself will be able to call up
this necessary symbolization of man's spiritual being which
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Title: Social Question as a Problem: Lecture II: The Inner Experience of Language
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Spiritual Science, and therefore those interested in
Spiritual Science have a special inducement to regard this
question from out of a Spiritual Scientific standpoint. For
interested in Spiritual Science into the sphere of the social
spiritual culture of the future. An imaginative spiritual
so to speak, the culminating point of abstract spiritual
culture, that spiritual culture which everywhere works
tell themselves, that what really has to do with spiritual
such will be felt as gifts from the spiritual world. They
arbitrary manner, but in the sense of a great spiritual
spiritual organisation. The life of Inspiration which will
respect to the soul-spiritual life of mankind from what it is
experiences that have been going through in the spiritual
spiritual world some disposition that it mingles with what
he brings from the spiritual world. But that is the only
thing in language that is really spiritual. Actually the one
spiritual world.
spiritual world colored by their own emotions, here
life of the Spirit, the life in the spiritual organism:
language is a complete foreigner. The real inner spiritual
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Title: Goetheanism as an Impulse for Man's Transformation - Lecture I: The Difference Between Man and Animal
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emphasised here that when the truths of Spiritual Science are put into
misunderstanding of the knowledge and conceptions of Spiritual Science.
spiritual depth, that statements concerning Spiritual Science are made
when the facts of Spiritual Science are given out to say: “How
from which, particularly at the present time, the knowledge Spiritual
arising in this way we may include the belief that Spiritual Science
personalities outside the pale of Spiritual Science. Here too lies mere
misunderstanding. Spiritual scientists who seriously and adequately pay
there is often a refusal to enter upon concrete knowledge of the spiritual
world, recognition of the spiritual
best they allow that a spiritual world can be disclosed by means of
where there is any question of penetrating to the spiritual world in
actual experience. This aversion to spiritual reality is a characteristic
the ground of spiritual Science.
the spiritual scientist is indeed able really to appreciate the direction
is estimable in this thought. But the rejection of the really spiritual
will only be recognised aright if one is endowed by Spiritual Science with
still taking the standpoint that must be taken in Spiritual Science.
animals. The animal noticing only details cannot develop what is spiritual;
abstract concepts must live in the spiritual. For this reason one has
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Title: Goetheanism as an Impulse for Man's Transformation - Lecture II: St. John of the Cross
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with some particular spiritual stream. For you have seen that it is
a question of spiritual events that lie at the basis of the physical
here and there into the spiritual life of mankind. You must really be
away the many hindrances to which the adherent of such a spiritual revolution
how man, just by standing on the ground of Spiritual Science, can be
absolutely objective towards other spiritual streams, how he certainly
has no need to misjudge other spiritual streams. From this standpoint
opponents of the endeavours of Spiritual scientists today is not to
basis of Spiritual Science, the broad base on which it stands, they
is rare. What as Spiritual Science, according to how we understand it,
spiritual scientist that an orthodox Catholic may pronounce if he has
reason to assume this spiritual scientist to be an unintelligent reader
mean by Spiritual Science is its being pantheistic. One of the chief
Spiritual Science is Pantheism.
today, is to put in its place the concrete spiritual world of which
Spiritual Science speaks. It is naturally not intended, on the part
plants. Spiritual Science goes straight to the individual, concrete
spiritual beings and does not speak in the pantheistic general may about
has no wish to separate outer nature from the divine spiritual but would
from “Voices of the Time”, namely, that in sir Spiritual
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Title: Goetheanism as an Impulse for Man's Transformation - Lecture III: Clairvoyant Vision Looks at Mineral, Plant, Animal, Man
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for once call up before our souls some results of Spiritual Science
be described by pointing to the way in which an on-rolling spiritual
manner of Spiritual Science we keep in mind this particular state of
today, according to the outlook of Spiritual Science, how man when he
is observed according to the way of Spiritual Science. You see, on one
have come from the spiritual world through birth. I have entered this
in the spiritual realm? Why have I been enticed down to earth at all?
not there. To put it bluntly, in the time just before birth in the spiritual
are looking at beings exiled from the spiritual world, from the regions
is found when we go through death and enter directly into the spiritual
exiles from the spiritual world, banished out of the spiritual world,
is first perceived by us when we pass into the spiritual world through
is missing, that what is missing has run away from the spiritual world;
will not advance to a spiritual comprehension of the world, then connection
the spiritual world, so that through the recognition of the spiritual
the spiritual world which will be revealed in our time by a special
is an objective necessity for man to turn to the spiritual world in
at through Spiritual Science is that we recognise our head as an instrument
the head is made good again by the spiritual world. For up to the present,
is made active, this means the spiritual world is coming into play.
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Title: Goetheanism as an Impulse for Man's Transformation - Lecture 4: Human Qualities Which Oppose Antroposophy
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what hinders modern man from coming to recognition of the spiritual
world, as it must be understood through the spiritual knowledge of Anthroposophy,
actual form of the spiritual life. Now today I should like to go into
concerning Spiritual Science. If I may say so, through the fact that
understanding of the things of the spiritual world today, in a certain
from the spiritual world. And with the courage and interest to receive
permits, into the spiritual world. Already today it is necessary, and
spiritual world, to learn to understand it with sound human intelligence
in the way the spiritual world is spoken of in Spiritual Science. How
far man can become ripe to look into the spiritual world himself is
the things of the spiritual world simply through his sound human intelligence,
be prepared to accept, what is derived from Spiritual Science? And something
of the spiritual world actually look like when this world is entered
by the spiritual investigator. In former times the Initiates were allowed
to speak of a great deal about the spiritual world that was different
spiritual world before his soul is ripe to do so. Today this can indeed
is the last thing to bother about if one wants to understand the spiritual
by penetrating directly to the spiritual world in a way that they imagine
This preference for actually penetrating into the spiritual world without
When an attempt is made to penetrate into the spiritual world by anyone
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Title: Goetheanism as an Impulse for Man's Transformation - Lecture 5: Paganism, Hebraism, and the Greek Spirit, Hellenism
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accordance with Spiritual Science, we should not fail to notice that
by what is spiritual.
we try to grasp a spiritual event spiritually that we arrive at area
what creates the special relation of Spiritual Science to the Mystery
of Golgotha is that Spiritual Science will establish the Mystery of
of Golgotha must be understood spiritually as a spiritual event. And
it is only through spiritual understanding of the Mystery at Golgotha
(see The Spiritual Guidance of Mankind)
only to the spiritual worlds.
idea that for human perception the divine-spiritual is in some way to
is living in this nature as divine and spiritual. We see this in those
able to grasp the divine spiritual, in visions, in atavistic clairvoyance.
to grasp the divine spiritual. But everywhere we see man as a heathen
perception of the divine spiritual within nature.
divine spiritual impulse, this divine spiritual impulse remains without
is permeated through and through by a moral tone. There a spiritual
that such a refinement of spirituality, such a height in the conceptual
to its zenith, at the same time inwardly, spiritually, implied the necessity
correct spiritually) the pendulum has gathered so much inertia that
from the pagan mysteries. You have only to look at the Catholic ritual
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Title: Goetheanism as an Impulse for Man's Transformation - Lecture 6: Goetheanism as an Impulse for Man's Transformation
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last weeks but all through her spiritual striving, her wonderful spiritual
towards the spiritual region
of man was more spiritual than it is today. And it was this bodily nature
this force, for making oneself acquainted with the spiritual world by
of the spiritual had sunk to its lowest degree in man's bodily nature.
the spiritual was liberated in full consciousness. But the pupil in
the Mysteries was prepared to begin with in such a way that this spiritual
a man could really perceive in the spiritual. The great experience undergone
by Mystery pupils was that after initiation they knew about the spiritual
of the spiritual world.
is absolutely in accordance with Spiritual Science for us to ask the
this most fruitful of men in his being for all that is spiritual culture.
to be the spiritual king not only of mid-Europe but of all mankind.
soul out of the spiritual, and only the tendency is everywhere present.
external earthly culture, with the exception of the modicum of spiritual
century. The way back to Goethe must be found through the Spiritual
in a remarkable war having the very greatest influence upon his spiritual
to throw light on to the fairy tale from the standpoint of Spiritual
here to let the intellect be fructified by the conceptions of Spiritual
that will have to be completed as a great spiritual picture.
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should be made the centre of the movement for Spiritual Science from
building is put before the spiritual culture of the present time may,
I have said before in other connections, that if any of the spiritual
position Spiritual Science or Anthroposophy claims in the whole development
representation of that which is of a spiritual nature, was lacking in
are afraid of the inpouring of the spiritual, which can only manifest
it is this: The realisation that in this age a new spiritual life must
for the spreading of this new spiritual life, we cannot but feel that

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included in the Building itself is in organic union with its spiritual
of the idea that if we want to attain to spiritual truth, we can go
We must seek here not soul-spiritual indulgence but soul-spiritual activity.

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which is unspiritual can scarcely do otherwise than somehow strive for
expression, yet the time has come when a spiritualization of our cosmic
as in one living being, the spiritual, the psychic and the physical.
The spiritual is essentially brought to expression in the forms of the
spiritual above, the physical below. In that which should develop in
ego-being of man was not grasped. In the universal spiritual evolution
in its whole nature, portrays the shining-in of the spiritual world
of civilisation, those which inspire from the spiritual world that figure
that spirituality that must result from the realisation of this dualism,
embody the spiritual revelation of the coming 6th post-Atlantean period
that which is here inspiring him is more spiritual compared with the
spiritually. But we must rightly understand man and rightly perceive
an untrue mask. When humanity will have reached a certain spiritualisation
of great importance that this visible token of Spiritual Science from
when we hear that there are to-day men who say: Oh Spiritual Science
according to Anthroposophy was very pleasant, as long as it was Spiritual
individual men among the earlier followers of Anthroposophical Spiritual
Science who say: Spiritual Science was very acceptable to us by itself;
never wished to be; this sectarianism only strives after a certain spiritual
spiritual striving is to have a practical social result. Is it not heartless
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Title: Problem of Faust: Lecture I: The Problem of Faust
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Spiritual Scientific Note on Goethe's Faust Vol. II,
from a spiritual and from an external, material point of
actually only see the ruins of a culture, a spiritual culture
historical Faust was placed into an age of decaying spiritual
spiritual world through its dealings with nature but no
at a different kind of wisdom with regard to the spiritual
all that he has become spiritualised. Faust cannot remain
taken place in him and he has acquired a certain spiritual
spiritual. This Faust sees. It goes without saying that
simple phenomenon Faust sees also something spiritual.Let us
spiritual connection between himself and the poodle, he now
spiritually wishes to see. He now returns home to his cell
stirred in a spiritual way:
growls. But let us be quite clear that those are spiritual
experiences; even the growling of the poodle is a spiritual
progressive spiritual forces. Mephistopheles is the spirit
Faust standing between the divine, spiritual world that bears
divert a man from spiritual endeavor. Directly anything holy
towards the divine spiritual, and his instincts growling at
spiritual endeavor. When Faust says: “Be quiet
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Title: Problem of Faust: Lecture II: The Romantic Walpurgis-Night
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Spiritual Scientific Note on Goethe's Faust Vol. II,
bear in mind that Goethe's meaning was really of a spiritual
that no one has taken it from a spiritual point of view. It
certain spiritual connections. Anyone familiar with these
written out of understanding for what is spiritual. Anyone
is the result of spiritual understanding, or whether he is
just thinking out something about spiritual worlds and their
would not allow that there was anything spiritual and many of
believed that spiritual forces do work through such
nothing to do with what is spiritual, but Freemasons were
in this way, nothing is irrelevant from a spiritual point of
we are dealing with is a spiritual experience coming to Faust
and has found Mephistopheles in the spiritual world. And it
is in the spiritual world that they wandered together to the
bodies. This is a genuine spiritual occurrence, represented
the very essence of the spiritual world.
attention is drawn to how, when we are thus in the spiritual,
spiritual beings that we are shown, in the Goethe lets us see
what unites him with knowledge of the spiritual world. That
we meet something genuinely spiritual, something that has
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Title: Problem of Faust: Lecture III: Goethe's Feeling for the Concrete.
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Spiritual Scientific Note on Goethe's Faust Vol. II,
within which also flows the stream of Spiritual Science. We
will spring up through Spiritual Science. These scenes from
familiar ideas of Spiritual Science. For, in these ideas, all
the spiritual world should actually promote caricatures of
formulate the divine spiritual dwelling in man's innermost
may become conscious of his divine spiritual origin. Fichte
spiritual thrust should meet with opposition. Naturally
Fichte could not then speak in the concrete way of Spiritual
impressions of Spiritual Science. Hence his language has
— to even greater degree than is necessary in Spiritual
particularly, when Spiritual Science can penetrate our
about all that was so vividly before their spiritual I people
death! — It was a spiritual struggle of the first
principles, yet we can say that he was a spiritual dwelling
perception of the living in spiritual and all nature and in
spiritual secrets of the early Greek days. He wanted to unite
Association with the spiritual. Faust is called a Helen from
before him only as a spiritual force. He is paralyzed by what
he experiences spiritually. Inwardly he is filled with what
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Title: Problem of Faust: Lecture IV: Faust and the "Mothers"
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Spiritual Scientific Note on Goethe's Faust Vol. II,
contains a kind of culminating point of all that is spiritual
spiritual world immediately bordering on our physical
spiritual world. And everything said in the book
spiritual world, he does not have to be an initiate only, but
to point out to the world that there is a spiritual kindom,
through great spiritual vision. The whole connection with the
what is spiritual. Everything physical is a mere picture of
the spiritual.
things that bring him near the spiritual worlds. On that

Title: Problem of Faust: Lecture V: Faust and the Problem of Evil
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Spiritual Scientific Note on Goethe's Faust Vol. II,
of spiritual science; we are thus gradually led to form real
spiritual contemplation, if his state of consciousness was
the Spiritual World. Therefore in ancient Greece there was an
concrete spiritual shape and form. Into this spiritual form.
have the task to be aware of the aspect of the spiritual
lives in it spiritually. Flow often have we spoken of it in
spiritual realities, as in Goethe's Faust?

Title: Problem of Faust: Lecture VI: The Helena Saga and the Riddle of Freedom
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Spiritual Scientific Note on Goethe's Faust Vol. II,
recently been showing, inner spiritual connections prevail,
have to summon forth from spiritual depths, the opposite
to receive the spiritual impulses will then find points of
even from the general teachings of Spiritual Science. And
Luciferic spiritual Beings!” They did not say this to them;
spiritual.) Yet, for the sake of progress, rebellions always
Spiritual World above, as in this case the rivalry of the
worked-out, in spiritual realms above. Now in a certain sense
the Spiritual World. This is a point where the great riddle
reflected image of what happens in the Spiritual World above?
And again, how would the Spiritual World, which is the guide
Spiritual World stand there if, so to speak, it had nothing
spiritual forces, spiritual Powers; and nothing happens that
does not happen down from the Spiritual World. And the second
the Spiritual World, what the Gods do there represents the
influences that take place out of the Spiritual World. Either
it is an oracle that brings the message from the Spiritual
and Zeus; here too the Spiritual World works in directly. In
human being can only come to spiritual freedom by growing
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Title: Problem of Faust: Lecture VII: Some Spiritual-Scientific Observations
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Some Spiritual-Scientific Observations in Connection with the
from the Point of View of Spiritual Science
Spiritual Scientific Note on Goethe's Faust Vol. II,
Some Spiritual-Scientific Observations in
from the Point of View of Spiritual Science
achievement I shall add some Spiritual-Scientific
truths of Spiritual Science even though these truths did not
understanding did not reach up to the truths of Spiritual
insight into Spiritual Science. I can do this some other
Goethe must have seen certain things in the spiritual world
creature points us back to his creators, his spiritual
of spiritual chemistry, so to say, we can extract from man
particular spiritual creators, on those beings among the
spiritual creators we have this stream which I will colour
why over and over again I emphasise that in Spiritual Science
way in which accurately given information about Spiritual
few remarks out of the essence of Spiritual Science. Thus
and course of your spiritual life. And I have seen that you
been obliged to produce a spiritual Greece in your soul,
whence the dreams arise. But spiritual science can guide us
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Spiritual Scientific Note on Goethe's Faust Vol. II,
Spiritual Science Considered
Goethe himself felt deeply that the spiritual forces,that can
with the spiritual, in reality relates only to earthly being
Spiritual Science — investigations into worlds unknown
evolution, to come to a knowledge of Spiritual Science. There
Spiritual Science for many years, and yet am no whit
Spiritual Science, but it does not help me forward. — I
Spiritual Science brings progress to everyone, even when it
does not develop an esoteric life. The thoughts of Spiritual
path of anyone beginning to study Spiritual Science, in its
those perceptions that flow through spiritual life, when
the soul of a spiritual scientist. But if these pictures are
analysed according to the guidance Spiritual Science can
rightly regarded, throws much light on spiritual secrets. We
dreams, but that can lead us into the spiritual world. But we
reflections of higher spiritual worlds, fade away from man
a personality standing within the spiritual world but only
the present can never reach the spiritual at all, but, in
Anaxagoras, still preserves the spiritual out of the old
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Title: Problem of Faust: Lecture IX: Goethe's Life of the Soul from the Standpoint of Spiritual Science
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Spiritual Scientific Note on Goethe's Faust Vol. II,
from the Standpoint of Spiritual Science
a certain outlook suggestive of that of spiritual
Goethe's spiritual life. It is only by shedding before the
Goethe's spiritual life if this is done from the standpoint
of spiritual science. It is not merely that from an
unspiritual standpoint we can naturally never find in
at it from the point of view of spiritual Science.
spiritual life — and not least for the religious life — that
driven along the right path into the sphere of the spiritual,
in spiritual worlds.
Goethe's natural science is in accordance with the spiritual,
spiritual. It is possible, therefore, to say that it was just
spiritual comprehension is concerned, because he did not
so little inclined towards the spiritual, and, although
concepts of the spiritual world are formed, they are so
certain concepts, ideas, about the spiritual. These are so
spiritual forms and realms of existence? Even if sound
ophies but give ourselves up to spiritual perceptions. And it
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Title: Problem of Faust: Lecture X: Faust's Knowledge and Understanding of Himself
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through it he has penetrated deeply into the spiritual, in
is connected with what is spiritual in the universe. It
spiritual powers.
knowledge of man can only be imparted through true spiritual
Imaginations in some degree still approached spiritual
their bodies, and set them in the spiritual cosmos.
and seventh. But man's spiritual gaze was mainly fixed on the
perception that what is seen spiritually in the spiritual
spiritual world the spiritual correlate of the human birth
spiritually outside the skin.
however, always emphasise that, as regards spiritual
Spiritual
movement like Spiritual Science from very different motives.
spiritual world nearest man, the world man first enters on
spirit? Spiritualists generally renounce all claim to
unspiritual. Spiritualism is the most materialistic doctrine
in Spiritual Science one should rise above all this abstract
in Spiritual Science, and you will see how it rises
by step, can lead into the actual spiritual world. What is
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Title: Problem of Faust: Lecture XI: The Vision of Reality in the Greek Myths
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body. Hence, true Spiritual Science, true Anthroposophy,
echoes of atavistic spiritual vision. And after showing all
to what, in the spiritual connection of nature, is the other
develops himself further through Spiritual Science. And
Spiritual Science. He came nearer its further stages when
that is demonic, the elemental beings of a spiritual nature,
and Marsi are demonic snakes, who draw into the spiritual the
the relation of the spiritual world to the world of the
spiritual beings from the other side of existence, and how
unperceived in its passing. We sink down into a spiritual
world, we are submerged in a spiritual world; we wake up,
spiritual world in its reality. Then they wake through the
only as a diving out of the spiritual world, down into the
be wakened out of spiritual perception, highest spiritual
as to show that what has been perceived in the spiritual
able to take the plunge into the spiritual world that I now
in many ways so spiritually minded, and who has said so much
spiritual vision gives.

Title: Problem of Faust: Lecture XII: Goetheanism In Place of Homunculism and Mephistophelianism
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artistic creation out of this spiritual life, so that in this
as it were, the spiritual language, in which such a work is
towards spiritual experience. One of these feelings comes
scale from instinct up to the purest spiritual ideals. In all
these impulses, from grossest instincts up to spiritual
researches of Spiritual Science, and through a spiritual kind
pendulum, the balance; in the spiritual, moral sphere, man
spiritual world and again sent down; were man not thus
taken up into the spiritual world. This is expressed also in
Only because the spiritual comes from above and, as it were,
spiritual world. We slip into our physical head and cannot
this Homunculus is. We come from the spiritual world seeking
spiritual world, we have prepared ourselves to understand
people did not enrich themselves with spiritual treasure but
pictured the world where men treat even spiritual matters
where Spiritual Science speaks of the supersensible knowledge

Title: Karmic Relationships, Volume III: Lecture I
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spiritual-scientific study many things will appear differently.
witness the rise of two spiritual streams. One was represented
They would have felt the spirituality of the earth as its
spiritual stream of which I have just spoken was aware of the
spiritual — or at the very least, ethereal —
spiritual reality that surrounds us (surrounds us as a reality,
the spiritual inwardness, has passed away. It must first be
acquired again by spiritual-scientific knowledge livingly
must think livingly upon the knowledge of spiritual science,
now only working from the spiritual world, yet all the stronger
presence in the spiritual environment of the earth, perceptible
hearts today. Spiritual science, once again, is here to draw
about the spiritual life and being.
earthly life. But everything spiritual plays its part between
spiritual research it can be discovered among the real things
spirituality.
need education to spiritual hearing, spiritual listening. Only
then shall we develop true spirituality among us. I wanted to
to witness, as I did, many a concrete spiritual fact.

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of two distinct circles of spiritual work. This is of quite special
a particular form of spiritual activity in our time. For what has so
the flame of offering, or to celebrate ritual with the Mercury staff.
certain ritual measures. For instance, the healthfulness or
at the spiritual aspect, one has to ponder on the working of the
renewal of spiritual life. Indeed, from fundamental anthroposophical
want to set in motion, whether physical or spiritual or pertaining to
the spiritual world. Your alteration of someone's condition of
of the spiritual world. And when you have a really active cure,
they enter directly into the realm of the spiritual. It only seems
physical realm into the spiritual.
connected with the ritual, and the ritual includes the sacraments.
origin in the spiritual world. Sense-perceptible actions are
performed, and spirit streams into the actions. Spiritual reality is
present in the ritual on the level of sense perception. And what
be ritual, not sacrament, but suggestion. The sacraments — if
is spiritual. They take place before the waking consciousness of the
is celebrated, through an orientation toward the spiritual world.
ritual with its sacraments leads from consciousness to life.
Ritual (sacraments): consciousness to life
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Title: Pastoral Medicine: Lecture 2
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genuine revelations from the spiritual world, just as one can have
unable from their soul-spiritual individuality to control their
transition from illness to spirituality.
tremendously magnificent, with spiritual beings moving within
spiritual world in a modern way but similarly to the Greek priests,
who learned about the spiritual world from the Pythians, who imparted
all kinds of revelations concerning the spiritual world through

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individuals. With them there is a kind of appearance of the spiritual
presence of some spiritual being, but they have no precise vision of
together with some spiritual being. As long as they are in this stage
spiritual beings that were present. First they tell of the feeling of
being touched, of having spiritual hands laid upon them, even of
spiritual awareness goes further. If one were suddenly to pull such
people out of their spiritual state, they would feel the pain as sick
have the feeling that spiritual beings come to them, but that they
themselves have risen into the spiritual world. At this stage the
pain. When the spiritual being pulled out the sword he pulled the
spiritual experience in the ego organization and astral body, and at
body is drawn to the ego organization and experiences spiritual
human soul-spiritual entity comes down out of the soul-spiritual
the pain? The real spiritual world. It comes through the pain. The
spiritual world comes from the other direction. Ordinary sense
The spiritual world is grasped in the opposite way. The way to it is
spiritual world, the moment the spiritual world enters, the pain is
organism; then the spiritual world penetrates the pain, streams
beyond it to an experience of the spiritual world. The physical pain
if they make distinctions, of the presence of the spiritual
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Title: Pastoral Medicine: Lecture 4
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two ingredients. Human beings come out of the spiritual,
body. We see how what we bring down from spiritual worlds — our
between death and a new birth (or conception) in the spiritual world.
In the spiritual world we are surrounded by realities very different
look at a tree, the same spiritual forces are working in it as those
physical world in which we live between birth and death, spiritual
can think of the activities of the spiritual world continuing into
except this spiritual reality in all the colors, all the forms, all
physical world of the continuing spiritual activity. This awareness
spiritual. For this reason if a child's father has a fit of anger,
during this time is turned entirely toward spiritual foundations and
works out of spiritual forces.
What is really working when spiritual forces are working? Obviously
Only invisible spiritual beings make an impression on the child,
of the spiritual hierarchies higher than human beings, but also the
spiritual forces, out of these mighty spiritual dynamics the child
built out of the spiritual world.
surrounding world: the spiritual world. Someday when medicine reaches
a proper spiritual outlook, this interplay between the spiritual and
have to comprehend physical development as a soul-spiritual activity
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Title: Pastoral Medicine: Lecture 5
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having intuition, do develop a perception of the spiritual world and
into a kind of dream condition. From a spiritual-scientific point of
spiritual world. Dream is transformed into a state in which the
individual is really able to see into the spiritual world and to feel
the presence of spiritual beings.
first type. Individuals who feel the presence of spiritual beings,
spiritual beings. We had there the bringing of waking-sleep into
revealed the spiritual world, is in this case pouring itself inward,
a reaching out more externally, to the spiritual world beyond the
that has a spiritual content. They reach into the spiritual world and
of spiritual things they have epileptic conditions, empty gaps in
into bliss, and then further to an experience of the spiritual world
in its pure spirituality. This is called “rest in God” or
spiritual beings to a third stage, being present in the spiritual
spiritual means — to cure what is already pathological. It is
step into spiritual life and its extreme opposite — a step into
the physical body. A further step into the spiritual world for the

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connection to the real spiritual world.
into the spiritual world and, in the same human being, a need to
need to stand within the spiritual world and look at this physical
world from a spiritual point of view. The human being journeys
through successive earth-lives; causes reach over spiritually from
need to appreciate the spiritual significance of what confronts a
illness has its original spiritual cause in sin. This was a serious
belief. There had to be a spiritual error or failure somewhere as the
further. It was believed of a person in whom the spiritual fault lay
spiritual force that did not belong there, that somehow the person
that a person was “possessed” by some spiritual entity as
the consequence of spiritual error or fault. Therapy was created
ill person the alien elemental spirituality that had entered through
a spiritual offense. Basically this was the belief that one does not
perversion of the will) and on the other hand the spiritual teachings
spiritual teachings, as well as his own religious devotion. This is
spiritual fantasy, but the ability to put into poetic form correct
is about ordinary physical human life into which elemental spiritual
incarnations his ability to portray spiritual things, to put
spiritual happenings into human life. One need only look at
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Title: Pastoral Medicine: Lecture 7
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there before my eyes as a spiritual vision. And the need arose to
bring what was opening up for me spiritually — for instance,
bring what we have seen spiritually into harmony with what science is
be in accord with it. Spiritual science would never choose to be in
nature and a spiritual nature, and do not have just a physical
to a new level. We must begin from the side of spiritual science to
what we see as spiritual processes. We will be going in the right
with spiritual life.
spiritual science knows that in warmth one has to do with a separate
nerve-sense process that becomes a spiritual activity. Below we have
it streams in. Karma streams in. If with spiritual vision one
When we look with spiritual eyes at the lymph that has not yet become
physical and spiritual. Above, the human being qualitatively comes
close to the spiritual and touches karma. In between, the present
to see the spiritual working in the physical. Only this will perfect

Title: Pastoral Medicine: Lecture 8
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the clear experience of this: “I am in the spiritual world out of
differentiate between spiritual world and sense world, one is beyond
of the contours of the sense world, there is a general spirituality,
general weaving spirituality, now there appear beings of the second
hierarchy. Now one can differentiate in the spiritual world. Moon and
stars appear again, but in their spiritual aspect: they are now
spiritual colonies — they can be called that, or something
a physical body, and has actually taken hold of it in its spiritual
dimension, the sun is seen as a spiritual being, and the same with
spiritual sun. You have there an important view of the human being
the spiritual sun rays stream in invisibly and are transformed as
through spiritual science with the moon forces.
forces of the spiritual sun, we will experience an infinite happiness
is not merely a soul-spiritual force: it is the force that calls
quite a different character. On the one hand we can say the spiritual
before us is a spiritual being similar to ourselves but distorted,
the spiritual world, streaming out into the macrocosm, constantly
spiritual embryo. Then the possibility is given for forming what must
come in from the spiritual world, what has been in the spiritual
human being is born not physically, but spiritually. If we add to the
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Title: Pastoral Medicine: Lecture 9
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or her spiritual life and experience. The understanding that should
state of illness in connection with a person's spiritual life, this
there so that the soul-life and spiritual life as a whole can really
unfold. For the spiritual life is not connected with anabolic
human soul-spiritual life. And that points to a secret of this world
etheric bodies we find the basis for spiritual development; on the
human spiritual development. Thus if we study what is active during
be a healer requires first and foremost a spiritual outlook on the
soul-spiritual entity (as the things I was just describing did not
power to perceive spiritual things, then afterward carries back
memories of spiritual perception into waking consciousness. In
particular, these abnormal spiritual perceptions appear in lively
experiences of the spiritual aspect of external nature. Suppose the
farther out of the physical and etheric body. If the spiritual,
what is spiritual in the minerals. And what does the person dream
sustained by spiritual knowledge and enriched by scientific research.
spiritual world, in everything that will help their ego and astral
body to find their way in the spiritual world. If it is the
spiritual point of view, to explore pathological conditions from a
spiritual point of view, then what must the priest look for? The
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Title: Pastoral Medicine: Lecture 10
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do with the working, and the wanting to work, of the spiritual world.
It is this: that total spiritual activity must include the creative
spiritual life was called — and still is called —
who talk so glibly about spiritualism, idealism, and the like are
spiritual. But such thoughts do not have that capacity. For that, one
has to go to true spiritual science. That is why such strange things
finer breathing for our so-called spiritual life — we find the
spiritual forces appearing in an illness that originates in the

Title: Pastoral Medicine: Lecture 11
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spiritual research that has meaning when humankind once more
possesses a common consciousness of a spiritual realm containing
anyone could have seen something worthy of notice in the spiritual
into spiritual realms and found knowledge there that led to valuable
ancient times said: When the human being comes down out of spiritual
the soul-spiritual entity undergoes a transformation by which it is
very exactly in the ancient mysteries how one came out of spiritual
spiritual powers who direct humanity. It was always believed that
soul-spiritual entity enters too deeply into the physical and etheric
bodies, these bodies overpower the soul-spiritual entity, creating a
pathological condition — an aberration of the soul-spiritual
happen that the soul-spiritual entity goes out farther than it
clairvoyant faculty that leads an individual into the spiritual
spiritual world. One way to know about the spiritual world was to
truly spiritual comprehension?
spirit, then there are soul illnesses or spiritual illnesses. This is
of nature, from the Father to Christ. For Christ is the spiritual
work with spiritual power. Thus we introduce spirit as the healing
beings that will help them to enter the spiritual world? Theology

Title: Broken Vessels: Lecture 1
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spiritual work together for the first time. This is of special
a particular form of spiritual activity in our time. For what has so
the flame of offering, or to celebrate ritual with the Mercury staff.
certain ritual measures. For instance, the healthfulness or
at the spiritual aspect, one has to ponder on the working of the
renewal of spiritual life. Indeed, from fundamental anthroposophical
want to set in motion, whether physical or spiritual or pertaining to
the spiritual world. Your alteration of someone's condition of
of the spiritual world. And when you have a really active cure,
they enter directly into the realm of the spiritual. It only seems
physical realm into the spiritual.
connected with the ritual, and the ritual includes the sacraments.
origin in the spiritual world. Sense-perceptible actions are
performed, and spirit streams into the actions. Spiritual reality is
present in the ritual on the level of sense perception. And what
be ritual, not sacrament, but suggestion. The sacraments — if
is spiritual. They take place before the waking consciousness of the
is celebrated, through an orientation toward the spiritual world.
ritual with its sacraments leads from consciousness to life.
Ritual (sacraments): consciousness to life
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Title: Broken Vessels: Lecture 2
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genuine revelations from the spiritual world, just as one can have
unable from their soul-spiritual individuality to control their
transition from illness to spirituality.
tremendously magnificent, with spiritual beings moving within
spiritual world in a modern way but similarly to the Greek priests,
who learned about the spiritual world from the Pythians, who imparted
all kinds of revelations concerning the spiritual world through

Title: Broken Vessels: Lecture 3
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individuals. With them there is a kind of appearance of the spiritual
presence of some spiritual being, but they have no precise vision of
together with some spiritual being. As long as they are in this stage
spiritual beings that were present. First they tell of the feeling of
being touched, of having spiritual hands laid upon them, even of
spiritual awareness goes further. If one were suddenly to pull such
people out of their spiritual state, they would feel the pain as sick
have the feeling that spiritual beings come to them, but that they
themselves have risen into the spiritual world. At this stage the
pain. When the spiritual being pulled out the sword he pulled the
spiritual experience in the ego organization and astral body, and at
body is drawn to the ego organization and experiences spiritual
human soul-spiritual entity comes down out of the soul-spiritual
the pain? The real spiritual world. It comes through the pain. The
spiritual world comes from the other direction. Ordinary sense
The spiritual world is grasped in the opposite way. The way to it is
spiritual world, the moment the spiritual world enters, the pain is
organism; then the spiritual world penetrates the pain, streams
beyond it to an experience of the spiritual world. The physical pain
if they make distinctions, of the presence of the spiritual
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Title: Broken Vessels: Lecture 4
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two ingredients. Human beings come out of the spiritual,
body. We see how what we bring down from spiritual worlds — our
between death and a new birth (or conception) in the spiritual world.
In the spiritual world we are surrounded by realities very different
look at a tree, the same spiritual forces are working in it as those
physical world in which we live between birth and death, spiritual
can think of the activities of the spiritual world continuing into
except this spiritual reality in all the colors, all the forms, all
physical world of the continuing spiritual activity. This awareness
spiritual. For this reason if a child's father has a fit of anger,
during this time is turned entirely toward spiritual foundations and
works out of spiritual forces.
What is really working when spiritual forces are working? Obviously
Only invisible spiritual beings make an impression on the child,
of the spiritual hierarchies higher than human beings, but also the
spiritual forces, out of these mighty spiritual dynamics the child
built out of the spiritual world.
surrounding world: the spiritual world. Someday when medicine reaches
a proper spiritual outlook, this interplay between the spiritual and
have to comprehend physical development as a soul-spiritual activity
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Title: Broken Vessels: Lecture 5
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having intuition, do develop a perception of the spiritual world and
into a kind of dream condition. From a spiritual-scientific point of
spiritual world. Dream is transformed into a state in which the
individual is really able to see into the spiritual world and to feel
the presence of spiritual beings.
first type. Individuals who feel the presence of spiritual beings,
spiritual beings. We had there the bringing of waking-sleep into
revealed the spiritual world, is in this case pouring itself inward,
a reaching out more externally, to the spiritual world beyond the
that has a spiritual content. They reach into the spiritual world and
of spiritual things they have epileptic conditions, empty gaps in
into bliss, and then further to an experience of the spiritual world
in its pure spirituality. This is called “rest in God” or
spiritual beings to a third stage, being present in the spiritual
spiritual means — to cure what is already pathological. It is
step into spiritual life and its extreme opposite — a step into
the physical body. A further step into the spiritual world for the

Title: Broken Vessels: Lecture 6
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connection to the real spiritual world.
into the spiritual world and, in the same human being, a need to
need to stand within the spiritual world and look at this physical
world from a spiritual point of view. The human being journeys
through successive earth-lives; causes reach over spiritually from
need to appreciate the spiritual significance of what confronts a
illness has its original spiritual cause in sin. This was a serious
belief. There had to be a spiritual error or failure somewhere as the
further. It was believed of a person in whom the spiritual fault lay
spiritual force that did not belong there, that somehow the person
that a person was “possessed” by some spiritual entity as
the consequence of spiritual error or fault. Therapy was created
ill person the alien elemental spirituality that had entered through
a spiritual offense. Basically this was the belief that one does not
perversion of the will) and on the other hand the spiritual teachings
spiritual teachings, as well as his own religious devotion. This is
spiritual fantasy, but the ability to put into poetic form correct
is about ordinary physical human life into which elemental spiritual
incarnations his ability to portray spiritual things, to put
spiritual happenings into human life. One need only look at
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Title: Broken Vessels: Lecture 7
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there before my eyes as a spiritual vision. And the need arose to
bring what was opening up for me spiritually — for instance,
bring what we have seen spiritually into harmony with what science is
be in accord with it. Spiritual science would never choose to be in
nature and a spiritual nature, and do not have just a physical
to a new level. We must begin from the side of spiritual science to
what we see as spiritual processes. We will be going in the right
with spiritual life.
spiritual science knows that in warmth one has to do with a separate
nerve-sense process that becomes a spiritual activity. Below we have
it streams in. Karma streams in. If with spiritual vision one
When we look with spiritual eyes at the lymph that has not yet become
physical and spiritual. Above, the human being qualitatively comes
close to the spiritual and touches karma. In between, the present
we are coming more and more to see the spiritual working in the

Title: Broken Vessels: Lecture 8
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the clear experience of this: I am in the spiritual world out of
differentiate between spiritual world and sense world, one is beyond
of the contours of the sense world, there is a general spirituality,
general weaving spirituality, now there appear beings of the second
hierarchy. Now one can differentiate in the spiritual world. Moon and
stars appear again, but in their spiritual aspect: they are now
spiritual colonies — they can be called that, or something
a physical body, and has actually taken hold of it in its spiritual
dimension, the sun is seen as a spiritual being, and the same with
spiritual sun. You have there an important view of the human being
the spiritual sun rays stream in invisibly and are transformed as
through spiritual science with the moon forces.
forces of the spiritual sun, we will experience an infinite happiness
is not merely a soul-spiritual force: it is the force that calls
quite a different character. On the one hand we can say the spiritual
before us is a spiritual being similar to ourselves but distorted,
the spiritual world, streaming out into the macrocosm, constantly
spiritual embryo. Then the possibility is given for forming what must
come in from the spiritual world, what has been in the spiritual
human being is born not physically, but spiritually. If we add to the
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Title: Broken Vessels: Lecture 9
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or her spiritual life and experience. The understanding that should
state of illness in connection with a person's spiritual life, this
there so that the soul-life and spiritual life as a whole can really
unfold. For the spiritual life is not connected with anabolic
human soul-spiritual life. And that points to a secret of this world
etheric bodies we find the basis for spiritual development; on the
human spiritual development. Thus if we study what is active during
be a healer requires first and foremost a spiritual outlook on the
soul-spiritual entity (as the things I was just describing did not
power to perceive spiritual things, then afterward carries back
memories of spiritual perception into waking consciousness. In
particular, these abnormal spiritual perceptions appear in lively
experiences of the spiritual aspect of external nature. Suppose the
farther out of the physical and etheric body. If the spiritual,
what is spiritual in the minerals. And what does the person dream
sustained by spiritual knowledge and enriched by scientific research.
spiritual world, in everything that will help their ego and astral
body to find their way in the spiritual world. If it is the
spiritual point of view, to explore pathological conditions from a
spiritual point of view, then what must the priest look for? The
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Title: Broken Vessels: Lecture 10
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do with the working, and the wanting to work, of the spiritual world.
It is this: that total spiritual activity must include the creative
spiritual life was called — and still is called —
who talk so glibly about spiritualism, idealism, and the like are
spiritual. But such thoughts do not have that capacity. For that, one
has to go to true spiritual science. That is why such strange things
finer breathing for our so-called spiritual life — we find the
spiritual forces appearing in an illness that originates in the

Title: Broken Vessels: Lecture 11
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spiritual research that has meaning when humankind once more
possesses a common consciousness of a spiritual realm containing
anyone could have seen something worthy of notice in the spiritual
into spiritual realms and found knowledge there that led to valuable
ancient times said: When the human being comes down out of spiritual
the soul-spiritual entity undergoes a transformation by which it is
very exactly in the ancient mysteries how one came out of spiritual
spiritual powers who direct humanity. It was always believed that
soul-spiritual entity enters too deeply into the physical and etheric
bodies, these bodies overpower the soul-spiritual entity, creating a
pathological condition — an aberration of the soul-spiritual
happen that the soul-spiritual entity goes out farther than it
clairvoyant faculty that leads an individual into the spiritual
spiritual world. One way to know about the spiritual world was to
truly spiritual comprehension?
spirit, then there are soul illnesses or spiritual illnesses. This is
of nature, from the Father to Christ. For Christ is the spiritual
work with spiritual power. Thus we introduce spirit as the healing
beings that will help them to enter the spiritual world? Theology

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which becomes intelligible to us, only when with the help of spiritual
of spiritual science; it can be understood only when we are able to
through spiritual science. This understanding came to Paul in order
the world of the senses, also the spiritual. Incredible as it may
together with the sense-perceptible, a spiritual reality. They did not
together with the plants they saw something spiritual. But as the time
the spiritual in the physical things all around him, he cannot have a
and spiritual when he looks out upon the external world. The impulse
the spiritual, he must exert himself inwardly and draw it forth from
before they could behold the divine and spiritual. The divine and
spiritual came to them in elemental form, with everything that lived
communion with the divine and spiritual in all the phenomena of the
up to the divine and spiritual by an active strengthening of his own
receiving a divine and spiritual reality that came forth to meet him
spiritual kingdom that could be reached only by inward struggle and
spiritual vision, was fading away and disappearing, and that another
vision of the spiritual was now to dawn for man in a new kingdom of
hearers who were able to understand it: that the old spiritual vision
had quite another spiritual ring than has the mere echo left us in our
time and turn to spiritual knowledge.
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of human beings realise that unless a wave of spiritual revival passes
times, they perceived the divine and spiritual in everything. And this
perception of the divine and spiritual passed over into the views that
through him. Just as the divine and spiritual was seen in stones, in
as men saw not merely a flowing stream but the divine and spiritual
the direct presence of the divine and spiritual grew dimmer and
and spiritual; he knew that the divine and spiritual is present
spiritual. Out of God I am born, out of God we are all born
time when knowledge of the divine and spiritual was to be brought to
that he originated from the gods. This apprehension of spiritual
bound up with innate vision of the divine and spiritual in the things
spiritual was dependent on the blood, and the particular form
Paul was well aware of the need to establish this spiritual
the spiritual world. The bond between men in this community of
to understand the divine and spiritual through attributes innate in
and spiritual, men still went on desiring to find in themselves the
way to the divine and spiritual through the simple fact of being
spiritual to descent, to heredity, until in the 19th
century even this glimpse of the divine and spiritual was lost and man
cognise the divine and spiritual through an organism still
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beings we are connected with the spiritual and super-sensible.
of man, the spiritual and super-sensible essence of being that cannot
in the real sense be born, descends from spiritual worlds and is
is not here.” Expanding this, we might say: Seek Him in spiritual
Who could no longer be comprehended in His spiritual nature but in His
spiritual conception of Christianity.
spiritual qualities. Just as we see the spiritual reality expelled by
understanding of the spiritual, must be perceived with all clarity.
earthly theories, but is comprehensible to spiritual knowledge, to
spiritual insight.
Spiritual understanding finds in the Resurrection thought the first
great source of strength, knowing that the spiritual and eternal
acquired. Men's gaze has been diverted from the spiritual to the
must be seen spiritually.
death as a Divine-Spiritual Being, He did not suffer pain; to declare
betoken the resurrection of the spiritual nature. The purpose of the
and insight into the spiritual connections of existence, for that you
the Resurrection is to be celebrated. With spiritual insight we must
the Good Friday mood of suffering to the spiritual mood of Easter Day.

Title: Lecture I: Human Questions and Cosmic Answers
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Spiritual Science. But the ideas which have then to be assimilated are
consideration of certain facts of spiritual history which today are
superficial attitude towards spiritual things. No true knowledge, no
of the Divine-Spiritual Beings behind all cosmic processes. Men
which expressed the purposes of the Divine-Spiritual Beings whose
constantly applied himself. He tried to become spiritually receptive
counsel with the divine-spiritual powers working and weaving in the
content of my ordinary sense-perceptions. A spiritual element is
the physical aspect. The spiritual truth is that men live upon the
The whole art of spiritual investigation, of investigation of the
with spiritual Beings, must first be laid by him within the stream of
existence, he must be able to enter into a spiritual relationship with
spiritual Beings, with cosmic Beings. He must not remain a hermit in
universe on the waves of a spiritual element, of a cosmic element,
Moreover, he learns to understand how spirituality is brought back
cosmic in their nature, and those which are cosmic and spiritual. The
their physical but also from their spiritual aspect.
of will which are altogether spiritual in their nature. The sunlight
behind which there lies a significant spiritual reality.
that a spiritual reality was behind the physical fact. He knew that
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what is taking place spiritually. The true state of affairs can
materialistic thinking, a spiritual reality is contained and that this
spiritual. To be complete, therefore the idea of the primal nebula
must include the weaving activity of the spiritual. So this
form of expression for what happens spiritually, was thus prepared by
the Old Moon-existence; and what I describe as the Spiritual is
spiritually through mankind on the Earth. And here an addition must be
directly to the divine-spiritual Beings.
divine-spiritual Beings, and of receiving utterances individually from
the spiritual Beings in the cosmos.
is an answer to a question asked by means of ritualistic acts.
thence into the spiritual world. The particular quality of the
forces which bear him back again when, coming down from the spiritual

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spiritual forces, are revealed.
of the spiritual. Words that are suitable have first to be coined. Any
spiritual world without concepts that have been completely re-cast.
of the spiritual world, it is simply not possible to reach ideas that
and so on, saying that through modern spiritual science we are led
Philosophy of Spiritual Activity
begin with, but then also through deepened spiritual perception, the

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the observations and experiences gained by spiritual vision concerning
spiritual observation has to say. Clear concepts could be attained
thing is that to spiritual observation and to spiritual experience the
this slaty formation by means of spiritual investigation. Then we
lives in the specific build of animal-forms. And so spiritual
and future everything has its connection with the spiritual. And a
talk about the “spiritual” and the “material,” but
on a mental outlook which recognises how the spiritual works
understood in its constant interrelation with the spiritual. We can
spiritual. The entire animal kingdom is at the same time intellect.
comprehensive knowledge that combines nature-knowledge and spiritual
knowledge, seeking the spiritual in all purely material things, and
finding the material again in all that is spiritual, the spiritual
nitrogen, which impels man always to expand, spiritually, into cosmic
say, to lose himself in the spiritual past — and the effect would
its spiritual aspect there is matter it is penetrated by spirit. You
“substantiations” of spiritual processes. One must also be
study can be complete only if pursued by the methods of spiritual
science. Spiritual science alone is the true science of reality.
through the methods of spiritual science as they are available today
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Title: Origins of Natural Science: Lecture I
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field of spiritual science. At the outset of our considerations I
perceiving and working out of the spiritual life and essence of the
This is in a sense the birth of a super-sensible spiritual element
of that spiritual Being who produced a renewal of all human evolution
beginnings of a new spirituality. My opinion, based on objective
perception and a new spiritual activity of will. It is from this
instead to discover the seeds of spiritual life in the highly
inwardness of religious and spiritual feeling. Theirs was a community
their quiet chambers for God and the spiritual world.
viewed in the context of the inner spiritual development of his time.
since absorbed all the spiritual knowledge current in the Middle
familiar with the way Thomas Aquinas had spoken of the spiritual
has significance for spiritual science, I described him in my book on
spiritual world. When we study Meister Eckhart's writings, we
thinking to the actual spiritual world (with which it feels united,)
anything like the spiritual divine spark in my own inner being.
soul, he found within the soul a weaving, living spiritual element.
the soul itself but in the spiritual dwelling in the soul. They
science can accomplish for mankind and see how new spiritual life can

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spiritual development, which was pressing forward to the scientific
longer to a grasp of the spiritual world. The wealth of human
ignorantia” in the face of the spiritual world comes to
way to the divine spiritual foundations. Meister Eckhart arrived at a
information concerning the origin of science if, through spiritual
science, through purely spiritual observation, we go farther back
their pupils concerning spiritual wisdom, truths concerning the
spiritual beings that lived and still live in the cosmos. But the
of the spiritual archetype, while the soul was the mediating
identical with the spiritual archetype of all things. Now, however,
in which the spiritual element is still recognizable. Hence, again
ideas. Whereas before, in the ancient spiritual age, it had felt akin
retain something of what appeared thus to him as the spiritual

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most important in modern spiritual life, the point when Nicholas
spiritual universe.
We arrive back at an age of rich spiritual vitality that still

Title: Origins of Natural Science: Lecture IV
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were images of the divine spiritual. The instant that mathematics is
with the divine-spiritual. Space, with all is mathematics, was not
for sense perceptions do not really exist. Reality is spiritual
such all-pervading spirituality. But assert it he did, and so
spiritually conceived. Something spiritual is behind a color
myself as spirit. Thus Berkeley is a spiritualist in the sense in
experience. Since to Berkeley the whole cosmos was spiritual, he also
spiritual knowledge until we once again have found the spirit in
arise between what anthroposophy seeks by way of spiritual research

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feature of the spiritual development leading to modern scientific
thinking. We see it entering bit by bit into the spiritual life of

Title: Origins of Natural Science: Lecture VI
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spiritual-scientific training) in really inwardly experiencing what
who was well aware that man's spiritual element is active when color, tone,
spiritual is active only with the aid of the physical body. Hence it
known that this same spirituality must take complete hold of itself
could not understand man's spirituality. They would have had to

Title: Origins of Natural Science: Lecture VII
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that he had to thank the spiritual element indwelling the light for

Title: Origins of Natural Science: Lecture VIII
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the more we discover an instinctive spiritual knowledge, an instinctive
relationship of the spiritual world to the physical, the possibility
arose to draw spiritual knowledge once again directly from the
insight of spiritual science, we do enter into the spirit of such a
continue the search one must be equipped with spiritual science. But
the most radical way, while, on the other hand, he cast all spiritual

Title: Origins of Natural Science: Lecture IX
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Proceeding once again from the being of man as viewed by spiritual
found through spiritual-scientific research. Briefly stated,
spiritual-scientific research will meet the historic requirements of
Anthroposophical spiritual science must discover in addition to this
and the brain bearers of the so-called spiritual element —
gives up life and constantly dies, the soul-spiritual thoughts,
spiritual-scientific anthroposophy to physics and chemistry. If you
the wrong. They even work themselves up to the very spiritual
everywhere in our lectures or lecture cycles, and that give spiritual
the proper sense. In regard to the spiritual element, it is important
things spiritual, and he calls out longingly into the universe —

Title: Philosophy/Cosmology/Religion: Lecture I: The Three Steps of Anthroposophy
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This cycle focuses on exercises to attain higher spiritual development.
spiritual cognition.
lectures in the Goetheanum, which was founded to promote Spiritual
Science. What is here called ‘Spiritual Science’ must not be
ancient spiritual traditions which are no longer properly understood,
psychic-spiritual organization is just as accurately defined as a
‘the spiritual eye’, we then say: as the mathematician has
‘spiritual eye’. The scientific method is employed for him
on that preparation which is in his ‘spiritual organs’. If
realm which opens up Spiritual Science in the modern sense. It happens
it is to be shown how they merge into the modern spiritual view. The
ideas through this etheric body, and as the spiritual life of man has
transcends the etheric was made a part of the Cosmos. Modern spiritual
the ‘Ego’, the spiritual man, is contradicted by every
the true ‘Ego’ has been lost to modern spiritual life, and
further as etheric, astral and spiritual or ‘Ego’ man and

Title: Philosophy/Cosmology/Religion: Lecture II: Exercises of Thought, Feeling and Volition
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This cycle focuses on exercises to attain higher spiritual development.
spiritual cognition.
the thought of ordinary consciousness is a reflection of a spiritual
All ordinary thinking is dependent on the super-sensible spiritual
be conscious of. The spiritual activity can be separated from the
spiritual (etheric) reality, and whose reality-content can, through
spiritual content of the Cosmos flows into the empty soul — the
a spiritual Cosmos, just as we have a physical Cosmos before the
senses. We succeed in seeing, in the powers of the spiritual Cosmos,
what takes place spiritually between man and the Cosmos in the process
the physical reproduction of what exists in the spiritual sphere in
organism has its place in the spiritual Cosmos outside the life on
spiritual world.
spiritual existence. Inspired knowledge is cultivated in the astral
with beings of a spiritual world. These experiences of intuition are
the spiritual world. The Ego which we know in ordinary consciousness
it belongs. Moreover, we are enabled to see how spiritual man, the
true Ego, has his place in the spiritual world, when he is sunk in
lives in a spiritual Cosmos, just as by his senses he lives in a
experiences in the spiritual sphere is reflected in the physical and
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Title: Philosophy/Cosmology/Religion: Lecture III: Methods of Imaginative, Inspired and Intuitive Knowledge or Cognition
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This cycle focuses on exercises to attain higher spiritual development.
spiritual cognition.
pass only within the psychic and spiritual spheres. The man who
employing only psychic-spiritual forces. Unconscious memories,
experienced spiritual investigator, he will lay particular stress on
image-presentation. The spiritual and psychic powers are strengthened
to be a true Spiritual Investigator must do such exercises
inner life a greater control over the statements of a Spiritual
self-possession taking a purely psychic and spiritual course, impulses
full thoughtfulness the soul becomes filled with spiritual facts, as
are aware that we are experiencing the cosmic life, that the spiritual
senses a reproduction of what we have spiritually experienced. The
consciousness. The spiritual outlook which we have won is like the new
This spiritual outlook, thus attained, differs from the imaginative.
the former, pictures appear of spiritual beings who live and move in
and our own psychic-spiritual experience appears enclosed in the orbit
consciousness into the objective world of the cosmic, spiritual
processes of his cosmic circumstances with their spiritual inwardness
spiritual; and what he experienced then in a semi-dream state was for
man, except that he experiences the spiritual world in his soul, not

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This cycle focuses on exercises to attain higher spiritual development.
spiritual cognition.
also to a view of the spiritual Cosmos in so far as this can express
psychic and spiritual, but at the same time it is not something which
through a higher inspiration a picture of the psychic-spiritual nature
as it was before man left the psychic-spiritual world for the
the spiritual, psychic world into his life on earth. The nature of
of which he enters upon the world of the spiritual, apart from his
happens after death. He can speak of the continuity of the spiritual
the spiritual Cosmos, and moreover reveals itself in a changed form
which has its origins in the experience of the spiritual world. To

Title: Philosophy/Cosmology/Religion: Lecture V: Experiences of the Soul in Sleep
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This cycle focuses on exercises to attain higher spiritual development.
spiritual cognition.
is spiritual and divine. The human soul evolves this longing as a
the sphere of the senses, it craves for a state out of the spiritual
into a purely spiritual world. That the soul in its waking state
in the moon. The spiritual moon-activities are the ones recalling men

Title: Philosophy/Cosmology/Religion: Lecture VI: Transference from the Psycho-Spiritual to the Physical Sense-life in man's Development
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Transference from the Psycho-Spiritual to the Physical Sense-life
This cycle focuses on exercises to attain higher spiritual development.
spiritual cognition.
TRANSFERENCE FROM THE PSYCHO-SPIRITUAL TO THE PHYSICAL SENSE-LIFE IN
psycho-spiritual inner being of man can be attained through inspired
world and vice versa: the spiritual part of the external world
form an outer world for his psycho-spiritual nature. They remain there
instrument of the psycho-spiritual man. Man carries the longing for
review, this longing is connected with those spiritual activities of
finds himself in the purely spiritual world for a certain time before
foundations in cosmic worlds, as growing out of the spiritual Cosmos.
He contemplates a spiritual Cosmos which is the spiritual part of the
growing organism. The spiritual organism on the other hand which man
sees in connection with himself in his pre-earthly spiritual state, is
remember all the time that the happenings of the spiritual world are
spiritual and that for them space, in which physical happenings move,
something spiritual, entirely non-spatial, purely qualitative.
which is the spiritual germ of his future physical organism, and this
spiritual stage is regarded as in unity with the whole of the
spiritual cosmos and reveals itself at the same time as the cosmic
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Title: Philosophy/Cosmology/Religion: Lecture VII: The Relationship of Christ with Humanity
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This cycle focuses on exercises to attain higher spiritual development.
spiritual cognition.
evolution, the psycho-spiritual existence is transferred to that of
psycho-spiritual has so changed itself from a spiritual form of
the senses, but revealing something really spiritual, just as the
spiritual evolution, and the decisive epoch of this development is
pre-earthly life a gift of grace from that spiritual Sun-Being which
hear how the Being who had before given to man the echo from spiritual
had descended from spiritual worlds to an earthly one. The teachers of
Christ a Being of the spiritual world before his descent to earth.
leads to an aspect of Christ's nature within the spiritual world.
mystery of Golgotha and to clothe what was once known by spiritual
less, precisely among the spiritual leaders of mankind; Jesus was seen

Title: Philosophy/Cosmology/Religion: Lecture VIII: The Event of Death and Its Relationship with the Christ
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This cycle focuses on exercises to attain higher spiritual development.
spiritual cognition.
spiritual world, as in ordinary existence it lives in its physical
organisms grow out of the spiritual world. But it can also observe the
continued activity of the spiritual in the organization of the earthly
being — man. It sees how the spiritual centre of man's nature
not really a merging of something spiritual into something physical,

Title: Philosophy/Cosmology/Religion: Lecture IX: The Destination of the Ego-Consciousness in Conjunction with the Christ-problem
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This cycle focuses on exercises to attain higher spiritual development.
spiritual cognition.
takes it for a purely psycho-spiritual one.
organism as a psycho-spiritual being. There is in the etheric organism
existence. It was of a kind which occurred in a spiritually changed
physical state into a spiritual one. But this change can only remain a
the spiritual processes accompanying them. When the physical organism
spiritual-cosmic world is realized by the cosmic consciousness. This
looks upon his astral organism. But the spiritual-cosmic world breaks
on earth have been reaching, to prepare spiritually for the future
non-human, spiritual impulses of the cosmos are active. I have called
knowledge gained by initiation: That Spiritual Being, who, in the
after death in the spiritual world. He will lead you out of the soul
spiritual sun-guide. Therefore the sun-being has descended on earth as

Title: Philosophy/Cosmology/Religion: Lecture X: On Experiencing the Will-Part of the Soul
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This cycle focuses on exercises to attain higher spiritual development.
spiritual cognition.
psychic-spiritual which is continually active in the rhythmical part
head-organization is a surrender of the psychic-spiritual to the
from it and remains psycho-spiritually alive. Only when the thinking
experiences of the spiritual world. This kind of practice is no longer
from the direction of the soul. They strengthen the soul and spiritual
of the will-part of the soul enters into the spiritual world and
spiritual-eternal part of the soul grows conscious of itself. Just as
so spiritual consciousness realizes the content of a spiritual world.
physical, psychic and spiritual being. A knowledge keeping solely
and from this experience is formed a kind of spiritual-psychic being
human being. This spiritual-psychic being represents whatever earthly
Therefore man strives through this spiritual-psychic being or nature
spiritual-psychic nature through the gates of death into the
Immediately after death the psychic-spiritual man retains for a short
arisen during earth-life in the spiritual and psychic part of him. For
spiritual activities which have their outward reflection in the
spiritual-psychic content. Everything of world-spiritual value that
permeated by the spiritual moon-activities already described. This
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Title: Bridge between the Ideal and the Real: Lecture I
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also call it the “spiritually-coloured Ideal”
one knows that in ancient times the Spiritual world was
in such a way that men's visions of the Spiritual world were in
Spiritual things, that must not be grasped as a sum of
can. On this rests the true Spiritual evolution of
Spiritual progress of mankind rests finally on the fact that
Spiritual life. Because they beheld it. And in the 4th Post-Atlantean
spiritualised, can be filled with Sprouting, Growing life.
Sun-life. Only we must consider this Sun-life Spiritually, as
which means, only by grasping Spiritual Science with one's
Inner Being, does man come to see the Spiritual Reality
sensible phenomena of Nature supersensible Spiritual beings
anti-spiritual character. And to Auguste Comte and his teacher
started studying Jacob Boehme, and found in him that Spiritual

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the Hierarchy of the Angels work into our Spiritual, psychic
psychic, Spiritual nature, inspiring it, therefore we rea11y
the basis of Spiritual Science. This consciousness can alone
say, absorb our Spiritual, Psychic nature. They permeate
not. We are that Spiritual, psychic being which makes use of
the other demon, more or less Divine Spiritual Beings,
he thought of these Spiritual Beings as operative in the
Spirituality, and is not bound up with his flesh and blood. Of
course, this can only be seen on the path of Spiritual Science,
Spiritual science knows that this is a delusion, untrue. We
of Spiritual Science, it has to contradict and refute a
spite of all that however, a Divine Spiritual order was spread
this conscious connection with the Divine-Spiritual world of
men know that the Divine Spiritual Beings work into the early
Church a sort of copy of that Theocracy! Above in the Spiritual
Spiritual Hierarchies, a sequence in the clerical dignitaries.
Hierarchies in the Spiritual world.
Spiritual Science. All consciousness of the Spiritual basis, of
a Spiritual structure, was radically obliterated by
press forward again to a spiritual world and a bridge must be
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Title: Lecture: The Revelation of the Cosmic Christ
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the cosmos. And the return of the forces of the Divine-Spiritual
that they had come down from Divine-Spiritual worlds into physical and
the Divine-Spiritual worlds, whence the soul descends at birth into
a life in the spiritual world, but it is no less true that an
exceedingly egotistical conception of this life in the spiritual
existence in the spiritual world before birth and conception as they
are in their desire for a life after death in the spiritual-world. If
In olden times men knew that they had lived in Divine-Spiritual
that the forces around them in a purely spiritual environment were
the spiritual Principle of the universe visibly manifested in the
the Divine World-Spirit. And out of this spiritual cosmos the Christ
soul could be united with and perceive the spiritual worlds, when he
both spiritual and material, is to become visible — namely, the sun.
synthesis of the rites and rituals of the Mysteries which led to
spiritual universe. And at the same time the Cosmic Word resounded
becomes visible and is known in its spiritual nature. Such knowledge
truth that the Divine-Spiritual heavens and the physical world of
resounds to us, bidding us be mindful of the Divine-Spiritual origin

Title: Inner Impulses: Lecture I
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convenue, and we have shown how it is only from spiritual
in spiritual spheres. It is a wonderful experience to follow this in
detail. Take Greek philosophy, that extract of the spiritual life of
wonderful way to spiritual ideals and ideal points of view. Then we
material reality with spiritual reality, were somewhat beyond their
we consider the Greek and Roman languages in their inward spiritual
Greek spiritual life that comes from the old imaginations of the
Greece. Spiritually, Rome was conquered by Greece, but Greece had to
life, its spiritual content, out of itself, only the external
art, philosophy and spiritual life flowed over into Rome. It was the
the wonderful marriage between spiritual and material in the Greek
spiritual in it. We can, however, just as well see Peter in the figure
much of the spiritual force of Greece has remained. The influence of
time of the Renaissance as impulses of the spiritual world that have
school but through our whole spiritual life. People do not think about
their altars. It is not the intention of spiritual science merely to
bring the beings of the spiritual world near to man so that he may
man himself to draw near to the spiritual world and its forces in all

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civilization from being completely spiritualized in a life of fantasy.
aim since, through the spiritual decline of a Roman rule that had been
this task. Free imaginations as sought through spiritual science means
spiritual science, and in comparison with spiritual science is still
spiritualization that was the aim of the descendants of the
spiritual life, and moreover to that special region of the spiritual
these three expressions of the spiritual life of the nineteenth
Biblical characters. So we see how all the spiritual activities of man
the spiritual Christ force that lives in all humanity. For Strauss,
spiritual.
a spiritual presentation of the Christ impulse by Soloviev.

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are largely lacking. They must first be acquired through spiritual
in spiritual science the endeavor must be made to do so. Hence, it
spiritual insight into existence and the impulse to real human love,

Title: Inner Impulses: Lecture IV
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The Rise of Spiritualism. The Need for the Science of the Spirit.
The Rise of Spiritualism. The Need for the Science of the Spirit
character of spiritual science, but it is deepened when one adds to
individual forms of the actuating spiritual powers that stand behind
In contrast to ordinary science, spiritual science seeks to
accordance with the fundamental character of its spiritual and
a real spiritual observation of history, as we know. The truth is that
man to look into the spiritual world. But the faculties he then had
spiritual world. In order for man to take a step forward toward
him nearer the spiritual world but also allowed him less freedom. Man
as by a veil or sheath from the spiritual world so that he might
nineteenth century. Those who know something of the spiritual life
spiritual, would be lost. The lifeless alone can be the object of the
inner process in man, to know something about the spiritual worlds.
spiritual activity lies behind the sense world. All that has been set
going in order to arrive at knowledge of the spiritual through the
spiritism or spiritualism, as it is called, is nothing but an attempt
that a spiritual world exists, surrounding us just as does what we see
efforts to make men understand that there is a spiritual world around
all sorts of spiritual realities and facts enter the sense world. As I
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Title: Inner Impulses: Lecture V
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elemental and instinctive. It assumed a more spiritual form in the
and great in Greek and Roman culture constituted a spiritual
judge the spiritual by human standards. Lucifer and Ahriman have a
the human standpoint what is observed in the spiritual world. If we do
the stream of progressive spiritual evolution. Whereas the Greek life
the elemental spiritual, living and weaving beneath the material world
counterstroke, manifesting in a spiritual way, was put into operation.
a physical body. In Vitzliputzli the spiritual individuality lived
spiritualize this problem of man's natural urges and impulses. That is
of Russian spiritual life is dominated by the problems of death and
evil, just as the spiritual life of the West is dominated by the

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Ancient Cultural Impulses Spiritualized in Goethe.
Ancient Cultural Impulses Spiritualized in Goethe. The Cosmic Knowledge of the Knights Templar
We have been occupied in showing how those spiritual forces that we
he knew of the spiritually hidden active forces at work in mankind
post-Atlantean culture as the highest spiritual treasure. Such depths
lecture, and of how they went through a kind of spiritualizing process
fifteenth century because things that are to develop spiritually must
progressive divine-spiritual forces intermingle in our age with
spiritual tendencies were born out of human evolution. In doing so, we
underwent a certain spiritualization in Goethe, I must refer to the
Bearer. In addition to the religious vows of duty to their spiritual
belong to them but to their great spiritual mission. Whatever wealth
spiritual from the earth. These forces do not want the spiritual to be
There we have a powerfully aspiring spiritual life that we can assume
in which the Golden King became the representative of wisdom. Since spiritual
maya with spiritual forces standing behind that [which] the materialist cannot
of spiritual activity and creative work.
spiritual world, but in respect of the entire Order they were, for all
sacrificial service. At first in the Crusades, then in the spiritual
say the perception of those spiritual worlds that are accessible to
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that can only be discovered when ones digs deeper into spiritual
spiritual development of our age is not fitted for a full penetration
into the causes that hold sway spiritually behind the phenomena.
many ideas, perceptions, feelings and will impulses; spiritual science
individualistic nature since the old customs, ceremonies and rituals
that a renewal had been sought from a real spiritual basis and
spiritual force. Everything of an ecclesiastical nature was preserved,
must note what has proceeded by way of spiritual impulse from the
matters objectively, we must be clear that after the spiritual
English spiritual culture became ever stronger, first in the West and
strongest influences working in a spiritual sense in the eighteenth
spiritual sphere.
the spiritual world, although in distorted, caricatured form. He is
Such a man goes over into the spiritual world. The soul has thus left
physical body, deep insight into the spiritual world. This remains; it
of the spiritual world while in the physical body remains so closely
It streamed into the other spiritual atmosphere I described about
eight days ago (Lecture VI). The spiritual atmosphere from the
spiritual sense. What streamed to the Knights from this devotional
see to some extent into the spiritual worlds. Through this power,
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Title: Mystery Centres: Lecture I
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Concerning the Soul-Life of Man, and the Perception of the Spiritual
abundant knowledge about the methods and stages of the spiritual guidance
School for Spiritual Science at the Goetheanum.
The Philosophy of Spiritual Activity
The Philosophy of Spiritual Activity
The Philosophy of Spiritual Activity
Philosophy of Spiritual Activity.
Philosophy of Spiritual Activity,
The Philosophy of Spiritual Activity
The Philosophy of Spiritual Activity.
Philosophy of Spiritual Activity.
extends spiritual feelers outwards, as I might say, so with this
Therefore, a philosophy of spiritual activity must start from the
spiritually forceful, and you will be able to connect an inner
different aspect; they begin to be spiritually and psychically
spiritual way. The blossoms become transparent. The spiritual part of
he has united himself is borne by spiritual Beings, and in these
spiritual Beings he gradually comes to recognize the features of that
spiritual in everything. It sees, for example, in the light the
active spiritual beings of light, and so on. It sees in the darkness
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undergone spiritually and psychically in pre-earthly existence (which
spiritual world he can come to no conclusion about such things. We
will therefore today consider in the light of spiritual knowledge
have also pointed out that a spiritual cause underlies this exit of
of man a purely spiritual psychic etheric being. The Ahrimanic forms
develop him towards a psychic and spiritual nature, which should now
spiritual. To transform man into a spiritual being is the tendency
they also wish to spiritualise the earth into dense spiritual
substance and permeate it with dense spiritual forces.
When we discuss spiritual matters we have to use
express in this way into the spiritual.
He has a definite spiritual-psychic existence. He unites this with what
physical embryonic and the spiritual existence interpenetrate each
spiritual and social environment through education and so on. Man
earth. One who has developed spiritual vision discovers that
then sees, spiritually and psychically, that in the rising mist
spiritual cognition: In the rising mist there arise from the earth
later. Then, colour which to them was of a spiritual essence took its
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within the spiritual substance which lies at the foundation of the
psychic spiritual being the matter presents itself in the following
the phenomena of nature, with the spiritually active forces. It is
rule spiritually in the crystal, in plants, in all the phenomena of
from outside, but when I sleep I sink my memories into your spiritual
case that the spiritual inner part of nature takes into itself of our
away and is formed anew. Man remains as a form, as a spiritual form,
cursed it; for he felt (naturally he did not then know Spiritual
spiritual knowledge, could really transpose himself into these
Thus, for the practical spiritual life that which today
there comes another stream of spiritual beings, the second Hierarchy,
intensify the forces of spiritual understanding. The following events
and more strongly: There in the spiritual world which you enter in
spiritual, but in this spiritual there transpires something which was
the case that we go forth in sleep into the spiritual world in a

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indeed independent and individual as a psychic and spiritual being;
spiritual reflection. The impression one receives of this must be
But this is not all. Out of the spiritual
physical but a spiritual being. But the process which the earth then
requires spiritual vision to be able everywhere to enter into
may call a deep sense of the spiritual element in metals; for the
speak, they speak spiritually. They relate things, they speak to us.
this a special language. The utterances of spiritualists are indeed
language of earthly man. Spiritualists believe that the dead speak in
the most part it is high-flown matter that comes from spiritualist
perceived by the spiritual ears is spoken also by the metals in the
I have often described, through direct spiritual perception of the
can listen by penetrating spiritually into the inner part of the
were not merely spiritual beings but they also displayed a physical

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spiritual being of that time and speak of carbon, oxygen, nitrogen,
That which today is present more spiritually and which I
was at that time quite perceptible spiritually, and in such a way
that as man he was still wholly spiritual. We express a reality when
still of a psychic and spiritual nature, sinking itself in the ether.
finer physical to the spiritual, and in this way, by paying attention
to actual fact we get back to the spiritual origin of everything
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thought accessible to spiritual cognition, in which the events of the
the still albuminous atmosphere by that which lives spiritually in
when, with inner connection with its natural and spiritual being we
spiritual all that takes place in the physical world must at the same
time be for him an external manifestation, a picture of the spiritual
pain, on the other hand, we as human beings striving after spiritual
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which today can be re-discovered through insight into the spiritual
certain sense at the starting-point of modern spiritual life, in that
it has given impulses to this modern spiritual movement, and yet has
taken over much from the older spiritual movements in which the
a courageous spiritual gaze resistance which produces, I might say, a
actually led in this question form to the Spiritual world. In actual
the threshold of the spiritual world. I know why this spiritual world
threshold of the spiritual world. Here in this physical world there
spiritual world. And the difficulties which we have in the physical
can gain of the super-sensible, of the spiritual world. So he had the
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in life, but which with great beauty rayed from the spiritual towards
learned in this way, on the one side to stretch his soul spiritually
from the spiritual worlds to Earth, before the earthly conception of
the Mysteries a single spiritual path was not indicated, we shall

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those which we are entitled to call in Spiritual Science the Great
right way, the spiritual gaze of a man living before the Mystery of
spiritually seen which took place before the bodily eye in Palestine,
humanity actually experienced the Mystery of Golgotha spiritually.
illumination from the Spiritual world, from the Spiritual world even
earth. The physical reality of Palestine was seen spiritually in
over-shadowed that which came from the spiritual exaltation of men,
from the spiritual deepening of the inner nature of man, from the
spiritual permeation of the soul of man. And gradually out of a
the upper hand over that which derived from spiritual insight. The
spiritual Being, and which paid no attention in the presentation of
on the direct representation of the spiritual, and all that belongs
darkness was drawn over the spiritual life, in which men boasted
that amazing fact that men were no longer accessible to spiritual
the consciousness of men was no longer accessible to spiritual
quite a young man, lends his hand to a spiritual Being, who writes
with their reason. This was the spirituality flowing forth, which
there is to be found a spiritual revelation made manifest through
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East; and in the place of a spiritual approach even in matters of
reality, a sensible event, but only in a spiritual way. It was not
then customary in Hibernia to have more than the Spiritual in the
the Spiritual was paramount. In all kinds of secret streams of
spiritual life that which had originated in Hibernia was brought over
spiritual perception is not required, that which could be linked on
the deepest spiritual life, is now based simply on an external
spiritual world, towards the actual guidance and direction of the
When we look back into those times we find a far-reaching spiritual
of light above him; he saw in the star the spiritual living being,
spiritual living being. Men then had a natural science which reached
spiritual way that the Christ was placed before those to be initiated
a high spiritual mission through Aristotle.

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spiritual as well as an individual personal nature, the Mysteries of
regions of the earth the most manifold influences from the spiritual
nature was seen directly as the body of divine spiritual beings, who
of a soul-spiritual nature in their perception of the whole cosmos
clouds, in lightning, in all these things some sort of spiritual
spiritual sense, regarded as his racial task. But when we come on the
these pitchers, in their whole symbolic form, a sacrificial ritual, a
ritual of consecration took place. A kind of incense was put into
know how Venus appears spiritually, psychically, and bodily, up above
possibility for man of drawing down the spiritual into his concepts
is not adapted for entering the spiritual worlds, and that the pupil
spiritual worlds. That was one mighty preparatory moment, in what we

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into the spiritual world in the Middle ages, no longer had, in truth,
manifestation of a psychic spiritual bodily element in man. So just
and spirit to the divine spiritual element of the world. It was
asked were gladly answered by divine spiritual beings.
them to indicate what they were. But if we look back spiritually into

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in the most civilized parts of the earth at that time. The spiritual
spiritual way, he came to the ether. If, however, he extended his
observation to Venus, he came to a spiritual world, a purely astral
from Venus shines out from the spiritual world. If the pupil exposed
takes place in the spiritual world, but which only appears in its
beings on the earth and these spiritual beings, these Intelligences
has been under the influence of the spiritual world, to him
really enter into the secrets of the Cosmos in a spiritual way.

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anthroposophically oriented spiritual science is really able to take hold in
in presenting spiritual science to the world, that these various subjects be
relation to therapeutics from the viewpoint of spiritual science. Our
theme today will touch on this. I will show you how spiritual science is
oriented spiritual science generally, the great significance of modern
this is just what is essential in experiencing and pursuing spiritual
modern physician is basically unable to take the spiritual into
even pathology, for this spiritual element is still an unknown in modern
the organism (blue), pressing toward the soul-spiritual.
soul-spiritual was fully outside him, as in clinically established mania; he
not yet entirely from the realm of spiritual science, whose methods I have
break through to the spiritual scientific path, remains stuck in the middle.
has hitherto been expressed only by spiritual scientists, and even then only
where the destruction of the spiritual begins. But you may already sense

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the soul-spiritual into an intimation of the connection of this
soul-spiritual with the physical-bodily existence of the human being.
modern times, however, a person who once again approaches a spiritual
science, developing his own spiritual investigation, sees that both
instinct. When a person pursues the kind of spiritual investigation
spiritual science. And a person like Schelling sensed them
Anyone who acquires such perception knows that these soul-spiritual
transformed to a degree into something soul-spiritual, let us say,
soul-spiritual at the proper turning-point in life instead[,] to remain
of the soul-spiritual force of organization in the human organism when
soul-spiritual, which otherwise functions in a normal way, begins to
sees this restless stirring of the soul-spiritual in the organism as
back to the soul-spiritual existence of the human being before he was
soul-spiritual from his prehuman, pre-earthly life; this excess then
on to a soul-spiritual approach. It will soon be seen that what arises
in spiritual science does not occur because the spiritual investigator
parenthetically that many who call themselves spiritual investigators
not necessary for the spiritual investigator to be grounded too little
in physical research in order to become a spiritual investigator;
soul-spiritual, especially when it comes to illness.
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oriented spiritual science we must instead strive to bring spiritual
soul-spiritual stands within the human process of organization; this
that the soul-spiritual cannot work separately from the physical
soul-spiritual develops in such a way that it does not take sufficient
to an excessive degree rather than permeating themselves soul-spiritually.
The soul-spiritual then flows out without being encompassed in the
what spiritual science has to say with certainty from its side will be
corroboration — for what spiritual science provides through its
nature in a spiritual scientific sense. If you look at the
leaf formation. This can be studied particularly well in a spiritual
spiritual science wishes to work into this medical study. This evening
spiritual science wishes to pursue in medicine — and I will speak
anthroposophically oriented spiritual science does not wish to
Rudolf Steiner, Spiritual Science and Medicine,
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fructification of medical-therapeutic study through spiritual science.
a spiritual scientific study of medicine, bringing about a certain
The soul-spiritual, the etheric, and the physical are all active in
considerations in these lectures, this soul-spiritual element works in
step back in some way. If the soul-spiritual element kicks up some
Everything that is soul-spiritual in the human being, however, as well
expresses itself as ego-activity, which is a purely spiritual activity
soul-spiritual element, of the fully conscious ego, let us say,
force-scaffolding, the line that designates the soul-spiritual element
soul-spiritual and yet remain like an image of the soul-spiritual
indicating the direction, we can see how to search in a spiritual
the head can become the carrier of just those soul-spiritual processes
suggested by spiritual science, as in this case, the connection of the
soul-spiritual, particularly the ego-activity, with the scaffolding;
soul-spiritual too strongly into it. They can therefore be used as
the whole connection of the soul-spiritual with the physical. What is
connection between the soul-spiritual and the physical. Take the case
of a person who has a tendency to illness because his soul-spiritual
the condition of the spiritual into the condition of consciousness;
forth a stronger permeation of this system by the soul-spiritual.
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life of rights and the spiritual-cultural life — the

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Labour in the background and in the front of it the spiritual, which

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interest either in Nature or Spirituality or Capital. When is it so in
those who are on the Spiritual side. We must go to where middleman

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gained by spiritual application, it must be realised as Money.
he is economically responsible as a spiritual creator. Truth to tell,
spiritual worker to work for the community, being enabled to do so by
founded purely on what has already been spiritually achieved and
this second stage — where a spiritual worker works as a debtor
value by spiritual means. Therein lies its true economic significance.
him as a spiritually productive man. What on the one hand is

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Capital is taken up by a purely spiritual activity. The economic
Assume that the rate of interest is low. If as a spiritual creator in
spiritual capacities of those who have to administer the land and
thought, the connection is only recognisable by Spiritual Science. It

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upon the question, whether spiritual or intellectual work, as
The spiritual worker is certainly a consumer. Whether he is also a
spiritual work is economically productive? Now here it is especially
of the past, you will be able to prove that spiritual work is
you can no longer call the Spiritual unproductive. In relation to the
past, the Spiritual — or rather, those human beings who work in
the spiritual sphere — are consumers only. In relation to the
exertion of his spiritual forces. You can never answer these questions
done by spiritual work, if we may call it so, that is to say,
fundamentally by thinking. But spiritual work is not an easy thing to
grasp in economic terms. Spiritual work begins the moment work itself
the spiritual work of one who directs some undertaking within the
spiritual work. Nevertheless he is still working with the resources
the sphere of spiritual activity (if I may now call it
case of entirely free spiritual activity. At any rate, relatively
sphere of the completely free spiritual life. In this sphere we find,
spiritual life. For the purely material economic process, it is
especially the free spiritual workers who are, in relation to the
spiritual capacities in some direction, it must be possible for me to
The important thing is this: Free spiritual life arises almost of
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handicraft and, lastly, the entirely free spiritual work. These are
it would become fixed, but into free spiritual undertakings where it

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paying for spiritual faculties with the value of a commodity or a
a purely spiritual value that is being paid for in commodity-values.

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congested on the land and are given to the spiritual or cultural life
spiritual or cultural “goods,” which in the course of time
react to fertilise the whole process of spiritual production and

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completely into free spiritual activity, if we may so describe it.
in the process with my spiritual faculties.

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and moreover its own spiritual life. Such a private economy —
and into this was placed a spiritual life — an extraordinarily
unfreedom in the spiritual life. Not until “Liberalism”
came did the spiritual life begin to grow more and more unfree; and it
State; and we see the spiritual life absorbed by the life of the State
and spiritual organism of the State. The State, as such, has grown
spiritual workers, right up to the freest spiritual life. All these
spiritual workers, for example, within a given economic domain,
achievement of spiritual workers, but in that case it follows that the
spiritual workers of a period when the fertility is higher must be
spiritual workers, we have consumers and not producers, so far as
Hence at the place where the spiritual life is most highly evolved in
spiritual institutions, of the excess which has been acquired. Only
there. In all essentials, the spiritual life is dependent on what, in
for the maintenance of spiritual institutions.
become dammed up in the land must vanish into spiritual institutions.
I say once more, it must somehow vanish into the spiritual
material realm, may vanish within the spiritual domain? That is the
spiritual institutions? This is the great economic question, to the

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really free spiritual life. This, too, is happening already, only

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Whatever develops there, of the free spiritual life, will in the main
There will be very little else of “free spiritual life.”
community. In fact, the “free spiritual life” must await
the achievements of these spiritual workers — for they are such,
What is the requisite condition for these spiritual workers to be able
children to school and that they have religious needs. Spiritual
even these few spiritual workers could not be there. And we shall have
to ask ourselves: How will these spiritual workers economically endue
Everyone would be working with his hands and the spiritual life would
economic valuation of spiritual products. Thus we arrive at the
are spared physical Labour. If they are to do their spiritual
contributes physical Labour, another saves it and his spiritual
And now the same thing runs through the entire spiritual life. What
of spiritual production, if you try to find the concept of value you
transmuted; which is sheer nonsense. The spiritual cannot be
spiritual product, it is not the point that in some way Labour is
spiritual side is the Labour which one man does for another. It must
there is some spiritual work. If of two blackberry-pickers one is
entails spiritual work (although we might not call it so). The work of
in the real economic life bodily and spiritual work play into one
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consumable goods — and even spiritual services are consumable
which comes into play the moment there are spiritual services. As soon
as spiritual services come into play, another formula of valuation, if
I may call it so, has to be introduced, namely: “A spiritual
in the economic process spiritual services ox products come to meet
of spiritual services, eventually goes back to Nature — to Labour
manual workers, but I assumed that the only spiritual workers were the
“worthies.” These three supply their spiritual services.
differ so very much from one another. However spiritual a worker I may
it will be evident how and to what extent a spiritual worker needs
economies under which the spiritual workers receive all that they
a given spiritual service is worth. For I shall know, when I paint a
those who can save themselves the Labour on account of their spiritual

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since the 9th century. Formerly there was an awareness of the spiritual
altogether spiritual. It would never, for example, have occurred to a
speak of the spiritual Beings, the so-called
happened that in this or that enactment they met spiritual Beings,
spiritual element in man's thought, whereby he knew that behind
Beings of the Third Hierarchy — this spiritual element in man's
all knowledge of the spiritual world when one can speak in the sense
stimulated by the spiritual world, as was the case with Goethe, then
absolute certainty how colour wells up from within the Spiritual.
and a disappearing of it again within. It is like a spiritual dance,
in very deed a spiritual waltz, wonderful to behold. And you may
observe too how these spiritual Beings come forth from the rainbow
this watery element spiritual Beings live, Beings that are actually a
account of the fact that spiritual things like these were still a
Spiritual Science must try to do.
shall have more to say concerning the spiritual life and its history

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since the 9th century. Formerly there was an awareness of the spiritual
Yesterday I began to speak to you of the spiritual-scientific strivings
into the fifteenth century. The spiritual streams that were working
union with the spiritual world — one may truthfully say, for a
the spiritual world; but it seems to him as though the nature of man
does not allow him to penetrate to the spiritual worlds.
work, the creation of divine-spiritual Beings. When one looks at what
divine-spiritual Beings. But man cannot come through to these
spiritual Beings. The pupil, who was a young man somewhere between 25
your ears what goes on in Nature; the Spiritual reveals itself
possesses. The meeting becomes fruitful in a spiritual way through
spiritual world. Those who follow thoroughly and actively what is
do find the way into the spiritual worlds. Everything that has been
of the spiritual world — therefore also such scenes as I have
scenes. There are however regions of the spiritual world which are
hard of access even for a very advanced stage of spiritual power. In
of actually having intercourse with the Beings of the spiritual

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since the 9th century. Formerly there was an awareness of the spiritual
research in the realm of spiritual knowledge were communicated in the
faculty into the spiritual world. The door was shut when the time
be placed out-side the kingdom of the divine-spiritual Will that
What we may truly call the knowledge of the Spiritual, that too
change that took place in the whole spiritual world in respect of
so to temper their souls that genuine spiritual knowledge might yet
after-death state. He had descended to these men from the spiritual
physical body that gives the medium his spiritual powers. But the
disembodied human being, purely spiritual, and yet at the same time
to the divine-spiritual existence. For a period of time, however, the
might establish a special union with the spiritual world, once more
spiritual world. These symbolic revelations were the first pictures
the spiritual world. The revelations contained a kind of philosophy,
to bring the symbols from the spiritual world, could only write down
literature of medicine. And what was thus received from the spiritual
nature. Revelations came frequently to men from the spiritual world
spiritual world, it has always been possible to link on to such
one has always to bear in mind that the spiritual revelation comes
the spiritual world.
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since the 9th century. Formerly there was an awareness of the spiritual
spiritual knowledge through the centuries, and of the form it has
the nineteenth century, the spiritual knowledge that was present
heart and soul to the Spiritual, to all that is of the Spirit in the
knowledge man possessed of Nature and of how the spiritual world
example, that in the several planets of our system are spiritual
than a sign, an announcement, so to say, of the presence of spiritual
received a task from the Spirituality of the Worlds, not merely, as
by the World-Spirituality, but in the course of his evolution had not
spiritual realm. The conversation turns on whether Man, as he stands
Rosicrucian School, who received their spiritual nourishment imbued
spiritual knowledge was incapable of going forward. Hence we see it
The Dogma and Ritual of High Magic?
all of their spiritual connection. Such books are invariably pointers
genuine spell of the Spiritual.
of old spiritual truths. We have therewith a hardening, ossifying
process, and a growing impossibility to approach the Spiritual in a

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since the 9th century. Formerly there was an awareness of the spiritual
teaching concerning Man. A long time ago, on a spiritual path, I
learned to know of it on a spiritual path; I was not able at that
in the physical world, but in a spiritual way it became known to me
to research made independently through Spiritual Science; I should
see there a spiritual scientist — he may truly be so called —
Philosophy of Spiritual Activity
Philosophy of Spiritual Activity,
of olden times, which come originally from spiritual knowledge; I
And that is what really happens — spiritually of course —
Gods, this going into the spiritual world, is what the pupils of that
external anatomy, but a deeply spiritual truth was indicated. It was

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since the 9th century. Formerly there was an awareness of the spiritual
the spiritual world since the first third of the fifteenth century
than he ever did before. This new relation to the spiritual world
— a man of spiritual knowledge — could enter into
relation with the spiritual world at the dawn of the new phase of
times — towards the spiritual world, an abstract naturalistic
stream of spiritual life, men like Galileo, Giordano Bruno,
himself real knowledge about the spiritual world. In doing the
a purely spiritual way within me. The triangle as a whole — all
instinctive clairvoyance, there was knowledge of the divine-spiritual
spiritual organs; but these organs also require a basis of
Morgana of their own spiritual visions through the resistance of the
themselves every time: Such spiritual vision as we have had —
into the spiritual worlds. It is no longer there.
spiritual world. This, then, is what we see in the Rosicrucian
meditations. Then the divine-spiritual worlds — no longer the
spatial end of the Universe, but the divine-spiritual worlds —
brought back to them in a spiritually real language what had first
evident in the case of spiritualist mediums, and in other morbid or
Science of today the true basis for spiritual seership. Learn first
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in quite another relation to the spiritual world since the first
to the spiritual world also determines a peculiar relation to the
spirit — a man of spiritual knowledge — could enter into
relation with the spiritual world at the dawn of the new phase of
described — towards the spiritual world, an abstract
this modern stream of spiritual life — men like Galileo,
draw forth from himself real knowledge about the spiritual world. In
board portrays to me what I bear in a purely spiritual way within me.
There was an instinctive clairvoyance, knowledge of the divine-spiritual
with the spiritual organs, but these organs also require a basis of
Morgana of their own spiritual visions through the resistance of the
to themselves every time: Such spiritual vision as we have had
out of space into the spiritual worlds. It is no longer there.
spiritual world. This, therefore, was the peculiar outcome for the
intimate meditations. Then the divine spiritual worlds — no
longer the spatial end of the universe, but the divine spiritual
worlds — brought back to them in a spiritually real language
evident in the case of spiritualist mediums, and in other morbid or
Science of to-day is actually the true basis for spiritual seership.
the Grecian epoch. The spiritual soul which we are now to evolve is
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festival. It was an image of Adonis — Adonis as the spiritual
With songs and acts of ritual representing the deepest human grief and
ritual, what took place in the Holy of Holies of the Mysteries with
spiritual Beings. Henceforth he was allowed to see the world —
rituals enacted in the outer world. The content of the sacred ritual,
senses but in the spiritual world.
Mysteries is an image of what takes place in spiritual worlds, in the
astral-spiritual Cosmos in other forms of existence than in this
yet be chosen to receive the vision of the spiritual world directly
cult or ritual, that is to say, through a picture of what was enacted
visible in picture form, in that the first half of the sacred ritual
for the spiritual world. To unveil the truth about death was the
spiritual world. The soul was kept separate from the body during the
succeeding centuries. Man's penetration into spiritual things becomes
ever less and less. The spiritual content of the Mystery of Golgotha
the Spiritual.
Spiritual because he is no longer able to receive inspiration for a
true perception of the Spiritual itself. Autumn no longer has the
human soul arises after three days to spiritual immortality.
in the physical world, the soul-world and the spiritual world of

Title: Lecture: Moon-birth and Sun-birth. Necessity and Freedom. Stages of the Ancient
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from the spiritual world where he dwelt as a soul-spiritual being in
them and to express this reverence in sacred ritual, in prayer and
observed by spiritual sight.
The religions which looked up to the Moon — to the spiritual
today simply does not conceive what the forces that are spiritually
is the spiritual Sun forces, on the other hand, which free him from
sacred rituals and actions were applied to those initiated in the
derived. Spiritual research alone can give information on these
matters. But when spiritual research has had its say, I would ask any
spiritual science? It will do so indeed, if things are only seen in
knew that in the spiritual rays of the Sun, the power of Christ the
moment: what does the spiritual Sun force bring about? We owe it to
carry him out into the spiritual world, preserving his being as a
olden times the rays of the spiritual Sun had entered into all men at
spiritual aspect — before he descended to the Earth. The human
universe; one learns to know its spiritual nature. This was the first
called upon to recollect it. But houses are not built in the spiritual
is true, but that is spiritual melody. Whatever is earthly music has
longer dives merely down into himself and knows himself as a spiritual
being, but when this spiritual being learns to know the body itself.
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has come about that of these far spaces of the Cosmos whose spiritual
spiritually seen and considered, it is not a single soul-and-spirit
infinite multiplicity of spiritual beings who express themselves in
All the multitude of spiritual beings who live in the stars are
this very reason is present in a more spiritual way than when it
spiritual way. We have indeed the perpetual rhythmic alternation
between the physical manifestation and the spiritual manifestation of
etheric body. On the other hand all that rays forth spiritually from
science tells its tales, but is permeated everywhere by spirituality.
The Moon itself in fact contains a multitude of spiritual beings.
time upon the Earth, not in a physical body but in a spiritual form,
Now all the spiritual life in the Moon depends upon the way in which
express myself pictorially I would say: the spiritual Beings of the
At the time of spiritual observations in such Mysteries man did indeed
what extent he bore within him the force of the spiritual Sun, for he
bore the spiritual forces of the Sun within him, and this in effect
And so it is indeed with this Easter Festival. Our present spiritual
of this his relationship to the Spiritual in the Cosmos. And at length
in the spiritual world.
Nature herself is overcome by the Spiritual; the spiritual works in
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spiritual life that passed through the world and evolved through
were very powerful with respect to the whole guidance of the spiritual
Now mankind was predestined from the outset to evolve to spiritual
If, as we have often said, a more spiritual age is now approaching
experience of the Spiritual that can arise from present-day Initiation
treasure it, true knowledge or indeed any spiritual life of mankind is
however little, into our souls all this reverence for the spiritual
events signify facts and carry the spiritual life from one age into
It is indeed the case that when that spiritual impulse which has gone
spiritual life of the world live in the Mysteries? I showed yesterday
constellations of the Sun and Moon considered in a spiritual sense. I
may put it so, in the spiritual Moon observatory. We want to
spiritual life and movement within the ether of the Cosmos. We may say
into a spiritual listening and may be thus expressed. It was as though
through the spiritual atmosphere of the Ephesian Sanctuary as a magic
spiritual world.
From all that I have here described, you will see that the spiritual
At this point a seemingly chance event is of great spiritual
who had belonged to this Temple. How much of spiritual light and
as a man rises to spiritual Imagination. Spiritual Imagination is, as
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Significant Facts Pertaining to the Spiritual Life of the Middle
spiritual science to inculcate an element which was deemed necessary
spiritual life, too, of a feeling that a crucial point had been
reached. In the external spiritual life — that is to say, in
spiritual evolution of mankind in very ancient times. The two
the spiritual — we should say; the Yellow Caps are connected
to acquire the wisdom that will lead his soul into the spiritual
evolutionary course of mankind, in its spiritual aspect too. One man
here — the law of man's connection with the spiritual world and
spirituality, a sense for the realities of those worlds which hover
not made her equal to living, like her husband, in the spiritual
able to live with sufficient intensity in the spiritual worlds to win
penetrate into the spiritual worlds in order to bring down for her
the spiritual worlds everything that would imbue the child with
spirituality. This drives her insane and she is put into a madhouse —
she wants to bring out of the spiritual worlds for the child those
the spiritual world. It is where he lets the old Count say, on
child is describing how he looks into the spiritual world, he relates
who understand these things in the light of spiritual science. He
spiritual world. Around the Count whose spirit lives entirely in the
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Title: Significant Facts: Lecture II: Ancient Occult Magic. The Ahasver Mystery.
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Significant Facts Pertaining to the Spiritual Life of the Middle
materialism veiled all possibilities of vision into the spiritual
spiritual science. As I have often said, this development ultimately
The souls who have learnt nothing from spiritual science
nothing from spiritual science, they will not know what to make of
before it can be understood are those yielded by spiritual science.
remembrance will from now onwards have to be laid through spiritual
on their souls through the thoughts of spiritual science.
his inspiration, spiritual science has to say, no sentiments or
atavistic connection with the spiritual world.
knowledge of mankind's connection with the spiritual worlds, although
to lose the requisite link with the spiritual world. Mankind would
Past, and those who rise into the spiritual worlds in an atavistic
pass into the spiritual world without finding in themselves a point
were allowed by the normal, progressive spiritual Beings to work in
Now we know that there are spiritual Beings actually
Spiritual Beings who had not completed their full development during
that had been developed for them by the progressive spiritual Beings
otherwise would have been utterly primitive. The spiritual Beings who
that these spiritual qualities were not merely inherited, but
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Title: Significant Facts: Lecture III: The Tragic Wrestling with Knowledge. The Secrets of the Future Sixth Cultural Period.
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Significant Facts Pertaining to the Spiritual Life of the Middle
which leads to a certain denial of the reality of the spiritual
willingness to approach the spiritual worlds in order to receive from
knowledge. The feeling that knowledge of the spiritual worlds is
the spiritual worlds — this experience, this inner wrestling
the world-outlook of spiritual science is to be traced back,
the spiritual worlds, in order to unite their own souls with the
spiritual forces weaving and surging through the world. Study of such
world presented by materialism. Other souls are more spiritually
necessarily involved if it is to find its way into the spiritual
the full in the spiritual wrestlings of the 19th century. At the time
spiritual conception of the world. You can see how he endeavoured
knowledge. But when all is said and done, spiritual science alone can
import of human evolution. And so the aim of spiritual science is to
means of the recognised science of today. Spiritual science points
reality would be if victory were won by those who say: “Spiritual
still other etheric forms. Spiritual science dreams all this, but
which spiritual science speaks are sheer delusions are clever
we move towards the future. But above all we must receive spiritual
“The Spiritual Guidance of Man and of Mankind,”
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Title: Spiritual Science and Medicine -- Lecture I
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from Spiritual Science all that can be of value to physicians. It is
by consideration of the facts in the light of Spiritual Science. There
for the spiritualising of medicine to be the substitution of spiritual
but absolutely wrong in general. For there is a spiritual method of
knowing the therapeutic properties of material remedies; spiritual

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sphere. This type of irregularity is too strong spiritually, too
place during working hours, during full physico-spiritual awakeness.
relieved from spiritual occupation, it has recourse to the form of
there are spiritual efforts to be made; the patient makes efforts

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physical and spiritual in man. For the forces we learnt to know as
the soul and spiritual functions.
soul and spirit element. So that, in fact, with our soul and spiritual
formative principles to augment our soul and spiritual powers. If we
absorbed from our organism by our soul and spiritual activities by

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call the astral body, (the soul proper) and the ego (the spiritual
of view of spiritual science, a man asleep.
world. In Spiritual Science this relationship is often formulated in
respectively. It might interest you to hear about the part Spiritual
results of Spiritual Science, there are no allopaths. There are in
form the shell. You must accept a little help from Spiritual Science

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spiritual-scientific research. I only try to use sometimes the terms
re-entries as exhalations and inhalations of the soul and spiritual
in a recent public lecture, and in spiritualistic circles photography
between the spiritual and the material, whether the latter be
balance must be held between it and the spiritual, and equally so in
between the spiritual in the universe and the material in the
spiritual realm looks, as it were, right into the external world. This
way will only be found when mankind has learnt, through spiritual

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expressions in the realm of physical functions with the spiritual
and conception are to become permeated with Spiritual Science. For
mystical view and to approach the concrete grasp of spiritual truth,
so that a true science may be fertilised by spiritual science. What
in a position to build the bridge between what spiritual science is
strictly spiritual-scientific way. But I will connect my remarks with
spiritual scientist does not need this material before him in the same
when natural science has been fertilised to some extent by spiritual
Let us examine the close relationship, to which spiritual science will
(spiritual) capacities of man and the regulated or non-regulated

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make these investigations because it is important for spiritual

Title: Spiritual Science and Medicine -- Lecture X
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Of course the spiritual-scientific investigation proper in yielding
viewpoint of spiritual science.
in man, in his possessing a spiritual organisation, and at the same
should have here a concentration of all that is both spiritually and
standpoint of spiritual science, we come to a great reverence for

Title: Spiritual Science and Medicine -- Lecture XI
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spiritually scientific concept of the aim and purpose of homeopathic
The spiritual scientist views vegetable carbon as something impelling
there operates something spiritual science recognises as the tendency
animals share the other higher spiritual processes equally with

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the spiritual scientist can fully appreciate. As you are aware, oxygen
Spiritual Science shows us this significant fact: every change in the
Spiritual Science we have found it necessary to state that man
you will come to a quite definite revelation, which spiritual science
under the control of the spiritual functions — into association with
borderline where Natural Science passes over Spiritual Science. For,
to the inner sight. When we begin to study the spiritual history of

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assume a more spiritually scientific orientation, in respect of three
unless the insight given by spiritual science serves at least as a
be the first to approach the standpoint of spiritual science. They
will need to mark all that spiritual science can tell them, and even
spiritual science has already told them a good deal. It will be
very slight or very acute, and leading possibly to ulcers, spiritual
the methods of spiritual science reveal that if it is possible to
question, and based on well-established research in spiritual science.
knowledge for successful carrying out. Here spiritual science can only
experience. And this interrelationship of spiritual science and
observation and the investigations of spiritual science are kept
Believe me, the exponent of spiritual science finds the mere phrase
[Ed: In German: Geisteskrankheit, spiritual
note how ineffective so-called mental and mental and spiritual
to let its path be sought and found: the path leading to spiritual
implement of the spiritual organisation — he is not all of one
mental or spiritual diseases is to be sought in the lower organic

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For Spiritual Science is aware of something that shocks and offends
interesting information. Here again, spiritual science reveals

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The function of the spleen inclines strongly to the spiritual side. So
investigations of spiritual science, the spleen appears as the agent
in a more spiritual or psychological way in man. Like all our organs
spleen is the sensory organ of the more spiritualised part of man for

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the very reason that it is a highly spiritualised organ; and also
knowledge that spiritual science offers — on the lines of my booklet
proper recognition of the spiritual as it is to the recognition of the
spiritual in matter. The repudiation of the conception that spiritual
nonsense. This loss of the knowledge of spiritual factors in material
also an extremely fine, spiritualised inward sucking action. We must

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be expressed as follows: from the standpoint of spiritual research,
somewhat spiritualised and we reach the stage of ceasing to try to
able to regard all so-called material things as spiritual. We suffer
despised nature, and sought to attain to spiritual realms by an
in some external object or substance — the two spiritual forces
people had lost the possibility of learning the spiritual aspects of
spiritual ailments as spiritual only, just as in the psycho-analytic
views must again prevail on the subject of the spiritual attributes of
alive this acknowledgment of the spiritual permeation of external
spiritual science finds it necessary to emphasise the healing elements
short in all that cannot be termed spiritual influence proper, but

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back to the spiritual causes, we shall not reach the solution of the
metamorphosis. That which we observe as a spiritual element, is only
the re-spiritualisation of what worked in a more bodily way when the

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accurately, in the way that can be given by Spiritual Science, the
barrier between the spiritual and the physical. For instance, in

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him, as it were, through spiritual science, from the point where man
we turn the light of spiritual science upon the whole constitution of
Spiritual Science must point out particularly that so-called “mental
spiritual and soul factors. This is a chapter of peculiar difficulty.
comprehensive view of the connection between the soul and spiritual
paradoxical that it should be left for spiritual science to advocate
need for a spiritualisation of this whole field. The world of today,

Title: Lecture: Curative Education: Lecture 1
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human organism in spiritual world. Knowledge of the earth world
necessary for that of the body in spiritual world. Why children may
between the time of conception and birth, from the spiritual worlds.
descends from spiritual worlds. The life of soul which descends from
the spiritual worlds is something quite different, and is not, in the
of soul that comes down from the spiritual worlds takes possession of
descended from the spiritual world reached a kind of end at the time
of our own lack of knowledge — in the spiritual world, of
death and came into the spiritual world, they would be insufficiently
equipped for getting to know the human organism in this spiritual
is spiritual inner world in life beyond the Earth. And we shall have

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where thoughts could originate in man are, in the eyes of Spiritual
we set out to investigate with all the means afforded by Spiritual
when he comes down from the spiritual world — when, that is, he
the gate of death, and lived on further in the spiritual world. Then
nature that descends from the spiritual world, to look with love upon
the spiritual world — though the spiritual world has then to
question of bringing in new impulses from the spiritual world —
and that is what is needed, new impulses from the spiritual world! —
the prompting of the spiritual world leads us into a situation where
the physical world. But when we come to working out of spiritual

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light (in spiritual science "light" is perception of all
would still be true if one were able to call in the help of Spiritual
You must know however that what Spiritual Science speaks of as forces
present where we see things illumined. Spiritual Science speaks of
spoken of in ancient spiritual knowledge and even as late as the 12th
to be understood in the light of an inner physics, a spiritual
or spiritual, let him feel movements that he makes with his arms; let

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Spiritual Science. When speaking to those who will have to intervene
spiritual (as was continually done in earlier times, when men had
between physical and spiritual), let us take the word “soreness”
everything Spiritual Science can give, you will always find that
makes its appearance, something is there which, seen spiritually,
stands nearer to the Spiritual than the things that are done by man
in his healthy organism. Only, this standing-nearer-to-the-Spiritual

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outwardly apathetic. Spiritual understanding of children will
much sulphur. Only by following the path of Spiritual Science can the
sulphur direct. This can show you once again how from a spiritual
is required. But it must be spiritual study; it will never do
activities that are more connected with the spiritual and mental,
system; this will stimulate also his whole spiritual nature. Let such

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age of intellectualism. The thinking, the mental and spiritual

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to where we can “behold” also the spiritual in the child.
know. What one did know was that a spiritualist would have had here a
head). As to the spiritual findings, they are to the effect that the

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Kleptomaniac boy. Moral judgements belong to earth, not to spiritual
to you how spiritual vision can discern, in the case of such a
between good and evil. For the spiritual world, good and evil are
are congregated there in our school, but also to spiritual beings who
are more highly developed than man, spiritual beings who show quite
those spiritual beings who are of the same kind as the Genius of
spiritual beings are verily present among us. Say, we come into the
a proof that we are connected with the spiritual beings who bear

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clairvoyance that is required for spiritual research in general, you

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consciousness or spiritual soul. And then we come to spirit-self,
Jupiter the consciousness or spiritual soul, whilst Saturn
Spiritual Soul — Jupiter
single ganglion? Spiritually, I could see that it was so; it had
moved too, as they also are, by religious and spiritual impulses (but
in his case the spiritual was methodically conceived), went to Rome,
experience of the place occupied by Jena in the spiritual evolution

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which can lead to observation of archetypal plant. Spirituality lives
only etheric and physical content. Plant becomes more spiritual in
that where we have abnormalities in man, it is the spirituality in
come nearer to that in him which, in the sense of good spiritual
the human being have, in reality, to do with the spiritual in him,
the very young child, physical and spiritual are intimately bound up
takes effect physically alone. The spiritual influence of a substance
work spiritually; and we must realise what a responsibility rests
no longer any consciousness of how the spiritual is active everywhere
spiritual — in its own nature and also in its activity and
least spiritually of all; in comparison with the rest of the plant,
spiritualises, as it grows upwards.
The upper part of the plant contains the spirituality that we long
theory but more in a spiritual way.
in the direction of the spiritual — the spiritual works too
world; and whenever we want to summon up our inner spiritual powers,
we who are in this spiritual movement are constantly thinking: how
can this spiritual movement be made fruitful for practical life? —

Title: Lecture: The Cycle of the Year: Lecture I
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spiritual cosmic connections, the meaning of the festival year. And I
of spiritual insights and over long ages, the festival year has
all its spirituality, but rather by observing the way in which the
Mysteries passed through what I might call a great soul-spiritual
observed directly. The spiritual gaze of the knower must be turned
as Christ-permeated Earth-soul is flowing out into spiritual cosmic
since the last third of the nineteenth century — from spiritual
Mysteries who understood the course of the year spiritually. They knew
consciousness in this cosmic-spiritual battle.*
three months earlier. (The Spiritual Communion of Mankind,
earthly life again also in a spiritual sense, will eventually have to
be purified by spiritual forces, from the Dragon, from the Ahrimanic

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spiritual world as such in order to understand events which do not
spiritual world. We know that at the beginning of human
of which he could gain glimpses of the spiritual world which led him
through spiritual science, a science which comprehends the spiritual.
But what is spiritually conceived attains reality, not when this
spiritual is conceived merely in abstract thoughts but only when it is
Anyone who wants to cling to the spiritual only in its abstraction,
who says, for example, that we should not pull down the spiritual into
will never live in spiritual realities if we conceive the spiritual
in-and-out-breathing by the Earth itself of soul-spiritual elements.
soul-spiritual part of the Earth is completely absorbed. Deep in the
Soul-spiritually also, he does not dwell in the depths of the Earth,
physically. He immersed himself in the soul-spiritual element, and
she draws her soul-spiritual element into herself.
strength which a man had himself developed in his soul-spiritual
spiritual through the agency of the Moon forces which the Earth takes
kind of intoxication with regard to the spiritual will come over
mankind, depriving men of any consciousness that anything spiritual
spiritual capacities only by gaining new strength to overcome the
developing the particular spiritual force now accessible to mankind.
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the spiritual in the successive changes of outer nature, in growth and
surrendered, given over to the outer spiritual-physical world. Their
during the Middle Ages, the people who oriented the spiritual life
spiritual foundations, out of esoteric foundations, in making the
which the moral-spiritual element will once again he felt and
shining, soul-spiritual element arises — to be able to perceive
order that the spiritual can live in the yellowing as such
ascent of the spirit takes place, how the spiritual is the
Man should become permeated, out of anthroposophical spiritual
science, by the truth that it is precisely the spiritual life
world in Nature; to feel the kinship of man's spiritual
“being-ness” with Nature's spiritual “being-ness”
spirituality.
In so doing, however, in permeating his will with spirituality, the
spiritual life today. Man wants everything to revert to a unity, to a
and he is accordingly either a spiritualistic Monist or a
free of the spiritual, and the dropping away and withering of the
sensible (red), then we have a view of the spiritual as such,
The sprouting plant in the spring has the spiritual within its
sprouting and growing; the spiritual is mingled with the sensible; we
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consciousness people saw more deeply into the spiritual environment.
also in the spiritual events, people were all the more involved with
received by the animal realm — only now the divine-spiritual
divine-spiritual. The larks send their voices out over the cosmos, and
the divine spiritual, which takes part in the forming, in the whole
divine spiritual impulses which then work on in the bird world and
great questions to the divine spiritual of the cosmos. Their
a question to the divine-spiritual universe. Men received the answer
communication with the divine-spiritual powers of the cosmos. A relic
provides no record, of which we can only know through spiritual
pupils of the Mysteries, for various spiritual celebrations which were
modern constitution, if he applies himself once more to the spiritual.
only once more in a spiritual way, man must come again to something
himself. This he can do only through the deepening of spiritual

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still in the bosom of the divine-spiritual.
the bosom of the divine-spiritual; but they thought that during the
spiritual world.
Now this essence of the individual ego within the divine spiritual
and live spiritual messengers through whom the higher divine beings
impulses. But at night, when the higher spiritual beings withdraw, the
which they came especially near to the divine-spiritual; a summer
the soul-spiritual level. This then, in all particulars, was taken to
be a divine-spiritual moral revelation of the cosmos to man.
midsummer the divine-spiritual world revealed itself through moral
to be divine-spiritual within him he ascribed to the revelations of
perceptions, man felt: “The divine-spiritual world is withdrawing
he is in a certain sense growing out of the spiritual into Nature.
“living-out-from” the spiritual, as a living into Nature.
spiritual in the world. With the arrival of what we today call the
“Light,” spiritual wisdom was meant. It designated that
divine-spiritual existence of the cosmos, so he felt himself in
Spiritual Foundation of Morality by Steiner.
midsummer the phenomena of Nature spoke in a spiritual way. People
they sought in these phenomena was a spiritual language. Even in small
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Title: Lecture I: The Balance in the World and Man, Lucifer and Ahriman
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spiritual world, the feeling arises that we are outside the physical
body. In this spiritual world we are at once conscious of a new and
Spiritual Science and it is an experience which will become more and
I have said repeatedly that the cultivation of Spiritual Science today
through Spiritual Science, people begin to understand what this
exists. But students of Spiritual Science will have to understand the
rid of him” — then anyone who understands Spiritual Science will
that experiences of the spiritual world intermingle with the dream and
In the light of Spiritual Science it can be said that whenever we feel
disdain the Spiritual, the more will the ether-body contract and
study Spiritual Science with any depth, simply do not exist for the
of the spiritual world. Man will, of course, disavow the riddle of
by way of Eurythmy or the development of a spiritual-scientific
spiritual world. The ether-body must be quickened in order that the
knowledge and investigation of the spiritual world, from Spiritual
by deepening his knowledge of spiritual happenings, of the world to
the spiritual world, not merely the inhabitant of a human body. This
Post-Atlantean epoch must strive to become conscious in the spiritual
spiritual world.
Spiritual Science is thus a fundamental factor in the evolution of the

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come from the spiritual world lay themselves open to the charge of
respect of certain problems in spiritual knowledge. But first let me
the earth — for to know nothing of Spiritual Science is to be “under
through to a spiritual-scientific thinking. Then he will feel as an
the scientists are, who take account only of the spiritual that is
under the earth — for even the material is spiritual! And mankind
case the Spiritual; to enter into the world of the Spirit — that is
meaning and significance of the step forward in spiritual evolution
which is to be made through Spiritual Science. Through Spiritual
Spiritual Science. A time will come in the future when men will say:
But there are also moral and spiritual aspects of what is apparently

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The Threshold of the Spiritual World)
spiritual world-conception. In the future — certainly, in a rather
regions of the spiritual world. In a religious sense, he feels duty as
ordinary self, in all such endeavor after spiritualization. If man
are directly translatable into Spiritual Science.
great spiritual Powers, above all of those spiritual Powers who bring
of the spiritual forces that bring about balance, so does our moral
justified even within a spiritual monism — of that we shall have more
the part that has been taken by different spiritual Powers in the

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away from a spiritual science, so they think a few things out on their

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It is spiritual science that is able to know these material facts. (I

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linked with the spiritual world.
Having relived the course of their lives in the spiritual world
increasingly assimilated into the spiritual world, where their lives
down, as it were, to earth from the spiritual world and display a
develop maturity in the spiritual world. Their interest lies in the
spiritual world right up to the moment before they find their way to
consciousness which has its origins in spiritual impulses. With their
spiritual ambitions they outgrow their environment, and are thus
spirit in the chaos of contemporary spiritual life. In sketching an
people a feeling that here there was a gateway to a more spiritual
in Bayreuth led to a great longing for more profound spiritual
spiritual; and all those who became part of such a current, not
spiritual world because they felt this kind of inner longing. They
I then encountered several of those people, whose first spiritual
never lost my connection with the spiritual world. It was always
speak: the spiritual world accepted as self-evident, and human beings
on earth perceived as images of their real existence as spiritual
beings within the spiritual world. I was involved and came to know
spiritual nourishment; spiritual nourishment which they were able to
them in life. It was indeed interesting how spiritual life, spiritual
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The Unveiling of Spiritual Truths
satisfy their spiritual yearning are homeless souls in a certain
subsequently led to various forms of spiritualism, many souls sought
spiritual realm which is, for example, the source of our moral
impulses. The existence of a spiritual realm takes concrete form when
connected to the sensory world but to the spiritual world. These are
first, that there is a spiritual realm
to this spiritual realm.
a kind of message about the spiritual world. After all, one could not
spiritual world was also required, and in particular towards the form
that they are connected with a divine-spiritual realm, that they
when they become truly aware of their spiritual nature, what can they
subjects, starting with the spiritual fact — a certainty for
everyone with access to the spiritual world — of repeated lives
spiritual responsibility, they had to be put in a context. It is no
spiritual fact. But in order to provide a point of access for people
cosmos and the spiritual realm on the basis of an ancient wisdom.
to conclude that a spiritual world needed to be investigated.
spiritual. With Schelling and Oliphant something different happened
and Oliphant begin to speak about the spiritual world. Even if these
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The Opposition to Spiritual Revelations
spiritual life, the view gained ground that certain insights about
the spiritual world became known because physical letters came from a
far-reaching insights into the spiritual world or from the spiritual
significance in the spiritual history of civilization. Why is it that
at the end of the nineteenth century revelations from a spiritual
objective standpoint of spiritual science, if only as the basis for
beings participate in the spiritual life as discerning individuals
significance of spiritual events.
of the hostile forces opposing the intervention of spiritual
when it is raised to consciousness, appears as something spiritual.
spiritual life become one. It considers the superficial life of the
is no understanding that the spiritual is present everywhere in
anatomically and physiologically, but it can be shown spiritually.
which spiritual phenomena were received, was there any chance of
to the spirit, to gain real access to the spiritual world.
Because whether or not we gain access to the spiritual world does
of the spiritual world. Spiritualists believe very firmly that all
than the kind of unimaginative absence of anything spiritual at all
spiritual world entered the physical world in the last third of the
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Spiritual Truths and the Physical World
find a way to prevent such a depiction of the spiritual world having
in the dictionary. But a body of knowledge about the spiritual world
but an expressly spiritual one.
She was able to speak of spiritual beings and spiritual processes
spiritual world because she had the capacity to move among spiritual
of people today are becoming divided in their spiritual life,
of modern learning? They were presented in ritual images. The
not in the sermons, for instance, but in ceremonial, in the rituals.
spiritual life. It was as if their earthly life could reach as high
little bit higher, the spiritual life began. The language of the
spiritual world was depicted in images which stimulated the
that images, not concepts, were required for the spiritual world.
connected with it. One has to talk about a spiritual world if one
intellectualism have robbed them of the spiritual world. Christ is
means is gone; the understanding of Christ as a spiritual being among
spiritual beings in a spiritual world has disappeared. The world
to cultivate spiritual truths. Why do you, each single one of you, do
were everywhere. People perceived a spiritual world which surrounded
them in their environment. And because they found a spiritual world
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pre-empted any understanding of the spiritual world as it developed
be an independent spiritual stream in mankind, it is a simple human
spiritual world in a wholly new form is necessary.
spiritual. But these Mysteries are only capable of explaining the
to find the divine and the spiritual, to make them accessible to
because their sole aim was to find access to the spiritual world,
backward movement is a reality in the spiritual realm, because time
as a society which is able to support a spiritual movement, however
contained a justified and full spirituality. The things which were
separate Blavatsky's spiritual contribution from the effect of the
appropriate if it was to become a purely spiritual movement.
a kind of sphere of influence — first of a spiritual nature,
by providing the West's spirituality, or lack of it if you like, with
Indian content in order to win a spiritual victory over the West. It
contained in the wish to continue in Blavatsky's spiritual direction
from England in a spiritual way, the first, apparently innocuous step
It has always spelled the beginning of the end for spiritual
political elements into their activity. A spiritual movement can only
it is one of the most essential conditions for a spiritual movement
simply part of the conditions for spiritual movements, such as
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spiritual research. The reality was simply that the possibility of
incarnation and then the wave motion continues through the spiritual
extent to which our spiritual life has become confused. The kind of
write. The demands of my lecturing activity and of the spiritual
spiritual society. To build far-reaching ideals on phrases, setting
up programmes, is the worst thing which can happen to a spiritual
The Spiritual Guidance of the Individual and Humanity
concern itself with the spiritual content which came from the
absolutely irreconcilable with a spiritual society of this kind.
leads to a spiritual interpretation of something which is human, all
inspiration from profound spiritual sources — that was
Spiritual societies must avoid such courses of action,
most intensively for a link between the human soul and the spiritual

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more intimate aspects of modern spiritual movements, I will attempt
1908, 1909 — we gradually worked out the inner spiritual
significant for the spiritual development of the West, the Gospels
truths. The spiritual content was built up with each step. The
development of its spiritual content.
main thing was that positive spiritual work was undertaken at each
stage and that these spiritual achievements could then be deepened
world on the strength of its own spiritual resources, its spiritual
spiritual deepening, and in that respect we took the direct path once
again. We sought that spiritual deepening stage by stage, without
still is the case that the spiritual content which needs to be
base our actions on these very spiritual resources.
instance, we were invited to a spiritualist society in Berlin,
anthroposophy. They wanted to infuse anthroposophy with spiritualism
experience manage to penetrate a spiritual movement, things really
the comparative study of religions, and the study of the spiritual
worlds and spiritual methodology. By concentrating on these three
opinion, but who has an interest in the cultivation of the spiritual
terms seeks the path to the spiritual world. How that is done in
who has an interest in the cultivation of the spiritual life, then

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those circles where the impulse for a deeper spiritual understanding
are connected with a spiritual world in the most profound part of
directly to a spiritual world order.
paradoxical, given the immense spiritual confusion of language which
to observation of the divine-spiritual. I indicated that the Godhead
saturated with spiritual substance.
first steps into the spiritual world were possible.
into the spiritual world. The first one is through his scientific
There is, however, no direct continuation into the spiritual
the physical world in a spiritual way. By making use of Goethe's
methodology, we are moving in a spiritual environment which enables
us to understand the spiritual element active in the plant or the
But Goethe also approached the spiritual world from another angle,
he wished to show how a spiritual
spiritual beings, not mere abstract concepts, have to be grasped if
moral impulses also came from this divine spiritual principle.
beings an extension of what they perceived as the divine spiritual
metaphysical conceptions, we have the divine spiritual principle here
the divine which enables them to discover the spiritual basis of
that being so, it was necessary to find this divine spiritual
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is to build a bridge from spiritual-scientific knowledge to the
it is time that the impulses we are acquiring from spiritual
thing that meets us in life today we need spiritual science
general divine-spiritual life forces of man.
life unsupported by spirituality. People who have taken the
recall to memory a spiritual scientific truth which you no
of our spiritual movement could any kind of recommendation be
spiritual life into a kind of hothouse culture. This could
never apply in the realm of true spiritual culture. Although
spiritual science and spiritual research so that we are armed
capable of finding their way into the divine-spiritual realms
are trying to acquire again by means of spiritual science, a
its entirety, that is, both as nature and as spiritual
well-being belonging to the elemental spiritual beings that
elemental spiritual beings. When we plunder nature we squeeze
spiritual beings into the things we construct.
we make is by no means without its spiritual beings. In
constructing it we make a habitation for other spiritual
beings, but these spiritual beings that we conjure into our
spiritual beings that he needs for his salvation, the
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basis, in actual fact anyone who looks upon spiritual science
spiritual world.
from the point of view of spiritual science, this external
which must gradually arise in the course of the spiritual
spiritual soul. And remembering that when we divide the human
consciously into our astral entity, developing its spiritual
transport himself into a state of spiritual consciousness in
— a road leading to the goal of hearing the spiritual
transported to spiritual heights when they lifted themselves
when through spiritual knowledge we must find it again and
spiritual science will become fruitful as soon as it is no
awaken in you a recognition of the fact that spiritual

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and hearts as a result of our efforts in spiritual science if
spiritual worlds. After this comes a description of the great
become apparent that for us spiritual science falls into two
part of spiritual science is concerned for us with what the
soul must do in order to enter the spiritual worlds or, in
half unconsciously, then we may see with our spiritual eyes
art progresses further and we can find the spiritual
the spiritual experience of existence. The other side may be
The Threshold of the Spiritual World,
instrument, a tool through which the spiritual beings speak;
he becomes the larynx of the divine spiritual beings, he
The Threshold of the Spiritual World,
step further into the spiritual world. All that the soul
time he surrenders it to those divine spiritual powers who
thus be described we have an indication of what spiritual
science is to become for human beings. Spiritual science must
Spiritual science must live in the soul, taking hold of all
another being when he becomes devoted to spiritual
mankind of the Sun evolution must stand before our spiritual
all this. But today, when we seek to bring spiritual
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that the spiritual-scientific outlook gives us a new approach
people realised belonged to spiritual worlds. Time and again
spiritual worlds in one instance or another, and we shall
willing, whereas a spiritual point of view must acknowledge
and rituals remind us that festivals like these take place at
knowledge and insight into the spiritual worlds, which we
spiritual-scientific world outlook.
concerning the human soul's entry into the spiritual world,
namely, that man beholds the spiritual world only when he
spiritual world that all led far away. What a vivid
spiritual world. The legend was found at a later date; it was
spiritual-scientific world conceptual stream, reverence and
souls during the years we have been working with spiritual
man, if he wants to penetrate to the spiritual world, has to
spiritual world. One of the difficulties consists in getting
the spiritual world. I have attempted to characterise some of
(‘The Threshold of the Spiritual World’).
initiation. How can we relate to the spiritual world, which
is a host of spiritual beings of the higher hierarchies, into
will sound forth to us, as it were from the spiritual worlds,
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understanding of our spiritual-scientific world outlook, the
spiritual worlds. The opposite pole to this devotional
that spiritual science has made significant for us, we live
world conception to a spiritual one. What is meant here,
spiritual cultural areas to a marked degree.
of the spiritual-scientific outlook, which has taken hold of
spiritual-scientific impulses.
feelings that can arise from the spiritual-scientific world
inwardly, in a kind of moral-spiritual way, and in artists'
respect. They will actually unite their moralspiritual nature
through which they enter the spiritual world, and then it
the tone the soul will also experience a moral-spiritual
spiritual world as though through a window. The secrets of
the sense world to the spiritual world through the window of
as an opening made by the gods from the spiritual world
spiritual world. Through the tonic, for example,
from the sense world into the spiritual world. We are
and make us completely disappear in the spiritual world.
feel that we are still too weak in a spiritual sense in the
physical world, and that we are sucked up by the spiritual
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spiritual-scientific world outlook, or anthroposophy. But it
the impulses coming from spiritual science. To absorb
mind to be affected by the kind of knowledge spiritual
to spiritual science is fundamentally opposite to the
to be like this, but spiritual science is not this kind of
But spiritual
and life-giving spiritual science can be. If we absorb
could say that spiritual science makes the world more
different when spiritual science tells us, for example, When
Spiritual-scientific knowledge makes life more enigmatic and
acquire, when we bring spiritual science to life within us
to complain that spiritual science only appeals to our heads
patient until the message of spiritual science becomes a
the richer for it, whereas, if we take up spiritual science
has ascended to Devachan, and a spiritual being on the other
spiritual science must come alive. To begin with it makes
really come about when the world comes alive with spiritual
spiritual foundations of the cosmos.
spiritual science. For what is going to be painted inside the
in colour and form, of what spiritual science can mean to us.
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feelings have been inspired by spiritual science, as we have
protect our spiritual-scientific outlook against the attacks
always approach spiritual-scientific questions with a certain
have to follow a purely spiritual impulse as distinct from
our instincts but directs us in a purely spiritual way.
spiritually, to put it rather crudely. If you look at a
of spiritual life to know that Jupiter human beings of the
can see that spiritual science gives us a strong impulse for
formed by what we acquire through spiritual science,
behaviour and the spiritual beings — spiritual in so
spiritual forms that are created by moral actions.
today will make you feel what a deep impression spiritual
spiritual-scientific knowledge. Man must get beyond a
the right way. The more ethics we can learn from spiritual
life and blood for the first time through what spiritual
means according to spiritual science as properly understood.
spiritual science, that most of these complaints come from
spiritual science you are striving for, live with it as much
as you can.’ That is the point. That is why spiritual
are trying to make spiritual science a force of life in which
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Pythic, Prophetic and Spiritual-Scientific Clairvoyance (original),
Pythic, Prophetic and Spiritual-Scientific Clairvoyance (edited).
to look at the spiritual aspect of nature and recognise
of spiritual science we can develop this discovery of
the concept of spiritual science, can only come into being
only exists because there is a denial of divine-spiritual
chimney, the spiritual part of the rising smoke will also be
contains a spiritual element. For just as you have a
when it has to do with our spiritual-scientific conception,
leads into the spiritual world and is the very strongest
stressed again and again that the new spiritual knowledge we
spiritual-scientific descriptions of them would be today.
we can call spiritual-scientific clairvoyance, which is
spiritual-scientific clairvoyance we take hold of the whole
an opening up and rising into the divine-spiritual forces of
principle of spiritual-scientific clairvoyance. To be
of our spiritual-scientific movement to an ever greater
our spiritual-scientific movement has often been spoken of
spiritual-scientific movement, if as many people as possible
us to real spiritual-scientific clairvoyance. By snatching up
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That is also shown by the research of spiritual science
or anthroposophy. Spiritual science shows that originally there was
spiritual-soul nature is born at the same time, and this remains. It
spiritual-soul element remains without becoming a physical human
being that from time to time expelled something spiritual. So man and
to a spiritual science, they simply cannot solve the mystery of why a
periods, and how a spiritual element is pushed out too. Now in this

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there all the time, but as a spiritual being, not a physical being.
premises of spiritual science. Those who acknowledge spiritual

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spiritually. Physically — that is, in a body — man first
something very spiritual; it is almost a ghost! If you met something
already arrived at a stage when man was really quite spiritual. And
matter was once spiritual through and through. Therefore it is

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have some knowledge of spiritual science if one wants to make such
rank is conferred as a matter of course from a spiritual basis on
those who are cultured, and this spiritually high rank is called into
for what it has of spiritual content. But it is a primitive culture,
You see that here is a culture that is really spiritual
the culture that arose in India was more spiritualized. In the most
culture of the mind, of the spirit. Hence when you see spiritual
dissect it; it is only spiritual science that is able to describe it.
This possibility of difference, this spiritual aspect of the matter,
whole truth; we have to conceive the matter spiritually. So the
Indians have had a lofty spiritual culture. They have never set great
store by the outer world but have had a spiritual conception of
body in an entirely spiritual way.
within them the spiritual nature of the physical body.

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science, and they shy away from a spiritual science, so they think a

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It is spiritual science that is able to know these

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people with a spiritual world view picture primeval man similarly to
question, therefore, of spiritual science as pursued here at the
you will have seen how necessary it is for spiritual science to come
undeveloped spiritually. They may once have gone about in animal-like
spiritually. His face was more or less what we would certainly call
progress of mankind, for spiritual realities, may be running the risk
on a purely spiritual level and all out of imagination. To come to a
conception: When the wind blows, there is something spiritual in it —
imagination is of a far more spiritual nature in the human soul than
had at that time, came about because man's spiritual entity was

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associated with the various races. so there must be some spiritual
And now, gentlemen, let us consider how the spiritual is
will become a ball of this kind! It is literally true that spiritual
will become definitely more stupid. But if he assimilates spiritual
Through spiritual science the outer world becomes
spiritualized, but that does not make you clumsier. These are things

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instruments but only through spiritual science, spiritual vision —
of anthroposophical spiritual science. Recently I gave a course of

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Everything of the earth that is spiritual will then take on a
distant and their influence is only of a highly spiritual character.
domain, for spiritual science, anthroposophy, surveys a much wider
spiritual science, one finds that in the last hundred years human
spiritualistic séance. Movements are set going as the effect
A spiritual scientist has to reject such phenomena until
things which cannot be proved are not accepted by spiritual science.
And so as a spiritual scientist I can only accept the story of the

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The other idea is established through spiritual
which are almost spiritual, are continuously being sucked in by the

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unless the spiritual foundation of things is recognized and known.
ever be understood until it is realized that the spiritual world is
the spiritual element. A spiritual element works everywhere, in all
If in spiritual science (anthroposophy is, after all,
spiritual in the rye or wheat comes into the head, where it belongs.
spiritual quality, it becomes apparent that in this modern age
potatoes. Spiritual science finds that the eating of potatoes has
recent centuries. That is a crude example of how spiritual science
the world can be examined to determine its spiritual quality. That is
So spiritual science provides a very definite foundation for medicine
Spiritual science is only an extension of natural
And besides that, we have in spiritual science something that
investigates the spiritual in a scientific way and therefore does not
spiritual faculties are constantly changing. Those who do not believe
this simply do not understand the spiritual evolution of mankind. For
if men had possessed the same spiritual faculties that they possess
today. In ancient times their spiritual faculties were not less, but
however, has long been spiritualized. Instead of the comet putting an
become spiritualized.
in the world spiritually. That is possible only when light is shed
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from the view of spiritual science, the thing lacking is knowledge of
the spiritual world. This knowledge would confirm that it is
is unable to penetrate to their spiritual reality. If a being living
as spiritual science, or anthroposophy, shows — if a human
in very truth be able to perceive what is spiritual in the stars,
spiritual life. They have it indeed! But this knowledge of the stars
comes from the spiritual world. I do not mean the substance, but the
spiritual world. So we can say: When the human being is born, the
his father and mother, but the soul and spiritual entity come from
the spiritual world. And every seven or eight years the human being
exchanges his body but retains all of himself that is spiritual.
it as spirit and soul goes back again into the spiritual world. Man
comes from the spiritual world and returns to the spiritual world.
breath we set the soul free so that it can go back to the spiritual
During sleep our spirit and soul have gone off to the spiritual world

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to ordinary science; we must have some knowledge of spiritual science
proficient, In China, therefore, spiritual nobility is
spiritual nobility is called into being by the nature of the language
certain way — praise must be given for what it has of spiritual
have a culture which in a certain sense is really spiritual — a
spiritual beings of the Indians, as the Indians have thought of them,
dissect it; it is only spiritual science that is able to describe it.
possibility of difference, this spiritual aspect of the matter, was
truth; we have to conceive the matter spiritually. Hence the Indians
have had a lofty spiritual culture; they have never set great store by
the outer world but have had a spiritual conception of everything.
knowledge of the human physical body in an entirely spiritual way.
actually contemplating within them the spiritual nature of the

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you see it is not at all true that people with a spiritual
therefore, of spiritual science as pursued here at the Goetheanum
is for spiritual science to come to our aid in the simplest
undeveloped spiritually. In spirit they are infinitely wiser
about he acquired great wisdom spiritually. His face was more or less
These men have accomplished great things purely spiritually and all
blows there is in it something spiritual — which is indeed true
imagination is of a more spiritual nature in the human soul than the
spiritual — not intellectually, it is true, but imaginatively

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cannot be fully explained without the faculty of spiritual perception. That

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Spiritual Science that can enable one to observe such matters as the fact

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naturally otherwise. If one is trained by spiritual science and then

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realised that through spiritual science it is possible to arrive at
must first learn to recognise the spiritual in Nature. Without this

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spirituality from the world's environment. Poisons are gatherers of
what is spiritual; for this reason they are healing remedies. Fundamentally
these things can only be learned by means of spiritual science; the
is the spiritual relationship. If anyone asks what are the spiritual

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what the spiritual relationship is between the hosts of insects
spiritual world, for he can no longer inhabit his body. Hence, we say
returns to take another body; between whiles, he is in the spiritual
way into a spiritual world, it is we who must bring them into a new
desires to go into the spiritual world; but for this it has become
vanish away, to go into the spiritual world.

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as lecturers for anthroposophical Spiritual Science and all
social organism lives, that the independent spiritual life
on the spiritual life, on the economic life, although one
spiritual life in Europe was entirely independent and free
independent spiritual life was first pushed into the
economic village communities. As the free spiritual life
modern times ends in letting the spiritual life on the one
spiritual life must once again be developed. When in a strait
also the Greek still, who with his spiritual life, with his
free spiritual life — that is to say spiritual life that
is understood by free spiritual life is a structure in which
come about from the crowing. In reality, in free spiritual
spiritual, in the sense of the present epoch of development
which the philosophy of freedom [spiritual activity] must
example, to the characterization of the free spiritual life.
spiritual life — that is to say spiritual life that exists
understood by free spiritual life is a structure in which people
crowing. In reality, in free spiritual life, harmony comes about

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nature of the spiritual life, the nature of the
what is to be understood by a free spiritual life, by a
Consider the spiritual part
spiritual aspect, namely the concept of ideology. He says: The
spiritual life has no reality of its own. Religion, concepts of
spiritual life is ideology.
other elements of life, the spiritual life and the political life of
spiritual matters are over-valued — have only developed along
spiritual life, the latter is nowhere connected with his immediate
so on. But, oh, how the value of these spiritual properties has
explain how the spiritual life must once again acquire reality, since
spiritual life and substance, then this really is ideology. In this
called forth concerning the reality of the spiritual life. Then it
becomes possible to point out that the spiritual (cultural) life is a
foundation. A feeling must be evoked for the fact that the spiritual
abandons himself to abstract ideas in his spiritual life, this is
to the reality of the spiritual life — as happens by means of
Anthroposophy — only then can the spiritual life be experienced
as real once again. If the spiritual life is merely a sum of ideas,
done. In the age when the spiritual life evaporated into ideology,
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spiritual life that stands independently on its own. In the second
state, is really a chaotic union of the spiritual elements of human
states the spiritual elements and the economic elements have
everywhere with a seeming democratization of the spiritual life,
apparent democratic mixture of the spiritual and the economic
how the spiritual life as such can be structured independently
Swiss franc. That this is also the case in a spiritual regard is
spiritual life has gradually been absorbed by the life of the state
in freedom. Just let one generation unfold its spiritual life more
but according to life, the spiritual, cultural life must really be
constrained spiritual life that is present in the state and the
social life of the state. It is the restrained spiritual life! It is
this fighting against the constraint of spiritual life. Our whole
spiritual life meets one in everyday life.

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the first two realms — namely that of the spiritual life
utter what is related to the spiritual life in a more lyrical
has to say concerning the spiritual life comes from out of
spiritual part of the social organism. Naturally, it must not
write down, “spiritual life conceived as
independent”; instead, “the spiritual life can
spiritual life must have a sort of lyrical nature within you;

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people speak of the spiritual life, they mean ideas; they

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European Spiritual Life in the 19th Century
Goetheanum have laid repeated emphasis on the fact that the Spiritual
that is shed by Spiritual Science upon the problems of history. And so
Spiritual Science is well fitted to cultivate an objective outlook in the
essentially characteristic of Spiritual Science comes into play.
By its very nature Spiritual
genuine spiritual research; depths are opened up in the soul in which
wide field of history the more spiritual forms of thought which came
in the light of Spiritual Science. To-day I propose to deal with the
and deeper causes underlying the facts of the spiritual and mental life
half of the nineteenth century were all characterised by certain spiritual
upon the spiritual and mental conceptions of his day. He looks back
bearers of the spiritual life. But this state of things has long since
and the industrialists. Although in former times a spiritual conception
and that if no spiritual impulse can find its way into the social organism,
words perceived the reality of a new spiritual impulse. De Maistre pointed
to fundamental conceptions resulting from spiritual investigation. For
nowadays by Spiritual Science — it was said: The human being,
but my object in speaking of it is to give an example of how Spiritual
significant point in the spiritual life of Europe, namely, the fourth
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European Spiritual Life in the 19th Century
spiritual life, and how moreover the peculiar configuration of the
nineteenth century thought and the spiritual life in general that
Wulfila, and with the spiritual stream out of which Wulfila sprang.
was therefore no spiritual life in the masses. There was an exceptionally
strong spiritual life among them. This was of course derived more from
of the upper class, but it was nevertheless a spiritual life. History
important turning-point, these men had spiritual life away in the East
the people. It is only through spiritual science that this can be
greatest spiritual consolation that they had this inner clairvoyant life
which was interpreted by their priests. This spiritual life was reflected
essential characteristic of these peoples. And now the whole spiritual
takes place in the spiritual life of these people through their peculiar
with a much greater freshness as a folk for experiencing spiritual reality
transformed into other forms of spiritual life.
spiritual life developed in them. What in earlier times had expressed
The entire spiritual life became attached to the place. Thus
the interpreter, who was in fact the leader of the whole spiritual life,
place. And thus ritual gradually arises, the pictorial expression of what
provided good material for such a birth of ritual, which was now to reveal
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be Hegel's true spiritual heirs, and on the other side there were

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And what has happened in the spiritual evolution of humanity, in man's
modern scientific method. Those who pursue spiritual science
with me when, before publishing anything pertaining to spiritual science
that we consider in spiritual science. So we must first of all ask:
that results when one considers rightly what ought to live within spiritual
human being. And now we come to that which truly leads over into spiritual
actually attained it themselves, one has some idea what the spiritual
Inspiration we have something inwardly spiritual, the activity of which
spiritual which in our early years lives and weaves within us. This
evolving into spiritual scientists. Our representations and concepts
We can inspire ourselves with the spiritual force that works within
can be inwardly viewed, if one employs certain spiritual scientific

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mechanics was once the source of the delicate spirituality of the Vedanta.
a true spiritual science requires: that we remain circumspect and precise
that could lay claim to objective meaning. For it is just the spiritual
between that which makes an unjustifiable claim to spiritual scientific
I had to say that it is here we find the true spiritual communion of
from without but fills itself from within with spiritual content. One
requisite spiritual effort is expended within man, regardless of anything
of the spiritual world, we simultaneously enter the external world of
of spiritualism and nebulous mysticism. One can easily earn approbation
grounded in spiritual realities, just as color and tone are grounded in
but part of an objective spiritual world. One attains Inspiration, which
spiritual complement to phenomena in the intellect. In just this way
spiritual world that can be grasped in Imagination.
in the next few days in the light of spiritual science. I had to lead you
spiritual science itself, which we enter through that portal. To be
thus into the spirituality of the external world, so we must seek the
the spirituality within ourselves. Then we shall be able to bear this
spirituality back out into the external world. We shall have attained
a spirituality grasped by the inner being of man, a spirituality that

Title: Boundaries of Natural Science: Lecture V
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true spiritual scientist must already bear this method of demonstration
are placed before the spiritual scientist, he is thoroughly at home
that he is only a spiritual scientist in the true sense of the word
— in the sense in which we characterized spiritual science yesterday
life. I have already indicated the stance the spiritual scientist must
revelation of speech from the spiritual cosmos. These matters naturally
words. The spiritual world simply begins to speak, and one has only
super-sensible spiritual world: one begins to recognize the contours of
contours of beings. Within this universal spiritual speech that one
initially encounters there emerge individual spiritual beings, in the
the contemplation and knowledge of a spiritual reality. This realm of
spiritual content of the world suddenly stands revealed there. This is
withdraw from their bodies that which the spiritual scientist withdraws
with full consciousness. The spiritual scientist withdraws this in a way
Now, when the spiritual
is simply a manifestation of the element in which the spiritual scientist
speech of spiritual beings through Inspiration.
to comprehend the state into which they enter. The spiritual scientist
The spiritual scientist knows this condition, because he can experience
that these people enter a region the spiritual scientist experiences in
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enters through Inspiration a spiritual world: he knows that he is in
We can either turn to what opens a free, spiritual vision of the highest
not to strive into the actual spiritual world. Illness will occur anyway,
do not investigate the spiritual world ourselves, we are fully protected
rationally the ideas of spiritual science.
we bear into the spiritual world when we take full consciousness with us?
of one's life in which one investigates the spiritual world in Inspiration,
in reality. Whoever has become a true spiritual scientist, who enters
and seeks to experience through Inspiration actual spiritual reality
someone speaks out of Inspiration concerning the spiritual world —
what reveals itself to him in the spiritual world — he must perform
the task of spiritual perception each time anew. The faculty of memory
the experience again and again. For that reason the spiritual scientist
to the object. In the same way, the spiritual scientist must return
to the Same spiritual content of consciousness. And just as in physical
this or that in turn, the spiritual scientist who has attained Inspiration
the physical world of the senses must be replaced by spiritual perception.
This transformed memory, however, gives the spiritual scientist perception
repeated earthly incarnations, alternating with a purely spiritual
spiritual view when we steep ourselves in the ancient Oriental wisdom.
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furnish at least some indications of the difference between what spiritual
that anthroposophically oriented spiritual science terms knowledge of
from growing into the spiritual world in normal consciousness. As human
his striving for higher cognition, from his sojourn in spiritual worlds
human beings but into the spiritual world. And if, through these mantras,
spiritual beings who surround us, just as we are surrounded by the entities
did not pass unaccompanied into the spiritual world and fall prey to
leader stood firmly within the spiritual world without falling prey
is understood in the way made possible by spiritual science, customs
spiritual study can develop pathologically. Such a person establishes
spiritual worlds. One rather degenerate individual, however, developed
observer. And one can follow the right path into the spiritual world
of the spiritual world revealed through Inspiration. That which still
spiritual life that becomes impoverished as evolution proceeds and provides
therefore can find in this diluted form of spiritual life only something
unless it is countered with a different stream of spiritual life.
every respect, so little can a form of spiritual life be made young
of the spiritual life from East to West, and it must be countered with
a different spiritual stream flowing henceforth from West to East. We
ourselves are living at the crossing-point of these spiritual streams,
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to show the methods employed by Eastern spirituality for approaching
the spiritual world and pointed out how anybody who wished to pursue
of human evolution. They thus entered into the spiritual world in a
gain knowledge of the spiritual world must approach this in another
of spiritual development. Within the realm of spiritual life one cannot
into the spiritual worlds is that of Imagination. This faculty of
would like to describe the path into the spiritual world that conforms
oriented spiritual science if I had begun immediately with spiritual
philosophical and scientific kind of writing to a spiritual scientific
to achieve this quickly. Spiritual research demands of us far more than
is encountering within oneself the spiritual element that actuates the
birth until the change of teeth a soul-spiritual entity is at work structuring
Later, between the change of teeth and puberty, another such soul-spiritual
soul-spiritual, one sees how such processes work within man and how
onward there is something spiritual that suffuses our organization.
dream; rather, it is spiritual forces that are at work, forces that
spiritual forces enter our being and work formatively upon it.
of the ego initially tend to lead us away from the spiritual world into
himself as a true ego. Now we are cut off from the spirituality of the
within it. By these means he makes his way outward into the spiritual
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Anthroposophical Spiritual Science and Medical Therapy
Through spiritual science, Rudolf Steiner was able to extend the
anthroposophical spiritual science. I have often spoken of
from the viewpoint of spiritual science, we see this head as
of the soul-spiritual life before birth, or rather before
conception. What was living in the spiritual world before
processes that can be understood only if the spiritual
spiritual science calls physical body, etheric body, astral
spiritual investigator studying the human head really wishes
studied by spiritual scientific investigation, it is possible
by spiritual science to be able to show that ideas deriving

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Anthroposophical Spiritual Science and Medical Therapy
Through spiritual science, Rudolf Steiner was able to extend the
There is a great deal that, from the viewpoint of spiritual
will speak of this from a more spiritual scientific
we conduct a chemical analysis, a spiritual scientist must
soul-spiritual aspect remains behind when a person dies. One
who conducts a chemical analysis with his spiritual eye
certainly be observed by the methods of spiritual science,
undernourishment?” For the spiritual investigator, the
working against the soul-spiritual constitution of the human
clearer and clearer on spiritual investigation. To heal, to
already from spiritual science, we have to draw a line

Title: Anthro Medical Therapy: Lecture III
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Anthroposophical Spiritual Science and Medical Therapy
Through spiritual science, Rudolf Steiner was able to extend the
this tract and the outer world. To the spiritual investigator

Title: Anthro Medical Therapy: Lecture IV
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Anthroposophical Spiritual Science and Medical Therapy
Through spiritual science, Rudolf Steiner was able to extend the
the astral body is at once evident to the spiritual
spiritual science has to say out of its considerations, we
can enter into what spiritual science has to offer, we
following, for instance: Spiritual science continually
becoming, we can get a hold of what stands spiritually behind

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Anthroposophical Spiritual Science and Medical Therapy
Through spiritual science, Rudolf Steiner was able to extend the
that have a serious meaning for spiritual science and which,
expressing the facts of spiritual science about infants, it
spiritual science, one finds that the ego actually plays a
ego, studied in its spiritual, psychical, organic, and
soul-spiritual aspect comes into corporeality, the imprints
reciprocal action of the ego, which is a spiritual entity.
Indeed, the ego is spiritual through and through, but it
human being interacts with his most spiritual member, the
pictures of what is developing from the inner spiritual
can learn of the inner, of the spiritual human being. We now

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Anthroposophical Spiritual Science and Medical Therapy
Through spiritual science, Rudolf Steiner was able to extend the
outward direction, you unfold inwardly a soul-spiritual
the organs containing least of what is spiritual. They absorb
of the senses. The head is the least spiritual organ in the
man's spirituality — that is, the development of spirit
within, the development of spirituality in the body, of real
breathing. The most spiritual organs are those belonging to
spiritual activity in an inward direction. This also explains
only the external spirituality can be worked through with the
everything spiritual that is developed is received from
activity of spiritualization is bound up with nitrogen. The
nitrogen that has been used in spiritualization is
direction of spirituality. You can conclude from this that
one who does not believe in such spirituality will obviously
spiritualization.
process of spiritualization, and therefore on the other side
the actual spiritual activity, unfolds in the warmth
conditions connected with the ego itself. Spiritual activity
This is because they wish to liberate soul-spiritual activity
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Anthroposophical Spiritual Science and Medical Therapy
Through spiritual science, Rudolf Steiner was able to extend the
earth's surface. Soul-spiritually, the human being is a being
characterized abstractly as currents. Spiritual science is
spiritual scientific knowledge, for otherwise our thoughts
thoughts of spiritual science guide our thinking in the right

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Anthroposophical Spiritual Science and Medical Therapy
Through spiritual science, Rudolf Steiner was able to extend the
soul-spiritual in the human being, and their domain must
soul-spiritual in the human being, that is everything that
man's constitution as given by spiritual science. On the one
process working its way out of the spiritual into the
individual to meet the more etheric-spiritual processes
radiation, material counterprocesses to the etheric-spiritual
we enter the soul-spiritual domain and return again to outer,

Title: Anthro Medical Therapy: Lecture IX
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Anthroposophical Spiritual Science and Medical Therapy
Through spiritual science, Rudolf Steiner was able to extend the
Precisely when investigating a bodily and spiritual process
otherwise than point to deeper physical and spiritual
organs, as it were, from the spiritual-etheric world into the
consolidation process spiritualizing itself — really
ensouling and spiritualizing itself in perception. This, in a
anthroposophically oriented spiritual science is not
that it is well taken care of from the spiritual worlds,

Title: The Building at Dornach: Lecture I
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spiritual-scientific movement, it is necessary not only to
configuration, artistic nature and spiritual essence of our
been required back in the worlds by the Spiritual Powers. For
physical plane, but have to be conserved for the spiritual
way. For one who has saturated himself with spiritual
comprehension of the world at all adequate to spiritual
concern to acquire the possibility, through spiritual
could acquire without spiritual science.
spiritual science has shown us how, for it does not look to
play in from the spiritual worlds. Hence it naturally cannot
Moreover, the spiritual investigator must be bold enough,
ground of spiritual science, The transition can be made by
must he grasped still more profoundly. Spiritual science
towards spiritual science. In my “Rätsel der
guiding divine-spiritual powers. The intervention of Zeus is
able to know, to perceive, by means of spiritual science
Have we not described how what we experience in the spiritual
having bade farewell to the spiritual world and being subject
a spiritual sense. And if we thus hold these figures before
plane. To be sure, one must call in the aid of spiritual
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spiritual-scientific investigations that have come before our
the spiritual world; meets with little understanding. In
spiritual world into the intuition of the individual but with
Spiritual-scientific investigation helps us to understand the
what comes down from above as spiritual guidance, the kind of
come to know from spiritual science must find verification in
absorb spiritual science in the right way, we must first take
question to the world whether what spiritual science says is
the soul itself. If, therefore, spiritual science is a
ancient spiritual astrology, but is now applied to the inner
stars, that is to say, from the spiritual world [
of what we have learnt from spiritual sciences this would
every details accords with what spiritual science brings down
from the spiritual worlds, ad that life can be understood
only when it is illuminated by the findings of spiritual
spiritual science, will be designated as that of the
whether the results of spiritual science are also
out of the spiritual world in the age of ancient Greek heroic
that in this drama the spiritual worlds which guide the
given by spiritual science, we can do so by asking: Where
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is Faust's ascent into the spiritual world at the end of Part
to two capacities with which the spiritual worlds have
of consciousness. Every guiding-line given by Spiritual
those who adhere to the principles of Spiritual Science. Only
that the spiritual scientist can acquire a picture of
once at any rate. It is my spiritual duty to say them, and
only because it is my spiritual duty do I say them at the
Those who stand on the ground of Spiritual Seience must
sufficiently large number of people have taken Spiritual
truths of Spiritual Science.
understand the spiritual relationships between the several
given to illustrate everything for which Spiritual Science
through spiritual observation, for I know that he is even
and Middle Europe can show us that without Spiritual Science
impossible unless understanding is reached through Spiritual
Spiritual Science men will find and understand one another
“Theosophy”, namely, that Spiritual Science is
Spiritual Science penetrates our hearts in a way that could
lasts longer and because it works up even into the spiritual
spiritual-scientific attitude here will he illuminating in
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absorbed of Spiritual Science in the course of the years, and
able to lie bound to the earth, reaching out spiritually into
the universe with his hands, he would feel the spiritual
Spiritual Science a means of attaining this wider mental
flowed into mankind what was to come from spiritual spheres
spiritual realities — this will be found in a third
very core of what we also try to grasp in Spiritual
Spiritually, however, the situation is the same. How much of
do not worship physically in the catacombs, spiritually we
arching vault, above all, spiritually under it.
who understand the inmost impulse of Spiritual Science
same today — spiritually — within our Movement! A
“spiritually”. The difficulty is expressed in the
impulses, which should be those of Spiritual Science, must

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heavens, the spiritual, with the earth, because in the
ideas about Spiritual Science, but to have been gripped by it
oneself to be an actual image of this Spiritual Science. If
in the spiritual world.
still, in essentials, a spiritual experience of the physical
spiritually — a vista of wide expanses of the
experienced something of the spiritual Being; whose physical
spiritual horizon.
the spiritual horizon, the map of the heavens, shrivels up
takes place in the spiritual, in the following sense. —
spiritual again, to know a future spiritual world which for
this voyage of discovery to the spiritual America.
thinking — we stand, spiritually, at the same point
from the Old World to America. Spiritually, we are on the
voyage of discovery to the other, spiritual half of our human
Spiritual Science in the evolution of humanity. For now
incapable of discovering the spiritual world through
Spiritual Science. This will be utterly inconceivable. And
if we look for the most spiritual culture that has developed
Humanity must again acquire a spiritual knowledge of the
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which a spiritual transformation of artistic style must come
their understanding of the finer spiritual connections of the
be found in external reality. Now spiritual research is often
extraordinarily spiritual, though not virginal Roman woman,
say, we shall either have direct perception of true spiritual
must live there is the speech of Spiritual Science, in its
its primordial import, proceeding from our living Spiritual
decoration is the plastic vesture for the Spiritual Science
ox for instance! It is Spiritual Science that must
be impressed into the interior decoration; and Spiritual
instead of a rising cake, it is filled with Spiritual Science
absolutely natural and necessary, in a spiritual sense, for

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edifice, dedicated as it is to the cause of Spiritual
Spiritual Science — to the extent to which our epoch
deep spirituality which we pray may flow like purifying waves
Spiritual Science are to have real meaning for us.’
new style and are not permeated with any new spirituality,
is able to pour a spiritual fluid into the hearts and souls
for our spiritual movement that this aim may gradually be
and activity, the worship he performs in his spiritual
spiritual need of man, and they can only be understood in
do not live, but etheric walls, spiritual walls are indeed
tried to make the spiritual predominate.
spiritual, musical harmony of the outer with the inner world.
with the spiritual world when it sleeps during the night and
soul is connected with the spiritual world between death and
of the abyss; the stations on the path to the spiritual world
spiritual worlds, or traverse these worlds unconsciously,
showing us what our relation to the spiritual worlds must
physical to the spiritual.
spiritual worlds are speaking through the forms in the
centres of earthly and spiritual peace, harmony and love may
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the Greek Temple save the spiritual presence of the God and
but united with the spiritual world. And the token for the
the spiritual world, was the Temple standing there like an
correspondence with the Spiritual. We can indeed say —
Spiritual Science implies an actual penetration into the form
the spiritual world.
for forms to speak from the spiritual world? It is indeed
vehicle that bears us onwards. In a spiritual sense we shall
how the spiritual form of nature and the higher spiritual
the mode of its development, how spiritual being itself has
the outer world and complex in the spiritual world.
from Gothic architecture to that of Spiritual Science may be
of Spiritual Science, will solve the riddle of the evolution
endeavours, in every epoch, to experience what the spiritual
new that pours into our souls from out the spiritual
spiritual life — at a point where the Spirit speaks

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the spiritual world of which man is an integral part and of
his knowledge of Spiritual Science. I want to remind you once
time to explain to you from spiritual-scientific cosmology
epoch, where there is no knowledge of Spiritual Science,
spiritually, the whole universe seems to be pervaded
through and through with the interplay of the spiritual
a swarm of spiritual beings passing from one heavenly body to
to and fro. We can see such a stream of spiritual beings
with solar essence, that is to say, with the spiritual force
of hosts of spiritual beings who are flowing around and
understanding of the spiritual world imparted by the
therefore believe that some spiritual being or other has
spiritual sense, so that blue, for instance, becomes
consciousness soul (spiritual soul) and has then gradually to
direct inspiration which flowed into man from the spiritual
there is a connection between earth, sun and moon. Spiritual
world of sense. Nothing flowed into him from the spiritual
his way into the spiritual world, when he must pass over from
spiritual world and at the same time brings down all that
spiritually around us. A beginning must be made. Something
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understanding of spiritual life in its totality. True form in
spiritual life. We need not enter upon a very far-reaching
spiritual movement at the present time.
think it superfluous for a spiritual current to be expressed
set out to transport the soul into spiritual realms he had
spiritual life. This quality came to light again in Goethe as
spiritual being. The horse is possessed of a certain order of
facts of Spiritual Science remind us that it is man's task to
spiritualise his astral body once again, to permeate it with
all that the ego has won for itself. And as he spiritualises
into the spiritual flow of the powers of of nature —
that is to say of the spiritual powers behind nature —
of spirituality passes through the form. If you colour a form
eyes that have been opened by Spiritual Science —
colours here and the spiritual knowledge that moves innermost
many people so much abstract conception in Spiritual Science
of the wholly groundless idea that spiritual knowledge might
and colours when they are living organs of the spiritual
spiritual knowledge.
thing; but like many other objections to our spiritual
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as lecturers for anthroposophical Spiritual Science and all
social organism lives, that the independent spiritual life
on the spiritual life, on the economic life, although one
spiritual life in Europe was entirely independent and free
independent spiritual life was first pushed into the
economic village communities. As the free spiritual life
modern times ends in letting the spiritual life on the one
spiritual life must once again be developed. When in a strait
also the Greek still, who with his spiritual life, with his
free spiritual life — that is to say spiritual life that
is understood by free spiritual life is a structure in which
come about from the crowing. In reality, in free spiritual
spiritual, in the sense of the present epoch of development
which the philosophy of freedom [spiritual activity] must
example, to the characterization of the free spiritual

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nature of the spiritual life, the nature of the
what is to be understood by a free spiritual life, by a

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Lyrical speaking for spiritual life; dramatic
the first two realms — namely that of the spiritual life
utter what is related to the spiritual life in a more lyrical
has to say concerning the spiritual life comes from out of
spiritual part of the social organism. Naturally, it must not
write down, “spiritual life conceived as
independent”; instead, “the spiritual life can
spiritual life must have a sort of lyrical nature within you;

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people speak of the spiritual life, they mean ideas; they

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cannot. True art can only come forth out of spiritual
the spiritual life of the Anthroposophical Movement. It is

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spiritual realm in the twenty years of the Anthroposophical
everywhere out of the spiritual content of the
seeds for the spiritual life of the future which lie hidden
ever before we may call to mind that a spiritual movement
the powers of spiritual life. A revelation of the spirit was
spiritual world; not from any arbitrary earthly
given out of the spiritual world as a modern revelation for
the spiritual life of mankind, from this flowed the impulse
all that is human in the spiritual world, that this
the many and varied forms of spiritual life, which flowed in
of how something spiritual and esoteric must be the
spiritual seeds which are everywhere present will be enabled
Anthroposophy, indeed of everything spiritual, to shine into
spiritual life. Anthroposophy shall bring into life all that
deeply indeed within spiritual events, and the effects of
greatest possible changes took place in the spiritual realm.
everything which glows towards spiritual activity in such a
of spiritual world-weaving during the last third of the
both for young and old out of spiritual depths by way of a
built on spiritual foundations, in the way I have described,
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possible to bring from the spiritual worlds while the

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that the inexhaustible abundance of spiritual impulses given
stands on the soil of the spiritual research given to the

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Classes of the School of Spiritual Science in Dornach:
the configuration of this School of Spiritual Science will
‘The organizing of the School of Spiritual Science is, to
the School of Spiritual Science. The members of the different
can say anything other than that in this School of Spiritual
Society sees the School of Spiritual Science in Dornach as

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spiritual world. This is the very aspect which must be
responsible towards the spiritual world. We must know that
the spiritual world wants to achieve a certain thing with
come from the spiritual world. Though this might give offence
can come out of the spiritual world.
to you yesterday in accordance with the will of the spiritual
spiritual world is bringing to us to raise our hearts, to

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forward spiritually to their structure. From the first verse
arranging the School of Spiritual Science in Dornach in
of Spiritual Science.
School of Spiritual Science. Then I want to arrange the
knowledge of the spiritual world.’
knowledge of the spiritual world. I think perhaps Herr Kaiser
exists in our time a genuine science of the spiritual world
spiritual science cultivated at the Goetheanum in Dornach
our time a genuine science of the spiritual world ... ’
As it stands it sounds rather as though spiritual
this science exists, given by the spiritual world, and that
exists in our time a genuine science of the spiritual world
make an alternative suggestion: ‘in the spiritual
else, we place spiritual things in the foreground? And that
Goetheanum does stand before our spiritual eyes!
to spiritual life, whatever his nation, social standing or
evaluation of them, depends upon spiritual-scientific
spiritual but also in the practical realm.”
and that means all the results, of spiritual science can be
of Spiritual Science within its three Classes. It is, then,
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a lecture about the element of music in spiritual life.
gives his lecture on music and the spiritual world.
capacity as a School of Spiritual Science. The
sees the School of Spiritual Science in Dornach as a centre
School of Spiritual Science. Admission to the Second or
the School of Spiritual Science in Dornach, at the
three Classes will be, of course, the spiritual-scientific
to present the working of the School of Spiritual Science
The School of Spiritual Science must be divided up in
SCHOOL OF SPIRITUAL SCIENCE
to be administered in the highest spiritual sense in the
spiritual empiricism I thought that the School of Spiritual
spiritually in the work of bringing about the building of the
spiritual-scientific Movement as it is intended to take its
spiritual knowledge has been striven for its field has been
not so much a chapter of spiritual science as rather
something quite organically linked with spiritual science. It
is impossible to imagine that in olden times the spiritual
vision, the spiritual knowledge given to mankind could have
speaking of Platonic instruction and not spiritual-scientific
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spiritual teachings to the widest circles and by working

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Schubert on Christ and the spiritual world:
life-filled strength be taken up into the School of Spiritual
bringing it down to all kinds of spiritualist phenomena, as

Title: Christmas Conference: Lecture 14: Meeting of practising doctors, 31 December 1923 at 8.30 in the morning
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spiritual-scientific view, you will find that this resistance
spiritual-scientific realm.
research results, then one of the main obstacles to spiritual

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that above all a spiritual Goetheanum must exist here as soon
School of Spiritual Science at the Goetheanum are to be
First Class of the School of Spiritual Science. Admission to
‘Paragraph 7. The organizing of the School of Spiritual

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upwards into the spiritual worlds and into the revelation of
these spiritual worlds out of the starry script. You will
raise the human soul up into spiritual heights. On that very
of the Mysteries among the spiritual leaders of the world,
divine spiritual beings who are so closely linked with
those divine spiritual beings cannot become envious. Yet in
obvious that a certain further spiritual development of
face of the earth in the spiritual atmosphere. Yet it was
spiritual communication that existed between Palestine and
spiritual paths. In olden times, before the burning of the
paths. In the Middle Ages the paths were spiritual.
a spiritual path had to be followed by one who sought
their inner being they were linked to the spiritual temples
earth. Your physical body is of supreme spirituality. To
earth; it belongs to those spiritual forces which are the
those divine, spiritual beings belonging to the hierarchy of
to link his human element with the spiritual world.
spiritual mood has entirely drained away during the course of
spiritual revelations that can once more be received by
— by a deep longing to speak in a spiritual way once
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Title: Christmas Conference: Lecture 19: The Rebuilding of the Goetheanum
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the spiritual impression is of a portal that draws you in, or
people: Look, this is a spiritual movement; maybe you are not

Title: Christmas Conference: Lecture 20: On the Right Entry into the Spiritual World: The Responsibility Incumbent on Us
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On the Right Entry into the Spiritual World:
On the Right Entry into the Spiritual
mankind to a form of spirituality that is different from what
a new spirituality.
in the spiritual world. Here we want to develop the strength
to follow the impulses coming from the spiritual world. In
spiritual impulses which still have to stream into the
in the right way has had its source in the spiritual world.
world, we must turn to the spiritual world for the
spiritual world to wander, in spiritual observation, past
available to spiritual insight, observing how they lay aside
spiritual world with their ego and astral body. Wandering
on how to enter the spiritual world and then return once more
to the physical world. Entering rightly into the spiritual
striven to enter the spiritual world, this has been the
spiritual world, that souls are asleep when they approach the
demand entry into the spiritual world. They demand to be
entrance to the spiritual world. Go back! For if the Guardian
ado, they could come over into the spiritual world with all
enter into the spritual world with them, with the way you
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Title: Awakening to Community: Lecture V
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the tremendous, lofty spiritual life of the ancient Orient, we come
to a time when the spiritual content of everything revered by these
spiritual beings in the universe in all their immediate reality, just
divine-spiritual beings connected with the human race as he was of
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
equally the source they drew on for artistic creation. The spiritual
and colors assumed by spiritual elements. They could bring their
perception of the spiritual to material expression. They took such
what was spiritually revealed to them.
in the evolution of the ancient Orient when the divine-spiritual
greater beauty human beings perceived with spiritual eyes. An artist
were people who beheld the spiritual in all its beauty and passed on
embodied what he saw spiritually in his symbolical or allegorical
the divine-spiritual was so immediate, so real, so concrete that
perception was of thoughts, they said they heard spiritual beings.
development. The divine-spiritual that had revealed itself to man
living proof that Zeus, that Athene ruled in spiritual worlds.
reverence for the divine-spiritual world.
feeling for the divine-spiritual element they embodied and to which
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Title: Awakening to Community: Lecture VIII
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them in every area of life, and especially in the spiritual area. It

Title: Awakening to Community: Lecture IX
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experience of the spiritual world, which is not based on thought but
spiritual world as divine can only be found by forming communities.
the neglect of ritual. But preaching has an atomizing effect on
spiritual world, challenges the individual soul to form its own
cultus derived from fresh revelations of the spiritual world. So the
which the spiritual world can only now begin to make to man's higher
something I have often mentioned, the fact that a spiritual being is
abstraction learned men consider it but a real spiritual being, you
They feel sheltered beneath the wings of a real spiritual being. That
super-sensible, the spiritual world. Every plant, every process in
external nature is, of course, also an image of something spiritual,
world. A cultus ritual is one in which something happens that is not
limited to what the eyes see when they look physically at ritualistic
acts; the fact is rather that forces of a spiritual, super-sensible
united with the spiritual world by means of the physically
ongoing revelation, with a living spiritual experience of the
spiritual world possible, namely, anthroposophical spiritual science.
spiritual world was being greeted by many people with enormous
affinity for revelations from the spiritual world than is felt today.
gate through which, if he was so minded, he entered spiritual
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Title: Awakening to Community: Lecture X
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acquainted with the history of societies based on a spiritual view of
of consciousness required for entrance into the spiritual world was
especially in societies built on spiritual foundations that the
spiritual scientist, for the world in which a dreamer lives is also
dreams in a spiritual-scientific sense with the purpose of
spiritual world. Just as someone becomes an egotist when he projects
egotist in his relationship to the spiritual world.
of feeling in relation to the spiritual world, which eradicates an
societies built on a spiritual foundation, one also knows how such a
mankind's overall development. In the spiritual world we work with
living in physical bodies they live in a spiritual element, in
spiritual substance. It is a different world, that world from which
developing egotism through a wrong approach to spiritual truth avoid
creating unbrotherly conditions. In relating to spiritual truth, one
the relationships of human beings pursuing anthroposophical spiritual
who knows that one has to relate differently to the spiritual world
than one does to the physical will bring things of the spiritual
of genuine spiritual research. Anyone who looks dispassionately at
gleaned from the spiritual world in recent years and put before you
interested in suppressing and stamping out truths about the spiritual
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Title: Hegel, Schopenhauer, Thought, Will
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The Bridge between Cosmic Spirituality
The Bridge between Cosmic Spirituality
The Bridge between Cosmic Spirituality
world on the one side and the spiritual development of human
the simplest human-spiritual activities into the world's
bodies from a prenatal existence out of the spiritual worlds,
intellect. So we may say: here the will is spiritualized. Like
becomes spiritualized.
What is revealed to us through actual spiritual scientific

Title: Problem of Death: Lecture I
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the lecture series entitled, Ways of Spiritual Cognition and the
with certain aspects of Spiritual Science in connection
a preparation for the spiritual life which comes
clear to us slowly and by degrees, when through Spiritual
when we make Spiritual Science into an actual asset of
the spiritual life. The reason for choosing this particular
from what I say, how what we speak of as Spiritual Science
conscious through Spiritual Science. It may be that such a

Title: Problem of Death: Lecture II
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the lecture series entitled, Ways of Spiritual Cognition and the
encountered by spiritual-scientific knowledge is that when
which have gone over into the spiritual world but which
less in the spiritual world than in the physical world
in the spiritual world. So that we may say: forces of the
into the spiritual world and, as they have not been used
life on the Earth, are used in the spiritual world and
spiritual world.
physical world is connected with the spiritual world, and
that the spiritual world is behind the physical world.
There is variety and differentiation in the spiritual world
Spiritual Science are provided by these etheric bodies in
and that many spiritual influences can therefore proceed
basis of the spiritual stimuli which may come to us. The
spiritual movement we serve will owe, as we may well
those who do not proceed from Spiritual Science or from
flow into the spiritual world in which the soul is always
and how this gradually dissolves into the more spiritual
inclined to connect with purely spiritual perceptions,
connection with the spiritual world too; but there they are
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Title: Problem of Death: Lecture III
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the lecture series entitled, Ways of Spiritual Cognition and the
of death, the spiritual kingdom into which we enter through
mode of expressing oneself about the spiritual world, its
this spiritual world and a letting oneself be bestowed upon
in order to objectify itself in spiritual speech. So it is
relation to the spiritual world, is a certain mobility of
rightly in the spiritual world or for bringing anything at
all of the spiritual to expression.
with oneself in the spiritual sense when in the earthly
is for the spiritual world the most devoid of importance.
spiritual reality becomes very difficult when at every
spiritual forces and impulses, we do not get on well. Here
the spiritual world must pay attention to such connections.
moment of birth. In the spiritual world in the time between
we began in Berlin to carry on our movement of Spiritual
to stand correctly in the spiritual world. Here in the
surging spiritual life of wisdom. One enters first into
spiritual world.
thing which we see, in the spiritual world, where, as I
beginning of our spiritual life after death the vision of
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Title: The Bridge between Morality and Nature
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entitled, The Bridge between Cosmic Spirituality
The Bridge between Cosmic Spirituality
spiritual or even the moral world laws. Nature is undeniably a
Actually one needs the spiritual scientific approach to reach a
soul-spiritual and the bodily-physical within the human being
spiritual-physical exists and then they search for how the two
exists between the soul-spiritual and the physical body?
know of course, in spiritual science most questions arise in a
popular fashion. In spiritual science the actual phrasing of a
soul-spiritual element was nowhere to be found in the physical
bodily nature, and that the soul-spiritual could be regarded as
soul-spiritual abilities; how the human being, when not cared
soul-spiritual nature. It is pointed out how with advanced age,
with some kind of underlying injury will show a soul-spiritual
his spiritual normality, stimulated by the soul-spiritual
violence the soul-spiritual element is basically only a
soul-spiritual abilities, was an example of the researcher
the soul-spiritual, are exclusively dependant on chemical
this scientific manner of thinking, concepts of soul-spiritual
spiritual-soul element would be increasingly seen as something
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Title: Spiritual Science, History, Reincarnation, Culture, Examples
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Spiritual Science, History, Reincarnation, Culture, Examples
entitled, The Bridge between Cosmic Spirituality
The Bridge between Cosmic Spirituality
Spiritual
the cosmos, as well as the physical aspect to the spiritual
through spiritual scientific studies arrive at an actual bridge
will show how, with reference to humanity itself, the spiritual
spiritual also prevents, for the traditional world view in its
within human evolution. We can approach spiritual science in
abstract form. We can't accept spiritual science in this way.
imagine spiritual science as penetrating our lives and take
what is given in the area of spiritual science in its specific
has certainly come from true spiritual scientific studies which
precursor is this: a spiritual researcher presents certain
verified which the spiritual researcher offers from his
with such an example of spiritual scientific examination, which
spiritual-soul qualities in a particular human trait of the
present day which can be traced back to spiritual-soul
even remain religious, spiritual, yet, as soon as they are let
free to abstractions, feel the soul-spiritual life tightly
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Title: Opponents to Anthroposophy
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Man's Responsibility for World Evolution through His Spiritual
spiritual science was such that from the beginning, it was
orientated spiritual science singles out in the present. Just
as little as the Anthroposophically orientated spiritual
spiritual science. It is already necessary that these things
Anthroposophically orientated spiritual science stands in such
regarding what the orientation is of spiritual science. The man
like in so many other side streams of spiritual histories.
see through this cultural and spiritually favoured `esoteric
includes everything spiritual and actually human life as well.
about various spiritual or other movements existing in the
view taken from Anthroposophical spiritual science, in order to
groups of people who are active in a spiritual or other life,
spiritual movement which the Anthroposophical movement is, to
to a certain inner spiritual cleanliness. These things must
characterize out of what spiritual ground and basis this
degeneration of our present spiritual life. From this general
characteristics of these spiritual endeavours which need to be
little learning can do, but it depends out of which spiritual
want to characterize this existing spiritual stream out of
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Title: Eurythmy as Visible Singing: Lecture 1: The Experience of Major and Minor
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what I am now experiencing I am going with my soul into my spiritual
into my spiritual being; just as when falling asleep I enter into my
spiritual being too, while forsaking my physical body), this is just
am entering into my spiritual being in o or in oo,

Title: Eurythmy as Visible Singing: Lecture 3: Melodic Movement; the Ensouling of the Three Dimensions through Pitch, Rhythm and Beat
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back the spiritual quickening element into the resting, bodily part.
the spiritual element of the matter, whereas the other is the sensory

Title: Eurythmy as Visible Singing: Lecture 4: The Progression of Musical Phrases; Swinging Over; the Bar Line
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words. A lecture on spiritual science can never be understood when you
way through. But what have we here? What is it that is almost as spiritual

Title: Eurthmy as Visible Singing: Lecture 5: Choral Eurythmy
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musical element, the spiritual element in music, lies between the notes,
how often I have observed that, in the spiritual world, the past remains.
is, in a certain way, exempt from these demands, for the divine-spiritual

Title: Eurythmy as Visible Singing: Lecture 6: The Sustained Note; the Rest; Discords
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dream-pictures of the realities of the spiritual world.
decisive thing in a dream. And in the description of spiritual processes
difficult today to speak to humanity about the things which spiritual
but it expresses the spiritual element itself living in the movement
has been erased. It is a passing over into the spiritual. When you erase
the spiritual realm where everything to do with the senses is erased.
the spiritual realm. If you achieve this emphasis of the rest by means
so enamoured, presumably because they have so much spiritual matter

Title: Eurythmy as Visible Singing: Lecture 7: Musical Physiology; the Point of Departure; Intervals; Cadences
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exactly the same thing. Anyone possessing spiritual vision would see

Title: Eurythmy as Visible Singing: Lecture 8: Pitch (ethos and pathos), Note Values, Dynamics, Changes of Tempo
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ascending pitch we feel a rising up into the spiritual element, in the
musical element a rising up into the spiritual, rising with the ascending
the human being with the spiritual element. In tone eurythmy every ascending
of the soul with the spiritual weaving and essence. Ascending pitch:
a uniting with the spiritual element, when the pitch carries you upwards.

Title: Chance/Necessity/Providence: Lecture 1: Probability and Chance
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earthly culture and the spiritual worlds.
Now, since we are concerned in spiritual
commensurate with the serious approach of spiritual science. Let us review
contemporary thought to move in a direction such as spiritual science
on the foundation laid today in a spiritual scientific approach to the

Title: Chance/Necessity/Providence: Lecture 2: Consciousness in Sleeping and Waking States
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earthly culture and the spiritual worlds.
to be wrong from the standpoint of spiritual science just because of
But from the standpoint of spiritual science no question will be raised
discussed. It must be a main concern of spiritual science to examine
in a very early phase of our spiritual scientific efforts are kept in
of the hierarchical order of higher spiritual beings unless we concern
in the nude, for they perceived human beings spiritually clothed; the
with rituals, for everything that is worn on such occasions represents
position with respect to the spiritual and the insipid concerns
meaning something spiritual thereby, that Hegel blushed spiritually
The concepts and ideas we garner from spiritual
with spiritual science makes us a gift of this capacity for practical
tact. But that serious concern with spiritual science must be present.
It is of course absent if we project into spiritual science the sensations,
what is derived from spiritual science amounts to little more than can
with spiritual science. We hear again and again that books should be
ourselves to drowse as we confront this or that theme in spiritual science
the needed full interest in the concrete details of spiritual science.
of to what spiritual science is offering, it turns the hearer's interest
details are not important, but who claim an interest in spiritual science
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Title: Chance/Necessity/Providence: Lecture 3: Necessity and Chance in Historical Events
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earthly culture and the spiritual worlds.
facts, in the way we have tried to do with the aid of spiritual science
in the case of many a historical fact. For spiritual science has shown
spiritual evolution. And what we might state about the necessity of
sprang from spiritual causes.
at that time, to penetrate into truly spiritual life as we do today
with the aid of spiritual science, he sought in his way to lay hold
on the spiritual element in ideas and concepts; he made these his spiritual
spiritual life, the truly living life of the spirit that underlies them,
a spiritual element. And he approached history too in such a way that
of the spiritual.
other things, that we are of course able to express more spiritually
A person who is superficial despite his belonging to a spiritual scientific
And spiritual science teaches us too that whereas our ordinary day-waking
And why is one thus prompted? Because we know from spiritual science

Title: Chance/Necessity/Providence: Lecture 4: Necessity as Past Subjectivity
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earthly culture and the spiritual worlds.
it from a spiritual standpoint. When the human soul raises a question,
with what spiritual science gives us; we would find it in our lives.
Saturn, we come across subjective soul and spiritual events experienced

Title: Chance/Necessity/Providence: Lecture 5: Necessity and Past, Chance and Present
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earthly culture and the spiritual worlds.
that we will be fit to take up the study of the truths of spiritual
what we might term deep spiritual-scientific truths if we shy away from
danger can ever threaten us from genuine spiritual-scientific concepts.
many people's longing for spiritual-scientific truths is found to outweigh
at the beginning of our efforts in spiritual science there were some
mysticism from the spiritual science we are pursuing, to devote ourselves
Philosophy of Spiritual Activity.
And it is just those individuals who garner knowledge from the spiritual
to receive what flows to them from the spiritual world. One can experience
of spiritual knowledge, how one must be able to wait for it, for one
insight from the spiritual world.
out of a connection with the spiritual world knows about everything
a conception of the relationship that exists between the spiritual world
is especially required for a direct reception of truths from the spiritual
of the blue from spiritual researchers. Instead, it should be realized
lift human beings into the spiritual world. We need to familiarize ourselves
with these laws to lessen misunderstandings about the flowing of spiritual
sort of movement this should and must be. Certain spiritual truths simply
in or be pursued according to our erstwhile habits. The spiritual movement
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Title: Chance/Necessity/Providence: Lecture 6: Imaginative Cognition Leaves Insights of Natural Science Behind
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earthly culture and the spiritual worlds.
to be the leitmotif of the deeper spiritual-scientific expositions with
that it is possible to delve more deeply, in a truly spiritual-scientific
of spiritual science was such as to require finding the correct approach
spiritual world into which they are to lead us.
from various spiritual-scientific studies, of how remote from reality
else was mysteriously communicated to their spiritual ears! This satisfies
that the spiritual energy underlying thinking changes when a clairvoyant
process. As we ascend into the first spiritual world, the imaginative
just as little be taken as proof of the nonexistence of a spiritual
of our own physical thoughts when we first enter the spiritual world,
demonstrates again how fruitfully spiritual science illuminates the
eager to wipe out all spiritual insight regard as a great mind, still

Title: Chance/Necessity/Providence: Lecture 7: The Physical Body Binds Us to the Physical World
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earthly culture and the spiritual worlds.
from spiritual science only if we make the effort to progress ever further
in a positive, concrete understanding of the spiritual beings about
whom spiritual science wishes to instruct us. I have emphasized
spiritual science it is not enough to rest content with these abstractions.
possible in the spiritual world for human beings to find there what they
as individuals, but if we are unable to find in the spiritual world
spiritual science on the actual facts. A few catchy theories or sayings,
because it deals with the spiritual investigator's connection with the
us here by asking spiritual science what would happen if, for some reason,
us into an incarnation from the spiritual world would not exist in human
instead, will and creative love-forces accompany them into the spiritual
mutual support is exchanged in the spiritual world between what ascends
therefore say that there exist in the spiritual world the etheric bodies
in the spiritual world in which we are immersed. The two kinds of activity
You see how spiritual science can bring about
secrets. We learn from spiritual science to lift ourselves in spirit
study of spiritual science does not remain mere theory, but that a proper
have it. We need spiritual science to develop the deeper insight that
instead of taking an abstract approach to spiritual science, it becomes

Title: Chance/Necessity/Providence: Lecture 8: Death, Physical Body and Etheric Body
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earthly culture and the spiritual worlds.
should I bother with all these worlds spiritual science speaks of? The
Ignorance of the spiritual worlds will never
Even when we want to get to know the spiritual world, we have a need,
physical world do not suffice to characterize the spiritual world. If
the totally different nature of the spiritual world.
at a new terminology if we are to grow into the spiritual world in the
right way. Many aspirants would find themselves perceiving the spiritual
spiritual one as well, but we don't need to go into that any further
And this awareness, which is a purely spiritual condition, gives us
the statement was made that when we make a proper study of spiritual
in these lectures: that a person who ascends into spiritual worlds (which
mobility is only the first stage of ascent into the spiritual world.
outside. But when we have ascended as high into the spiritual world
Materialistically-minded spiritualists best
spiritualists” may sound odd, but it is a fact that large numbers
of spiritualists are much more materialistically-minded than ordinary
and they call matter “matter.” But a lot of spiritualists
the entire spiritual world. We must acquire the ability to look for
quite absurd in the materialistic spiritualist's seeking to see the
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Title: Child's Changing Consciousness: Lecture I
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physical nature reflects the soul and spiritual nature seems to

Title: Child's Changing Consciousness: Lecture II
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certain children are strongly permeated by soul and spiritual
entire soul and spiritual development, the child's senses are
— what lives spiritually in language. And language,
later life. Thus, we may say that together with the spiritual
by moral and spiritual powers. But here statics and dynamics
soul, the latter having certain spiritual properties.

Title: Child's Changing Consciousness: Lecture III
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religious ritual. This soul attitude is strongest during the
reflects what is most spiritual in the human being.
tongue. And since language is thoroughly spiritual, the child
still lives in something spiritual, but no longer in a
spirituality only connected with the individual human being,
Furthermore, we can see how the soul and spiritual
certain soulspiritual constitution, particularly in the years
understood in a general way. Immensely powerful spiritual

Title: Child's Changing Consciousness: Lecture IV
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ensouled and spiritual instinct that, when translated into
backed by spiritual knowledge. Modern life has become too
sense-directed activities, moral and spiritual forces are
to the mutual interaction between the soul-spiritual nature and
The Spiritual Guidance of the Individual and Humanity.
The Spiritual Guidance of the Individual and Humanity,
at first in a physicalspiritual way, continues in a hidden
young students gradually from the divine-spiritual in nature,
through the divine-spiritual in the human being, toward having
children make the divine-spiritual their own. This has to all
spirituality what they are meant to grasp as their own
divine-spiritual weaving in nature and in history, a new stage

Title: Child's Changing Consciousness: Lecture V
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especially in modern spiritual life. You only need to consider
spirit throughout life. But too much soul and spiritual
spiritual counterpart has become too insubstantial. This
physical body; they are soul and spiritual forces working in
contains moral and spiritual forces, which became firmly
This is the physical aspect. The soul and spiritual counterpart
and spiritual faculties should find its proper realm within the
just has to know something about the spiritual background of

Title: Child's Changing Consciousness: Lecture VI
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necessary for such a soul and spiritual quality only when it
spiritual investigation of repeated Earth lives. Every

Title: Child's Changing Consciousness: Lecture VII
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spiritual eyes, is the transformed body-related, natural
Western philosophical and spiritual streams.]
spiritual, soul, and physical spheres are, in general, not even
I could not have accomplished in spiritual science certain
intimate spiritual and soul matters, especially if it is
spiritual striving and spiritual research the main objective in
is done, we can follow the spiritual element right into the
that, to the spiritual investigator, is very natural, but would

Title: Child's Changing Consciousness: Lecture VIII:
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spiritual implications, must certainly be seen as a
Waldorf pedagogy (which arises from spiritual foundations)
adherents do not realize that every soul and spiritual stirring
out of the spiritual background. The details will then also
comprehended in terms of an all-comprising spiritual entity. In
know of the powerful spiritual effects the dead herring eggs
had occupied yourself, let's say, with the spiritual functions
being — that is, the psychic, physical, and spiritual
speaking, is exactly the same when seen from a spiritual
The Youth Section of the School of Spiritual Science,
The Constitution of the School of Spiritual Science,
the divine-spiritual and what comes from the earthly realm,
care of with spiritual insight, the whole question of the
relationship between physical and spiritual will be handled

Title: Child's Changing Consciousness: Introduction to a Eurythmy Performance
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soul-spiritual counterpart (which ordinarily flows into the
what can begin toward a general spiritual and social life

Title: Colour and the Human Races: Lecture II: Color and the Human Races
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understand the spiritual element if one first studies
Anthroposophy in a spiritual way; the American develops it in a
South Pole, between what we achieve spiritually in Europe and
materialism sprout to a spiritual element. That will be when
taken a more spiritual path. When one studies something in this
inward, poetical and spiritual Indian culture. When they now go
to the West they will develop a spirituality which does not so
much grasp man's inner being, but turns to the spirituality of

Title: Development of the child up to puberty
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spiritual was working in the body.
cooperation between the soul-spiritual and the bodily aspects
as something soul-spiritual. Then we also realise what the
have the peculiar ability to encompass the soul spiritual
knowledge of spiritual reality out of its sleeping condition.
spiritual realities as we live between falling asleep and
appears, as we know, as having a spiritual reality as
foundation, then we gradually come to behold spiritual
spiritual realities in whose proximity we are between falling
perception of the spiritual world.
also a spiritual process. In the breathing process exists not
only the spiritual but also the soul spiritual. This soul
spiritual process permeates us through breathing. It can only
something which hasn't separated much from the soul spiritual
spiritual world and to some extent only attach something to
separation between the soul-physical and the soul-spiritual
soul-spiritual incorporated into his body and this works into
the body. As a duality the soul-spiritual appears opposite the
should say: from this moment the soul-spiritual is less
— which however diminish spiritual
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Title: Cosmic Prehistory: Lecture I: The Threefoldness of Space and the Unity of Time
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to man's mysterious relation to the spiritual and material worlds, then
into the spiritual. (See diagram) Above and below, left and right he
experienced as something still spiritual. It can have no material existence
the reflected image of the three-dimensioned spirituality.
My dear friends, spiritual
at the same time, however, are true proof, external proof of what spiritual
science has at any rate to find out of the spiritual facts. One of the
where it threatens to dissolve, to spiritualise itself — if we

Title: Cosmic Prehistory: Lecture II: Lucifer and Ahriman
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spirituality and taking part in certain conflicts of one order of spirits
your soul into a spiritual region where Ahriman is engaged in a mighty
yourself spiritually in a region where the Luciferic spirits fight against
together of two forces. On the one hand the spiritual conflicts which
and spiritualize him entirely, so that the forces of the earth cannot
spiritual worlds. Do not let us deceive ourselves about that. Everything
actually standing in between these two conflicting aims of the spiritual
the threshold of the spiritual world, not to lead them to the Guardian
and lose your past, or else you evaporate in the spirit to a spiritual
quite soft, jelly-like, and finally of dissolving as spiritual automaton
but the rest transposed again into movement. That is the whole spiritual
grow rigid, there above is Lucifer who wishes to spiritualize everything;
purely spiritual, comes to expression in the Group, where the Luciferic
fine reasons for the manifoldness of spiritual beings. What must be
receive in youth could be made automatic and spiritualised. The Luciferic

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influence of materialism more and more spiritual. So that the actual
that the lower nature of man becomes increasingly spiritual. You must
spiritual.
which is becoming more and more spiritual, needs something to work on
reality: the Luciferic beings are spiritual beings. They enter man's
lower nature when it becomes so spiritual under the influence of materialism,
that a materialistic age actually prepares a spiritual culture, but
case, let us suppose that an ecclesiastical truth, not imbued with spirituality,
of man becomes more material. Whereas materialistic ideas promote spirituality
spiritual influence, as well as abstract idealism, promote an increasing
while, conversely, materialistic thinking promotes a Luciferic spiritualism.
particular always be permeated by a spiritual science that, as these
through spiritual science. And when such laws as this are known —
human spirit ready to enter more deeply into the reality of spiritual
alone who know the great laws resulting from spiritual science which
polarity in the human order and spiritual order. Nevertheless, what
say that one should found a spiritual order, a spiritual world-conception
on these natural science facts. That leads nowhere. If the spiritual
reality if it is explained through spiritual science.
of what is taking place today. I said then: The reason why spiritual
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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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hidden spiritual battle raging today and the need for a renewal
have some experience of the spiritual world. You know one such impressive
religious and spiritual mood — how little inclination there is
mankind will first have to be considered — in the spiritual scientific
let us today direct our spiritual vision primarily to what might be
which the spirituality of Christianity arose was destined to exist no
longer at the place from which that spirituality streamed forth. The
conformity to law, in its inner structure, in its permeation by divine-spiritual
world in which lived the spirituality of the humanity of that time,
spiritual streams that had been present in the ancient Mysteries. (You
to learn something about the divine-spiritual world through atavistic
be drawn from the content of this world to guide us to the divine-spiritual
world. This world has lost its divine-spiritual life.” That is
are the spiritual wisdom of Greece. The first apologia of the Church
grandparents, etc., ignoring the fact that the soul comes from spiritual
is the goal of our anthroposophical spiritual science within the religious
spiritual science wants to recognize as its Christmas light unless they
spiritual science may this its Christmas meaning be understood. May
spiritual science! I would like at this moment to begin Christmas solemnly,

Title: How Can Mankind Find Christ Again?: Lecture 3: Brotherliness and Freedom ...
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hidden spiritual battle raging today and the need for a renewal
real, inner human being who comes from the spiritual world and unites
The Philosophy of Spiritual Activity.
The Philosophy of Spiritual Activity.
The Philosophy of Spiritual Activity,
possibility of becoming free at the moment he enters the spiritual world
with him out of the spiritual world the sense of equality which then
the spiritual world through the gate of death with the largest measure
These things must be brought to people's attention again through spiritual
equality with us out of the spiritual world. It comes, one might say,
penetrate the spiritual life of European humanity — so far as
it would best be studied from a spiritual scientific standpoint, for
studied with spiritual scientific methods, you will find a certain light
mention is made of a spiritual being Jaldabaoth, who is supposed with
in a physical body has remembrance of something experienced in the spiritual
experienced in the spiritual world before birth, though it still possessed
in those epochs from the spiritual world and clothed in concepts, in
of the spiritual world. And now something significant occurred: this
of Golgotha through powerful spiritual thinking; and the other teaching,
in what streamed to it from the spiritual world, what had existed among
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hidden spiritual battle raging today and the need for a renewal
a completely objective view of elementary spiritual facts. Conditions
perceived spiritual realities within the phenomena of nature. They perceived
human being through the regions of heaven, that is, of the spiritual
for spiritual ideas.
it contains is spiritual. He learnt about death and all that is connected
originated a morphology on a higher level, a spiritual morphology. He

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hidden spiritual battle raging today and the need for a renewal
a spiritual scientific point of view, of humanity even in historical
spiritual Beings are active whom the Bible calls the Creators, the Elohim.
spiritual beings have taken it over.
Christian Church, wherever this has dogmas and rituals. These are two
The Philosophy of Spiritual Activity
It is true that we can find no reality, either spiritual or physical,
again take up initiation science, true spiritual science. You must realize,
anything such as we do here — spiritual science acquired by working
is the same. Only through spiritual science can a new kind of thinking
spiritual scientist is still someone very strange to the popular consciousness,
for the spiritual researcher today will usually be to seek imaginations
modern science is the best preparation for spiritual research, because
Spirits of Personality. The entire inner structure of spiritual life
is trying to take place spiritually. This may be sensed from world-
of the spiritual world and receive back verified. This is so completely,
antiquated. That is the reason why the spiritual science presented here
Hence, in a spiritual science that takes today's conditions into
in the spiritual world, then will and conceptions flow together again
spiritual science — yet even this kind of thinking can only be
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hidden spiritual battle raging today and the need for a renewal
to the spiritual world, which then was the beginning of the spiritual
gnostic wisdom when they are penetrated by spiritual science, but they
ideas with little tendency toward the spiritual. People wanted, I might
of spiritual depths, the effort was made more and more to regard them
can be sought only through the modern spiritual life. For modern Gospel
say, from the spiritual world itself; that is, initiations in which
but by the spiritual world itself. Naturally, it then had the appearance
initiations very often took place under such direct spiritual guidance.
led into a wood, that by spiritual guidance he was brought out of the
at a certain moment when a shocking event confronted his soul, his soul-spiritual
body. He had a spiritual experience. You have here the intervention
of a spiritual guide who led this man into the spiritual world, according
to his karma, at a moment when he was so startled, so spiritually shocked,
that the shock was able to separate his soul-spiritual entity from his
by step. Spiritual guidance underlies it. Next he arrived in a region
the four elements or the planets. He enters the outer spiritual world,
the spiritual world as a widely extending ocean, a universal spirituality.
became a different man, how he became a participant in the spiritual
the human being was led by a spiritual being out of the physical world
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hidden spiritual battle raging today and the need for a renewal
and how all this affects the human soul. But as students of spiritual
when we left the spiritual realms to come into physical existence between
Life from the Standpoint of Spiritual Science.” From birth to
attitude toward, the outer world. The spiritual scientist able to investigate
between our soul-spiritual character and the course of outer nature.
as having the same soul-spiritual significance as ourselves. We would
that befits such retrospect on the part of those dedicated to spiritual
we go deeply into spiritual science as it is intended here, that we
We then have the possibility within spiritual science of correcting
of error. Anthroposophical spiritual science — and let us be particularly
to the world speed. But spiritual science makes us aware of existing
or spiritual science, of how our earth has gradually developed by first
period. This may be observed by spiritual science. Even now our Saturn
be seen. Thus spiritual science in a certain connection enables us to
spiritual science which I have described as the new creative work of
receive the impulses of spiritual science into ourselves livingly, then
results of our spiritual scientific striving. In the course of the past
another aspect: that spiritual science, when taken up earnestly, keeps
it. This is one of the results of spiritual science. And it is of quite
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hidden spiritual battle raging today and the need for a renewal
by someone intending to observe earnestly in the manner of spiritual
science. A spiritual scientific observer certainly does not wish to say
such intervention of a spiritual element. Particularly at the present
time there is no desire to understand such a spiritual intervention.
spiritual life that is pouring into the common life of all mankind.
And a modern spiritual investigator is simply a person who acknowledges
impact of this spiritual wave. Nor can they prevent it from entering
that are struggling against the incoming spiritual wave that is in fact
prepares people to reject all the truly real spiritual elements that
this can also have its moods. And in the spiritual wave of which I am
world. Humanity is entangled in this world strife. For the spiritual
happiness; you will be able to float luxuriously in spiritual perception.
This would please most people. When today they are to enter the spiritual
is the time when spiritual beings wishing to bring humanity the consciousness
is described by the spiritual investigator, they would have a different
this can only be a real interest if we let the light of spiritual science
of spiritual forces are working in human beings with which we have to
he does not fully recognize a spiritual world in its reality and concreteness.
spiritual beings with a stage for their activities. This is indeed the
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Community Life, Inner Development, Sexuality and the Spiritual Teacher
on the issues of human relationships in a spiritual community such as the
sexuality, has spiritual roots; looking to sexuality for the explanation
to the good within your activity in our spiritual movement, I have noticed
our spiritual movement as serving evil purposes, and I see this behavior
rather than independent spiritual entities alongside you. You only appear
of our spiritual movement. These people have readied themselves to meet
great spiritual teachings in our time, but you are making them poorer
modern spiritual science appeals to our healthy capacity for discernment,
they turn into spiritually dependent tools in your hands.
of a bit of their I. As a result, your coworkers in our spiritual movement
influence, however, the principle at work in our spiritual movement
out the inherent contradiction between spiritual science's appeal to
spiritual energy on the useless task of seeking out hidden wisdom-filled
also contradicts what you yourself demand of spiritual teachers in the
it is not enough to simply give lectures or introduce new spirituality.
danger to our spiritual movement and to yourself.
spiritual teachers must renounce all the help available to them in pre-Christian
now necessary process of restructuring life in our spiritual movement.
to speak even a single sentence of that sort. With all the spiritual
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Community Life, Inner Development, Sexuality and the Spiritual Teacher
on the issues of human relationships in a spiritual community such as the
sexuality, has spiritual roots; looking to sexuality for the explanation
around us to our spiritual movement with its teachings, for in discussing
are destroying our spiritual-scientific activity? Yes, to the extent
recurrent experience that is unavoidable in a spiritual movement such
faced by any spiritual movement such as ours is the very pronounced
that prevail with some justification outside the confines of a spiritual
spiritual scientific perspective, matter is nothing; matter as we know
insight as spiritual science. I tried to demonstrate an objective basis
in a spiritual movement. That is what is important to me, but in this,
in our spiritual movement, I have noticed certain behaviors…,”
necessary that the most intimate attributes of a spiritual movement
by the spiritual aspect of our movement. And it is crucial that this
spiritual factor, this purely spiritual factor uniting us, not be misinterpreted.
our spiritual movement and that seems necessary to me in order to handle
integrated into our spiritual movement. This means I must leave each
built on the basis of spiritual science, this Society as I have to understand
what is right in relation to our spiritual movement, fulfilling my obligations
that if someone in our spiritual movement looks for something so personal
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Community Life, Inner Development, Sexuality and the Spiritual Teacher
on the issues of human relationships in a spiritual community such as the
sexuality, has spiritual roots; looking to sexuality for the explanation
Movements such as our spiritual scientific movement have always been
the spiritual culture of the times, or on culture in general, was first
certain extent, to cultivate our spiritual scientific strivings within
a particular spiritual current like this. Time and again we're presented
joining such a society; they would prefer to absorb its spiritual wealth
emphasize again that a spiritual movement like this one is of necessity
their interactions and their ongoing absorption of spiritual scientific
our spiritual science. As a consequence, however, the concept of a society
terms this society has to become a vehicle for the spiritual current
as a society existing on behalf of a spiritual scientific movement,
that we see an institute of higher learning for spiritual science being
such as the one in which we develop a specific spiritual teaching, and
that, in a spiritual scientific movement, we can work constructively
Spiritual science forces us to focus spiritually on things that have
to recognize and master the spiritual if applied up there in the spiritual
to understand the spiritual world belongs only in the spiritual world;
spiritual science have always seen great danger in doing so, because
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Community Life, Inner Development, Sexuality and the Spiritual Teacher
on the issues of human relationships in a spiritual community such as the
sexuality, has spiritual roots; looking to sexuality for the explanation
You have probably learned enough on that subject from spiritual science
to try to popularize the term “School for Spiritual Science.”
to popularize the idea that this is a spiritual scientific movement
is no longer possible to use it as a vehicle for introducing spiritual
in the last few weeks, namely, that spiritual science as we know it
and research. Indeed, spiritual science must make itself felt as a fundamentally
I know compels me to consider bringing spiritual science to human beings
get to the point where we have to admit that spiritual science cannot

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Swedenborg: An Example of Difficulties in Entering the Spiritual World
on the issues of human relationships in a spiritual community such as the
sexuality, has spiritual roots; looking to sexuality for the explanation
in Entering Spiritual Worlds
enter the spiritual worlds, and I will begin with a specific example.
access to the spiritual worlds, visionaries like Swedenborg can serve
in spite of having entered the spiritual world. The spiritual world
pre-clairvoyant days, before being granted access to the spiritual world,
then did the spiritual worlds become accessible to him. Swedenborg,
to be extremely conscientious when we talk about entering the spiritual
heights and he could look into the spiritual worlds, he always felt
he was surrounded not only by his own aura, but also by numerous spiritual
embrace his aura and saw in it spiritual elemental beings proceeding
then, he was advised by these spiritual beings that are present in each
of spiritual beings, until a certain moment when he noticed spirits
who usually understood the language of spiritual beings. I am talking
for perceiving the spiritual world.
into certain mysteries of the spiritual worlds. In order to understand
a totally different relationship to the spiritual world than they have
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on the issues of human relationships in a spiritual community such as the
sexuality, has spiritual roots; looking to sexuality for the explanation
own edification and for the sake of spiritual science itself. And in
our Society represents a spiritual movement. I could speak at much greater

Title: Community Life: Lecture 5: Sexuality and Modern Clairvoyance, Freudian Psychoanalysis and Swedenborg as a Seer
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Community Life, Inner Development, Sexuality and the Spiritual Teacher
on the issues of human relationships in a spiritual community such as the
sexuality, has spiritual roots; looking to sexuality for the explanation
materialists among us to recognize a higher spiritual element than the
tells the psychoanalyst. A spiritual scientist using healthy understanding
perceives spiritual objects presented to him in the form of Imaginations
just as if the spiritual world were nothing more than a finer version
of the physical world. He looks at the spiritual world in the same way
process Swedenborg went through. He discovered certain spiritual beings
to the spiritual world — that is, if he had also carried his consciousness
up into the spiritual world), he would have been able to understand
feelings incline them to a more spiritual way of looking at things,
the physical plane up into the spiritual world, to which he really did
It seems he was not completely able to extricate his spiritual nature
was all correct, but he was seeing the spiritual world in its maya aspect,
spiritual beings.
seeing them in the spiritual world. In other words, he could not see
energy in some respects. He used this sexual energy to see spiritual
just said does not apply to spiritual science as such, but it does apply
mode of perception applicable to the spiritual world, a mode of perception
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on the issues of human relationships in a spiritual community such as the
sexuality, has spiritual roots; looking to sexuality for the explanation
history as being imbued with spiritual impulses, and who therefore tries
transform by fostering a spiritual-scientific philosophy of life.
needed in order to face the spiritual world as a mystic — that
is, as a soul at one with the spiritual pulse and flow of higher worlds.
spiritual worlds, but to him it is all nonsense. However, there has
mystics experience in their relationship to spiritual things. “Whether
connection to the spiritual world. Mauthner continues:
passionate and most spiritual, and that Spinoza made use of his first
world; that is, everything spiritual is dragged down into a refined
in our thinking, we have to replace our relationship to the spiritual
who are well able to recognize the noble character of spirituality will
spirituality where spirituality is actually present, without clothing
subjective emotions in spiritual forms. In making this appeal, I hoped
of spiritual scientific society. It was a simple matter of excluding
the dangers inherent in mixing elevated spiritual concepts with thoughts
of natural human activity on the physical plane. Thinking about spiritual
matters belongs to the spiritual world. We must come to the healthy
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on the issues of human relationships in a spiritual community such as the
sexuality, has spiritual roots; looking to sexuality for the explanation
this principle is. It is indispensable in making any spiritual scientific
habits into things belonging to our spiritual scientific philosophy,
the whole way we deal with spiritual scientific truths ought to make
of spiritual science itself, but also the dignity of our own interactions
but in spiritual science we have to be guided by the concept of symptomatology,
We have seen an example of how we as members of a spiritual scientific
very mundane, is nonetheless indicative of what spiritual science requires
of expressions and revelations of real spiritual entities. They are
Once again, we must ascend into the spiritual world, but not as high
descending spiritual being. This is one of the basic ancient principles
of any spiritual science. Thus, when considering our physical body,
perceptible body and are nobler and more spiritual in nature than the
constantly descending and evolving from the spiritual toward the physical.
downward from a more spiritual form of existence to a more material
must be regarded as more spiritual and the mature stage as more material,
since a descent from the spiritual to the material has taken place in
something spiritual to descend deeper into matter.
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spiritual science; and how spiritual science applies these methods to
to Anthroposophical spiritual science, now is the time to speak of it,
in mind: Marxism was kindled of its own accord; but spiritual science
in the so-called spiritual life, which is, however, no real spiritual
up that intensity of thinking which spiritual science can offer. F For
by the most highly developed and abstract spirituality of a certain
than the fact that as far as spirituality is concerned, these nine tenths
intelligence. What now separates the bearer of spiritual impulses from
of spiritual development are accessible to the so-called uncultured,
met with a spiritual element which comes from above! You might say that
a Spiritual-scientific influence should be exercised upon social conditions,
a new spiritual revelation comes towards this migration of people, which
by the old spiritual revelation suited to the horizontal direction,
spiritual stream which should flow down to the proletarian stream and
asunder the spiritual; the economic and the state
sense of reality, which can only be acquired through a spiritual-scientific
a certain sphere. If you only consider the aspect of the spiritual worker,
have the demand, the requirement. This leads us into the spiritual sphere;
it leads us into the spiritual world of man, for consider how different
chest and of the head into the head penetrates the spiritual
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Through our spiritual-scientific studies, the true inner character of
can develop it clearly with the aid of spiritual science), human labour
as I have explained to you in our lectures, in our spiritual-scientific
organisation in the same way in which spiritual science studies the
the social organism. The social organism must be subdivided into a spiritual

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The Separation of the Moral-Spiritual Life From the
The Separation of the Moral-Spiritual Life From the
a spiritual-scientific aspect, so that it will not be difficult for
Even in spiritual life,
understood in a spiritual-scientific manner. Meaningless abstractions
humanity is immense, and an awakening is urgently needed. Where spiritual
that people who believe, do not need spiritual science, that it is not
hear the argument that faith is simple and spiritual science complicated,
in the spiritual world is past; it is no longer possible, at present,
to be bone-lazy and to believe that we shall be saved by spiritual powers
spiritual world flow into our own deeds, into everything which we do
in such a way that a divine-spiritual power is contained in them. This
spiritual power will only permeate our actions if it is contained, above
dry; the most intimate qualities of man's soul-spiritual being have
particularly in the direction of spiritual life.
must, however, do away with every soul-spiritual interest. Soul-spiritual
has on the one hand this terribly abstract moral-spiritual life, which
of my innermost soul, I surrender to the spiritual world. I seek the
spiritual world within my own being; my chief interest is the soul and
economic order. Those who are merely devout, even devout in spiritual
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Towards His Fellow-Men and Towards Spirituality
in the World, Towards His Fellow-Men and TowardsSpirituality
conclusions arrived at by the social-democratic mentality. Spiritual
impulses, spiritual potentialities, now influence the development of
or even spiritual impulses, towards the solution of the social problem.
of moral or spiritual impulses. This will spread more and more. For
devoid of spirituality. Our contemporaries wish to develolp natartal
facts, and that they should in no way attempt to mingle spiritual or
all the books dealing with moral, ethical or spiritual questions, written
can be gained to-day from these modern books on ethics and other spiritual
from the field of ethics, religion and spirituality, to the most common,
religion and spirituality to the other side, constituting real life
thing to be borne in mind to-day is the spiritual aspect. Education,
schools, spiritual life in general — these are the most important
into things, we may even say: So long as spiritual life continues to
so long as the spiritual community, or spiritual life, is obliged to
Schools must be quite independent, spiritual matters must be dealt wits
the activities connected with spiritual interests, and consequently
with the world as such, so the spiritual science of Anthroposophy seeks
point here, depends above all upon spiritual questions, upon a clear
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of reality that result from the Movement here for Spiritual Science,
of the realities arising from Spiritual Science. Naturally we do not
mean by this the dogma of some spiritual movement or other, what we
forces of the times, the spiritual knowledge of Anthroposophy becomes
individuals, but the result of observing what the spiritual leadership of
that account only that we can speak of Spiritual Science, of Anthroposophy,
Spiritual Science.
matter with me. Since a spiritual appeal is to be made to the understanding
that is produced spiritually, in which the spiritual part of the two
other spheres also have a share. The spiritual part must be given over
but this spiritual part cannot be governed nor influenced by the other
to face the world outside, but a spiritual, political and economic system
What has to come must be created spiritually, and the bearer of this

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accordance with the independence of the spiritual life, of the political
membering of the spiritual life, the economic life and the political
addition you have from the basis of Spiritual Science the opportunity
given through it — the life of earthly spirituality, if I may
lived as a spiritual individual in a spiritual relation to the higher
hierarchies, with those disembodied souls who were in the spiritual
as spiritual life, be it in devotion to religious practice or life in
lived out in this spiritual life has its origin in the forces acquired
lived with the higher hierarchies in the spiritual worlds. Here you
and thus enter into a community. Spiritual life on earth, whether having
a life in common with them, in order thereby oneself to make spiritual
before descending into spiritual life on earth, we were in a quite different
during life in the spiritual world in the time lived through between
called the spiritual sphere, in the life passed through by man before
— much of the egg-shell of the spiritual world around us, though
it is not hard. The child is very spiritual in spite of its main task
of the spiritual; what it brings with it is very nearly akin to the
spiritual life on earth. Gradually, however, it enters more and more
with the spiritual. The political state has to do only with what man
the spiritual nor in the life of rights, but must plunge below the human
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problems has its source in the foundations of Spiritual Science. And
by Spiritual Science about the social organism, in Karl Marx will be
in spiritual qualities from himself, but have only been before him in
have come when the value of spiritual work and the work of the artist
only an ideology and no spiritual life as counterbalance. This state
all external economic and materialistic actuality there lies the spiritual
with its impulses. And men must receive this as something spiritual.
What I have been referring to is a misunderstanding of the spiritual.
If mankind is to be healed, this is possible only by spiritual means,
by men receiving into themselves spiritual impulses as spiritual knowledge,
of Spiritual Science. The new man will never be brought forth through
spiritual life must be free and independent. A spiritual life as developed
this spiritual life its own department. On the other hand there must
spiritual life. For the spiritual life has become a mere ideology, only
and because of this, because the spiritual life is at the mercy of the
how much depended upon this spiritual life. And everywhere on earth,
for a prosperous life. But what is sought on the grounds of Spiritual
by Spiritual Science, which may be contrasted with the feeble, lazy
social problem, from the standpoint of Spiritual Science. You have the

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are, first, a penetration of the spiritual life, a penetration fitted
for the present age, what may be called Spiritual Science. The second
This material conception of history is due to all spiritual life being,
taken to rights and morality. The spiritual life is, finally, an ideology,
spiritual life is a mirrored image of the external economic life. This
on the special kind of spirituality in the first post-Atlantian period
by means of Spiritual Science — rests upon unconscious intuition.
Our Spiritual Science goes
the spiritual life. In science the great desire is to experiment, so
the spirit and to represent the spiritual by artistic means is being
there was a feeling that abstract spiritual life offered no possibility
in the spiritual laboratories the State has set up for its citizens,
arisen in regard to the spiritual life the greatest imaginable egoism,
egoism that looks upon sheer spiritual enjoyment, sheer intellectual
himself. We have, however, no claim to spiritual enjoyment prepared
being able to share in the spiritual part of the social organism, and
be no spiritual culture, no further culture at all! There would be only
good from a universal human point of view spiritually and otherwise
of the spiritual life! What has not been founded in this sphere! But
of the proletariat. Thus today we have a spiritual endeavour that denies
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spiritual life, he in really yearning, with all present-day humanity,
for definite spiritual knowledge of the world. But so far he is ignorant
of this subconscious yearning of his soul for spiritual knowledge. What
diametrically opposed to the fundamentals of Spiritual Science represented
independent. There must work side-by-side the independent spiritual
to a stage beyond these abstractions, then the soul rises into the spiritual
thinking, the next step is to actual experience of the spiritual. In
present-day mankind, to get beyond the abstract to the spiritual life,
The proletarian fights against the activity of spiritual forces in history,
the force will develop for pressing forward to the spiritual. What comes
a time not then ripe for developing Spiritual Science, nothing more
could appear than a thinking that awaited the approach of the spiritual
that really should be concerned with the spiritual world, is applied
from the spiritual plane that is nearest to ours, we can with the perception
the pure thinking does not wait to be filled by the spiritual world.
progress to be made in modern Spiritual Science will be closely connected
see that without the creation of surplus value there can be no spiritual
on the one hand, and on the other the cultural, spiritual life, is such
what on the other hand is given to the spiritual life can be a matter
of free will alone; for the spiritual life must be built wholly upon

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impulses out of the spiritual world. For what has become estranged from
the spiritual world, what has held sway economically without regard
to the spiritual world, has today lost its way in a blind alley. Believing
at that time Spiritual Science forced those who saw into the real state
is really spiritual, are more or less quackery. Reality must come into
of which this State should be the opposite: In the spiritual-scientific
in the spiritual world in the time lived through by man between death
opposite of those in the spiritual world. This gives you a true idea
of the State. Men who know nothing of the spiritual world can get no
between one soul and another in the spiritual world. With this in view,
the spiritual world. You will see that there in the spiritual world
forces of the soul as belonging to the actual spiritual world, what
spiritual sphere, the administration of the affairs of spiritual culture,
of the spiritual world, the spiritual life signifies a continuation
reflection, is the earthly continuation of the real spiritual life before
to do with spiritual life. It is its very opposite. To understand the
in mind spiritual reality. In the spiritual world sympathy and antipathy
work together. What persists in us from the spiritual world as antipathy,
spiritual culture. Through speech we learn as men to understand each
other and to create a spiritual bond between man and man. And by understanding
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of capitalism in its relation to the spheres of the spiritual, of the
are able to turn to living thinking needed above all for our Spiritual
the spiritual organism where the individual capacities of men are dealt
anything spiritual is produced, a fine poem for instance, an important
The goods valued least by modern mankind, the spiritual goods, are thus
control of a corporation of the spiritual organisation, the spiritual
a thinking directed to the spiritual. This time is past. Henceforward
man must rise consciously to Imagination and grasp the spiritual life
consciously. For without this penetration into spiritual life today
that as a revelation from the present is manifested anew from the spiritual
necessary to listen to what man is now being told about the spiritual.
Spiritual Science wishes
out of the spiritual worlds, into the impulse behind all thoughts. Through
A thinking, however, that wishes to know nothing of the spiritual world
cannot dive into reality for in all reality there lives the spiritual
world. And when we know nothing of the spiritual world we are unable
to the knowledge of spiritual science. This must form the foundation,
Spiritual Science to reality because people are not ready to receive
the human soul, Spiritual Science, at least in its rudiments, will have
the sound social organism, out of the spiritual organisation, will have
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men's acceptance of Spiritual Science, is not merely a question of being
world, out of present spiritual revelation, should arrive at a certain
depend on what we acknowledge through Spiritual Science, but
so strong an opposition to Spiritual Science.
that the spiritual sphere has been placed on its own feet, so that it
then in a comparatively short time Spiritual Science will become widespread.
The reason is that this spiritual life has in recent times taken on
of spiritual life which has recently arisen. It must be realised that
spiritualised will prove the undoing rather than the salvation of mankind.
into practice. He himself had so much spirituality that he could let his
of Spiritual Science. But that time, in the defence of Hegel, I went
being a spiritual world. For the spiritual world is for Hegel only the
physical is spiritualised by the superphysical but only in a truly abstract
superficial materialism but in the highest force of spiritual thinking.
Whoever thinks out a spiritual
way the change over of the spiritual life into its opposite.
as you like about idealism and realism, spiritualism and materialism,
extreme. Ahrimanic materialism, luciferic spiritualism, as the two extremes,
longer to wrangle about spiritualism and materialism but to find the
just by Spiritual Science. Here, it is true, we have to rise as did
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spiritual permeation of humanity — all this came into
development of spiritual life during the last decades before
spiritual science, we find that, apart from everything else, it
not be quite correct in the sense of spiritual science) was the
the matter is not so noticeable. One who, with the aid of spiritual
finds that he possesses a spiritual life-force which he brings
constructed for himself a spiritual system of the world.
Chaotic as yet, it was nevertheless a spiritual system; for he
manifested ethically, morally and spiritually, it
spiritual. You will also observe from this how complicated
merely physical events, has not yet reached in spiritual
spiritual creative genius cannot create something higher than
physical significance but also a spiritual one.
with Spiritual Science arrives at in his feeling; for he comes
Goethe's time spiritual science did not yet exist); it could

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once more from another starting-point. For in spiritual science
more' in detail by the means which spiritual science affords.
speak of many things in connection with spiritual science,
spiritual science, as you know, we describe the human being as
quite in accordance with the spiritual-scientific facts.
nervous systems and the spiritual members of man's
what I am now saying out of spiritual- scientific research will
life man is connected with the spiritual relationships of
us inasmuch as we only enter into relation with our spiritual
has of his environment where it is spiritual. What then did
purely spiritual working — of the World around him, far
For on the other side he also develops spiritual relations to
the Spiritual World. Corresponding to this active
spirit with the Spiritual World. At night the soul-and-spirit
head, we are living together spiritually with our surrounding
spiritual environment. We dive down, as it were, into a
spiritual inner world in our sleep; but on awakening we plunge
into a spiritual world around us.
man like Goethe this living- together with the spiritual
looking with the eyes of Spiritual Science, we ask what they

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spiritual-scientific point of view is one of the least
spiritual Beings, this they accepted as instruction for the
the spiritual life of man on Earth ideas which can reckon with
thinking of it from the points of view which spiritual science
is strange. When as a spiritual scientist one speaks of things
speak so as to please. Spiritual Science will be less and less
puppets to declaim.’ On the contrary, Spiritual Science
prosaic and external!’ To a true Spiritual Science the
Spiritual Science must say: The vocational life is necessary
not even Spiritual Science can give him comfort at this
relation to the spiritual; and in all that we do in trades and
starting-point for the incorporation of spiritual beings.
the elemental spirituality which man created at his calling
— for he did create elemental spirituality in the
clear and detailed ideas about the Spiritual Worlds.
‘There goes Spiritual Science, talking of many Spirits, many
Spirituality (conceived as vaguely as possible), but that
Spirituality is everywhere — concrete, detailed
Spirituality. The workman who stands at the lathe will
spiritual-scientific strivings, it would be the worst thing
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Title: The Apocalypse: Lecture I
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spiritual truths contained in St. John's mysterious pictures.
cognitional organ for the people who were celebrating rituals,
the inner spiritual aspect of matter. The sacrificial urns

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spiritual truths contained in St. John's mysterious pictures.
world's divine, spiritual forces through the intonation of
aware of the spiritual activities of the gods in the words, or
together of human beings and the gods in the süiritual
while divine, spiritual work was being done, depended on the
prays, he is basically trying to ascend to divine, spiritual
third epoch he experienced the streaming of divine spiritual
oblivious to the latter. The verbal content of the ritual
spirituality there. Spiritual things immediately appear
something spiritual is present. So the fact is that if the
participating in a spiritual event under all circumstances.
consecration of man which brings the divine, spiritual life
spiritual things in the real spiritual world. You were looking
for the path to the real spiritual world again. This impulse
inner experience of the working and weaving of spirituality in
the spiritual world from whom the content of the ritual flowed
upon yourselves through the content of this ritual, which is a
revelation from the spiritual world and which radiated down
ritual. The Mystery of Golgotha is present as a real ritual. In
our time man must first unite this ritual with his ego; for the
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spiritual truths contained in St. John's mysterious pictures.
man was to connect himself with divine, spiritual beings
which are true spiritual copies of the supersensible world.
can't see anything in the spiritual world yet and therefore I
the spiritual world. If it does tread this path, we should make
Apocalypse in a spiritual way, if I may put it that way.
to go through a kind of spiritual development or conceptual
although they also told him many spiritual things, they only
spiritual beings at the starting point, and our trivial letters
are the descendents of what were once divine, spiritual beings
spiritual beings. Sounds were gods who assailed men from all
spirituality.
last remnant of this life of a divine, spiritual element in
spiritual. We must be able to feel what happened there. What
go past and revealed the world's content of spiritual
and concepts and with spiritual mental images.

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spiritual truths contained in St. John's mysterious pictures.
today, but he felt that he was the instrument of the spiritual
spiritual view of things. You should really know about such
The cultic rituals in Ephesus were supposed to mediate between
the sacrificing priest, his congregation and divine, spiritual
spiritual substances in earthly life. A priest who walked
spiritual phenomena exist there when the ocean surges onto the
who have spiritualized themselves in the course of human

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spiritual truths contained in St. John's mysterious pictures.
we must become fully conscious of what is guiding spiritual
life today, since spiritual development is now taking place
now take what we're trying to bring into our spiritual view of
that they had lived up in the spiritual world before their life
everyone knew that they had been a spiritual being before they
spiritual world for granted. Human beings only began to feel
consciousness. The consciousness soul is a very spiritual
thing, and spiritual things always consume material ones. The
There is a way to find one's way into the spiritual world where
most people cultivate a spiritual life today without these
heaven in a spiritual way. One can already begin to perceive
the whole spiritual evolution of mankind. Each person can only
where I talk to them about scientific and spiritual things. I
present-day spiritual life. This is one of the things which
spiritual science teaches us that the fragrant flowers of a
about the spiritual world people are no longer satisfied if one
spiritual scientific way.

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spiritual truths contained in St. John's mysterious pictures.
something spiritual was weaving in speech formation and in the
most of his impulses from Saturn, was ruling human spiritual
warlike elements for initiation were brought from the spiritual
spiritual atmosphere floats above the ground and above all the
spiritual materials, which is confirmed by the fact that people

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spiritual truths contained in St. John's mysterious pictures.
must first look at the spiritual foundations from which this
like the Apocalypse which are conceived out of the spiritual
the spiritual conditions — not in accordance with
spiritual conditions. Let's take a look at this time.
general world evolution in a spiritual way. The year 333 A.D.
reception of spiritual influences; it really shook them up
participate in the spiritual life and to work along spiritual
their spiritual backgrounds.
Let's look at this contrast from a spiritual standpoint,
definitely cut off any possibility of growth into spirituality
is looked at from the spiritual world its importance is so
the one hand we have the spiritual dispute between Arius and
to give a deeper spiritual explanation later, and let's look at
spiritual impulses of your physical parents are also at work in
of effects of nature which are also spiritual effects, for
spiritual activities are present in all activities of nature.
into the spiritual order of things and into the realm of the
spiritual world when what exists in Arabism is introduced
spiritual elements which are involved. Now this difficulty, my
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spiritual truths contained in St. John's mysterious pictures.
the really spiritual part of Christianity is connected with the
as a spiritual being and only retained the view about the sun's
can imagine the spiritual idea someone would have to get of the
conceived of as the present-day spirituality of each one of
every initiate can recognize him. For each of these spiritual
as an emanation from those spiritual forces which are
about the spirituality of planets and stars and of how the
spiritual world by Soradt and other recalcitrant demons to
spiritual viewpoint at various times and places. I mentioned
up at spiritual events which belong to earth humanity and which
whether they be other spiritual beings, are gathered around
Christianity and spiritualized Christianity and who look
is of great importance if we grasp spirituality for the
preparation for the great, extensive and intensive spiritual
spiritualization of modern civilization — after the
they will be those who not only ridicule spiritual things,
towards spirituality should really do so. Everything which
opposes spirituality will be there, for this does not work in
sweep away everything spiritual will be present in the
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spiritual truths contained in St. John's mysterious pictures.
environment, in the spiritual region of the earthly
ego in the spiritual world, and they stand in that world in
the ego and astral body would enter the spiritual world every
revelation which comes directly from the spiritual world
spiritual world which is connected with visions. If this is
better said, the receiver of it, got from divine, spiritual
gave them what one can see if one surveys the real spiritual
with the spiritual nature of the world through what has flowed
follows: Nature is one way to get into the spiritual world, and
thing when the spiritual investigator encounters people in the
to pure, unmediated spiritual things through something like the
the spiritual world but that he has a development which
the spiritual world. These souls which come out of the
spiritual world clothe themselves in what comes out of the
Romans were the puppets of spiritual powers and that they only
carried out the plan of the spiritual powers. For they thought
a spiritual pole of the old Jerusalem. One will no longer be
and its substances: the new Jerusalem is made out of spiritual
calls spiritual knowledge and art — an extension of the
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spiritual truths contained in St. John's mysterious pictures.
viewpoint of the most exact spiritual science. We saw that the
spiritual research.
the spiritual world. Of course one has to be able to see that
revelations from the spiritual world. Here one will disregard
looks into the things in the spiritual world, but it's not he
spiritual world before; our soul and we must let their content
soul's experience and the Spirit God who lives in a spiritual,
when man crosses the threshold to the spiritual world, he gets
from the spiritual world. The whole culture must be arranged in
such a way that it comes down from the spiritual world to the
John looks into the spiritual world. But this means: heaven is
spiritual ingredients for the building up of the new Jerusalem
will sink down from the spiritual world and will be received by
knowledge and where he has to look into the spiritual world:
spiritual revelations. The name which is given to the ego
the spiritually trivial fact that the name for the ego can
into him — which must be a real spiritual process; but
independently of spiritual investigation: A lord is someone who
spiritual lords above the earth? Until that point in time when
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spiritual truths contained in St. John's mysterious pictures.
spiritual worlds and of how they will take possession of
spiritual world in a pure form for their working, thinking and
objective and real in connection with the spiritual perception
occurs he lets an angel come down from the spiritual worlds,
acquired a spiritual conception of the world a rather strange
which tends to drag human beings down below the spiritual level
spiritual principles in him, that is, if the material doesn't
spiritual. This is the important thing and we must understand
feel strong enough to permeate his passions from the spiritual
uncontrolled by the spiritual world.
Babylon is the city in which a falling away from spirituality
the star worlds and their spiritual content. The earliest
they are suited for spiritual mediations, and they are often
spiritual world with the logic and discrimination between lies
which one rightly uses in the physical world, in the spiritual
in the spiritual world as soon as one enters it. For instance,
shortest path between two points. However, in the spiritual
have to use in the physical world to the spiritual world.
the spiritual world, but he must also feel fully responsible
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spiritual truths contained in St. John's mysterious pictures.
development of the spiritual life here, as it were. The act of
what wanted to reveal itself from the spiritual world into this
life as the present, modern cultic ritual.
connected with our spiritual development as follows (drawing).
spiritual events in all physical processes, transformations and
did not doubt that this world contained divine, spiritual
spiritual and psychical everywhere, even in a physical way. One
saw psychical and spiritual things in the physical world.
clouds up to the early Renaissance where something spiritual is
that there is a divine, spiritual activity in the aery cloud
entirely spiritual way — no longer in a physical way as
Græco-Roman age, but in a completely spiritual way —
Græco-Roman age man perceives spiritual things in
was like the eyepiece of a spiritual telescope which points to
sun's spiritual aura, the woman who was clothed with the sun.
everything that gave him his spiritual and soul nature
rises up from the sea and pulls men down through the spiritual
a great deal, in connection with the spiritual life of
spirit lives in earthly things and therefore the spiritual

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spiritual truths contained in St. John's mysterious pictures.
someone feels that there are important spiritual backgrounds
the spiritual backgrounds in their own time; this is only
impression, then according to the laws of the spiritual world
development of the civilized world, from a spiritual viewpoint.
evolution. If one looks at them from a spiritual viewpoint,
that is, they stop developing their full spirituality. And the
as the spiritual aspects go.
their experiences of the spiritual world. Here we really meet
spiritual inspiration. All of the wonderful prophecies and
the spiritual world. But it is not important in the same way.
Numbers enter in at the moment when the spiritual world breaks
spiritual world breaks through. So that if one ascends to a
spiritual consciousness, one needs the number at the boundary
or threshold into the spiritual world. One doesn't get further

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spiritual truths contained in St. John's mysterious pictures.
perception of the spiritual world, as I described in my book
Philosophy of Spiritual Activity,
from the spiritual world; this is mankind as a whole, not
natural one to anyone who knows spiritual science; it will only
about approaching the spiritual world with their thoughts. One
at it, spiritually from outside. One can't do this in a balloon
or airplane, but if one would raise oneself up spiritually into
Just as a human being splits up in the spiritual world when he
spiritual things. We must devour the book, which could
come to things which can give them spiritual views; so that
with a spiritual comprehension of the world then what the
today. These people find that the digestion of the spiritual
everything in a new way must come from the spiritual power that
viewpoint of the spiritual life? After all, we're right m the

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spiritual truths contained in St. John's mysterious pictures.
spiritual sphere are not taken into account very much by our
spiritual events are restricted to the spiritual sphere. For
of spiritual observations, one can say: Nature's processes take
Imaginations which the spiritual investigator gives — if
the idea that the present meadow came down from spiritual
down from spiritual worlds, etc., and that what was a meadow
centuries ago has perished completely. Spiritual seeds that
perceive what comes from this progressive, divine spirituality

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spiritual truths contained in St. John's mysterious pictures.
spirituality in the subconscious wishes of the human soul. What
what is happening here in a real, spiritual way through the
This shows that our time is being taken hold of by a spiritual
extent to which an inclination to enter into spiritual things
will come up from the earth then as a spiritual reflection.
What the earth has absorbed becomes spiritualized by other
substances, and the spiritual elements rise up. The earth
digests the comets and the spiritual elements rise up. That is
why spiritualized, cometary things in the earth rise up from
things spiritually sees that something comes up again and
a spiritualized form. This becomes united with human astral
spiritual effects arise from one comet and unfavorable ones
That is spoken from an Apocalyptic viewpoint. Here a spiritual
spiritual character of what is present in the universe becomes
spiritual knowledge that is available about this, which I have
were, get a knife from the spiritual powers to cut the scroll
activity was much more spiritual in 1872 when it was supposed
entirely a Spiritual activity. The comet has poured down upon
spiritual events, or spiritual events that are strong enough to
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spiritual truths contained in St. John's mysterious pictures.
disappears and the spiritual world gradually appears from the
way of entering into a relation with the spiritual world. This
work of the gods. If one looks at nature in an inner, spiritual
a purely spiritual way from within through one's own soul. So
involved when a man gets into the spiritual world in this
spiritual world in each case, first he presents the letters,
present age is really spiritual.
personal, spiritual use we must become so united with it that
his particular experience of the spiritual world. For instance,
spiritual world. Wherever lightning appears there is a
radiating in of the spiritual world. And if we look at the way
world and increasingly spiritual effects appear which become
form. Instead of the spiritual world breaking through the
have to perceive it in a spiritual way.
arrive at a region of the spiritual world which we have to
spiritual world, and we become acquainted with its angels,
get to know the spiritual aspects of these beings, and when we
woven into the soul, spiritual elements and essences of the
archangels and Archai in a spiritual; way.
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spiritual truths contained in St. John's mysterious pictures.
any other psychical, spiritual or bodily force in him. For a
whether or not those who have begun to work with spirituality
fully understand real spirituality that has an inner order. In
intellectual so-called spiritual battles of the present. For
put the spiritual life under the control of the state. Just
look at how much of our spiritual life is under state
individual saw quite clearly and spiritually that the Satanic
represent the spiritual world in its full reality and not just
energy among you to really represent spirituality. The main
church through whose activity a spiritual element flows into
spiritual. It can only be found if one discovers that the
spiritual and the material are a unity. An understanding of the
the latter as something spiritual, one has to take the path to
he then brings it about that the spiritual appears out of the
perceive the spirituality of the spiritual world today in
priests in a truly spiritual way, you will be the ones who are

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The artistic description of the imaginative spiritual
our of the indeterminate space of the Spiritual world. In the center
to the earthly group, a heavenly, spiritual group. We have saints on
we find then figures of truly spiritual beings.
spiritual world, see it in a physical-spacious way. Such souls you will
From the spiritual-scientific
imagine the christian ideas to be much more spiritual than one is prone
Christ, the Christ who was in the spiritual world. And what he had become
spiritual beings, to think of him in connection with the supersensible-spiritual,
that was the essential need. This was based on the old spiritual, though
atavistic-spiritual, world-view. This way of seeing the world did in
spiritual.
to unfold its culture, this pushing back of spiritual concepts. This
to push the spiritual concepts back, to force them back, in a way.
Christianity that pushes back the spiritual concepts. And a result of
West to have to push back the spiritual impulses toward the past. There
they remain. And we really do not understand the working of the spiritual
to force back the spiritual impulses toward the East starting from the
to all of this: a certain spiritual life, which gradually had become
have outside themselves. And equally, all the spiritual impulses which
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in their realm what in the spiritual life one might call “the
figure which is really born directly out of the spiritual world. It
there is the spiritual world, and this picture is looking out of this
spiritual world. This is the character of its lines. So is everything
how it is born out of the spiritual world, then one grasps what needed
were, what I would call, only the last spiritual expression. The real
out of the spiritual world immediately. This was not to happen for the
speaking immediately out of the spiritual world. The interest was above
spiritual events. One would like to say, “What was held back into
down from the spiritual world. What was happening here in Middle-Europe,
as though they were looking out of the spiritual world are seen, but
image of the spiritual world, which the human being has envisioned.
imagine nothing but the spiritual world, naturally spoken radically,
picturing everything spiritual. And yet, when you look at each figure
out of the spiritual world itself, of a description of existence, not
has to look like! In the East this had become rigid in spirituality,
majestic, dignified, but fastened in spirituality. It needs to wait.
of the oriental thinking one can immediately visualize the spiritual
we seek to understand through Spiritual Science are really expressing
merely the interest to picture that which comes out of the spiritual

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spiritual-scientific considerations, there play the sounds of the fourth
manifests out of spiritual heights. There we see in the North also,
who is already spiritualized by nature. Both things stream together. And
was the magic which came from the one side, from the spiritual side,
out of the spiritual. One formed signs, purely out of the spiritual,
of course, was the Greek, which at the same time was spiritualistic in the
As though it were a wave of the spiritual life, there came to the surface
stone. It happened in this free forming of cities like waves of spiritual
be enclosed into the laws received from the spiritual world. (See Lectures
way, of the spiritualized nature, by the taking of the Greek ability
the the true spiritual world.
Christian needs to work itself into a thinking of the spiritual together
is the spiritual together with the external real has become lost almost
longer visualize this streaming of the spiritual, of the meaningful, into
surrounding one geographically, that which was spiritually pictured at
This, is not taught by spiritual science only, but equally, it is taught
by a development of art if it is understood in a truly spiritual sense.

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a product — and a spiritual product — of the whole
ideal, so that something artistic, something spiritual and at the same
accordance with spiritual lines and forms obtained from the Cosmos.
same phenomenon. Rome sets about wresting the spiritual domination of
shines through everywhere — I mean the spiritual-cosmic, not the
in him the general forms, received from the spiritual world, which were
soul he has brought into it everywhere; how much of spiritual-naturalistic

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Man's Responsibility for World Evolution through His Spiritual
Man's Responsibility for World Evolution through His Spiritual
Anthroposophical Spiritual Science you will see how essential
there are different Spiritual beings who have inserted
of existence are guided and directed by different Spiritual
concrete Spiritual guiding beings in Nature and History, as we
and Ahrimanic Spiritual forces before our souls in the last
higher spheres) in all these are working Divine Spiritual
permeated by various Spiritual beings. I will therefore make a
this is the remarkable characteristic; all those Spiritual
pre-Christian age, and is even Spiritually indicated in the
Divine Spiritual from quite another side.
element which knew not Jehovah, a spiritual-less, God-less
permeated by a Spiritual element. It is spiritless because it
Spiritual; it only gives descriptions of the physical-sensible,
descends, he comes down from the Spiritual psychic worlds and
existence in a Spiritual psychic sphere before Birth. He does
allotted to him from Divine Spiritual worlds before his earthly
is going on around us Spiritually, and how these Ahrimanic
Spiritual Science, is at the same time the fight of Ahriman
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the Spiritual Resurrection, and published in German as,
the Spiritual Resurrection,
forward from out of Spiritual Science comprehensive results
that which is revealed to spiritual investigation as his
objective perceptions, but spiritual imaginations. And these
and of the animating principle or the spiritual.
soul part, and for the spiritual. That must be the starting
of how modern Spiritual Science has to rekindle old
soul and spiritual condition. And so in WILHEIM MEISTER we find
Spiritual Science. Much of which Goethe had a presentiment is
illuminated through Spiritual Science. Through all this,

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spiritual scientific point of view. Starting with the early Christian
view of the spiritual world that, coupled with the rise of abstract
conference on “spiritual values in education and social life,”
attention to the fact that the spiritual life of the first four
spiritual researcher is necessary to create a more exact
only be seen properly today in the light of spiritual
to the spiritual world from within and had a direct view of what
happens in the spiritual worlds. If we want to gain insight into
anthroposophical spiritual science.
notice more and more that we are dwelling suspended in spiritual
processes. This “hovering” in spiritual processes
and seraphim. Through immediate spiritual training we
spiritual world before the concepts present themselves with
illuminate it with ideas acquired from the spiritual
looked into a spiritual world — though only with dreamlike
had their spiritual vision, a result of pure seeing into the world
a spiritual mode of viewing. Only in this way was the sense world
from the outside but rather from the inside, from the spiritual
side. One first sought out Christ in spiritual worlds and then
westward development, was permeated in its spiritual understanding
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spiritual scientific point of view. Starting with the early Christian
view of the spiritual world that, coupled with the rise of abstract
conference on “spiritual values in education and social life,”
Imagination that is not directly visible in the spiritual world but
Inspirations that are present in the spiritual world in their pure
we speak of animal forms in the purely spiritual world. During the
portray, in the forms of animals, spiritual beings who were
man. To see him as a human being in the spiritual world they would
become manifest in the spiritual world. “Behold the lamb of

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spiritual scientific point of view. Starting with the early Christian
view of the spiritual world that, coupled with the rise of abstract
conference on “spiritual values in education and social life,”
experiences that connect him to the spiritual world. I have drawn
perception of the spiritual, that even the secrets of Christianity
developed their soul life to a vision of the spiritual. After the
understanding of direct expressions of the spiritual faded away from
perception of the spiritual worlds through its own powers, there
not reality: the reality lies behind, in the spiritual world.
enters the spiritual world it is no longer a contradiction. There one
lives we are within the spiritual world. Thus would people have
more separated, torn away from the spiritual world. The whole
reason, of course, did not reach into the spiritual world. And out of
the spiritual world in the form of dogmas. Thus in the ninth
spiritual world. The external words were tested against that of which
simultaneously to behold the spiritual pervading the phenomena of
this sense world. He saw the spiritual along with the phenomena of
spiritual were seen together. So, too, the people in olden times
unable to express in abstract concepts what is found at a spiritual
can say that Schiller lived in an abstract spirituality, but that at
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spiritual scientific point of view. Starting with the early Christian
view of the spiritual world that, coupled with the rise of abstract
conference on “spiritual values in education and social life,”
clearly perceptible to a spiritual-scientific observation of
spiritual nature is flowing into the human being out of the cosmos.
on the scene, if the divine-spiritual had not ceased to flow into us
corpses of the spiritual world. I have already pointed this out in
over from the being of soul and spirit that we were in the spiritual
we take hold of the corpse of our spiritual and soul being as
for our taking hold of the corpse of our spiritual and soul being is
that had been breathed into a person was a special spiritual reality,
losing connection with the spiritual world and now there was the
spiritual and divine.
understanding of the spiritual out of the life of intellect itself.
spiritual, the super-sensible, through his own spirit. A man could

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impressions of the rituals — I mean this in the noblest
spiritual movement. A strong current working from within, truly
occasion, of the ritual act completely shows that the real
the most important spiritual initiative, forever remind
yourself that realities in the spiritual world work in a
roots especially when it happens in the spiritual sphere when
orientated spiritual or non-spiritual streams develop an
words spoken to them come directly out of the spiritual realm.
the rituals. You must never forget how powerfully effective the
These facts are the outer symptoms for a strong spiritual
experience, stirring in the objective spiritual streams at the
of inner spiritual activity in the present time will be the
When you now look around at how the highest spiritual religious
part of the soul-spiritual experience? — That is not so!
the ritual and sermon already offers the necessary strong
of the spiritual world. Mere understanding, how this or that
then you will simply say to yourself: with spiritual movements
spirituality penetrating present time in contrast to what
How does our ritual relate to the
objective balance to the ritual steps. They change as I
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physics spirituality is alive. This need really be striven for
ritual. When both movements work out of their own impulses then
spiritualised world view and spiritualised knowledge but want
and the aspect considered as ritualistic also was just there to
things going on at that time, considered then as ritualistic,
ritual itself contains immediate content in each act of worship
within the ritual, still through their participation in the
ritual shares in the ritual's life, because the ritual, in the
the spiritual world, brought down into earthly form, making
participation in the ritual something quite positive.
us contemplate the central focus of the ritual from this
comes down from the spiritual into the physical world in order
entire congregation to establish a link to the spiritual
spiritual sinks down into the congregation. When one takes this
this harmony by asking the question: ‘Could any ritual which is
received today out of the spiritual world’ — and all our
rituals are received from the spiritual world are to some
— You see, by somehow evaluating these rituals and come
people can have an invisible ritual’ — these questions
Anthroposophy, out of spiritual science. It will happen in
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within the spiritual world as well as striving towards the
point to enable you to link to a spiritual impulse, if you want
particular activity. From my observations in the spiritual
as a rule from the real spiritual, inner self-activation of
speech towards obtaining a spiritual impulse. Examples to
ancient times, a past spiritual weaving which has been killed
preparatory feeling towards a specific spiritual impulse such
the development of spiritual impulses. We need to say to
existence he places himself outside spiritual heights. Solely
the spiritual world, the light filled spirituality which works
spiritual beings who glance down at us, children of the earth,
while their spiritual hands reach out to us, while our
spiritual hands reach up to their spiritual hands because we
predisposition while our spiritual hands reached their
spiritual hands. When we are able to possibly develop many
spiritualised, it is ‘de-watered’ and goes through
spiritual processes so that it can materialise once again until
it descends again as rain out of spiritual spheres. We must know
lightening is something which rules and weaves in spiritual
leaders turning a completely de-spiritualised world culture
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the most manifold images depicting the highest spiritual things
kind of reawakening of ancient spirituality with the purpose of
researchable spiritual scientific facts to, let's say, the New
relationship with scientific spiritual knowledge about the
specific act of grace out of higher spiritual worlds at a
spiritual sea of the Father God, to the beings of individuals
cosmic-spiritual world only possible when individuals identify
spiritual powers makes it possible again for us to research it
can be found when you enter into the spiritual facts within
This spiritual connectivity experience has just been referred to
present, in the spiritual life of the present, in a religious
from the spiritual cosmos to mankind which had not yet moved
in the Gospels? — It is far more spiritual to say these simple

Title: Redemption of Thinking: Lecture I:
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this talk that Thomism is a spiritual monism, which manifests
that the separation of the human experience into spiritual and
the senses something spiritual and does not tower above that
spiritual. It applies to it much more than one normally thinks
that it assumes spiritual phenomena, spiritual facts, indeed,
sun mystery something spiritual takes place here on earth at
spiritual at the same time and vice versa. Hence, it is a given
is something naturally spiritual at the
spiritual fight. The Christ Being appeared to lead the human
only behold spiritually, but that a sense-perceptible
spiritual.
spiritual-material principle. One must ask himself, why did
spiritual and the spiritual as material. One really does not
of humanity, and you have to suppose that the spiritual
which a Manichaean considered as material-spiritual to the
purely spiritual. Hence, he had to turn away from the vivid
material-spiritual immediately in the sensory universe, as the
spiritual that is free of anything sense-perceptible. He
considering the sense-perceptible as something spiritual, the
spiritual as something sense-perceptible; since one also
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was that in that spiritual development of the West which found
consideration of the spiritual life gradually. Since that which
wants to express itself there but a higher spiritual-mental
be saved mental-spiritually. The other part of humanity
must perish mental-spiritually, whatever it undertakes. —
chains of sensuousness to the pure spiritual regions where it
can cancel his separation from the divine-spiritual being.
spiritual development within the Christian current.
the European spiritual life from the sixth century on. Today I
who can just project his thoughts in the spirituality of the
However, this lived with the persons who were the spiritual
spiritual-scientifically again. There one would like to confess
bodily-mental-spiritual peculiarities from two viewpoints at
spiritual-mental as a human body.
an exudate of the spiritual-mental, a crust
of the spiritual-mental as it were. We can interpret everything
bodily as a crust of the spiritual-mental. However, when the
spiritual-mental forces stop working on the bodily.
with such an activity of the spiritual-mental in the bodily
that this bodily is organised from the spiritual-mental. The
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the intellectual life to concrete spiritual contents, as it
sensory and the spiritual realities, still continues to have an
at death and that only the actually spiritual principle,
longer represent the spiritual world to him but that seemed to
grasp that which it has as ideas as spiritual reality, as
the last manifestations of a real spiritual world coming down
certain spiritual view and leads everything back to individual
monads which are actually spiritual. Leibniz towers above the
spiritual. Yes, the world is spiritual to him; it consists of
nothing but spiritual beings. However, I would like to say what
was to former times differentiated spiritual individualities
are to Leibniz more or less gradually differentiated spiritual
points, monads. The spiritual individuality is confirmed, but
spiritual punctiform being.
fills up again with spiritual contents.
Plotinism, the spiritual world arises again to the thinking as
spiritually. One would like to say, Spinoza did not withhold
Thomas had designed their epistemology. The spiritual world had
Only religious contents become that what is a spiritual world,
intellect should be separated from the truths of a spiritual
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Title: Anthroposophic Movement (1938): Lecture I: Homeless Souls
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spiritual world: —
finished travelling over his life's road in the spiritual world
he enters more and more into the life of the spiritual world,
going on upon earth. They gaze as it were from the spiritual
the spiritual world.
the things that are going on in the spiritual world, and come
draws its consciousness from spiritual impulses, and affords
their surroundings in their spiritual aspirations. And they are
in life, — this longing for something spiritual, —
force amid the chaotic spiritual life of the day one could
spiritual world, quite different from the one we usually have
spiritual life. — To understand Richard Wagner's
even in the spiritual sense, — but nevertheless with a
spiritual aspect of the things and of human life in general.
material that led them into a spiritual region.
pursued the direction into the spiritual world from an inner
their spiritual novitiate as Wagnerians, and were as I knew
of interruption of the contact with the spiritual world. The
direct association with the spiritual world was never in any
namely, the spiritual world as a self-obvious reality, and the
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Title: Anthroposophic Movement (1938): Lecture II: The Theosophical Society: A Common Body with a Conscious Self. Blavatsky Phenomenon
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satisfaction for their spiritual needs, are, in a certain sort
varieties of spiritualism, — how, quite apart from all
distinguished from the others, who became spiritualists, for
sense-world; one is obliged to go on further, to a spiritual
this general existence of a spiritual domain takes further the
These two things: first that there is a spiritual domain; and,
is connected with this spiritual domain, — these are the
message to the men of the new age from the spiritual world,
responsibility towards the spiritual world, — and, in
particular, towards that form of the spiritual world which had
spiritual existence, that within him there is some-thing
wakes to conscious knowledge of his spiritual manhood, what
place, with the spiritual, and for every seer of the spiritual
of spiritual responsibility, one must first find a point of
lies of course as a spiritual fact de facto before the
real spiritual world. Only one can't rightly do much with what
which, like Schelling, hinted: We must search into a spiritual
of striving after the spiritual world, of striving after a
parallelism of the physical and the spiritual. — With
memory. And then, they begin to talk about the spiritual world.
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Title: Anthroposophic Movement (1938): Lecture III: Critical Judgment and Colour of the Times
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the spiritual life of the closing nineteenth century. I was
the kind of spiritual aspirations that manifested themselves,
round Blavatsky and her spiritual life, that certain
information about the spiritual world had been made known
extensive knowledge of the spiritual world, or from the
spiritual world. This is something which cannot be denied,
spiritual world? that there could come revelations of a
spiritual world, which at the least, when taken as occasions
even to a spiritual observation of the objective and scientific
way into the spiritual world. And this phenomenon of civilized
made in our day, and the course followed by its spiritual life,
as judgmatic persons in this spiritual life's course, —
management of spiritual life.
departments of spiritual life, beginning with a phenomenon like
hitting the facts, in its estimation of spiritual phenomena,
spiritual life.
opposed to the intervention of any spiritual movement. And then
societies I am speaking of, who kept a certain spiritual
I come to a chapter in our spiritual history, which is really a
spiritual, something which simply is not, so to speak, properly
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Title: Anthroposophic Movement (1938): Lecture IV: Blavatsky's Orientation: Spiritual, but Anti-Christian
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Blavatsky's Orientation: Spiritual, but Anti-Christian
BLAVATSKY'S ORIENTATION: SPIRITUAL, BUT ANTI-CHRISTIAN
effects resulting from this open demonstration of the spiritual
spiritual world, that had come through Blavatsky, — lying
quite pronouncedly spiritual one. There is the ability in her
to speak of spiritual beings and spiritual events, as people
amongst actual spiritual agencies, as the man of to-day is
spiritual phenomena are by Blavatsky talked of with the same
spiritual orientation, therefore; and a pronounced
spiritual life is attended amongst the wider masses of
ritual. It was plainly recognized that: One can't speak through
spiritual world; much as though, with our earthly life, we
could one but climb only a little higher, the spiritual life
formula, was the language that told of the spiritual world.
those ages it was quite clear, that for the spiritual world one
spiritualities, if one would speak of Christ; to speak of
Christ, one must speak of a spiritual world. One cannot
spiritual world. The Christ name, indeed, the Christ
spiritual being in a spiritual world. For the world which the
it, is an un-spiritual world.
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Title: Anthroposophic Movement (1938): Lecture V: Anti-Christianity. - The Healing of the Gulf.
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countries. There were the ritual observances. It was possible,
of the spiritual world. To do so, these scientific methods
the spiritual and divine one.
forms in itself an independent stream in the spiritual life of
a quite new form of Mystery. The rediscovery of the spiritual
herself — lies the Divine and Spiritual; that way a vista
approach what Blavatsky had to offer in the way of spiritual
principally concerned to find a way back into the spiritual
only to get into the spiritual world, even at the risk of doing
spiritual worlds, — that was what these people
spiritual field; for Time is simply conceived as a straight
spiritual movement, the society to-day — despite the
was full of a spiritual life, which, though traditional,
what was flung as spiritual information into the midst of
if the theosophic movement was to be one of a purely spiritual
show the materialistic West, how far superior the spiritual
spiritual, but, more generally, any kind of dominion, an
spirituality or unspirituality of the West with the traditions
West spiritually.
spiritual element in Blavatsky? or does the main impulse
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Title: Anthroposophic Movement (1938): Lecture VI: The Two First Periods of the Anthroposophic Movement
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— Exposition of the first principles of spiritual
science. — Spiritual science versus natural
substantive basic material of spiritual science, and the
spiritual research. There remained simply the one fact: that
awakening an interest in genuine, modern spiritual science
serious spiritual strivings. Striving the people were
spiritual science; such, for instance, as Weissmann's Theory of
stated in the field of spiritual science, to supply natural
spiritual knowledge could not possibly maintain itself before
and then the wave-current travels on through the spiritual
wave-current travels through the spiritual worlds; and then it
introduced into spiritual science. So they said: Take a man who
spiritual life of our day.
then, the applications for lectures, and the whole spiritual
spiritual society. To post up far-reaching ideals in so many
words is the very worst thing for a spiritual society.
Programme-making is the very worst thing for a spiritual
groundwork was laid for a spiritual society suited to this
far on paper as a general sketch, in The Spiritual Guidance
regards her spiritual investigations, about what had been
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Title: Anthroposophic Movement (1938): Lecture VII: The Third Stage: The Present Day. - Life-Conditions of the Anthroposophical Society
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the spiritual movements of the modern age, as well as of the
tendencies underlying them, — modern spiritual movements,
spiritual material. The foundations were laid of an actual,
spiritual evolution of the West; namely, from the Bible: the
that, from stage to stage, one piece of spiritual acquisition
origin mainly in these inner progressive steps of spiritual
proportion, the spiritual ground thus achieved could be worked
so far that it possessed a store of spiritual wealth, of
spiritual material, with which it could have made its way
then was mainly one of deepening on the spiritual side.
this deepening in the spiritual direction was steadily pursued
spiritual inner treasure, which is now seeking revelation for
working up this spiritual store of wealth, of doing anything
else than do everything direct from this spiritual store
invitation from a spiritualistic society in Berlin; I was to
make Anthroposophy spiritualistic, and they imagined that they
these experts in practical life make their way into a spiritual
movement, then it is a bad look-out for the spiritual
comparative study of religions and study of spiritual
worlds and spiritual methods. The fact that these three
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Title: Anthroposophic Movement (1938): Lecture VIII: Conclusions: The Anthroposophical Society and its Future Conduct.
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deepening of the spiritual life. This impulse came, of course,
must distinguish, therefore, between what was actual spiritual
connection with a spiritual world; that therefore, if only he
can only be contemplated as direct part of a spiritual
in face of the terrible, what I might call spiritual chaos of
easy as it would have been to gain a hearing for a spiritual
more intensive stream of life, in a spiritual life inwardly
saturated, so to speak, with spiritual substance. —
this kind of spiritual life was just what one found manifested
became possible to take the first step into the spiritual
spiritual world, — which, to a certain degree, give
on from this starting-point into the actual spiritual world;
feeling then of grasping the sensible world in a spiritual
speaking, in a spiritual element. And though one is applying
animal-world, one grasps by this method the spiritual element
how spirit, spiritual agencies, are at work in the evolution of
Spiritual beings one must grasp, not mere abstractions
matter-of-course that this divine spiritual world, of which men
was made from the same divine spiritual element of which the
the spiritual principle both of the natural, as well as the
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Title: First Class, Vol. I: Lesson 1
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whereas the new school was incorporated into the School for Spiritual
for Spiritual Science as an esoteric institution the task which
spiritual life is to be revealed in its true meaning, so that
which can provide for the revealed spiritual needs of our
times. This spiritual life can be deepened in all its aspects.
in a School for Spiritual Science we attend to the revelations
it is nevertheless important that the spiritual revelations are
existence — that all that is divine-spiritual revelation.
so that we may approach the revelations of the spiritual world
greatness and the sublimity of nature is, at first, spiritual
as spirituality. This is veiled at first in darkness for human
and orientation from the spiritual world about the abyss which
warnings regarding spiritual knowledge, is all
of the best spiritual inhabitants of the spiritual
spiritual fields, a yawning abyss exists, cannot achieve true
although knowledge from the spiritual world comes by true
divine-spirituality that bubbles from the spring
away in order to come to true spiritual knowledge.
Obstacles to spiritual knowledge, my dear friends, have existed
the earnest Guardian of the Threshold to the spiritual world.
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Title: First Class, Vol. I: Lesson 2
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whereas the new school was incorporated into the School for Spiritual
proceeding to the mysteries of the spiritual life, which we
that can carry us into the spiritual world. Yet just as by
having this sensation we will be carried up into the spiritual
spiritual world that guardian stands who earnestly warns people
against crossing over into the spiritual world unprepared. And
the spiritual world for the well-being of unprepared human
spiritual cosmic knowledge of the being which is one with our
obtain on this side of the threshold of spiritual existence,
Your fear of creative spiritual being
approaching an insight into the spiritual world.
Your hate of spiritual revelation
spiritual world. It is inherent in feeling, because feeling is
Your doubts in the power of spiritual light
spiritual world streams into our creative thinking. And then,
to creative knowledge, we are truly standing in the spiritual
ourselves in order to enter the spiritual world as genuine,
harms one's self and others greatly by playing at spiritual
possibility of really concentrating on spiritual striving and
friends, it would be really good for spiritual striving if all
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whereas the new school was incorporated into the School for Spiritual
spiritual world, which characterize what the human being can
feel on the threshold of the spiritual world as he strides past
spiritual world. And we should not say that when someone
realizes in reality by entering the spiritual world, that the
human soul when entering the spiritual world, because it is
should not say: Let's leave gaining entrance into the spiritual
their souls in the spiritual world as people stand in physical
leads to the spiritual world, and provided the thinking is not
intellect can grasp, and enter the spiritual world.
which will lead them into the spiritual world, but also for
threshold of the spiritual world. That is the very first
side of the threshold is the spiritual world.
spiritual world. Yet although here or there brilliant flashes
a real spiritual being, a real spiritual fact stands before you
That is the first experience of the spiritual world, that
have experienced impressions from the spiritual world not
through normal spiritual training, but due to elementary
deceive himself by saying: well, now you have the spiritual
to suddenly shine from out of the spiritual world is merely an
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whereas the new school was incorporated into the School for Spiritual
from other areas of spiritual life, what is called
spiritual life by today's civilization, that is. The encounter
experiences when a relationship with the spiritual world truly
and earnestly takes place. A relationship with the spiritual
spiritual world is on the other side of this threshold. So when
communications are received from the spiritual world, they
relationship with the spiritual world.
relationship with the spiritual world, the relationship where,
communications from the spiritual world - the teacher said to
that it has been willed and instated by the spiritual world. If
psychic blood circulation in spiritual space. We don't just
certain thoughts, but we move together with the spiritual
spiritual ladder to the gods. Feeling puts us in the opposite
spiritual importance. But gods live in breath and light. And we
Strong for spiritual works of good.
Strong for spiritual works of good.
spiritually.
Thus we shall gradually feel our way into spiritual life, and
this spiritual life will grow ever more closely related to our
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whereas the new school was incorporated into the School for Spiritual
spiritual world in any form, depends upon understanding the
and willing go different ways upon entering the spiritual
the spiritual world, in a certain sense thinking, feeling and
that upon entering the spiritual world a growing together with
spiritual to us. Rather than the sleeping consciousness, we
when he is approaching the spiritual - related to nature.
the moment we enter the spiritual region this is no longer the
the spiritual beings who live in the circulating air. The
spiritual world flows into us when inhaling; our own being
When we approach the spiritual world we truly experience the
a spiritual interweaving of inhaling and exhaling. And we feel
and recognize the spiritual nature of warmth - and we feel it
mere indication that he exists. For spiritual consciousness
what constitutes spiritual progress, that man integrates with
of your skin into a divine-spiritual being - you become one
relationship with the spiritual world.
spiritual living and moving in this sunlight when the enticing,
Then we must do our best to understand, with spiritual
one gradually enters the spiritual realm.
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whereas the new school was incorporated into the School for Spiritual
advances spiritually when he becomes conscious of his true
word “Warmth”.] For spiritual progress, it is
the spiritual world.
a rule, what helps us most toward spiritual advancement is the
It's something we need to advance spiritually.
when one finally gains admittance to the spiritual world. Such
abstract forms. Whoever knows spiritual life is able to feel
spiritual vitality in thought from inner strength.
For in spiritual science everything which works through the
this [spiritual] world once he has achieved a love for all that
earth we are carrying out the intentions of the spiritual
friends. The intention is to let the spiritual word itself
School should be seen as having been founded by the spiritual
men spoke as representatives of the spiritual powers of the
be a real member of this School of spiritual life. That is the
through the will of the spiritual world, and which we are
nature and intentions of this spiritual school.

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whereas the new school was incorporated into the School for Spiritual
presently reigning spiritual powers; something which has been
instituted from the spiritual world and which intends to act
accordingly; which feels responsible to the spiritual world
divine-spiritual powers - whose forces stream through this
which force is instilled in it directly from the spiritual
which is a reflection of a spiritual world, one which does not,
spiritual world while outside the physical body.
protected from approaching the spiritual world unprepared.
the abyss between the sensory world and the spiritual world,
and tastes etc., is all will in the spiritual world.
the heart goes over to the spiritual world.
Thus, we have the complete reversal in the spiritual world as
be lived as human virtue. And the Three appear before spiritual
accompany our spiritual vision of the Three, which derive from
have resounded at all the gates to the spiritual world,
insight into the spiritual world.
the divine-spiritual entities who guide humanity, the pause has

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whereas the new school was incorporated into the School for Spiritual
members of our Free School for Spiritual Science must be aware
anthroposophical movement represented the inflow of spiritual
the spiritual world. This anthroposophical movement exists not
because people like it to exist but because the spiritual
consider it right that spiritual light, which can come through
from the spiritual world. Only when our anthroposophical
School for Spiritual Science.
this Free School for Spiritual Science one assumes truly
today. The leadership of the Free School for Spiritual Science
but from the spiritual world. A decision made from the
spiritual world has been obtained with the means which are
institution of the spiritual world for the present time - as
knowledge which is not closely tied to the spiritual world.
the spiritual world nor imparted by those who are able to
investigate in the spiritual world, is not real knowledge. We
to the spiritual world. This threshold, which lies immediately
Then we must know: at this threshold stands a spiritual figure
prepared with inner earnestness for spiritual knowledge -
spiritual universe, then the reverse consciousness comes about.
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whereas the new school was incorporated into the School for Spiritual
more able to make a beginning at entering into the spiritual
spiritual world. They disdain experiencing so intimately. They
prefer titillating experiences such as the spiritual world
would be easy to convince people about the spiritual world if
for example a table from the spiritual world were to approach
them. But there are no tables in the spiritual world, there are
only spiritual beings in the spiritual world, and they must be
perceived with what is spiritual in man. But spiritual is what
the spiritual world through this School wishes to speak to you
Therefore, the admonition at the threshold to the spiritual
it. We feel our physicality in our spirituality when we measure
realize and experience the spiritual in us when we elevate the
become aware of our own spirituality, that spirituality which
spirit-world, then we are beyond the threshold to the spiritual
spiritual world, we sense how here, on this side, our body
movements of the planets, that is, for the spiritual beings who
What as spiritual impulse
As body from spiritual heights.
What is gleaned from the spiritual world, what the initiate
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Title: Cosmogony/Freedom/Altruism: Lecture I: Social Impulses for the Healing of Modern Civilization
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Social Questions and their Spiritual Background,
civilisations and a spiritual world to which they were no
but where spiritual beings made their activities felt. The
of spiritual forces. Thus, in the heathen civilisations
practical link between us and the spiritual world. How paltry
forces of the spiritual world! In all his actions, he had a
spiritual power of some kind, to do what he pleases with them.
altruistic motive-power, but a spiritual view of life. Only
spiritual world, does he cease to be so tremendously interested
cultivating so great an interest in the spiritual world. The
interest in the spiritual world has got to be a good deal
with the spiritual life of the Anglo-American world knows that,
formalistic as Anglo-American spiritual life is in the first
and though, indeed, it even tries to get what is spiritual in a
member of it. Even the spiritualist movement, in its early
freedom, ideally, spiritually. Only, Europe must supplement
recent years. Those people who are spiritual leaders in Asia
there a spiritual order reigns, reality reigns. The American
Asiatic spirit, the spiritual life of Asia; but it must be

Title: Cosmogony/Freedom/Altruism: Lecture II: A Different Way of Thinking is Needed to Rescue European Civilization
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Social Questions and their Spiritual Background,
her spiritual and physical life. So much with regard to the
spiritual life of Europe.
conditioned by this Westward outflowing, just as her spiritual
came in as an alien and brought forth our spiritual life. And
ideas dominate our spiritual life, and they meet him at every
this true reality that the spiritual science of Anthroposophy
has to seek and find. Therefore, the spiritual science of

Title: Cosmogony/Freedom/Altruism: Lecture III: Fundamental Impulses in History
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Social Questions and their Spiritual Background,
spiritual life, including, of course, Art, Religion, Science,
be marked by us as that of the great spiritual upheaval which
spiritual transition at the beginning of the modern age —
estates of the Church and Spiritual Orders were torn from those
that belonged to the spiritual power in the Middle Ages passed
old church administration the temporal and spiritual have
become too closely combined, that a more spiritual road to
taking place through the transference of estates from spiritual
traditional language of Spiritual Science, one would call
acted on impulses inspired from the spiritual world. That these
divine, spiritual powers that lie behind the world of sense,
divine spiritual powers bestowed upon him, — he was in
case. It was not, at bottom, the spiritual life that was
the essential thing, but the spiritual life. For even what we
the civilisation of Initiate of what was a spiritual
facts, into the spiritual world, they produced —
Theology, an intellectual extract of the facts of the spiritual
the facts of the spiritual world and made them known in an
their souls was the spiritual fruits of the spiritual
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Title: Impulses of Utility: Lecture I: Western and Eastern Culture, H. P. Blavatsky
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considered that impulse which came into the spiritual
spiritual forces into existence which have continued to work on
in a spiritual way; inspiring, impelling, initiating all of
because it is essential that through a Spiritual Scientific
time is determined by that special spiritual structure of the
directed into the spiritual world by Solovieff, when he
considers the Christ; and he only speaks of moral, spiritual
one only keeps in mind this scheme obtained from a spiritual
straight off the various spiritual connections. You see, with
something far more spiritual than Darwinism already stands in
the I9th century to strip off everything of a spiritual nature
utility, one could still maintain a spiritual civilisation and
from out of the spiritual world itself. if anyone who is an
as it were, at the one pole of the newer spiritual civilisation
spirituality of the West with the principle of Utilitarianism
succeeded, if the ideal of uniting spirituality with the
of utility with spiritualism. What was attempted with Blavatsky
to be got from the spiritual world, through mediumship. The
spiritual life would be placed utterly at the service of
spiritual world, and so we see this extraordinary phenomenon
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Title: Impulses of Utility: Lecture II: Utilitarianism and Sacramentalism
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become possible for free spiritual Imaginations to arise in the
unless one has Spiritual Science behind one, one is forced to
you know, in the West there is a striving to draw the spiritual
practically this whole direction was followed by Spiritualism,
science, — than it is for the understanding of Spiritual
power. But behind all these things there are spiritual
spiritual beings who are working behind existence. These beings
the greatest, most significant and most spiritual: Laurence
powers of man to a spiritual world, but only an attempt to
itself in an attempt to climb up into the spiritual world, not
widest scope. One has to see the reality from the spiritual
for spiritual connections behind external appearance. That
second pole leads into the neighbourhood of spiritual beings
also, but it leads into the realm of spiritual beings whose

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known as, Spiritual Science in the Light of Today, lectures one and
weeks ago, all tended to show how that which we call Spiritual
significant results of Anthroposophical Spiritual Science would
that the soul that has lived for a long time in the Spiritual
conscious of his community with the Spiritual world. That
Spiritual Science leads us further, I must remind you of what I
when he goes with his soul and spirit into the Spiritual
processes of our body. One sees that the Spiritual and bodily
purpose, and having no inner Spirituality.
developed from a Spiritual method of looking at things. That
Spiritual view makes a man live apart from the world; but my
experience it if one earnestly realised that Spiritual
social impulses in no other way than by taking up Spiritual
of social forms without having Spiritual knowledge, does the
with us from the Spiritual worlds is only like an image, and
Gate of Death into the Spiritual worlds. It is only Spiritual
These are the two basic evils which Spiritual Science as
about will increase more and more. That is why Spiritual
those thoughts, flow through the words as the very Spiritual
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World Evolution through His Spiritual Connection with the Planet Earth
known as, Spiritual Science in the Light of Today, lectures one and
social, Spiritual and scientific life in the course of the
world. Therefore, Spiritual Science had to come, just at
this very time, because out of Spiritual Science something must
Spiritual world; and which is so taken up that when it flows
an impulse carried into the outer world from Spiritual worlds,
Anthroposophical Spiritual Science. In this connection, we are
School-Impulse (which of course is born out of Spiritual
with a right understanding of our Anthroposophical Spiritual
to me as the perception of a Spiritual stream, which flowed
being formed. It was just then, that coming out of Spiritual
for the Spiritual with all kinds of beautiful and well-chosen
belong apparently to Spiritual or material things. A great
Spiritually, and taught them to pray in their own quiet
chambers. They perieated and spread their Spiritual ideas and
Spiritual teachings without the material help of rich
it would seem, my dear friends, that those who are in Spiritual
really able to bring a Spiritual impulse into the present
Spiritual effort; or, if the astral influences are not
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known as, Spiritual Science in the Light of Today, lectures one and
him times of a more Spiritual existence, and during such times
Spiritual beings. Although to physical vision the Earth appears
certain Spiritual beings. And again, that which appears to us
expression of a certain relationship of Spiritual Beings, of
reveals itself in its inner nature, in its Spiritual being. We
too far removed from the inner Spirituality. When we develop
between death and re-birth, we are fully in Spirituality, we
Spirituality. And so whereas here on Earth the possibility
of being drowned in Spiritual existence.
him, when one speaks in the sense of true Spiritual Science of
passed through in the Spiritual world, when we lived with the
too strongly, if, in the Spiritual world we develop too little
the Spiritual world of vision, and the Ahrimanic relationship
drown in the Spiritual World, and thus become something
between the Spiritual and material world, and because we can
find the right equilibrium between the Spiritual and material
themselves out of the Spiritual world to enter properly on the
the right way in the future between Earthly life and Spiritual
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re-birth are for him times of a more Spiritual existence, and
relationships between Spiritual beings. Although to physical
mass is simply the body for certain Spiritual beings. And
certain relationship of Spiritual Beings, of the Hierarchies.
Spiritual being. We have then to do with the inner aspect of
the inner Spirituality. When we develop between death and
re-birth, we are fully in Spirituality. And so whereas here
Spiritual existence.
to him, when one speaks in the sense of true Spiritual
the time we passed through in the Spiritual world, when we
the Spiritual world we develop too little inclination to have
the Spiritual world of visions, and the Ahrimanic
spiritual and material world, and because we can develop too
find the right equilibrium between the Spiritual and material
out of the Spiritual world to enter properly on to the Earth.
life and Spiritual life, between death and rebirth.
decision — either to become Spiritual
knowledge of Spiritual Science. We must assimilate these
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you may see that what spiritual science has discovered is

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reality, soul-spiritual elements are united with the child,
the head are invisible soul-spiritual forces. Should any of you
soul-spiritual element that works within him. If one does not
acknowledge that the soul-spiritual aspect is present before
because the soul-spiritual element works out of the head, and
this demonstrates that in the infant the soul-spiritual
these spiritual forces are so active that they can separate
acknowledge that soul-spiritual forces work within the organism
that originate, not from the parents, but from the spiritual
science of the spirit. A spiritual science exists, and it can
from the standpoint of spiritual science because it is quite
thoughts properly and conceive of spiritual science in the

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that of “inspiration.” Something spiritual enters
time to engage in some mental activity. Mental or spiritual
interest in spiritual and mental activities. If he has
complicated to improve it with, well, spiritual means. Yet,
everyone a chance for a certain degree of spiritual activity.

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face the danger of becoming dense if a spiritual science like
intelligence from spiritual investigation itself.
observe only what can immediately be seen. Spiritual
spiritual science to the same degree that humanity loses
race if there were not spiritual compensation for what will
on their bodies, but possess, instead, a true spiritual

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descended from a spiritual world into the mother's ovum.
and spirituality in earlier times, and this spirituality
eventually returns to the spiritual world.
comprehend the spiritual out of science itself, the way
understand the spiritual out of natural science.
lead to the realization of the spiritual.
is the best spiritual being that can be born. Mankind is much

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— is identified in spiritual science as the astral
soul-spiritual activity that cannot be stilled. We can truly
hunger, and it is by all means something spiritual.

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architectural setting so that men felt the same spiritual influence
of Europe, to act independently and indeed spiritually?” That might
sharp eye for the whole spiritual backwardness and encroachment of
the story, but the Muse, which means that a Spiritual Being
Greek believed that that Divine Spiritual Being still lives amongst
descended from spiritual worlds to the Earth, were still active in
back to those divine Spiritual Beings who once descended from
higher spiritual worlds and can still inspire men. Herein for the
spiritual past from which man has come, and wrote Epics.
animal-spiritual form, and he saw it in a state of dramatic
in this spiritual-physical world, thus did he feel himself related
to his spiritual-physical world. On the one hand, the invocation to
the spirituality which has again become necessary to them. Hence
that spiritual background which lies behind the Asiatic criticism
declared and related by divine spiritual souls.
man's spiritual life, namely the doctrine, the content. It is
a spiritual doctrine. In that case it simply springs from the
very oldest, coming from the super-nature of the inspired spiritual

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not reached the possibility of realising a spiritual content in all
become so popular. They have not been able to grasp the spiritual
soul with a few spiritual qualities. But it was forbidden to speak
made to dam up the in-streaming of spiritual knowledge. The result
without having consciousness of the spirituality of the world. He
the basis of all that is given in our Anthroposophical Spiritual
must have a new Spiritual Science. He must, as it were, walk over
it that which a new spiritual revelation, a new Spiritual Science
spiritual world which can spring up out of that self-consciousness.
carry into this civilisation a spiritual life.
certain spiritual qualities or attributes. Christ has in
recognised by Anthroposophical Spiritual Science. He has to be
outside of Anthroposophical Spiritual Science. And this real
to find from his own inner power such a spiritual consciousness of
straight path leading from Goetheanism to modern Spiritual Science.
able to recognise how in modern Spiritual Science we are not merely
Spiritual Science we are given ideas which the Spirit itself sends
Spiritual Science ideas are given which spring from the very Spirit
itself as a kind of spiritual original revelation — that, as
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spiritual facts and beings lying at the foundation of the outer
differently-organised spiritual world, not only in thoughts,
must take an interest in spiritual development. He must be able
heard for years about the things pertaining to spiritual-scientific
through spiritual science? Well, already in the evolution of
a spiritual way. The civilisation in the world outside will
need a spiritual deepening. To-day I only wished to show you

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Spiritual Connection with the Planet Earth and with the Stars Above,
mit dem Kosmos. Band III. It is also known as, Spiritual Science in
Man's Responsibility for World Evolution through His Spiritual
Spiritual Science in the Light of Today.
super-sensible beings, Divine Spiritual Beings were
nature that they attracted, so to speak Divine Spiritual
he approached those Divine Spiritual Beings, during his life
the Spiritual world, between the great Midnight Hour of
that Spiritual instruction.
which anyone must reckon, who through Spiritual knowledge,
the Divine Spiritual Beings in his pre-existent condition.
think in the sense of true Anthroposophical Spiritual Science.
practical outcomes of Anthroposophical Spiritual Science.
what his soul had gone through in the Spiritual world; and,
Spiritual pre-determination. Man has long grown out of that.
dominant. That which constitutes the Spiritual life, springs
Spirituality. It is really not a case of bringing such human
Spiritual world before their descent on to the Earth. Of
the Papal Encyclical and what transpires in the Spiritual world
ritual and Ceremonies. But super-sensible influence can
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accomplishes spiritually. It is curious and funny that
spiritual science must call attention to these matters, whereas
thoughts that they could not penetrate the spiritual with their
call materialistic must be pointed out by spiritual science.
materialistic to be studied in a spiritual way, you then become
spiritual arrogance. I have told you this before, though it
People pay no heed to what is contained in spiritual culture. A
Here, spiritual science becomes tangible to the point where one
respect points to spiritual science.
in fact, completely influenced by soul-spiritual
not come from bodily but from spiritual experiences while still
realm! If one wishes to explain deviations spiritually, one
must explain the entire human being spiritually. Naturally, the
spiritually. To do so would require the production of something
prior to birth as a spiritual being, and as soul he united with
abnormal features can the embryo be influenced spiritually. It
human life is like in the spiritual world before conception.

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There are plenty of spiritual sparks of fire that strike like
work toward recognizing again the soul-spiritual aspects of the
It is the soul — spiritual element of man that does the
the soul — spiritual world and only makes use of the
indications by tracing the spiritual course of the matter, but
between my knowledge acquired by spiritual scientific means and

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spiritual confusion so strong that he becomes subject to

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for animals. In the animals, the soul-spiritual element depends

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themselves with something spiritual. They go to their offices

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something that is based on spiritual insight, one should be
This is the remarkable thing about spiritual science. Ordinary
I awake: exhalation, inhalation. I exhale the spiritual and

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that it is possible for man really to be a soul-spiritual
soul-spiritual beings at all.
the spiritual life.
beginning to grasp something spiritual. When human beings begin
to grasp the spiritual, they will perceive much of what is not
the spiritual can be contemplated in the right way.
it spiritually. The life in a beehive is extraordinarily wise

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develop out of such a universal mist without spiritual
This suppression of the spiritual science often came about in
instinct. Today, by the roundabout way of a spiritual science,

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necessary spiritual faculties what the real man — the man of
ether of cosmic space, then — as we enter with spiritual
what is declared by spiritual science; as indeed, in time to come, it
will arrive in every detail at the things which spiritual science
spiritual realms of life. This logic is only not coincident with the
different if we would apprehend the spiritual.
spiritual world. One can indeed, but one must extend one's logic.
for the communications from the spiritual world: you must meet them
with a thinking adequate to the spiritual world. And this can already

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that which we live through before we come down from the spiritual
every human individual brings with him from the spiritual world.
bring with us from the spiritual world into the physical.
even speak today of the inheritance of specifically spiritual and
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spiritual world. Out of this everyday consciousness men speak of the
spiritual world as a “beyond.” They will even speak of it
spiritual world is a “beyond,” in spite of the fact that
birth he lives in another world, which we may call a spiritual world
spiritual form of being. Moreover, in that life between death and a
in its turn as remote as the spiritual world is remote and foreign
the physically living) look upward into the spiritual world. But
pictures which conveyed something of the Spiritual that is there in
our environment. The Spiritual, then, still penetrated into man's
experiences in consciousness into which the spiritual world still
penetration of the spiritual world into the normal consciousness of
spiritual life, which there is today. Now let us concentrate on
exact spiritual scientific investigation. Behind our present earthly
spiritual observation always shows that our succeeding earthly life
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Philosophy of Spiritual Activity
with everyday consciousness. Only when he begins to see the spiritual
only when he really lives into the spiritual world — then he
therefore, with real spiritual insight, you begin to perceive this

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descends out of the spiritual world into the physical. You will
inexact. When we descend out of the spiritual into the physical
spiritual world.
to him by heredity. The union of the soul-spiritual man as Ego,
with the spiritual Beings of a higher cosmic order who do not descend
to earth in a human body, but have their being in the spiritual
this is a reality in the spiritual world. When we go through a room
body. In deed and truth, when we descend from the spiritual world
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hatred. With the help of spiritual science, you will try to find
is it so? I can assure you, on the basis of spiritual science, this
feeling for spiritual things ... if he knew that as he went down the
spiritual facts. Therefore, for earthly life, such things appear
knowledge of the spiritual world, you cannot escape hearing of things
which will seem grotesque and paradoxical. The spiritual world is
the banal and Philistine world do not determine the spiritual facts.
you wish to understand the spiritual world; you must be prepared to

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his deeper being, descends from spiritual worlds into this physical
from spiritual worlds.
spiritual world.
the forces he brings with him from the spiritual world. Thus he
from the spiritual world), why can we not likewise gather to
relation to the real facts of the spiritual world, this question must
from spiritual worlds into this physical life on earth.
all things have their spiritual aspect. The body man has in the first
direction. Either his spiritual forces are to some extent submerged
from the spiritual standpoint, this conflict is signified by that
such a person, one who wishes simply to tell the truth from spiritual
with, you will go through the gate of death into the spiritual world.
with him from the spiritual world. Therefore you need to judge in an
all-round way out of both spiritual and physical science. If you do
through the gate of death into the spiritual realms. Thereby he finds
the working with the spiritual beings, with whom he is then together,
signified in the spiritual world. Between death and a new birth he
with him with his karma, from the spiritual world into the physical.
of such things either out of direct spiritual perception, or on the
who are able to have direct spiritual vision, provided you yourselves
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reflection out of the spiritual world.
side, so it is as to your spiritual part: the moment you get down
Second Hierarchy — spiritual Beings who do not incarnate in any
earthly body, for they remain in the spiritual world. But they are
earth; but we encounter, above all, the spiritual Beings of this
we stand here on the earth, we have the feeling that the spiritual
our last life on earth. And then we see it, spiritually raining down,
In many things that meet us in the spiritual history of mankind, the

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picture of what he did in a spiritual sense! So much for his outward
concerned for his material as well as his spiritual well-being. One
figures of the German spiritual life. He speaks, in one chapter, of

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are a matter of vision, and are pursued by means of the spiritual
spiritual world, were the souls with whom this individuality had
spiritual tie.
in the conditions obtaining in the spiritual world, it was foreseen
this stream were to carry forward in the spiritual world, untouched
the spiritual world removed from the development of Christianity,
coming together in the spiritual world with souls like that of
spiritual world.
been associated in the spiritual world. This expressed itself in a
his companions in the spiritual life, he too, as an aestheticist,
chaos seems to creep into the whole of his spiritual life. I told you
however, we look back spiritually from Schubert's life in the 19th
themselves) that there is something spiritual in this music,
spiritual world between death and rebirth and as something
materialistic, but yet, in a certain respect, spiritual,
intellectually spiritual. I turned over in my mind how it all has to

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next. For it is a fact that when one presses through to the spiritual
worlds in search of the true being of man, the spiritual loses its
spiritual significance and acquires a definite place in the
some great spiritual talent. It is just as important to be able to
observe — from the spiritual side (astral body and ego) —
decades ago, a personality whose inner, spiritual life as well as his
spiritual life.
spiritual powers of nature. The attitude of these men to the
Spiritual was quite different from ours; in most of them, of course,
there was still an instinctive inclination towards the Spiritual. And
beheld the corresponding spiritual reality of being, he brought the
just as these men felt the Spiritual in the workings of nature and
is subordinate — is of higher importance in the spiritual
spiritual. In the other members of his organism, in the rhythmic
organisation and in the limbs-organisation, he is more spiritual. He
is most spiritual of all in his motor organisation, in the activity
becomes, in respect of its spiritual form, its spiritual content, the
spiritually the whole morning with great intensity of soul, has had
pondering on what his soul worked out in the morning. Spiritually
the like, but one was led to look at the spirituality of Friedrich
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across Europe, you will encounter a different stream of spiritual life
Baghdad, much wonderful culture, a truly great and splendid spiritual
write out of sheer necessity — spiritual culture of a very high
spiritual culture inspired tremendous respect in the environment of
we see how there emerges within this spiritual culture, of which
spiritual life, events do not take the form in which they reveal
spiritual individuality in the 9th century, bearing in mind what he
down from the spiritual world upon what is happening on earth,
process. We find such an individuality passing through the spiritual
European spiritual life as a personality who is once again of wide
spiritual life of Europe. Spain itself soon ceased to play a part in
Arabism spreads abroad in the spiritual life. And along this
astrology. We must realise the deep insight into the spiritual
show us how Arabism lived on spiritually, how this two-pronged fork
for continuing in a spiritual way what, at the beginning, was
carry these spiritual streams especially into France and England.
either outwardly or in the spiritual life.
as it will: certain inner, spiritual necessities exist in connection
that arises from these spiritual necessities, pursuing no outward

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able to lead the student of spiritual science to the connections of
those that are important from a spiritual aspect, we find Garibaldi
we shall see tomorrow, he is for the spiritual researcher such an
tormented by the spiritual world which would not let him alone.
the whole situation of the spiritual life which ought to proceed from

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the spiritual scientific investigator and help him to follow up the
the spiritual world they would in some way or other find and enter
in his moral and spiritual nature. He is there. A man, however, who
I am speaking metaphorically — with spiritualistic pictures,
standards, and behind you see something spiritual, a spirit-portrait,
incarnation, but a long sojourn in the spiritual world. There you
spiritual world above it — all the wisdom in which an Initiate
to the spiritual world than one is inclined to suppose. Behind the
against Roman Catholicism, but for the spiritual world it makes
the underlying elements in human nature which count in the spiritual
but it is a fact. If we turn our gaze to the spiritual, we find that
his spiritual nature to expression when he uttered the famous saying,
course, has its exceptions. In the spiritual world there are rules,
his whole spiritual configuration, one gained a significant
eastward to help the cause of freedom, the spiritual Palladium of the

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working upon it spiritually between death and a new birth. Only when
The spiritual path
he was born again in Middle Europe; he was born into the spiritual
experienced in the spiritual world between death and rebirth, all

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spiritual world itself requires of it.
spiritual part of modern civilisation flowed together. In the
spiritual and intellectual aspect of modern civilisation, the Near
on in the spiritual world. Other souls, who came down to earth in the
19th century, were in the spiritual world together with the souls of
under quite different conditions — even in the spiritual world
germinate in these souls in the spiritual world. Thus among the men
great spiritual achievements.
earth — translated into the spiritual — to the souls who
‘idol’) — translated into the spiritual, reverts
spiritual world, these souls received impulses which worked on in
how we can understand what appears as the spiritually productive
emerges in the spiritual and intellectual life of civilisation also
personalities in modern spiritual life, with regard to his karma,
developments of modern spiritual life. Many things that emerge in
so, in the Italian spiritual life. He gained no happiness in the
Thirty Years' War — a lively woman, full of spiritual
spiritual worlds. All this must come again, otherwise man will not
for this undertone. The progress of mankind in spiritual life will

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through spiritual scientific investigation. — At this period in
incarnations, works its way through with a certain inner, spiritual
to the study of far-reaching spiritual connections; we must have
spiritual connections. For this we shall need, above all, deep
far-reaching spiritual knowledge. A power will come to life in the
apprehend the spiritual forces.

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already alluded. Reference is often made in spiritual science to the
spiritual world. And from this the question quite naturally arises:
spiritual world is completely different. It is a matter, then, of
orders of Divine-Spiritual Beings who guide the universe and the life
the spiritual life of mankind, the impulses that had been cultivated
that as well as the physical Sun there is also a Spiritual Sun, and
that whoever knows the Spiritual Sun, knows Christ. But this,
tendencies of the age and to make preparation in a spiritual way for
This pupil is again in incarnation, but spiritually there has been a
flight in Platonism. With his spiritual vision he could accompany
with man. Accordingly he wanted to extend his time in the spiritual
able to divine how the spiritual impulses work. For we must place
the mysterious happenings brought about by the spiritual world. Again
deeply into a knowledge and understanding of the spiritual life. And
it is only through this deeper penetration into the spiritual life

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it all has to be lived through in direct spiritual vision. This is
spiritual world and although men talk in theory of the need to fight
cult and ritual enacted reverently before men take effect. Everything
of the nature of cult and ritual, not the external rites only but
of cult and ritual.

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spiritual, he runs great danger of living all the more within
feels they are not sufficiently spiritual, and so forth.
spiritual endeavour within Anthroposophy may very easily lead into a
withdraw from external life, but perceive, rather, the spirituality
man passes through the portal of death into the spiritual world. He
now lives within the spiritual world. In the spiritual world it is
through the portal of death and dwell in the spiritual world. Let us
through the portal of death. Afterwards they are in the spiritual
world. They confront one another in the spiritual world. Yet, whereas
himself. In the spiritual world, men live entirely within one
reality of lesser importance. To a spiritualised consideration,
unless it is considered on the basis of the spiritual. Recently I
a spirit. Now the legs move and the arms work, but spiritually, and

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the whole picture of this karmic connection lies in the spiritual
spiritual beings who inhabit this astral outer world. Nothing of all
spiritual, however, cannot be unconscious in this sense. In earlier
the spiritual. There was an instinctive clairvoyance which has faded
he will be able to see through into the spiritual. And we must see
through into the spiritual if we are to recognise the karmic
— that the inner spiritual construction of Goethe's
observation of the spiritual world. We must be able to wait. We must
— as if you were creating it spiritually before you. You will
before the soul as if one were going to paint it spiritually. If the
experience, then you have really exerted yourself spiritually. Such
things cost spiritual exertion. I don't mean what I am going to
majority of men simply do not know what spiritual exertion is.
Spiritual exertion, true spiritual exertion, comes about only by
there is no spiritual exertion. We should not imagine, when something
tires us, that we have exerted ourselves spiritually. Getting tired
does not imply that there has been spiritual exertion. We can get
himself spiritually, who has exerted himself out of the inner
one, and just “sleep off” his spiritual exertion in the
all of spiritual exertion.
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spiritual tenor in his previous earthly life, or in a series of
can be said: This is a case of such lofty spirituality that a man who
really penetrating spirituality. It may be lofty spirituality, but
spirituality is penetrating or superficial. There is not, in this
case, any penetrating spirituality, because, after all, what a human
structure of spiritual life — not because they are details, but
spiritual attitude in any one incarnation the human being forms his
external, but in an entirely inner way, through spiritual-scientific
methods. But precisely these spiritual-scientific methods show that
significance for the future. Spiritual “slimming cures”
connection of this kind between the spiritual and moral way in which
things which show at once that Spiritual Science does not pay
attention merely to spiritual abstractions, but also to the working
of the spiritual in the physical. I have often emphasised that what
recognise the spiritual workings within matter.
the working of the spiritual is expressing itself. Matter is the
outer revelation of the spiritual.
underlying spiritual. This has a consequence in life. For those who
beings who, as I will put it, ascend very high into the spiritual,
movement, must be regarded as an image of the spiritual
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with the moral, ethical and spiritual life.
spiritual. Even when they take effect in the physical, for
example in illness, whatever is karmic in an illness has a spiritual
cause. So that under all circumstances we come to the spiritual
spiritual beings, the most important of whom once lived on earth as
spiritual foundations the primeval Teachers possessed a totally
relationship with the spiritual world. Let me repeat an example I
spiritual world. They are the letters.
is in the spiritual world if they are unable to manipulate and apply
in the spiritual world.
the spiritual world. — Raymond Lully did not say this in such
mechanical roulette; he meant the spiritual head which must
that it is possible to speak, at least, of the reality of a spiritual
a spiritual nature; when they were, when they were essentially
spiritual, there is, as it were, a continuous, onflowing development.
subsequent reality when the man is passing through the spiritual

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nature, and the spiritual life itself is an accessory. But if the
spiritual life is excluded we cannot conceive that any influence
Hierarchies, of the higher Spiritual Beings.
leads further, we enter the sphere which in all spiritual science
the spiritual sphere of the Sun. And the spiritual Sun-sphere is
the realm of spiritual Sun-activity, spiritual laws —
spiritual laws, for natural law and spiritual law are completely at
the realm in which the spiritual laws in accordance with which man
time natural laws. In this earthly world, spiritual laws are not
identical with natural laws; spiritual laws hold sway in man's
of living. The spiritual must work from soul to soul. But in the
external, earthly world, the spiritual does not yet work as a force
the other. This abyss is caused by the fact that spiritual laws are
by spiritual laws,
Everything is spiritual. And within this Spirit-realm we can bring to
does not admit evil into its realm. If you can perceive spiritually
sunlight — bright in the spiritual sense. If you perceive what
Sun-existence as a kind of spiritual cripple. The Sun-existence can
enter this realm, I can only bring back, quickened and spiritualised
realm where spiritual laws are natural laws, and natural laws are
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therefore, to be able to envisage those Beings of the spiritual
spiritual point of view.
spiritual side, the human “I” is subject to any number of
influences proceeding from the spiritual world, just as on the
spiritually from the cosmos, from the Hierarchies, to man, is also
Archangeloi and Archai who bring us from the spiritual world into the
spiritual radiations of Saturn, Jupiter and Mars. When physical
nerves-and-senses system, in that which spiritually underlies the
centuries: ‘I have descended from the spiritual world into
Here he needs stronger forces of inner support in the spiritual
the urgent necessity of imbuing intellectuality with such spiritual
interested in the spiritual development of human beings and when I
a human being inwardly in his youth. The spiritual that is infused
to that vista of the spiritual which can be revealed only when the

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here I spoke of how man is related to the Spiritual Hierarchies
play, as reflections, into these periods of life from the Spiritual
colony of spiritual Beings in the cosmos.
spiritual macrocosm, to the Dead, the so-called
heavenly body of such might, embracing such a multitude of spiritual
forces and spiritual Beings, that in order to perceive all the
influences of the spiritual Sun-sphere upon the human being between
bearing upon spiritual vision itself. There are realities for the
the spiritual world begins to impart a strongly individualised
virtue of their earlier earthly lives bring into the spiritual world
personality whose spiritual development proceeded, to begin with, in
it in the domain of physical, psychical or spiritual qualities. Nay
by enactments of sacred ritual. And he knew that Quetzalcoatl was a
imagery into the spiritual and you have the key to the nature of the
was describing them to you I told you that in spiritual vision,
spiritual being engaged in the elaboration of karma between death and

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another, spiritual laws are working, spiritual laws which will be
spiritual realities. Generally speaking, people to-day are
the child's relation to the spiritual world and chose the name
spiritual Beings. And the whole conception that little children,
in reality, colonies of spiritual Beings. But you must not imagine
of all spiritual Beings of the cosmos who have anything to do with
the reason why freedom, free spiritual activity, can be unfolded in
spiritual world. And life itself will unfold in him a feeling for
the cosmos, in the spiritual cosmos, something of immense
the spiritual world. And I have also made it evident how not only the

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the spiritual world. It is difficult to speak of such matters
spiritual world, when man himself is in the spiritual world from the
contain no higher spirituality than is to be found in the
and astral body he lives within the spiritual world. Again, it is one
spiritual science to make an accurate survey of what happens between
spiritual realm other laws prevail than in the physical world. In the
the spiritual world it is not so. In the spiritual world our astral
of our physical and etheric bodies into the spiritual world. The
happens then? If the sleep were real, we were in the spiritual world

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spiritual life there are clear differentiations between the groups.
investigations of spiritual science are able, however, to take us a
remarkable results. We find the following: Up above in the spiritual
The Deed of Christ and the Opposing Spiritual Powers.
outlooks upon life, — one outlook being that of the spiritual
later on, when a longing to understand spiritual things awakens
physical existence to the spiritual world. For this physical
This is the revelation of divine-spiritual powers.
nature of the spiritual world for which we are to look behind the
physical world of sense? The spiritual world behind the physical
spiritual Beings of the Second Hierarchy in the substance of the sun.
the spiritual cosmos, and how, when we wake, we create work for the
in the Mysteries. Such was the origin of the altar, where the ritual
And you begin to understand the origin of the cult. A ritual is not
invented, for if it is invented it is not a true ritual. True ritual
is brought into existence as a copy of happenings in the spiritual
the ritual for the burial of the dead, as it is given in our
this ritual. There rests the coffin, containing the mortal remains of
the dead. And before the coffin a ritual is enacted. Prayer is
when a ritual for the dead is enacted, there are the two things. The
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spiritual world, so that one can see how there stems from this
spiritual science teaches us to recognise their connections in the
Lucifer and Ahriman play an essential part in the deeper, spiritual
extends beyond the earthly into the spiritual world, many things must
taken place. Contemplating the event in the light of spiritual
spiritual world was he as bereft of spirit as he is
circumstances are as described here, a man enters the spiritual world
lived out to the full. Something is brought into the spiritual world
the spiritual world. What was destined for earthly existence is
carried into the spiritual world.
earthly element streaming into the spiritual world from all such
powers; such is their situation when they arrive in the spiritual
ask ourselves a question — for if we take spiritual science
spiritual world and of the spiritual Beings in that world, just as
earthly element into the spiritual world?
the task of these spiritual Beings to re-integrate into the
beings who are destined after their death to pass into the spiritual
to him in the spiritual world after death. And the result is that
the spiritual world, namely a Luciferic element which begets darkness
is carried from the physical into the spiritual world. But from
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spiritual-scientific study many a thing will appear
Spiritual Soul. The human beings of whom I am now speaking,
Mind-Soul. In the 14th and 15th century, the Spiritual Soul
was to arise — the Spiritual Soul, which, if it found
evolution of the Spiritual Soul would not have come about.
the Spiritual Soul should evolve, nevertheless it could not
given towards the development of the Spiritual Soul
of two spiritual streams. The one was represented by the
European civilisation. The Spiritual Soul would not have
felt the spirituality of the earth as its extended
also bear in mind the following. Only the spiritual stream
already evolved for so long within the Spiritual Soul, that
spiritual — or at the very least, ethereal —
life in the Spiritual Soul, while all the spiritual reality
spiritual inwardness, has passed away. It must first be
acquired again by spiritual-scientific knowledge livingly
livingly upon the knowledge of spiritual science, and we
now only working from the spiritual world, yet all the
is more like a vague intangible presence in the spiritual
Spiritual science, once again, is here to draw attention
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As the spiritual
lives out his karma. But this is a spiritual instinct
these words we turn our eyes to a real spiritual fact. Much
think the spiritual facts or not: whether they
life, which are a true image of real spiritual happenings.
achieve no union with the spiritual world. We can only do
of action for the living spiritual deeds of Exusiai,
Dynamis and Kyriotetes. There it is all spiritual action,
spiritual happening. There we find as it were the
the spiritual world. Here on earth we have the unfolding
spiritual worlds, we see there what were once the earthly
succession of spiritual facts infinitely sublime and
Thrones, Cherubim and Seraphim. Yet never was the spiritual
these spiritual facts.
man, with what goes on in the spiritual worlds above. For
established when sacred spiritual actions are brought into
cult or ritual men consciously transform their physical
actions so as to make them actions of the spiritual world
is as though a fine spiritual rain were falling, falling to
spiritual sense the shades — the real ghosts, I would
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The Spiritual Foundations of Anthroposophical Endeavour
THE SPIRITUAL
spiritual point of view. When we enter on a new earthly
these domains of life with the help of modern spiritual
cosmic spiritual spaces into an earthly life, comes always
it. The star has become free again for the soul-spiritual
the spiritual worlds.’ In the writing of the stars is
point of view) ‘some time ago’ in the spiritual
it lies inherent in the spiritualisation which must come
conscious of the spiritual, cosmic realities that underlie
spiritual history that stands behind the Anthroposophical
towards the age of Consciousness (the age of the Spiritual
Spiritual Soul is destined to bring.
spiritual world, especially in the first half of the 19th
gatherings of souls in the spiritual world, — souls
the all embracing glory of the spiritual world. Above all
once described here as a great cult or act of ritual was
experienced with overwhelming intensity by spiritual vision
penetrate the spiritual foundations of anthroposophical
matter to look into the spiritually chemical relationships,
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souls, by the whole character of their spiritual life,
cult or ritual, consisting in mighty Imaginations. And in
the sublime Imaginations of that super-sensible ritual there
was enacted before their spiritual vision, above all other
that stood there as a super-sensible spiritual action in the
adjoining spiritual world whence man descends into this
spiritual world, though in a somewhat different way,
in the spiritual world. They passed through the life
frequent impress of those mighty spiritual
in that super-sensible cult or ritual. Yet they came to it
Spiritual what is experienced nowadays only in unspiritual
in course of time an ever more spiritual conception. What

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Spiritual Conditions of Evolution Leading up to the Anthroposophical Movement
SPIRITUAL
thing was seen at that time in the spiritual, in the
the spiritual, working and weaving.
“In all the spiritual life and movement which I have
is filled with sound. Thus from spiritual worlds there
very real feeling: It was a language of spiritual Beings in
spiritual that he beheld living and moving there, was for
a spiritual living and moving and holding sway there,
a spiritual living and moving and holding sway, —
dear friends, what he could thus spiritually see was called
of the pure and innocent spirituality in all the working of
and sounding spiritual being — of this he felt that
as it sounded forth from the depths of spiritual being,
spiritual powers.
happened in the spiritual world in the first half of the
we look up from here into the spiritual world of heaven, so
interest in the life of spiritual beings, so from the
spiritual world one partakes in the experiences of earthly
the spiritual worlds without being able to presume any such
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spiritual conditions of evolution that have led to the
karma from the spiritual side, I have mentioned two
faith which is no longer in direct touch with the spiritual
events led those who observed them from the spiritual world
spiritual evolution, for what was to become a spiritual
For this new spiritual revelation had to come after the
bring before our souls these three spiritual conditions,
attitude to Nature on the one hand and to things spiritual
the Spiritual, however slightly.
Spirituality, had their important former incarnation,
connection of the human soul with the spiritual world
— a conscious experience of the spiritual world
were still in a living relationship to the spiritual world.
there was no direct connection with the spiritual world,
impulses from the way in which the spiritual world was
at least, to break through into the spiritual world. There
extent, the connection with the spiritual world. And in
centre for the real connection of man with the spiritual
both bodily and spiritual. They were prepared for the
the spirituality that can manifest itself in the
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of the human soul which closed the spiritual eyes of man
of mankind to see into the spiritual world, albeit in a
reality of the spiritual world was utterly impossible in
instinctive vision of the spiritual world — there
spiritual world, man could not attain to freedom, nor could
penetrated to the spiritual world had to disappear. All
dark age — the age that darkened the spiritual world,
the spiritual world in its reality.
human evolution, to reach the light of spiritual life. It
spiritual world by the higher kingdoms of which we have
that fall to the spiritual world in relation to the
it was so indeed: man carried even into his spiritual
referred, the most important spiritual impulses had
Michael. For the spiritual guidance and leadership to which
the Beings of the kingdom of Archangeloi has the spiritual
the spiritual guidance of mankind.
by this, that in such an age the most spiritual interests
spiritual forces that had gathered on the soil of ancient
spiritual world when the Michael Age had run its course, or
the Revelations that came to man from the spiritual world.
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and a new birth, and numbers too of spiritual beings who do
with all the spiritual and human-spiritual beings who
spiritual worlds. If a man thought a clever thought, the
spiritual Beings. It is indeed of fairly recent date that
not as it really is or with its true spiritual background.
courageous ascents to the spiritual world that had taken
spiritual life in purity of Intelligence, free from all
acute when the Spiritual Soul began to unfold in humanity,
the very time when the Spiritual Soul began to evolve in
impulse to the Spiritual Soul, — something of the
letters of the alphabet, but they are indeed the spiritual
entirely depart from the Divine and Spiritual. Thus Raymond
spiritually, in the Book of Nature — to find the
spiritual background of Nature, God having given His
Mysticism at the Dawn of the Modern Spiritual Life
natural science must be transmuted by a spiritual
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spiritual being of man. You can tell this from the very
powerful. Taking their start from the spiritual, they work
spiritual, thence into the soul-nature, and thence again
his life and carry him up on to a spiritual height, where
the earthly into the spiritual world. And if you want an
paths of Michael from the spiritual into the physical
spiritual world, for a long time before — already
Spiritual is preparing to become a race-creating force. The
It is the best preparation for true and real spiritual
learns to find his way still more deeply into the spiritual
Intelligence. For since that time the Spiritual Soul is
present in man, and the Spiritual Soul is man's very own;
everywhere. You simply cannot penetrate. It is a spiritual
that you could cut with a knife.’ So is the spiritual
spiritual nourishment for the Ahrimanic Powers. Here in

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The Michaelites: Their Karmic Impulse Towards the Spiritual Life —
THE SPIRITUAL LIFE — THE WORKING OF AHRIMAN
the greatest importance, that the Spiritual plays a deep
impelling him towards the Spiritual. In this karmic impulse
friends, when a man is thus strongly united with spiritual
he descends from the spiritual into the physical worlds,
the men of today who turn to that spiritual life which
spiritual life of Anthroposophy. Perhaps we see it nowhere
the spiritual world which I have described. But all these
side by side with non-spiritual human beings, we must see
they cannot come to spirituality. We see the tragedy of it
spirituality while others cannot come near to it, —
work from the Spiritual into the full human being, even
their way into this spirituality. And however many a
who stands in the field of spirituality, nothing else will
spirituality. Those who were materialists today will in the
it lives within the body. Above all when the soul-spiritual
opportunity. If the Spiritual has implanted itself so

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immortal, as to his Spiritual Soul, he has indeed attained
Spiritual Soul took up its abode in earthly man. If
true since the time when the Spiritual Soul slowly and
perceiving the Spiritual behind the Material. We must see
formed out of the spiritual world.
spiritual qualities. While in the sphere of objective
ascribing spiritual qualities and forces to the soul.
into the souls of men the conviction that the Spiritual is
spiritual world, who lead us along our path in the life
reality a gathering of Spiritual Beings. When we look up to
of Spiritual Beings. Now there is a certain contrast. Since
given for an overwhelming event in the spiritual world
founding of Christianity and the age of the Spiritual Soul,
spiritual worlds. Whatever thoughts we may select from the
recourse to the pure description of things spiritual.
under purely spiritual principles, when in the ordinary
those spiritual preparations in the 15th and 19th
solved by spiritual development. They, in their individual
affinity, must come together with what the spiritual worlds
kind as to deny the Spiritual. They begin to laugh in scorn
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channel for the spiritual life that has been accessible to mankind since
accomplished in the spiritual world for the furtherance of the evolution
Anthroposophical Movement must also realise that the spiritual impulses
spiritual world? To believe in theory in a spiritual world means to
nature thoughts represent the most spiritual element in modern man, the
spiritual life in thoughts, but as members of contemporary civilisation
the inner, conscious power of conviction that the spiritual is concrete
through the material to the spiritual.
recognise the spiritual reality corresponding to it, the spiritual
movement which in the modern age unfolded in the spiritual world and
enough to acknowledge theoretically that spiritual reality hovers behind
the spiritual archetype of the Anthroposophical Movement. This
spiritual Foundation Stone which was laid for the Anthroposophical
which point to facts and beings of the spiritual world and with
penetration into these facts. We shall hear how this spiritual world,
actual penetration into the spiritual world requires the development of
other states of consciousness, the understanding of what the spiritual
investigated in the spiritual world. But the whole trend of modern times
insight into the results of spiritual investigation achieved through the
The spiritual investigator arms his outer senses with what he himself
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sphere can be made only by one to whom the spiritual world has in a
confidence in the spiritual investigator.
spiritual life which have been unfolded before them in the course of
spiritual vision they gave no clue. One could penetrate no farther when
other hand, it is deeply connected with his inner spiritual
earnest spiritual-scientific research.
that they might ascertain whether the things I have to say on spiritual
a certain occult result must themselves be prepared in a spiritual, in a
experience into the realm of spiritual research.
universalised. For spiritual intuition shows this individuality in his
feeling of the nature-daemons and of other spiritual agencies in

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history and life unless we turn our gaze to that spiritual background
spiritual world, and as to these events we can speak of causes and
you by a whole series of examples how we must include the spiritual
age in its spiritual aspects is connected, as you know, with what is
called in spiritual life, the dominion of Michael, and this dominion of
inward development of the spiritual life. When the more external spread
where we have to look from external history towards the spiritual
in Asia Minor, Haroun al Raschid gathered the most eminent spiritual and
death, and having arrived yonder in the spiritual realm, they still
preceding age of Michael. It was the Grecian spiritual life, the Grecian
spirituality and artistic sense, synthesised in the community of
Alexander the Great and Aristotle. The flower of the Grecian spiritual
that was exemplary for the spreading of a spiritual impulse. All this
receptiveness for Grecian spiritual life in its Aristotelian form.
Nevertheless this spiritual life had taken on a peculiar shape there.
that genuine spiritual life which had been cultivated as between
Christianity, which took on a spiritual form (above all a kind of
tendency of an ancient spiritual life that would not enter into
all their longing, all their power was directed from the spiritual world
spreading of the spiritual life of Arabism from Asia into Europe, thus
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our human thought and action to be permeated once more by spiritual
conceptions of the spiritual world as have passed through our souls in
movement in spiritual worlds.
begun to consider that spiritual, super-sensible stream of which I was
the Middle Ages it is quite clear that the whole of the spiritual life
more intense was that spiritual life which has been working for a long
spiritual and intellectual life of the present time.
of a kind of super-sensible Council which took place in spiritual regions
Constantinople. In that spiritual council there met together the
also gathered there the individualities from the time of the spiritual
an oriental spiritual life with an Aristotelian doctrine that had become
Verulam, who had a great influence on the spiritual life of Europe, but
Christianity, into the spiritual and intellectual evolution of Europe.
all those who belonged to them. They went on working in the spiritual
spiritual worlds and partly on the earth itself. There were
individualities connected with these spiritual streams and living
remained, to begin with, in the spiritual worlds. For with the given
their spiritual life with remarkable intensity in isolated places, in
recent lectures, a school which was spiritual through and through and in
Insulis and others. Now what kind of a spiritual life was it which
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Chartres and its great significance for the inner spiritual life of the
sense, arose at the place where flourished that spiritual life of which
enter as teachers or students into the living spiritual life that had
deep devotion to spiritual powers, notably to those that hold sway in
that had once been direct spiritual experience. And I have told you of
on in the spiritual worlds in unison with those who afterwards came
hold good for the spiritual life of coming centuries. And it may be said
spiritual life to-day must necessarily stand under the influence of
devoted to it, one felt as it were a twilight mood of the spiritual
the spiritual Platonism that had been handed down — all
of the spiritual life of Chartres said to themselves: In the future,
living, Platonic spirituality.
Musica. Even in the reception of the Spiritual that was contained in the
coming to man through spiritual beings. They did not see the mere
things. Hence there was a feeling of evening twilight in the spiritual
receive in them as it were spiritual photographs of the personalities
who are also to be found by direct spiritual research in the worlds
the spiritual life of the present day in connection with the traditional
the continuation, in the spiritual and in the physical, of the life of
spirituality. On the other hand it pointed to the impulses which souls,
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of evolution which enters into the spiritual life of the present time,
spirituality of the cosmos. All this had been as it were pressed back
tend to drive all spirituality out of the cosmos in man's conception of
spirituality.
de Brahe we see these things united with true spirituality. When we
consciousness. Such is his spirituality. We remember how his Danish
things are strongly permeated with spiritual content. And this spiritual
at length we come to speak of spiritual beings as we speak of physical
extraordinarily deep and penetrating vision of spiritual connections. I
time in a spiritual intellectuality. Perceptions which Julian the
spiritual world. Now in the spiritual currents which I have described as
that activities and forces unfolded in the spiritual world worked down
whole succeeding evolution of the spiritual life, notably in its finer
elimination of old spirituality. For such spirituality he had after all
the spiritual and in the physical world together, were allotted to the
super-sensible ritual and ceremony.
cult was instituted and enacted in real imaginations of a spiritual
acts of ritual, an unfolding of mighty pictures of the spiritual life of
sincerity are united with all these spiritual streams. By its very
to consecrate from the spiritual worlds the subsequent Michael dominion
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domain of the spiritual life. We cannot understand the real working of
the star really contains is of a spiritual nature, or, if physical it
appears as the remnant, so to say, of something spiritual.
Thus are all the stars colonies of spiritual
return once more to a wisdom of the stars. We must discover spiritually
questions of the most earnest spiritual research, far removed from what
enter a spiritual conception of Christianity. He builds up a religion of
once brought to humanity the original and spiritual wisdom, called out
spiritual of the world of stars — or could only do so with the
as they cannot approach unhindered the spiritual being of the stars.
preceded by a life in spiritual worlds which I can only describe as a
sore and grievous trial. It was a trial in the spiritual
gone up into the spiritual worlds and the others had not yet descended.
causes spiritual beings to battle with him. For instance, in order to do
so, he makes a youth become possessed by a spiritual being — and
spiritual forces into play in the Wartburg.
One of Klingsor's practices is to make one of his spiritual beings put
spiritual influence is at work, sings of the Holy Communion, the
succeeds indeed, with the help of the spiritual being, in proving that
is only able to appear with the support of spiritual beings, inasmuch as
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spiritual field. And in the spiritual field they will be rightly
beings have the courage to take their study of the spiritual world in
brought from the spiritual world and make use of it to understand the
recoiled from bringing to you detailed facts out of the spiritual life,
facts well fitted to enable you to understand the spiritual
Sunday, probably in conclusion, showing the whole karma of the spiritual
deeply they characterise the spiritual life of the past. Many of these
peculiar spiritual configuration. In the further course of the life
of sense. They are there none the less in the spiritual world, even as
so infinitely deeply into the whole spiritual texture of the present
for the human soul to live directly within the spiritual world. And they
higher in spiritual development, for then only do we find the god
spiritual substance of Christianity during that age. Indeed he was
longing in him to find the source of thinking in the spiritual world,
into the spiritual world. For a time, the tendency of the thinker fell
entirely into the background; the quality of spiritual vision was in the
the spiritual world, these deep truths are, verily, not unworthily
us, the divine and spiritual, then may we draw near to many a secret
last and as this present one. For these spiritual studies are meant to

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any rate in a few broad outlines, to a spiritual understanding of the
spiritual life of the present time. In a certain respect these lectures
difficult it can be to carry into this present time a spiritual science
stand in original relationship of one kind or another to the spiritual
education and culture, anything spiritual that was received and absorbed
of spiritual contents into the present time. This example will also show
Christian centuries at a time when the spiritual substance of
personality in the spiritual life of that time. It was he who first
spiritual foundations. Indeed this was the case even with those later
are living Beings, inspirers of human skill, of human spiritual
spiritual content of that time lived in a fully vivid, pictorial and
perception of living, spiritual activities.
spiritual intercourse between them, an interchange, I cannot say of
dawn of the age of the Spiritual Soul. Then the one whom I first
certain restlessness of that atavistic visionary spiritual life which he
light of all his spiritual life. You will not find it in the
biographies, but so it appears to spiritual vision. There is a perpetual
those astrological conceptions, those visions of the spiritual world? In
his former spirituality finds its way through. At the head of this
and rejection of what he had before as a spiritual vision, a spiritual
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easily bring into his present incarnation such spiritual contents as are
evolution of the conscious, spiritual soul. This is an evolution of the
spirituality which these souls have passed through in former epochs. For
the spiritual world absolutely as a matter of course. Let us think of a
human being who in such a life could speak of the spiritual world out of
have entered into relationship with the spiritual worlds of higher
alone will be possible, for the present incarnation: the spirituality
him who is truly able to observe with a trained eye for spiritual
of the soul there is much spirituality, but as soon as the human being
speaks, he speaks not of spirituality at all. In no age was it the case
are necessary in order to transform into spirituality the
the spiritual world and that man may find the path of ideas upward to
spiritual content that is present within the soul. Only when we are
hold of that to which they do relate, namely, the spiritual. To enter
upward into spirituality, if only he is willing.
to spirituality was possible only in rare, exceptional cases in the
age to drive back and dam up the spiritual contents which are surging
such spiritual contents had to withdraw and give way to intellectualism
second half of the 19th century bore within him a strong spirituality
personality whom I now mean, the after-working of former spirituality is
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Title: Spiritual Development: Lecture I: The Inner Experience of the Activity of Thinking
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The Spiritual Development of Man
“Philosophy of Spiritual Activity.”
“Philosophy of Spiritual Activity”
actually prove exceedingly fruitful for spiritual
of this profound silence the Spiritual sounds forth, a
spiritual investigator. The latter knows perfectly well how the
most criticisms levelled at spiritual science from that quarter
honestly find any real meaning in what the spiritual
spiritual investigator before one can enter into
science, has no mind for the findings of spiritual science, is
light, the spiritual investigator must make a
spiritual investigator, not to the natural scientist. Because
presence of sentient, spiritual being. Not only
etheric formations but actual spiritual beings of the so-called
a real spiritual world. It
spiritual world is revealed. The physical
spiritual beings can
being in the spiritual world — these two substantialities

Title: Spiritual Development: Lecture II: The Physical World and the Moral-Spiritual Impulses
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The Spiritual Development of Man
The Physical World and the Moral-Spiritual Impulses
Physical World and the Moral-Spiritual Impulses
It is in fact a spiritual experience for the human soul when
in the spiritual world.
But that sense of being firmly rooted in the spiritual world
what the spiritual world has to say to us, what
moral-spiritual world, and man lives in this world, or
can only be maintained if the moral-spiritual impulses which
moral-spiritual impulses. There he sees the
nothing of moral-spiritual impulses. He
moral-spiritual Impulse. And then man may well look at his own
physical-material impulses, and the spiritual-moral impulses.
of the moral-spiritual impulses, while on the other side,
moral-spiritual impulses take effect. Until the time of his
duality of the physical-material and the spiritual-moral. Then
moral-spiritual impulses flow into the physical-material
that has not at the same time a moral-spiritual meaning. But
moral-spiritual element interpenetrates, is the world
physical world a moral-spiritual impulse could enter into a
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Title: Spiritual Development: Lecture III: Man's Faculty of Cognition in the Etheric World
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The Spiritual Development of Man
resounds the voice of the Spiritual Beings. Thus, after
what lives in a wider world, in the spiritual world
spiritual form. Hence one must also
spiritual world is something remembered,
of the spiritual world. He must bring
products of modern spiritual life, which show the difficulties
into the spiritual, inner activity is needed, not
way to finding the spiritual world.
free will from the physical to the spirituals that this rising
into the spiritual world is not an act of
spiritual entity, but it does not reveal
what unites man with the Divine-Spiritual, that
In the spiritual world: through re-cognition: memory.)
cosmic, spiritual-divine being, in which man finds himself and

Title: Things Past and Present: Lecture I
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connection, he comes near to the striving of spiritual
its worth as we approach it from the spiritual artistic point
spirituality, a sort of participation of the poetic soul with
personalities into the great spiritual connections in which
the Alsace Steinthal who was spiritualized by a kind of
spiritual and in that way wanted to create something new.
spiritual principles into connection with mankind upon the
have been able to give the great spiritual impulses to the
earlier spiritual principles. We can indeed see how today
artistic strivings together upon the waves of the spiritual
present time to carry in spiritual idealistic soul
attempted to place these figures from the great spiritual
spiritual weaving of life and to allow us to realize that the
weaving of the spiritual world works in the external world.
spiritual stream which works through the development of the
were not possible for a spiritual beating-in to find its way
in spiritual science is not able to take hold of human soul
spiritual aspect — from Wilhelm Jordan. Today people do
to realize from a spiritual scientific perception what it
into art if this rejection of all spirtual life, of spiritual
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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
spiritual nature of that which we designate as the etheric
from the spiritual point of view one can ask the following:
us, actually the three spiritual Hierarchies occupy
spiritual perception that we can say the following. While our
from outside, the above mentioned spiritual beings weave
feel ourselves inserted into the spiritual world. On the one
environment, but we are also there as soul spiritual beings
so this soul spiritual man can stand in connection with the
the soul-spiritual properties come through heredity in so far
continuously flows down out of the spiritual world just as
activity of the spiritual world, as it were, of inclining
which is exercised in the spiritual world. All this occurs in
been a participation in the spiritual world. Thus when we see
down through the spiritual world which finally comes to
Spiritual Science is not supposed to be a totality of
say, the thankfulness, the gratitude to the spiritual
universe, this feeling to know ourselves in the spiritual
universe must flow into our souls through spiritual science.
process in the spiritual world. When he thinks he stands
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Title: Things Past and Present: Lecture III: A Fragment from the Jewish Haggada, Blavatsky
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anthroposophical spiritual science is concerned, we are
already familiar with the fact that spiritual forces,
spiritual intentions, spiritual goals stand behind everything
which occurs in the world. The anthroposophical spiritual
spiritual processes which stand behind historical
special way in the spiritual movement of the second half of
spiritual and physical can work together in a life in such a
become special instruments for spiritual working, for
spiritual worlds. H. P. Blavatsky lacked the possibility of
spiritual world, but H.P. Blavatsky lacked this possibility
Through its whole evolution of its spiritual culture, Middle
permit a knowledge of the spiritual world to rise up out of
one's own spirituality. In the British aspect, they have
earlier epochs was there as spiritual revelations. What man
received in revelations, that was supposed to be spiritually
with a much more spiritual life, with a spiritual life which
spiritual world through the appearance of Joan of Arc who
precisely from the spiritual world itself had to create order
spiritual forces held sway behind the civil war of the Red
spiritual life but also to the occult British life. Naturally
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Title: Things Past and Present: Lecture IV: Secrets of Freemasonry
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experience through symbols: the reverence for the spiritual
reverence of the spiritual? He wants to teach them certain
spiritual. He intended to combine this gesture with the
this reverence for the spiritual is present.
growing into the spiritual life. In a similar way, when he
spiritual organization of man. This has, in the main, been
content of spiritual science. In the 1st place you must stand
within the spiritual scientific movement some way and then
after certain time has elapsed after being in the spiritual
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these books are so arranged as can be done with our spiritual
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deceit, the spreading of that spiritual stream which goes out
West. That has had a great influence upon the whole spiritual
which is significant in the spiritual life of Russia right up
through the development of spiritual science. This, however,
in a relatively idealistic spiritual age compared with that
deal with a hidden spiritual being who wants gradually to
precisely sinned against on the so-called spiritual side. For
healer who treated me quite spiritually.” Then I asked
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Title: Things Past and Present: Lecture V: Comenius and the Temple of PanSophia
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not aware of what the spiritual world is trying to reveal to
creative powers, namely, to the divine spiritual which
can understand the development of mankind from spiritual
they do not stand in a direct connection with the spiritual
and which stretched itself out over the spiritual worlds in
spiritual worlds, but that man can find other beings in these
spiritual worlds who are not incarnated in fleshy bodies,
how there are beings working down from the spiritual world
forces of certain spiritual beings are carried down which
pouring, with an up and down streaming of spiritual beings of
interworking with the divine spiritual. And it was said that
from beings who themselves had descended out of the spiritual
direct knowledge from the spiritual worlds into mankind and
as a human being stood within the spiritual worlds since he
everything streamed down through spiritual beings into the
earlier spiritual instruction was because it has been covered
architecture, flowed down earlier through divine spiritual
recollecting the divine spiritual of the universe. And why
be a spiritual scientist of sorts.
divine spiritual with the human. One had to know medicine,
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Title: Things Past and Present: Lecture VI: Death and Resurrection
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so far as it is spiritual, is permeated by all kinds of
ideas from spiritual science. Man is continuously changed by
anthroposophical spiritual science; your soul is different
of spiritual science has impinged upon it. Much, much more
whose soul is open for the impressions of the spiritual world
fact that we have taken up spiritual science into it and are
spiritual science appears today, it does so in order that the
take the thoughts of spiritual science into yourself in a
methods attempt to go on into the spiritual life. When you
which are without any spiritual value. Then we see that this
our souls. When spiritual science becomes a real perception
result of this repressed spirituality in human soul, you
that what mankind needs is a spirituality, then out of this
spiritualization, nothing will go well for mankind.
spiritual science only when we see in it not just a Christmas
consideration of spiritual life had to recede and the
tendency towards the spiritual was also being eliminated from
will be able to carry the spiritual Easter clothes when the

Title: Things Past and Present: Lecture VII: Man's Four Members
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than that which today we are able to know in our spiritual
death, when they then pass the spiritual world and then
and all our spiritual science is, in the main, a searching
sure, one cannot say that that which is given by spiritual
in modern spiritual life, a forgotten stream in which so much
aspect to spiritual science. When we consider the human being
just spoke. When we enter more exactly into the spiritual
pulsated through by the spiritual forces of the cosmos. We
exists behind these words; and you do that through spiritual
the real spiritual connotation of Morgenstern's poems, is to
spiritual source. Here you have an example of the life lies
picture analogous to what we talked about in our spiritual
science; they will not recognize our spiritual science. The
actually be illuminated from spiritual science.
its spiritual side, how we are related to the world shows
death and are present in the spiritual sphere and remain
there with all the spiritual content which exists in them as
possibility of helping a future spiritualization of mankind.
spiritual science is concerned, we have responsibilities that
in the world that spiritual science can give us, then we
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Title: Things Past and Present: Lecture VIII: Thomas More and His Utopia
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also carried out spiritual exercises incessantly; he was a
constituted his spiritual exercises from the Tower to his
them in his cell. You can see that he continued his spiritual
religious Catholic, one who does spiritual exercises. He
spiritual exercises. Also remember that this is a time of
occult capacities were accessible through spiritual
spiritual exercises are correctly done today, the person is
of the soul as a perception of a higher spiritual world.
the case of Thomas More this happened. Through his spiritual
spiritual world, but he could not bring them over
spiritual experience which exists between the ordinary
thinking and the spiritual experience, a connection does not
spiritual experiences as he had on the astral plane, then you
had no opportunity could not look into the spiritual world;
certain spiritual exercises; they were transplanted into the
spiritual world and were confronted by similar-things which
that that spiritual power which we designate with the name of
Christ descended and spiritualized the body of Jesus in the
spiritual power which up to the time of the Mystery of
Golgotha onwards. In so far as this spiritual force lived in
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Title: Things Past and Present: Lecture IX: Celtic Symbols and Cult, Jesuit State in Paraguay
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forces, forces of a spiritual etheric nature. The essential
of a spiritual etheric nature is eliminated. Only when one
are still spiritual forces in our physical environment, then
history and calls those spiritual science, they are incorrect
does not occur in the sense world, spiritual science.
his freedom, of developing an actual spiritual activity out
spiritual out of his inner being; and the spiritual must come
out to produce a real spiritual science.
task. The etheric-spiritual could still be perceived in the
important to know that in our time we need a spiritual
patterns. You see, spiritual science provides human beings
spreading of spiritual science. This must be the necessary
the means available to spiritual science to illuminate this
weak-minded and he is also clever at the same time. Spiritual
order to stand with the spiritual life at present, but one
proceeds from spiritual science. Only through that are you
difficulties which spiritual science has in order to be able
small, because spiritual science must be able to take hold of
spiritual science we have developed an art of Eurythmy. You
how difficult it is to lead spiritual science over into life,
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Title: Things Past and Present: Lecture X
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for us to imagine that the whole process of the spiritual
followed by those who as students of spiritual science are
world. Something of a spiritual element always occurs at the
of the spiritual development of Central Europe which
occurred, that aspect of spiritual development which depends
ideas. The whole spiritual development of the 19th century
developed themselves in a living way? Spiritual science would
had fear for the following reasons. Spiritual science to be
with our spiritual science. However, it is possible to take
I have brought to your attention the fact that spiritual
the Mystery of Golgotha. The highest spiritual worlds out of
which the German intellectuals are taking to spiritual

Title: Things Past and Present: Lecture XI: Fragments from the Jewish Haggada
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spiritual world; they go back to imaginative knowledge.
spiritual world; the spiritual world was open to him.
the spiritual world.
there is a flowing life between us and the spiritual world.
not see a physical body, but he saw a spiritual being. What
see how spiritual beings fulfil their activities. Laughing
our inner being is constituted. In the case of spiritual
However, in the moment when we approach certain spiritual
a person who stands in connection with the spiritual world. I
with the spiritual world. They stood in communion with
Solomon who imparted his knowledge of the spiritual world to
they had this connection with the spiritual world. We ought
soul-spiritual kernel which passes through the portal of
indicate. The whole process is connected with the spiritual
guarantee for the fact that he is given over to the spiritual
understood with the aid of spiritual science. You learn from
was able to look into the spiritual world and discover the
are already present as a fact of the spiritual world in the
the Nathan Jesus comes from the spiritual world and is not
this is the sort of courage that we get from spiritual
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Title: Things Past and Present: Lecture XII: Luciferic Dangers from the East
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the correct sense, as it were, of the spiritual forces which
and nothing of our spiritual science ever attempted to
in reality want to seek for the spiritual, but want to
withdraw from the reality of the spiritual in order in an
does not seek for his salvation in the spiritual of the world
mechanistic materiality; also all spiritual phenomena and
world in which the spiritual is neglected. But he goes
without spiritual science, Hammerling said to himself: What
correctly precisely from the point of view of spiritual
recognize in Christ a union of the spiritual worlds external
post-Atlantean period. However, the spiritual comprehension
lectures how one of the functions of the spiritual science is
which descended out of the spiritual heights and has
spiritual science is able to permeate through all the egotism

Title: Memory and Habit: Lecture I
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Memory and Habit as Metamorphoses of Former Spiritual Experiences
soul and the physical body. In the spiritual world, memory, as
under the direct influence of the higher Beings of the spiritual
Beings of the spiritual world. We needed no ‘habits,’ for
impulse from higher spiritual Beings. The foundations of freedom
(free spiritual activity) could only be laid within us by our having
been emancipated from the sphere of the Beings of the spiritual
spiritual world, before entering through birth into earthly
existence, we live under the strong influence of higher spiritual
impulses. In that world there are exalted spiritual Beings who guide
impulses of lofty spiritual Beings. Having entered physical
spiritual world. This echo is expressed in the fact that as children,
goes on around us. This is an echo of our life in the spiritual
world. In the spiritual world we had to receive the impulse for every
nature in the spiritual world. Memory is a metamorphosis of the
because we are torn away from the impulses of the higher spiritual
connection with the physical world to characterise the spiritual
ourselves that true and adequate ideas of the spiritual world
these ideas of the spiritual world quite differently from
the higher spiritual Beings in order that by following their impulses
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Title: Memory and Habit: Lecture II
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the period stretching between death and a new birth. The Spiritual
other than those of normal waking consciousness. Spiritual Science
Spiritual Science
birth. Spiritual Science must evolve as the outcome of a different
by means of which man is able to assimilate the content of Spiritual
without actual vision of the spiritual worlds, but to bring it down
from the spiritual worlds demands a very special kind of
of Spiritual Science from the super-sensible into our earthly world
way from the spiritual into the physical world the truths of
Spiritual Science are to fulfil their task in the future
find our bearings in the spiritual world. Memory is something which,
the sense of Spiritual Science, has a true spiritual content, does
immediately engraved into the spiritual ether of the cosmos. An
utterance which really voices a spiritual truth penetrates into and
which truly expresses the Spiritual is engraved into the cosmic
the cosmic ether through Spiritual Science. Some people may say:
‘If this is what happens I prefer to leave Spiritual Science
Spiritual Science are borne out into and inscribed into the
being, the content of. Spiritual Science which is in any case
to realise the necessity for and the mission of Spiritual Science, we
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Title: Memory and Habit: Lecture III
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our studies in Spiritual Science it has often been necessary for me to
him in his rightful sphere and we are here concerned with spiritual
spiritual world can be perceived in its true nature. Unless we
world we shall never be able to unfold it in regard to the spiritual
world. The capacity to find our true bearings in the spiritual world
faculty which we then carry with us into the spiritual

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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great significance for our spiritual movement. In these difficult
times, when the fate of spiritual movements can be said to depend upon
spiritual implications of the work, and that some human eyes have
forms that are born out of the womb of spiritual science. However
one really belong to the new spiritual nobility.
strict, spiritualised, healthy science, one would have to put it thus:
the spiritual world were present in his ego and his astral body. So,
spiritual benefit of his fellow men? Through initiation he would have
bodies in order to use the spiritual faculties and powers they contain
rightful expression only in the spiritual man.
This is how spiritual science becomes practical, for we live in times
spiritual science must help us win through to an understanding of

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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spiritually ill if he does not have access to the regularity of normal
The Spiritual Guidance of Man and of Humanity,
spirituality is simply a symptom of this. But, as we have often
spiritual-scientific movement should be preparing the manifestations
Men are little aware that the spiritual world is connected with what
of the spiritual world on the physical world. Think of Numa Pompilius,
the nymph, Egeria, whose knowledge was derived from the spiritual
its institutions reflected the demands of the spiritual world —
so that they in some way reflected what happened in the spiritual
spiritual worlds and in the stars. But it was not always so. There
reflection of what is happening in the spiritual worlds and is
been spiritually ordered by initiates can prepare the human soul for

Title: Lecture: Riddle of Humanity: Lecture Three: The Duality of Human Nature -- The Heavenly and the Earthly Aspects of Man. Uranus and Gaia. Influences of One Incarnation on the Next: Metamorphoses of the Body.
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narrow sense. When the world is observed in the light of spiritual
contemptible stuff that a spiritually striving person does not even
obtain a correct picture of the spiritual world simply by turning
investigating the spiritual worlds can get to know an extraordinary
a particular part of the spiritual world that lies between, say, the
All of you were then living in the spiritual world. At least in the
first part of this period, we were all still living in the spiritual
the physical world, viewed the spiritual world as the only real world.
They did this because the spiritual world was what was around them and
So there you have an area in which the spiritual world is a total
such matters. Given their atavistic knowledge of the spiritual world,
have obtained from the spiritual world, truths concerning man's
spiritual world in such a way that the head must first develop here in
external world. Our spiritual experience of the process of reading or
cease to exist. They remain externally present, and the spiritual

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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exists quite independently of those spiritual events that are played
spiritual reality that stands behind him. It must be conceded that
about how a person's head has actually been formed in the spiritual
world, how its source is in the spiritual world, and how, essentially,
it was prepared in the spiritual world in the time between the
pictorial representation of the spiritual forces standing behind it.
stands behind it spiritually — it is a closer copy of the
spiritual-scientific results that come to light when one addresses the
this includes the spiritual parts of the external world in so far as
as well as to the spiritual world, as we know. But a person who is a
spiritual outer world. Morality is concerned with the relation of the
physical external world, but rather to the spiritual forces and powers
spiritual world. It comes more directly out of the spiritual world
pure spiritual truths, have a say. In order to enter us, spiritual
them in a purely spiritual fashion as moral ideas. That is the fact to
physically visible. They are what spiritual science refers to as the
the man who stands here in the physical world: there is a spiritual
impulses pressing in upon us from out of the spiritual world.
etheric, rather than spiritually. But this is not possible, for these
direct influence of our spiritual environment on the forces within us
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Title: Lecture: Riddle of Humanity: Lecture Five: How a Person Grows into the Three Spiritual Realms of Wisdom, Beauty and Goodness. How These Shine Down into the Spiritual Part of Man.
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How a person grows into the three spiritual realms of wisdom, beauty
and goodness. How these shine down into the spiritual part of man.
similar happens from a spiritual point of view: in the spiritual world
about how a human being grows into the spiritual world after passing
as a human being grows into the spiritual worlds he is received into
abstractly. But the forces in the spiritual world into which a human
spiritual modes of existence. We use names like these just to
the things he received when he had ascended to the spiritual world.
spiritual realms continue to shine into the human aura, so that if we
include his spiritual parts, then the whole man is a being who lives
three spiritual realms, hovers before him, and shines and weaves
through him. The light from the three spiritual realms shines over a
the soul-spiritual more strongly than is the case today. Hence Plato,
of, gripped, by moral impulses coming from the spiritual universe.
Spirituality has to be experienced in the way we experience the moral.
spiritual world.
But here (drawing 3), it is spiritual beings from the astral sphere
surrounding spiritual world frees his inner being from false paths.
approaches these things spiritually and really takes hold of their
spiritual content. Now, in a single stroke, the Faust of Part Two
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Title: Lecture: Riddle of Humanity: Lecture Six: The Transformation of the Physical Body into the Head of the Next Incarnation. The Cosmic Significance of Human Knowledge.
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spiritual-scientific world view has the task of preparing the
retain many of the spiritual forces of wisdom for developing the inner
our spiritual-scientific efforts lead to some very definite practical
we receive spiritual-science. It must not become a thing we merely
from out of the spiritual world. And so does it becomes possible for a
the higher spiritual beings will receive nourishment from the concepts
possible if spiritual science spreads to more and more of humanity.

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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Schleich). Thinking backwards as a preparation for spiritual
spiritual-scientific presuppositions lead our thinking and our will.
one another. But for spiritual science we need mobile concepts,
threshold of death into spiritual spheres. Just recall what I said in
that has been genuinely spiritualised. A spiritualised sense of
spiritualised is, however, already evident from the fact that over
spiritual perception this presents no problems at all.
spiritualised form it is the sense that most resembles the senses of
the spiritual world, we already have a sense that is very changed;
more so, for they play an important role in the spiritual world. The
spiritual world. But that role has been very, very spiritualised. A
So we could say that when death leads us over into the spiritual world
is located on the horizon of the spiritual world. The sense of hearing
in the sense of hearing and then proceeds through the spiritualised
especially important for spiritual perception over there. There, the
among the various beings of the spiritual world. And the spiritualised
and our movements — for in the spiritual world we are in constant
And the life processes are even more spiritualised than these lower
is high in the spiritual world, for what lives in our organism is a
reflection of what lives in the spiritual world. This is a very
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Title: Lecture: Riddle of Humanity: Lecture Nine: Enlivening the Sense Processes and Ensouling the Life Processes. Aesthetic Enjoyment and Aesthetic Creativity. Logic and the Sense for Reality.
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something that is immense and significant for the spiritual world once
spiritual world the sense of movement enables us to move among the
hierarchies as spiritual sympathy or antipathy. Physical balance, as
the beings and influences of the spiritual world. It is similar with
spirituality plays into the physical world, it is of no use to turn to
significant in a higher spiritual sense. So, for the time being, I
soul-spiritual nature is related to our physical, bodily nature. In
contemplation of the vision and relating it to the spiritual world,
A consideration that is based on true spiritual science would discover
On the one hand, spiritual science has the task of linking the
development of Earth to the spiritual worlds. From many points of view
established. On the other hand, however, spiritual science must also
in terms of the spiritual. Not only has materialism led to an
spiritual realities know about the way an entire sense-zone can become
discovered in the spiritual worlds. We must make real progress in our
spiritual understanding of the world.
a more abstract time, however. Today we need to add the spiritual
— the spiritually concrete — to the idealism of that time.
more thoroughly penetrated by an intensively grasped spirituality.
of pure reason is subject to spiritual compulsion.
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Title: Lecture: Riddle of Humanity: Lecture Ten: Loss of the Ability to Orient Oneself in Reality and the Helplessness of Modern Scientific Driteria in a Materialistic Age.
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mind some of the concepts of spiritual science — concepts which
kind of longing for spiritual concepts. But the helplessness persists;
a path leading to spiritual truths. And we have just looked at an
grasp even so much as the shirt-tail of anything spiritual. Although
wholly incapable of capturing anything truly spiritual, he speaks
actually enter into anything spiritual. This is why many say that
spiritual life, and so on. And yet anyone who has a feeling for what
the spiritual life. And an unbelievable amount is written and thought

Title: Lecture: Riddle of Humanity: Lecture Eleven: Memory and Habit as Metamorphoses of Former Spiritual Experiences that were Subject to Luciferic and Ahrimanic Influences.
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Memory and habit as metamorphoses of former spiritual experiences that
body, becomes necessary to the spiritual world. It only became
being from the higher spiritual world. Our deeds were always held in
Old Moon. Up there in the spiritual world, before we are born and step
spiritual impulses. There in the spiritual world it is always higher
spiritual beings who guide us to what we need to do; they help us
the uninterrupted impulses of higher spiritual beings. To a degree we
still possess an echo of our condition in the spiritual world when we
we had to act in the spiritual world. There it was necessary for us to
They are transformations of quite other conditions in the spiritual
experiences leave their traces behind them in the spiritual world;
spiritual beings.
different. We go to the trouble to characterise the spiritual world by
spiritual world.
higher spiritual beings once more in order that the ability to follow
transformations of modes of activity in the spiritual world, so also
are there further capacities which we develop in the spiritual world
metamorphoses of spiritual experiences of an earlier time. But some
feeling for the interconnections between the spiritual world and the
physical world. Ahriman has a proper task in the spiritual world and
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Title: Lecture: Riddle of Humanity: Lecture Twelve: How Thoughts are Engraved into the Substance of the Cosmos and the Consequences Following from This. Metamorphosis of Memory and Habit.
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consciousness of humanity as spiritual science and why it is urgently
necessary that it begin to do so. And what needs to enter as spiritual
As you know, this spiritual science must be born on Earth; we have
between death and a new birth. You know that the spiritual knowledge
Spiritual science, therefore, can neither be developed through
contents of spiritual science is of a special kind. You know how I
have often emphasised that spiritual science can be understood with
living connection with spiritual science without having to direct
one's gaze out into the spiritual world. But to obtain spiritual
science from the spiritual world in the first place is another matter
truths of spiritual science can flow from the spiritual world into our
If spiritual science is to fulfil its task for the future of mankind,
spiritual-scientific truths pass from the spiritual world into the
— while one is making discoveries in the spiritual world, the
that is spiritual in the sense of spiritual science and thus has real
spiritual content. In such a case it does not remain in the personal
into the spiritual-etheric world. Thus a truly spiritual conception-I
the world that the contents of spiritual science now be inscribed upon
do with spiritual science to rest in peace; then I will not have to
world. Where only the results of spiritual science would otherwise be
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Title: Lecture: Riddle of Humanity: Lecture Thirteen: Allocation of the Whole Human Form to the Cosmos. Technical Discoveries and the Human Physical Organization. Collisions between Thinking that Accords with Reality and Thinking that is in Opposition to Reality.
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In the pursuit of spiritual science it has often been necessary for me
spiritual forces working in the cosmos it is, of course, necessary for
the transition to an epoch in which the spiritual world can be seen in
spiritual world unless we develop an attitude that acknowledges the
spiritual world must be developed here in the physical world. That is
us into the spiritual world.

Title: Lecture: Riddle of Humanity: Lecture Fourteen: Metamorphoses of the Twelve Sense Zones through Luciferic and Ahrimanic Influences.
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spiritual-scientific investigation that, in fact, is of most
and a new birth from the forces of the spiritual world, and in part
so to speak, able to read profound, living, spiritual truths that have
If we use spiritual-scientific means to investigate the human being,
impulses. Observing a person spiritually-scientifically, we can see
communicating was much more spiritual. But Ahriman took hold of this
original, more spiritual way of communicating. He specialised a part
others' thoughts is much less spiritual than the gift we originally
And it is once again thanks to Ahriman that this more spiritual manner
noteworthy and exceptional. And, as spiritual science shows us, it is
touch was really intended for an entirely spiritual perception, for
organism, spiritually permeates our entire body. What the organs of
substantial, spiritual being. And when the I

Title: Lecture: Riddle of Humanity: Lecture Fifteen: The Twelve Senses. The Reorganization of the Seven Life Processes by Luciferic and Ahrimanic Powers. Francis Bacon Inaugurates Materialism and the Science of Idols.
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though they follow from entirely objective, spiritual-scientific
divine-spiritual impulses were active in the breath — the
the original, progressive, divine-spiritual powers, a human being
are capable of reaching to the threshold of the spiritual world. One
does not have to be in the spiritual world, all one has to do is to
try, through spiritual science, to formulate ideas which are truly
appropriate to the threshold of the spiritual world. Then one will
at work within a being, in what lives and weaves within it. Spiritual
human life understandable. The spiritual science of the present seeks
And so the whole process already begins to become more spiritual. Our
being, is the king of this world. The Sun also exists spiritually for
makes the transition to the spiritual. It goes still further in that
originate in Mars. What issues from Jupiter is even more spiritual,
For our soul-spiritual nature is physically expressed by the colour of
instead of entering into them. Through spiritual science we must once
life-movements, and to show how they participate in the spiritual
In ancient times spiritual beings taught such things. This came about
inspirations that descended to Earth from the spiritual world were
understanding for the spirituality of speech ran parallel to the
is related to processes in the spiritual world. They did not express
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Individual Spiritual Beings Working in the Human Soul,
Individual Spiritual Beings and the Undivided Foundation of the World
spiritual-scientific research, or because of the kind of
we must even gain through Spiritual Science the possibility of
spirituality has.
describe as “unconscious spirits” those spiritual
with the task of Spiritual Science in our time — to be
aware of this, for knowledge of the spiritual realm that lies
present-day Spiritual Science; it is in fact a primordial
methods. But knowledge of these spiritual beings, who live
has been living in a very special spiritual situation. Quite
from the spiritual world into the human realm, and those
But all the more, then, must a spiritual state of being be set
Therefore the point is to grasp spiritual teaching with full
death we enter a spiritual world will be revealed soon enough
beyond death into a spiritual world, then we shall know whether
a spiritual world is there!” That is about as clever as
occupy oneself with any kind of spiritual knowledge.”
ideas. While a man who has absorbed spiritual concepts enters
the spiritual world in the right way, a man who has refused to
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Individual Spiritual Beings Working in the Human Soul,
Individual Spiritual Beings and the Undivided Foundation of the World
embodied in the spiritual world. It is essential to keep this
the spiritual impulses that play into history saw coming on
that battle of certain spiritual beings with higher Spirits
should be offered something from the spiritual world in a
Spiritualism was launched on the world in the 1840s.
feeling, that a spiritual world existed around them. And
communicating spiritual truths to mankind found themselves
phenomena connected with Spiritualism into the world. Where
convinced of the presence around them of a spiritual world;
of an interpenetrating spiritual world. But — as I
brothers expected all sorts of things from Spiritualism.
gradually lost all interest in Spiritualism; they felt in
opposed Spiritualism said they might have known from the start
Spiritualism came under the power of the brothers of the left.
the following way. They saw that Spiritualism could bring to
spiritual world, it is always a question of looking for the
— we shall very often find that facts in the spiritual
not spring from a single ground, but from diverse spiritual
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Individual Spiritual Beings Working in the Human Soul,
Individual Spiritual Beings and the Undivided Foundation of the World
which deals with all sorts of spiritual needs of the present
spiritual-scientific movement. That would be really harmful.
Spiritual Science requires. Nothing less than that must lay
unless the life-blood of Spiritual Science flows through them.
real research into the spiritual world. Strange as it may
Spiritual Science.
finding out how to place the spiritual etheric forces at the
other problem is concerned with calling in spiritual
prepared for it. But we must come to the stage when spiritual
Medicine will be spiritualised — very highly
spiritualised. These things will be caricatured from
example, a more generous provision for a spiritualised medicine
or a spiritualised economic life. All that can be done at
with the sleep regarding spiritual knowledge which has marked
asleep to the spiritual, so that it could reappear in a new
concrete spiritual form.
medical knowledge, but it will rest on a spiritual
to remember that spiritual potencies are hidden in everything
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Title: Historical Necessity: Lecture 1: On the Functions of the Nervous System
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the Threshold of the Spiritual World
spiritual science needed for an understanding of mankind. For
so-called physical world and the spiritual really lies. This
spiritual world can be found in man himself. I have often
pointed out, from the aspect of spiritual science, the great
become conversant with spiritual life under the auspices of
printing has brought about this result, that the spiritual
he still stands above the others. The real spiritual element
the spiritual world, which exists in him. He cannot help this
Spiritual Science
between physical and spiritual experience; it is the bodily
reflection of a complicated spiritual reality. This boundary
spiritual in the process. But if you interpolate something
spiritual at this point by interrupting the process, the
Darkness. The boundary line between physical and spiritual
a certain spiritual level, although it is connected to a
manifestations of certain spiritual beings. If we note all
spiritual world forms and creates directly everything that
the boundary with a spiritual world, of which he possesses
sphere. The human being, with his physical soul and spiritual
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Title: Historical Necessity: Lecture 2: Concerning the World of the Dead
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everyday physical world and the spiritual world, cuts
do not lie open to the spiritual- and soul-eyes of the
so-called highest spiritual possessions of mankind are
spiritual world into the life of the animals.
strikes against living reality when his spiritual force alone
spiritual world, we feel that we become inwardly
from a gray spiritual depth, in the gradual awakening of the
incarnations, gradually rises up from a gray spiritual depth.
or in the spiritual world. This relationship appears before
other souls. In the spiritual world we have lived together
spiritual depth. He becomes familiar with all this in a very
death and a new birth in a purely spiritual way — out
moment in spiritual experience, that which does not happen is

Title: Historical Necessity: Lecture 3: Our Life with the Dead
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world of the senses and the soul-spiritual world lies in man
that have been taken from the sphere of spiritual science
spiritual-scientific impulses may undertake to remain
Death. The thoughts of spiritual science, the ideas that we
form about the events in the spiritual world, are thoughts
the contents of spiritual science, this is a real
intercourse with the dead. For spiritual science speaks a
him, like a spiritual echo, what you yourself are reading.
spiritual world. In the spiritual world things are not the
necessary it is for a real spiritual intercourse to hear from
enter the spiritual world.
spiritual world is so entirely different from the physical,
spiritual world. If people would only realize that a world
souls and attain the possibility of seeing into the spiritual
spiritual world; but that through habit, through the
freely out of the spiritual life of the soul, and is also
spiritual world, the world — I must emphasize this
dead in the spiritual realm; the dead feels himself connected
experiences by taking up ideas. In the spiritual world we
spiritual part of his being in order to prepare himself for
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Title: Historical Necessity: Lecture 4: The Rhythmical Relationship of Man with the Universe
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spiritual behind the sense-perceptions, something
spiritual in which we ourselves are embedded, but which
the spiritual reality, so that we would see more
of solving spiritually the riddle of the carpet woven by our
tear it when we ascend to a spiritual vision) man finds his
spiritual truths cannot be gained with the same ease as
— The dead can read that which lies spiritually at the
spiritual world. Try to realize this, try to imagine these
reality is contained in the spiritual reality; it is dipped
The Philosophy of Spiritual Activity

Title: Historical Necessity: Lecture 5: The Members of Man's Being and the Periods of His Life
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with the spiritual world, then people often object that such
symptom is this one: to imagine even the spiritual world
but for the spiritual world, in other words, for the etheric
absolutely no meaning whatever for the spiritual world, in
The Philosophy of Spiritual Activity,
the outer world come from? It comes out of the spiritual
spiritual world; they may nevertheless be within him all the
first stage of the spiritual world, we come to the
spiritual world. This does not need to be the conscious
The Philosophy of Spiritual Activity.
impulses of spiritual science are rightly understood. Except
the real, spiritual impulses of the period. First they must
speak of the spiritual impulses standing behind the
beings. These are the spiritual impulses that call man to
development from spiritual impulses. Then it will be seen
and so on. Spiritual Science, in the meaning of
knowledge of the spiritual impulses will have become one of
come about when spiritual science is really seen as a
reality, and not simply as a teaching. spiritual
theory; but spiritual science is not a mere teaching, a mere
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Title: Historical Necessity: Lecture 6: New Spiritual Impulses in History
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New Spiritual Impulses in History
in leading spiritual phenomena back to the sphere of natural
spiritual investigator asks himself what corresponds to this
in the spiritual world — he will find something very
Nature, but in the way in which spiritual things correspond
often, not always, the spiritual must be characterized as
reality) does not develop further — so spiritual
investigation shows us that effects arise in the spiritual
concretely: — What does the spiritual investigator see
spiritualize it. Even when we eat, we spiritualize a process
to be found in the spiritual world. There we find effects
of our soul and spirit, effects from the spiritual world, of
we face spiritual effects, which are in a certain sense
spiritual world from entering into us.
as it were, surrounded by a spiritual will, which strives to
spiritual imaginative things live in the world that always
surrounds us as a spiritual world; they can indeed be reached
elementary life, develops spiritually at some other time.
for there are times in which the spiritual life surges around
are other times in which the spiritual air around us is not
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Title: Historical Necessity: Lecture 7: The Inadequacy of Natural Science for the Knowledge of the Life of the Soul
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bringing together the relevant truths from the spiritual
anthroposophically oriented spiritual science, for which
spiritual reality.
side such spiritual facts as those brought out in these
spiritual science is placed under the necessity of pursuing
this disintegrating process out of the spiritual world. I
people are very often inclined to reform the spiritual
from the depths of spiritual reality itself. For this the
spiritual forces and activities enter into our events and
knowledge of the concrete spiritual events, as we have
powers and forces from the spiritual world have intervened
correspondingly transformed, continue within the spiritual
sleeping state grows into the spiritual world around him.
spiritual world with which we are connected between death and
insight into the spiritual world.
evolved out of spiritual impulses.
directly connected with the secrets of the spiritual world.
of the depths of spiritual reality which are really contained
civilizations of humanity, the life of spiritual Beings lying

Title: Symptom 2 Reality: Lecture I: The Birth of the Consciousness Soul
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know that from the standpoint of spiritual science what is
the inward and spiritual, but the external and human
from the manifold spiritual impulses of Hellenism is
new creative ideas, not fresh spiritual insights, but the

Title: Symptom 2 Reality: Lecture II: Symptomatology of Recent Centuries
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That which lays hold of us spiritually is the same for all.
the year 3573, with all the spiritual resources at man's
on the spiritual plane. But without any understanding of this
by means of spiritual scientific investigation. And you will
use the terminology of spiritual science. But what I have
divested of its spiritual substance. What the Templars
substance of the fourth epoch. And that from which spiritual
The Spiritual Guidance of Man and Humanity, Anthroposophic

Title: Symptom 2 Reality: Lecture III: Characteristics of Historical Symptoms in Recent Times
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paid no attention to those of a spiritual nature. If we ask
spiritual impulses is doomed to perish. In this epoch of the
fructified by spiritual impulses. All that we must inevitably
fructified by spiritual impulses. Only then can they advance
spiritual forces which can restore man's creativity. For, as
and spiritual life he reaches this centre. In this centre he
history fails to penetrate to spiritual realities, so modern
and spiritual experiences, so too behind somatic symptoms we
validity of spiritual realities. Therefore everything depends

Title: Symptom 2 Reality: Lecture IV: The Historical Significance of the Scientific Mode of Thinking
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revelation from the spiritual world. Men must realize that
henceforth they will be unable to progress spiritually unless
which spring from spiritual experience. Nothing else
spiritual science.
indifferent to spiritual ideas, the proletariat showed and
through conscious experience of spiritual realities could
impregnation with a new spiritual revelation, death through

Title: Symptom 2 Reality: Lecture V: The Supersensible Element in the Study of History
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is the death of a plant, animal or human being. Spiritual
of spiritual science. Only those who think in contemporary
grounded in spiritual science are a snare and delusion. Only
spiritual content are asleep to the demands of our time.
the spiritual world discovers that there is not a crime in
world is an image of the spiritual. We must learn to perceive
the spiritual archetype of man through his picture-nature. In
etcetera, but as the image of his eternal, spiritual being.
eternal spiritual super-sensible being. This is how we shall
their spiritual source. All that I have said here does not
without feeling that my words spring from a spiritual source
and are imbued with spiritual substance because they reflect
mankind already demands psychic and spiritual indications of
see, spiritual science has no wish to be pessimistic. It sets
people today are not receptive to spiritual ideas. The
refuses to amalgamate in any way the teachings of spiritual
demands are made upon those who wish to take up spiritual
terrible concepts of anthroposophically orientated spiritual
than listen to the teachings of spiritual science. A friend

Title: Symptom 2 Reality: Lecture VI: Brief Reflections on the Publication of the New Edition of 'The Philosophy of Freedom'
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they are understood, and that the spiritual impulse
deeply spiritual standpoint. This original anecdote is as
introducing spiritual ideas to the working class. But the
spiritual ideas and was to a certain extent successful, but I
spiritual values in a meeting attended by hundreds of my
spiritual nourishment! It has an insatiable craving for it.
to create a spiritual community in a concrete and positive
realization that man today is confronted with spiritual
spiritual experiences is it possible to grasp the idea of
spiritual experiences, that day will herald a new dawn for
foundation of spiritual science. The idea of freedom must be
to me that the proletariat is more receptive to a spiritual
already existed, namely, to apprehend science spiritually,
to fail, because their ideas lacked a spiritual basis, a
from the tyranny of the senses, upon spiritual investigation,

Title: Symptom 2 Reality: Lecture VII: Incidental Reflections on the Occasion of the New Edition of 'Goethes Weltanschauung'
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like to show you in what respect the spiritual life that we
cultivation of the spiritual orientation that I envisage to
spiritual science, and equally what I said recently in
spiritual nourishment for his later poetry from his
remains that Budapest would have been a spiritual desert for
the spiritual development of Robert Hamerling. I make this
spiritual world in my early years, in fact I lived my early
life on the spiritual plane, I had not been forced by
with spiritual aspirations that — living outside the
over the frontier — he imbibed there the spiritual
spiritual development.
Goethe, the spiritual activities of the people are influenced
that is of no help to them in their sermons. The spiritual
which is responsible for the fact that the spiritual life of
that its spiritual life is remote from reality, all its talk
which they claim to have derived their spiritual
accounts for the strange fact that a powerful spiritual
had developed a close spiritual affinity with Goethe, that
sympathy because it was the spiritual element in him that I
fast asleep and which, when it embarks upon spiritual
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Title: Symptom 2 Reality: Lecture VIII: Religious Impulses of the Fifth Post-Atlantean Epoch
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spiritual reality. Above all I must call your attention today
standpoint of spiritual science must really be prepared to
be derived from spiritual impulses. Then, in the sixth
the ninth century in the spiritual life of Europe and the
misunderstand the fundamental principle of spiritual wisdom,
recognize which are the inner processes, the true spiritual
eastwards since the ninth century that spiritual wave which
transformed the spiritual sovereignty of Christ into the
spiritual heights (in the East it had always remained at this
the divine and spiritual with the human and physical in the
spiritual conflicts. In those countries where Roman
between the divine and spiritual nature of Christ and the
the physical world (Solovieff wishes to spiritualize the
material world, not to materialize the spiritual world), the
himself to be a spiritual soldier. He feels Christ, not as
the spiritual Christ who acts upon the world through the
spiritual matters, will, of course, be different from that of
a secular military regime; but the spiritual order must be
samples. Let us take, for example, the spiritual exercise of
directly into this will, illuminate it and spiritualize
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Title: Symptom 2 Reality: Lecture IX: The Relation Between the Deeper European Impulses and Those of the Present Day
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akin to Russian Christianity. It seeks to spiritualize that
impulses which sustain the spiritual world itself, impulses
sensible world and the divine-spiritual, and which still felt
divinespiritual. In Arianism we find in a somewhat more
bears witness to the time of man's union with the spiritual
as both a spiritual and temporal King.
spiritual into the social life. That the spiritual element
and to wage war on demons. The spiritual therefore is
by spiritual means, otherwise it must be imposed by decree.
also in what has developed spiritually in Europe in the fifth
Consciousness Soul awakens) and the spiritual world. It is
sensible world to the spiritual world which is instinctive in
explain, as does spiritual science, what lies behind maya,
inward and finds only a caput mortuum, a spiritual void, an
sphere of the spiritual life — the emancipation of all
the spiritual life that dwells in him and to express it with
spiritual equality in detail, for at present this is far
belongs to the soul life and to the spiritual life of men
externally the Christ impulse or the spiritual in accordance

Title: Fundamental Social: Lecture 1: The Transforming of Instinctive into Conscious Impulses
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harmony with the age of the spiritual soul, he may become
age of the spiritual soul, which began in the fifteenth
Spiritual
clearly, in the true direction of the age of the spiritual
phenomenon in many people. What Spiritual Science realizes in
gradually evolved during the age of the Spiritual Soul. The
within the civilization of mankind, all spiritual creation,
spiritual things, evolving out of the thoughts that have
arisen since the dawn of the Age of the Spiritual Soul. Men
this avoidance of spiritual things. And they will continue to
spiritual-scientific penetration of the facts is
entered on the age of the Spiritual Soul; we are in it since
the Spiritual Soul, through his pressing forward to the
awakening of the Spiritual Soul, man is unavoidably
when he enters into the spiritual world, is differentiated.
beings in the course of time, during the Age of the Spiritual
transcend the world of the senses and gaze into the spiritual
be, they are afraid of the Spiritual, which must meet them in
very path that unfolds in the age when the Spiritual Soul
evolution of the Age of the Spiritual Soul, it is absolutely
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Title: Fundamental Social: Lecture 2: The Logic of Thought and the Logic of Reality
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spiritual science, as here intended, is able to consider and
take careful heed to the fact that this spiritual science,
spiritual science has to say concerning any sphere of life
realm of spiritual reality. They can be understood, as we
from the usual thinking of today to the Spiritual Science of
standpoint of reality. If we mean: can what the spiritual
of spiritual research are drawn from reality.
“control” what the spiritual researcher says. The
spiritual science is not intended merely to make us receive a
think that we are making a great mistake. Spiritual Science
you enter into spiritual science you must always bear this in
receiving of Spiritual Science — not clairvoyance but
Spiritual Science — am I learning to look at the world
dear friends, one who regards Spiritual Science as a
he thought before, then he has not received Spiritual
Science. He has only taken up Spiritual Science if the
the power of the ideas which we receive through Spiritual
Spiritual Science, should enter our thinking, for only in
Spiritual Science can explain the necessity of such a
greater in the age of the evolution of the Spiritual Soul
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Title: Fundamental Social: Lecture 3: The Metamorphosis of Intelligence
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on our spiritual-scientific basis — to find in the work
of Spiritual Science. One thing we emphasized especially:
Age, the Age of the Spiritual Soul, — since these
The very thing the spiritual soul will have to educate, the
Spirit-Self— the purely spiritual — shall become
spiritual impulses of mankind, is absolutely conditioned on
Spiritual Soul this differentiation must be clearly seen, we
provided here, by Spiritual Science. For if you have some
the social impulse derived from Spiritual Science, which I
what is here being concentrated into one. The spiritual life
presented out of Spiritual Science, from other views. This
Anthroposophical Spiritual Science. You see, for the ordinary
Anthroposophical Spiritual Science discovers that social
if you do not study Spiritual Science properly. For the
Anthroposophical Spiritual Science will only give you the
is the point. Anthroposophical Spiritual Science is a thing
your preaching is worthless. Anthroposophical Spiritual
symptom. The essential thing is the spiritual impulse that is
whole point: to take hold of Spiritual Science in the inmost
Spiritual Science — and all that lies in the current
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Title: Fundamental Social: Lecture 4: The New Revelation of the Spirit
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spiritual-scientific background. In this way alone is it
upon the other day, and showing how the Spiritual Science
anthroposophical Spiritual Science, will find this Spiritual
deal with one subject or another in this Spiritual Science,
large number of the attacks to which this Spiritual Science
against a spiritual knowledge of this kind. To many people it
same time, this Spiritual Science reckons with an inner
spiritual fact in human evolution at the present time, to
the earthly evolution of mankind. Direct spiritual
new Revelations are breaking through into the spiritual
is a familiar fact. So it is, though in a higher, spiritual
has been said about this spiritual event (for such is the
spiritual way of looking out on the world, which was quite
revelations of a spiritual kind are breaking in upon us,
Mystery of Golgotha as a spiritual fact, in the language of
fundamental requirement to which anthroposophical Spiritual
— Who are the Beings of the Spiritual World who stand
the Hierarchies, within the order of the Spiritual Beings.
all that we know from Spiritual Science in this direction, we
working from the spiritual realms. You may read about their
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what we here call Anthroposophical Spiritual Science.
Anthroposophical Spiritual Science strives for an insight
into those things which can only be seen by spiritual vision
spiritual life, I mean a spiritual life which does not merely
must be understood by real spiritual knowledge. The true
we look back with Spiritual Science into the historic
independent spiritual vision, to the content of the cosmic
the spiritual world anthroposophically, even [as], since
into the spiritual world even as Copernicus, Galileo and
the spiritual world. It is especially so when the old spirit
spiritual world.” My dear friends, for many a modern
to the inner researches of spiritual science. It is only
rebels against the conscious penetration into the spiritual
world. This penetration into the spiritual worlds is no mere
underlying spiritual content of the world. Was it not also
abstract precepts, customs, dogmas about the spiritual world.
object to anthroposophical Spiritual Science because it looks
had to bring the Spiritual Soul, once and for all)
Spiritual height; so that the life in which we live between
of view of Spiritual Science. Avenarius asks: If a man were
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Title: Mysteries of Light: Lecture I: The Dualism in the Life of the Present Time
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will show you from what spiritual foundations this building has
grown, and how it is connected with the spiritual movement
this building to our spiritual movement will at once occur; and he
this representation of our spiritual movement — of the purpose
represent before the world, spiritually and otherwise. This movement
own, growing out of the principles of our spiritual science, a style
movement as spiritual substance. It would have been unthinkable, for
and sentence of our anthroposophically-orientated spiritual science.
connected with the entire conception of this spiritual movement. This
movement purposes to be something different from those spiritual
practical life, we have a number of spiritual views, world
spiritual worlds. The ordinary secular world is considered something
this dualism between the external life and our so-called spiritual
spiritual science which intends to be anthroposophically orientated
spiritual science, this must he conceived not only as merely rising
well in our anthroposophically-orientated spiritual science. And with
treatment of the social question has arisen from this spiritual
which flows through our spiritual movement.
sees through the matter, two spiritual individualities are
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Title: Mysteries of Light: Lecture II: The Development of Architecture
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anthroposophical spiritual science to the forms of our building, and
external ones, but that the spirit which rules in our spiritual
divine-spiritual powers among men; only that the people felt impelled
divine-spiritual powers the phenomenon of the Greek temple in the
consciousness of the immediate presence of divine-spiritual powers;
kingdom was often accused of having deserted the divine-spiritual
instead toward the spiritual powers. The individual sought by joining
the spiritual, which in this way acquired a certain abstract
what the soul thirsts for must be sought in remote spiritual
what is recognized as the divine-spiritual is not directly active
observed with spiritual vision, then at the very moment when one was
the spirituality which in those times actually did permeate the
which the divine-spiritual being dwelt; it was the house which
spiritual science and the inner spirit of human evolution. In our
time one cannot reach this anthroposophical spiritual science except
this anthroposophically-orientated spiritual movement has nothing to
which is now being revealed directly from the spiritual world to this
for the spiritual world experiences, and which he cannot possibly

Title: Mysteries of Light: Lecture III: Historical Occurrences of the Last Century
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Steiner's Lectures on Spiritual Essence and its Working.
been able to learn that spiritual science, as conceived here, is to
deciphered from the spiritual history of the evolution of humanity;
and from this spiritual history one can clearly see that the science
knowledge from beyond the threshold of the spiritual world, is
spiritual world is opposed by those powers which stand for the
the world and for humanity of anthroposophically-orientated spiritual
spiritual has powerful enemies in all those who wish to be assured
hostility and opposition to spiritual science as it is purposed here
become more and more determined as this spiritual science becomes
long-accustomed habits — not for any spiritual reasons, but
spiritual science which has now been carried on in Europe for two
and knows that what we call anthroposophical spiritual science is
spiritual science must not be confused with sleepy-headedness, with
soul-enjoyment by means of spiritual ideas and concepts. We stand at
spiritual science, we have never intended to act aggressively; but we
possible only from spiritual-scientific foundations, and then the
it will be impossible without spiritual-scientific foundations to
necessary it is to infuse spiritual knowledge into the evolution of
are able to bring suitable and capable souls to meet those spiritual
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spiritual scientific effort, the Threefold Social Order, is placed
spiritual life, an independent rights and political
without prejudice the way in which the interaction of the spiritual,
the spiritual threads, those of rights or government, and the
spiritual life is of essentially different origin from that of our
First, our spiritual life, as it presents itself
the ancient Greek and Latin cultural life, the Greco-Latin spiritual
element (Diagram 13. orange); for our spiritual life, our European
spiritual life, is of Greek origin; it merely passed through the
something else has mingled with the spiritual life which originated
spiritual life; it has simply gone through various metamorphoses.
This spiritual life reaches back, however, to a more distant origin,
Orient this spiritual life was decidedly more spiritual than it was
Mysteries of Light (Drawing). The Grecian spiritual life was
its origin: namely, the spiritual life of the Orient, which depended
upon quite special spiritual experiences.
character of this spiritual life, the manner of its development, I
there dwelt people to whom spiritual truths were revealed through
spiritual culture derives from that which entered humanity at that
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Title: Man: Hieroglyph: Lecture One
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Only a true knowledge of our human nature and the spiritual forces
spiritual science of the human being.
Spiritual Science. Spiritual Science, however, requires for its
place in our whole spiritual life.
development of the spiritual Movement directed to Anthroposophy has in
to the spiritual life of humanity, how we must seek to illuminate
Spiritual Science and Medicine,
what these can receive from Spiritual Science. It is very desirable
Man which must form the foundation of all true spiritual culture. It
the planetary system. A spiritual-scientific method of thought however
in space as psychic-spiritual beings, with our Thinking, Feeling and
real spiritual knowledge of the matter. Do not such things as

Title: Man: Hieroglyph: Lecture Two
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spiritual science of the human being.
the spiritual world, to the next earthly life, we have there something
through the methods of Spiritual Science, to the imaginative
organism, which we attain only by leaving the spiritual world and
window’. You look into the spiritual world. In just the same way
physical sense-world into the spiritual, perceive in the alterations
windows of the physical world, and observes the spiritual world

Title: Man: Hieroglyph: Lecture Three
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spiritual science of the human being.
is wanted. What we have to do is to grasp in its spiritual nature all
that is not man, in order to build a bridge from the spiritual
in Man to the spiritual outside him. You must understand that here, at
Well, first of all we find that when Man descends from the spiritual

Title: Man: Hieroglyph: Lecture Four
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spiritual science of the human being.
And now, you see, these are the things in which the spiritual and
spiritual reality.
the spiritual into any kind of connection, when we were incapable of

Title: Man: Hieroglyph: Lecture Five
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spiritual science of the human being.

Title: Man: Hieroglyph: Lecture Six
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spiritual science of the human being.
for through Spiritual Science we learn to realise that this motion is
made in all certainty, and Spiritual Science confirms it. This change

Title: Man: Hieroglyph: Lecture Seven
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spiritual science of the human being.
to its abstractions! It becomes more and more abstract, the spiritual
essence of material phenomena, for it does not recognise the spiritual
consists in unwillingness to understand the spirituality of the
correspondence between the material and the spiritual. I can, at the
which is assimilated spiritually — for it has really to be

Title: Man: Hieroglyph: Lecture Eight
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Only a true knowledge of our human nature and the spiritual forces
spiritual science of the human being.
interior of man; it is an illusion to believe that we do. Spiritual
They have completed their office. But then the spiritual world takes
spiritual world the human head is determined in the womb of the
Call it Kama-manas, or what you will, it is not spiritual, but remains
conception of man as a product of the spiritual world. Our
birth. I have to continue a spiritual life here on this plane.’
and say: ‘That is not of this world. The spiritual world has been
the spiritual work between death and re-birth. It will indeed be a

Title: Man: Hieroglyph: Lecture Nine
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spiritual science of the human being.
unproven — in fact, a quite erroneous hypothesis! For spiritual
however the tendency to take notice of the spiritual aspect of
confirm the findings of Spiritual Science. It would form one of the
theosophy are in reality no spiritual teaching at all, but a spiritual
middle-man or rhythmic-man, who has as his spiritual
the Universe, but with the true inclination to a spiritual view of the
with half-truths. A spiritual philosophy of life will once more reveal
The physical is thus seen to be a direct expression of the Spiritual.
Spiritual which is experienced between death and re-birth. The
physical world explains itself and brings the spiritual world into
the event of Golgotha: then we can understand how a purely spiritual event
prepared to see the relation of the physical to the spiritual aright,
both a spiritual Event and an Event of the physical plane. When in the
inclination to spirituality is the preliminary condition for a
knowledge of spiritual beings. In our present difficult time, it is
spiritual-scientific conception of the world stands to the tasks and
which to describe this aspect of the task of Spiritual Science!

Title: Man: Hieroglyph: Lecture Ten
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spiritual science of the human being.
Here we have an example of how with our Spiritual Science we can point
Philosophy of Spiritual Activity,
nature of Man will only be revealed when Spiritual Science is allowed
explained from the spiritual world.
the Copernican view must be fructified by Spiritual Science. Many
picture endured. What existed in earlier epochs of spiritual evolution
the training we receive in Spiritual Science; only then shall we be
through Spiritual Science, in a manner that cannot be done through the
develop within. Hence the necessity for Spiritual Science; for people
first acquire the method for it by means of a training in Spiritual
his own. By clairvoyance the facts of Spiritual Science are
Spiritual Science, not to satisfy a curiosity for clairvoyance.
of human culture, this application of the methods of Spiritual Science

Title: Man: Hieroglyph: Lecture Eleven
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spiritual science of the human being.
distinct echo of our sojourn in the spiritual world. Now let us look
Jupiter and Saturn. Our planetary system is spiritualised through
Venus and Mercury, more intimately adapted to the spiritual Powers
Jupiter might be regarded as more spiritual than Venus and Mercury.
more spiritual organisation of the head and the rest of the human
show a more intimate adjustment to the spiritual world — the
extra-spatial, the super-sensible, the spiritual, to that which does
These are things that must be brought to light by Spiritual Science.
vision of Spiritual Science. It is of urgent necessity that we should
Spiritual Science. Man would like to wrest his head free and think
Spiritual Science. One might even define Spiritual Science as that
of view the essential part in Spiritual Science is really that it
rapidly approaches barbarism, would like to free the head. Spiritual
One cannot talk of Spiritual Science in the way that is usually done,

Title: Man: Hieroglyph: Lecture Twelve
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spiritual science of the human being.
is preferred by the religious denominations to Spiritual Science. That
enquire how the Spiritual works in the world and presents itself in
explained spiritually.
than does Spiritual Science, for this particular creed is especially
material to the spiritual. The spiritual must form the content of an
spiritual — it would have to speak of spirit.
continually allege that Man cannot approach the spiritual by research
into Nature, and they take trouble to keep the spiritual as far
apparently takes its course entirely in the spiritual world, but
make clear to us a parallel phenomenon between spiritual life and the
continuous stream as though that Event had never occurred. Spiritual
ethical-spiritual point of view. There is an interval between the

Title: Man: Hieroglyph: Lecture Thirteen
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Only a true knowledge of our human nature and the spiritual forces
spiritual science of the human being.
less a solid body. In Spiritual Science this has a very deep
view of the Universe is much preferred by that side to Spiritual
so that you may see the necessity for an enlightened Spiritual Science

Title: Man: Hieroglyph: Lecture Fourteen
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Only a true knowledge of our human nature and the spiritual forces
spiritual science of the human being.
Spiritual Science. They can in no wise be answered without it; for
primary physical origin, in a spiritual way in the Universe? I have
striking. If we have studied Spiritual Science seriously, we know that

Title: Man: Hieroglyph: Lecture Fifteen
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spiritual science of the human being.
cardinal demand, is not peculiar to Spiritual Science. In order to
understood these three aspects of the Divine Spiritual, the
such things as are given by Spiritual Science today. Only all that
self-sacrificing knowledge, than that demanded by modern Spiritual
Evangelical confessions, Spiritual Science asserts that the
that it is always said: ‘Spiritual Science has no idea that
what is purely of the soul. As for the Spiritual, it is abolished. But

Title: Man: Hieroglyph: Lecture Sixteen
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spiritual science of the human being.
however, we go to work in a truly spiritually scientific way, we can
world, has sent the Son. Spiritual cosmogony must unite with natural
mankind into the conception that things spiritual must not be
Spiritual, must be kept away from it, must extend only to the
Spiritual Science is not related to materialism. Modern creeds are
nature-knowledge with moral law — is bound up with Spiritual
Spiritual Science will surely succeed if a wakeful spiritual life

Title: Responsibility of Man: Lecture I
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more of a spiritual existence; at such times, he is more
spiritual beings. Though our Earth may look to physical sight
mass is nevertheless the bodily nature of certain spiritual
sense expression for a certain association of Spiritual Beings,
star-world is the same as what meets our spiritual vision in
the inner spirituality. When we evolve between death and a new
birth we stand fully within the spirituality, we live with it,
possibility of drowning in spiritual existence.
exist of whom a genuine spiritual science says that they are
conception when we were in the spiritual world and lived with
up, as it were, in the spiritual world and then later do not
find the right balance between the spiritual and the material
spiritual world sufficiently in order to enter earthly life.
through and through with spirituality, that is, make us
and the spiritual life that lies between death and a new
Men stand today before the decision either to become spiritual
spiritual-scientific knowledge. One must study those ideas that
of Spiritual Science — is the mechanising of the world, a
process can only be checked if the conception of the spiritual
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Title: Responsibility of Man: Lecture II
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modern Spiritual Science — that is good. Science had to
through Spiritual Science. It is no knowledge of man to
Only the knowledge of man gained from Spiritual Science has
represents his actual earthly spirituality and that this in the
the spiritual element to an understanding of the human
blood-circulation, out of the spiritual. If one then learns to
possesses out of the spiritual as material organs that is so
Genuine science must be based on the spiritual. One must take
establishments, there exists in the spiritual worlds a
Spiritual Science from the view of the world that obtains
cosmos, that which is given to the senses, but the spiritual
spiritual world gives rise to real social feeling, it enables
nothing of it. But in the spiritual world in which we are all
it as Spiritual Science can give it to him. For there we speak
created out of the spiritual, then one learns to know him in
knowledge of man which are given by Spiritual Science.
of the spiritual world itself. What man sees around him in this
standing within the spiritual world just as he stands as
happening, something is going on in this spiritual world in
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Title: Responsibility of Man: Lecture III
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Man's Responsibility for World Evolution through His Spiritual
impulses out of the depths of the knowledge of Spiritual
world of physical nature; he stands in a spiritual world as
of consciousness this being has advanced, within the spiritual
that is the spiritual cosmos (see diagram, circle) which, at
“spiritual cosmos” is very universal, one can
a certain part of the spiritual cosmos, namely, that to which
incorporated into a spiritual cosmos, then this whole
relationship to a spiritual cosmos shall be represented to
that certain Spiritual Beings who by a normal evolution
spiritual world among the ranks of the Angels, Archangels
Spirits. They would like to keep man in a spiritual sphere and
their attack. They are that race among the Spiritual Beings who
That is what Spiritual Science must seek, the Christ-principle,

Title: Responsibility of Man: Lecture IV
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anthroposophical Spiritual Science you will see how essential
different Spiritual Beings have inserted themselves, taking
spiritual Beings; for our civilisation has in the course of
the last resort, every recognition of the spiritual must tend
and learn to know the concrete spiritual guiding Beings in
Ahrimanic spiritual forces — this we put before our souls
spiritual beings. These realms consist not only in what we call
by different spiritual beings. I will therefore make a diagram
this is the characteristic of all those spiritual beings whom
receiving the Divine Spiritual from another side.
permeated by a spiritual element. It is empty of spirit because
clearly perceive around us a spiritual nature, under the
allotted to him from divine spiritual worlds before his earthly
“Philosophy of Spiritual Activity”;
is going on around us spiritually, and how these Ahrimanic
Spiritual Science is at the same time the fight of Ahriman
Spiritual Science as necessary to modern humanity.
have been made upon Spiritual Science, is it not obvious that
things have an inner spiritual connection, which we must see
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Title: Responsibility of Man: Lecture V
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above all must be examined from the standpoint of Spiritual
“Philosophy of Spiritual Activity.”
can receive these things through Spiritual Science with a
Spiritual Science when taken earnestly. The task lies in this

Title: Materialism/Anthroposophy: Lecture I
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century A.D. Since then we have been living in an increasingly spiritual
spiritual reality around us.
the point of view of spiritual science we are required at the
base themselves on spiritual science will not find any
create the corresponding images out of the spiritual world,
clairvoyant person brings something out of the spiritual
bringing it along from the spiritual world. He has no
thing out of the spiritual world. Neither does he bring this
thought skeleton with him out of the spiritual world (see
thoughts but have no special connection to any spiritual
soul-spiritual nature. It is not surprising that people who
the soul-spiritual element. Thus, a person who, in the first
the very same thing that is seen in the soul-spiritual
soul-spiritual element. Then we can follow up the reflection
soul-spiritual into the physical organism. You must take what

Title: Materialism/Anthroposophy: Lecture II
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century A.D. Since then we have been living in an increasingly spiritual
spiritual reality around us.
that spiritual science has to do — it is obvious for
the soul-spiritual exercises that have frequently been
moments of experience. The insufficient spiritual view over
must rise up to the highest spiritual comprehension if we
formations, connected with a spiritual way of grasping the
spiritual essence permeating the word. Many examples could be

Title: Materialism/Anthroposophy: Lecture III
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century A.D. Since then we have been living in an increasingly spiritual
spiritual reality around us.
hence, instinctive awareness that the soul-spiritual element resounding
word-comprehension to abstract spirituality of logic and concept:
anthroposophical spiritual science, I have indicated that an
things. We were brought closer to the spiritual life through
soul-spiritual element holds sway in them just as it does
soul-spiritual element leads an existence in supersensory
through spiritual science; instead, it was present in a more
understood the incorporation of the soul-spiritual into the
soul-spiritual being of man descends in order to unite with
cannot be comprehended if the soul-spiritual development of
soul-spiritual development that ran its course in Greek
only if we inwardly study the soul-spiritual development in
on the soul-spiritual condition of the representatives of
the idea spiritually and full of content. As they spoke of
spiritually by the human being turned into what was then
concrete spirituality, because it still contains the remnants
still appears as a most comprehensive, ideally spiritualized
few spiritual qualities.

Title: Materialism/Anthroposophy: Lecture IV
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century A.D. Since then we have been living in an increasingly spiritual
spiritual reality around us.
follow the spiritual development of mankind further back in
schools; the other is the area of ritual, of veneration, of
that of ritual.
unknown spiritual worlds he passes through in prenatal life
the spiritual aspect of the human being, in an interplay with
saw something spiritual.
this entrance of the human being from the spiritual world
descended as a spiritual entity and had united itself with
come down to us, it is a spiritual teaching that no longer
through taking the spiritual heritage from the Orient and
could bring back with them powerful spiritual stimuli from
the same time were ahead of their age in their own spiritual
than it was later on. Based on their own spirituality, these

Title: Materialism/Anthroposophy: Lecture V
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century A.D. Since then we have been living in an increasingly spiritual
spiritual reality around us.
significant external ritual how, with their soul-spiritual
Orient, the spiritual world was readily accessible. For them,
the beings of the spiritual world were present just as other
downpouring of super-sensible, spiritual powers into the world
soul-spiritual human being in his full light. After all, in
through conception and birth from the spiritual worlds, that
radiance of the spiritual worlds. They felt they were losing
soul from its spiritual home. Greek culture must definitely
spiritual temple the Mystery of the Grail, the mystery of the
the Holy Grail. This spiritual temple, this Holy Grail, this
in order to penetrate to the spiritual temple that enshrined
spiritual life that later became extinct was truly greater
than the spiritual life opposing it, although the latter,
described by the servants of the Holy Grail as a spiritual
intended as something spiritual.
It led to the physical Jerusalem, not to the spiritual
approached from the East had not been recognized as spiritual
light. The spiritual light had been rejected, and instead
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Title: Materialism/Anthroposophy: Lecture VI
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century A.D. Since then we have been living in an increasingly spiritual
spiritual reality around us.
The Oriental mind dwelt in spiritual world and based on it had to
based on it must seek to understand spiritual domain. Transition
that hinder path of spiritual activation; love of evil.
into the spiritual world that was the foundation of Oriental
intellectual, rational character. The spiritual life that
consider this wisdom from the point of view of spiritual
still perceive quite clearly what enters in the spiritual,
spiritual beings had their existence. Human beings looked
across to these spiritual beings, to their actions, their
directed towards these spiritual worlds. People wished to
comprehend the sensory world on the basis of these spiritual
comprehend the spiritual world — if we attempt that at
us. The ancient Orientals saw the spiritual world as given.
the astral body, as having emerged from the spiritual worlds.
divine-spiritual worlds; and the best I bear within me is the
recollection of these divine spiritual worlds. Even Plato,
that had descended from the spiritual worlds but that in some
ways had already lost the awareness of these spiritual
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Title: Materialism/Anthroposophy: Lecture VII
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century A.D. Since then we have been living in an increasingly spiritual
spiritual reality around us.
spiritual-physical world experience. And with all of his
lofty, noble striving to ascend to the spiritual spheres of
luster and decayed into the absolute spiritual sclerosis of
world out of the depths of spiritual science. Then people
etheric and astral body and spiritual development may all be
unprovable spiritual science relates to the certain truth
modern spirituality. We need only recall some important facts
fiery spirituality. We only have to recall that in Rotteck's
spirituality as there is rationality in it. We need only
this modern culture any redeeming spirituality that could
of such a truth are in reality themselves spiritually
can anthroposophical spiritual science live. Modern
spiritual science has to fight the most. And today, matters
anthroposophically oriented spiritual science we find
without saying that neither anthroposophic spiritual science
Simons' politics. Anthroposophic spiritual science, however,

Title: Materialism/Anthroposophy: Lecture VIII
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century A.D. Since then we have been living in an increasingly spiritual
spiritual reality around us.
of spiritual science, we arrive at the realization that the
with the methods of spiritual science, we arrive by way of
former times. Only now, through spiritual science, we are

Title: Materialism/Anthroposophy: Lecture IX
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century A.D. Since then we have been living in an increasingly spiritual
spiritual reality around us.
The nineteenth century as culmination in history of abstract spirituality
and materialism since fourth century. Dogma and ritual. Formerly: life in
the body that thus experienced cosmic spirituality; today:
spiritual scientific concepts that the modern intellect can create
intellectualism without spiritual content. Future polarization
into Catholic traditionalism and spiritually awakening intellectuality.
suited to throw light on the spiritual condition of the
spiritual knowledge was in fact eradicated.
agency of the Church, so to speak, into a higher, spiritual
knowledge. Due to the ritual and the simple narration of the
spiritual wisdom and its aftereffects into a sort of abyss.
to do anything with the ritual and dogmatic formulas
the latter possessing a few spiritual qualities. This vestige
soul-spiritual standpoint? We have to focus on human nature,
essential, spiritual being of the air. Through the warmth
times that it is most interesting to look with spiritual
experience, they felt the spiritual beings of the cosmos.
aftereffects with the actual spiritual-cosmic occurrences out
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Title: Materialism/Anthroposophy: Lecture X
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century A.D. Since then we have been living in an increasingly spiritual
spiritual reality around us.
spiritual in all details of the outer world, was the
People referred to a multitude of spiritual entities. It was
spiritual. Modern human beings only receive something
spiritual from their heads; in regard to their will, they
strivings of anthroposophically oriented spiritual science
anthroposophically oriented spiritual science.
exists merely to transmit the spiritual. These matters are
descends out of soul-spiritual worlds into incarnation and
then passes through the gate of death into soul-spiritual
worlds. When this inner soul-spiritual nature of the ego is
brutal reality, since the spiritual basically can be grasped

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century A.D. Since then we have been living in an increasingly spiritual
spiritual reality around us.
really something spiritual. Thus, it can be said that the
spiritual, the human being could not take hold of this
spirituality. Instead, human beings filled themselves only
thinking. Indeed, it is the call for spiritual science.
spiritual soul worlds into a physical corporeality,
spiritual content by means of the art of printing and through
spiritual content has been assimilated superficially. The
teaching. Something of the psycho-spiritual element still
a look at how the influences of the spiritual world have now
anthroposophical spiritual science is something a person like
ritual, are still deeply immersed in Orientalism. Then think

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century A.D. Since then we have been living in an increasingly spiritual
spiritual reality around us.
Catholicism on the part of the Latin nations with their spiritual and
a free spiritual life. Goethe's insight concerning this; his reaction to
spiritual course of development. Today, we shall bring
more spiritual than was previously the case.
into the spiritual world that had come about earlier and had
beings thus became completely spiritual beings in regard to
denied this spirituality. People related what they grasped
be characterized if certain spiritual streams that have run
forms of thought and feeling out of ancient spiritual
compelling spirituality but Roman Catholic through and
is not commonly known that a spiritual stream does in fact
which is identical with the spirituality of the world,
were all mixed together. In the eyes of the spiritual world
relationship with spirituality.
one of the most grandiose spiritual battles that has ever
attention to the deeper spiritual principles, to the
spiritually essential. It is most difficult for matters such
only observes the individual person; he sees the spiritual
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Title: Materialism/Anthroposophy: Lecture XIII
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century A.D. Since then we have been living in an increasingly spiritual
spiritual reality around us.
spirituality of the whole environment. Today, a person sees
experience the spiritual reflection of the sun's life in the
spirituality of reason that existed in the fourth
again learn to use the materials of spiritual science to
way in the manner it receives it, the sun is a spiritual
universe but with a completely spiritual being.
spirituality of the cosmos. To them, the sun being was
spirituality of the sunbeam and can feel how the ego is
spiritual science, we find that the sun sends down to us
developed out of spiritual science in the way I described it in
earthworm-state to a new spirituality.

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century A.D. Since then we have been living in an increasingly spiritual
spiritual reality around us.
Materialistic science and spiritual science as spiritual-cosmic events
would thereby be cut off from world's life and spirituality. Cultivation
of spiritual science facilitates arrival from other planets of spiritual
was indeed a very real one for the spiritual beings guiding
something entirely spiritual, this human intellect has no
sense of reality. They live in a spiritual element but are
materialists. With their spiritual thoughts that are,
more spiritual, but the spiritual contents bestowed on him by
more spiritual; yet, with what is spiritual he merely thinks
come to them from spiritual worlds, the human being would
concepts the living wisdom that spiritual science is able to
confirmed as truths in the spiritual world — a very
spiritual science today.
them, namely, the contents of spiritual science. This is what
spiritual science; they want this spiritual science to be
beings imbuing themselves with thoughts of spiritual beings
intellect to life with the pictures of spiritual science.
through new Imagination and through spiritual science in
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century A.D. Since then we have been living in an increasingly spiritual
spiritual reality around us.
spiritual reality, already abstract concepts. Mirroring
say that are ignorant of the way spiritual knowledge was
to the spiritual and divine.
deity, a spiritual world. No, Dionysius says, the concepts we
spiritual world by leaving behind, so to speak, all that can
that these pre-Christian insights were spiritual insights.
Latin language. All the wisdom of the spiritual world that
something of the ancient aliveness of direct spiritual
spiritual achievement of the human being, initially it turned
be reached by human soul life. Everything was more spiritual,
of matters in the spiritual realm.
overall spiritual quality (see above).
see into the divine-spiritual realm. To begin with, Erigena
in a general spiritual element into which the human being
It is the world of the spiritual
and so on. This world of spiritual beings, mentioned already
described from the spiritual standpoint. It depicted how
spiritual beings direct and also inhabit the stars, how the
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century A.D. Since then we have been living in an increasingly spiritual
spiritual reality around us.
centuries after Christ. Only with the help of spiritual
insights into the spiritual world left behind from ancient
the soul-spiritual element of this tribal father, still held
the soul-spiritual element of the tribal father, they also
soul-spiritual nature. The rule of this deity was seen in the
of how the divine-spiritual was worshiped then at the same
approaching once again today through spiritual scientific
however, is not true, so they said. All these spiritual
Human thinking had been turned to something purely spiritual.
behold this divine element in the purely spiritual, the
a purely spiritual element. In pre-Christian times, people
in the purely spiritual element. They were to view the
companion of a spiritual being, a being that has come down to
earth from the spiritual world, the Logos, the Christ.
live in a spiritual world. Humanity's error of not knowing
that we live in a spiritual world has brought misfortune over
an archangel. The significant point is that the spiritual
find your way in it when you view it from the spiritual
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century A.D. Since then we have been living in an increasingly spiritual
spiritual reality around us.
of the soul-spiritual on this side which was experienced as being almost
the spiritual world, so that out of the chaos of the present
this: The soul-spiritual being of man lives in spiritual
the actual psycho-spiritual being that lives between death
absolutely nothing of the soul-spiritual matters that are
soul-spiritual being appears to me in its condition between
of an expression of my soul-spiritual being in my body than
the soul-spiritual being has worked for centuries.
that this soul-spiritual element, which does not really enter
earth. For the Greeks, the psycho-spiritual element was the
soul-spiritual element lived in Greek consciousness in the
Greeks, for they had an awareness that this psycho-spiritual
Hippocrates held that the soul-spiritual nature of man
soul-spiritual influence intends them to go, the human being
encounters illness. The soul-spiritual element actually
and soul-spiritual elements hangs in the balance. The
of the soul-spiritual element. The physician accomplishes
soul-spiritual element in the fluids of the body was just as
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Title: Therapeutic Insights: Lecture I
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us as spiritual, soul, and bodily being, he is differently
spiritual beings we can feel highly independent of our
physical tool of the spiritual life. We have often mentioned
can say that with our spiritual being we are to some extent
we become conscious of ourselves as spiritual human beings.
spiritual human beings, we achieve clarity about these facts.
physical bearer of the spiritual life, the nerve-sense
spiritual science. If one wishes to remain within the
confines of space, one cannot arrive at spiritual

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extra-spatial spiritual depths and brought into the world in
that the spiritual played into human activity through rhythm.
hexameter. The way in which the spiritual, super-sensible
human being, but in the human being it is spiritualized and
penetrate into the way in which the spiritual plays into the
forms, in purely intellectual forms, whereas the spiritual
outside the spiritual. We must penetrate into how this
concepts of a new spiritual science. If these writings are

Title: Therapeutic Insights: Lecture III
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own soul-spiritual being lives, between death and a new
existence through conception and birth, certain spiritual
its own substance spiritually, as it were, out of itself.
birth, or conception, in the spiritual worlds. It is an
physical body. For this reason spiritual science should
the soul element and look instead at the spiritual element.
a body, so we have a spiritual existence between death and a
express myself in this way — of our spiritual element
our body. Here we are accustomed to speak of the spiritual as
the spiritual as that which belongs to us between death and a
birth we are “enspirited.” This spiritual,
descending from the spiritual into physical existence. You
existence incorporates itself into the soul-spiritual element
of the human being. The soul-spiritual undergoes, as it were,
force that has been active within you in the spiritual world
bodily nature, spiritualizing it. What persists of this force
spiritual reality. We have an abstract spiritual
civilization. Materialism is an abstract spiritual
configurations also appear in the spiritual world. Then a
spiritual environment rises up around us, and the very
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Title: Therapeutic Insights: Lecture IV
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— which in our spiritual science and throughout the
spiritual science of all ages has played a particular role
C-sharp, G, and so forth, is not vibration but spiritual
ever more spiritual the further we press forward in
phenomena of the senses there is a spiritual world.
cognition is more and more spiritualized, from within it is
real spiritual researcher — not the nebulous
into the spiritual world by no other path than by way of this
know, by way of this inner being, any kind of spiritual
individual organs, of course by means of a spiritual gaze
one can also behold physical things concretely. Spiritual
the heart in a similar way. For spiritual scientific
already spiritualized when it reaches the outer surface of
reflected by the heart from our experiences. Spiritual
the heart forces, is spiritualized, within it is also
spiritualized that which is connected with our outer life,
soul-spiritual organization that remains to us, adapt
karmic event is a result of such a generalized spiritual
one wishes to practice a real spiritual science.
spiritual, is also the one that takes up the inclination for
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Title: Therapeutic Insights: Lecture V
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moments of spiritual seeing, also extinguish ordinary memory.
basically unable to see into the spiritual world. Pupils of
objective-spiritual universe: his soul becomes entirely
spiritual properties. This decision then passed into the
spiritual will.
civilization that will lead again to a spiritualization, for
above all it is necessary for the spiritual life among human
able to say that he does not understand spiritual science. It

Title: Cosmosophy 1: Lecture I
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knowledge of the spiritual facts and beings lying behind the
spiritual worlds, was now enabled to penetrate into man's
“foreign” spiritual world, not merely into his
interests connected with spiritual scientific investigation
happen if man were not to be led by spiritual science out of
future this trust can be attained only in a spiritual way.
Outer culture will be in need of spiritual deepening. I

Title: Cosmosophy 1: Lecture II
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vision into a spiritual world that is composed not of atoms
and molecules but of spiritual beings. This world was present
memory-mirror, a spiritual element is living.” One must
spiritual element. We live within this world that is given
universal spiritual element.
sleeping condition, inner spiritual faculties gradually
develop. These inner spiritual faculties will arise in the
emerging spiritual faculties in the same way that we trace
to the point of thinking in a living and spiritual way about
he still has a sense for the battles, the spiritual battles,
not yet been prepared sufficiently by spiritual science and
Fall of Man used to give instruction concerning a spiritual
really found in ourselves the beginning of spiritual
become conscious of the concrete, spiritual activity that is
senses, a spiritual world, a world wherein spiritual beings
nothingness and then permeated with pure spiritual being,
spiritually, seen through spiritual vision — when we

Title: Cosmosophy 1: Lecture III
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an anthroposophical spiritual science teaches us of the
that may be made of the spiritual world, because people lack
talk of spiritual, super-sensible impressions, for such
them in the moment made possible for us by spiritual
come into ordinary consciousness. As soon as the spiritual
inwardly, spiritually, then we come to willing. Willing,
becomes something of the spiritual, objectively present, that
sum of will impulses out into the purely spiritual world in
impulses that pass over into our spiritual being, which we
into the spiritual world.

Title: Cosmosophy 1: Lecture IV
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of what has come to light through spiritual research, namely,
together have such a species-soul, which has a spiritual
establish through spiritual research, through anthroposophy,
spiritual world, this we find only as a fragment, as
spiritual world we find a weaving of picture-thoughts.
from the soul-spiritual world. Inasmuch as the cosmos weaves
around us with its thought-weaving, the soul-spiritual world
goes through death into a spiritual world, into the weavings
of a spiritual world, the deepest longing to become man.
develops the longing to become man in the spiritual element
death and a new birth the will has experienced a spiritual
spiritual-physical cosmos and begins in the Midnight Hour of
therefore, that when we thus follow with spiritual vision
the other hand in the spiritual, we really picture man's
what we carry out of the spiritual cosmos into our bodily
soul-spiritual existence. This shows us that in our view of
as a world of spiritual necessities behind the world of
world of spiritual necessities. This earthly life receives
grasp of what can be understood as the spiritual in the human
spiritual being, we must ask what man experiences with the
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relation to cognition of the soul-spiritual life of the human
through birth into the earthly world from the soul spiritual
detail. As the development of anthroposophical spiritual
anthroposophical spiritual science, right into the most

Title: Cosmosophy 1: Lecture VI
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etheric body, astral body, and I; the study of the spiritual
between birth and death out into the vast spiritual universe.
stands absolutely in relation to the whole spiritual
being as spiritual events. The soul element is, so to speak,
being. As soon as we approach the actual spiritual events,
spiritual we come to beings who are arranged above the human
spiritual. The beings whom we designate as angeloi or angels
order to learn what man is as a spiritual being, what kind of
the spiritual.
given by spiritual-scientific investigations. The human being
lives in the spiritual realm itself, he can journey through
spiritual realm.
spiritual deepening of the whole evolution of humanity on
in the spiritual world — that it not only comes from
spiritual content, which means that he must color his moral
beings live inwardly unspiritually — as has been the
spiritual and not merely a matter of lip service — then
spiritual of the human being, actually can be explained only
spiritual science. All modern anthropology and things of that
into the matter only if it is studied spiritually. Then,
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Title: Cosmosophy 1: Lecture VII
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being to the spiritual world, and this relationship has in
raise our spiritual gaze to where the human being is, we fmd
spiritual essences are at work there, we must answer that in
environment. What descends from the spiritual world is thus
a pre-existent life, that he comes down from spiritual
the physical, sense activity into the soul-spiritual world,
anthroposophical spiritual science man thus learns to feel
It is the same with the soul-spiritual: the whole cosmos is,
as it were, breathed in soul-spiritually and becomes man. All
soul-spiritually and disperses itself in the cosmos until it

Title: Cosmosophy 1: Lecture VIII
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spoken of the soul-spiritual evolution of the human being.
While bearing in mind this spiritual evolution, we had to
show the way in which this spiritual evolution of the human
being, that is, what is spiritually active in him, arises out
spiritual unfolding of the human being, we therefore must
brought before our spiritual eyes the unfolding of the soul
ourselves of the spiritual-soulbodily weaving in the
human spirit out of the higher realms, out of the spiritual
spiritual eye as the imagination of the physical body, just
spiritual outer world. To be able to describe this at all, I
The moral-spiritual world is described as having directly
been considering the spiritual in man, the soul element in
man, the bodily in man. When we consider the spiritual in man
connections we need spiritual science. If we have not come to
spiritual science, then there streams out into the world
however, with the help of spiritual science, we wish to learn
those higher spiritual realms that stand in mutual
from man by the soul-spiritual existence — also like a
members of the human being in the light of spiritual
upon the spiritual realms above the human being, we see them
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to the spiritual, the soul, and the bodily. I have also shown
you that if we seriously wish to bring the spiritual nature
our gaze to the spiritual worlds. For, in fact, playing into
own spirituality to consciousness.
today, in a spiritual respect. What does such a person, who
then, if what we call anthroposophical spiritual science
anthroposophical spiritual science, really should arrive at
on you with this anthroposophical spiritual science. You are
evolutions or about the spiritual, soul, and bodily nature of
Anthroposophical spiritual science comes along, however, and
anthroposophical spiritual science, one must participate
means of anthroposophical spiritual science something comes
anthroposophical spiritual science are challenged. Especially
spiritual science? A simple sketch can make this clearer. Let
Anthroposophical spiritual science absolutely must be studied
anthroposophical spiritual science. Then the human sheath
anthroposophical spiritual science.

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through spiritual science. Only by acquiring these insights
speaks of something divine-spiritual in the outer world,
believes that all thinking about the divine-spiritual is only
divine-spiritual as a projection of his inner being. This
divine-spiritual than those that the human being had managed
Spiritually seen, without the physical body — again,
make this clear to you — gave him a certain spiritual
through death gave him a certain spiritual weight.
soul-spiritual death, saves us especially for the future.
with death. They then live into the spiritual world. To be
be taken by other spiritual beings, however, if the human
when he still possessed his divine-spiritual legacy.
loses his spiritual being in intellectualism, for he can
soul-spiritual substance, which makes him a being and not a

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spiritual world, between death and a new birth. We explained
his own way as the world's spiritual background spoke through
manifestation, of a spiritual world. This spiritual world
experienced as the manifestation of a divine-spiritual world,
but the divine-spiritual vanished from this appearance, so
is concealed here on earth becomes manifest in the spiritual
fifteenth century. The divine-spiritual worlds vanished from
birth, these divine spiritual worlds imprison him, so that he
divine-spiritual in the appearance. We can call to mind the
world. In addition to the disappearance of divine-spiritual
divine-spiritual weaving. History has a meaning. If we turn
the appearance of the divine-spiritual to the human being in
spiritual element within the physical at the beginning and
permeation with the spiritual more and more from the center,
evolution out of divine-spiritual existence, even as the
designated in anthroposophical spiritual science as the
up something that leads him to the spiritual existence that
for the time when he could not yet take in spiritual
the Gospel. This is what spiritual science strives for
regarding Christianity Spiritual science seeks to explain the
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Title: Lecture: Supersensible Influences: Lecture I: Supersensible Influences in Old Persian, Egyptian, and Greek Time
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connection of man as a being of body and soul with the spiritual Powers
connections with spiritual worlds. In our materialistic age, study of
sense, but no consideration is given to how the spiritual world plays
interwoven with the activities of Spiritual Beings who then spurred men
the human being through his inbreathing. Spiritual Beings were active
some given here, we have heard about certain Spiritual Beings and of
their significance for man. I refer to those Spiritual Beings who have
their physical reflection in the Moon and its light: the spiritual
historical evolution on the earth, men drew the spiritual Moon-Cosmos
spiritual Moon-Beings to activity within them.
these Mysteries knew that human beings drew the spiritual Moon-Cosmos
possible to reckon with the fact that these spiritual Moon-Beings
the whole character of the workings of the Spiritual on the earth
the deeds of those spiritual Moon-Beings to whom no outer monuments
the mummies, inspired by the spiritual Moon-Beings for whom, during the
Spiritual Powers that play into this development. We must study the
understood when we are able to investigate them by means of spiritual
the spiritual world if we would gain knowledge of what has come to pass
in studying history to picture the weaving and working of Spiritual
spiritual science must also have this aim, and I have tried today to
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Title: Lecture: Supersensible Influences: Lecture II: The Education of Man through Modern Intellectualism, -or- Chartres and the Mysteries of the Templars
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study of the life and being of man to the spiritual worlds and I
Spiritual Beings who are connected with the inbreathing. And we heard
Spiritual Beings of the air who use the state of equilibrium between
danger of falling away from the spiritual world. And it can be said
by spiritual visions. Spiritual visions were either revealed by the
spiritual visions, thoughts were imparted to men from out of the
spiritual world. The thoughts revealed themselves to men and such
spiritual, the pre-earthly life, is contained in the substance of the
spiritual world falls away. These thoughts are attuned to and have
their roots in the spiritual world and are mirrored by the physical
spirituality, the reality of the Spirit, once again into the world of
intellectualism, but he must spiritualise his thinking, he must bring
spiritual substance into his thoughts.
inbreathing of men for the spiritual guidance of earth-evolution; and
again there will be men who live in communion with the spiritual world,
Philosophy of Spiritual Activity by saying that
will be taken by what flows, spiritually, out of the souls of men to
and fifth centuries of our era, elementary Spiritual Beings from other
— we speak about the spiritual world from actual experience, we
can hardly refer to these Spiritual Beings in any other way than that
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Title: Lecture: Supersensible Influences: Lecture III: The Revelation of the Spiritual World in Old Indian Culture, -or- Old Egypt
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The Revelation of the Spiritual World in Old Indian Culture, or
rhythm of inbreathing, impulses derived from certain Spiritual Beings
of his inner life, were imparted to him directly from the spiritual
revelations of the spiritual world. In the days of the ancient Indian
revelations from the spiritual world. No thoughts were stimulated in
Spiritual and they shed abundant light upon the world. Man lived in
what was being revealed to him from the spiritual world. As a result he
through the Spiritual Beings indwelling the mummies, directives for
and ideas to be revealed to him directly out of the spiritual world.
through the intellect, this intellect must be spiritualized, so that
thoughts will once again lead directly to Divine-Spiritual reality and
Orders where ceremonials and rituals of all kinds are enacted; but the
Spiritual Beings needed by the Egyptians had no dwelling-place on
earth. And this was provided by the mummies. Those Spiritual Beings and
slip down into these ceremonies and ritualistic enactments. There they
to what should really take shape within them in a spiritual sense.
olden time. Spiritual life pulsated through the ceremonies when they
were being enacted among the ancient Initiates — a spiritual life
spiritual science, a knowledge of the Spirit, because as yet he is
in the spiritual world among Beings belonging to the Hierarchy of the
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Title: Lecture: Supersensible Influences: Lecture IV: The Egyptian Mysteries, Indian Yoga and Egyptian Mummy Cult
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no longer capable of following these spiritual processes, which are
Initiates were helped, as they spoke to their pupils, by the spiritual
Moon-Beings. These spiritual Beings who would otherwise have wandered
enigmas. But these enigmas are unveiled to spiritual science when we
rituals are studied and enacted, but there is never anything
essentially new in them. Ancient forms, ancient rituals, are preserved.
ceremonies or the effects produced by the rituals are really
but a kind of dead, shadow-image. But in ritualistic and ceremonial
enactments he saw Spiritual Beings from the surrounding elementary
He beheld spiritual reality in these enactments.
people today whether they have ever seen Spiritual Beings weaving and
streaming through rituals and ceremonies in Churches or Lodges, you
would find that this is never the case. In these ritualistic enactments
today there is no more spiritual life than there was life in the
as these rituals were preserved, as the form of the human body was
so clearly as in earlier times — of how the spiritual impulse
an inkling, at least, that the spiritual must so live among men that it
as you know, also play a part in cult and ritual. When true ceremonial,
true ritualistic enactments are again established in place of what is
enactment in cult or rite is a call to the spiritual Powers of the
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Title: Lecture: Supersensible Influences: Lecture V: Modern Abstract Thinking and Living Thinking of Future Times, -or- The Idea of Metamorphosis and the Repeated Lives on Earth
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spiritual worlds into earth-existence, and the thinking that is a
in modern times is that in occult societies here and there, rituals,
been preserved as dead traditions. Think only of rituals that you may
connection with that spiritual reality of being, which flowed in the
whole of modern spiritual life and the importance of which is still not
must be grasped spiritually — something that transforms
other words, those who are able to grasp the Spiritual in their life of
must be regarded as a form of intercourse with the spiritual world and
in historical evolution. It is a picture of how spiritual culture was

Title: Lecture: Supersensible Influences: Lecture VI: Spiritual InFluence in History, -or- Pope Nicholas I
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Spiritual Influences in History -or-
Pope Nicholas I and the Spiritual Life of Europe
NICHOLAS I AND THE SPIRITUAL LIFE OF EUROPE
spiritual life, and thus sprang from the spirit pervading the Crusades,
I perceived three streams of spiritual life — three streams
moving as it were in spiritual heights, across from Asia into Europe.
Jesus of Nazareth than with the all-important fact that a Spiritual
connected in any real way with this stream of spiritual life, held that
also discerned the grandeur of this stream of spiritual life. Although
spiritual knowledge) its radiance still shone, by way of many hidden
spiritual tension that is evoked in the souls of men if they are to
scale the heights of spiritual, esoteric understanding.
this esoteric-spiritual stream makes its way into the souls of the
spiritual life into their souls. And so the strange position arose that
flows in cult and ritual; but only when the cult has at the same time
Europe, while the esoteric, spiritual reality was forgotten, men turned
to cult and ritual, clinging with greatest intensity of feeling to what
lived on — in the central rite, but also in the whole ritual
because they failed to reach an esoteric understanding of the spiritual
reality, men gave their hearts to cult and ritual, and to that with
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Title: Man/World of Stars: Lecture I: The Spirit-Seed of Man's Physical Organism
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The actions of spiritual beings in relation to the rhythm of the course
earthly life. Steiner reveals that the concepts of spiritual science
serve as our eyes in the spiritual world after death. He shows that we
change the world when we communicate with it out of our spiritual nature,
which is the true spiritual communion of humanity.
and Their Correspondences in the Spiritual World.
through which man passes: in the spiritual world between death
new birth, man finds himself in the spiritual world with an
What, then, is our outer world in that spiritual existence? It
spiritual world when the nexus of forces of our physical
and substances, but equally to the spiritual world; he is
what is thus fashioned — first of all in the spiritual
spiritual world is imbued with forces. Its whole structure
in the spiritual world. These three faculties are: thinking,
gravity, for in the spiritual world there is no force of
spiritual character. Here on the Earth we lift our legs to
corresponding process in the spiritual world is that of
spiritual world has all directions, for the spiritual
physically, as through the pull of gravity, but spiritually, or
spiritual world to physical orientation within the sphere of
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Title: Man/World of Stars: Lecture II: Moral Qualities and the Life After Death. Windows of the Earth
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The actions of spiritual beings in relation to the rhythm of the course
earthly life. Steiner reveals that the concepts of spiritual science
serve as our eyes in the spiritual world after death. He shows that we
change the world when we communicate with it out of our spiritual nature,
which is the true spiritual communion of humanity.
here for some weeks past was to show how through his spiritual
already versed to a certain extent in what Spiritual Science
astral body of man when with the help of Spiritual Science we
plants is going on, spiritual events are also taking place. In
all this with spiritual insight, if we take the same attitude
to say, meaning now the countless spiritual Beings who people
ponder them in the light of Spiritual Science, in what
speak, in the psycho-spiritual atmosphere of the human world.
Divine-Spiritual Beings at the time of Christmas, but simply
spied out by subordinate spiritual beings every night. Whether
our accumulated acts of folly, the spiritual lights grow dark
quality (life-giving, that is to say, for his spiritual Self)
the effects of our will through these spiritual years and days.
winter experiences in order to prepare the soul-spiritual
atmosphere of the spiritual world which we have ourselves
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Title: Man/World of Stars: Lecture III: Man's Relation to the World of the Stars
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The actions of spiritual beings in relation to the rhythm of the course
earthly life. Steiner reveals that the concepts of spiritual science
serve as our eyes in the spiritual world after death. He shows that we
change the world when we communicate with it out of our spiritual nature,
which is the true spiritual communion of humanity.
only to be versed in earthly chemistry but also in a spiritual
spirit and soul — become subject to the spiritual Beings
and not the spiritual world behind it, is drawn aside, life
things which need to be explained by Spiritual Science. You may
from this side of the spiritual world, and then it would be
Universe and then into the spiritual world.
bearing man into the Cosmos and into the spiritual worlds.
existence into the spiritual world. The inner constitution of
everywhere active around him, forces from the spiritual world.
spiritual reality behind the physical, than we are justified in
waves that beat in upon us from those regions of the spiritual
attention to what can be said today out of the spiritual world,
spiritual influences that are exercised upon the physical
receive the knowledge that comes from the spiritual world. They
what can be communicated from the spiritual world. Of this we

Title: Man/World of Stars: Lecture IV: Rhythms of Earthly and Spiritual Life. Love, Memory, the Moral Life
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The actions of spiritual beings in relation to the rhythm of the course
earthly life. Steiner reveals that the concepts of spiritual science
serve as our eyes in the spiritual world after death. He shows that we
change the world when we communicate with it out of our spiritual nature,
which is the true spiritual communion of humanity.
Rhythms of Earthly and Spiritual Life.
spiritual world between death and rebirth we should no more be
entirely spiritual but let us put it in this way: we are out
Spiritual-scientific vision enables us to perceive what happens
a consequence of what man has experienced spiritually in
of our independent state of life in the spiritual world.
spiritual world, a faculty of tremendous power is present
spiritual world.
men's minds to the study of this relationship to a spiritual
world, anthroposophical Spiritual Science has made it possible,
when, as in anthroposophical Spiritual Science, those realms of
light of Spiritual Science, the moral world has reality —
understanding of Spiritual Science. Without Spiritual Science
through Spiritual Science is to man. Here again we shall have
spiritual world. And what thus develops are the eyes for
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Title: Man/World of Stars: Lecture V: Human Faculties and Their Connections with Elemental Beings
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The actions of spiritual beings in relation to the rhythm of the course
earthly life. Steiner reveals that the concepts of spiritual science
serve as our eyes in the spiritual world after death. He shows that we
change the world when we communicate with it out of our spiritual nature,
which is the true spiritual communion of humanity.
spiritual world between death and rebirth. This means, however,
speaking of this I come today to a domain of Spiritual Science
which can lead us very deeply into the spirituality that is
everywhere by spiritual beings of the greatest possible
the light of Spiritual Science. For at the very moment we begin
These beings are difficult to find in the spiritual world, even
following of spiritual beings who do not belong to the
requisite spiritual vision and visit some studio where artistic
of the spiritual world. For it is essential first of all to
Therefore if with spiritual sight we move about the elemental
exist. All spiritual research in this sphere is extraordinarily
spiritual world, and flee from them because they are ashamed of
seen by any other beings of the spiritual world) flee into our
other beings of the elemental spiritual worlds.
other beings in the elemental kingdoms of the spiritual world
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Title: Man/World of Stars: Lecture VI: Spiritualization of Knowledge of Space. The Mission of Michael
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The actions of spiritual beings in relation to the rhythm of the course
earthly life. Steiner reveals that the concepts of spiritual science
serve as our eyes in the spiritual world after death. He shows that we
change the world when we communicate with it out of our spiritual nature,
which is the true spiritual communion of humanity.
Spiritualization of Knowledge of Space.
psychical and spiritual development on Earth the heritage of
which the divine-spiritual Beings of the Hierarchies belong. A
divine-spiritual Beings belong. He feels that he has been sent
down to the Earth from the ranks of these divine-spiritual
nature of the divine-spiritual Beings to whom he feels himself
same time have a dim remembrance of the divine-spiritual world.
reflection of the Divine-Spiritual which he can experience in a
the divine-spiritual Beings, to bring something of the
Divine-Spiritual into the earthly world.
the will of the divine-spiritual Beings with whom man himself
divine-spiritual world. Through these centuries of the Middle
interaction that the Divine-Spiritual can work in the phial, in
direct connection with a divine-spiritual will by which the
emancipated from the divine-spiritual will. And it is this
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Title: Man/World of Stars: Lecture VII: Inner Processes in the Human Organism
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The actions of spiritual beings in relation to the rhythm of the course
earthly life. Steiner reveals that the concepts of spiritual science
serve as our eyes in the spiritual world after death. He shows that we
change the world when we communicate with it out of our spiritual nature,
which is the true spiritual communion of humanity.
Spiritual Science it has always been the endeavor to discover
know that spiritual research advances first to what is called
is called in Spiritual Science, the astral body of man. What
etheric bodies experiences spiritual storms and percussions.
These spiritual storms show that the astral body is diving down
for they too belong to a spiritual world. Both the
are rooted in a spiritual world. In its real nature the
ways, and is afterwards completely spiritualized inasmuch as
so are the Beings of the spiritual world standing two stages
ipso facto into the spiritual world. And the deeper the
is the ascent into the world of spiritual Beings.
namely, knowledge of the spiritual content of the World.
an instinctive kind of spiritual vision, the aim was to make
spiritual world.
same time into the spiritual world.
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Title: Spiritual Communion: Lecture I: Midsummer and Midwinter Mysteries
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The actions of spiritual beings in relation to the rhythm of the course
earthly life. Steiner reveals that the concepts of spiritual science
serve as our eyes in the spiritual world after death. He shows that we
change the world when we communicate with it out of our spiritual nature,
which is the true spiritual communion of humanity.
SPIRITUAL COMMUNION OF MANKIND
conceptions of the spiritual world that had primarily to do
humanity were still able to gaze into the spiritual worlds
about the spiritual worlds, just as a man today can speak about
of the spiritual-supersensible world presented itself to them
of any historical reality, but of a spiritual world lying
hidden behind the physical world. Thus the spiritual world was
spiritual form of existence; but the thoughts came with the
permeated by the divine-spiritual. He also tried to discover
the manifestations of this divine-spiritual in details, for
satisfied to have the revelation of this spiritual vision
themselves: The spiritual Power indwelling the Sun could
divine-spiritual-supersensible reality, and when, understanding
indwells the earth as a Spiritual Being. In contrast to the old
spiritualize, whatever knowledge he acquires about the great
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Title: Spiritual Communion: Lecture II: The Mysteries of Man's Nature and the Course of the Year
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The actions of spiritual beings in relation to the rhythm of the course
earthly life. Steiner reveals that the concepts of spiritual science
serve as our eyes in the spiritual world after death. He shows that we
change the world when we communicate with it out of our spiritual nature,
which is the true spiritual communion of humanity.
of human evolution in order to recognize from the spiritual
into the divine-spiritual worlds, offered up their thoughts and
feelings to the divine-spiritual Powers. They did this because
felt to be Grace bestowed by the divine-spiritual Beings.
were inspired by divine-spiritual Beings such as the
for the human being who has descended from the spiritual worlds
worlds, he must turn his soul to the spiritual content
lead men in a spiritual way when external guidance through the
their gaze must be turned to the spiritual worlds. It was for
now became inner spiritual effort and activity. Life was
Sun, for the Earth is now inwardly spiritualized; whereas at
we do this, anthroposophical Spiritual Science shows us how the
spiritual forces that weave through the evolution of humanity.
end of the days of Earth.” We must also have a spiritual
is transmitted in the Bible concerning the spiritual sojourn on
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Title: Spiritual Communion: Lecture III: From Man's Living Together with the Course of Cosmic Existence Arises the Cosmic Cult
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The actions of spiritual beings in relation to the rhythm of the course
earthly life. Steiner reveals that the concepts of spiritual science
serve as our eyes in the spiritual world after death. He shows that we
change the world when we communicate with it out of our spiritual nature,
which is the true spiritual communion of humanity.
spiritual as they have become one-sidedly naturalistic
compass, were ascribed to a divine-spiritual Providence.
being done by spiritual forces working with purposes and aims
world, entirely spiritual as it was, man turned his attention
to the way in which his will was subject to divine-spiritual
divine-spiritual forces and laws. And for many who in those
men of olden times thought that divine-spiritual forces, in
light of Spiritual Science, we pass, in the microcosmic sense,
again we use the kinds of knowledge available in spiritual
to spiritual Powers within which they will not, in the normal
When man is asleep his physical Summer mingles with spiritual
spiritual Summer. In external Nature, Summer and Winter are
Summer and Winter forces of man's spiritual life can neutralize
man's spiritual, moral and psychic make-up. And then we begin
spiritual hearing, the tones of Summer and Winter can be heard
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Title: Spiritual Communion: Lecture IV: The Relation of the Movement for Religious Renewal to the Anthroposophical Movement
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The actions of spiritual beings in relation to the rhythm of the course
earthly life. Steiner reveals that the concepts of spiritual science
serve as our eyes in the spiritual world after death. He shows that we
change the world when we communicate with it out of our spiritual nature,
which is the true spiritual communion of humanity.
sought as a revelation of the Spiritual in picture form, in the
of the spiritual nature of the world. A pictorial knowledge of
the Spiritual lay at the foundation of all ancient conceptions
of the nature of the world in religious cult or ritual, a
uplifted to the divine-spiritual ground of the world, not
devotion to this divine-spiritual principle. And the sacred
The ideal of the spiritual life of the present day must be,
Only when anthroposophical Spiritual Science is seen to contain
humanity will have to take many steps in spiritual development
formerly lived in spiritual worlds, has since united Himself
be the really vital force for our whole spiritual life. And it
anthroposophical Spiritual Science is making its way into the
number of spiritual truths, truths regarding the actual
spiritual content of the world, can be found by men when they
become spiritual researchers. And if men do not become
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Title: Spiritual Knowledge is a True Communion, the Beginning of a Cosmic Cult Suitable for Men of the Present Age
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Spiritual Knowledge is a True Communion,
The actions of spiritual beings in relation to the rhythm of the course
earthly life. Steiner reveals that the concepts of spiritual science
serve as our eyes in the spiritual world after death. He shows that we
change the world when we communicate with it out of our spiritual nature,
which is the true spiritual communion of humanity.
Spiritual Communion: Lecture V: Spiritual Knowledge is a True Communion
‘Spiritual Knowledge is a True Communion,
sprouting life. Spiritual sight shows us this budding and
researches of Spiritual Science. If we wished to compare the
which is very plainly visible to a spiritual-scientific anatomy
of Spiritual Science and see what happens when he thinks and
expression of the spiritual events taking place within him,
examine this piece of Nature in man with the eyes of Spiritual
That is precisely what spiritual vision shows us. Let us
bed. Spiritual vision sees them as soil, as mineral matter, out
recognizable as such by spiritual sight. Above gleam the Ego
own past, to a spiritual life in which we lived before birth,
when we come to apply the methods of Spiritual Science to the
cycle of the year, we find in it too a spiritual Summer
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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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to understand our relationship to spiritual reality.
— rituals having a deep meaning for a large part of mankind
spiritual representative of all that appears in the human being as
spiritual world as well.
may be summed up thus: the Mystery ritual is an image of events in
the spiritual world; what occurs in the cosmos is a likeness of what
forms of existence other than the Earth in the astral-spiritual
spiritual world opened up to them directly were taught the
intelligible by having the ritual coincide, on the one hand and in
take part in the spiritual world. To reveal the truth concerning
years the secrets of the spiritual world have been revealed to men
simply had changed in the course of time. The ancient ritual of
Eut if we reflect upon the Mystery ritual, remembering that it
spirituality; the spiritual substance of the Mystery of
for the spiritual is adopted because men are no longer able to
respond through the material to the spiritual as such. Autumn no
soul, the permanence of the spiritual by contrasting it with the
the human soul arises in spiritual
days after death: Behold! The spiritual experience of the deceased
represented in the ritual, in symbolical enactment. But when the time

Title: Esoteric Studies: Easter: Lecture II: Moon-Birth and Sun-Birth
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to understand our relationship to spiritual reality.
of civilization we have undergone a psycho-spiritual development that
time man descends to his physical existence from the spiritual world,
ritual and in prayer, that was the substance of certain ancient
documents and has no access to what can be observed in spiritual
The religions that focused on the Moon and the spiritual beings
the forces that are spiritually connected with the
noticeable, certain exercises, certain cult rituals — in short,
as I have just set forth. In such matters spiritual research alone
documents do not bear out at every step the results of spiritual
the spiritual world, that maintained the cohesion of his being when
times, except that then the rays, so to speak, of the spiritual Sun
kingdoms of Nature from their spiritual aspect before descending to
physically permeated by the psycho-spiritual forces that constitute
as comprehensive as the world, and there one's spiritual activity
yonder in the spiritual world houses are not built with tellurian
spiritual melos. What we know as music is
into himself, comprehending his spiritual self, but when his
spiritual self learned about the body as well. In all the old
the spiritual world, just as man is placed by his physical body into
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Title: Esoteric Studies: Easter: Lecture III: The Secret of the Moon
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to understand our relationship to spiritual reality.
age that of the vast cosmos, which expresses its spirituality in the
psycho-spiritual element pervades the physical organism and
In the human being a unified psycho-spiritual element manifests
itself, held together by the ego. But spiritual observation discloses
psycho-spiritual entity, but in a multiplicity, an immeasurable,
limitless multitude of spiritual beings that reveal themselves
related to this spiritual multiplicity in the stars as is physical
is present in an invisible but all the more spiritual way than when
— now wholly physical, now wholly spiritual, and we have the
rhythmic alternation of its physical and spiritual expression.
are the spiritual emanations of the new Moon; so that his ability to
wholly permeated by spirituality, comprising a multiplicity of
spiritual beings. I have repeatedly explained that when the Moon
bodies but in a spiritual form, these passed with the Moon out into
psycho-spiritual constituents of the Moon, remembering that again the
life of this spirituality in the Moon depends upon the manner in
spiritual beings of the Moon direct their gaze primarily to what is
forces from the other planets. During these periods of spiritual
ritual to the Moon-beings.
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Title: Esoteric Studies: Easter: Lecture IV: Decline of the Mystery System and the Rise of Freedom, I-A-O is Man, Aristotle's Categories
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to understand our relationship to spiritual reality.
in the entire evolution of humanity. Really everything of a spiritual
that the Mysteries were all-powerful in guiding the spiritual
with the coming of a more spiritual age they will develop what they
vision, the experience of the spiritual such as can be attained by
enlightenment and a spiritual life of humanity is really not
spiritual as they have evolved during the course of human history; if
spiritual significance of outer events, to understand how these carry
spiritual meaning from one age over into another. For the time being
must enter into the particular manner in which the spiritual element
establishment of the annual Easter Festival grew out of a spiritual
Moon observations — by what I might call the spiritual Moon
spiritual weaving life within the cosmic ether. When members of the
the spiritual atmosphere of the Ephesian Sanctuary as with a
part of the ritual ran something as follows — and one who could
steps of the descent from the spiritual
From what I have described you can readily see that the spiritual
in the spiritual sunlight flooding the Moon: in other Mysteries the
to be an outwardly fortuitous event can be of great spiritual
centuries! What a wealth of spiritual light and wisdom had suffused
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Title: Easter Festival: Lecture I: The Mysteries of Adonis, -or- The Evolution of Our Festivals from the Ancient Mysteries
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to understand our relationship to spiritual reality.
Among many ancient peoples we find celebrations whose rituals
the spiritual world. He was permitted to see, and did see, the
spiritual vision. They knew henceforth that they stood not
merely in the world of the senses, but in the spiritual world
“The Mystery ritual is an image of events in the
spiritual world, of what occurs in the cosmos; the public
rituals in turn are a likeness of the Mysteries.” No
is, in the vastness of the astral and spiritual cosmos.
of spiritual vision were taught appropriate truths in the
cultic rituals, which symbolized what occurred in the
Mysteries. These rituals, such as the Adonis cult, that took
their inner nature they arise anew in the spiritual world. The
thousands of years people had gained knowledge of the spiritual
of the old ritual impossible. Human beings on earth could no
spiritual realities, so that the substance of the Mystery of
spiritual immortality by underscoring nature's transience.
spring. People adopted material symbols for spiritual
departed soul arose out of earthly death into spiritual
the spiritual world was placed before them in the image of the
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Title: Easter Festival: Lecture II: Moon-Birth and Sun-Birth
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to understand our relationship to spiritual reality.
psycho-spiritual development that has made us focus less and
in the spiritual world as a being of spirit and soul, is
devotion to them in ritual and prayer, this was the substance
spiritual vision.
Religions that focused on the moon and the spiritual beings
the effect that the forces spiritually connected with the sun
whole physical and etheric nature, the spiritual sun forces
including exercises and cult rituals, began to be applied
meaning. About such things spiritual observation does, after
spiritual research, provided things are seen in the right
solar birth people understood that in the sun's spiritual rays
support us and carry us out into the spiritual world; they
spiritually to the sun, it was the mission of Jesus of Nazareth
spiritual sun entered into people, whereas here the primordial
with the kingdoms of nature from their spiritual aspect before
the part of himself physically permeated by the soul-spiritual
recalling it. By contrast, no houses are built in the spiritual
that exists in the spiritual world is entirely spiritual;
himself, coming to know himself spiritually, but as spirit he
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Title: Easter Festival: Lecture III: The Secret of the Moon
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to understand our relationship to spiritual reality.
of the spirituality pervading the universe, spirituality
the cosmos as a whole we have to do in spiritual
limitless multitude of spiritual beings. Some of these express
This many-faceted heavenly spirituality is related to
spiritual manner than when it appears in the physical light as
spiritual way, always rhythmically alternating between
outside of our etheric bodies. Conversely, the spiritual forces
permeated with spirit; it bears a multiplicity of spiritual
space but also a class of spiritual beings who had lived on
earth in spiritual rather than physical form and who were
activity of the moon's spiritual beings is entirely determined
kind of spiritual observation one actually became a light-being
the power of the spiritual sun. The initiate observed
earthly, unite themselves spiritually with the moon, and from
process of resurrection, which was symbolized by the rituals of
spiritual world after three days. For reasons I have already
spiritual. In later times, however, when people no longer
within us. This must be viewed with spiritual eyes and is not
again in the spiritual world.”
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Title: Easter Festival: Lecture IV: Decline of the Mystery System and the Rise of Freedom, I-A-O is Man, Aristotle's Categories
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to understand our relationship to spiritual reality.
essentially all of humanity's spiritual life and
guidance of spiritual life.
dawns that is once again more spiritual, the current
with esteem and reverence the spiritual knowledge and
nor humanity's spiritual life would be possible.
reverence in ourselves by understanding how the spiritual has
events pass spiritual contents on from one age to another. For
[The School for Spiritual Science, which was
particular way in which the world's spirituality lived within
a spiritual appreciation of the constellation of the sun and
spiritual observatory on the moon makes etheric forces
the creative spiritual forces pervading the cosmic ether. When
ether was a truly profound experience. Indeed, the spiritual
his descent out of the spiritual world. As he did so, however,
light permeated the spiritual life of Ephesus. In fact, all
spiritual life at Ephesus. They assure us repeatedly that
actually be of great significance in the world's spiritual
experienced throughout the centuries, how much spiritual light
whose spiritual life both had of course participated in an
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Title: Festival of Easter: Lecture 1: The Mysteries of Adonis, -or- The Evolution of Our Festivals from the Ancient Mysteries
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to understand our relationship to spiritual reality.
central point. This statue represented Adonis the spiritual
spiritual world, and what takes place in the cosmos is a model
astro-spiritual spaces of the cosmos.
life were not fitted to receive direct vision of the spiritual
inner reality he rises again in the spiritual world. The
of the spiritual world through the death and resurrection of
mankind into what was spiritual declined more and more. The
spiritual content of the Mystery of Golgotha could no longer
spiritual.
accepts substance as a symbol of what is spiritual, because he
demonstrate the immortality of spiritual things, as
death to spiritual immortality.
destiny of these in the physical, psychic, and spiritual

Title: Festival of Easter: Lecture 2: Moon-Birth and Sun-Birth
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to understand our relationship to spiritual reality.
of the world has gone through a spiritual evolution which has
spiritual world, where in pre-earthly times he had lived as a
psycho-spiritual being, into physical life, he was filled with
documents, not by what is observed with the help of spiritual
existed in the moon as spiritual Beings, belonged to a later
what the forces that are spiritually connected with the Sun do
generally, the spiritual Sun-forces free him from this
things spiritual observation alone can speak. And when once it
particular the investigations made by spiritual science? Your
spiritual Sunlight the power of Christ, the Son, was active,
These forces preserved him, bore him out into the spiritual
as it were, of the Spiritual sun that
kingdoms of Nature; he knew them from their spiritual side
by the soul and spiritual forces which were man before he came
universe. Here he learnt to know his spiritual nature. This was
built above in the spiritual world as they are here with the
it is spiritual Melos. Earthly music is something projected
by getting to know himself as spiritual being,
but when this spiritual part of him learnt further to know the
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Title: Festival of Easter: Lecture 3: The Secret of the Moon
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to understand our relationship to spiritual reality.
spirituality existing in the wide spaces of the cosmos, as
universe, spiritual perception finds the expression not of a
multiplicity of spiritual Beings, who reveal themselves in the
this multiplicity of spirituality living in the stars is
spiritual way than when we see its physical light at the time
at another time spiritually. We have therefore a constant
spiritual manifestation of the moon.
the other hand, that which streams spiritually from the moon,
composed of a plurality of Spiritual Beings.
kind of physical body but in a spiritual form, how they were
its physical-etheric and its psychic-spiritual nature, only
whole spiritual life of the moon is dependent on the manner in
in a pictorial way I might say: the Spiritual Beings of the
spiritual observation a man living in such Mysteries was a
the spiritual sun within him. He had seen it. He had reached a
consciousness of the extent to which he bore the spiritual sun
spiritual.
for the living connection between man and the spiritual nature
spiritual world. In the mystery of the spring season it was
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Title: Festival of Easter: Lecture 4: Decline of the Mystery System and the Rise of Freedom, I-A-O is Man, Aristotle's Categories
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to understand our relationship to spiritual reality.
Everything spiritual that passed through the world in ancient
guidance of all spiritual life.
greater spirituality, men must begin to develop what in their
appreciation, without reverence and true knowledge, a spiritual
appreciation and reverence for what is spiritual that has
events point to spiritual facts, and carry over what is
spiritual from one age into another. This is mainly possible
spiritual things of the world were cultivated in the
spiritual observation of the constellations of the sun and
forces of the moon — or rather through the spiritual
the Mysteries of Ephesus the whole ritual practised by the
really directed towards participating in the spiritual blending
breathed like a magic sigh through the spiritual atmosphere of
from the spiritual world. At the same time the consciousness of
And Saturn's age-old spiritual inwardness consecrates thee to
From all I have described you can gather that the spiritual
spiritualized by this astral light as man is ensouled by
those who belonged to this Temple! How much of spiritual light
the spiritual world are contained, as a world-alphabet, within
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Title: Occult Movement: Lecture One: Seership and Thinking
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Ways of thinking and the corresponding spiritual and social structures
have some understanding of the spiritual process of human
centuries and millennia man participated in spiritual life to
man's spiritual vision in those times was exceedingly
the spiritual world, and the Mystery of Golgotha came in
spiritual development, we shall find that in respect of
spiritual knowledge, men were in a comparatively fortunate
spiritual world through direct vision. Just as men of the
the spiritual world; it was concrete reality to them. So that
spiritual world. There were, of course, always individuals
the spiritual world is not broken, and indeed it continued
of the spiritual world is not the same as seership. Just as
reflection about the spiritual worlds.
to see into the spiritual world, steadily diminished, while
the number of those who had theories about the spiritual
who knew that there is a spiritual world and also knew what
is to be found in the spiritual world, but they had never
nothing whatever of the spiritual world, knew that it exists,
the faculty of spiritual vision deep down in the
spiritual world, who knew that just as we are surrounded by
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Title: Occult Movement: Lecture Two: Mediumistic Methods
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Ways of thinking and the corresponding spiritual and social structures
with the position I have to take in the spiritual Movement,
investigation practised in Spiritual Science and those that
communications received by that Society from the spiritual
the introduction of our spiritual-scientific direction of
developed to make ascent to the spiritual realms
pursued in Spiritual Science and what was being pursued by
have in Spiritual Science was unknown in the Theosophical
Lodges and Orders experiments were made whereby spiritual
to demonstrate that influences from the spiritual world
expected that through the mediums genuine spiritual laws
Spiritual Science an entirely new method, one which takes
mediums of all types that a spiritual world exists, had been
men that there is indeed a spiritual world. That is what they
pursues special aims, leads people to the spiritual world,
spiritual development on the Earth must be at hand. I can
revelations from the spiritual worlds.
spiritual world. And now think of what possibilities this
many, many things from the spiritual world by means of her
from the spiritual world. And so she always made reference to
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Title: Occult Movement: Lecture Three: Materialism of the 19th Century
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Ways of thinking and the corresponding spiritual and social structures
from the point of view of Spiritual Science great
spiritual world. To conceive that the whole universe is
counterfeit idea of materialism, an idea in which spiritual
way in which we are bringing Spiritual Science into
strikes us is this: Spiritual Science is there because it has
arise when the attempt with Spiritualism was made in the

Title: Occult Movement: Lecture Four: The Attempt Made by the Occultists to Avert the Lapse into Materialism
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Ways of thinking and the corresponding spiritual and social structures
these lectures about the development of spiritual life in the
materialistic outlook by means of the spiritual Movement of
spiritual development of the nineteenth century to the
something about the spiritual world. Materialism was
knew something about the spiritual worlds great confusion had
matter about which, if a spiritual Movement is to make any
spiritual streams—between Ahriman and Lucifer. I can
is a matter of clarity concerning the spiritual world, very
particular kind of confusion in spiritual understanding. If
spiritual conception of the world. Just think of it —
whose heart was longing for the spiritual! When that is the
case, such a man will endeavour to find the spiritual in
spiritual a materialistic form.
mislead others into envisaging the spiritual in a material
which they long. In this way certain spiritual truths could
materialism, but the longing for a spiritual world was also
the spiritual world in a materialistic form, and so it was
an ostensibly spiritual teaching
spiritual outlook is combined with an eminently materialistic
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Title: Occult Movement: Lecture Five: The Eighth Sphere
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describing the development of the spiritual Movement in the
air is around us, so is the Spiritual around us; we have to
look for the Spiritual within what is actually physical in
spiritual is round about us, so we must also look for the
Physical substance there is more spiritualised than anywhere
kinds of truths relating to the spiritual world should be
were led to the spiritual world, for Blavatsky's
it men's minds were directed to the spiritual world.
menace to the spiritual development of humanity.
of a path into the spiritual world must not be given blindly,
studies of Spiritual Science I have endeavoured to develop
objection to this spiritual-scientific Movement. When I made
prevailing among us must cease, for Spiritual Science is
for being easy-going about presenting Spiritual Science is
spiritual-scientific Movement to develop.
crucial point in the development of our Spiritual
result is a kind of spiritual sleep characterised by

Title: Occult Movement: Lecture Six: The Dangers of Aberation Along the Path into the Spiritual World
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Ways of thinking and the corresponding spiritual and social structures
that the path of development which the spiritual-scientific
approach concepts of the spiritual worlds, we become in a
and again be repeated, that the approach to the spiritual
means that when we adopt the spiritual-scientific view of
to grasp the reality of the spiritual worlds, it is a matter
existence man should be shut off from the spiritual world and
gaze to the starry heavens and beheld the different spiritual
they are spiritual, towards the periphery. A soul who lives
towards the centre, so far as they are spiritual to the
periphery, so does our friend belong to the most spiritual.
entire spiritual being moved indeed around the sun of this
with Spiritual Science we are really meeting the demands of
fall into utter confusion. Spiritual Science must establish
spiritual world, from the spheres of Jupiter, Saturn, and so
spiritual Movement depends upon our being fully conscious
connection with our spiritual-scientific Movement? There can
the right path to knowledge of the spiritual world. Needless
connection between the world of the senses and the spiritual
spiritual world a reality, upon feeling and experiencing our
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Title: Occult Movement: Lecture Seven: Investigation of the Life between Death and a New Birth
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Ways of thinking and the corresponding spiritual and social structures
spiritual-scientific Movement such as ours must be one which
Mind-Soul, and the Consciousness Soul (Spiritual Soul). This
opportunities must never be forced. In spiritual
of course quite another matter when things of the spiritual
worlds are involved. In the spiritual worlds, the existence
investigation in the spiritual world is a living
Threshold of the spiritual world. One enters the spiritual
it may enter the spiritual world as a very mature soul. It is
the necessary store of spiritual strength may be acquired for
the Earth unless impulses come to them from the spiritual
help he received from the spiritual world. If we investigate
The spirituality there present in the universe is connected
company of spiritual beings — but these
spiritual beings are human souls. Many of these children are
penetrating into these spiritual worlds.
found when consciousness of the spiritual world awakens
is not asleep in the ordinary way but is in the spiritual
the spiritual world with full responsibility, is asked all
spiritual world, we find that comparatively soon after his
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Title: Occult Movement: Lecture Eight: The Purpose of the Use of Symbols
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Ways of thinking and the corresponding spiritual and social structures
spiritual-scientific Movement arise, naturally in a way, from
Spiritual Science. Right thinking is essential here. It must
concealing the spiritual behind nature, so have the
concealing the spiritual behind the soul. We may therefore
say: Spiritual Science is obstructed from the side of natural
science because of the desire to keep concealed the spiritual
religious bodies because it is held that the spiritual behind
oppose what Spiritual Science brings into the open, because
literature of Spiritual Science and who feels something of
entailed a certain spiritual effort.
was obliged to investigate, to exert spiritual energy. Had he
spiritual energy. But he received no help and was therefore
question is: What spiritual force was used for deciphering
Spiritual behind Nature. But natural science with its
of Spiritual Science not only into his brain as theory but
enters into the field of operation of the spiritual forces
something of the spiritual in nature are not willing to bring
as a man passes the Threshold leading to the spiritual beings
we enter a world of living spiritual beings. The remarkable
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Title: Occult Movement: Lecture Nine: Investigation of the Mineral World
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Ways of thinking and the corresponding spiritual and social structures
the closeness of his relationship to the spiritual world will
those spiritual beings of whom I spoke yesterday and whom man
spiritual hosts — beings who are out for destruction
task of Spiritual Science to make men realise that a great
engulf the human soul. And the further task of Spiritual
said that without Spiritual Science, man will fall more and
more deeply into scepticism; but if Spiritual Science is
is the budding life, the preparation for Spiritual Science.
prevails; in the spiritual world, threefoldness.
laws of the spiritual world, for in the spiritual world
When man crosses the Threshold of the spiritual world and
of these spiritual beings. That is why they strive to
in these spiritual beings, higher forces. But these beings
within our nature. Our progress in Spiritual Science depends
which in us are lower forces but in these spiritual beings
border of the Threshold of the spiritual world when, instead
man passes into the spiritual world and lives on until the
that there is a spiritual world to which belongs the inmost
through an entirely spiritual form of existence; they try to
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Title: Occult Movement: Lecture Ten: Human Consciousness between Objective and Subjective Reality
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Ways of thinking and the corresponding spiritual and social structures
Consciousness or Spiritual Soul and moving towards that of
which Spiritual Science must place before us, for it is
Spiritual Science should be aware. Men must strive as time
The Threshold of the Spiritual World,
in it and to bring the spiritual world into the ordinary
to bring the spiritual world into the Ego. It is
knowledge of the spiritual world that should be
brought into the ordinary consciousness, not the spiritual
through which you will experience the spiritual world,
ordinary form and yet look into the spiritual world, this
afterwards. In short, we must not expect the spiritual world
words come from the spiritual world. Our friends are often
would like to enter the spiritual world with the ordinary
can be brought about only by a spiritual-scientific
approach of these spiritual Powers behind the veil. Modern
spiritual Powers. This was quite clear to him. But the modern
ship of Spiritual Science must be steered between these two
dangers. This is extremely important. Spiritual Science must
into which a person may fall in his spiritual life if he
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Title: History of Art: Lecture X: Disputa of Raphael - the School of Athens
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History as the image of inner spiritual impulses.
The artistic representation of imaginative-spiritual imagery of
spiritual world. In the centre we can see the Holy Ghost
are actual genii figures, spiritual individualities.
at the clouds with true faith, who imagine the spiritual world
experience as far more spiritual than we tend to do usually.
permeate their Christian thinking with highly spiritual
Christ, the Christ as He was in the spiritual worlds, while
supplementary. To search for The Christ amidst spiritual
spirituality was their essential striving, and that came out of
the old spiritual — then the atavistic — world
spiritual.
spiritual imagination for the unfolding of their culture. This
to. It was Europe's fate: pushing back spiritual ideas, curbing
spiritual ideas were being suppressed. A result of this
spiritual impulses into the East. There they remained. One can
of the need to repel spiritual impulses towards the East
events through the centuries, while spiritual life became
worked as spiritual impulses superficially in the East, still
existed spiritually. People swam inside it and had no clue what
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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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History as the image of inner spiritual impulses.
the spiritual life, an importance of being, which up to now has
image which has been born directly out of the spiritual world.
imagine that behind the picture is the spiritual world and out
of the spiritual world this image has appeared: just so are the
character of this image as it is born out of the spiritual
final spiritual expression. It goes much further. Among other
representations which speak directly out of the spiritual
than what came directly out of the spiritual world like line,
encounter with the essential spiritual events. One might say,
contemplation out of the spiritual world. Events directly
which are glimpses from the spiritual worlds, are depicted in
out of the imagination people made up of what the spiritual
surface of the painting we can only imagine the spiritual world
of the spiritual world itself, as an experience of being, not
East was petrified spiritually, majestic, serene, but still,
imagine the spiritual world, something in addition to what the
after. Thus there is not something like a spiritual realm
you see how the laws which we search for in spiritual science
events without any indication coming out of the spiritual

Title: History of Art: Lecture XII: Greek and Early Christian Art, Symbolic Signs, the Mystery of Gold
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recognise what revelations the runes revealed from spiritual
spiritually beautiful people. Both streams merge. This we can
spiritual side, from magic which was used to try and form signs
which came forth purely out of the spiritual realm and to some
naturalistic as well as art was simultaneously spiritual for
spiritual life. Just as the church wanted to bring signs out of
spiritual world should have been included. On the one side Rome
the naturalistic depiction of spiritualised nature taking the
real spiritual world.
spirituality working in outer reality. In the 5th
are unable to imagine the streaming in of the spiritual, of the
geographical surroundings something spiritual is simultaneously
blind but who becomes inwardly, spiritually seeing through the
mankind again, that is the mystery of gold! Not only spiritual
real understanding of the history of art in a spiritual sense.

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spiritual depiction of the cosmos. When you look at a Zeus
Spiritual All rules: the creativity of the cosmos condensed in
universal spirituality, absorbed by this spirituality which
belongs to the cosmos and through the spiritual aspect being
individual spirituality during earth evolution to enter into
that the Greek had no understanding of individual spirituality
contemporary art, an expression of something spiritual,
individually human conforms according to spiritual lines and
thing appears again: Romanism prepares to snatch spiritual
the spiritual cosmic, not the Copernican materialistic cosmic,
but the spiritual cosmic — sparkling everywhere, yet at the
one might say forms originating out of the spiritual world
spiritual-naturalistic lives in it! Here one gradually enters
the spiritual world, shaped initially by our first efforts

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call it in Spiritual Science, and the cognition of which we
anthroposophical Spiritual Science the knowledge of higher
to the point of penetrating into the spiritual world. As men in
knowledge the sage returned from his sojourn in spiritual
person, but into the spiritual world. And if
person, we reach the Egos of individual spiritual Beings
higher wisdom should not enter this spiritual world without
represented, how he stood firmly within the spiritual
Spiritual Science, customs that otherwise seem very puzzling in
regulated spiritual study develops normally and profitably, may
path leading to the spiritual worlds. But in a degenerate
right path into the spiritual world can be taken only when we
revelations of the spiritual world received through
Inspiration. But the spiritual life that still flowed through
conceive the source of the primeval wisdom as a spiritual life
this weakened form of spiritual life only something to be
confronted by a different stream of spiritual life.
respect, as little can a form of spiritual life be made young
moving from East to West a stream of spiritual life that must
Scepticism is simply the outcome of the march of spiritual life
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Title: Golden Blade, 1962: Lecture 2: Paths to the Spirit in East and West
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Eastern spirituality for approaching the super-sensible
penetration of the spiritual world was a more or less
the spiritual world, must attempt things in a different way.
way of spiritual development. A reactionary harking back
to the spiritual life of prehistoric times or of man's early
integrated organically with our spiritual life as a whole. This
The Philosophy of Spiritual Activity.
The Philosophy of Spiritual Activity,
The Philosophy of Spiritual Activity.
The Philosophy of Spiritual Activity
Philosophy of Spiritual Activity
The Philosophy of Spiritual Activity
The Philosophy of Spiritual Activity
science if I had written works of spiritual science from the
pure philosophy and science to writing about spiritual science.
The Philosophy of Spiritual Activity
The Philosophy of Spiritual Activity,
Spiritual research demands far more of us than research in a
spiritual element which actuates the processes of growth. We
a spiritual soul force works on and through the human being;
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turn connected with Spiritual Beings. And just as the physical forces
spiritual forces of the stars have an influence upon the
the East revealed the existence of Spiritual Beings in the stars and
it was to these Spiritual Beings, not to the physical stars, that men
course that Spiritual Beings belonging to Saturn, Jupiter and the
Jahve or Jehovah was connected with the spirituality of the Moon. The
connected with the spiritual forces of the Moon. This is not a mere
spiritual world. And this is because their veneration has always been
spiritual influence proceeding directly from the Sun entered
average man of to-day who cannot take these things in their spiritual sense,
in the rituals of the Roman Catholic Church make no reference to what I
therefore, of leading men to a real knowledge of the Spiritual was
spiritual science. But Rome conquered — that is to say,
Spiritual Science. It is not surprising that the representatives of

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pagan peoples took account of spiritual conditions and celebrated
the spiritual world. And in order that this might be brought every
man lives on after death in the spiritual world. When nature sheds
spiritual world three days after death. Their attention was turned
the spiritual world. The very season of the year played a part, for
But by that time men had lost all understanding of the spiritual
spiritual world, and so they said: In the autumn there is no
the third Sun: the spiritual .Sun. Like man, the Sun has body, soul
What we have to do to-day is to emphasise that the Spiritual
again in the spiritual world as a being of spirit-and-soul. Such
universe in a spiritual way, in the material world they needed an
Festival was to be an essentially spiritual celebration. Men
spiritualised.
beheld the Spiritual behind every sense-phenomenon, but of the
them to the Spiritual. The man was a Russian and he made a journey
concerned as to how men might be led to the Spiritual. And so what in
was the intention ... but instead of becoming spiritual, everything
age must emerge from materialism into a life of spiritual knowledge; they must
learn to understand things in a spiritual way, above all such things
again in the spiritual world. This, too, is part of the act of
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yielded by Spiritual Science leads to the discovery that at the time
that in this way man's freedom is affected. But wherever deeper, spiritual
Christianity came into the world, the Jews had a deeply spiritual
account only of the spiritual law of nature. — If a Jew were
recognised spiritual beings in all the phenomena of nature — a
multiplicity of spiritual beings.
spiritual beings are actually present in nature and anyone who denies their
existence denies reality. To deny that there are spiritual beings in nature
think that a room is empty. — People disbelieve in spiritual
recognition of this one God and repudiated all other spiritual beings
spiritual beings ... Suppose two peoples are at war in spite of the
truth, speak of a single Divine-Spiritual Being. In daily life, too,
free spiritual activity; and God the Holy Spirit, who awakens in man
the consciousness of having within him a spirituality that is
Christianity could not do otherwise than picture the spiritual
what is around him if he sees the Spiritual only in and through his
medicine because they were no longer able to perceive the spiritual
East, from Persia and so forth, saw the Spiritual — that is to
retained a certain abstract spirituality but it has assumed, so to
Spiritual Science and Medicine.
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Title: Cosmic Workings: Lecture I
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Spiritual Science? What remains when one has cut out the physical
appeared which according to the expectation of Spiritual Science
statements of Spiritual Science. You can gather from this that
pronouncements made out of spiritual knowledge can enter quite
these things through spiritual science if we are to know anything
This is what Spiritual Science must call attention to again and again,

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question of nutrition and its relation to the spiritual world. As you
relation of the spiritual world to the whole process of
earth's substances. In Spiritual Science, therefore, we must be
is already in a spiritualised condition when it reaches the brain.
spiritual. But this is not the right way to become spiritual, for
delusions. There is always some disturbance in the spiritual life
incapable of genuinely spiritual thinking. It is through the front
declares: All this talk about spirituality streaming down from the
related in a very special way to man's spiritual activity; it
cannot be as active as it ought to be. So that what is spiritual in
spiritual world; this being of soul-and-spirit unites with what is
coming from the spiritual world unites with what is developing
Spiritual has already streamed towards the plant, is already allied
it grows in the darkness, it has no bond with the Spiritual; the
being of soul-and-spirit descending from the spiritual world
Writ. The Spiritual is an active power in nature. If man prevents the
Spiritual from having access to his head because by eating potato
from the Spiritual. That too is something that escapes notice. God
the scientists we are called deluded spiritualists, by the

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things must be investigated by Spiritual Science to-day. The other

Title: Cosmic Workings: Lecture VI
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case, although these things can only be explained by Spiritual

Title: Die Soziale Frage als Bewußtseinsfrage: Lecture VIII
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Realismus, Spiritualismus und Materialismus, da gibt es
ahrimanische Materialismus, der luziferische Spiritualismus als
wollen, Idealist oder Realist, Materialist oder Spiritualist
nicht weiter zu streiten über Spiritualismus und
Spiritualismus hinzufügen wird. So

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war es gerade der Spiritualismus der Weltanschauung, welche dem

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sich einen Spiritualismus, dann sucht man durch alle
hinein. Und der Spiritualismus von heute? Der möchte
Geistworten von der Materie. Der Spiritualismus redet
in Materialismus und Spiritualismus. Der Materialismus versteht
nichts von der Materie, der Spiritualismus versteht nichts vom
materielle Spiritualität, sondern eine wirkliche geistige

Title: Apokalypse: Vortrag I
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Spiritualität heraus wirken will. Es muß wieder etwas
müssen, mit der inneren Spiritualität des Menschen

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können, indem wir die Spiritualität der Lehre
viel vorangegangen ist, was einer Spiritualisierung der
Spiritualität streben kann, das auch wirklich tut. Denn
das, was der Spiritualität widerstrebt, das wird da sein,
in den Zeiten, in denen wahrhafte Spiritualität auf der

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ausdrücken - der Abfall von der Spiritualität durch
Menschheit selber eine starke Spiritualität entwickeln
müssen. Denn nur durch die starke Spiritualität der

Title: Apokalypse: Vortrag XVI
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Bedürfnis nach Spiritualität lebt, und daß
die Kometensubstanz, sie gibt sie spiritualisiert wieder von

Title: Apokalypse: Vortrag XVIII
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Spiritualität mittlerweile in die Hand genommen haben,
kommen werden, wirkliche Spiritualität, wirkliche
die Spiritualität wirklich zu vertreten. Das ist

Title: History of Art: Lecture I: Cimabue, Giotto, and Other Italian Masters
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spiritual impulses.
of man's spiritual faculties towards the Cosmic, the Spiritual
spiritual Powers break through into this earthly life? What was
imagination. Thus, inner spiritual visions and imaginations were
Greece was overcome, in a spiritual sense Rome herself had been
life of spiritual vision. Such vision knew full well that the
all-embracing cosmic, spiritual spheres, directed to the
man had felt and conceived the Spiritual World hitherto. We today
we rather have before us an original spiritual vision
spiritual vision, there arose the new element of composition. See
spiritual events and processes of earthly life are portrayed in
impulse emancipating itself more and more from the Spiritual. In
Giotto and in the last two pictures the Spiritual still enters
Church Militant throughout the World is conceived as a spiritual
spiritual world (albeit lovingly, realistically inclined through
world, still lived within the Spiritual and could unite it with
out as a spiritual force over the whole. Here, for the most part,
case it was a spiritual light which shone through all their
His pure spiritual Being, — still you can read in the
abstract spiritual force. All this is expressed in the figures of
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Title: History of Art: Lecture II: Leonardo, Michelangelo and Raphael
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as a culmination of the spiritual stream of preceding ages, inasmuch as
spiritual life as a whole. It is even considered a failing of the
if he seeks once more to give Art its place in the spiritual life as
spiritual life of their time and created out of this. In saying this,
I do not mean that they borrowed their subject-matter from the spiritual
its living connection with the spiritual life as a whole. At the same
interplay of the spiritual above and the Earth beneath it, with the
feeling into Rome. As an artist he achieved a kind of spiritual conquest
of that time could offer to a man's spiritual life. Whatever of ancient
Florence. What Michelangelo experienced through all the spiritual life
truth, be felt today, unless we transplant ourselves through Spiritual
connection between the earthly and the spiritual realms, and so forth.
lectures given at Leipzig, on “Christ and the Spiritual World,”
— the spiritual. See now the succession of the Sibyls; observe
spiritual life. Although he was a man of war, nevertheless, in his inmost
of spiritual Rome. Of Julius II we must not fail to realise that he
was a man of spiritual aims, thoroughly in earnest with all that lay
I said just now, to make Rome spiritually great.
and must be permeated by what comes down from Spiritual Worlds as real
sees the significance of outward political events for the spiritual

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spiritual being that underlies all Nature is revealed.
too, inasmuch as it manifests the underlying spirituality of
the manifestation of the underlying Spiritual that is expressed in
movements, and something Heavenly and Spiritual which lies far
Divine and spiritual, transcending the individual human being,
Spirit. !le see three stages, as it were: the Spiritual Beings

Title: History of Art: Lecture IV: Mid-European and Southern Art
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together. Spiritual scientific investigations will in course of
of the Mid-European spiritual life, there arose what we may call
our perceptions from the Divine-spiritual in the Cosmos, which
from spiritual regions into the realms of sense. For this was,
must remember that this dates from about 1240. Spiritual scientific
look up in community, in congregation, to the spiritual world.
Intellectual, or Feeling Soul into that of the Spiritual Soul.
only learn to understand these things of Spiritual Science rightly
our thoughts to her soul as she works on in the Spiritual Worlds

Title: History of Art: Lecture V: Rembrandt
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by the activity of the Spiritual that ensouls humanity.
many people. He felt that the spiritual and intellectual life of men
had lost connection, as it were, with the mother-soil of spiritual life.
cultivation of artistic taste. You have lost the Mother-Earth of spiritual
spiritual life had declined considerably in Europe in the last decades of
was too much a child of his age to realise that a renewal of all spiritual
we, in our movement of Spiritual Science, are trying now to bring before
the need for a spiritual-scientific movement. Most of them, after all,
impulse did not carry him far enough to reach that spiritual life which
to a spiritual height. For that which floods through the realms of space as
we say that the Spiritual Soul, above all, is now wrestling its way into
epoch of development of the conscious Spiritual Soul that man should turn
well-spring of Mid-European spiritual life. For Rembrandt creates out

Title: History of Art: Lecture VI: Dutch and Flemish Painting
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with the development of the Spiritual Soul. In the Dutch and Flemish
characteristic way. We see in every detail how the Spiritual Soul begins
Spiritual Science, we should still find in this artistic evolution a
wonderful confirmation of all the differences which Spiritual Science
the Spiritual Soul was not yet so consciously born as afterwards. The
Truly, this corresponds to the age when the Spiritual Soul is born —
development of the Spiritual Soul this implies, to begin with, the
the deeper spiritual meaning of this picture; it is, if I may so describe

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from the Spiritual World. Less concerned with naturalistic expressions
of form and color, they try to reproduce the spiritual Imaginations,
revealed out of the Spiritual World. Thenceforward you will see this
out of the spiritual beings that are bound up with the life of Nature.
that is, in quest of spiritual knowledge, by striving upward with all
time, it is true — but anthroposophical Spiritual Science gains
down from earlier representations of Myth or Cult or Ritual, and taken
with the Event, showing how they were still aware of the spiritual relationships.
the events are shown thoroughly in connection with the Spiritual World

Title: History of Art: Lecture VIII: Raphael and the Northern Artists
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of the soul in human form through the spiritual world, would no longer be
attainable today for those who have not Spiritual Science. The animal
everywhere, where reference is made to the Spiritual part of man
forms — not symbolic, but corresponding to spiritual Realities. And
or Soul of the Higher Feelings to that of the Spiritual Soul, phenomena
of the Spiritual Soul were drawing near. The evolution of the Spiritual
deeply on the penetration of the Spiritual world into the physical.
the spiritual world; inasmuch as the seeds of decay and destruction
to paint, to represent the spiritual Mysteries, still lies inherent.
in evolution. The possibility to paint the spiritual Mysteries out of
be brought about through the inspiration of Spiritual Science, of the
that, I need not say, can only be the Spiritual. In the portrayal of
today.) But the Spiritual that pervades the works of this Art is still
works of Art, with the underlying laws of the spiritual life. Then will
spiritual Imagination and artistic fancy join together and create a
other than the Spiritual.
absorbed, as though by an inner kinship with the spiritual nature of

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or fundamental forms, in which is expressed the spiritual Law and Essence
the spiritual ... The ancient Greek was living in it still. When he
moved his hand, he knew that the Spiritual — the etheric body
being in this striving towards a living conception of the Spiritual
of course, having any knowledge of Spiritual Science — arrived at an
the less correct for an age that had not Spiritual Science. His explanation
the spiritual world.

Title: Man/Symphony: Lecture I: Man as Microcosm
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animal worlds in the context of spiritual evolution. The third group
- the purely spiritual beings the complement plants and animals - and
Mysteries to you, I drew your attention to the fact that spiritual
formation of their plumage. When we penetrate with spiritual
comprehension of nature which contains the spiritual within it, when
wonderful, when looked at spiritually, to turn one's gaze upwards to
vantage-point, one gazes with spiritual sight at this digestive
something of an immense spirituality.
The lion does not attain to this spirituality, much less the bird. In
modern Spiritual Science, one gains that great respect of which I have
position in spiritual cultures, can only be understood when one is
caterpillar something spiritual. It is as spiritual activity that the
the physical body, though certainly in a spiritual way, a kind of
spiritual light, weaves around the thoughts, as it were, an inner
memory-thoughts in a spiritual way.

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animal worlds in the context of spiritual evolution. The third group
- the purely spiritual beings the complement plants and animals - and
actually lives spiritually in the organism of the cow. For if you
organized spiritually in the cow by this earth-heaviness, you learn to
convincing way into the unspiritual, purely mechanistic civilization
understand the organization of the cow in its inner spirituality. This
spiritual life.
alone will ensure the spiritualisation of what would otherwise become
physical gaze upwards with his spiritual gaze downwards, when he shall
direct his physical gaze downwards with his spiritual gaze upwards,
his spiritual gaze in the opposite direction towards the west —
spiritual gaze and physical gaze to interpenetrate each other, then he

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animal worlds in the context of spiritual evolution. The third group
- the purely spiritual beings the complement plants and animals - and
physical substance, namely spiritual substance. This last is the basis
universe which, as spiritual formations, are connected with physical
nature. What they have is spiritual substance. When we look upon what
upon what is outside the earthly, we become aware of spiritual
Today people know little of spiritual substance. That is why they also
spiritual — the human being — as though he, too, only
bears both spiritual and physical substance in himself in so
as having as its basis what is in fact spiritual substance. So that,
to say: The lower man actually shows us a formation in spiritual
spiritual substance. So that, when we approach the head, we must
represent the human being in such a way that we allow spiritual
where in particular physical substance is contained. Spiritual
with spiritual substance, as if this is their essence. In the case of
swimming in the spiritual substance, whereas the head presents a
distinguish between spiritual forces and earthly, physical forces.
the limb-system and digestion the substance is spiritual, the forces
within it are spiritual. Spiritual forces play through the head;
physical forces play through the spiritual substance of the limb and
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animal worlds in the context of spiritual evolution. The third group
- the purely spiritual beings the complement plants and animals - and
I spoke to you from its spiritual aspect only a few days ago. Its
plants. For in truth those spiritual beings which are behind the

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animal worlds in the context of spiritual evolution. The third group
- the purely spiritual beings the complement plants and animals - and
spiritual substances; and I told you that the remarkable thing about
metabolic and limb system is spiritual whereas that of the head is
physical. Moreover in man's lower nature spiritual substance is
super-sensible spiritual forces, which are reflected in our thinking,
have spiritualized physical matter, and in the metabolic-limb-system
spiritual substantiality.
Now it is this spiritualized matter that we find to the greatest
spiritualized. When we look at a butterfly's wing we actually have
before us earthly matter in its most spiritualized form. Through the
it is the most spiritualized of all earthly substances.
The butterfly is the creature which lives entirely in spiritualized
earth-matter. And one can even see spiritually how in a certain way a
children, this joy in the spirituality fluttering about in the air,
spiritualized earth-substance into the spiritual world, and that
spiritualizing earthly matter, thus being able to accomplish what
earth-matter which has been to a certain degree spiritualized, but he
spiritualized earth-matter of his head into the spiritual world.
spiritualized earthly matter to the universe. One can actually say
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Title: Man/Symphony: Lecture VI: Evolution of Animals and Man
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animal worlds in the context of spiritual evolution. The third group
- the purely spiritual beings the complement plants and animals - and
imparted by the study of the cosmos through direct spiritual
spiritual world before his descent into earthly life, of what is
experienced in the spiritual world. Certainly they are earthly forms,
the earth. Then one who can thus gaze into the spiritual world says to
what exists in higher regions in a spiritual way. This is why, in the
physical metamorphoses of spiritual beings. It is not the spiritual
essentially a being of light, continually sends spiritualized
like to call this spiritualized earth-substance, which is sent forth
dies, so that the spiritualized matter from the bird-kingdom is rayed
into the corona and out into the cosmos. Thus in spiritual perception
spiritual world to the physical world, it is the butterfly corona,
this remarkable out-streaming of spiritualized earth-substance, which
everywhere seek for the spiritual. And it is only when one seeks for
the spiritual that one first comes upon the significance of the
in the purely spiritual world. It is, therefore, not to be wondered at

Title: Man/Symphony: Lecture VII: Gnomes, Undines, Sylphs, and Salamanders and their Relations to Ethers and Plants
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animal worlds in the context of spiritual evolution. The third group
- the purely spiritual beings the complement plants and animals - and
When spiritual vision is directed to the plant-world, we are
what they really send down and can perceive the roots with spiritual
to the underlying spiritual process.
completely enfilled with an inner element of spirituality which we can
only compare with the inner element of spirituality in the human eye,
secrets into themselves from what seeps down spiritually to them
cannot turn like a spiritual sense-organ outwards towards the
exceptionally delicate spirituality which is really in its element
is set in motion by the seagulls' flight there is a spiritual
sounding, a spiritual music which accompanies the ship.
current of air. It is in this spiritually sounding, moving element of
spiritual ideal form enter into the ground.
material know nothing of this spiritual ideal form. Thus at this point
fact, the spiritual midwives of plant-reproduction. Fructification
You see, because people do not recognize what is spiritual, do not
spiritual way.
related to it that, for spiritual vision, the bee is surrounded by an
spiritualize the physical matter which unites itself with them, and to
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Title: Man/Symphony: Lecture VIII: Gnomes, Undines, Sylphs, and Salamanders and their Relations to Various Animals
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animal worlds in the context of spiritual evolution. The third group
- the purely spiritual beings the complement plants and animals - and
soul-spiritual being without the help of his physical and etheric
It is the gnomes which, in a spiritual way, make good in the world
spiritually those creatures which are at a quite low stage. Those
spiritual support from the gnomes which I have just described.
inspiration it has become transparent, then his spiritual gaze
head-organization. The sylphs add to the birds in a spiritual way what
in a spiritual way, what the cow represents below in physical matter.
adversely, something which would lull them spiritually to sleep. We
to those creatures which are nearest to what is spiritual; they
spiritual world, he at once meets the subtleties of this world. Snares
— namely, to be attentive. The spiritualists can never manage
appears spiritually in the lower man which resembles what the brain is
takes place because the process passes over into the spiritual. In the
upper man the process is completed. What below is only spiritual,
spiritual brain. And if what is eliminated below were to be subjected
thrushes and blackbirds, which should really get this in a spiritual

Title: Man/Symphony: Lecture IX: Gnomes, Undines, Sylphs, and Salamanders and their Various Activities and Attitudes
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animal worlds in the context of spiritual evolution. The third group
- the purely spiritual beings the complement plants and animals - and
spiritual skin. At full moon they press the feeling of their existence
shining, mail-clad knights. They are clad in a kind of spiritual
aspect of these spiritual beings and to observe their special task,
undines and which have spiritual substantiality, provide the higher
spiritualized substance, and how they desire to give this
spiritualized substance over to the higher worlds in order to release
spiritualized matter. And all this passes over like microscopic comets
before the spiritual eyes of the higher hierarchies. They find their
highest bliss in being beheld by the gaze, by the spiritual eyes, of
in the spiritual. And again for the undines it is inexplicable that
have gnats and the like buzzing around one at night. But the spiritual

Title: Man/Symphony: Lecture X: The Origin of the Different Systems of Man: Metabolism, Rhythmic, Nerve
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animal worlds in the context of spiritual evolution. The third group
- the purely spiritual beings the complement plants and animals - and
Physical natural laws, etheric natural laws, are the characters of a script which depicts the spiritual world. We only understand these things when we are able to conceive them as written characters from spiritual worlds.
of spiritual existence that we must seek to discover what will
human organization capable of opening itself to spiritual influences,
cosmic body which, as the spiritual object most deserving of study, is
our spiritual gaze is directed further to the worlds of the first and
Cherubim, Thrones. If with our spiritual eye we are attentive to
of the spiritual evolution of mankind. These are the forces which
of spiritual evolution.
3.System of nerves and sensesSpiritual evolution.
sound development of man's spiritual possibilities presupposes a
development of man's spiritual nature — if you do not take your
spiritual processes of man.
The artist in education must work in a spiritual way with the forces
sphere of education is a process which has something spiritual as its
treatment of man in the spiritual sphere metamorphosed downwards into
into spiritual processes; and, working backwards, spiritual processes
can pass over into healing processes. If, on the other hand, spiritual
spiritual processes must again enter into a condition in which they
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Title: Man/Symphony: Lecture XI: Food, Digestion, Plants, and Carnivorous Animals
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animal worlds in the context of spiritual evolution. The third group
- the purely spiritual beings the complement plants and animals - and
into itself the spiritual which comes from above, which comes from
spiritual forces which here imbue the warmth-etherized earth-matter
spiritual-cosmic, and only then, with the help of what comes from the
spiritual cosmos, does it become re-solidified into the earthly
finds its union with the spiritual cosmos.
of the matter present within him and the spiritual of the cosmos. This
direct towards the spiritual! Spiritual desire-nature, desire-nature
grounded in the spiritual. During the old Saturn period — you
— the earth was entirely spiritual; it existed only in the
warmth-etheric element, it was entirely spiritual. It was out of the
spiritual that the earthly was first formed.
earthly-material evolved out of the spiritual. Scarcely, however, was
drive this longing towards the spiritual world. We must therefore
realm they may be enabled to strive towards the spiritual.
upwards towards the spiritual with such power that it leaves the
for the spiritual. For, when digestion is completed, what we have
it may there strive upwards towards the spiritual cosmos and enter
one possesses spiritual initiation-science, one simply cannot imagine
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Title: Man/Symphony: Lecture XII: Convention and Morals, Bones and Hatred
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animal worlds in the context of spiritual evolution. The third group
- the purely spiritual beings the complement plants and animals - and
into the spiritual. If — according to the ideas so frequently
the spiritual of the cosmos, to the beings whom we have called the
with the natural world — and take our start from the spiritual
The spiritual-moral impulses — well, for modern civilization these
degree the primal feeling for the moral-spiritual has receded in human
Hence the spiritual-moral has finally become a more or less
the Ten Commandments? Now from what source does the moral-spiritual
moral-spiritual in mankind, and this is what we may call human
moral-spiritual impulses in mankind, in so far as these play a role in
force of the social moral-spiritual impulses in mankind. And
fundamentally speaking, in so far as he is a spiritual being, man only
of the spiritual, of the soul, it follows that we must look for them
of what one possessed of the spiritual through instinctive
When man speaks of the spiritual today he refers at most to abstract
thoughts; this for him is the spiritual. If he finds these thoughts
instinctive clairvoyance did not see the spiritual in abstract
thoughts. It saw the spiritual in forms, in what produced pictures, in
initiation science the spiritual lived and moved. And because the
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Title: Lecture: How Can We Gain Knowledge of the Supersensible Worlds?
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people who have perhaps heard superficially of spiritual science
and spiritual investigation, for led by the conceptions and
spiritual research can best of all understand the objections
the conceptions advanced by a spiritual investigator were to meet
centuries. Moreover, we have frequently emphasized that spiritual
turned away for a while from the spiritual world. (In the course
spiritual world. But this is not the only reason which induces
people to oppose spiritual science; this antagonism is due to
against the spiritual-scientific statement or truth that when the
form the soul's spiritual content. They fill the soul, they are
induces people to take up a negative attitude towards spiritual
world. In regard to spiritual science, it is as if they were to
the external world, to the external aspects of life. Spiritual
remembered that the spiritual investigator must be able to
In the spiritual world this is the same as turning away our gaze
radical difference between the spiritual investigator and people
obstinately consider to be objective realities. A spiritual
blot them out again from his spiritual vision. The capacity to
spiritual investigation must consequently bring with it also the
The spiritual
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Title: Lecture: Man's Position in the Cosmic Whole, the Platonic World-Year
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spiritual science for the present time, and for the evolution of
spiritual-scientific movement and of the way in which we stand within
foundation of all the laws which come from spiritual science, because
There you have the analogue. Now imagine a spiritual Being, for whom
spiritual-scientific attitude. If these figures are once used in the
spiritual science, with the anthroposophical spiritual science, will
which are transmitted by the spiritual world approach us far more
transitions, we may feel more than anywhere else that spiritual
observations which flow out to us from the spiritual world. We should
the communications which come to us from the spiritual world.
connects ordinary science and spiritual science. But of course, one
who is not acquainted with spiritual science, will hardly be able to
supply. Those, however, who have a spiritual-scientific mentality,
the time will come when the ordinary external science and spiritual
our anthroposophic spiritual science. (See
“THE SIGNIFICANCE OF SPIRITUAL SCIENCE FOR THE PRESENT TIME,”
only be grasped from a spiritual-scientific standpoint. For the sufferings
aid of a spiritual-scientific attitude, it will suffice to glance

Title: Lecture: The Overcoming of Evil
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and is the 6th of 13 lectures in the series entitled: Spiritual
Spiritual Scientific Note on Goethe's Faust Vol. II.
strength for this opposition out of spiritual sources. This will
those who wish to take in spiritual impulses will find the points
more intimately, than did the retarded Spiritual Beings of the

Title: Lecture: Entry of the Michael Forces
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works intensely into the spiritual being of man. You can tell this
their start from the spiritual, they work through and through the
human being. They work into the spiritual, thence into the
carry him up on to a spiritual height, where he feels the earthly
earthly into the spiritual world. And if you want an explanation of
spiritual into the physical world. For you must remember, the entry
of the 19th century. But it had been prepared for, in the spiritual
of man. For the first time, the Spiritual is preparing to become a
the best preparation for true and real spiritual sight, to observe
learns to find his way still more deeply into the spiritual kingdoms
to take hold of the Intelligence. For since that time the Spiritual
Soul is present in man, and the Spiritual Soul is man's very own;
are there everywhere. You simply cannot penetrate. It is a spiritual
spiritual atmosphere to-day.
It is spiritual nourishment for the Ahrimanic

Title: Colour: Part Three: The Creative World of Colour
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pulling together of spiritual life will result in artistic form. We
our spiritual movement which are at present so conspicuous.
dreaming, it is found unnecessary for a spiritual movement to express
I want to draw your spiritual attention to an artist of the eighteenth
Dante led the human soul into spiritual realms, he needed only to take
expression of the universal and unified spiritual life. This is what
man is not a physical being to the horse, but a spiritual being, and
to spiritualize the astral body again, to permeate it with what the
ego gains for itself by working upon it. And in spiritualizing the
spiritual waters of Nature's forces, what is, the spiritual forces
spirituality, permeates it. If you colour a figure you vivify it
strengthened by spiritual science, otherwise we look out only upon
our soul in its deepest depths as spiritual knowledge, as something
spiritual science, and the produce of our hand, our chisel, and our
unfounded belief has grown up that spiritual knowledge can kill Art.
in colour as the living organ of the spiritual world. As long as we
never attain a true spiritual knowledge.
spiritual movement, namely that what we have tried to do in our
building has nothing to do with this spiritual stream. What these
talking about the “spiritualization of the human soul,” that
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Title: Colour: Part Three: Artistic and Moral Experience
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The understanding of the spiritual-scientific view of life not merely
small part of the spiritual-scientific impulses which can flow into
the experiences and feelings to be derived from spiritual science,
as it were, colours and sounds can be felt morally and spiritually in
it will unite its moral-spiritual nature with the results of

Title: Psychoanalysis: Lecture I: Anthroposophy and Psychoanalysis I
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Psychoanalysis and Spiritual Psychology,
Steiner lays the foundations for a truly spiritual psychology. The
Anthroposophy and Spiritual Science (Nov. 7),
one can hardly come into touch with the spiritual life of that
field of anthroposophical spiritual science, to connect his
spiritual foundations of existence, for the inner
acquainted, was a man of extraordinarily delicate spirituality
explained to him that there is a spiritual world inhabited by
— will be successfully dealt with only by spiritual
this may be dealt with by spiritual science —
anthroposophically oriented spiritual science — and in a
perhaps ‘for science's sake’) do not let us take the spiritual
spiritual world seriously. Thus something very peculiar
of demonic, divine, or spiritual forces, etc.) —
imbibing it. And since it is only through spiritual
neither able nor willing to approach spiritual reality.
introduce into pedagogy a new soul and spiritual element.
spiritual realm in the midst of the spirit battle. During his
cooperated from above in the spiritual world. That was
how was Schopenhauer situated in the spiritual realm? From 1860
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Title: Psychoanalysis: Lecture II: Anthroposophy and Psychoanalysis II
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Psychoanalysis and Spiritual Psychology,
Steiner lays the foundations for a truly spiritual psychology. The
spiritual science, and how on the other side, subconscious
prejudices lead men to oppose a spiritually scientific
anthroposophical spiritual science. But passive waiting becomes
to an important spiritual sphere which present-day man does not
since they are taken for granted by students of spiritual
can master these only by becoming aware of them, and spiritual
The Philosophy of Spiritual Activity,
The Spiritual Guidance of Man,
The Philosophy of Spiritual Activity
The Philosophy of Spiritual Activity.”
spiritual science must struggle because it insists upon clear,
sharply outlined concepts, and concrete spiritual experiences.
spiritual trends, even if they work themselves away from such
Spiritual Guidance of Man.
action of spiritual impulses by showing that a child while
threshold into the spiritual world a kind of separation takes
which the soul lives in the spiritual world. Thinking,
after crossing the threshold into the spiritual world, I should
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Title: Reappearance/Christ: Lecture XI: Individual Spirit Beings and the Undivided Foundation of the World: Part 2
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Steiner boldly announces the central 20th century spiritual event: the
that incarnate themselves in the spiritual world. It is necessary to
These brotherhoods, who were familiar with the spiritual
know things only on the physical path something of the spiritual
that there is a spiritual world surrounding man. As compromises
certain spiritual truths to humanity saw themselves as being beaten
Well-meaning, spiritual members of the brotherhood thus
be convinced of the existence of a spiritual world around them. It
spiritual world around us. Something completely different took place,
is not possible to speak about actualities in the spiritual world; it
shown that these facts agree just as little in the spiritual world as
foundation. Rather it stems from spiritual individualities different
spiritual world. One cannot then require that what appears be
however. As soon as we cross the threshold to the spiritual world —
above all in a continuous contemplation of the spiritual world, of
spiritual impulses, in spite of the fact that it is still connected
were thrown out of the spiritual world into the human kingdom and now
from recognizing the spiritual with the intellect through the play of
certain extent in this period to grasping the spiritual with his
intellect. The spiritual will already have been revealed. Because the
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Title: Reappearance/Christ: Lecture XII: Individual Spirit Beings and the Undivided Foundation of the World: Part 3
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Steiner boldly announces the central 20th century spiritual event: the
that deals with all sorts of contemporary spiritual needs. In the
behind the spiritual scientific movement. That would indeed be very
requires earnest study of spiritual science. This event must really
the spiritual life-blood of the science of the spirit flows through
exploration of the spiritual world. It sounds strange, but it must be
Spiritual Science. Something new would be achieved through this in
wish to work for an anthroposophically oriented spiritual science.
following way: an attempt will have to be made to place the spiritual
consists in calling upon the help of the spiritual circumstances.
time must come, however, when the spiritual forces are made mobile
become spiritualized, intensely spiritualized. Of all these things,
hindering the foundation of large-scale spiritualized medicine or
spiritualized national economy. No more can be accomplished today
regard to spiritual evolution, he cannot disregard the sleeping of
spiritual science that has marked the centuries since the sixteenth
century. It was necessary for humanity to sleep through the spiritual
later take on again concrete, spiritual form.
on a spiritual foundation.
hidden spiritual workings. Only one who knows in the true sense that
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Title: Influences of Lucifer/Ahriman: Lecture One: The Incarnation of Lucifer in Asia in the Third Millenium B.C.
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right orientation toward the spirit: a free spiritual life. With great
Doing this requires a new form of conscious spirituality.
SOCIAL QUESTIONS are discussed from a spiritual scientific point of
cosmos. That is why anthroposophical spiritual science lays such
any way to the spiritual. At heart they are always asking: What is
spiritual, nevertheless with every morsel that passes through the
mouth into the stomach they are devouring the spiritual, but
ends alone and into regarding a free and independent spiritual life,
social life and spiritual life irrespectively. One group will prove
spiritual science. But you also know how widespread is the motion
through spiritual science, but to an illusory picture, at most to a
the real Christ unless they are illumined by spiritual science.
the spiritual into their human nature, they drive straight into the
people eat and drink without spirituality goes straight to

Title: Lucifer and Ahriman: Lecture I: The Incarnation of Lucifer in Asia in the Third Millenium B.C.
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right orientation toward the spirit: a free spiritual life. With great
the other. Doing this requires a new form of conscious spirituality.
questions are discussed from a spiritual scientific point of
anthroposophical spiritual science lays such stress upon the
path leading in any way to the spiritual. At heart he is
they may refuse to accept anything spiritual, nevertheless
stomach they are devouring the spiritual, but dispatching it
spiritual life, equally with economic life, as an integral
continue to apply it to social life and spiritual life
understanding of the Gospels through spiritual science. But
through spiritual science, but to an illusory picture, at
spiritual science. Failing this illumination, the Gospels as
are concerned; for by not accepting the spiritual into their
and drink without spirituality goes straight to Lucifer!

Title: Influences of Lucifer/Ahriman: Lecture Two: The Advance Preparation of Ahriman for His Future Incarnation
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right orientation toward the spirit: a free spiritual life. With great
Doing this requires a new form of conscious spirituality.
necessity for separating the spiritual life, and also the political
for a free spiritual life no longer dependent upon the other
independence of the spiritual life or face collapse — with the
establish a free and independent spiritual life and allow it to
ahrimanic power has everything to gain by the spiritual life being
ahrimanic power a free spiritual life would denote a kind of
establishment of this free spiritual life is essential in order that
reality can be grasped only when the necessity for spiritual
— but it is the inner, spiritual reality. In either case,
quickened and illumined by what is revealed in spiritual vision
the fruits of spiritual vision shall be understood. I have repeatedly
power of everyone at the present time, because the spiritual
Therefore spiritual science
spiritual life that can now stream into humanity out of the spiritual

Title: Lucifer and Ahriman: Lecture II: The Advance Preparation of Ahriman for His Future Incarnation
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right orientation toward the spirit: a free spiritual life. With great
the other. Doing this requires a new form of conscious spirituality.
spiritual life, and also the political life or life of
foundation for a free spiritual life no longer dependent upon
must either establish the independence of the spiritual life
independent spiritual life and allow it to remain entangled
has everything to gain by the spiritual life being even more
Ahrimanic power a free spiritual life would denote a kind of
The establishment of this free spiritual life is essential in
only when the necessity for spiritual knowledge and deep
mere sound — but it is the inner, spiritual reality. In
illumined by what is revealed in spiritual vision. —
the fruits of spiritual vision shall be understood. I have
time, because the spiritual capacities of men are
spiritual science must emphasise the following: — That
to receive anything of the new spiritual life that can now stream
into humanity out of the spiritual worlds. What he said remained

Title: Influences of Lucifer/Ahriman: Lecture Five: The Human as a Being of Will
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right orientation toward the spirit: a free spiritual life. With great
Doing this requires a new form of conscious spirituality.
sense when people reach what is called the threshold of the spiritual
spiritual intuition and research. When you read in oriental
give you an idea of how a spiritual scientist must regard the
Spiritual science endeavors

Title: Lucifer and Ahriman: Lecture V: The Human as a Being of Will
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right orientation toward the spirit: a free spiritual life. With great
the other. Doing this requires a new form of conscious spirituality.
Threshold of the Spiritual World.
must be brought to light again through spiritual intuition
endeavouring to give you an idea of how a spiritual scientist
Spiritual
Spiritual Scientific Note on Goethe's Faust,

Title: Influences of Lucifer/Ahriman: Lecture Four: The Luciferic Origin of Ancient Wisdom, Ahrimanization...
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right orientation toward the spirit: a free spiritual life. With great
Doing this requires a new form of conscious spirituality.
humanness, but they would never have reached the spiritual
knowledge from spiritual realms. The obligation — for so it may
spiritual efforts. The ahrimanic streams would continue their
anything to do with spiritual science would fall prey to his magic,
each of them would be able to see into the spiritual world. In this
own efforts they must assimilate the content of spiritual science
cosmic task of spiritual science. It consists in preventing
performed on him, he had many a glimpse into the spiritual world. The
spiritual science. If this lack of enthusiasm were to persist, the
today can prepare themselves to look into the spiritual world by
apprehending with their healthy human reason what spiritual science
eventually to vision of the spiritual world. Many tendencies will
difficulty is that when they want to understand spiritual science
human skull were less hard, less granite-like, spiritual science
sincere, genuine study of the content of spiritual science. For then
human beings would gradually come to perceive spiritually the
can happen only if people envisage spiritually, feel inwardly and
spiritual science. They are not conscious of this, but it is so,
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Title: Lucifer and Ahriman: Lecture IV: The Luciferic Origin of Ancient Wisdom, Ahrimanization...
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right orientation toward the spirit: a free spiritual life. With great
the other. Doing this requires a new form of conscious spirituality.
they would never have reached the spiritual heights they have
to whom Luciferic beings impart knowledge from spiritual
spiritual efforts. The Ahrimanic streams would continue their
spiritual science, would fall prey to his magic, for by means
would be able to see into the spiritual world. In this way
spiritual science before the time of Ahriman's appearance on
is the cosmic task of spiritual science. It consists in
glimpse into the spiritual world. The last lines he wrote
the present time for the content of spiritual science. If
spiritual world by apprehending with their healthy human
reason what spiritual science has to offer. The effort
vision of the spiritual world. Many tendencies will have to
is that when they want to understand spiritual science they
human skull were less hard, less granite-like, spiritual
through sincere, genuine study of the content of spiritual
spiritually the danger that must otherwise befall the earth
But this can happen only if men envisage spiritually, feel
unwilling to approach spiritual science. They are not
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Title: Lecture: Mission of Michael: Lecture I: The Power and Mission of Michael
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which we, human beings of the present day, may gain to that spiritual
power which, as the power of Michael, intervenes in the spiritual and
We must keep in mind, if we wish to speak seriously of the spiritual
spiritual powers here in the physical world. We try to penetrate as it
in the spiritual world. What exists in the physical world may be
observed by everyone; what is active in the spiritual world serves to
desert the spiritual beings whom man must regard as his true creators.
initiated into such secrets of the spiritual evolution of mankind have
element. The human being's normal spiritual condition consists in
For, the influences upon human spiritual and cultural life do have a
spiritual evolution through the erroneous concept of the duad, of God
and the Devil, of the divine-spiritual forces above and the diabolical
brought into man's spiritual evolution; you have what is rooted in
spiritual creations which rise out of modern man's consciousness. That
You must realize what interests rule in modern spiritual history. Even
it is of tremendous significance for human spiritual life if the
spiritual development. What is considered science today is actually

Title: Lecture: Mission of Michael: Lecture II: The Michael revelation.
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our modern spiritual life and which is very little noticed today. You
we have arrived at a very important point in our spiritual-scientific
spiritual life of mankind that there be clarity in this matter. I have
artistically as well as spiritually outstanding products of culture we
thoughts which relate us to the soul-spiritual element and the
of the de-spiritualized material element, devoid of soul, and they
The all-pervading spiritual and the corporeal which is at the same
time spiritual have fallen apart into two elements. Mere theories will
not build a bridge between the bodily and the spiritual. And since
have resorted to pointing to the spiritual element without being in a
position to show how this spiritual element takes hold of the
soul-spiritual element and its experience in man. Not only is our
but also there continually rise into the head those soul-spiritual
soul-spiritual thought forms are not yet perceived by the human being
they called Michael, that spiritual power who belongs to the
human being is in the environment of spiritual beings during his
waking hours, but that these spiritual beings are not his creator
completely hidden from modern mankind; the Luciferic spirituality
spiritual power which we call the Michael power organized the
which beholds the concrete-spiritual which works, although in a
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Title: Lecture: Mission of Michael: Lecture III. Michaelic Thinking.
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sphere belongs to the spiritual beings that are our creators, just as
distribution of these spiritual beings. We are able to go into details
spirituality. This Luciferic spirituality arose through Michael's
the human being. But today this Luciferic spirituality which we call
spiritual sphere, the desire of egotism penetrates into our human
spiritual conception of himself and the world. Since the seventies of
physical passes over into the spiritual evolution. For as soon as the
physical begins to become retrogressive, there is room for spiritual
development. In our head there is room for spiritual development
dawn of the modern age. He still knew something of the spiritual which
economical, or spiritual remedies to be taken from the pharmacy of
on the path toward the spiritual: the Michael path which finds its

Title: Lecture: Mission of Michael: Lecture IV: The Culture of the Mysteries and the Michael Impulse.
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this culture of the Mysteries was rich in content. Spiritual facts
scholasticism, is a confluence of the spiritual truths of the Mystery
the Mysteries like a kind of mountain summit of human spiritual
from a certain spiritual-scientific point of view.
spiritual science. For the large majority of mankind confronts a
thyself” will only be fulfilled through real spiritual cognition.
physiology, but they can be observed spiritual-scientifically. Mankind
anthroposophically-oriented spiritual science. Now, it is possible,
Thus you see, we have a spiritual-scientific anatomy which shows us
need the methods of spiritual science in order to recognize this
actual spiritual content of the view of many human beings of the
take hold of one's own spirituality in order to find the connection of
one's own spirituality with the spirituality of the world signifies

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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consisting of body and soul, the soul having some spiritual qualities.
account the more intimate aspects of the spiritual evolution of these
must receive spiritual impulses which counteract decadence. Therefore
a conscious spiritual life must enter mankind. We must be clear about
evolution. In order that it may proceed, the spiritual must be taken
At the outset, this seems an abstract fact. But for the spiritual
result of spiritual-scientific research which is to be taken very,
For the person who takes spiritual research truly seriously this is a
spiritual-scientifically, then we find that these obscured
spiritual forces, pull down the intellectual forces. Everything

Title: Lecture: Mission of Michael: Lecture VI: The Ancient Yoga Culture and the New Yoga Will.
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Now, if we speak spiritual-scientifically about the human being by
nature herself for the soul element, for the spiritual element, whose
the spiritual as well as the nature powers. For him, there existed no
difference between spiritual and natural powers. Our present-day
to be included for him in one spiritual — physical unity. If I
Rechtsordnung, Wirtschaft (Spiritual Life, Rights order, Economy),
longer today, or, rather, it is soul in a different way. The spiritual
merely sense perceptions, but also the spiritual element. It must
spiritual-soul aspect, and all things that appear in the
spiritual-soul sphere have their external-material aspect. The fact
spiritual effect in the evolution of mankind. For through being able
must become much more soul-like, much more spiritual.
speak of the contrast between the material and the spiritual, but we
must recognize the interplay of the material and the spiritual in a
nature will be something like a kind of spiritual breathing process.
we hear, something spiritual, something of the nature of the soul
future age of mankind, to speak in abstractions about the spiritual,
the earth. Thus, also from the soul-spiritual aspect, air and light
decoration: this material existence contains everywhere the spiritual!
This will not produce genuine spiritual science. My dear friends,
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Title: Social Forms: Lecture I: The Waldorf School, Spiritual Science, Outer World, Inner World
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Spiritual Science as a Foundation for Social Forms
of social renewal. Among the themes he considers are spiritual science
of soul acquired through spiritual science is allowed to mold new social
our anthroposophical spiritual movement. Even though one sets
will of our spiritual science could for once be directly
spiritual science. The Waldorf School, whose teachers have
anthroposophically oriented spiritual science would be much
course of the first school year, a spiritual system of
foundation can only be seen in the spiritual impulses that
are the Basis of anthroposophical spiritual life. I have
spiritual life is not directed only toward the individual who
afflictions in the spiritual forces of the world. Today,
spiritual science must address itself to the need and decline
spiritual science has to offer will be met by that special
to anything of a spiritual nature. When talking about
spiritual science, it is often necessary to speak in an
spiritual science. It is absolutely necessary to feel and to
spiritualism, and so forth, and people are quite sure that
materialist comes to a spiritualist, for example, and
spiritualist answers, “You think incorrectly. I can
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Title: Social Forms: Lecture II: Materialism, Party Line
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Spiritual Science as a Foundation for Social Forms
of social renewal. Among the themes he considers are spiritual science
of soul acquired through spiritual science is allowed to mold new social
nature, having its reality in the spiritual world. It only
spiritual-scientific standpoint, is not so much concerned
movement, or a party of a spiritualistic nature, and so on.
they recognized a spiritual, super-sensible entity as their
to their spiritual guidance, and the Position party opinions
find themselves in with respect to their spiritual
part of the fellowship of a higher spiritual being.
follow his spiritual leader; he is trained to know himself to
regained of the link between man and the spiritual world and
out those beings in the spiritual world who participate in
the connection to the spiritual world regarding egotistic
created as well. Spiritual science should not merely reassure
I said that what is practiced as spiritual science must be a
strives after spiritual knowledge, one has to do with
the realm of anthroposophically oriented spiritual science.
a soul-spiritual part (blue) and a physical part (red), as
brain, but that he also has a soul and spirit. Spiritual
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Title: Social Forms: Lecture III: Man's Twelve Senses in Relation to Imagination, Inspiration, Intuition
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Spiritual Science as a Foundation for Social Forms
of social renewal. Among the themes he considers are spiritual science
of soul acquired through spiritual science is allowed to mold new social
physical body with his soul-spiritual part. Then the higher
of course, a matter of fact that when our soul-spiritual part
our soul-spiritual entity. Here, for example (indicating the
that we penetrate outward with our soul-spiritual being by
through the eye in particular out into the spiritual world,
soul-spiritual realm.
we come out into the soul-spiritual world and experience
sense of hearing penetrates more into our soul-spiritual
spiritual outer world.
penetrate more and more into the essence of the spiritual
surrounding us is in fact the spiritual world. Man, however,
is in a sense forced out of the spiritual world. What is
with his soul-spiritual being. What is perceived, however, is
spirit, one penetrates into the spiritual world (yellow)
the objective soul-spiritual world. Through the senses, which
attain through spiritual science, namely to enter into this
objective soul-spiritual world. We come into a higher sphere
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Title: Social Forms: Lecture IV: World Events, Initiation Knowledge and the Impulse toward Freedom
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Spiritual Science as a Foundation for Social Forms
of social renewal. Among the themes he considers are spiritual science
of soul acquired through spiritual science is allowed to mold new social
by anthroposophically oriented spiritual science and
can acquire through the facts engendered by spiritual science
are those of spiritual science. But they must be sought where
the courage to turn from it to the sources of spiritual
turning to the sources of spiritual science. The external
longer understand how the spiritual, divine principle that is
through the sources of spiritual science that insight
of materialization, if a spiritual-scientific impulse were
uncovering of new sources of spiritual science. We need this
flows from the spiritual-scientific sources. Without this, we
spiritual-scientific consideration.
it in the light of spiritual science, and that is what people
the spiritual-scientific standpoint — namely, the
soul-spiritual human being, and on the other to the physical,
impartially or contemplate spiritual science, it is necessary
it, we have what may be called the soul-spiritual nature of
nor his soul-spiritual nature. We cannot recognize the
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Title: Social Forms: Lecture V: Forming Sound Judgment
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Spiritual Science as a Foundation for Social Forms
of social renewal. Among the themes he considers are spiritual science
of soul acquired through spiritual science is allowed to mold new social
more materialistic or a more spiritualistic world conception,
envisioning spiritual beings behind the sensory veil, will be
being descended from the spiritual world and took hold of the
that the soul-spiritual element is much more perfect than
inwardly attaining to the wisdom which, out of the spiritual
“childishness” signifies that the soul-spiritual
which we will have to aim through spiritual science, namely,
area. People are still far from regaining a spiritual
spiritual-scientific views, this world conception will become
progress will be made. Spiritual science, however, has to
is of importance to true, genuine spiritual science, not
spiritual scientific sense must reach deeply into the
will always find the language of spiritual science
of spiritual science will lead us forward.
spiritual worlds casts its shadows into this
through him. Spiritual forces extend their rule into this
in a spiritual-scientific manner. It will become increasingly
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Title: Social Forms: Lecture VI: New Social Forms, Soul, Material World
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of soul acquired through spiritual science is allowed to mold new social
external world is something quite unfounded, as spiritual
behind it; there are spiritual beings behind it — there
is spirituality. This recognition signifies a lot, for it
but in one of spiritual realities.
spiritual realities, spiritual beings (right side).
world of spiritual phenomena when we turn from our senses
realities, they are spiritual phenomena. Now, if we descend
discover something spiritual; there, we should seek for the
spiritual phenomenon, especially when one penetrates more and
point is that true spiritual science guides the human being
spiritual realities, behind the sense world. It is the
spiritual science, it is important that we do not search for
the sense world lies the world of spiritual realities, out of
imagine that the astral body and ego move into the spiritual
and ego find themselves in that part of the spiritual world
sleep man penetrates into the spiritual world which is the
seeking the divine, or the spiritual underlying our human
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Title: Social Forms: Lecture VII: Trends of Souls in People of the East, West, and Middle of Europe
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of soul acquired through spiritual science is allowed to mold new social
it has turned into a superstitious ritual, where it has
Orthodox Russian ritual, incomprehensible even to those who
India to these formulas of the Russian church ritual, which
developing a spiritual state of mind that guides the human
gaze to the spiritual, to fill man with the super-sensible
a creation of the spiritual world, indeed, as a being who, in
to apprehend the spiritual in all its purity, to accept the
religious zeal as was the spiritual world in former times. In
same fervor formerly used to grasp the most spiritual.
proceeds, one feels as if man's soul-spiritual being were
senses there are spiritual beings. When he gives himself up
attempt to reach the genuine spirit through a spiritual
represent the spiritual part, the spiritual world, in a
cultivate the spiritual life. The West, on the other hand, is
penetrate into a spiritual world by means of Imagination and
science, to epistemology, and the spiritual life. This
the spiritual capacity he applied to doing this should have
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Title: Social Forms: Lecture VIII: East, Middle, West
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of social renewal. Among the themes he considers are spiritual science
of soul acquired through spiritual science is allowed to mold new social
contribution to the spiritual life of the social organism.
pertaining primarily to the spiritual development in mankind,
from spiritual worlds, in which he has lived since his last
life on earth is a continuation of a spiritual existence
spiritual worlds prior to this earth life, that in a sense he
spiritual world.
lofty, admirable spirituality of Orientals was brought about
spiritualist scorns, because he finds matter to be of such a
as a spiritual blossom of earth evolution came about
spiritually in the air. Through Yoga philosophy he became
acquainted with what is spiritual in the air. What does one
spiritual worlds into this physical body. Knowledge of
spirituality. One still gets a clear awareness of it, for
further; it does not enter into the spiritual worlds. In the
most spiritual way, men like Hegel and Fichte have described
the very element that has no counterpart in the spiritual
propelled into the spiritual world. This is indeed
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Title: Social Forms: Lecture IX: Hegel
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of soul acquired through spiritual science is allowed to mold new social
development of his particular spiritual character in middle
characteristic manner, were on a high spiritual, yet
spiritual influence. Indeed, long after Fichte had died,
can really only be characterized by means of spiritual science.
It is only through spiritual science that one finds words to
spiritual science, on the other hand, one cannot speak as did
Rosenkranz; based on spiritual science, I would say that even
of decline to have grave diggers, it is up to spiritual
Therefore, from the spiritual-scientific standpoint, I must
concepts are, particularly through what spiritual science
and intellectualistic sphere. Spiritually speaking, man must
to comprehend him with the concepts which only spiritual
particularly in the West; in the East, spiritual thinking
an interpreter of spirituality, but only of the physical,
spirituality.
spirituality, however, is rare, it does not repeat itself.
force but a different one, namely a spiritual force;
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Title: Social Forms: Lecture X: The Tapestry of the Senses, Memory, and the Spiritual World, -or- Spiritual-Cosmic Tasks of Man
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of social renewal. Among the themes he considers are spiritual science
of soul acquired through spiritual science is allowed to mold new social
spiritual evolution of humanity has proceeded from a
rejecting what is drawn from the same spiritual sources from
certain region of the spiritual world lies behind the
spiritual realm is in fact allotted to him for this state of
loftiest spiritual insight can be attained. Instead, man
too, forces are present that come from that spiritual region
spiritually active forces from the two regions I have
whole cosmos. One becomes aware through spiritual science how
factor, to be reckoned with in the whole spiritual cosmic
say that spiritual science opens our eyes to what man
spiritual world.
another domain of the spiritual world. It is mainly the
spiritual region where those beings dwell whom we refer to
primary importance in spiritual science, and it is what
fructified by a new spiritual science, and it will be less
spiritual science. Of course, he does not admit to such an
people who would like to begin to be spiritual are often
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Title: Social Forms: Lecture XI: Man as a Mediator of the Spiritual Beings of the Cosmos
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Spiritual Science as a Foundation for Social Forms
of social renewal. Among the themes he considers are spiritual science
of soul acquired through spiritual science is allowed to mold new social
spiritual world behind the tapestry spread out about us
spiritual realm is a chilly, cold world. We are within this
spiritual world's intercourse with this domain by carrying
spirit. As I pointed out yesterday, however, the spiritual
spiritual region differs essentially from the spirit domain
equipped with centripetal forces that hold the spiritual
the spiritual universe far and wide as it were. They are the
forces. They are spiritual beings. Here, in a sense, we look
speculate on these instincts. Spiritual science aims at
spiritual science, he gives a certain nuance to his whole
the world conception that can come about through spiritual
for our spiritual life, our free cultural life. We need them
continue to reject any consideration of spiritual science.
describe to you how the actual free spiritual life has to
the gods from the spiritual worlds when the child entered
out of the spirit. In the case of spiritual thinking,
the spiritual life, we are subject to forming a quite
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Title: Social Forms: Lecture XII: The Members of the Human Being and their Relationship with the Social Organism
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of soul acquired through spiritual science is allowed to mold new social
spiritual-scientific endeavors, it is important to acquaint
particularly in regard to spiritual-scientific subjects, the
as spiritual-scientific facts are concerned, it is actually
essential spiritual life. I then indicated that in the
a cultural life was born out of a primeval, wholly spiritual
Orient too, ensued the times of obscuration of this spiritual
ancient spiritual life in the decadent phenomena.
Oriental spiritual life is concerned, it is interesting to
now is basically also a legacy of the Oriental spiritual
pointed out here how considerably this spiritual life of the
the Oriental world conception as descending from a spiritual
continued to sustain itself on them. This spiritual life
The spiritual
of spiritual and soul life, by means of which, especially in
Spiritual
can happen that one lectures on some spiritual-scientific
images by himself. The images are joined by various spiritual
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Title: Social Forms: Lecture XIII: The Interrelationship between the Human and the Social Organism
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Spiritual Science as a Foundation for Social Forms
of social renewal. Among the themes he considers are spiritual science
of soul acquired through spiritual science is allowed to mold new social
I drew attention to the fact that what in spiritual science
possibility of strictly defining the spiritual or cultural
domain of the threefold social organism. Such a spiritual
those from the spiritual domain just characterized. Only half
what actually belongs to the spiritual sphere must also
members of the social order: the spiritual, the rights, and
rights sphere arises from the astral body; the spiritual or
him. Then, observation shows that the spiritual sphere reacts
strong influence from the spiritual environment. All the
physiognomy will bear the marked result of our spiritual
influence of the spiritual environment in which we spent our
spiritual, and I refer to this form when I speak of the
effect of the spiritual sphere upon the physical body. What
spiritual science we can know empirically that it does so
Spiritual science, therefore, must insist that the human
they have evolved to the present day. Spiritual science, on
of spiritual science one can see how the thought-out
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Title: Social Forms: Lecture XIV: The Connection of the Members of Man with the Kingdoms of Nature, the Necessity of the Threefold Order
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of social renewal. Among the themes he considers are spiritual science
of soul acquired through spiritual science is allowed to mold new social
human evolution than what is accomplished in the spiritual
spiritual life within our social life. The people of the
standard of what we possessed as spiritual content in our
like a continuation of the old spirituality. When anyone is
spiritual life of Europe and its American extension, he finds
therefore say that what we possess of actual spirituality is
spiritual life basically still has a character which was
spiritual life. It arose out of man's metabolism — out
the spiritual life was considered a fruit of the earth, of
spiritual intuitions of antiquity were no longer manifest,
what spiritual science can give us. We must confess to
necessity of dividing the social life into the spiritual
Orient grown more and more lifeless, for our spiritual life
accord a special place and emphasis to the spiritual sphere
spiritual or cultural sphere is bound up with the wholly
human individuality be unable to contribute to the spiritual
life what this spiritual life should contain. Let us
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Title: Social Forms: Lecture XV: The Great Cosmic Signs in the Universe
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of soul acquired through spiritual science is allowed to mold new social
ruin. If we understand what spiritual science can tell us
physical world has its source in the spiritual world. The
development of mankind also lie in the spiritual world.
underestimate the whole tempo of modern spiritual development
tremendous amount of the spirituality that once existed.
the part of those divine spiritual beings who guide and
beheld the intentions of those accompanying spiritual beings
earthly concerns. One does not become spiritual by setting up
universe; one will only become spiritual if one understands
life. When the spiritual scientist comes and says, “Go
in the universe. They will not be willing to study spiritual
said that, fundamentally speaking, all our spiritual life is
Oriental conceptions concerning the spiritual world.
the spiritual world was connected with the fact that in the
spiritual life than does the present age in any sense.
spiritual life of the eleventh, twelfth, thirteenth,
effect for a spiritualization of the present world-view. The
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Title: Social Forms: Lecture XVI: Changes in the Meaning of Speech, -or- Dreams and Human Development
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of social renewal. Among the themes he considers are spiritual science
of soul acquired through spiritual science is allowed to mold new social
become used to this way of thinking; based an spiritual
spiritual-scientific descriptions are to be taken seriously,
used at present. For if one sets forth spiritual-scientific
spiritual-scientific descriptions in such a way that even the
of spiritual science, as I explained yesterday, it is
the various fields of spiritual science, including the recent
spiritual facts. Naturally, this is more the case in one
spiritual world to earthly incarnation through birth or
and in so doing bears his soul-spiritual being once again
spiritual and soul nature.
here recently — that we bring down from the spiritual
experienced in this spiritual world. When we move in ordinary
our clothes but also our soul-spiritual belongings. In like
undergone in the spiritual world. In the period that mankind
bring along for themselves images from the spiritual world.
When pictures are brought along out of spiritual existence
the spiritual world. They seek to come to the surface. The
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Title: Poetry/Speech: Lecture I: The Art of Recitation and Declamation
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This scene takes place, we might say, in the spiritual world.
the spiritual, the psychic and the physical world which is revealed
by anthroposophically orientated spiritual science. In a certain
sense, the Seventh Scene takes place in the spiritual world, but
consciousness, in the spiritual world.
lift the whole action from the physical into the spiritual world.
spiritual impulses working through the physical human beings. If
similar way, but from genuine experiences of the spiritual world,
need to lead the action up into the spiritual world, you must
albeit spiritually, exactly as it sounds here. It is not a matter
true picture of the spiritual world. Perhaps we may begin with this

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with the soul and spiritual parts of his being poetry must also
divine-spiritual powers make use of this speech-organism in order
outcome of the forces of the spiritual world. And again, the whole
be the result of a spiritual force holding sway in the human
to the divine-spiritual being which reveals itself through the

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and spiritual life. Last time, we were able to see the remarkable
psycho-spiritual frees itself from the bonds of the body, at a sort
impulse of spiritual science to bear on aesthetic considerations
interwoven into a living spiritual perception, which makes itself
but in pursuing true spiritual perception, leading to real
spiritual knowledge, we do actually achieve something in the way of

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surveyed from the point of view which is given by Spiritual Science.
man still leans towards such abstractions. Spiritual Science must
of spiritual-scientific research.
might say that looked at spiritually man is the past in so far as he
advantages of modern Spiritual Science, but in considering the
transformed it into Spiritual or Occult Science;) bordering on it you
philosophy of Nature such as Goethe's is at the same time a spiritual
say that he has as yet no Spiritual Science, but his view of Natural
Science was such that it was quite on the lines of Spiritual Science.

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explained to you here last time as a product of Spiritual Science. I
what psychically and spiritually can be called the will, or
The Philosophy of Spiritual Activity.
into physical things. Does the man who looks at Nature spiritually
Nature itself, spiritually seen, lies the justification of the moral
and in doing so, you have a tendency to become aware of the spiritual
For spiritual-scientific research this is shown in the following
gradually through Spiritual Science to spiritualize physical concepts:
physical has ceased to be and the spiritual exists, you will find the
I must point out that Spiritual Science could deal with the most
therefore Spiritual Science is called upon to make itself known to
reproach it. Spiritual Science can deal with the highest scientific
its responsibility. Among all its other tasks, Spiritual Science has

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struggle toward the experience of what in our spiritual stream is
of poetic art. We may say that an element with a more spiritual
spiritualisation of an inner experience, with an ascending of the
which strives toward spiritualisation (even if only a
spiritualisation in which the human intellect is overpowered by the

Title: Curative Eurythmy: Lecture 1
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manner. The fact is that an unnatural exertion of the soul-spiritual
in any part of the body, both in respect to the soul-spiritual part
soul-spiritual qualities which a person portrays proceed from the whole

Title: Curative Eurythmy: Lecture 2
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We need only to recall — as it is known to us through spiritual
— as they are spiritually experienced, naturally — and attempt
outside with healing by such spiritual means, this too must of course

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completely in order to grasp the spiritual element in the things outside
spiritual in the external object; when he utters an “F” his
effort is directed more towards reexperiencing the spiritual within
already experiences entirely inwardly in his ego. The reason why spiritual
animality of man. And certainly as spiritual investigation confirms
and spiritual-scientifically it is a proper reproduction of the earth
truly so: the person who understands that developing oneself spiritually
ill in the course of spiritual development into the bargain —

Title: Curative Eurythmy: Lecture 4
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the sounds inwardly in a soul-spiritual manner. Thus one must tell him to

Title: Curative Eurythmy: Lecture 6
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the spiritual when we contemplate a eurythmic exercise. Of course, all
what spiritual activity is: when man thinks and from out of his thinking
feels — that is designated spiritual activity in normal life.
is for precisely this reason the sublimating spiritual activity, the
spiritually active. Certain peoples, the more northern peoples in
instructor stands at the spiritual level of the child. Such things
the rhythm of spiritual and physical activity. The Swedes and the
this spiritual activity work in man? It awakens the crystallizing forces.
densified in itself, which is, of course, always the case with spiritual

Title: Curative Eurythmy: Lecture 7
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accord, if I may say so. When we look into a spiritual-corporeal process
indicate the deeper spiritual-physical connections as well. Thus I would
propelling the organs out of the spiritual-etheric world into the
as we progress to that which is of soul-spiritual nature in man, to
the organs of the soul-spiritual, to the sense-organs, we find that
the process of consolidation has become spiritualized, truly ensouled
and spiritualized in perception; that is, more or less, the descending
anthroposophically oriented spiritual science is not mysticism as
is carried over from the pre-existent spiritual soul-life — if

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know from Spiritual Science that the plant owes its existence to the
Our ego, that is, our spiritual entity, is connected with this
If we sum up all this, we cannot but say that the ego is spiritual and
black surface the white is spiritualized. The spirit can be brought
Black represents the spiritual image of the lifeless.
previous, thus: Black is the spiritual image of the lifeless; Green is
indicates the adjective for the next one; Black is the spiritual image
kingdom, the living kingdom, the ensouled kingdom, the spiritual
the lifeless, through the living, to the psychic, to the spiritual as
plant, animal and spiritual kingdom — in as far as man is the
spiritual. I ascent through the realities; but Nature gives me only

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the shadow-colours. The shadow of the spiritual on the psychic is
yellow, in other words we are spiritualized. So, if you take yellow in
the spiritual, to the light of the spirit in yellow; but they wanted
as creations of the spiritual. These things have an inherent
spiritual world. Colour is that thing which descends as far as the
leads him into the spiritual.

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produces thereby peach-colour. We saw how the spiritual forms its image
lifeless reflects its image or shadow in the spiritual and produces
polaric opposite of the sun, namely the moon. And Spiritual Science
with spiritual sensibility. Then you automatically get what we have
consideration when they carry their painting more into the spiritual;
spiritualize the surface and create a secret inner radiance. I mean,
spiritual to the colours, in order to paint inanimate nature. But how
the image of the lifeless in the spiritual. We create the spiritual
Spiritual, man:
might almost say, its tearful mood, I must be able to spiritualize
without this spiritual understanding for colour, especially not
spiritual and psychic elements in Goetheanism, which must be carried
do only through Spiritual Science.

Title: Psychoanalysis: Lecture V: Connections Between Organic Processes and the Mental Life of Man
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Psychoanalysis and Spiritual Psychology,
Steiner lays the foundations for a truly spiritual psychology. The
This conception, which in our spiritual science and in the
spiritual science of all ages plays a certain role, these
spiritual essentiality. The outer world becomes ever more
spiritual the further we press forward in cognition, so that we
world. Behind the phenomena of the senses there is a spiritual
spiritualized, our inner perception is, first of all, more and
the nebulous mystic but the real spiritual researcher will
differentiated human organism. We attain to the spiritual world
detour through our inner being any kind of spiritual enthusiasm
organs, naturally by means of spiritual sight. What exactly is
concretely, as one can study physical things. And spiritual
us study the heart with the same idea. For spiritual-scientific
become spiritualized when they reach the outer surface of
is reflected from the heart. Spiritual cognition of the heart
spiritualized that is also spiritualized within it which
go through death we must, with the spiritual and soul
such an indescript spiritual feeling of hunger. One is driven
spiritual science.
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Title: Old/New Methods: Lecture One: Ahrimanic and Luciferic, Human Body, Soul, Spirit
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treading a spiritual path of knowledge, but also covers such topics as
stands a spiritual world, a mighty world, powerful and real, a world
initiation science a spiritual world — behind the world of the
yourselves over a period of time with anthroposophical spiritual
within the world as a whole, but spiritual beings who stand behind
ascending to a much more concrete, more spiritual, but spiritually
that is spiritually real, and yet — in this spiritual reality
us look at the spiritual aspect of the human being. We find that
waking state the spiritual part of our being is fully given over to
reality. If we fail in this, then in the realm of spiritual life we
spiritual life of today. And this transition from mere correctness of
of the spiritual world. Those who view correctly the external

Title: Old/New Methods: Lecture Two: East, Weat, and Center, -or- Asiatic Spiritual Life
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treading a spiritual path of knowledge, but also covers such topics as
finds an expression in the type of spirituality which is valid today.
This special spirituality of today has the characteristic of taking
western spiritual life have been brought to the surface.
adequately expressed in the spirituality of abstractness and ideas.
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
spiritual content to mankind in terms which are every bit as clearly
spiritual, in sharp, clearly-defined terms, our efforts will be
capable of rising up to spiritual, divine realms in sharply defined
spiritual. Yet all these forces are root forces which can develop
feeling beside which those other divine spiritual beings, the Son and
makes up man's relationship to what is divine and spiritual. These
our spiritual life, authors are starting to write novels in

Title: Old/New Methods: Lecture Three: The Development of Religious Experience in Post-Atlantean Civilization
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treading a spiritual path of knowledge, but also covers such topics as
would call science and art. The total spiritual life of the whole
depths of their being they are linked with a divine, spiritual world.
and the divine, spiritual realm.
images populated with divine, spiritual beings. There was as yet no
divine spiritual weaving. They felt their limbs to be filled with
this divine, spiritual cosmic weaving. They felt their understanding
to be filled with this divine spiritual weaving, and likewise their
able to say: Divine, spiritual beings are doing this. And since in
are also to be found among those divine, spiritual beings, so were
they aware that because divine, spiritual beings worked in them, they
standing within the realm of divine, spiritual beings with one's
spiritual realm in a more active manner than had at first been the
divine spiritual being next to another — a whole population of
divine spiritual beings. But this faded, so that what had been
individualized, what had been individual, divine, spiritual beings
faded into a general, homogeneous spiritual cosmos. Think of the
spiritual cosmos became a blurred image when human beings moved
spiritually away from it.
human beings saw in the spiritual world. Therefore they took into
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Title: Old/New Methods: Lecture Six: Methods of Initiation, Old and New - 1
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treading a spiritual path of knowledge, but also covers such topics as
spiritual life in connection with what has gone before in human
spiritual part of our life in the cosmos. The spiritual part of our
who were concerned with spiritual life looked to those institutions
ancient days of human evolution it was unthinkable that spiritual
vision and spiritual knowledge could have any other source than the
— that is, the spiritual beings — of other worlds.
this prince of earthly life. The spiritual revelations which can be
the task of the Mysteries to lead human beings towards a spiritual
spiritual configuration of the early medieval centuries is only
spiritual form of his life before birth, or before conception. The
conception: in other words, as it is in the spiritual world —
receiving into his brain what was his spiritual and soul element
spiritual powers whose influence on the human physical body was
essential aspect of all this, with regard to the spiritual evolution
about spiritual matters. Also, from things which are shown to us as
goes to show that there is an urgent need for spiritual life today.

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treading a spiritual path of knowledge, but also covers such topics as
as a result of which the spiritual element which is usually held off
fact that talks about spiritual matters are extremely well received
Anthroposophical spiritual science has to regard perception through
spiritual world. And when he dies here in the physical world and goes
through the portal of death he is born in the spiritual world. These
concepts are relative. We die in respect of the spiritual world when
born in the spirit. Death in the physical world signifies spiritual
birth, birth in the physical world signifies spiritual death. Birth
that would not be capable of surviving in the spiritual world; it
would disintegrate in the spiritual world, and so it streams towards
descending from the spiritual world is absorbed into matter. But
spiritual world. This is the difference.
organ. Thus, with regard to the will, we perceive the spiritual
This is the main point. We see into the spiritual world only if we
looking through our eyes. And we do not see into the spiritual world
spiritual world through a vacuum, just as it is impossible to see the
of the spiritual world were able to reveal themselves when the
that the spiritual world was seen in etheric shapes. The great
despite the fact that what they saw of the spiritual world was
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Title: Old/New Methods: Lecture Eight: The Passage of the Human Soul and Spirit through the Physical Sense-Organization
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treading a spiritual path of knowledge, but also covers such topics as
descending from the spiritual worlds, and then at how it departs from
spiritual world. We shall take particular account of what happens in
course, if a study of spiritual science has led to the acquisition of
this really only exists in our purely spiritual life before
actual spiritual existence, our actual spiritual being. This inner
thoughts when he is on earth but which is actually a spiritual
encompasses with his spirituality the whole of the starry world. But
the feeling of fear and also the spiritual element which is
start with the spiritual element which lives in the cosmos and then
of shadowy thoughts. So we can say that as the spiritual aspect of
earth, so the element of spirit and soul dissolves in the spiritual
of what exists as real spiritual life before man descends into
being is concerned. On the other hand, what is a living spiritual
spiritual world, becomes, on entering the body, on the one hand
into the spiritual world he might fall into megalomania. But at the
beings would never descend from the spiritual world into earthly
existence. They would not flee from the spiritual world. They would
the spiritual world, which quite naturally becomes a part of their
spiritual force which dies in our thoughts and becomes a corpse when
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Title: Old/New Methods: Lecture Nine: The Threefold Human, Reincarnation, Heathens, Jews, Christians, Calderon
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treading a spiritual path of knowledge, but also covers such topics as
the living spiritual world, but which then becomes shaded and toned
is this kind of spirituality that human beings still feel within
themselves — this living spirituality — when, in reality,
they ought to experience nothing but dead spirituality? To answer
a corpse in the power of thinking. The real spiritual vision, which
as we do today, but also the working of divine, spiritual beings in
intimate relationship between the spiritual existence of nature and
the spiritual existence of man. That is why freedom and also human
divine spiritual beings everywhere, the god of the Jews is the One
guiding the soul upwards to the spiritual world out of which Christ
there. Only Gnosis, the spiritual view of Christianity, was able to
everything up allegorically into a spiritual sphere. But at that time
the spiritual pictures and the physical creatures of the earth were
spiritual life has changed. Now Cyprianus is at the same time a
that they are supposed to return to the spiritual world and
experience themselves in harmony with the spiritual world.
Justina experience their coming together with the spiritual world as
seek these spiritual forces within the historical evolution of the
important it is to turn the eye of their souls to these spiritual

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treading a spiritual path of knowledge, but also covers such topics as
view, he believed he would discover the spirituality of nature.
becomes spiritual. Finally the drama flows over into a Christian
sense of the word to depict how the spiritual world should be found
depicting this finding of spirituality in earthly life. To do so, he
spiritual realm here on earth. First you must die and go through the
portal of death; then you will discover the divine spiritual world,
intensified into a hatred against any talk of spiritual things
life in a vague, intuitive sensing, though not with full spiritual
civilization can only come from a spiritual life drawn from the real
death. And that is spiritual life. But people like the writer of this
said about a real, new blossoming of spiritual life, this is branded
meditate earnestly on the fact that a new spiritual life is what is
needed and that it is necessary to search for this spiritual life, so

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treading a spiritual path of knowledge, but also covers such topics as
how this spiritual change was experienced in Spain. Now it is
but of course the spiritual change did not take place in
efforts were concentrated on seeing spiritual realities, spiritual
only seek intellectual concepts, they sought spiritual beings and
what constitutes that great spiritual change. What people sought in
inclination to seek for real spiritual beings was lost. Instead,
traces of the spiritual change from the fourth to the fifth
still vibrated in his own being as an echo of that spiritual change
of world spiritual history as a pupil of Faust. It may even be true
spiritual world. He is really within it. But he has studied in
immersed in a spiritual reality. Both impulses work in his soul. The
combine the spiritual world with the intellectual mood of soul.
time of transition. Earlier, it was quite clear that spiritual beings
spiritual beings in his works might be merely subjective in
character. Because his whole soul was still open to spiritual
insight, he portrayed anything spiritual as something just as
whether the spiritual beings are subjective or objective. This is a
light, so does the perception of spiritual beings flee before
intellectualism. Spiritual vision cannot tolerate intellectualism
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treading a spiritual path of knowledge, but also covers such topics as
speaking about the tasks facing the leaders of spiritual and cultural
find that spiritual leaders such as the poets who created these
towards the real spiritual world. But the inclination towards the
spiritual world which was still characteristic for western cultural
sufficiently to allow access to real, genuine spiritual aspects in
period falls in an age when the old spirituality has gone, but when
it is not yet possible for living spirituality to burgeon out of the
corpse of the spiritual life lived by the soul in the world of spirit
intellectualism and endeavours to achieve a union with the spiritual
spiritual world, and in the opposition with Satan, we see a battle
for the figure of Faust which takes place in the spiritual world. In
suggestion of any appearance of the spiritual world in some
the spiritual world play into his poetic creations. It is one of the
spiritual world play into his poetic figures.
revolution was political, whereas in Central Europe it was spiritual
and cultural. I would like to say that this spiritual revolution took
exceptional spiritual stature of the exposition, for what Schiller
be satisfied with Schiller's view, profound and spiritually powerful
spiritual world to visit them; when they still worked in their
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treading a spiritual path of knowledge, but also covers such topics as
direct intercourse between human beings and the spiritual world which
way the spiritual beings who existed behind the sense-perceptible
spiritual world. This was quite clear in his soul when he was young,
intercourse with the spiritual world and with the spiritual powers of
the spiritual world. His task is given to him by the spiritual world,
to approach the spiritual world; from his vantage point, they could
see into the world of spiritual powers which was now hidden from the
of reality which allows the spiritual forces and powers to shine
everywhere quite close to the spiritual world, as it is also in
this mood of spiritual revolution Goethe creates the drama of
concerned, with what works down out of the spiritual world.
spiritual world. In the dramas of Goethe and Schiller we have a
working together of the spiritual with the physical —
that is spiritual. The East of Europe has not created anything into
spiritual world before going eastwards. Whatever he then did there
spiritual world.
bring the being of man closer to the spiritual world. He could not do
when human beings still had direct intercourse with the spiritual
possible to find a new entry into the spiritual world from out of a
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treading a spiritual path of knowledge, but also covers such topics as
Human beings always felt that they had links with the spiritual world
and they expected this spiritual world to satisfy whatever
divine spiritual world itself. Then social conditions moved on to
bring about social conditions based on research into the spiritual
interweaving of the spiritual with the earthly, social realm came the
in an external way to seek a new connection to the spiritual world
spiritual seeing of something artistic. So inasmuch as a human being
atavistic downward impetus. A new upward impetus into the spiritual
through anthroposophical spiritual science. Learning to find their
well be understood. Human beings do not want freedom in the spiritual
the recognition of the spiritual in thinking. In Schiller's
anthroposophical spiritual science is the recognition that freedom
between the spiritual realm they can experience in their soul, and
way towards life in the spiritual world, by means of meditation,
to approach these revelations from the spiritual world in a way that
supposed to heal people spiritually through hypnosis and the power of
medical knowledge needs to be advanced positively through spiritual
inoculating him with an idea. Yet spiritual life, taken quite
anything spiritual. The manner in which spiritual things are resisted
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This spiritual scientific study is full of insights into the nature of
Man and the World of the Stars/the Spiritual Communion of Man,
result of a magnificent spiritual activity, which man, together with
which becomes the spiritual seed, as it were, for his future physical
the state of equilibrium in the spiritual world. It is lost to a
womb, man is neither in the condition of equilibrium of his spiritual
does not follow the exhalation. Instead, it follows spiritual
in the spiritual.
a reflection of the spiritual through and through. Not only what man
is a reflection of the spiritual. When man expresses himself in
much closer to the spiritual world with our rhythmic system than with
shape. Yet, it is really shaped out of the spiritual, and only
through spiritual scientific research can one perceive what actually
one ascends to the spiritual world in the way described in my book,
where the direct revelations of the spiritual are received —
below.) In the spiritual perception that can be gained through
spiritual counterparts of the consonants. (See upper yellow lines in
spiritual counterparts of the consonants, however, do not live
into the spiritual world. You live in a singing worlds of vowels. You
element is colored by the spiritual counterparts of the consonants
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This spiritual scientific study is full of insights into the nature of
similarly developed soul-spiritual organs in his astral body and “I”
spiritual vision, therefore, could survey that which would be
soul-spiritual organs, these experiences do not reach ordinary
becomes different in that century. Without spiritual scientific insight
turn my spiritual sight up toward those beings who, through the
This transference of a spiritual task took place over a long period
the divine-spiritual world, and, on the wings of the tone structure,
sin, the falling away from the benevolent divine-spiritual powers.
prophetically envisioned man's fall from the divine-spiritual
religious experience in community with the spiritual world. It
again find the way out to the divine-spiritual. In one realm,

Title: Lecture I: The WHITSUN Mystery and its Connection with the Ascension
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of actual spiritual facts.
descent from the Spiritual as far as the rudimentary basis of the
witness spiritually an event of untold significance, enacted
taken place. They beheld as a concrete spiritual happening what would
the day of the Ascension. In spiritual vision the disciples see Christ
Now the Christ Impulse, which must have significance for the spiritual
Mystery of Golgotha. The spiritual effect of the Mystery of
spiritual cognition alone. No materialistic knowledge, no
the soul must acquire the power of spiritual cognition, of spiritual
perception, of spiritual feeling, in order to be able to understand
Spiritual visions such as came to the disciples on the day of the
But because this essence and meaning can be fully grasped by spiritual
with spiritual understanding of the festival seasons, it will be

Title: Arts and Their Mission: Lecture I
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stimulation from the spiritual world. We must become artists, not by
developing symbolism or allegory, but by rising, through spiritual
knowledge, more and more into the spiritual world." - from the contents.
described in anthroposophical spiritual science take their shape from
of spiritual science we mark the stages in the changing constitution
course with his whole being; considered its spiritual side as his own
possibility of discovering the divine-spiritual as something special
this truth energetically is the task of anthroposophical spiritual science.
Thus anthroposophical spiritual science grows out of the entire earthly
the spiritual in the physical, but not natural today.
remained stationary, we can no longer see the spiritual in the physical;
need of mankind: namely, to raise ourselves to the spiritual.

Title: Arts and Their Mission: Lecture II
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stimulation from the spiritual world. We must become artists, not by
developing symbolism or allegory, but by rising, through spiritual
knowledge, more and more into the spiritual world." - from the contents.
NE result of anthroposophical spiritual science — once it has been
his contemporaries sensed the unity of spiritual life and art is no
an ancient clairvoyance made for a living connection with the spiritual
is to see a certain connection between today's spiritual life and the
words, only a person who participates in spiritual life has an impulse
spiritual world. It was out of a spirit-attuned state that the artistic
urge proceeded. And this relation to the spiritual world will be, forever,
where the spiritual is fostered, they will not construct houses suitable
for spiritual impulses, but merely utilitarian buildings. And what would
human souls experienced a kinship with the spiritual world. Then the
a corpse, as long as he lives here on earth, he can, through his spiritual
when people had a relationship with the spiritual world. Today, however,
of their relationship to the spiritual universe erected their most valuable
people's feelings, their unconscious sensations, were spiritual.
into the spiritual universe. Consequently, these people were concerned
spiritual worlds.
body. Its spiritual forces can overcome some minerals — for example,
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Title: Arts and Their Mission: Lecture III
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stimulation from the spiritual world. We must become artists, not by
developing symbolism or allegory, but by rising, through spiritual
knowledge, more and more into the spiritual world." - from the contents.
it to grow out of space and into the spiritual world. These are the
sojourn in the spiritual world; and how out of this deprivation there
form as an imprint of the spiritual on the immediate present; which
we behold, spiritually, the human being as he is placed into the present;
form's direct participation in the spiritual, constantly overcomes the
entirety, he is an expression of the spiritual.
— color is something spiritual. Now we do see colors in certain
natural entities which are not spiritual; that is, in minerals. Recent
than that in which, in the immeasurably distant past, it was spiritually
constructed out of the green color of the spiritual world. The moment
long past, and green appears because at that time divine-spiritual beings
created this substance through a purely spiritual green. The moment
evolution, and see this precious stone created out of the spiritual;
is divine-spiritual beings, creative in the infinitely distant past,
created out of the spiritual, in greenness. We see both mineral and
spiritual. Strange that today painters chiefly ask themselves: Can we
the soul is within the spiritual. Really, what is experienced in painting
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Title: Arts and Their Mission: Lecture IV
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stimulation from the spiritual world. We must become artists, not by
developing symbolism or allegory, but by rising, through spiritual
knowledge, more and more into the spiritual world." - from the contents.
relation to the spiritual, a person can acquire the forces necessary
man draws closer to the spiritual element in thought, feeling and will.
of the spiritual-divine foundation of the world is to be acquired, attention
for a true relationship with the spiritual world; on the other, it helps
passing the gate to the spiritual world. On the other hand, it stresses
art must realize that its task is to carry the spiritual-divine life
spiritual. No artist could create in his medium if there were not alive
in him impulses springing from the spiritual world. This fact points
earnest of man's struggle to harmonize the spiritual-divine with the
the divine-spiritual hovering, before his soul and the physical-sensory
divine-spiritual shine through purified sensory forms. Always it was
his earnest endeavor not to take up the spiritual lightly in his writings,
not to express the divine-spiritual offhandedly. For he was convinced
the spiritual into the physical; not deal with it comprehensively and
To me all these creations have fallen away from the divine-spiritual.
the divine-spiritual, I must, by my treatment, lift them to a level where
they can reflect, out of their own natures, that same divine-spiritual.
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Title: Arts and Their Mission: Lecture V
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stimulation from the spiritual world. We must become artists, not by
developing symbolism or allegory, but by rising, through spiritual
knowledge, more and more into the spiritual world." - from the contents.
to emphasize that the spiritual evolution of mankind has proceeded from
the unity of science, art and religion. In present-day spiritual life we
study the spiritual development of mankind in those ancient times through
into the cosmos to find a content for their spiritual life, or to satisfy
through poetry during the period when they received spiritual content
the earth. For language originates in spiritual man — this they
merely of phantasy but of spiritual perception; and it was by this means
a head resembling the firmament; how thought represents a spiritual
a way that the spiritual background, the spiritual worlds, may be divined;
You must atone in a spiritual way for your sin against reality,
he attains by precluding — spiritualizing — the third
dimension. His use of colors elevates to the spiritual what is otherwise
through red, that which steps out of the plane in a spiritual way (whereas
dimension not by foreshortening and focusing, but by a soul-spiritual
in a spiritual fashion. Thus can the artistic be brought back to what
it was when it linked man directly to spiritual worlds.
highly important for our time to observe how a homogeneous human spiritual
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Title: Arts and Their Mission: Lecture VI
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stimulation from the spiritual world. We must become artists, not by
developing symbolism or allegory, but by rising, through spiritual
knowledge, more and more into the spiritual world." - from the contents.
that we refer to real spiritual entities when we speak of spiritual
language” designates the spiritual entity behind any specific
he can receive, from the spiritual world, strength to express his
means that the beautiful bears a relation to the spiritual outside us.
shine for us; it exists. It is the spiritual that shines, radiating
objectively of the beautiful, we take hold of it as a spiritual element
the spiritual which proclaims its nature in the midst of unpleasantness.
If the spiritual shines through the ugly, even the ugly becomes beautiful.
In art it is upon a relation to the spiritual that beauty depends.
we dealt with it insofar as it reveals the spiritual-essential through
as a divine-spiritual element bestowed upon earthly substances only
spiritual shines forth. Animals were felt to have their own colors because
case of a person, this can be done still more spiritually. To paint
spiritual.
weaves the spiritual around her; the face permeated and transfigured
relationship with something spiritual. In the face of present-day
to reach the spiritual. Otherwise it would be not “shine”
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Title: Colour: Part Two: Dimension, Number and Weight
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this is already verging on the spiritual.
things are ordered, then arises the perception of the spiritual
sense-experiences. Then we enter the positive spiritual world, and the
life and doings of the spiritual beings. As here on earth we enter the
colour, etc. — we come to the understanding of spiritual beings.
Such spiritual beings also permeate all the realms of nature.
and plants and animal; but in sleep he is with all that is spiritual
outer world, so that the good can follow the spiritual world or not.
foreordained in the spiritual world as causality is on this earth.
spiritual; there is no contradiction.
spirituality. The opposite pole must be found to that which has been
Spiritual Science. That contains the life-element which carries us

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beings in nature. Their perception of the spiritual being of the Sun
on the Earth, but, when it is a question of taking the spiritual
population. And when we were describing the spiritual side of such
given us by anthroposophical Spiritual Science, we can in a certain
proximity of the Black Sea. The spiritual content of these Mysteries
the purpose of a spiritual observation of the relation of the Earth to
the power of seeing through the stones to observe the spiritual nature
In the shadow of the Sun the spiritual Sun-nature worked into him
priest stood before his place of ritual, observing this Sun-nature,
the physical was spiritual at the same time, and the inner
The Sun-Initiation gave the Druid priest the spiritual impulse, and as
we find these old heathen centers of ritual show that what they
priest could say to the people arose on the spiritual foundations of
shadow, representing the spiritual aspects of the Sun. Then we
Nature. Thus he was within the spiritual whereby he sent forth the

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places; now higher, now lower warmth, but yet in a spiritual and
colour was a combined effect of Light and Darkness. But this spiritual
necessary for one to have no knowledge at all of the spiritual world.
And if one is still inwardly spurred by the spiritual world, as was
perfectly well that the origin of colour lay in the spiritual world.
of the spiritual. It reveals in fact something like a spiritual waltz.
At the same time one notices that as these spiritual beings emerge in
and you can imagine the watery element arises from it. Spiritual
spiritual things were a reality to him and then only will you
life, but they exist all the same. The spiritual, the soul, does not
is just what the resuscitation of Spiritual Science must attempt.

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Spiritual Science we have to ask: Is this relationship really so
not consider the world of stars unspiritually. To look up to the world
astral body — and let us look at the spiritual in this cosmic
regard only to the spiritual that is to be found within our earthly
and if we behold the spiritual manifest in it, we are then apprehending
when we really grasp the spiritual aspect of all that is thus put before
us. If we conceive this Spiritual in its completeness as a
divine-spiritual world reveals itself as the Etheric, namely that which

Title: Oswald Spengler: Lecture I: On Spengler's "Decline of the West"
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spiritual situation; such a person sees a picture which is
to point out to you, in an introductory way, a psycho-spiritual
One such symptom (but only one of many), a psycho-spiritual
contents or the psycho-spiritual qualities of a book is
has spiritual qualities, whether he is a personality who may be
taken earnestly, or even highly esteemed, in a spiritual way.
psycho-spiritual field, with the revelation by a serious
results is extremely interesting for the spiritual-scientist.
not familiar with spiritual science, but in a certain way, he
Decline of the West is a book with spiritual qualities,
spiritual life, one who sees how all that is so working strives
toward decline — such a person, if he knows spiritual
must feel this, and those who belong to our spiritual science
that through spiritual science we must seek again what has died
whole Occident in its spiritual, political, and social life is
adopting initiation-wisdom into our spiritual, legal, and
spiritual life. People are much too lazy to draw something up
Is it not understandable that people should encounter spiritual
of faith, today it is a question of will; and spiritual
can spiritual science be understood. I have said to you that

Title: Oswald Spengler: Lecture II: Oswald Spengler - I
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such a new force — naturally a spiritual force, based on
spiritual activity — Oswald Spengler had not the
remote from everything spiritual, from all inner human
spirituality (I must use the expression again) — an
abstract, intellectualistic spirituality — as opposed to
everything genuinely spiritual. This second volume is likewise
spirituality, he receives in this same mechanical world the
impulse to bring forth spirituality out of his own being
those germs of spirituality that are in him. By means of the
spiritual life.
spiritual force, have made the unliving dependent upon them.
curious idea; namely, that in reality the whole spiritual
apart from the ‘spiritual’ man” (Spengler puts
‘spiritual’ in quotation marks), “from the saint, the
from the ‘spiritual’ man, from the saint, the priest, the
“spiritual” man is in reality not such an enormous
speaks about the blood from the spiritual viewpoint, that is,

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spiritual world. We need only to observe the ancient Egyptian
decrees of the spiritual world transmitted what they discovered
by spiritual means to those who wished to become, and were
spiritual world, not out of the blood — for this whole
for the great spiritual creations whose directions were learned
in the spiritual research of the Mysteries. And I might
large extent dependent upon research in the spiritual world.
spiritual substance, under whose influence men acted.
by that spiritual principle which we may call the principle of
is only a terminology; I intend to indicate a spiritual
spiritual content in his soul-life was Friedrich
spirituality. Actually his every impulse to find a
need not merely a spiritual content which they may then clothe
This spiritual warming is exceedingly important. It was
rituals and similar ceremonies practiced in the religious
the rituals of these societies are supposed to be — but
when rituals were arranged or teachings given, in the sense of
spiritual beings worked with them. These spiritual beings were
descended from the spiritual world to the physical plane
— how these souls who have descended from spiritual
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raise the soul to the spiritual worlds in true fashion, and it
for what he means by “spiritual worlds.”]
Only from these spiritual worlds
that real salvation is only attainable on the spiritual path,
salvation can come only from the spiritual worlds.
viewpoint of spiritual knowledge.
spiritual battle ever waged by mankind. Everything that has
that for extensive circles of present-day humanity spiritual
constitutes men's spiritual properties — rights, customs,
today when spiritual life is spoken of. It is all something
starvation will bring to birth, out of the spirituality of the
humanity and have given it its particular spiritual trend.
there exists the spiritual effect modern industrialism has had
must give attention now to the spiritual significance of this
into these souls from the spiritually transparent machine. For
That fact that a machine is soul-spiritually so completely
would refer to spiritual life. Freedom has been omitted from
we consider spiritual science in the sense of a great cultural
individualism for spiritual life.
spiritual aspect, liberal, free. The great problem of the
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said that in our spiritual life we still have a Greek
spirituality of ancient Greece. We cannot grasp the soul-nature
age of a renewal of spiritual life. It will become more and
This shows us that in regard to spiritual life and the life of
experienced in the spiritual world before birth — more
If we do so, it points us toward our spiritual existence prior
we may reach with this pure thinking our spiritual nature as it
the fifteenth century for perceiving the spiritual world in
the spiritual, toward the existence before birth. And still
industrialism, is spiritually transparent. Nothing of it
perception of nature but enters into the spiritual behind
and to penetrate into genuine spiritual knowledge. Therefore,
deriving meaning from the spiritual, saying: We seek tasks that
principle of authority. This spiritual knowledge, which we gain
instance, base education on what we know out of spiritual
facts, out of what we learn from anthroposophical spiritual
through earth life, then life in the spiritual world, then
the spiritual world as a thought of the Godhead, only at birth
vague spiritual world before and after it. Now there exists the
released by industrialism, in order to rise to spiritual
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denied by spiritual science, this modern science in the schools
imagine that something of a soul-spiritual nature streams
the spiritual world.” Through such comparisons we bring
it. The genuine spiritual-scientific attitude is to restore in
inspired concepts; that is to say, those imparted by spiritual
We need spiritualized sciences which can permeate hearts and
situation will have to be reversed. In spiritual life, in the
science purely out of man's spiritual comprehension. The State
will stream out of spiritual life into labor what has to stream
We tell people of the concepts spiritual science produces in
lost connection with spirituality. It has to be found again or

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spiritual science as knowledge of man's true nature. The
knowledge that comes from spiritual science concerning the
spiritual culture in future, namely, the question of
spiritual world before birth. How little do people ask today:
spiritual world into man as a physical being?
see in him the continuation of his sojourn in the spiritual
spiritual world, if we are only interested in what continues
continues out of the spiritual into physical existence in a
be overcome. He who is able to look into the spiritual world
spiritual world.
spiritual world before he descended into the physical world. Up
spiritual world must have been unable to give to the soul what
spiritual world as the time of birth approached.
the physical aspect both are matter. From the spiritual aspect,
What I have just discussed has its spiritual counter-image. One
what spiritual science can pour into your feelings, into your
see, a spiritual element can enter into the externalities of
the more must we learn to take in spiritually what surrounds us

Title: Education as a Social Problem: Lecture V: The Metamorphoses of Human Intelligence: Present Trends and Dangers
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spiritual; spiritual processes and laws also underlie what
seems to be material. There are spiritual laws that concern you
only apparently material. They too are spiritual, but they are
permeated by that spiritual force which appears to you as
nature of the spiritual powers in which you live here on earth,
through a renewed perception of the spiritual world. This
spiritual world through vision.
spiritual scientific teaching, but to the seriousness that must
spiritual science the pertinent facts in the evolution of
receive an impulse through spiritual science. Without our
out of spiritual science: That human intelligence, left to

Title: Education as a Social Problem: Lecture VI: The Inexpressible Name, Spirits of Space and Time, Conquering Egotism
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be brought to light through spiritual-scientific knowledge.
spiritual science. That is to say, above everything we must
by outer physical science, but spiritual-scientific cognition
interest in other spiritual questions; in, for instance, that
birth in the soul that previously was in the spiritual
be followed by the mightiest spiritual battle, which will cover
relationship to the spiritual worlds, out of which they speak
persons of great spirituality like Rabindranath Tagore. They
our spiritual education. We read no newspaper that does not
culture, the Roman life of rights, the Greek spiritual
is difficult to acquire this organ in the spiritual sphere. For
to hear that salvation lies in free spiritual striving which
Concerning the most intimate spiritual life, the religious
building which represents our spiritual striving. Rejoice in
humanity's spiritual powers; making men more amenable to what
then can we give the impulse to mankind to overcome spiritually

Title: Karma: Lecture I
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already come to advocate what is given through spiritual
particulars, what is stated by spiritual science.
consider to be the spiritual. Only, this logic does not agree
spiritual.
beings believe that what reveals itself from the spiritual

Title: Karma: Lecture II
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through, however, before we descend out of the spiritual world
brings with him out of the spiritual world.
new birth we bring with us out of the spiritual into the
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every-day consciousness we feel cut off from the spiritual
spiritual world as a “beyond.” They even speak of
those who do not yet know the spiritual world, which also
exists everywhere just as the air, this spiritual world is
who take the matter into consideration, the spiritual world is
we may call a spiritual world in contrast to our physical
world; in this spiritual world he does not have a physical body
in a spiritual nature. And in this life between death and a new
is the physically living — look upward into the spiritual
the spiritual existing in our environment. The spiritual
experiences into which the spiritual world still extended.
— the extension of the spiritual world into the ordinary
earthly and the spiritual life is not so great as it is
counted by exact spiritual- scientific research — if we
consider it in this way. For all spiritual observation shows
Philosophy of Spiritual Activity,
Philosophy of Spiritual Activity
spiritual world — this would be similar to the fish
way into the spiritual world, does he acquire a perception of
this life, in this spiritual life, you cannot think otherwise

Title: Karma: Lecture IV
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organization together as he descends out of the spiritual world
we descend out of the spiritual into the physical world for an
spiritual world.
birth, or with other spiritual beings of a higher cosmic order
existence in the spiritual world.
the spiritual world all this is a reality. If we go through a
when we descend from the spiritual world into the physical, we
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shall then, with the help of spiritual science, seek out whom
imaginable pain in the field of spiritual science, because it
fine feeling for the spiritual and knows that, had he walked
here we must penetrate with our preception into the spiritual
wish to gain knowledge of the spiritual world, you cannot
because the spiritual world is different from the physical.
the banal, philistine world do not hold good for spiritual
relationships. If we wish to understand the spiritual world we

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deeper nature is concerned, descends from spiritual worlds into
down from the spiritual world.
brings down with him from the spiritual worlds.
forces he brings with him from the spiritual world. These he
our own forces brought with us from the spiritual world,
in relation to the facts of the spiritual world this question
brought into physical earth existence out of the spiritual
spiritual aspect. What the human being possesses as his
which he conforms. Either his spiritual forces are to some
life. Seen from the spiritual standpoint, this battle signifies
spiritual knowledge must say to people: “Certainly, it
you go through the gate of death into the spiritual world. You
of spiritual science as well as physical science, such
gate of death over into the spiritual realms. Because of this
he finds the work with the spiritual beings, with whom he now
the spiritual world. Between death and new birth he desires
out of the spiritual world down into the physical.
things. Therefore I say, when you endeavor with spiritual
friendship of their youth breaks. If we go back with spiritual
with spiritual science.
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its physical reflection out of the spiritual world.
are you connected on your spiritual side — the
the spiritual beings who do not incarnate in any kind of
earthly body, but who remain in the spiritual world. They,
encounter there, above all, the spiritual beings of this second
spiritual beings of the divine world are in us. When we
spiritually rains down and becomes our destiny.
them remained. In much that meets us in the spiritual life of

Title: Three Streams: Lecture I: The Lower Three Human Members and the Spirits of Form
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Steiner lifts the veil so that we may see the spiritual forces
kind of thing that we want to establish through Spiritual Science for
the spiritual life, the spiritual order. The anthroposophical outlook
would be wrongly interpreted if it were to infuse modern Spiritual
spiritual order, in the same way, though certainly on a higher level,
consideration of the spiritual order of the world, those concepts
must be grasped in a more concrete and spiritual sense.
consciousness. Now you know that with regard to the spiritual order
consider man in a spiritual sense, we can no longer speak only of
him between birth and death, he is connected with certain spiritual
spiritual Powers whom we have recognised as belonging to the
higher Hierarchies. As you know, in a normal man these spiritual
spiritual Powers do not work into his present consciousness.
spiritual content to which I have referred, we are concerned
spiritual forces.
more spiritually (see red in diagram), the Ahrimanic more in the
nature there are certain spiritual
appears to be, he analyses it into hydrogen and oxygen. Spiritual
science must undertake this analysis. Spiritual science must go in
for spiritual chemistry; otherwise it will never be possible
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Title: Three Streams: Lecture II: The Fifth Epoch, Semitic and Greek Cultures, the Christ Impulse
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Steiner lifts the veil so that we may see the spiritual forces
from actual spiritual
were inspired, initiated, directly from the spiritual world. But
through them spiritual Beings spoke; and, if we look back into those
look back to the period of Greek spiritual development that
the Mystery of Golgotha men were given from spiritual heights, which
Planetary Spheres and Their Influence on Mans Life on Earth and in Spiritual Worlds,
This knowledge of the personality was brought to man by a spiritual
and deeply in earnest that Christ had descended from spiritual
of the senses, they saw at the same time a spiritual element there;
of it; they had to receive something of a spiritual nature, and at
the same time gain from this spirituality an impression of reality in
Asia, who were in a certain sense spiritually proud, people who
first to go through death, had to live in the spiritual world until
spiritual world and would have been incapable of receiving any kind
time came when the inspiring of men through spiritual mysteries
into Spiritual
recognition of the character of wisdom which many so-called spiritual
those who know spiritual secrets. This deception is veiled by a false
spiritual world, is between Ahriman and Lucifer, and the Christ

Title: Three Streams: Lecture III: The Mystery of Golgotha Must Be Approached Supersensibly
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Steiner lifts the veil so that we may see the spiritual forces
men who had been contemporaries of it and, from the spiritual world, from
are of a spiritual nature.
and heredity out of certain spiritual depths, and more in conformity
Men increasingly lost all ability to look into the spiritual world in
fact we know in Spiritual Science as the influence of Luciferic and
spiritual outlook to discern the spirit in the inherited
spiritual connections, do not really belong there. We must point to
the connections of heredity with spiritual perception, supersensible
which is itself permeated with a spiritual, supersensible element,
world-outlook people turned to an impersonal spirituality, this world
of spiritual immortality — even when called by some other name
— You can understand the Jesuitical fear of the spiritual
danger of being disowned in some corner of the spiritual world! Then
from the spiritual world are concerned. Just in the most
must the spiritual branches of culture be taken in hand —
times ought to introduce the fruits of Spiritual Science.

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Steiner lifts the veil so that we may see the spiritual forces
[Sometimes translated “Spiritual Soul.”]
spiritual-scientific approach to the Mystery of Golgotha represents
spiritual world existing behind them. Thus for a long period men had
ghosts, seen as pictures, there was a spiritual world. In their
formed an image of the spiritual world. But then men more or less
forgot the spiritual world, or perhaps we might say it disappeared
conception of the spiritual world; for to-day it is not the spiritual
the ghost of himself, moral spiritual impulses cannot get through.
from the spiritual world. The moral impulses with which men work
bestow prematurely on men all the soul-spiritual achievements
spiritual sense. It could be prevented by the establishing of
speaking of the spiritual knowledge most suited to this particular age.
the spiritual and the non-spiritual to-day. Those who are spiritual
can certainly understand the non-spiritual; that is not particularly
difficult; but the non-spiritual defend themselves with all the
against any understanding of the spiritual.

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Steiner lifts the veil so that we may see the spiritual forces
entirely from spiritual perception. Spiritual perception alone
spiritual world. Anyone who is aware of the connections knows how one
or other event is related to its spiritual background. For anyone who
— his evolution into the spiritual world. Men of wisdom
spiritual and supersensible in the earth, but they would have been
spiritual forces, which were nevertheless connected —
that the findings gained from spiritual vision are incapable of corroboration;
spiritual actually emerged. In the near future these considerations
studied when we examine the spiritual life of the Middle Ages.
This spiritual
capacity, in conjunction with the divine-spiritual Beings appointed
flows into the universal spirituality. Man has no personal
things are considered spiritually. Now we must ask ourselves over and
prevents men to-day from turning to Spiritual Science, which alone
from which all that is spiritual has departed. And we may ask —
hosts! And it all becomes spiritual. Anyone who makes his way through
ghostly, as long as we have not the courage to look for the spiritual
is the next spiritual Being to be found.
supersensible spiritual world is our reality; and at the boundary
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Title: Three Streams: Lecture VI: Augustus and the Roman Catholic Church, Rhetoric, Intellectual Soul and Consciousness Soul
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Steiner lifts the veil so that we may see the spiritual forces
be done by presenting all the significant, sublime, powerful rituals
Gods. There were great rituals then, full of significance, designed
rituals which, according to old, atavistic customs, were to arouse
intentions of Augustus and his followers, the old rituals would have
ritual which was to spread a haze over the whole world so that the
rituals, intended to lead the soul to a consciousness of God. This
backwards towards the Sentient Soul through a renewal of old rituals
reflected from the exaltation of the old rituals is there in
in the ritual meant This attitude is still prevalent in all sorts of
approach the ritual with intelligence and will. The other pole,
the Catholic Church is at best its ritual. And into this ritual there
centre of this ritual there is something truly great, truly holy,
the Sentient Soul. The new life must come from all that Spiritual
evolution, by the researches of Spiritual Science —
which Spiritual Science can bring from the spiritual world must be
and anyone who has studied Spiritual Science for more than a short
earth-shaking occurrences which precede a great spiritual event of
how the urge towards religious ritual exists once again in men. It
towards ritual. See how just those spirits among the Romantic writers
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Title: Challenge/Times: Lecture I: East and West from a Spiritual Point of View
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EAST AND WEST FROM A SPIRITUALPOINT OF VIEW
organization; the third, as the sphere of free spiritual
and free spiritual production. What this signifies is that
relationships will be such that spiritual production will be
the threshold of the spiritual world. Within the limits of
threshold of the spiritual world. In these fields we can get
spiritual world. There exists within people of the present
spiritual world, since man really belongs to the world of
from beyond the threshold of the spiritual world.
Then it becomes obvious to the objective spiritual observer
and to take its place in the free spiritual life, such an
practicing spiritual scientist will be able to show that some
spiritual scientist experiences on the basis of his
be discovered by means of spiritual scientific research. This
this matter spiritual science may constitute a really
the field of spiritual science are considered difficult to
most important of all in the field of spiritual-scientific
through spiritual science is serviceable precisely in the
reach through the symptoms a vision of the spiritual that
spiritual sphere even though it is in opposition to Judaism,
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characteristic. This is the fact that spiritual science as a
research in the spiritual worlds. Whoever has a feeling for
impel them to seek for a connection with the divine spiritual
toward the spiritual and divine.” This must come to an
spiritual and divine; that is, the time in which what is
derived from the spiritual life shall no longer be viewed
participate in spiritual life shall be in duty bound to look
unwholesome way into spiritual abstractions and do not rise
in a wholesome way from physical reality to spiritual
the following fact. There is such a thing as a spiritual
element in the natural or spiritual order that some part of
science taken from the spiritual world. It is just as certain
spiritual science is much like the theorem of Pythagoras. If
light, this can happen only by means of spiritual science.
hold upon a spiritual-scientific view of the world because
subjective sympathies and antipathies. But spiritual science,
spiritually.
by a spiritual observation of the matter. Let us take the
of lower spiritual entities. In the fifth decade of the last
always connected with the spiritual world.
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spiritual-scientific point of view cannot be that of
unavoidable according to certain spiritual-scientific points
problem,” it is necessary that the spiritual scientist,
between the physical plane and the spiritual world, but the
spiritual scientist, therefore, who desires to fix his
have mentioned to you, that is, firstly, a spiritual sphere,
higher spiritual faculties and that genuine realities can be
taken by certain persons with reference to spiritual science.
faculties may evolve in the human being. Spiritual science
spiritual science wills to arrive, and how meanwhile there
those who admit that it is possible to see a spiritual reality
person anyone who speaks concretely of such a spiritual reality.
farther back. This can be known only through spiritual
science. Only through spiritual science, likewise, is it
psychic-spiritual evolution, and he would lose the earthly

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of spiritual-scientific knowledge an insight into precisely
considered in the light of the presuppositions of spiritual
when we view it in a spiritual-scientific way. If you speak
spiritualized — and love is actually seldom
spiritualized in ordinary life, even though I am not speaking
the spiritual life shall come about in the future side by
freedom of the spiritual life renders it possible that we
to stand upon the basis of spiritual science, you cannot
the person becomes spiritually scientific — in other
words, free on the one hand in thinking, and spiritually
comes about when we conceive man as a spiritual being, not
conceive a man as a spiritual being only when we grasp the
whole world in the light of its spiritual foundations. These
spiritual science) are simply inseparable one from the other.

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is antisocial, but behind this something spiritually social
exerts its influence. This spiritually social element that is
general spiritual science.
be regulated through the fostering of spiritual science.
spiritual science will lead only to chaos and radicalism,
man. But he grows into spirituality and within the spiritual
insight into the spiritual nature of the world lying behind
spiritual entities to come in contact with human nature and
becoming a spiritual-social being. He will become such a

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the subconscious, and are not clarified by spiritual
as we study it with the help of the spiritual lying at the
spiritual-scientific discussions. These difficulties arise
come only from the spiritual life, he must inevitably fall
humanity. This spiritualized instinct to develop the
that is, the economic impulse and the impulse of spiritual
that these impulses, the economic and the spiritually
economic order. Third is the system of spiritual production,
suitable in politics. The spiritual life also, to the extent
West to spiritualism, to the seeing of such forms as really
of spiritualistic gatherings than ahrimanic spirits, even
where the spiritualistic gatherings are genuine. They are the
spiritual world, are engaged in a conflict with each other.
the spiritual process, the imperfect is derived from the
the spiritual world down into the physical world. They do
which their spiritual nature acts antipathetically upon the
is such that germinating spirituality is the basic
exists in its spiritualized form and that is the instinct to

Title: Roman Catholicism: Lecture I
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To carry our spiritual understanding of things farther, we shall need
spiritual in the world, to explain the world of nature around him by
everything in the world stands in a spiritual ordering in which we no
spiritual world as such and upon what we acquire through spiritual
us today needs to be permeated by spiritual knowledge. It must
become permeated by what only spiritual science has to say. Medicine,
known and seen through spiritual science. Spiritual science does not
substantiate the results of spiritual-scientific investigation, and
can in this sense become a follower of spiritual science. It puts
in their opinions. That is just the task of spiritual science — to
modern humanity. Hence for spiritual science there are no such things
in fear at the frontiers either of the spiritual world or of the
This basic tendency of spiritual science is very naturally a thorn in
considerable concern to spiritual science, and one of the
of spiritual initiative or anything of that nature. Then he goes on:
particular what the spiritual life itself has to say to what is

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spiritual science there must inevitably come over Europe the
Face to face with this situation, what would spiritual science with
all its detailed concreteness have? What spiritual science would
Spiritual science, however, as we understand it, has to further the
wants to enter into that and fill it with Spirit. And spiritual
post-Atlantean age, which we seek to cultivate through spiritual
Philosophy of Spiritual Activity
the Roman Catholic Church as in the last resort spiritual science stands
Spiritual Science was verily never meant to appear in the role of
belligerent; spiritual science was only meant to state what it saw to
of the age that what spiritual science has to give should be
can only be understood out of the spiritual demands of the fourth
spiritual-scientific endeavor, must come into the world as the

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stressed the importance, both for the spiritual and social evolution
of humanity, of the spread of what we spiritual scientists call the
spiritual world separated from our physical-sensible world by a kind
continuation of a spiritual life which we have spent in the
Now you know that this spiritual life which precedes our birth or
pre-natal spiritual life was lost. Plato speaks clearly of that life,
remains forever in a spiritual world. That had already led Aristotle
the truth? They can only do so by receiving a new spiritual science.
Without this renewal of spiritual science mankind will not be able to
is written, especially in pastoral letters, “that spiritual
spiritual world. It is preached over and over again. Again and again
soul-spiritual, has only originated at birth, then of course the
psycho-spiritual nature of man. The Church laid down in that Council
spiritual attributes; but that to regard man as consisting of body,
forward certain reproaches against spiritual science, he reckoned as
in everything which has a real spiritual basis, a spiritual
foundation that is rooted in a real spiritual life, and not in mere
the spiritual world into the sensible world. For that reason the
spiritual world in all true inner sincerity and uprightness can be
with the spiritual world, you can take something which I have already
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to the soul, let alone to the spiritual. Just tell me where

Title: Young Doctors Course: Lecture II
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is an entirely spiritual sense organ, the liver a wholly

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in which the results of Spiritual Science simply cannot be
that results from Spiritual Science. The chaotic conditions
being of spirit and soul who comes down from the spiritual
effective from out of the Spiritual. This is not superstition
Spiritual Science. Therefore, people possessed of
esoteric, spiritual life must be taken, above all, in
in sulfur. This spiritual extract that is active in the aroma
know that something spiritual is in play above and below when
the plants. For those spiritual beings who come down through
spiritually active in the plant, it would always produce this
pearls of dew reveal to me what is living spiritually in the

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material world to the spiritual world. In every sphere of
the spiritual does correspond with an innermost need of the
enough to strive, in a general way, towards the spiritual;
this striving towards the spiritual must be concrete and real
not experience spirituality, for spirituality can only be
science yields no spiritual knowledge concerning existence.
nature to the spiritual forces behind her.
spiritual life. And it may sound rather trivial when one
to enter into details in spiritual studies, you will not be
able to find the way to the spiritual. Let it not be imagined
that one can really find the spiritual as a dreamer, or as a
inspirations and the like. The spiritual must be attained
the spiritual world.
from Raphael's spirituality, then into many other things too,
intentions of the Gods, of the Divine Spiritual Beings behind
way as other branches of the spiritual life in Dornach.

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world, we have to think of something spiritual —
always be heard; inasmuch as it is spiritual, it can also be
it, the spiritual world, in stages or degrees. We reach the
nearest spiritual world through imagination, a further
spiritual world through inspiration and a further world
muscular system is built up by spiritual beings of a higher
the inner organs, still higher spiritual beings must be
forces. The whole form of the plant is a spiritual reality, a
reality the root is spiritual, filled with physical substance
spirit world, is present in the warmth man. The spiritual is
it is so odd that spiritualists should sit around a table and
imagination, what is heard spiritually (inspiration) and also
in a locomotive, he is not submitting to these spiritual
reaches up into the spiritual, it will never be doubted that
spiritual laws are at the basis of what is contained in the

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from the spiritual, is the soul nature of the human being.
That is the corresponding spiritual reality which the human
is able to look into the spiritual world; the effect has to
the destiny of the individual in the spiritual world?
be by chemistry. There is something deeply spiritual
entirely self-enclosed being. Spiritual beings work and
create in him. Spiritual beings are within our physical,
that we are free. These spiritual beings within the physical,
astrology comes only at the last stages of spiritual
truth. My Philosophy of Spiritual Activity has been
But the Philosophy of Spiritual Activity is not the same as
Philosophy of Spiritual Activity — and here
position of the Philosophy of Spiritual Activity in regard to
spiritual activity, consists in this: that from out the bones
Spiritual Activity into the form of pictures. If one
spiritual activity is something in which we must get rid of
person experiences when he has the thoughts of free spiritual
sphere of medicine, as it is true in all spheres of spiritual
also means that one is being influenced by some spiritual
that when a person has an illness, he has a spiritual quality
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carries with him into the spiritual world on yonder side of
downright illusion before his spiritual eyes, because he then
threshold that spiritual being from whom we learn that quite
spiritual world with the ordinary concepts derived from the
spiritual world. People as a rule do not believe that the
concepts which correspond to facts in the spiritual world are
not so in the spiritual world. There, the part is always
to the insight that in the spiritual world the part can be
shortest distance between two points. In the spiritual world,
absolutely clear that if we want to enter the spiritual
is required so that we shall not enter into the spiritual
the spiritual threshold, over the abyss. If we cross over to
the spiritual world, if we pass the Guardian of the Threshold
and reach the spiritual world yonder in the soul and spirit,
the bridge between the spiritual aims of Dornach and the
spirituality will enter into medicine.

Title: Young Doctors Course: Easter Course: Lecture I
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spiritual; always the opposite.
appears to spiritual-scientific observation.
The concept is only the spiritual term for the perception.

Title: Young Doctors Course: Easter Course: Lecture II
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the results that happen in the spiritual life, and one will,
are a group of young physicians. In the spiritual sense you
spiritually, not physically. In diagnosis it is often more
spiritualizing of man.

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And thou wilt discern the spiritualizing of man.
unfolding of spiritual life takes place. Spiritual life does
spiritual life finds a place in what, figuratively speaking,
earth — the formless spiritual, inasmuch as Saturn
And thou wilt discern the spiritualizing of man,
that the spiritual may find a place, are also present in
all has lost connection with the spiritual, with the cosmos;
drawn from the spiritual world they make far less claim upon
off, so to speak. The peculiarity of spiritual truths is that
in the etheric body, namely, the memory. So far as spiritual
inwardly to digest spiritual truths; otherwise we very
times the spiritual evolution of humanity was different from
spirituality and men who were driven to externalization,
very much. We must enter into the concrete, spiritual facts.
have strongly spiritual aspirations — this must not
learn, in a spiritual way, to know the Human All, just as
the spiritual world in the right way. In the spiritual world
organs, and if people do not deepen themselves spiritually

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spiritual life — has assumed its present form, is that
that center of spiritual culture which was at its prime when,
in Europe, a kind of primitive spiritual life was prevailing
spiritual culture centers around Harun al Raschid
spiritual life (things at present are only in germ and have
is, instead, the attitude that has crept into spiritual
spiritual life which grew and developed under his influence;
of the Saturn forces which, spiritually speaking, have been
the light was known as spiritual tincture. The Sun evolution
cosmos. This is the regulation by the divine spiritual world
present spiritual life, thrusting him back into his own

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of astral body and ego is purely spiritual. A purely
spiritual structure is not governed by space and time. It is
possible, nonetheless, to make a picture of the spiritual
spiritual structure, becomes an image of the astral and ego
spiritual, in some parts or as a whole. Hence, as was
the purpose of finding out how he could become spiritual and
spiritual.
a gift from above is spiritual, of the nature of spirit and
being received, in a purely spiritual way, as a gift from
strongly from outside, where the spiritual element —
spirit. But the poisons are a true correlate of the spiritual
in the real sense, produces a gentle working of the spiritual
spiritual.
human being is in waking consciousness, the soul-spiritual
spiritualized. It becomes clearer. As though from outside,
from its surface inwards, it is laid hold of by spirituality.
experiments that are made by spiritualists in connection with
becoming spiritual. Mental illnesses are due to the astral
will tend to make the physical and etheric body spiritual. In
spiritual touching you get the impression that he is really
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Soul and Spiritual in the Human Physical
as the spiritual entity which, as it were, sends down the
warmth-body is permeated by cosmic spirituality, our air
permeated by the cosmic spirituality which on waking we drive
about by the cosmic spirituality. It is the same with the
spirituality and to the cosmic astrality.
principles of spiritual-scientific thinking and do not
come to the body. It does not go downwards from the spiritual
Spiritual Science aims everywhere for wholeness of view, that

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spiritual.
say on the basis of spiritual-scientific observation.
the human being this tone, this spiritual tone, is
when the knowledge yielded by Spiritual Science inspires us
to work for the sake of the future. When we regard Spiritual
this enthusiasm, born of spiritual-scientific knowledge,
problem except spiritual-scientific insight into Nature on
stars, they were speaking of spiritual beings.
its physical, psychical and spiritual aspects — if we
of the moral. In my Philosophy of Spiritual Activity
spiritual moral order in general, nothing could be
lack of spirituality — spirituality conceived of here
earth would still ray out a spiritual, sun-like force! This
gas, there is merely the reflection of a spiritual reality in
bitter hatred that is leveled against Spiritual Science,
against what Spiritual Science feels it a duty to bring to
vision, not only of the physical but also of the spiritual
spiritual Sun of which the physical sun is only the
the connection of Christ, the spiritual Sun, with the
of calumnies are then spread abroad. — But Spiritual

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build the bridge between the moral-spiritual world order and
reality, do we become inwardly more and more spiritual?
not make us more spiritual. We become more spiritual through
the sphere of thinking, the more spiritual we become. When we
called in my Philosophy of Spiritual Activity
Philosophy of Spiritual Activity, ‘Moral
into us from the spiritual world has its foundation,
for spirituality. Garrulous people, who are always opening
year; before then she was in the spiritual world. When she
passes out of the spiritual world, thought which there is
spiritually we could put our very finger upon it — what
degree of spiritual-scientific development. For here, to
Philosophy of Spiritual Activity.
spiritual-scientific conception of the world, not to any
spiritual-scientific thinking. For in the picture of the
are related to a truly progressive, spiritual-scientific

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on Western humanity in general. As one of the most important spiritual
in an exoteric way, because he believed that today's spiritual crisis
reader to consider our human and spiritual potential that Anthroposophy
the Spiritual as a living reality; and a living reality must be grasped
spiritually — light around him; the moment he looks back upon
you a semblance of yourself; and if you ascribe a spiritual origin to
yourself, I only show you a semblance of this spiritual existence within
material — spiritualisation of physical matter — comes down
turn our spiritual gaze backwards over thousands of years, we find human
spiritual.

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on Western humanity in general. As one of the most important spiritual
in an exoteric way, because he believed that today's spiritual crisis
reader to consider our human and spiritual potential that Anthroposophy
I touch on something that, spiritually, is actively present and makes

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on Western humanity in general. As one of the most important spiritual
in an exoteric way, because he believed that today's spiritual crisis
reader to consider our human and spiritual potential that Anthroposophy
College of Spiritual Science, namely: that the content of the Science of
from a study of the documents, that Spiritual Science, Anthroposophy,
manner described, from the physical to the spiritual again. Through
Your psycho-spiritual being. Today, at least, it is known to everyone
sustain the moon, just as it is the psycho-spiritual in you that maintains
your head. You establish a relationship to the spiritual cosmos, and regard

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on Western humanity in general. As one of the most important spiritual
in an exoteric way, because he believed that today's spiritual crisis
reader to consider our human and spiritual potential that Anthroposophy
the spiritual world. I spoke of this need meeting man from two directions:
soul, between moral laws grasped in a purely spiritual way and the soul
Thus we can find support neither in the corporeal, nor in the spiritual
as we experience it. For the spiritual always reveals itself as something
psycho-spiritual life, but this, too, is a perpetual riddle. But the
and say: Oh! I have learnt to know the spiritual world; the earthly
with the spiritual world. On a true, spiritual path one does not become
consciousness to the indefinite on all sides, the spiritual world proper
enters. One says: the spiritual world approaches me. Whereas previously
spatial, something new, the actual spiritual world, now approaches
At first the spiritual approaches you from the outermost part of the
within us an astral or third man, who comes from the spiritual, not
this onrush — as I might call it — of the spiritual through
the ether alone, but out of the spiritual beyond it. He gradually learns
to know the spiritual that plays into man in respiration. He learns to
you. The third man — who is physically the airy man, spiritually

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on Western humanity in general. As one of the most important spiritual
in an exoteric way, because he believed that today's spiritual crisis
reader to consider our human and spiritual potential that Anthroposophy
when we turn our psycho-spiritually sharpened gaze to the cosmos, we
one is able to attend to the spiritual that is active in matter and
entering space, beings of a psycho-spiritual nature just as man, in
his body, is also a psycho-spiritual being. This is what one beholds.
It has really remained in the spiritual world and has not come with
before conception and birth, in the spiritual world. If we are twenty
years old in 1924, it is as if we were still living spiritually before
intently at the astral body is to look directly into the spiritual world.
When you look at human beings spiritually, you look into the spiritual
a man has undergone in the spiritual world before he descended to
spiritual world before descending to earth. That time is still active
— in other words, it is still there, as far as the spiritual is
is still there in its spiritual constitution, just as what is spatial
one can enter the spiritual world with the same concepts one has for
the physical world should become spiritualists, not anthroposophists.
Spiritualists endeavour to conjure the spiritual — only somewhat
physical men walk about. But it is nothing spiritual — only fine
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Title: Anthroposophy Introduction: Lecture VI: Respiration, Warmth and the Ego
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on Western humanity in general. As one of the most important spiritual
in an exoteric way, because he believed that today's spiritual crisis
reader to consider our human and spiritual potential that Anthroposophy
but a conscious condition in which the spiritual world flows into him.
a man is able to feel, as it were, in an element of spiritual music,
the spiritual beings of the cosmos speaking ‘into’ him. He
is a spiritual, not a physical process; you receive the impression
science or medicine describe on anatomical grounds. It is a grand spiritual
in time; it now works in an entirely spiritual way. You perceive all
to understand the Spiritual,
as a result of spiritual study, man begins to feel himself no mere stranger
down from the spiritual world into the physical. Anthroposophy does

Title: Anthroposophy Introduction: Lecture VII: Dream-life and External Reality
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on Western humanity in general. As one of the most important spiritual
in an exoteric way, because he believed that today's spiritual crisis
reader to consider our human and spiritual potential that Anthroposophy
that Spiritual Science shows us that the ego then takes hold of the
spiritual beings of the world. All that man does, he does not do himself.
ridiculous for people who do not know Spiritual Science to say that
in spiritual observation. If we are not only able to apply sufficient
body only fills out what enters from the spiritual world and becomes
man. At length we say: what the liver is we now see spiritually in a
direction and represent, spiritually, man's internal organisation.
night he goes too far into the spiritual and cannot carry back into
— i.e. what he experiences too deeply within the spiritual holds
observation leads at once to Spiritual Science.

Title: Anthroposophy Introduction: Lecture VIII: Dreams, Imaginative Cognition, and the Building of Destiny
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on Western humanity in general. As one of the most important spiritual
in an exoteric way, because he believed that today's spiritual crisis
reader to consider our human and spiritual potential that Anthroposophy
spiritual perception does not become a dreamer or enthusiast, living
related to man's spiritual being in quite a definite way. We see that, in
a spiritual sense, the dream is the human being, as the seed is the plant.
a withering being, we perceive in him the spiritual man; in a sense,
you cannot see the spiritual man shine forth without learning to know
organs, which is such a spiritual process, these organs with their etheric
link between them, holding the balance. It is just to spiritual perception
would be a certain amount of truth in painting man's spiritual appearance
in paradoxes to some extent when one speaks of the spiritual world,
for the spiritual world does really appear quite different from the
spiritual and its form is still more wonderful as it withers, showing
its significance in the spiritual world; it kindles warmth there; it
is, in a sense, a source of spiritual rays of warmth. In the spiritual
warmth or coldness in the spiritual world according to one's behaviour
or that direction in the spiritual world; others have a darkening effect.
be it good or evil, wise or foolish, in the spiritual world — its
your sub-consciousness; you have been through it all. Just as the spiritual
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Title: Anthroposophy Introduction: Lecture IX: Phases of Memory and the Real Self
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on Western humanity in general. As one of the most important spiritual
in an exoteric way, because he believed that today's spiritual crisis
reader to consider our human and spiritual potential that Anthroposophy
harboured during earthly life. The spiritual counterpart, of which I
experience whose spiritual counterpart is not engraved into the spiritual
we have exchanged has its spiritual counterpart; it is there, inscribed
into the spiritual world. Only while we are surveying our life in the
all this vanishes into the wide cosmic spaces and we now see the spiritual
spiritual counter-images
from death to birth. This is what we do in the spiritual world when
we experience backwards the spiritual counter-images of all we have
all this has its spiritual counterpart; above all, whether you have
as you go backwards from death to birth, it is the spiritual counterpart
we have caused him pain — there is already a spiritual counterpart
part of the spiritual counterpart and is inscribed into the spiritual
a spiritual way, going backwards from death to birth.
onwards through these spiritual counterparts of our experiences, we feel
as if these spiritual beings were showering down their sympathies and
or impulse of will, is worth for purely spiritual existence. In bitter
for the spiritual world, of harbouring passions and have outgrown these
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Title: Three Streams: Lecture I: The Lower Three Human Members and the Spirits of Form
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Steiner lifts the veil so that we may see the spiritual forces
kind of thing that we want to establish through Spiritual Science for
the spiritual life, the spiritual order. The anthroposophical outlook
would be wrongly interpreted if it were to infuse modern Spiritual
spiritual order, in the same way, though certainly on a higher level,
consideration of the spiritual order of the world, those concepts
must be grasped in a more concrete and spiritual sense.
consciousness. Now you know that with regard to the spiritual order
consider man in a spiritual sense, we can no longer speak only of
him between birth and death, he is connected with certain spiritual
spiritual Powers whom we have recognised as belonging to the
higher Hierarchies. As you know, in a normal man these spiritual
spiritual Powers do not work into his present consciousness.
spiritual content to which I have referred, we are concerned
spiritual forces.
more spiritually (see red in diagram), the Ahrimanic more in the
nature there are certain spiritual
appears to be, he analyses it into hydrogen and oxygen. Spiritual
science must undertake this analysis. Spiritual science must go in
for spiritual chemistry; otherwise it will never be possible
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Title: Three Streams: Lecture II: The Fifth Epoch, Semitic and Greek Cultures, the Christ Impulse
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Steiner lifts the veil so that we may see the spiritual forces
from actual spiritual
were inspired, initiated, directly from the spiritual world. But
through them spiritual Beings spoke; and, if we look back into those
look back to the period of Greek spiritual development that
the Mystery of Golgotha men were given from spiritual heights, which
Planetary Spheres and Their Influence on Mans Life on Earth and in Spiritual Worlds,
This knowledge of the personality was brought to man by a spiritual
and deeply in earnest that Christ had descended from spiritual
of the senses, they saw at the same time a spiritual element there;
of it; they had to receive something of a spiritual nature, and at
the same time gain from this spirituality an impression of reality in
Asia, who were in a certain sense spiritually proud, people who
first to go through death, had to live in the spiritual world until
spiritual world and would have been incapable of receiving any kind
time came when the inspiring of men through spiritual mysteries
into Spiritual
recognition of the character of wisdom which many so-called spiritual
those who know spiritual secrets. This deception is veiled by a false
spiritual world, is between Ahriman and Lucifer, and the Christ

Title: Three Streams: Lecture III: The Mystery of Golgotha Must Be Approached Supersensibly
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Steiner lifts the veil so that we may see the spiritual forces
men who had been contemporaries of it and, from the spiritual world, from
are of a spiritual nature.
and heredity out of certain spiritual depths, and more in conformity
Men increasingly lost all ability to look into the spiritual world in
fact we know in Spiritual Science as the influence of Luciferic and
spiritual outlook to discern the spirit in the inherited
spiritual connections, do not really belong there. We must point to
the connections of heredity with spiritual perception, super-sensible
which is itself permeated with a spiritual, super-sensible element,
world-outlook people turned to an impersonal spirituality, this world
of spiritual immortality — even when called by some other name
— You can understand the Jesuitical fear of the spiritual
danger of being disowned in some corner of the spiritual world! Then
from the spiritual world are concerned. Just in the most
must the spiritual branches of culture be taken in hand —
times ought to introduce the fruits of Spiritual Science.

Title: Three Streams: Lecture IV: Consciousness Soul and Scientific Thinking, Sorat and 666
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Steiner lifts the veil so that we may see the spiritual forces
[Sometimes translated “Spiritual Soul.”]
spiritual-scientific approach to the Mystery of Golgotha represents
spiritual world existing behind them. Thus for a long period men had
ghosts, seen as pictures, there was a spiritual world. In their
formed an image of the spiritual world. But then men more or less
forgot the spiritual world, or perhaps we might say it disappeared
conception of the spiritual world; for to-day it is not the spiritual
the ghost of himself, moral spiritual impulses cannot get through.
from the spiritual world. The moral impulses with which men work
bestow prematurely on men all the soul-spiritual achievements
spiritual sense. It could be prevented by the establishing of
speaking of the spiritual knowledge most suited to this particular age.
the spiritual and the non-spiritual to-day. Those who are spiritual
can certainly understand the non-spiritual; that is not particularly
difficult; but the non-spiritual defend themselves with all the
against any understanding of the spiritual.

Title: Three Streams: Lecture V: Free Human Personality by Self Training, Justinian and the Schools
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Steiner lifts the veil so that we may see the spiritual forces
entirely from spiritual perception. Spiritual perception alone
spiritual world. Anyone who is aware of the connections knows how one
or other event is related to its spiritual background. For anyone who
— his evolution into the spiritual world. Men of wisdom
spiritual and super-sensible in the earth, but they would have been
spiritual forces, which were nevertheless connected —
that the findings gained from spiritual vision are incapable of corroboration;
spiritual actually emerged. In the near future these considerations
studied when we examine the spiritual life of the Middle Ages.
This spiritual
capacity, in conjunction with the divine-spiritual Beings appointed
flows into the universal spirituality. Man has no personal
things are considered spiritually. Now we must ask ourselves over and
prevents men to-day from turning to Spiritual Science, which alone
from which all that is spiritual has departed. And we may ask —
hosts! And it all becomes spiritual. Anyone who makes his way through
ghostly, as long as we have not the courage to look for the spiritual
is the next spiritual Being to be found.
super-sensible spiritual world is our reality; and at the boundary
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Title: Three Streams: Lecture VI: Augustus and the Roman Catholic Church, Rhetoric, Intellectual Soul and Consciousness Soul
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Steiner lifts the veil so that we may see the spiritual forces
be done by presenting all the significant, sublime, powerful rituals
Gods. There were great rituals then, full of significance, designed
rituals which, according to old, atavistic customs, were to arouse
intentions of Augustus and his followers, the old rituals would have
ritual which was to spread a haze over the whole world so that the
rituals, intended to lead the soul to a consciousness of God. This
backwards towards the Sentient Soul through a renewal of old rituals
reflected from the exaltation of the old rituals is there in
in the ritual meant This attitude is still prevalent in all sorts of
approach the ritual with intelligence and will. The other pole,
the Catholic Church is at best its ritual. And into this ritual there
centre of this ritual there is something truly great, truly holy,
the Sentient Soul. The new life must come from all that Spiritual
evolution, by the researches of Spiritual Science —
which Spiritual Science can bring from the spiritual world must be
and anyone who has studied Spiritual Science for more than a short
earth-shaking occurrences which precede a great spiritual event of
how the urge towards religious ritual exists once again in men. It
towards ritual. See how just those spirits among the Romantic writers
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Title: Die Erziehungsfrage als soziale Frage: Erster Vortrag
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Spiritualität, das Streben nach Geistigkeit komme. Denn

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Spiritualität, wie des Rabindranath Tagore. Man wird sich

Title: Thomas Aquinas: Lecture I: Thomas and Augustine
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this address I sought to prove that a real and spiritual Monism
had been given in Thomism, that this spiritual Monism,
division of human experience into a spiritual side and a
it. Manichaeism sees as “spiritual” what appears to
the senses as material and when it speaks of the spiritual it
think, — that it actually sees spiritual phenomena,
spiritual facts in the stars and their courses, and that it
manifest to us on earth as something spiritual. It conveys no
for in it what is spiritual has its material manifestation and
what is material is to it spiritual. Therefore, Manichaeism
the same time something completely and obviously spiritual. And
material or spiritual terms, man appears to man now as the
physical eyes as something at the same time spiritual.
this Manichaeism, with its principle of the spiritual-material.
spiritually and the spiritual materially. And one can come to
call the revival of spiritual life. In other places I have
called material-spiritual to something purely spiritual,
something built and seen in the spiritual sphere; Augustine had
material spirituality and its spiritual materiality lived in
not look upon the physical universe as spiritual-material. As
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Title: Thomas Aquinas: Lecture II: The Essence of Thomism
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yesterday particularly to emphasize was that in the spiritual
This is an historical review of spiritual life which had
spiritual-psychic force which plays a part in the ordinary
grace and be spiritually saved; and that another part of
mankind must be spiritually lost — no matter what it
participation in his destiny in the material-spiritual world.
serene spiritual regions, where it can find its release and
from the divine-spiritual being of the world and which can lead
mysteriously from the sixth century into European spiritual
put himself into the spirituality of the time out of which
the leading spiritual personalities in the first Christian
spiritual science. Then one admits at once the following: one
and spiritual characteristics. Then he considers it from two
as human body out of the spiritual-psychic attains maturity.
“sweating out” of the spiritual-physic, a
“crustation” as it were of the spiritual-psychic.
spiritual-psychic forces cease to have any influence on the
such a spiritual-psychic activity that the bodily form is
the product of the spiritual-psychic. When a certain
the body, make their appearance in a spiritual-psychic
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Title: Thomas Aquinas: Lecture III: Thomism in the Present Day
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spiritual reality — is still felt, even if in quite a
in the spiritual activities of to-day, but distinctly altered
with death, and that really only the spiritual
with the human-psychic-spiritual element*. Scotus can imagine
represented the spiritual world, but as being won by
higher and higher to comprehend as a spiritual reality
spiritual. Leibnitz towers over the others because he has the
courage to expound the world as spiritual. Yes, the world is
spiritual; it consists of a multitude of spiritual beings. But
which meant in such an age differentiated spiritual
spiritual points, the monads. Individuality is saved,
a spiritual, indivisible, elemental point. If we exclude
spiritual content through the development of thought itself..
The spiritual world, which we learned to know in Plotinism,
into the appearance of God Himself. Man is on the spiritual
scientific part. In Bacon the spiritual world has, so to speak,
The spiritual world becomes the subject of faith, which is not
and by experiment, which is, after all, only a more spiritual
concerning the spiritual world. The Scholiast's problem was, on
spiritual world, which, of course, was handed down to him
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Title: Search for the New Isis: Lecture I: A Christmas Lecture
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We know through our study of Spiritual Science that we do not rightly
love towards that Being Who descended from spiritual heights that He
origin — his physical and his spiritual origin. It is a birth
intermixture of course of a spiritual element which is not
develop as spiritual perception of nature. We must learn once again
man. It must be a spirituality, a Spiritual Science created out of
by means of spiritual vision they projected into the constellation of
came to spiritual vision in their inner world, we must come to a
spiritual vision in nature. And on the other side we must find the
unspiritual in our observation of nature, if on the other side
to a unification of humanity. The spiritual that lies open to our
is true Spiritual Science. Then will be opened for us the only way to

Title: Search for the New Isis: Lecture II: The Quest for Isis-Sophia
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divine-spiritual existence of the world. And we must grasp the
Spiritual Guidance of Mankind — between the third and the
before our minds the spiritual connection between the Isis-Mystery
which it is explained there we can point to a spiritual relationship
of the spiritual sun, was killed by Typhon, who is none other than
spiritual-scientific basis, the Mysteries of the Egyptian priests in
He came down from spiritual heights, connected Himself with the man
mathematical lines, then we see the grave of the world's spiritual
become for us spiritual again. We must understand Saturn, Sun, Moon,
Lucifer. It no longer sees into the spiritual foundations of
discovery through the impulse given by the inner force of spiritual
monuments of the spiritual powers that surge through space. We look
spiritual form during the 20th century, not through an external
this, my dear friends, unless we understand what Spiritual Science
an appeal to kindle Spiritual Science within your hearts, so that it

Title: Search for the New Isis: Lecture III: The Magi and the Shepherds: The New Isis
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fantasy, but to a spiritual, although instinctive, atavistic
something spiritual, something that made them able to describe
our system were ensouled by living beings. Men beheld the spiritual
as the mineral and plant kingdoms in their spiritual reality. It was
world seen by men of old, the spiritual withdrew — withdrew
knowledge that man gazed into the spirituality of the starry heavens,
into the spirituality of the minerals and plants, with his atavistic,
that he perceived what was living spiritually in the earth's depths.
colours and so forth — without perceiving the spiritual. And
spiritually through faculties of external knowledge was transformed
And this cosmic memory enabled them to behold the spiritual in the
spiritual, these forces of the child withdraw in later life from the
historical view, the knowledge that comes from Spiritual Science. We
the spiritual realisation to the living Christ. Men must learn to
of Spiritual Science through his knowledge of what the Guardian of
the powers of knowledge and of will for this spiritual creation can
come out of the spiritual world.” What is an event of great
humanity that the spiritual life, the life of rights, and the
this into a Spiritual Life, an Equity State, and an Economic State
is only through spiritual-scientific knowledge of the passing of the
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Title: Search for the New Isis: Lecture IV
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a spiritual reality has gone the opposite way. The other kind of
link with their own origin, with the spiritual which is their own
the spiritual in the macrocosm, had seen Gods or, ultimately,
from the stars which are also things of sense, the spiritual in the
spiritual science of astronomy had developed. Through the science
was no longer, as in the earliest times, achieved by purely spiritual
spiritual affairs.
If life continues without the stimuli that come from the spiritual
practical life what can come out of Spiritual Science are working,

Title: Man as a Being: Lecture 2
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believe themselves to represent the spiritual life of to-day
and spirit but of body and soul only, although some spiritual
spirituality. For he does not know that if we go back earlier than,
in a very different spiritual configuration from the one at present
entirely different spiritual constitution. For if one approaches
back upon it with the spiritual make-up resulting from present-day
the spiritual world, even if only in an instinctive way. And for him
spiritual world, if I may put it so. For Aristotle, accordingly, what
shadows which had been cast down from the spiritual world — the
But the Gnosis was an essential element in the spiritual life of the
this knowledge. The real spiritual world was always present in
spiritual world still carried the impress of that world, an impress
abstract residuum of an earlier spiritual knowledge; it consists of
spiritual world that had once been seen. By the fourth century A.D.
Aristotle. For him, logic was, so to say, the residue of spiritual
experienced out of the spiritual world. By the middle of the fifteenth
century the last scrap of consciousness of this spiritual world had
intellectual element appears not as the residue of a spiritual world,
seeking to apply an intellectualism, the spiritual origin of which had
because this could only have come from spiritual science, which he
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Title: Man as a Being: Lecture 3
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good imprint of the soul-spiritual. The soul-spiritual makes a very
methods are applied. To spiritual scientific investigation it is
spiritual formation. The thorough-going materialist looks at the
spiritual, out of the super-sensible of this world.
spiritual world, but we should acquire an insight into the way the
material world originates in the spiritual world; an insight, so to
speak, into the way the spiritual world is imaged in the material
from the spiritual world, compared with what we see in the rest of the
the spiritual, can be regarded as bearing witness to the spiritual
onwards, develops as the soul-spiritual life. It really is a fact that
between the soul-spiritual and the bodily-physical, and how therefore
appears to us as of a soul-spiritual nature, and on the other hand,
you can experience the interplay between the spiritual and the bodily,
to make the transition from the soul-spiritual to the bodily-physical.
In the soul-spiritual we experience morality; within the
inner soul-spiritual life contradicts it. We are conscious that we can

Title: Driving Force: Lecture I
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The Driving Force of Spiritual Powers in World History
of men. Spiritual backgrounds of the Youth Movement.
incomprehensible if he cannot grasp what spiritual-scientific
many of the forces that were active in him in the spiritual
relationship with the spiritual world.
speech into relation with Beings of the spiritual world. This
ordinary language — when the Beings of the spiritual
between what the Beings of the spiritual Hierarchies say and
spiritual Beings has insinuated itself into the state of
fact of spiritual life such as this.
into spiritual worlds. It must certainly be admitted that
reflecting the spiritual, they immediately stop thinking and
able, during sleep, to experience the spiritual through the
spiritual, it is repudiating itself for it consists of both
spiritual.
idealistic, spiritual significance in the words used around
strong spiritual influence upon the souls of men —
spiritual world, the world of the Archangeloi opens out
spiritual existence. — Souls who experience this
into a human world which has denied us spiritual reality in
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Title: Driving Force: Lecture II
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The Driving Force of Spiritual Powers in World History
yesterday, we must turn to those spiritual Powers which form,
who spends one part of his total life within the spiritual
in the child a spiritual element is always at work; it is an
still working from the spiritual world.
spirituality comes to expression there just as here on Earth
colours within fixed contours, the spirituality of the
endowed with enough forces from the spiritual world to grow
he absorbs spiritual knowledge.
the spiritual world and was still of use to him in the
knowledge of the spiritual world through teaching and
told you that if an individual absorbs no spiritual
Goethe felt: nothing spiritual comes to me from him. And his
Goethe had been able to absorb Spiritual Science from any
strongly. But in those days Spiritual Science was not yet
the comprehension of Spiritual Science.
spiritual world into the earthly world, these Primal Powers
here on Earth man must seek for the spiritual through his
feeling for such things as the spiritual revelations of
spiritual achievements, that the whole man is there.
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Title: Driving Force: Lecture III
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The Driving Force of Spiritual Powers in World History
Spiritual happenings as causes of the
Accordingly, only with spiritual sight would one be able to
Through spiritual vision it is possible to speak about this
fact without spiritual-scientific insight into the matter we
the following: I lift up my spiritual vision to the Beings
earthly existence with the divine-spiritual world; the tone
of mankind from the divine spiritual powers, the powers of
them that man would fall away from the divine-spiritual
Spiritual Science we can look at the more ancient and
spiritual world. Thus they could say: In most ancient times
outwards again towards the divine-spiritual world. And it

Title: Driving Force: Lecture IV
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The Driving Force of Spiritual Powers in World History
On the activity of spiritual Powers in the historical
spiritual Beings — that his relation to his thoughts is
happenings and also by happenings in the spiritual history of
advance of spiritual Beings, certain individual spiritual
Thus in the general advance of spiritual
they retained it for themselves. And so, among the spiritual
thoughts. Hence in the stream of spirituality holding sway
Certain spiritually minded personalities in the Near East,
continuous spiritual struggle. The Archai contend with the
reflection of a spiritual struggle taking place behind the
spiritual world between the Beings of the Higher Hierarchies.
place in the spiritual world is to be seen in the struggles
influence of spiritual forces in what is for the most part
personality is guided and led by the divine-spiritual Powers
personality is a messenger of the spiritual world. In point
the earthly reflection of higher spiritual impulses confronts
conflict that is the reflection of the other, the spiritual
spiritual Beings make normal progress, there are also certain
these spiritual Beings.
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Title: Driving Force: Lecture V
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The Driving Force of Spiritual Powers in World History
The Spiritual Guidance of Man and Mankind
outstanding spiritual leaders of mankind are the Beings whom
those spiritual Beings who, as Exousiai, were unwilling to
thoughts as a gift from the divine-spiritual worlds.
divinespiritual Beings who draw the world-thoughts out of the
spiritual world-outlook sought by way of Anthroposophy. Man
ourselves: When we enter the spiritual world — either
whenever it may be — when we enter the spiritual world
evolving Archai, if we truly grasp our spiritual function in
spiritual world. We shall regard the Archai as the spiritual
the divine-spiritual world-order itself: What is the
spiritual, not, of course, by excluding but by including

Title: Driving Force: Lecture VI
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The Driving Force of Spiritual Powers in World History
from the spiritual into the physical world. This living
spiritual. And this perception of the purely spiritual has
still believed in the reality of the spiritual world, he
dead, are now spiritual in the very highest degree! Here
what he has inherited from a spiritual world, he can no
they are too spiritual! They would be able to understand
It is because they are too spiritual, because they have
materialists, the answer is: because they were too spiritual,
enters the spiritual realm, no visible sting is necessary any
the spiritual world, man has no possibility of approaching
with us through the gate of death into the spiritual world.

Title: Driving Force: Lecture VII
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The Driving Force of Spiritual Powers in World History
of having come from pre-earthly existence, from the spiritual
world. In the spiritual world there is no such thing as
matter that has meaning on the Earth but not in the spiritual
world. The wish to prove something in the spiritual world
or less what ‘proving’ would be in the spiritual
consciousness of having descended from the spiritual world,
spiritual, for perceiving divine Thoughts in the phenomena of
human being with the divine-spiritual Beings was no longer
had already become a matter of mythology. The spiritual
divine-spiritual, yet they were thoroughly at one with all

Title: Healing Factors for the Social Organism: Lecture I
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developed completely out of the so-called spiritual substance of
experience in the spiritual life of the present, that genius and
because, fundamentally, the spiritual element makes absolutely no
gain an insight into the deep significance of spiritual science
spiritual researchers are able to exists so much more will it
spiritual worlds are to be carried into the broadest circles. How
pre-existence, of the life of the soul in the spiritual worlds
European spiritual streams. To what actually does the
have an immortal soul, the actual being of man is spiritual,
is soul-spiritual. Let us suppose that this is the soul-spiritual
conception or birth, this soul-spiritual element builds up a
complete imprint of the soul-spiritual element. Everything that
is soul-spiritual is imprinted in the bodily physical. Now you
spiritual world, such as stand in our Anthroposophical books,
One does not oneself have to be a spiritual researcher but if one
thinks with the soul-spiritual element, then the bodily physical
denial of the soul-spiritual element, then one thinks with the
the material element. If one denies the soul-spiritual element,
theories, rather this is dealing with inner spiritual deeds which
life of spiritual impulses is a different one than mere thought
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Title: Healing Factors for the Social Organism: Lecture II
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earnestness of anthroposophically oriented spiritual science
completely turns away from spiritual concepts) only concerns
bit by bit, through the denial of the soul-spiritual element, the
actual losing of this soul-spiritual element occurs. I said that
have his soul-spiritual element saved. This however, is not the
soul-spiritual element, that he sinks himself into the Ahrimanic
to what can be brought to all mankind in the way of spiritual
upon the past of the spiritual element, and upon what has
remained as a leftover from the past of the spiritual element,
humanity — creating spiritual divine beings. Elemental
beings, certainly: a lower order of spiritual beings, that is
another matter; but what the actual creative spiritual beings are
the souls of such personalities. The one who, in the spiritual
surrounds man as nature is the remainder of a divine spiritual
of the Divine Spiritual Being at present. Thus the
divine-spiritual, that is also the actual creative element in the
the fact that the divine-spiritual, which we have to address as
spirit-impulse through spiritual science and joins it to his
spiritual science. If he stays with the intellectual abstract
earth development he needs the taking up of the spiritual element
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Title: Anthroposophy/Civilization
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the Spiritual Resurrection, published in German as, Lebendiges Naturerkennen,
Living Knowledge of Nature, the Fall of the Intellect into Sin, the Spiritual Resurrection,
spiritual life of our present age, so that we can see on
become fully aware of its position in the spiritual life
spirituality. And, above all things, this Greece had still much
effort to exterminate spiritual life in Greece, and this, as
people who founded it had heard some of the spiritual truths
spiritual perception, we must describe the following as
live in the spiritual world. But considering all that I am
spiritual being, and as a spiritual being, lived in a physical
spiritual soul in that dwelling house of the physical body. And
a consciousness of this spiritual psychic man, existing in the
add that the ancient spiritual psychic consciousness of
spiritual beings in our bodies; we knew that we were human
spiritual human beings. But then we know nothing of ourselves,
says: — “The spiritual world wants to break
a spiritual community which at that time had preserved so
and further; the call for spirituality is already
those who have received an urge from Spiritual Science towards

Title: Human Soul/Evolution: Lecture I: The Human Soul in Relation to World Evolution
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things more especially from an anthroposophical, spiritual-
their more spiritual astral nature.
become aware of certain aspects of the external spiritual
presses deeper is an external spiritual world. As he attains
able to see from this how spiritual science may start
totality of a spiritual-scientific truth that carries within it
speaking of the soul, for a spiritual-scientific method

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with spiritual sight into supersensible worlds, then other
away before spiritual sight. Our limbs are organs that belong
said that where physical man has arms spiritual beings have
wings; and that after death so did spiritual man. However, to
replace spiritual beings with a kind of symbol in the form of a
reveal themselves as they are at present but in their spiritual
become, as it were, spiritual beings. They are — if I may
spiritual and expands to cosmic proportions. It becomes a
Whoever earnestly endeavors to ascend to spiritual knowledge
faced with spiritual perceptions that have a life of their own.
certain spiritual perceptions; he can attain those experiences
the loftiest spiritual perceptions and must struggle to attain
Genuine spiritual perceptions act differently — they are
again. One must relate to spiritual knowledge as one relates in
not the case with a spiritual soul content; this does not just
like specters. The spiritual realm that is attained must be
even — dreadful thought — in print. The spiritual
results originating from spiritual perceptions do not provide
like going with one's spiritual perceptions into a dark room
spiritual experience is not of the present it causes pain and
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body when he descends from spiritual worlds into the physical
world. Within the spiritual world he does not yet possess it.
present descends from the spiritual world; what has been drawn
actual continuation of pre-natal spiritual man; whereas when we
spiritual is less strongly connected with the physical process
spiritual man, the man of soul and spirit, is closely connected
soul-spiritual.
because the soul-spiritual is not so firmly connected with the
easier to understand that the spiritual can be active within
Spiritual science does not exclude what is material; on the
spiritual insight, is something utterly unreal. It is as unreal
the view that to be a conscientious spiritual scientist
understood spiritually; it will then reveal itself as spirit

Title: Human Soul/Evolution: Lecture IV: The Human Soul in Relation to Moon and Stars
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spiritual world. Already at this point inspired cognition must
external spiritual world which surrounds us, just as the sense
spiritual world, we must constantly be aware that it is
something which is apart from ourselves. In this spiritual
spiritual beings, but we also learn to distinguish
external spiritual world, we also make progress in the inward
universal; it contains no soul element, it is spiritual.
into the spiritual.
learns to know himself in his existence within the spiritual
the spiritual world before he descended into physical
own being within the spiritual world, he also learns to
spiritual world. In that world we learn to know elemental
Then our soul learns to unite itself with that spiritual being
which is ourself. We are not part of the spiritual environment
spiritual as the spiritual environment. We have come into a
Within the undulating, weaving light we touch the spiritual
attained spiritual sight, we perceive other beings. We can only
spiritual behind the sun. We then descended into the physical
sun prevents us from seeing the spiritual. And when, after
prevents us from beholding the spiritual world. When we ascend
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Title: Human Soul/Evolution: Lecture V: The Human Soul in Relation Sun and Moon
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with the picture, one also received the spiritual reality of
huge chemical plant. If we are to find again what is spiritual
Therefore, he perceived the environment as spiritual through
impulses, because everything contained divine spiritual
himself to find within the technical the spiritual — the
spiritual is, after all, within it — where it is first to
world is grasped for the first time purely spiritually. Indeed,
the world is grasped through the very purest spirituality.
very reason that it leads into a realm of spiritual sight where
longer contain anything spiritual, by constructing technical
spiritual can live within it. This is how the cult in its
earliest form originated. The spiritual cannot enter a creation
moral-spiritual deed on the bench which in the laboratories of
spiritual activity. It is remarkable that it is just people of
penetrated with spirituality by ascending to pure independent
spiritual in the external world, it led to depicting the halo.
loftiest proclamation of the spiritual world and points to
This is all related to man's inner spiritual drive towards
and spiritual rebirth.
meaning of earth evolution. This revelation was the spiritual

Title: Human Soul/Evolution: Lecture VI: The Formation of the Etheric and the Astral Heart
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When we observe man in the spiritual world, long before he
death. But long before this we were spiritual-soul beings in a
spiritual-soul world. What we are and what we experience there
with man's life in the spiritual-soul world — this will be
soul and spirit of man approaching from the spiritual world
descends from the spiritual world. But to say that is to say
further soul-spiritual life. Because within the heart, in
together, man is able, as he grows spiritually larger and
this unites that which man brings down from the spiritual world

Title: Human Soul/Evolution: Lecture VII: Modern and Ancient Spiritual Exercises
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Modern and Ancient Spiritual Exercises
When we look back to the spiritual strivings of man in a very
soul. They perceived spiritual beings, even if of a lower kind,
their fantasy, dreamed all kinds of spiritual and psychical
ancient times, if we believe that the spiritual beings
natural for him to do, he was conscious of the spiritual beings
by something spiritual. That is only an example chosen at
when he was a spiritual-soul being in a spiritual-soul
wood and atmosphere, into the whole setting of a spiritual-soul
world in which he had been as a spiritual-soul being. There he
it was as yet only soul — and lived within a spiritual
selfhood, is transported into its past in the spiritual world
current. By this method a path into the spiritual world
This is not the path modern man should seek into the spiritual
into the spiritual within individual objects.
vibrates within the spiritual which lies at the foundation of
spiritually in the rhythms of the external world. In this way
him to remember what he was, within a soul-spiritual
into the spiritual world. Another was by adopting certain
experienced they are found to have a much more spiritual
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Title: Human Soul/Evolution: Lecture VIII: The Elementary World and its Beings
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certain spiritual powers during the earth's future.
spiritual examination. We saw how it is possible, through exact
within the physical-soul-spiritual being of man something comes
methods, gain insight into the spiritual world.
have often mentioned that a new stream of spirituality is now
course — and a future devoted to the spiritual. The most
of spirituality, from higher regions of world existence,
into the earthly world from the spiritual world. It will be
of the spiritual in all nature, but able to perceive it.
again gain insight into that spiritual foundation of
elementary spirituality. Today's
Thus, in the solid earth element live spiritual beings of an
sponge — in a spiritual sense, of course — and out
is analyzed, and so on. But elemental spiritual beings
streams towards him from the spiritual world then the result of
spiritual stream is seeking to enter our present civilization
mainly from a spiritual vision of the realm of the ethers. In
this realm live spiritual beings who do not strive to separate
turn to spiritual knowledge and the insight that what exists up
significance of spiritual knowledge for man's earthly
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Title: Human Soul/Evolution: Lecture IX: The Contrasting World-Conceptions of East and West
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spiritual life. It had all fallen into decadence two or three
because divine spiritual power streamed into him. It was a
of activity for those divine spiritual beings who were
earliest days of mankind's evolution on earth, divine spiritual
man's `I' and soul being. During his sleep, divine spiritual
spiritual beings regulated his nerve processes and worked right
inspiration. In other words, the divine spiritual beings did
inspiration. Divine spiritual beings could completely regulate
spiritual world and the earthly world in the ancient Orient. It
so, too, his soul being and the spirituality of his `I'. When a
divine spiritual deeds. His experience of them had
mankind the Gods, the spiritual beings, were drawn, as it were,
formerly been a pure spiritual experience of divine
spiritual beings, became a belief in ghosts.
is the pure spiritual beholding of divine spiritual beings.
into the magnificent spiritual life of Greece, into Greek art
Golgotha, the former pure spiritual perception which the
Europe; in the Orient it had been pure spiritual
spiritual seeing, which had once signified a cultural
for divine spiritual beings. This was something of which people
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Title: Philosophy, Cosmology and Religion: Lecture I: The Three Steps of Anthroposophy
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This cycle focuses on exercises to attain higher spiritual development.
rebirth, especially the role of Christ after death as revealed to spiritual
spiritual science, spiritual art and truth-filled religion,
which in itself can only be spiritual and international.
already indicated, the aim here is to engage in spiritual
all its aspects more fruitful. The spiritual knowledge we seek
cultivated here as spiritual knowledge must certainly reckon
senses penetrate the physical sense world. What the spiritual
attention to his own soul-spiritual organism, which is able to
approach the super-sensible. This distinguishes the spiritual
nature. But the spiritual researcher, just because he is
soul-spiritual organ of knowledge — I can perhaps call it
prepares and develops the spiritual eye, must be such that the
inner conformity of this spiritual eye appears before it
attainment of knowledge is the essential point in spiritual
is exact in the search for results, the spiritual researcher
must be exact in preparing his soul-spiritual organism, which
then can perceive a spiritual fact as the eye or ear perceives
spiritual research referred to here must be exact, in the same
spiritual science with its own kind of exactness begins. It
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Title: Philosophy, Cosmology and Religion: Lecture II: Soul Exercises in Thinking, Feeling, and Willing
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This cycle focuses on exercises to attain higher spiritual development.
rebirth, especially the role of Christ after death as revealed to spiritual
guaranteed the presence of a spiritual, an etheric
the point where you notice that in your soul-spiritual life you
him out of the spiritual etheric world, and build up in him a
when a soul-spiritual, cosmic content not previously
known flows into this emptiness — a new spiritual world,
a spiritual outer world. This, then, is the stage of
one has this capacity for receiving a soul-spiritual
that lived in a soul-spiritual world before it descended to
becomes acquainted with his own soul-spiritual life before the
in the soul-spiritual world. In inspired cognition he thus
at the same time, he learns to know the spiritual cosmos.
spiritual cosmos; only, what within his physical and etheric
organism is the work of this spiritual cosmos is much more real
spiritual world into his physical existence.
that can now be integrated into the spiritual cosmos
member of the whole cosmos, of a soul-spiritual, cosmic
in the will, has to be set free from the life of the spiritual
organism into the spiritual world outside. In thus taking the
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Title: Philosophy, Cosmology and Religion: Lecture III: The Imaginative, Inspirative, and Intuitive Method of Cognition
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This cycle focuses on exercises to attain higher spiritual development.
rebirth, especially the role of Christ after death as revealed to spiritual
easily envisioned complex of ideas to which the soul-spiritual
experienced spiritual scientist, because he can see to it that
soul-spiritual is engaged in meditating.
one who wants to become a spiritual scientist it is necessary
thinking to such a degree that one can test what the spiritual
especially clear how the human soul within modern spiritual
freeing itself from the imaginative pictures, the spiritual
Then man gradually has before and around him a spiritual
What man now experiences in the spiritual cosmos
comprehend the spiritual cosmos by means of the emptied
spiritual being of the sun, the moon, the planets and stars is
man should be able to relate what he experiences spiritually as
experience something like a spiritual being that
simultaneously in both the spiritual and the physical sense
the spiritual revelation of the cosmos and what he is
within earth life. When one thus relates the spiritual
spiritual moon element to the physical moon element, and so on,
experiences as revelations of spiritual beings with what
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Title: Philosophy, Cosmology and Religion: Lecture IV: Cognition and Will Exercises
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This cycle focuses on exercises to attain higher spiritual development.
rebirth, especially the role of Christ after death as revealed to spiritual
spiritual beings who rule there. When, however, a person
is as a soul-spiritual being developing from birth to the
that his soul-spiritual being begins with earthly life and ends
with it. He arrives at the soul-spiritual element in his
soul-spiritual element as something eternal, as the
soul-spiritual world before it descended into a human physical
soul-spiritual world and learns to know its pre-existent life.
existed before birth in its pure soul-spiritual existence, then
soul-spiritual being in the soul-spiritual world. There, this
were living elements within spiritual activities. What we have
living spiritual entity that we were before we descended to the
part of our soul life to our purely soul-spiritual existence
releasing his own soul-spiritual nature from his physical as
spiritual world itself. It is the ego and the astral
organization, his own being, that he carries into the spiritual
spirit being, one is outside in the world of spiritual beings
he is in a position to be within other spiritual beings, as
When we pass over into the spiritual world with what we harbor
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Title: Philosophy, Cosmology and Religion: Lecture V: The Soul's Experiences in Sleep
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This cycle focuses on exercises to attain higher spiritual development.
rebirth, especially the role of Christ after death as revealed to spiritual
spiritual organization, that is to say his ego organism, are
certain true facts of the spiritual world can be
of belonging to Him, the religious rituals directed to Christ
with spiritual beings who dwell in the cosmos and never live in
spiritually impregnated by a continuous stream of moral
earlier lectures that intuition recognizes as the spiritual
the spiritual world with intuition, we recognize that the sun
are merely the reflected physical images of certain spiritual
beings. The soul lives within these spiritual beings of the
spiritual star-beings. The soul experiences such
better correspondence to the single spiritual beings if
really finds its way as a spiritual being into a cosmos
consisting of other spiritual beings. What it unconsciously
soul-spiritual world. Every night, the truth concerning the
life from the spiritual world and withdraws again into the
spiritual world the other impulses he needs. What permeates him
cognizes these spiritual beings who correspond to the sun or
that the impulse comes from the spiritual beings whose
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Title: Philosophy, Cosmology and Religion: Lecture VI: The Transition from the Soul-Spiritual Existence in Human Development to the Sensory-Physical
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The Transition from the Soul-Spiritual Existence in Human Development to the Sensory-Physical
This cycle focuses on exercises to attain higher spiritual development.
rebirth, especially the role of Christ after death as revealed to spiritual
VI - The Transition from the Soul-Spiritual Existence in Human Development to the Sensory-Physical
because of the spiritual moon forces active in the cosmos, as I
spiritual science, anthroposophy, is to be rightly
spiritual correlation, cannot function when man is in his
pre-earthly existence prior to his descent from the spiritual
he is in a purely spiritual cosmos in his prenatal existence,
word germ in one instance for spiritual existence and in
for the spiritual, the pre-earthly existence — the word
cosmos around him that contains soul-spiritual beings. Man
souls and spiritual beings who do not enter physical
in active soul-spiritual labor on the development of this
transposed into the spiritual, then you would have to think of
find our way into earthly existence out of a spiritual,
countless spiritual beings of the most varied hierarchies
existence he has in common with the spiritual universe.
That universe, however, is an association of living spiritual
spiritual-divine beings around me. Now it appears to me as if
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Title: Philosophy, Cosmology and Religion: Lecture VII: Christ in His Relationship to Mankind and the Riddle of Death
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This cycle focuses on exercises to attain higher spiritual development.
rebirth, especially the role of Christ after death as revealed to spiritual
soul-spiritual being has been living in the spiritual
the spiritual worlds, in His descent from extra-terrestrial
content pointed to a spiritual reality. Just as today, when our
perceived something spiritually real when such images passed
Among what ancient man experienced as spiritually real there
soul-spiritual condition, in a purely spiritual world, before
same time into a spiritual world to which man belongs with the
bestowed by that spiritual being whose physical image is the
image of a spiritual sun being. This spiritual sun being
permeates the spiritual world from which I myself descended to
to a knowledge concerning the way the spiritual world looks and
remain connected from this time onward with the spiritual
spoke above all else about the spiritual being of Christ as He
appeared in the spiritual world. The path was described which
had taken from the spiritual world down to earth. In all these
tradition. But those who knew something about the spiritual
the spiritual world, accomplished the Mystery of Golgotha after
experienced from the spiritual world through Christ.
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Title: Philosophy, Cosmology and Religion: Lecture VIII: Ordinary and Higher Consciousness
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This cycle focuses on exercises to attain higher spiritual development.
rebirth, especially the role of Christ after death as revealed to spiritual
body and his soul-spiritual being when death occurs.
instantly, if it is to come out of the spiritual world in truly
spiritual in its formulation, its expression. Forgive me if I
expects a person to lecture on some aspect of the spiritual
professorial lecture but not in a spiritual one that any
facts from the spiritual world are to be brought forth.
is really in a position to judge how the soul-spiritual in the
and the soul-spiritual by means of the imaginative as well as
the relationship of the soul-spiritual to the physical bodily
outside your body. By means of this psychic-spiritual
we acquire a view of man's soul-spiritual constitution on the
descending from the soul-spiritual world, man works on the
Particularly, when we observe the way the soul-spiritual in
realization that one part of the soul-spiritual — a part
in pre-earthly life but disappears as a soul-spiritual element
in the infant, but gradually this part of soul-spiritual life
soul-spiritual configuration of man exists as such in
soul-spiritual element of our pre-earthly existence. Look at
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Title: Philosophy, Cosmology and Religion: Lecture IX: The Continuation of Ego Consciousness after Death in Relation to the Christ
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This cycle focuses on exercises to attain higher spiritual development.
rebirth, especially the role of Christ after death as revealed to spiritual
also feel how the spiritual essence of the fixed stars in the
in the physical organism, it continually wants to spiritualize
to transform our head organization into something spiritual. An
permeates the physical body as spiritual activity,
astral-spiritual element that is similar in form to what it was
spiritual world, a method no longer to be employed today. It
properly prepare the spiritual archetype of his future
produce a decadent spiritual archetype for the future physical
spiritual impulses of the cosmos are active, as I have pictured
universal, all-embracing creation of the spiritual organism
man experiences by means of his soul forces in the spiritual
happens in the spiritual worlds that man en counters
the lofty Spiritual Being, Whose physical reflection is the
initiates presented the spiritual Sun Being as the lofty
of perception in the spiritual world, which in turn enables the
soul to prepare the spiritual archetype of the next physical

Title: Philosophy, Cosmology and Religion: Lecture X: The Experience of the Soul's Will Nature
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This cycle focuses on exercises to attain higher spiritual development.
rebirth, especially the role of Christ after death as revealed to spiritual
willing-soul, the soul's nature always remains soul-spiritual,
willing-soul, you are able to study the lasting soul-spiritual
moral-spiritual nature of man takes place in the feeling-soul.
the soul-spiritual world into a physical-etheric organism. In
after-effect of the soul-spiritual existence is at work to
moral-spiritual nature of man, unites with this tendency. Thus,
spiritual world.
see by means of a spiritual knowledge of man into this
spiritual insight into man a true teacher can estimate and
permeated by hidden soul-spiritual elements. In a
from spiritual insight, from a knowledge of the total human
methods of treatment are permeated by what spiritual
perception and a spiritual point of view can add to them.
that what this spiritual science, working out of anthroposophy,
for medicine from spiritual observation. I would like to say
spiritual perception regarding man's total being. If you
valuations of man's moral qualities. This moral-spiritual
valuation of man's moral-spiritual qualities. Man feels himself
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Title: Occult Reading/Hearing: Lecture I: Human Being and his Relationship to the World
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of the spiritual world.
of Spiritual Science — as was intended in Munich —
essential findings of Spiritual Science are acquired through
methods by which the spiritual investigator reaches his
Spiritual Science. Before I pass on to the central theme I will
comparison with what our stream of spiritual life would like to
to look into the spiritual world and see the truth, he must,
his own wishes and desires in face of the spiritual world. Yes,
that every true impression of the spiritual world will be
the standpoint of the spiritual world and with the methods of
the spiritual world.
spiritual world itself, not in the brain of a curious
spiritual world that human beings who are seers here on the
spiritual world a handful of people would have to be brought
karma. Again, from out of the spiritual world the feelings and
spiritual world but that such procedures are not possible in
grown out of Spiritual Science is that one not only assimilate
Spiritual Science is that people read them just as they read
not constantly have in mind the basic principle of Spiritual
trivial, after reading a genuine book on Spiritual Science, a
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Title: Occult Reading/Hearing: Lecture II: Identification with the Signs and Spiritual Realities of the Imaginative World
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Identification with the Signs and Spiritual Realities of the Imaginative World
of the spiritual world.
Identification with the Signs and Spiritual Realities of the
spiritual world — more fleeting and fluctuating by
pictures merely as signs of the spiritual reality. I
that when those fleeting, fluctuating pictures of the spiritual
our bearings in the spiritual world. But there are exceptions
to find, in the spiritual world, one who recently or some time
living in the spiritual world in the existence which we
grace of the spiritual world. It is an act of grace on the part
of the spiritual world to be able actually to behold the dead
important reason, recognised by the Beings of the spiritual
meditation into the spiritual world and there directing his
right words because the affairs of the spiritual world are so
of pictures spiritually, devour them, take them into ourselves,
and takes in the truth. As a rule, this hearing, this spiritual
spiritual world, we know that we are in his presence ...
although in the spiritual world he naturally speaks to us in a
spiritual way, communicating something to us in a spiritual
spiritual process just described.
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Title: Occult Reading/Hearing: Lecture III: Inner Experiences and 'Moods' of Soul as the Vowels and Consonants of the Spiritual World
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Inner Experiences and 'Moods' of Soul as the Vowels and Consonants of the Spiritual World
of the spiritual world.
Vowels and Consonants of the Spiritual World
say, with what these signs signify of spiritual realities.
the spiritual world. The way in which man learns to hear and
read the ‘vowels’ of the spiritual world is, of course, a far,
gradually grow into the knowledge of the spiritual world. We
in the spiritual world, they are signs of spiritual realities.
spiritual realities.
The moment the trained seer has a spiritual Imagination, he too
— but he is within the Spiritual. He is always within the
spiritual Beings who are not physically incarnate. He is really
all the time within those spiritual pictures of which the
weaves spiritually around the world — in which we
the spiritual world that is round about him. What is this
question of Spiritual Science. We ask: What is the truth of our
fluctuating web of spiritual Beings which we dare not carry
spiritual Beings and happenings, which are always around us; we
contact only the shadow-pictures of these spiritual Beings. And
life of soul, a spiritual Being must hold sway over us all the
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Title: Occult Reading/Hearing: Lecture IV: Inner Mobility of Thought
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of the spiritual world.
can be called the ‘vowels’ of the spiritual world.
its origin in a misuse of higher spiritual forces which in
must be maintained through the transformations in the spiritual
He must retain a kind of higher, purely spiritual memory of
other forms, processes and beings of the spiritual world. In
as it were in the spiritual world, to be able to divide
to reach a more spiritually adequate picture of the
in the spiritual world at the same point of time. But this does
must change before we can penetrate into the spiritual world
spiritual reality. This again is a ‘vowel’ in the spiritual
spiritual generality, but a living weaving and working in a
And the Spiritual bursting forth in the single individual
experience again is another vowel of the spiritual world
— the original, primal vowel of the spiritual world. This
living wealth and not merely as a spiritual hearing, is
going on in the spiritual world and is there in the spiritual
world. And then the spiritual world can speak to the soul.
What is it that happens when real communion with the spiritual
death, he is engaged in acts of spiritual perception; but he
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Title: Imaginative Cognition and Inspired Cognition
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It is from the lecture series entitled, Norse and Middle European Spiritual
Norse and Middle European Spiritual Impulses,
physical life generally, were spiritualised
crept in — that it is the purely spiritual ego making
the ego, which then becomes a member of the spiritual world
of the cosmos; and working in from outside, from the spiritual
inwardly, spiritually, it is found more and more that the
those that are negative. And in this connection spiritualism is
spiritualist has on his, when positive. It is only on becoming
spiritual world-conception without having any understanding of

Title: La ComuniÃ³n Espiritual de la Humanidad
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La Comunión Espiritual de la Humanidad
Comunión Espiritual de la Humanidad
COMUNIÓN ESPIRITUALDE LA HUMANIDAD
mundo espiritual que tenían que ver principalmente con el vínculo establecido
mundos espirituales desde donde el ser humano desciende a su cuerpo físico en
mundos espirituales, así como un hombre de hoy puede hablar sobre el
mundo espiritual-suprasensible se presentaba a ellos en imágenes - no las
cualquier realidad histórica, sino de un mundo espiritual que yacía oculto
detrás del mundo físico. Así, el mundo espiritual era revelado a los hombres a
para ellos una forma espiritual de existencia, pero los pensamientos llegaban
están impregnados por lo divino-espiritual. Él también trató de descubrir las
manifestaciones de este divino-espiritual en los detalles, por ejemplo, en la
satisfechos de tener la revelación de esta visión espiritual que se les
humanidad. Se decían a sí mismos: El poder espiritual residente en el Sol hasta
realidad divino-espiritual-suprasensible, y cuando, comprendiendo lo que esto
tierra como un Ser espiritual. En contraste con los antiguos Festivales de
de profundizar hacia el interior, de espiritualizar, cualquier conocimiento que
Espiritual que se ha unido con la Tierra, debe enlazar sus ideas con este Ser
cristianismo, esta constatación de la realidad espiritual-suprasensible en el
otra vez en el verdadero sentido encontrando la parte espiritual de nuestro
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Title: Occult Psychology: Lecture One
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the friends of our spiritual movement, so sincere a sentiment that it promises a continuance of
other again, we need especially to dwell upon what if fruitful and all-embracing in the spiritual
action, within a spiritual movement such as ours. We shall certainly not insist egoistically that
neglecting his own spiritual substance. We should be able to recognise ourselves as men who are
prevailing in our spiritual movement the following may be said on one hand: Yes indeed, the
number of souls of those who are thirsting for spiritual life in our sense has very greatly
increased. The longing for such spiritual life can well be said to have become infinitely
strengthening of man's longing for the spiritual life. It is true that over against this
carried. This laxity, this laziness, leads souls astray in the present yearning after spiritual
life. On the one hand, men are immersed in a genuine longing for spirituality, for strong
remember, especially on meeting again, to conduct according to the standard of spiritual impulses
the necessary direct activity resulting from the will. These spiritual impulses will have to
thought is already a spiritual life. It is because men give so little heed to their life of
thinking that they seldom find their way into the spiritual worlds.
otherwise since his destiny and the rights of his spiritual life obliged him to sacrifice the
Now it is just the task of the spiritual impulse to
that refuses to make a flight to the spiritual, is condemned in all circumstances to be narrow
Spiritual Science this does not suffice, for here one cannot confine oneself to a narrow circle,
philistinism must soften into non-philistinism if Spiritual Science is to penetrate. Sometimes
Our Spiritual Science does not admit of one thing
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Title: Occult Psychology: Lecture Two
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paint what enters in a soul-spiritual way from the universal, from the infinity of space, like
soul-spiritual that into which man is placed. Man indeed is not yet there, but indicated in this
soul-spiritual.) Borne like a wave, swimming, I might say, or hovering, so nothing else is borne
soul-spiritual; and if we would make the sketch in accordance with reality it is only the upper
can perhaps incorporate in the following way what, adjoining the universal soul-spiritual here,
accordance with the ideas of spiritual science, we can do so by saying (diagram 3): this boundary
Just as here the soul-spiritual of man meets the
soul-spiritual of the surrounding world, so what is within man as his soul and spirit meets his
going to describe the matter chiefly in its soul-spiritual aspect.
into the rest of the soul-spiritual universe. It is only because you have this obstructing wave
far as what is within man reaches; the soul-spiritual of the universe goes out boundlessly from
earth the spiritual is both strong and conscious. Here (left) the spiritual that actually merges
spiritual here (in the middle) is for this reason above all for earthly life a very finely woven
spiritual element. Everything here (yellow) is what might be called finely woven light. Were I
but a loose connection between this finely woven soul-spiritual element and what belongs to the
with the spiritual in such a way that the spiritual is wholly incapable of appearing as such.
this seething and merging of the spiritual and the bodily behind the threshold of memory. It is
something spiritual), if you imagine the spiritual element of what in its external form has not
soul-spiritual that is merged into man, and held back in you from the head, all that forms a
is going on spiritually in mankind's evolution. If we have not a fundamental comprehension of
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Title: Occult Psychology: Lecture Three
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what is here is the understanding of the wor1d acquired through Spiritual Science. It is possible
quite well known in the various centres of Initiation. The whole of eastern spiritual life, the
accessible to man up to the eighth century before Christ. Indeed it is not only the spiritual
returns to a physical body, when souls are so spiritualised that they do not descend to earth any
that has not behind it what is spiritual. These 500,000,000 human forces are the opportunity for
spend as short a time as possible from sojourning in the spiritual world and there will be the
spiritual he will also be severed from the Christ. And then the possibility arises to make use of
host, an army to fight for Jesus. Yes, indeed it is natural that Spiritual Science should be the
some who wish to remain unknown become increasingly angry about the aims of Spiritual Science;
responsibilities as leaders of their fellow men. Those, however, who are interested in Spiritual
Science should have it engraved on their souls that everything will be done to make Spiritual
penetrating into the spiritual world, this sleep of man is extraordinarily difficult to surmount.
And in connection with spreading the knowledge of Spiritual Science this sleep can be as great an
value, namely, the understanding of what is known as Spiritual Science. For there is no doubt
that there are men able to do this. It is certainly a necessity for the knowledge of Spiritual
Science to be sought by seeing into the spiritual world clairvoyantly. It goes without saying
that there must be clairvoyants to penetrate into the spiritual world, that there must be those
matter, where the knowledge of Spiritual Science, is concerned. Today it is particularly
necessary to have a reasoning, intellectual grasp of Spiritual Science, for it is this by which
desire is only there the whole of Spiritual Science can be understood. And to strive for just
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Title: i Spirituality: Lecture 1: Historical Symptomology, the Year 790, Alcuin, Greeks, Platonism, Aristotelianism, East, West, Middle, Ego
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through spiritual science, because spiritual science alone can uncover the real driving forces of
A spiritual science of this kind was not yet
substantiality can do something. Spiritual science points to real spiritual forces that are
behind the sensible-physical facts, and it is in real spiritual forces such as these that the
propelling forces of history lie, even though these spiritual forces will have to be expressed
when, from a spiritual-scientific standpoint, we look more deeply into the historical development
spiritual science, if it looks at history, would actually have to pursue a symptomatology; a
the stream of physical-sensible facts lie the driving spiritual forces. But everywhere in
was a highly spiritual culture which arose from an inner perception living pre-eminently in
the full I-consciousness of human beings. In the spiritual life of the ancient Orient, of which
human being as the spiritual. But it existed in a — I beg you not to misunderstand the word
spiritual world in which it existed before birth or conception. The oriental gazed on that which
of this and perhaps prepared through spiritual science, one sinks meditatively into those
theologian Alcuin there lived a rejection of the spiritual life for which, in the Orient, this
spiritual world, as something real, Alcuin could only answer: But death is nothing and therefore
important thing was not to come truly to a spiritual reality. Kant therefore rejected it —
spiritual life. In the Central areas something developed which was dialectical-legal, which
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Title: New Spirituality: Lecture 2: The New Spirituality and the Christ Experiance of the Twentieth Century - 1
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what comes from the spiritual world and plays into our physical world will take such a course
action of spiritual powers working into the physical life of humanity on earth. But precisely
the special characteristics of this epoch are not directed from the spiritual world as they were
externally in this way, has deeper causes — causes which lie ultimately in the spiritual
political-legal one, and the religious element — the spiritual element in the East which
takes on a religious character but is actually the momentum of a decadent spirituality that still
spiritual-religious impulse, i.e. Pan-slavism or Slavophilism, has taken on a political
East since Peter the Great, there is, fundamentally, always the spiritual tendency of Byzantium,
that is spiritual Byzantine religiosity, and so on. The individual phenomena of history become
evolution and has a spiritual character; in the Centre something which today is also antiquated
spiritual world. Everything in the spiritual development of modern times is designed towards
spirituality that is now completely decadent. This has to be borne by the spiritual world, and it
completely different spirituality is working into present-day human beings and it will be an
forgotten — those abilities which we bring with us from the spiritual worlds when, through
spirituality.
be simply explained superficially but has to be explained in terms of the intrusion of spiritual
else — everything of the spiritual life which even where it is most active, has shrunk into
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Title: New Spirituality: Lecture 3: The New Spirituality and the Christ Experiance of the Twentieth Century - 2
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individualization of the human being in the fifth post-Atlantean epoch is guided by spiritual
between the West and the East one must look more closely into the underlying spiritual conditions
and at everything in the physical-sense world that expresses itself out of these spiritual
points of view, to how the life of the ancient Orient was, in the main, a spiritual life; how the
human being of the ancient Orient had a highly developed spiritual life that flowed from a direct
perception of the spiritual worlds; how this spiritual life then lived on as a heritage; how it
the modern anthroposophically-oriented spiritual science, everything that exists in Western
civilization as spiritual life is basically an inheritance from the ancient Orient. But this
spiritual life is, in fact, completely decadent. This spiritual life is of such a nature that it
lacks strength, lacks impetus. The human being is, to be sure, guided to the spiritual world
through it, but can no longer find a link between what he believes about the spiritual world and
activities. It is directed towards entirely abstract spiritual regions, and basically does not
— aspirations of the social life — take on such a spiritual character that they have
regarded as new Saviours, as the continuers so to speak, of earlier religious-spiritual striving
experience of the spiritual, the experience of economics, the experience of the civic-political
activities — spiritual life, political life and economic life — get mixed up
ceremonies and ritual of the Western societies, have become more or less empty forms — one
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Title: New Spirituality: Lecture 4: The New Spirituality and the Christ Experiance of the Twentieth Century - 3
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other hand, the feeling of those spiritual beings who, as imaginations, as spirits of the East,
Schiller wants to point to a middle state in which the human being has spiritualized his
would correspond to that aspect of the social organism which we call the spiritual aspect: how
the spirits of the East, who pulled him towards imaginations. Because at that time spiritual
remained, as it were, at this point, for it just required the intercession of spiritual science
that we must find through spiritual science concerning the threefold nature of the human being as
imaginative? Neither of them had spiritual science; otherwise Schiller would have been able to
advance to the point of permeating his concepts in a spiritual-scientific way and he would then
reality from the spiritual world and would have been able to penetrate to the forms of the social
life which wish to be put into effect from the spiritual world — to the spiritual element
the social organism, and a spiritual life which holds the balance, which builds up again. If one
the spiritual life, and uniform States like these must of necessity lead to destruction. And
constantly renewed by an independent, developing spiritual life which ever and ever again works
life. The working together of the spiritual limb of the social organism with the economic element
have to come. This is where the spiritual life has to intervene; capital must be transferred via
the spiritual life to those who are engaged in its administration. This is the inner meaning of
element of the spiritual limb of the social organism.
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Title: New Spirituality: Lecture 5: The New Spirituality and the Christ Experiance of the Twentieth Century - 4
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point of view the spiritual complexion of the civilized world and, from this point of view, draw
impossible an event like this, resting as it did on an idealistic spiritual background, has
world-being — and did, in fact, penetrate to its spirituality. Thus was knowledge
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
spiritual in the manifestations of nature, the concept of knowledge itself also fell more or less
that they revealed the spirit to them. The spiritual spoke out of every spring, every cloud,
came to know the spiritual. This is no longer the case. But the condition of intellectualism is
spiritual-scientific research; which, at the least, can be given by Imagination. People will only
know truly again when they say: In ancient times divine-spiritual beings spoke from the
spiritual appeared to the human being through nature. In our transitional condition we have the
he can again truly know; where, indeed, nature will no longer speak to him of divine-spiritual
beings but where he will o take hold of the divine-spiritual in supersensible knowledge and will,
spiritual life, of oriental knowledge — which, as we know, lived on as a heritage in
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
divine-spiritual. Later on there developed in the central regions of the earth that which came
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here people could no longer themselves behold the Mystery in the sense of the old spirituality,
The old spiritual life based on spiritual vision — which, as you know, had abolished the
spirit in 869 — this old spiritual life moves over entirely into a political Church-Empire
here from the spiritual-scientific point of view how this continuous cross-flow of the Roman
simply knew that in the human beings that were sent as children from the spiritual worlds into
this physical world came remnants of the experiences in those spiritual worlds. (I am still
experiences in the spiritual worlds came in. Those who had the largest number of instinctive
bear witness to the will of the spiritual world with regard to the physical world. It was human
less, of what is brought into the physical world at birth from the spiritual worlds. Certainly
the ancient Mysteries had beheld and recognized as being sent from the spiritual worlds. In
was brought from the spiritual worlds. This could now only be decided in that certain people
spiritual was completely lost — in which theology, in wishing to be a modern theology,
spiritual constitution of soul. A dialectical soul-constitution can make nothing of them. It was
Thus for someone who stands in a spiritual relation to the Mystery of Golgotha the contradictions
not stand in a spiritual relation; they stood in the sign of dialectics right into the lowest
exclusion of everything spiritual; it calumniates everything that goes beyond its
of spiritual science to prepare for this faculty which humanity must take hold of again. Not the
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Title: New Spirituality: Lecture 7: The New Spirituality and the Christ Experiance of the Twentieth Century - 6
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in a few brush-strokes as the great spiritual battle between East and West, in which the true
made, if the aims of spiritual science are fulfilled — so that children at school are given
then that he descended from spiritual heights; that he lived, before he entered into physical
existence through conception and birth, in a spiritual world. He knew that he brought with him
from the spiritual world something that was still in him, something that came out in childhood as
youth, was a dowry from the spiritual worlds which he had experienced before entering into
physical existence. To be aware theoretically that one has passed through a spiritual life of
growing and developing in one's soul since childhood comes from the spiritual world.
onwards, comes from those depths in which is rooted that which he received from his spiritual
child has it as a result of this or that particular experience in the spiritual world. People
of the spiritual world but merely a child of characteristics inherited in the course of earthly
spirituality. Then all spirituality is excluded and people try to order the world solely in
perhaps, shows more clearly the materialism of modern times, its denial of everything spiritual,
spiritual conception of the world.
his being. And let us now consider from a spiritual-scientific standpoint the counter-image of
You know that spiritual science shows how our
something that is recognized as coming from spiritual heights. I cannot entrust myself to the
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Title: Abbreviated Title: Lecture I:
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Art and Practical Questions in the Light of Spiritual Science,
Spiritual Science. I will now give you only the chief ideas needed for the
must be destroyed by the soul-spiritual if consciousness is to arise in the
something external, our soul-spiritual has to bring about destructive
during the time after death. Through the fact that our soul-spiritual
the process of death, our soul-spiritual creates the power to be able to
dwelt in the spiritual world. Many things happened on Earth during this
which we are born. And then at last we come in the spiritual world to the
see the body fall away from our soul-spiritual, is intensified in this
the present spiritual-scientific movement, at this time when it is not in
environment. The spiritual-scientific movement is in this case not
of which we will that it should enter the spiritual development of earthly
opposition to Spiritual Science and of appearing again when the Earth is
changed to such an extent that spiritual-scientific conditions can really
downward direction. Certainly the most earnest co-workers of Spiritual
will realise that, to a certain extent, you help the spiritual beings to
heart and a soul for Spiritual Science were placed into this period in
bear that up into the spiritual world, you behold the downfall of the epoch
the innermost impulses of spiritual-scientific striving. Thus to a certain
extent the plans of the spiritual leaders and guides of earthly
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Title: "Heaven and Earth will pass away but my words will not pass away"
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conception of the Cosmos — whether that of Spiritual Science or
his thoughts educated through Spiritual Science, may also ask: What is
thought, and that, for the mind cultured through Spiritual Science, the
concepts of Spiritual Science. If we consider all we are able to think
faculties, because our psychic-Spiritual is reflected on our physical
because the psycho-Spiritual in us evokes certain processes in the
what we can imbibe from spiritual Science. Hence, I propose to call
this man the Spiritual-Scientific Man, despite its queer sound, who
from Spiritual Science, the Sun man in us can really do something. He
achieved, and which does not lead to the Spiritual-Scientific man, were
direction of a mineral Jupiter. And without Spiritual Science this
prepared by us when we raise ourselves to the stage of Spiritual
and become conscious of the aim of Spiritual Science; we will learn to
know that our Spiritual Science really does give the Hierarchy of the
Spiritual Science can be used by the Archangeloi in the development of
in the evolution of the earth when those who have embraced Spiritual
Science will say: Spiritual Science is all; it is the ultimate
else, are visionaries and dreamers! — The followers of Spiritual
just as Spiritual Science of today stands to the materialist; so will,
Spiritual Science and reach out to something that will constitute
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Title: Tree of Life/Knowledge: Lecture I: Tree of Life - I
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Art and Practical Questions in the Light of Spiritual Science,
Spiritual Science their chief desire is to have an answer to their
must be added if the spiritual scientific-movement is really to
to enter the spiritual world, the more the riddles increase. These
When we come into the spiritual scientific world concept, great life

Title: Tree of Life/Knowledge: Lecture II: Tree of Life - II
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Art and Practical Questions in the Light of Spiritual Science,
finely spiritualised existence.
sleep is overcome, when it is possible through a spiritual-scientific
Spiritual beings are not there because they actually ought not to be
of Spiritual Science. When in specially favourable moments one is
should bring the whole spiritual world into our day consciousness and
should know: this or that spiritual being corresponds to him. We
identify him with his spiritual background; we should have the
physical woven through by the spiritual. And thus would the whole
spiritual element is there as something weaving and living. One feels
spiritual element, instead of entering our physical body and showing
experience of the spiritual in this way, cannot become knowledge. It
Jesus-Christ or Christ-Jesus as a unity in the way shown by Spiritual
spiritual science of Christ-Jesus. The fact of the Mystery of
consciously. And this he will do when he seeks through Spiritual

Title: Tree of Life/Knowledge: Lecture III: The Power of Thought
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Art and Practical Questions in the Light of Spiritual Science,
what we call Spiritual Science.
Seen with the eyes of spiritual science
inner feeling and life, of what spiritual science really desires. For
spiritual science is actually not active at all in what thought
many centuries to speak of spiritual science or to be understood when
evolution in a spiritual respect strove as it were to grasp the
Christ-revelation what we have received as Spiritual Science. He it
the Christ in an inward spiritual way, drawn together as it were, and
that the whole construction of Spiritual Science is based upon a
my dear friends, on the subjects of Spiritual Science, but have
brought to expression through Spiritual Science, it can also be
attitude of mind of Spiritual Science. Please also take what I have
spiritual world rulership. And the ancient Roman of the time of the
spiritual world wished to come about.
the Mysteries a constant and powerfully active spiritual element,
knew, nevertheless, of the spiritual worlds; they came quite
ceased in the time of Augustus to know anything of the spiritual
in the Spiritual element in the old way. There is an immense tragedy
sublime spiritual knowledge. But it was also felt that something of
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Title: Tree of Life/Knowledge: Lecture IV: Harmonizing Thinking, Feeling and Willing
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Art and Practical Questions in the Light of Spiritual Science,
pointed out that this originates from the fact that certain spiritual
and significant truth which is given us by Spiritual Science, on the
by the normally progressive divine-spiritual beings but we perceive
temptation in the sense of the divine spiritual beings we should
the content of spiritual science, even as regards
those who approach more closely to Spiritual Science a way should
concepts: to grasp the living out of what has died. Spiritual Science
the earnest endeavour of Spiritual Science that we should be led out
the Mystery of Golgotha, He is now upon earth spiritually and not
genuine Spiritual Science recognises it as the greatest imaginable
therefore be or rather it is a blow in the face of genuine Spiritual
hold of our intellect. That is the way which all spiritual
and Christianized spiritual science, but that he had his own
world. The particular one-sided grey or black spiritual-scientists do
their intellect. Hence such grey or black spiritual scientists often
honourably on the ground of spiritual science, quite definite rules
when it is a question of spreading spiritual science, one sentence
also a spiritual world; for the modern material world concept of the
how all sorts of things came from the spiritual world through the
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Title: Tree of Life/Knowledge: Lecture V: Tree of Knowledge - I
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Art and Practical Questions in the Light of Spiritual Science,
spiritual extended everywhere, that causes the causes. They do not
distinguish the spiritual which is behind cause and effect. It is
from ordinary human sight to spiritual sight, for one notes how then
our Spiritual Science) could prevail on himself to believe in these
it is necessary in a lecture on Spiritual Science to call upon the
spiritual in order to make it possible to show how historical events
rightly know which facts are meant to be spiritual. Something that
learned and so purely given up to spiritual studies, that many said:

Title: Tree of Life/Knowledge: Lecture VI: Tree of Knowledge - II
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Art and Practical Questions in the Light of Spiritual Science,
divine-spiritual beings had planned. But we know that
this. For only when science will one day be real spiritual science
activity meets with the divine-spiritual activity which also moves
meets with and interlaces himself with the normal divine-spiritual
original divine-spiritual intention to give man up to himself, and
in spiritual science, the most varied complications are possible. A
of the spiritual world, it can be asked: how does one protect oneself
spiritual science work when we strive for self-perfecting, but how
that as we advance in the spiritual scientific self-training, we must
spiritual world, but the temptation to egotism is there. And as
the spiritual scientific world conception is necessary for our time
and who, standing outside, say: these spiritual scientists certainly
egotism in a spiritual scientific movement, it was to be proved as a
fact that there are people in spiritual scientific movements who
can only understand this through spiritual science. The question is
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Title: World Downfall and Resurrection
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Indeed, this understanding can only come from Spiritual
spiritual world that had survived from ancient paganism. We must
no longer any real conception of how the Divine-Spiritual in
spiritual investigation — was a matter of course in the
the Spiritual, in the Logos. The Logos superseded those
of man was directed to the Spiritual. In pre-Christian
spiritual contemplation. He must regard the things visible
and from no other source. Men were directed to the Spiritual
Spiritual Being Who had come down to the Earth — of the
ending there has been, in the sense that the Spiritual can no
spiritual world. An error is responsible for the loss of the
direct knowledge that he is living and moving in a spiritual
conscious as an Archangel. The spiritual world has come down
significant but on the other so chaotic that Spiritual Science
may see the world around us as a spiritual world, knowing that
we are verily within that spiritual world from which the earthly
spiritual world they know it not, nor are willing to know it.
spiritual being, nor that in self-consciousness he is a yet
higher spiritual being. Men seek for knowledge today with the
Intuition which will lead them into the spiritual world. The
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Title: Lecture: Art As A Bridge Between The Sensible And The Supersensible
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imbued with the higher elements of spiritual life, but this spiritual
common spiritual life, aiming to represent all human beings as equal
of a certain spiritual life, but what they gave out of this spiritual
forgotten that throughout the Middle Ages the content of spiritual life
spiritual life in the Middle Ages resided in the images to be found in
could see them, where the last of the poor could see them. Spiritual life
spirituality. I recently emphasized here once again that one should not
wanting to enter lovingly into what is spiritual. Today, the intention is
will only really be solved, however, in seeing spiritual experience as
live only as soul-spiritual beings, and beings that live here on the
“hair” so to speak, growing spiritually out
of the earth — for the plants are spiritualized.
just a few parts. They perceive the soul, the spiritual, but the outer
other! And if they have no relation at all to a spiritual world, they can
gained from the spiritual world, on the other hand, is a valuable
human beings turning away from spiritual life. A sound return to
spiritual life is only possible in conceiving the relation of the
true, living, feeling-connection with the spiritual world.
finally there came what leads most of all away from the spiritual world:
concerning the spiritual world. The utmost extremes border on each other:
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Title: Imperialism: Lecture 1
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Spiritual and Social Transformations in Human Evolution,
imperialism, historically, but in a spiritual-scientific sense.
into the past as we could when studying the spiritual evolution of
world to the spiritual world. Today most people think, if they even
think about a spiritual world, that it is somewhere in the distant
beyond. And when the spiritual world is spoken about — and in
physical and spiritual worlds.
spiritual reality. And the ruler of an oriental empire — what
spiritual lived in man. In the common man lived a human soul. In
archdeacons, wear certain clothes, and they perform their rituals;
physical reality was thought to be spiritual, in the future this
physical reality may no longer be thought of as spiritual.
Nevertheless, the spiritual must be present here in the physical
world. That means that spiritual reality must exist alongside
physical reality, and recognize a spiritual reality, must speak of it
a spiritual empire. Precisely because everything old has now become
platitudes, a space has come into being in which the spiritual
reality, for it has been squeezed out. That is where the spiritual,

Title: Imperialism: Lecture 2
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Spiritual and Social Transformations in Human Evolution,
more the terrain is prepared for a new reality — a spiritual
super-sensible world; for a spiritual life which does not seek
the divine-spiritual beings in human form, but as real, genuine
development of a new spiritual life will be possible. In order to
one must direct one's attention toward the birth of a new spiritual
new spiritual life. And we live in the age when we will have to be
participants in the rise of the [new] spiritual life. And this will
can do no other than to say: in order to be human we need a spiritual
For the same reason that we go forward towards a new spiritual life,
spiritual reality through the use of signs and symbols. The churches
spiritual reality, and what the successors of the European
confessions had to say about such a spiritual reality, had the
people recoiled when they approached the spiritual by means of the
rituals secret.
contain spiritual elements. And in the secret societies which possess
people discover the meaning of the rituals; then they are expelled
spiritual power. That is why the Catholic Church, wanting to keep
the rituals. This is the real reason for present day social
however keep them together on a real spiritual foundation.
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Title: Imperialism: Lecture 3
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spiritual world in physical institutions, if one spoke of what Saint
stage, where the spiritual shimmers through the material, shines, so
completely lost: that the spiritual kingdom shines through into the
therefore so necessary to propagate spirituality, the new
spirituality in the world.
new spiritual life. And it is therefore understandable that it is
spirituality must penetrate into the depths of human life. And
something meant in a spiritual-scientific sense with a mere yes or no
has only a limited meaning, for judgments given from the spiritual
human evolution, which sometimes solidifies into a kind of spiritual
and spiritual/cultural life is truly free, meaning that here in
reality a free spiritual sector can be organized. The spiritual life
a spiritual/cultural reality. The spirit will possess the possibility
and that can only come from knowledge of the spiritual world, of
spiritual life. Only by being relieved by the spirit can one become a
possible if the spiritual/cultural sector is allowed to develop
establish a Waldorf school only according to spiritual laws, according to
spiritual principles, something which in practically no other place on
concerning the spiritual life from the spirit itself if the other two
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Title: First Class, Vol. I: Lesson 1
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whereas the new school was incorporated into the School for Spiritual
for Spiritual Science as an esoteric institution the task which
spiritual life is to be revealed in its true meaning, so that
which can provide for the revealed spiritual needs of our
times. This spiritual life can be deepened in all its aspects.
in a School for Spiritual Science we attend to the revelations
it is nevertheless important that the spiritual revelations are
existence — that all that is divine-spiritual revelation.
so that we may approach the revelations of the spiritual world
greatness and the sublimity of nature is, at first, spiritual
as spirituality. This is veiled at first in darkness for human
and orientation from the spiritual world about the abyss which
warnings regarding spiritual knowledge, is all
of the best spiritual inhabitants of the spiritual
spiritual fields, a yawning abyss exists, cannot achieve true
although knowledge from the spiritual world comes by true
divine-spirituality that bubbles from the spring
away in order to come to true spiritual knowledge.
Obstacles to spiritual knowledge, my dear friends, have existed
the earnest Guardian of the Threshold to the spiritual world.
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Title: First Class, Vol. I: Lesson 2
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whereas the new school was incorporated into the School for Spiritual
proceeding to the mysteries of the spiritual life, which we
that can carry us into the spiritual world. Yet just as by
having this sensation we will be carried up into the spiritual
spiritual world that guardian stands who earnestly warns people
against crossing over into the spiritual world unprepared. And
the spiritual world for the well-being of unprepared human
spiritual cosmic knowledge of the being which is one with our
obtain on this side of the threshold of spiritual existence,
Your fear of creative spiritual being
approaching an insight into the spiritual world.
Your hate of spiritual revelation
spiritual world. It is inherent in feeling, because feeling is
Your doubts in the power of spiritual light
spiritual world streams into our creative thinking. And then,
to creative knowledge, we are truly standing in the spiritual
ourselves in order to enter the spiritual world as genuine,
harms one's self and others greatly by playing at spiritual
possibility of really concentrating on spiritual striving and
friends, it would be really good for spiritual striving if all
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Title: First Class, Vol. I: Lesson 3
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whereas the new school was incorporated into the School for Spiritual
spiritual world, which characterize what the human being can
feel on the threshold of the spiritual world as he strides past
spiritual world. And we should not say that when someone
realizes in reality by entering the spiritual world, that the
human soul when entering the spiritual world, because it is
should not say: Let's leave gaining entrance into the spiritual
their souls in the spiritual world as people stand in physical
leads to the spiritual world, and provided the thinking is not
intellect can grasp, and enter the spiritual world.
which will lead them into the spiritual world, but also for
threshold of the spiritual world. That is the very first
side of the threshold is the spiritual world.
spiritual world. Yet although here or there brilliant flashes
a real spiritual being, a real spiritual fact stands before you
That is the first experience of the spiritual world, that
have experienced impressions from the spiritual world not
through normal spiritual training, but due to elementary
deceive himself by saying: well, now you have the spiritual
to suddenly shine from out of the spiritual world is merely an
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Title: First Class, Vol. I: Lesson 4
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whereas the new school was incorporated into the School for Spiritual
from other areas of spiritual life, what is called
spiritual life by today's civilization, that is. The encounter
experiences when a relationship with the spiritual world truly
and earnestly takes place. A relationship with the spiritual
spiritual world is on the other side of this threshold. So when
communications are received from the spiritual world, they
relationship with the spiritual world.
relationship with the spiritual world, the relationship where,
communications from the spiritual world - the teacher said to
that it has been willed and instated by the spiritual world. If
psychic blood circulation in spiritual space. We don't just
certain thoughts, but we move together with the spiritual
spiritual ladder to the gods. Feeling puts us in the opposite
spiritual importance. But gods live in breath and light. And we
Strong for spiritual works of good.
Strong for spiritual works of good.
spiritually.
Thus we shall gradually feel our way into spiritual life, and
this spiritual life will grow ever more closely related to our
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Title: First Class, Vol. I: Lesson 5
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whereas the new school was incorporated into the School for Spiritual
spiritual world in any form, depends upon understanding the
and willing go different ways upon entering the spiritual
the spiritual world, in a certain sense thinking, feeling and
that upon entering the spiritual world a growing together with
spiritual to us. Rather than the sleeping consciousness, we
when he is approaching the spiritual - related to nature.
the moment we enter the spiritual region this is no longer the
the spiritual beings who live in the circulating air. The
spiritual world flows into us when inhaling; our own being
When we approach the spiritual world we truly experience the
a spiritual interweaving of inhaling and exhaling. And we feel
and recognize the spiritual nature of warmth - and we feel it
mere indication that he exists. For spiritual consciousness
what constitutes spiritual progress, that man integrates with
of your skin into a divine-spiritual being - you become one
relationship with the spiritual world.
spiritual living and moving in this sunlight when the enticing,
Then we must do our best to understand, with spiritual
one gradually enters the spiritual realm.
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Title: First Class, Vol. I: Lesson 6
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whereas the new school was incorporated into the School for Spiritual
advances spiritually when he becomes conscious of his true
word “Warmth”.] For spiritual progress, it is
the spiritual world.
a rule, what helps us most toward spiritual advancement is the
It's something we need to advance spiritually.
when one finally gains admittance to the spiritual world. Such
abstract forms. Whoever knows spiritual life is able to feel
spiritual vitality in thought from inner strength.
For in spiritual science everything which works through the
this [spiritual] world once he has achieved a love for all that
earth we are carrying out the intentions of the spiritual
friends. The intention is to let the spiritual word itself
School should be seen as having been founded by the spiritual
men spoke as representatives of the spiritual powers of the
be a real member of this School of spiritual life. That is the
through the will of the spiritual world, and which we are
nature and intentions of this spiritual school.

Title: First Class, Vol. I: Lesson 7
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whereas the new school was incorporated into the School for Spiritual
presently reigning spiritual powers; something which has been
instituted from the spiritual world and which intends to act
accordingly; which feels responsible to the spiritual world
divine-spiritual powers - whose forces stream through this
which force is instilled in it directly from the spiritual
which is a reflection of a spiritual world, one which does not,
spiritual world while outside the physical body.
protected from approaching the spiritual world unprepared.
the abyss between the sensory world and the spiritual world,
and tastes etc., is all will in the spiritual world.
the heart goes over to the spiritual world.
Thus, we have the complete reversal in the spiritual world as
be lived as human virtue. And the Three appear before spiritual
accompany our spiritual vision of the Three, which derive from
have resounded at all the gates to the spiritual world,
insight into the spiritual world.
the divine-spiritual entities who guide humanity, the pause has

Title: First Class, Vol. I: Lesson 8
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whereas the new school was incorporated into the School for Spiritual
members of our Free School for Spiritual Science must be aware
anthroposophical movement represented the inflow of spiritual
the spiritual world. This anthroposophical movement exists not
because people like it to exist but because the spiritual
consider it right that spiritual light, which can come through
from the spiritual world. Only when our anthroposophical
School for Spiritual Science.
this Free School for Spiritual Science one assumes truly
today. The leadership of the Free School for Spiritual Science
but from the spiritual world. A decision made from the
spiritual world has been obtained with the means which are
institution of the spiritual world for the present time - as
knowledge which is not closely tied to the spiritual world.
the spiritual world nor imparted by those who are able to
investigate in the spiritual world, is not real knowledge. We
to the spiritual world. This threshold, which lies immediately
Then we must know: at this threshold stands a spiritual figure
prepared with inner earnestness for spiritual knowledge -
spiritual universe, then the reverse consciousness comes about.
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Title: First Class, Vol. I: Lesson 9
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whereas the new school was incorporated into the School for Spiritual
more able to make a beginning at entering into the spiritual
spiritual world. They disdain experiencing so intimately. They
prefer titillating experiences such as the spiritual world
would be easy to convince people about the spiritual world if
for example a table from the spiritual world were to approach
them. But there are no tables in the spiritual world, there are
only spiritual beings in the spiritual world, and they must be
perceived with what is spiritual in man. But spiritual is what
the spiritual world through this School wishes to speak to you
Therefore, the admonition at the threshold to the spiritual
it. We feel our physicality in our spirituality when we measure
realize and experience the spiritual in us when we elevate the
become aware of our own spirituality, that spirituality which
spirit-world, then we are beyond the threshold to the spiritual
spiritual world, we sense how here, on this side, our body
movements of the planets, that is, for the spiritual beings who
What as spiritual impulse
As body from spiritual heights.
What is gleaned from the spiritual world, what the initiate
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Title: First Class, Vol. II: Lesson 10
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whereas the new school was incorporated into the School for Spiritual
psychic-spiritual, which is man's true identity, in a spiritual
spiritual world is what will be provided in these class lessons
communications from the spiritual world, will coalesce in such
those distant reaches of the universe from which the spiritual
impossible for us to grasp what the spiritual world reveals as
consideration of earthly relationships one stands spiritually
from life in the darkness by rising with our soul-spiritual
read the cosmic secrets, which are the deeds of the spiritual
gawking, but of reading. And what we read are the spiritual
deeds of the spiritual beings who brought it all
spiritual way. Then the gods speak with us. When the gods speak
with us we are within the spiritual world.
imaginations, read them from the other side, the spiritual
deeds, become capable of hearing in a spiritual way the
universe, then into the spiritual universe, that is, on the
to imagine that someone is speaking to you from a spiritual
spiritual depths is how you hear the lines of the first verse.
we recall what resounds from spiritual depths and the heart's
spiritual world.
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Title: First Class, Vol. II: Lesson 11
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whereas the new school was incorporated into the School for Spiritual
which real knowledge of spiritual things can be realized. Of
Here in this Free School for Spiritual Science everything
The spiritual teacher Angelos:
The limbs do not participate in our spiritual being. They are
with the spiritual world, and through this we approach closer
It has acquired its foundation. And in it are those spiritual
contain visions. It leads us into the spiritual world. The
spiritual world exists. I am describing, my dear sisters and

Title: First Class, Vol. II: Lesson 12
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whereas the new school was incorporated into the School for Spiritual
spiritual sense, can lead to cosmic knowledge. And it has often
been said that understanding must exist for true spiritual
cosmic knowledge to stream out of the spiritual world itself;
such knowledge from the spiritual world must approach the
consciousness from entering the spiritual world
spiritual world in the right way, and then to stand within the
experiences of the spiritual world.
spiritual world is mostly mistakenly imagined, because one
spiritual world. One wants something which is similar to the
of the spiritual world. And many of you, my dear sisters and
brothers, have this experience of the spiritual more so than
enable you to feel how the human soul lives in the spiritual
from the spiritual world through these class lessons, my
really feel it, then you have grasped something spiritual,
spiritual understanding. But a substantial seclusion from the
which is conducive to feeling that we are in the spiritual
spiritual world. And, although being perfectly silent itself,
of thinking through a spiritually cosmic experience.
spiritually – the Guardian speaks the next three
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Title: First Class, Vol. II: Lesson 13
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whereas the new school was incorporated into the School for Spiritual
revealed by the spiritual hierarchies – with which the
spiritually perceived. We should ignore the fact that we are
undulating spiritual world in which we always are.
Behold your destiny's spiritual trial
Behold your destiny's spiritual trial.
the necessary strength and spiritual consolidation and which
their substance from – when we observe the spiritual in
Behold your destiny's spiritual trial.
of the spiritual worlds, on the fields of thinking, feeling

Title: First Class, Vol. II: Lesson 14
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whereas the new school was incorporated into the School for Spiritual
the real gateway to the spiritual world.
psychic-spiritual being.
which rise up as spiritual figures from this abyss, that one
determined to overcome the beasts. To enter the spiritual world,
to visualize the spiritual world, we need to develop
foretells what awaits us there in the spiritual world.
something of the reality of the spiritual world, he must do
the state of mind in the purely spiritual world.
cross into the spiritual world in the full consciousness of
guidelines into the spiritual world.
the spiritual world it is as though we were dissolving, as
spiritual beatitude, dedicated to it and wishes to remain in
this state of spiritual beatitude. It overcomes him because
That is the luciferic danger, that upon return from the spiritual
it the spiritual, in the way which corresponds to each.
But if the person wants to bring over into the spiritual world
the Ahrimanic powers in the spiritual world.
dragged over into the spiritual world by spiritual life
spiritual world, as I said at the beginning. Everything given
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Title: First Class, Vol. II: Lesson 15
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whereas the new school was incorporated into the School for Spiritual
esoteric, in any spiritual science, should not tempt us to
As true adherents of spiritual science, we should
that we may not enter immaturely. He is the first spiritual
spirituality from which we originate. For it is the Guardian
“water” in spiritual science, but which entails
be completely in the spiritual world, completely in harmony
with the spiritual element – but also so that we know
characteristics of the spiritual world to claim us longer
than our presence in that spiritual world endures.
as we are in the spiritual world we should be one with this
spiritual world; when we come back we should live as real
in the spiritual world.
to stay in the spiritual world, to merge with it, to merge
with the feeling of wellbeing of the spiritual world.
service by dragging the spiritual world over into the
faces the spiritual world.
spiritual world on the other side of the abyss, still in
(There is no ground. We are in the spiritual world.)
My I has the power of flame through the spiritual force of
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Title: First Class, Vol. II: Lesson 16
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whereas the new school was incorporated into the School for Spiritual
spiritual world to human souls. Therefore, what lives here in
perceived as communications from the spiritual world itself.
what has been sent to us from the spiritual world in the form
existence, the threshold to the spiritual world, appears
spiritual world in which our real self originated.
spiritual being we encounter. Every night we are in this
spiritual world when we sleep. But it is like darkness around
spiritual world when sufficiently mature. The Guardian of the
devotion to the spiritual content of the cosmos, feeling how

Title: First Class, Vol. II: Lesson 17
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whereas the new school was incorporated into the School for Spiritual
context of the spiritual world.
From feeling the light in waves, as in spiritual thoughts, so to
spiritual world.
spiritual world should recall the impression from the sensory
sensory world to the spiritual world, the image of the rainbow is
to recall the relationship between the spiritual world, where it
hierarchies; we have a conception of how the spiritual beings act
spiritual domain, where it is breathed in by the beings of the
spiritual-inner meaning. And the magical ether-rainbow cannot be
sense-perceptible may be brought into the spiritual domain, to
to the extent that it can be taken into the spiritual world
spiritual forces what works as creative love in the cosmos
hierarchies. Then we hear more with our spiritual ears. The
Seraphim join the conversation. A choir of the spiritual spheres
we hear with the spiritual ear these words directed at our
humanity, it becomes light in the spiritual world. The mild light
which was there before is transformed into spiritual
This is the experience with the Guardian while the spiritual
us softly with his spiritual hands. We feel his presence as if he
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Title: First Class, Vol. II: Lesson 18
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whereas the new school was incorporated into the School for Spiritual
and spiritual life, will pass before our souls again at the
their beauty, where their spiritual acts take place. And we
spirit. We perceive spiritual being.
to enter the spiritual world, where we find true being, the
the spiritual world that we have now entered. Names dedicated to
we live and move in the light, and the spiritual
hear what the spiritual-illuminating, divine-willing beings
Our spiritual view goes farther. We see the
Exusiai voices ring out in the spiritual cosmos:
creation, of which we will be witnesses in spiritual worlds, as
We grow into the spiritual world. Instead of what
spiritual world surround us. And we become witnesses to what the
from the spiritual world. Let us imagine a
pre-earthly existence in the spiritual world. But he didn't
the spiritual world into which he enters if he realizes that when
finds himself in the reality of the spiritual worlds, within the
understand the spiritual world into which he enters if

Title: First Class, Vol. II: Lesson 19
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whereas the new school was incorporated into the School for Spiritual
gloomy, night-engulfed spiritual world, where light is
felt, which then becomes light for our spiritual
perception. We have seen in this spiritual world how the
spiritual secret of the rainbow, from the chorus or the
ourselves spiritually immersed in the spiritual world
through the cosmic waves with spiritual flames of
self-knowledge over to the spiritual realm, and allowed us
received from the spiritual worlds – for this School
is one which has been constituted by the spiritual worlds
can come from the spiritual worlds pass through us. They
pictures of the imaginative ritual at the beginning of the
which leads into the spiritual world and the human I: The
the imaginative ritual revelations of the beginning of the
imaginative ritual brought down at the beginning of the
this in the spiritual world. We should always keep looking
spiritual powers which direct it.

Title: First Class Lessons: Lesson XX (recapitulation)
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whereas the new school was incorporated into the School for Spiritual
the impulse of the Christmas Conference with the spiritual
attempted as the so-called Free School for Spiritual Science,
Free School for Spiritual Science, with its various sections,
those who reign over human spiritual life, the Archangel
has a very special significance for the spiritual life and
by seven Archangels who together comprise the spiritual ruling
Archangel under whose impulse the spiritual life of the present
possesses the spiritual force of the sun in everything he does
revolution against spiritual activity and spiritual being in
medicinally oriented alchemy deeply influenced spiritual
against a profound spiritual darkness on earth — under
and spirituality, and was then brought by Alexander over to
Asia, to North Africa, so that what was the spiritual life of a
lives in the way characterized in everything which is spiritual
spiritual power which is incumbent for its guidance at this
what flows within the anthroposophical spiritual movement. One
necessary for the anthroposophical movement to spiritually
real messages from the spiritual world, as truly Michael-words,
realize that he lives and acts among spiritual beings and
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Title: First Class Lessons: Lesson XXI (recapitulation)
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whereas the new school was incorporated into the School for Spiritual
luminously emerged as though from a spiritual cloud-like form.
spiritual worlds on behalf of Michael, the leader of humanity's
spiritual path in our times. For this School is the true
first beast — the true spiritual form of our willing,
having the courage for spiritual knowledge.
then the second beast — born from the hate of spiritual
doubt about the spiritual world that today gnaws at the souls'
the things of the spiritual world beyond.
Your fear of creative spiritual being
Your hate of spiritual revelation
Your doubts in the power of spiritual light
Your fear of creative spiritual being
Your hate of spiritual revelation
Your doubts in the power of spiritual light
psychic-spiritual life, which is our own true humanity, was
living before it descended from the divine-spiritual world by
body. There above in the divine-spiritual world it was no
shadowy, abstract thought, but a psychic-spiritual living,
makes us spiritually hollow. Thinking is dead, and feeling is
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Title: First Class Lessons: Lesson XXII (recapitulation)
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whereas the new school was incorporated into the School for Spiritual
Beings of the spiritual world; after the Guardian has shown us
divine-spiritual powers as the three beasts, which are shown to
the spiritual world. Therefore, this mantric verse is shaped so
spiritual world. Each line begins with a stressed syllable,
This coming down by the spiritual world to us is to be felt in
the spiritual world is with this intonation do we receive this
to advance in spiritual knowledge. For what is within us is at
their spiritual light in these pulsing waves from the
strong for true, good spiritual creativity.
Godly powers their spiritual light
Godly powers their spiritual light
Would act with spiritual creation.

Title: First Class Lessons: Lesson XXIII (recapitulation)
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whereas the new school was incorporated into the School for Spiritual
Lessons for members of the Free School for Spiritual Science,
thinking as they appear before the visage of the spiritual
wants to bring us to a state of spiritual powerlessness, so to
between that spiritual blissfulness into which the forces of
only contain the force of gravity; spiritually, it also
the spiritual world if he wants to be a real seeker after
Would act with spiritual creation.
Would act with spiritual creation.
powers. Then he lives with his soul in the spiritual kingdom of
Every moment our spiritual existence is a creation of our Self.
At every moment our spiritual existence is a creation of our
natural and spiritual existence. But now the phrase: “O
out with full spiritual force in this room — words which
psycho-spiritually present among us.
in an incorrect way, they lose all their spiritual force. That
is an occult law. And in the spiritual world there are laws

Title: First Class Lessons: Lesson XXIV (recapitulation)
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Lessons for members of the Free School for Spiritual Science,
little, who appears to us in the figure of a spiritual cloud,
the spiritualized person must have existed beforehand in what
cross; how we will have then entered the spiritual world, for
when you have crossed over to the spiritual world, that once
When you enter the spiritual world with your thinking, you may
flying for your thinking when you are in the spiritual world.
spiritual life in the ordinary world, that you will have the
spiritual worlds.
earth, that means in the spiritual element of the earth; we
spiritual fire will come to us, which we need in order to
us which allows us to awaken, so that we are awake in spiritual
from the cold the opposite happens, the spiritual fire awakens,
that thinks itself. If we don't go beyond it, untrue spiritual
spiritual experience remains powerless. Self-hood suffocates if
world completely engulfs us, destructive spiritual exaltation
causes spiritual exaltation to erupt, which kills us. But if we
develop the will in spiritual dedication to the higher worlds,
world-form, then spiritual exaltation destroys the true light
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Title: First Class Lessons: Lesson XXV (recapitulation)
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whereas the new school was incorporated into the School for Spiritual
Lessons for members of the Free School for Spiritual Science,
him from all the kingdoms of nature and from all the spiritual
being, the world in its true spiritual nature. They resound
lives in the residents of the stars, in the spiritual
dear sisters and brothers, the description of the spiritual
told us so much about the meaning of the spiritual world, over
spiritually wafts over us from below like warm wind — the
are the One. In the spiritual world, we are the Three, which we
cross to the spiritual world — we ascribe to our head our
spiritual world.
be followed in this School for spiritual development:

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Lessons for members of the Free School for Spiritual Science,
This was a necessity which, above all, flows from the spiritual
spiritual world itself.
a certain sense the spiritual world had to manifest the will
of spiritual life, so that everything that occurs in such a
reality occurs in the spiritual world itself. Therefore, this
cyclically intervenes in human affairs from the spiritual
Michael Reign - was active in the spiritual affairs of
in our times as a spiritual institution. All those who want to
receive its true spiritual strength. For this it is necessary
the School or not. So, a free, ideal-spiritual contract, so to
revelations from the spiritual world. At the end of each
spiritual world are given, and are confirmed by Michael's sign
spiritual world and that the practices of the spiritual world
spiritual life.
spiritual wings that grow when the soul is imbued with a
spiritual attitude, with spiritual love, with spiritual
self there. He has embodied himself in spiritual being with his
we must always penetrate when we leave the spiritual world and
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